Crossing the Line
"...than any threats of starvation or indebtedness). When his childhood friend Frankie (Connolly), a small-time crook fronting for a..."
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Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Reflecting Skin
"...confronting eight-year-old Seth Cooper. For Seth, the world of childhood is one of nightmares in broad daylight: his friends..."
Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Straight Out of Brooklyn
"...filmmaking readied Rich for the project ahead. His early childhood was lived in the housing projects depicted in Straight..."
June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Drop Dead Fred
A grown woman's imaginary childhood friend (called Drop Dead Fred) returns when her adult problems are at their bleakest, and creates all kinds of mayhem and fun – and, along the way, helps our heroine self-actualize and become a more centered human being.
"...idea, I suppose, about a grown woman whose imaginary childhood friend called Drop Dead Fred returns when her adult..."
May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Comfort of Strangers
"...with wine and tells them revealing tales of his childhood. Too drunk to find their way back to their..."
May 17, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Review: Hall Johnson, Haymaker
Childhood friends capture young independence and its teething struggles
"...a summer-contained coming-of-age film. Beneath bright, radiant dreaminess, the childhood friends' 31-minute release captures young independence and its teething..."
May 26, 2023 Music Feature by Wayne Lim
Ways for Grownups to Act Like a Kid This July
Youthful diversions from kickball to video games
"...and no play, make July your month to revisit childhood and do something fun. And of course, find lots..."
June 30, 2022 Events Post by Katherine McNevins
Find the Elephant in a Virtual Table Read for a New Austin Film
Chinwe Okorie uses childhood embarrassment for her latest short
"...goes back to a strange moment in her own childhood. A Black immigrant from Nigeria, she found herself in..."
Feb. 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Checking In: The Still is Still Moving to Oliver Rajamani
ATX’s Romani Lone Star makes another auto doc, My Mind
"...Last, his orchestra. I’ve been listening to him since childhood, because my father was a big fan of his..."
Nov. 10, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
A Lagniappe About Mary Trump’s Book
R.U. Steinberg recalls a childhood in the distant orbit of "the world's most dangerous man"
"...I did find out where her brother Freddy, my childhood school friend, lives, but it would have been super..."
July 24, 2020 Arts Feature by R.U. Steinberg
New Multimedia Exhibit Captures East Austin Then and Now
Bear Lopez collaborates to celebrate his disappearing neighborhood
"...animals, and toy lawnmowers, either kept from the owner’s childhood or gifted to him by neighbors whose children have..."
Oct. 16, 2019 Arts Post by Saskia Henn
SXSW Music Interview: Fontaines D.C.
How frontman Grian Chatten worked his childhood in Dublin into debut album Dogrel
"...the eyes of his new friends following a "footloose" childhood moving around the area. The storied literary hub now..."
March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe
Rep. Donna Howard on the 86th Texas Legislature
“Let’s target some new money toward childhood literacy, toward high school success, toward teacher quality – the kind of things that research shows make a difference”
"...we'll do better. Let's target some new money toward childhood literacy, toward high school success, toward teacher quality –..."
Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Snapshot: Austin Ice Cream Festival
Where nostalgia for childhood runs as high as the temperature
"...the heat, and in most cases that begins during childhood. Sundaes by the pool or lake? Yep. Otter Pops..."
June 29, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall
The Best Austin Bars for "Adult Play"
These bars might make you feel like a kid again
"...week's issue, we brought you Adult Play. Complete with childhood nostalgia like coloring and activity pages, puzzle rooms, adult..."
July 29, 2016 Events Post by Lisa Gossett
Growing Up in Public
Josh and Ben Safdie return to Austin with Daddy Longlegs
"...the advice of those who told them throughout their childhood, "One day this will make a great movie.”..."
Aug. 21, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Houston Kid
Rodney Crowell reminisces on '˜Chinaberry Sidewalks'
"...in song, a poignant look back at his dirt-poor childhood on the outskirts of town. That album also helped..."
Jan. 27, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell
Family Album
A chaotic childhood inspires the Safdie brothers' Daddy Longlegs
"...The Safdies' chaotic childhood is concentrated into the film's two-week period, during which..."
July 16, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Kinky in 2010
With gubernatorial aspirations on the back burner, Kinky Friedman is out on tour
"...and reading from his book Heroes of a Texas Childhood...."
Feb. 24, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser
SXSW Film: Family Matters in The Overbrook Brothers
Austin filmmaker John Bryant draws on his own childhood traumas
"...The Overbrook Brothers origins lie deep in Bryant's own childhood...."
March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Look, Ma, All Hands
Hammer & Tongs on why their Eighties-era childhood epic Son of Rambow is the anti-CGI
"...video; and, best of all, the slyly endearing, Eighties-era childhood epic (and Fantastic Fest favorite) Son of Rambow...."
May 16, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Sensational Saga of Mr. Sinus
Picking up where Mystery Science Theater 3000 left off, Mr. Sinus Theater 3000 skewers the movies of our childhood to sold-out crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse.
"...torn apart, they loved seeing bad movies from their childhood torn apart...."
Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
Richard Linklater: In Defense of Animation
The Apollo 10 1/2 director show it's not just for kids
"...paranoia; and now Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, is a reminiscence of growing up in the shadow..."
April 9, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Darkness in the Heart of Town
Will Sheff, one step forward, two steps back
"...for a few hours and maybe soak up some childhood memories – good and bad – that might spark..."
Sept. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran
The Pre-K Push
Legislation intended to expand pre-k opportunities, increase child care reimbursement rates, and improve support and training for early childhood professionals is in the works.
"...the other end of the spectrum to expand early childhood education...."
Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
Allan Rising
The Allan Early Childhood Center is home to a flourishing collection of nonprofits
"...campus has found new life as the Allan Early Childhood Center, a home for nonprofits that the district hopes..."
Feb. 5, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
"...Soldier: A Poet's Childhoodby June Jordan..."
Aug. 25, 2000 Books Review by Craig Arnold
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
"...Ecology of a Cracker Childhoodby Janisse Ray..."
March 3, 2000 Books Review by Jay Hardwig
The Prince of Tides
"...poet who transforms the sadness and terror of her childhood with her art. The price she pays is a..."
Dec. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher
DVD Watch: My Neighbor Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki's sweet and monstrous classic arrives on Blu-ray
"...hoovering up all the intellectual property rights for everyone's childhood, but at least they're treating it with a degree..."
