Entries from Austinist tagged with 'melbrooks'
November 7, 2007
Blazing Saddles Quote-Along & Bar-B-Que RunQuote-Along: Thursday, Nov. 8th @ 7:00pm, Saturday, Nov. 10th and Thursday, Nov. 15th @ 7:15pm / BBQ Run: Saturday, Nov. 10th @ NoonAlamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)Quote-Along: $10 / Quote-Along & BBQ Run: $75[info] | [tickets]Hey you! Yeah, YOU! Quit yer lollygaggin'! Don't you know that we're rounding up cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican......
Continue Reading "No, Seriously, We Think You've Had Enough Beans: Blazing Saddles Quote-Along"June 26, 2007
Mel Brooks strings together one liners the way that Pete Doherty strings together lines. And that's no joke. The famed writer and director from Brooklyn presents as a classic comedic triple threat: brash, brilliant and more than a little Jew-y. (Mel, it's good to be the king!) If you're a fan, you'll want to free up your Wednesday evenings for the next month or so, because Texas Hillel, located just off the UT campus, is......
Continue Reading "May the Shwartz (Still) Be With You"June 20, 2007
[This post comes from William Coombes, who'll soon be joining the Austinist staff!] Looking for theatre, music and nudity? Arts on Real/Naughty Austin gives you the goods with their current production of The Full Monty. Truly a rags-to-not-for-profit-riches story, Arts on Real is a glorious diamond in the rough for the local theatre scene. This home-grown venue is well used by Naughty Austin, who continue to provide the city's best "alternative" entertainment. Along with the......
Continue Reading "Austinist Reviews The Full Monty"April 11, 2006
Recently, following the extraordinary back-to-back successes of Satanic Panic in the Attic and The Sunlandic Twins. Polyvinyl Records reissued three albums from Of Montreal's back catalog, off the now-defunct Kindercore label: The Bedside Drama: a Petite Tragedy, The Early Four Track Recordings, and The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit’s Flower. We had a phone chat with frontman Kevin Barnes a while back (admittedly, before SXSW), where we discussed the band's recent successes,......
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