Charity Begins at Home

The gospel music and charitable concern of the Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers

"...and announce that every penny goes to a local charity, the spirit of giving is slightly less orthodox than..."

June 22, 2001 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Firefighters Box Cops for Charity

Local law enforcement got their proverbial asses whupped Saturday night at Austin's inaugural Battle of the Badges

"...night at Austin's inaugural Battle of the Badges, a charity fundraiser benefiting Part­nerships for Children, the Down Syndrome Association..."

July 18, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Shudder for Charity at Scare for a Cure

Austin's biggest fundraising haunt returns with safety in mind

"...the more frightening years in recent history, Austin's biggest charity haunted house has a lot to compete with. Scare..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Arts Feature by Cody Song

Opinion: Charity, Not Profiteering

Policy is needed to halt abuses in conservation

"...loophole with conservation easements that turns what should be charity into profiteering. Their actions threaten the ability of landowners..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Column by Ellen Gass

Rooster Teeth Raises $1.4 Million for Charity

Cash will go to local children’s hospitals

"...Life 24-hour fundraising marathon for Extra Life, the gaming charity raising cash for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. All..."

Nov. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rooster Teeth Wants to Give a Million to Charity

24-hour streaming show to raise money for Dell Children's Hospital

"...That cause is gaming charity Extra Life, which raises money for the Salt Lake..."

Nov. 11, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Arm Wrestling for Charity at Bar 96

Thursday night event to raise money for breast cancer organization

"...of Lady Arm Wrestlers, is putting on their 2013 charity event, which will raise money for Casting for Recovery,..."

April 15, 2013 Food Post by Gracie Salem

Urgent Charity Fundraiser for Local Film Critic

Silent auction includes rare Mondo prints, signed Exorcist script

Dec. 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dudes in Drag Shake Speedy Cocktails for Charity, Part 2

Rowdy event raises cash for breast cancer awareness

Jan. 19, 2013 Food Post by Gracie Salem

Refilling the Charity Coffers

CenTex Red Cross stretched by floods

Sept. 10, 2010 News Post by Kelsey McNiel

Knife Play for Charity -- CANCELLED

Local media celebs cook up some fun at Benihana to raise funds for the Red Cross.

Sept. 11, 2008 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

AMD's Favorite Charity

Our Top 10 list of organizations and causes we believe AMD might like to consider sponsoring

April 7, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Superior Wine and Fine Food for a Great Charity

Sept. 5, 2003 Food Feature

Believe Me

In this faith-based comedy, frat boys create a fake charity to pay back tuition bills.

"...to), he hatches a scheme to create a fake charity helping Africans connect with clean water – the Get..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Guelwaar

This comedy of errors is a piercing cultural commentary that examines large issues like the indignity of foreign aid and smaller issues like human vanity and pride. It satirizes African red tape and bureaucracy and casts a gently probing eye toward squabbling tribal differences.

"...of Guelwaar: that he was a vociferous critic of charity and foreign aid, that he was a philandering husband,..."

April 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cover Models Duel to the Drink

Student and mentor in the Austin cocktail scene shake it up for charity

"...donate a portion of the proceeds to a favored charity...."

April 6, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

Rooster Teeth Goes Big With the Extra Life Fundraiser

Streaming event for children's hospitals goes 24 hours this weekend

"...the worst thing that Jack Pattillo has eaten for charity? The Rooster Teeth mainstay and organizer of the annual..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Mutual Aid Organizations Share Resources During COVID-19 and Beyond

Looking for solidarity, not charity

"...is very Othering to be constantly the recipient of charity [and to] not feel that you have something to..."

Aug. 21, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Rooster Teeth Raises $1.2 Million for Dell Children's

Extra Life fundraiser blasts through million dollar goal

"...Life, the annual fundraising event for the Extra Life charity and Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas run..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Once Upon a Deadpool

Deadpool is back ... and he brought Fred Savage with him

"...The Princess Bride as a complicated fundraiser for the charity Fuck Cancer, which has renamed itself to Fudge Cancer..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

My Blind Brother

Indie romantic comedy has plenty of bite

"...has found purpose as a dedicated athlete with a charity foundation and handsome face the local news loves featuring..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Letters

Mother Teresa biopic delivers no miracles

"...the slums of Kolkata, founded the still-thriving Missionaries of Charity, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Place at the Table

Eat. Drink. Empower. celebrates women in food

"...group of local female chefs would make a great charity fundraiser. She envisioned "a very casual get-together."..."

Aug. 19, 2014 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Operation Help Blue Santa

APD charity scrambling for gifts

"...in need your help to make sure that the charity's 40th Christmas keeps that tradition alive...."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Of Gods and Men

This Cannes Grand Prix winner is a spellbinding tale of Trappist monks amid Algerian civil chaos and finding purpose in faith.

"...in fact a deeply complex film about faith, hope, charity, and bloody, bloody reality. You don't have to be..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lord, Save Us From Your Followers

Dan Merchant seeks to uncover why the gospel of love is dividing America.

"...of Jesus and his religion of love, forgiveness, and charity. Merchant even takes the almost blasphemous stand of using..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seven Pounds

Will Smith stars in this dramatic film about a man who whose melancholia compels him to devise a unique plan to redeem what remains of his life.

"...means of self-flagellation, he devises an elaborate scheme of charity/contrition designed to save strangers’ lives through the abandonment of..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Conversations With God

Life-affirming lessons about a generous, forgiving God and the redemptive possibilities of love and charity dominate this movie based on Neale Donald Walsch's bestseller.

"...forgiving God and the redemptive possibilities of love and charity. Czerny (Mission: Impossible, The Ice Storm) stars as Neale..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Saint Ralph

This strange youth dramedy from Canada has a brisk, sunny aplomb.

"...Fourteen-year-old Ralph Walker (Butcher) is no saint. A gawky charity-case student at an Ontario parochial school – circa 1954..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Millions

A sweet, emotionally complex film about faith, charity, and growing up is not what most people would have expected from Trainspotting's Danny Boyle, but this new movie is unmistakably his.

"...is a sweet, emotionally complex film about faith and charity and how the workaday world tends to snuff out..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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