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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.
"...now for something completely vile: As it turns out, there's no more a last exit to Brooklyn than there..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'In the West': Living Portraits Avedon Would Die For
The original Austin Chronicle review from Nov. 15, 1985
"...When the lights come up, we're face to face with a..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dark Side of the Potterverse
Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy
"...The God-Wheel of Fate has stopped for all these kiddies..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
This double-layered documentary examines the creation of a Hong Kong action film and the impossible feats performed by the Asian stuntman.
"...Directed by: Robin Shou. If you’ve seen any of the Mortal Kombat series, then you’re already familiar with Robin..."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Innovators
Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar
"...During the debate that took place regarding the merits of Ken..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Feeling the Heat
A profile of the new Texas ACLU and Executive Director Will Harrell
"...For an organization that limped through the Nineties with virtually no presence at the Legislature, the..."

April 27, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Flies on the Wall With Attitude
Cinéma vérité pioneer Robert Drew, coming to town this Wednesday for the Texas Documentary Tour, speaks about the films he has made and the film style he helped create.
"...40 years under his belt, is widely viewed as the father of American cinéma vérité, a style of documentary..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Night at the Opera
Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.
"...Jon Else's truly hilarious, Emmy- and Sundance-awarded Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle -- Wagner's opera from the stagehands'..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Tying the Knot: A Drama
Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.
"...Forget merger. Think wedding. Yes, the union of the Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Rules Have Changed
Two veteran music writers conduct an e-mail correspondence in order to look at new ways of reinventing the music industry.
"...In the age of electronic media, the roundtable discussion has evolved..."

June 23, 2000 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

No Prozac for the Wicked
The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake
"...Like God and the Devil, - - writer Donald E. Westlake has many..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Going the Distance
The International Movement of Sharir Dance Company
"...to Austin," says Rina Schenfeld, and she should know. The accomplished choreographer and dancer, who makes her home in..."

May 2, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Into the "Not Done"
The Dances of Jean Fogel Zee
"...Fogel Zee wants to show you glimpses of God. The Austin artist wants each member of her audience to..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Arts Feature

The Virtues of Flexibility
Re-Imagining the Production Process
"...It was unlike any theatre I had ever seen, a temple to possibility, its..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The State Education Agency Has Selected Austin’s Babysitters
The monitors are coming. Let’s pay them $125 an hour.
"...The Texas Education Agency has named the two monitors who..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

“Trailheads and Transmutations” at Davis Gallery Honors the Reparative Quality of Nature
Artists Felice House & Dana Younger capture the glory in all dimensions
"...all dimensions, we say – because Felice House’s new works are paintings, and Dana Younger’s new works are sculptures,..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Service of Music Medicine, Jason Isbell Played at the Austin Library Last Night
Songwriter delivers phenomenal solo set for JoyRx fundraiser
"...Amongst a well-heeled crowd of philanthropists and physicians at the Austin Public Library, I find an open chair and..."

April 28, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

"Reweave: 2021"
With her exhibition, artist Jade Walker entwines viewers in the future of the planet
"...Like Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," Jade Walker's art installation Birdsong brings..."

July 23, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Trust the Process in Gesel Mason's burst!
In this Texas Theatre & Dance project, students learn to undo
"...Perhaps in the wake of the Great Texas Freeze, the only word..."

Feb. 25, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

kYmberly Keeton Wants Your Stories for the Black COVID-19 Index
And at the Austin African American Book Festival 2020, she’ll tell you why
"...That may seem a secondary consideration in these days when lives are literally on the line and..."

June 26, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Coronavirus and the Threat to Those Recovering From Addiction
Maintaining connections – at a distance – to stay sober during the pandemic
"...meetings can be a foundational aspect of maintaining sobriety. They offer a space where someone just coming to grips..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Jo Carol Pierce’s Bad Girls Upset by the Truth
This revival of Jo Carol Pierce’s one-woman show from the Eighties pays loving tribute to the author without really coming into its own
"...Jo Carol Pierce don't come around as often as they should. With gritty, irreverent songwriting and a big-as-Texas personality..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Right Wing Texas State Board of Education Looks to the Left
Central Texas voters can help transform deep-red education panel
"...The Texas State Board of Education, a perennial hotbed of..."

Feb. 18, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Janine Barchas’ The Lost Books of Jane Austen
In this nonfiction book, the local scholar provides fresh insight into the ways that Jane Austen became Jane Austen, literary superstar
"...There's no way that the author of Pride and Prejudice..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From the Fonz to Gene Cousineau: Henry Winkler's Career of Fearless Reinvention
The man who defined cool on the changing demands of acting, being an icon, and the joy of fly fishing
"...Henry Winkler has momentum. He always has. The Yale graduate took the minor supporting part of Arthur..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

To The Lighthouse With Director Robert Eggers
On superstition, isolation, and trained seagulls
"...There are those that think of the sea, and the..."

Oct. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2019:
My Story Is More Than the Struggle
Mitchell Jackson and Jaquira Diaz get under the skin of memoir
"...Memoir is a popular form today, one of the consistently bestselling genres. It’s a form I love, because..."

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Laura Jones

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees
"...What keeps Austin's cultural scene among the liveliest in the nation is that it's never static...."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Painful Splits Along the Way to Stopping Sexual Assault in and Around Austin
Different approaches to accountability lead to rifts throughout the county
"...In the quest to find justice for local rape survivors, advocate..."

March 15, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Iron Orchard
Texas wildcatter literary classic is a sometimes too-faithful adaptation
"...In 1966, Edmund Pendleton Van Zandt Jr. published The Iron Orchard, a lightly fictionalized tell-all book about the..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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