Will the Texas Lege Roll the Dice on Gambling This Session?

The gambling caravan is back, but it’s losing momentum

"...weed (and healthier stuff like, say, Medicaid expansion), the gambling caravan parades through every revenue­-challenged Legislature, each session shinier..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Gambling? What Gambling?

Allergic to taxes, the Lege tries to balance the budget with the rolls of the dice.

"...mortal sin of a state income tax, widespread legalized gambling throughout Texas looks positively innocent, or at least venial...."

May 2, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Gambling Debate Returns to Capitol

With every legislative session comes a study on the economic benefits of slot machines at race tracks

"...of former Gov. Ann Richards – but the two gambling opportunities must remain separate under Texas law. Change that,..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Column by Lee Nichols

No Las Vegas-style Casino Gambling in Eagle Pass, at Least for Now

"...the Kickapoo tribe’s efforts to add Las Vegas-style casino gambling to its reservation in Eagle Pass along the Mexican..."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Post by Kimberly Reeves

Place Your Bets

The gambling action heats up at the Capitol

"...our kids ... it is about the expansion of gambling, plain and simple." – Florida Gov. Jeb Bush..."

March 4, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Handicapping Slots for Tots

The pols and the lobby shuffle the deck on gambling for education'

"...No amount of anti-gambling railing from state GOP chairwoman Tina Benkiser can convince..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Vice, Vice Baby!

Why stop at casino gambling on Waller Creek? Bring on the sex, drugs, and smokestacks.

"...Friday prior. "Whatever Austin is, it is not a gambling town," the board wrote. "Installing a casino in our..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Owning Mahowny

"...Dan Mahowny, a rising Toronto bank executive with a gambling addiction, who siphoned $10.2 million from his bank to..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Minority party hijacks casino issue from religious right

"...the D's successfully forced the Republicans' hand on the gambling issue, and managed to put a crimp in the..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Horse Track Owners Call for 'Racinos'

Study claims allowing slots at tracks could have $6.8 billion economic impact in Texas

"...the days of Ann Richards – but the two gambling opportunities must remain separate under Texas law. Change that,..."

Feb. 4, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Naked City

State GOP can't keep members on the farm ... or out of casinos

"...were either bluffing or extraordinarily clueless when they dismissed gambling as an all-but-dead issue at the Lege. Of course,..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Coming Up Lemons

The House Bill on public school finance goes to the floor, and it's all about tax cuts and slot machines

"...appears to be the care and feeding of the gambling lobby, as the grandly estimated $1.5 billion in "new..."

May 7, 2004 News Column by Michael King

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

"...protege of Chow Yun-Fat's “God,” who, after defeating the Gambling King of China, is accidentally transported back in time..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The God of Gamblers

"...John Woo, I suspect) is a remarkable amalgamation of gambling, farce, Hong Kong gangster shoot-'em-ups, and... chocolate. Ultra-suave Chow..."

July 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

California Split Is the Raging Bull of Poker Movies

AFS double bill pairs Altman film with Ron Mann's biographical doc

"...a straight flush over quad aces. The allure of gambling is easy to understand but difficult to quantify. The..."

Jan. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Fernie Martinez

Naked City

Police now pursuing a paper investigation of financial records

"...by the promise that they could "win big," were gambling away their earnings on the slot-machinelike games. Promising cash,..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Hardball

"...Conor O'Neill, a down-on-his-luck street punk with a huge gambling debt. Twelve thousand dollars in the hole and desperate..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Gambler

"...such as this. Heavily in debt due to his gambling obsession, Dostoevsky had foolishly signed away the rights to..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oscar and Lucinda

"...and Lucinda. An eccentric, idiosyncratic story about glass, love, gambling, and Christian faith, Oscar and Lucinda is a high-wire..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker

This biography of the gambling, murdering Binion captures his wild character without trying to make him likable

"...Vegas Poker. Doug J. Swanson's new biography of Texas gambling kingpin Lester Ben "Benny" Binion starts with the description..."

July 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Common Law

Are the Texas Hold 'Em poker tournaments that I host in my home illegal?

"...game played with cards, dice, balls, or any other gambling device. Normally, this would be bad news for home..."

July 1, 2005 Column by Luke Ellis

The House

They say the house always wins, but sometimes ...

"...Scott (Ferrell) and Kate (Poehler) team up with their gambling- and porn-addicted friend Frank (Mantzoukas) to open a casino..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mankatha

This Tamil action thriller involves organized crime and cricket competitions.

"...action thriller is driven by the fallout of organized gambling during an annual cricket competition...."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teen Patti

In this Bollywood film, a reclusive math genius has an equation that could revolutionize probability theory and puts it into practice in the gambling dens of Mumbai.

"...the poker games called teen patti played in the gambling dens of Mumbai...."

Feb. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Nic Cage delivers one of his best and most outrageous performances in Werner Herzog's cops-and-iguanas drama.

"...same ways as Ferrara’s (rampant cocaine and narcotics use, gambling addiction, and flagrant abuse of the badge), but gone..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Duchess

Keira Knightley stars as the titular Duchess, a legendary wit and arbiter of taste, but the film is a curiously inert: a whole lot of pomp and incircumstance.

"...points – a bastard child, a beehive on fire, gambling debts galore – but it’s a curiously inert, workmanlike..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Take

Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

"...(Coleman) crossed with that of Saul (Renner), a desperate gambling addict. The interaction among these strangers ends with Jesse's..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two for the Money

Pacino again plays another Mephistophelean type who mentors McConaughey's ex-jock in the intricacies of his tout service, offering tips to betters on the Vegas line, but the film is about as fresh as a day-old betting slip.

"...talk of wins and losses in the $200 billion gambling industry, the movie provides very little in the way..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alex & Emma

"...Emma stars Luke Wilson as Alex, a writer and gambling addict who must deliver an entire novel in 30..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Good Thief

"...grave-dirt chaser just for kicks. Bob prowls the subterranean gambling halls and fleshpot whore bars on his way to,..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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