Days of de la Iglesia
Sept. 21-28, Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
"...There comes a point about midway through Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's rapturously sacrilegious..."
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Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Transporter 2
For all its gimmicky mayhem, Transporter 2 is an improvement over the original, completely setting aside such yawn-inducing cinematic standbys as a romantic interest and realism.
"...them. Frank’s seeming imperviousness to peril, unfortunately, means that midway through Transporter 2 you begin to wonder what all..."
Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Echo & the Bunnymen / The Go-Betweens
Record review
"...to 16 Lovers Lane. Things hit a bald patch midway ("Darlinghurst Nights," "This Night's for You"), but a limited-edition..."
Sept. 9, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Guy Forsyth
Record review
"...visa expired. But the Austin Music Award-winner – part midway hawker, part midnight rambler – believes in art as..."
Sept. 2, 2005 Music Review by David Lynch
Letters at 3AM
No recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' shared the poem's spirit or its author's invitation to expand the very definition of 'human being'
"...on hip, looking like he's about to speak. Only midway in his poem does he reveal his name: Walt..."
July 22, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
Battling for Music, History, and Learning
Juneteenth Battle of the Bands competition harkens back to days when marching bands enjoyed a celebrated place in Austin's black community, and creates opportunity for greater future African-American involvement in school bands.
"...hear my voice – without a microphone," he remembered. Midway through the All-Star set, he took to the field..."
June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Stay Sweet, BFF, KIT
'Freaks and Geeks' fans and their bittersweet assembly at the Alamo
"...A question-and-answer session midway through the event suggests that the freaks and geeks..."
June 10, 2005 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Rupert Holmes' adaptation of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' has more to do with Victorian music hall entertainment than Dickensian literature – and is all the more engaging for it
"...and makes a priceless exit when the character vanishes midway in the story and her services are no longer..."
June 10, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Shoal Creek Boulevard Frankencurbs Draw Ire of Residents
Few defend bike/car compromise
"...felt more like a piñata," said project designer Gandy midway through. "I hope by going through [this meeting], we..."
May 20, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
The Crack Pipes, Friday, April 22 at Beerland
Release me
"...blues title track, which transforms into electric, harp-fueled mayhem midway through. In the church of vocalizing Right Rev. Ray..."
April 22, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets
Wild Rides
UT students pack bigger, better New Works Festival with more thrills than a carnival midway
"...for fans of creative risk-taking, it's like a carnival midway, a jumble of thrill rides sure to set your..."
April 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Andrea Echeverri
"...three-minute capsules of (XM) radio wannabes is overly metronomic midway through ("Amni–tico"), one wishing for Echeverri to go jungle..."
March 18, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Jeff Hanson
"...When Hanson's ghostly howls give gravity to the piano midway through, tears begin to well. The super-Smithian waltz "Welcome..."
March 18, 2005 Music Review by Darcie Stevens
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
"...Center, Friday, March 18 "My wife, Melinda, told me midway through 2003 that the world was ready for Smile."..."
March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...baseball, gay rights activists are claiming a 6-2 lead midway through the legislative session. The Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of..."
March 4, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Charting the TODs
Some visual samples of the neighborhood plans for Transit Oriented Development
"...Midway Zone: Minimum two to three stories. This is the..."
Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature
Here Comes the Train
Can city staff, citizens, and neighborhoods realize – and build – a more livable city?
"...each of these, three different "scale zones" – Gateway, Midway, and Transition – to help the TOD zones blend..."
Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols
White Noise
That droning sound you hear is White Noise.
"...moves from romantic, Ghost-like ennui to overt Scooby-Dooisms about midway through, right about the time three shadowy figures begin..."
Jan. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The LCRA Moves to Turn on the Tap
Future of Hill Country waits on Authority's decisions
on water plan
"...– a Chicago-based concern that went bankrupt in 1931, midway through construction of the Hamilton Dam in Burnet Co...."
Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith
The Machinist
Christian Bale lost 60 lbs. in order to play the unsettling title character, a man who has maybe shed his sanity along with his weight.
"...starts oozing from Trevor’s refrigerator somewhere around the movie’s midway mark, it’s clear that this story cannot end well...."
Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Controlling Their Own Destiny
So many questions for the gaming industry, so many
Austin game developers to answer them
"...the recent sale of Inevitable Games to industry giant Midway to the death throes of Acclaim Studios this past..."
Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Naked City
Bike rodeo contains a message amidst its madness
"...by the Rodeo Klowns, and a full pedal-powered carnival midway including a Ferris wheel, carousel, and the scary spinning..."
Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
DVDnds
"...at the Fillmore come full circle. Actually, "Circle" falls midway through Big Head Todd & the Monsters' 17-song stand..."
Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
See You at the Fair
In his new show 'Funicular,' painter Joseph Phillips renders images of cable cars and Ferris wheels that cut across the canvas with geometric force
"...wheel turns and up you go, rising above the midway along an arc until you can see the whole..."
Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
TCB
Party on Red River or in Kansas, with Attack Formation if need be, but you must submit to the all-consuming power of BOB
"...bands will play, the street will resemble a carnival midway – like it doesn't already – and a lot..."
Sept. 3, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray
The Final Act
The Texas Documentary Tour hosts Robert Stone's 'Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'
"...the film without compromise. The BBC backed the film midway, giving me total carte blanche, PBS bought it upon..."
Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Culture Flash!
Clowns picket Physical Plant, Mills takes the prize in Montreal, Steakley mixes up some 'Tuna' in Louisville, and Salvage Vanguard wants you to join their party
"...finalists selected to compete in this year's competition, held midway through the 10-day festival. Six Ballet Austin dancers took..."
Aug. 27, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Animal Collective
Record review
"...Clocking in at 12 minutes, "Visiting Friends" is the midway demarcation where Sung Tongs either solidifies its spell or..."
Aug. 27, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets
Land of Confusion
Michael Simon's first detective novel finds a transplanted New Yorker struggling to solve a murder in a 'completely different' Austin
"...grad student, a transplant from New York, Michael Simon, midway through his graduate work, was pondering one of the..."
July 30, 2004 Books Feature by Roger Gathman
Still Scary, Still Subversive
Alamo's Roadshow of the Living Dead brings George Romero to Austin
"...lost its reason for being, the whole underlying satire, midway through. It doesn't really mean much today because when..."
