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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
A moving and vital document of an extraordinary but little-known artist
"...Silver Jew (Drag City): Filmmaker Michael Tully follows indie rock icons..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Screens Review by Doug Freeman

It's Comic! It's Art! It's … Spiegel-Man!
Maus creator Art Spiegelman's new Breakdowns is even better than his old Breakdowns.
"...prize-winning, Garbage Pail Kids-drawing, creatively neurotic and artistically groundbreaking Jew – Art Spiegelman, ladies and gentlemen! – brightens Pantheon's..."

Oct. 1, 2008 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lunacy and Sorrow
David Berman pokes the Silver Jews out of his shell
"...Silver Jews' sixth Drag City album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, opens..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...(but grandfathered): South Shore District PUD, Riverfield PUD, Dell Jew­ish Community Center, West 71 Office Park, and Wildflower Commons...."

June 27, 2008 News Feature

Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Everything
What do Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Ocote Soul Sounds have in common? Prince, Maceo Parker, and Larry Harlow!
"...on the biggest night of the biggest festival, the JewMex horns surveyed a sea of more than 50,000 in..."

June 13, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Salute Your Undershorts
The secret Hollywood history behind No Pants Day
"...creation had been circumcised and was, therefore, possibly a Jew...."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...doc reveals Ellison's wonderland to be less "crotchety old Jew"-ville than that of a profoundly engaged and hopelessly romantic..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Die Another Day
On renewal, 'Red Cavalry,' and the joys of creating, despite the hostile storms and vicious seas
"...the bloody Russian Civil War. A bookish, literary Odessa Jew riding with the notoriously violent and ruthless Cossacks would..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Letters @ 3AM
Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"
"...his guts and feared for his safety. The only Jew I was aware of was the Long Island-born friend..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

The Master Builder
The impeccable craft and enduring genius of Arthur Miller, as explained by Tony Kushner
"...why he could write The Crucible. He was a Jew from Brooklyn, but he got that New England [sensibility],..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sha-booyah ROLL CALL!
Meet our new blogger, Andy Campy!
"...brownish brown, chai not coffee, expanded cable, queer feminist, Jew-ish, Bjork, and never in my life! Grody!..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

'Les Enfants Terribles'
"...widowed the day after her betrothal to a rich Jew ("Elisabeth hadn't married him for his money, nor for..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Arab Star
Texas journalist Aziz Shihab on Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
"...home in Jerusalem in the 1949 war (displaced by Jewish emigrants from Brooklyn) and whether as a visitor he..."

July 20, 2007 Books Feature by Michael King

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...much opportunity for insight into the complexities of the Jewish Orthodox culture in South Brooklyn. As a result, the..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Page Two: Let's Get Lost
An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest
"...Arranged: Two young women – one an Orthodox Jew, the other Muslim – meet and become friends as..."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Looking More Closely When Others Look Away
On directors examining structure, storytelling, and how pictures can move us
"...odyssey," not least because neither he nor Crespo is Jewish or Muslim, the two faiths at the heart of..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Hour Has 22 Minutes
Pop quiz on Canada, with a SXSW 07 musical cheat sheet
"...party people (see "Crazy Canucks," above), "the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture," Chromeo, gets..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
"...screenwriting how-tos. Topics include the ascension of the Ashkenazi Jew to the top of the Hollywood food chain and..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Essential Man-Thing: Vol. 1 and Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier
No nostalgia: discovery and rediscovery
"...April 19, 1943. To rescue a woman who smuggled Jews out of Nazi-occupied territory, the Unknown Soldier, posing as..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Liveblogging the Lege Opening
"...three minutes of your life. Now he's quoting renowned Jew hater Henry Ford. Appointment of temporary officers and more..."

Jan. 9, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: Red-State Specials
In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate
"...international bankers, those damn Democrats, the Trilateral Commission, the Marxist-Jewish conspiracy, manipulative secret leaders of the New World Order..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The 23rd Austin Jewish Book Fair
Thursday, Nov. 2, through Nov. 12
"...Events take place at the Jewish Community Association of Austin Hall (7300 Hart, Dell Jewish..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Books Feature

Parade
'Parade' is an ambitious musical for a university theatre department, but the entire company presenting it at St. Edward's is impressively in tune with Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's retelling of the Leo Frank case
"...others – but he's also an outsider: a Brooklyn Jew in an Old South still stinging from its humiliating..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Song for My Father
An epic and personal reminiscence of Don Walser and what he meant to Austin
"...As the eldest son of a conservatively Jewish household, I was thoughtfully instructed on the customs and..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Music Feature by Mark Rubin

ACL Music Fest Preview
"...Yes, yes – the Hasidic Jew doing the rasta, mon. But wait 'til you hear..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...I am not a Jew. I don't have any particular love for Israel. But..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Column

Knows Who the Good Guys Are
"...improve tourism is utterly pathological. I am not a Jew. I don't have any particular love for Israel. But..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Postmarks

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...is more than 2,000 years old, and that the Jew vs. Arab battle of historical accuracy and religious value..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

The Mr. Moto Collection
"...An apocryphal bit of Hollywood PR? Probably. (A Hungarian Jew, Lorre had fled Europe to avoid the impending Nazi..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Uninformed or Misinformed?
"...is more than 2,000 years old, and that the Jew vs. Arab battle of historical accuracy and religious value..."

Aug. 22, 2006 Postmarks

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