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This Just In: New Radiohead Next Week (Really!)

This Just In: Radioheaded This Way

Is It True That Pandora Is Dying?

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

Showdown at the Bar X

There ain't enough room in this town for Helen Phillips and her enemies

A Dream Team for Barack Obama

There ain't enough room in this town for Helen Phillips and her enemies

The Chronicles of Lewis

Anthony Hopkins gets weepy in Shadowlands

Press Picks

Anthony Hopkins gets weepy in Shadowlands

Press Picks

Anthony Hopkins gets weepy in Shadowlands

Video Pulpit

A Houston judge takes his quest for juvenile justice into national syndication

Married to Poetry

A Houston judge takes his quest for juvenile justice into national syndication

Press Picks

A Houston judge takes his quest for juvenile justice into national syndication

Sour Success

Radiohead wants to prove it's more than just a "Creep"

From Russia, with Love

With the loopy, retro Saint, Val Kilmer has himself a new franchise

Heart of Glass

Too much symbolism (and too little sex) shatters Oscar and Lucinda

Pasta Point of No Return

So much Italian food. So overcooked.

Sisterhood Is Powerful

So much Italian food. So overcooked.

Heroine Overdose

The Governess looks good but turns unlikable

Balancing the Bench

Will race and bad blood play a part in the Guv's judicial picks?

Night & Day

December 31, 1998 - January 6, 1999

Mellow Mamet

Director shows warmth for tradition in The Winslow Boy

The Year in Albums

Director shows warmth for tradition in The Winslow Boy

Through the Camera Lens

In Victorian times, you couldn't show an ankle, but you could photograph young girls all you wanted

Brideshead Revisited Goes Back to the Book

The movie is shorter and truer to the novel than the TV mini-series

Foals: Antidotes

The movie is shorter and truer to the novel than the TV mini-series

Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson in Houston

The movie is shorter and truer to the novel than the TV mini-series

The Good East German

A.K.A.: When your hero is a Stasi spy

Supergrass

Road to Rouen

Sister, Sister

If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

Suth'n Comfort

The Coens score big with Ladykillers -- thanks to Hanks

Good Folk

Caroline Herring shows her South side

Calling the Behavior Police

Kevin Klean squeaks by in the moralistic Emperor's Club

Poetic Invention

Stoppard plumbs the passions and repression of Victorian gays

Impressive Iris

Eyre excels in the gripping story of a writer's descent into Alzheimer's

Hostage Crisis: Day 143

Proof of Life kidnaps the audience and makes it beg for mercy

Blues Power

Now matter how slickly you package him, R.L. Burnside still exudes raw intensity

Midnight Fire

When kids and parents press for the hottest book ever, Potter's world turns Harried

Empire's End

High drama and spirited romance spice up The Last September

School's Out Forever

"Unschoolers" like Holly Furgason don't believe in public education. They don't even believe in teachers. They believe in the ability of their children to teach themselves. Will the law catch up with them?

The Insider

The Talented Mr. Stockman. A defeated politician resurrects himself in Seventh District heaven with a stash of campaign cash

Higher Learning

An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks.

Game Time: Texas Tech Just Wasn't That Into You, Mike Leach Era

​In the end, Ruffin McNeill never had a chance.Despite an Alamo Bowl week where he managed to keep his team focused and united amidst the most bizarre circumstances and an Alamo Bowl game where he made some gutsy calls to get Texas Tech past a frisky, albeit depleted Michigan State squad, replacin ... More >>

Game Time: We Interrupt This Tebow Documentary For Seven Other Reasons To Watch The Senior Bowl

​Every year around this time, NFL prospects gather in Mobile, Alabama for the beginning of what amounts to a three-month job interview, complete with numerous forty-yard dashes, questions about their upbringing, and requests to "cough while I stick my fingers right...HERE!" It's a fascinating tim ... More >>

Connie Willis: Blackout

Going back to the future might not be an option in this sci-fi adventure story

Rice University Residential College Guarantee: Not All Students Get What They Pay For

Photo by SkinnyOrangeCatRice: Getting crowded in here​Note to incoming Rice University undergrads (and their parents) expecting the full "residential college" experience: Be sure to read everything that you get on Rice letterhead.One of the universities' primary selling points is its residential c ... More >>

Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 3

Marco TorresTrombone Shorty​Craig Hlavaty: News coming out of the media tent: Don Henley of the Eagles had a stent put in his heart this past week. He will be singing and possibly playing guitar, but not exerting himself on drums. This could very well be the last Eagles show for a while - if e ... More >>

Last Night: Foals At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​Foals Fitzgerald's April 19, 2011 Just minutes after Fitzgerald's opened its doors for last night's Foals show, tickets were gone. The sold-out venue was packed before second opener Freelance Whales even hit the stage, and it's no wonder - Oxford quintet Foals, fresh off ... More >>

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs

Photo by Jeremy Parzen.We just love it when Amy Corron Power, left with husband Joe, does "un-Amy-like" things!​Another Wine Blog: Love born in the blogosphere. It's a beautiful thing. A few weeks ago, when I shared a glass of stinky, delicious Cortese (from Piedmont) with tandem wine blogger ... More >>