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Beware of Failing Rock
An Austin Couple Says Their Insurer Let Them Down
"...freaked-out parents' eyes, and she was incapable of offering them an explanation. And they didn't know how to help..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

The Secret of Roan Inish
"...mothers, before even the births of those generations before them. Sure enough, as John Sayles' screen adaptation of Rosalie..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Good Son
"...the isolation of the grieving Susan and Mark, placing them in shots surrounded by acres of space. We see..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Every Other Weekend
"...easily distracted, she misplaces the kids and she leaves them with sitters or alone. Nevertheless, she does manage to..."

Nov. 15, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
"...who, for a few gold coins promises to put them into the action. The next thing they know, Rosencrantz..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Nonprofits Step Up to Bring Unhoused to Warm Shelter
City struggles to reach people and bring them in from the cold
"...in the cold. She just had to go find them...."

Dec. 30, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Learn to Make Tamales From Tamale House East’s Diane Valera
Plus, places to order tamales if that’s more your speed
"...If you aren’t getting together with family to make them this holiday season, the question is where to get..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Food Post by A. Richmond

Austin at Large: Ain’t No Highway Wide Enough
TxDOT abandons any pretense of new thinking about I-35. It's time to stop them.
"...None of those visions and the concepts that spawned them are new. We've reported on them for years; Mann..."

Aug. 20, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Queen & Slim
Tragic romance with a Black Lives Matter message
"...lovers-on-the-lam crime story with very trenchant Black Lives Matter thematic content. It is a perfect movie for our times...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stuber
Buddy cop action-comedy isn’t making many friends
"...predictably unfunny as lead. Bautista and Nanjiani have proven themselves to be excellent comedic actors in their own rights,..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sun Is Also a Star
Is it destiny that brings these two lovers together, or the bland demands of a YA adaptation?
"...a pragmatic girl and a moony boy and gives them a day to fall in love. Only a day:..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kin
Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal
"...scoundrels who want to collect the money he owes them. Along their journey, the brothers pick up a female..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
A true-crime family mystery indicts decades of racial violence.
"...bit awkward doing this alone (though I did write them down), but I’m curious as to how a larger..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Five Things to Know If You're Thinking About Getting a Pet Rabbit
Bunny 101
"...are fine, but they have a dead stare about them that is a bit unnerving, and the less said..."

Feb. 19, 2018 Events Post by Josh Kupecki

Hanging Out With the Dream King
Mathias Svalina delivers slivers from the oneiroi to your front door
"...about 40-50 subscribers per month and write dreams for them every day of that month. Then I’ll bike around..."

March 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cece Winans, Reluctant Star
Gospel great tapes for PBS on the Sabbath
"...first album in nine years on Feb. 3, Let Them Fall in Love, the Detroit gospel star tapes Austin..."

Nov. 19, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Nerve
An online game of "Truth or Dare" turns dangerous
"...challenges at the bidding of the anonymous voyeur-participants posing them. (The dangling carrot of prize money for live-streaming the..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Wes Anderson vs. Texas' Wild Birds
Woodcut artist Lisa Brawn explains "Quién Es Más Macho?"
"...to nature-inspired pop artist Lisa Brawn, a showdown between them was inevitable...."

July 11, 2016 Arts Post by Mary Cantrell

Knock Knock
Keanu Reeves stars in Eli Roth's latest horror film
"...plucking out favorites, and putting a modern spin on them, serving them up as a fresh entrée for a..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Look of Silence
Getting personal with Indonesia's bloody past in follow-up to The Act of Killing
"...to be almost unbearable to watch, and yet watch them we must. Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, which chronicles the horrific,..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Magic Mike XXL
The boys are back in town
"...showered in dollar bills, but you’ll never once see them pocket the cash. You get the drift they’d prefer..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Good Eye: Passion Play
Don't call them action figures
"...That's what makes them infinitely collectible; objects of passion. Jewelry designer Suzie Gal­le­hugh..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Short Term 12
This indie drama starring Brie Larson has an emotional honesty that reaps fans and awards.
"...the rotten deals life has so far bestowed on them in order to find successful futures as well-functioning adults...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sapphires
Exuberant but fairly formulaic, this Australian film is a backstage story about an all-girl singing group from the outback in the Sixties.
"...– a louche Irishman named Dave (O’Dowd) – hears them perform and convinces them to switch their material to..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sex and the City 2
Two years after the end of the last film, Carrie Bradshaw now frets that the "sparkle" has gone out of her marriage. It's gone from this movie, too.
"...take the girls out of the city and plunk them down in the alien culture of Abu Dhabi, where..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sara Hensley Turns Over a New Leaf
The new PARD director has big ideas – to realize them, she'll have to raise big bucks
"...doesn't like its parks enough to stand up for them."..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

I Defy You, Ira Glass
"...of): "These are my principles; if you don't like them, I have others."..."

Oct. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Owls, Hooters & the Devil: Graveyard Part II
Graveyard Part II
"...Witchcraft. Warlock’s balls that band, letting Graveyard open for them. Both avalanche the rootsy mulch of ancient Southern blues..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

South by So Real
Hustling SXSW hip-hop with Matt Sonzala.
"...local unknowns, Sonzala is the man responsible for getting them on schedule. Bump & Hustle caught up with him..."

Feb. 12, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Bridge
An emotional and aesthetic whirlpool of horror, fascination, beauty, and resignation gives Eric Steel's Golden Gate Bridge suicide documentary an eerie power.
"...set up two cameras near the bridge and kept them rolling during every daylight hour of 2004, catching almost..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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