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March 5, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam
Sound of the City
Black Milk's Detroit "oomph"
"...CYS: We’re not talking an Electric Circus-style album?..."
Jan. 13, 2010 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The real Parnassus of this story is director Terry Gilliam, who salvaged his movie despite the sudden death of his star, Heath Ledger, midway through shooting.
"...attraction in the contemporary world. The troupe travels like circus performers in time-worn carts through the murk of both..."
Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Good Hair
In this thoughtful documentary, Chris Rock touches on – if by no means produces a definitive telling of – many facets of the highly charged topic of African-American hair.
"...Bros. International Hair Show, a semiannual expo cum three-ring circus that lends the film a satisfying framing story. First-time..."
Oct. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Hightower Report
New Elephant-in-Chief?; and Man vs. Wall Street
"...The worst job in the circus, I'm told, is cleaning up after the elephants...."
Sept. 11, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Final Destination
This new addition to the ongoing film series takes a terrific premise and turns it ho-hum.
"...of early Disney animation, or, more depressingly, The Family Circus. Director Ellis, who previously helmed the best of the..."
Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Cove
This marvelously made agitprop documentary exposes the dark secrets that underpin the world’s dolphin mania.
"...mania, whether it’s our enjoyment of the animals performing circus tricks in aquariums, the swimming-with-dolphins industry, or the government..."
Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fatback Circus
Pop rocks
"...Fatback CircusDark World..."
July 24, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman
SXSW Interactive Bytes
Game Design Competitions recap
"...came from Jill Taffet's desire to create a multiplayer circus game for her kids that could help children live..."
March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Coraline
An unparalleled master of the phantasmagoric image returns with this children's film.
"...Spink (Saunders), the actresses from downstairs, and the Russian circus performer Mr. Bobinsky (McShane) and his dancing mice. Selick..."
Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Gay Place's Top 10 Queer Doin's 2008
Gay Place recounts 2008: the year of hope and impact
"...dangle but with her fierce comeback, a little womanizin' circus called Circus released just this past month, Clay Aiken..."
Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Ash Bell
Fruitcake
One light version, one dark
"...than 1 million fruitcakes a year. John Ringling, of circus fame, stayed at the hotel every year when the..."
Nov. 28, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann
The Sixth Sense
"...In the years B.E.C (Before Electric Circus, his poorly received 2002 LP), Common nestled himself in..."
Sept. 11, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger
It May Have Been Better Journalism If …
"...as hyperbole or whether they should support Ringling Bros. Circus or stay away. It may have been better journalism..."
Sept. 2, 2008 Postmarks
Shame, Nikolas and 'Chronicle,' for Not Standing Up for Animals
"...of the Wallendas returning to perform for Ringling Bros. Circus. Isn't he bothered that major corporations like Sears, Visa,..."
Aug. 26, 2008 Postmarks
Death Race
All the busted heads and blasted gaskets can't turn this makeover of a cult classic into anything but a real drag.
"...the bloodthirsty home audience more of the same old blood-and-circus. Chaos ensues, but none of it is interesting or..."
Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Gay Place's Top 10 Queer Doin's 2007
All the doors that opened from the closet to the men's room
"...Keep eating, sister.) But she looked so sad. Like circus-pony sad. Like circus pony with a broken leg whom..."
Jan. 4, 2008 Features Feature by Kate Getty
Luv Doc Recommends: Armadillo Christmas Bazaar
Austin Convention Center, Friday, December 21, 2007
"...the same sweaty palmed, attention whoring desperation of a Circus Circus or Flamingo, and most amazingly, does so without..."
Dec. 21, 2007 Column by The Luv Doc
Oh, Britney
Oh, Britney, Britney, Britney.
"...Keep eating, sister. But she looks so sad. Like circus pony sad. Like circus pony with a broken leg..."
Sept. 9, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer
Mr. Lewis & the Funeral 5
"...If it's closing time, and a circus barker trapped you in the circus freak-show tent, fear..."
July 6, 2007 Music Review by Margaret Moser
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera, the deliciously caustic musical by Brecht and Weill, has been reinterpreted by Austin Playhouse, with unfortunate results, as a kind of broad slapstick
"...the decision to set the play in a Victorian circus some interesting validity. The tawdry and colorful disarray is..."
June 29, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks
La Vie en Rose
How do you tell the true story of the nearly mythical popular performer Edith Piaf? In epic proportions, of course.
"...Piaf’s life was fantastical and tragic. Dumped by her circus-performer father with a grandmother who operates a brothel, Piaf..."
June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton
Letters @ 3AM
These Lubbock friends of mine were always writing books – thick notebooks of drawings and words
"...really is." When Joe got back to Lubbock, the circus was in town. He and I joined up. I..."
March 16, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura
Ring, Rip, Rent
Ring Rip Rent, a new play by Martha Lynn Coon, shows us a future where women who have violated society's sexual mores are confined, classified, and treated
"...female sexuality in the style of vaudeville routines and circus acts...."
Nov. 3, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Documentary about Lennon's political activism and time spent in New York basks in the legend's presence but offers little new on the subject.
"...his new bride fashioned to goad the already-captive media circus that was consumed with their lives. The latter half..."
Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fall to Grace
Shot in Austin with a mostly local cast and buoyed by a fine, evocative score, Fall to Grace is a quiet little ensemble film that pulses with its own unique heartbeat.
"...only just discovering. Alexei, the son of a famous circus clown, works day-labor jobs to provide for his family,..."
June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Folk Alliance Featured
Events open to the public
"...Presents @ Flamingo Cantina: Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreamsz (NYC), the Burns Sisters Band (Ithaca, N.Y.),..."
Feb. 10, 2006 Music Feature
Darwin's Nightmare
This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.
"...Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA and George Ratliff’s Plutonium Circus. Like the latter, it examines, in minute detail, and..."
Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
BloodRayne
This video-game-to-movie adaptation of BloodRayne poses no threat to German filmmaker Uwe Boll's reputation as the modern-day Ed Wood.
"...shall we say, direction? After breaking away from the circus she falls in with the Brimstone Society (Madsen, Rodriguez,..."
Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Events of 2005 That Engaged and Endure
'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires lists his favorite performances of dance and classical music from 2005
"...1) Circus Maximus (UT Wind Ensemble) The premiere of John Corigliano's..."
