Public Notice: Glowing, Like a Nuclear Reactor

April 28, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Arcade Days

Wayne Alan Brenner would walk two miles uphill both ways through a snowbank to get to play Reactor again

"...Listen, kid. You ever heard of Reactor? Yeah, I didn't think so...."

June 26, 2009 Screens Feature

K-19: The Widowmaker

"...“crush-depth” dives and endless fire drills. When the K-19's reactor springs a coolant leak, leaving the ship nearly adrift..."

July 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Raspad

"...region of what was then the Soviet Union, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in a..."

Aug. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Patched Atoms: Feds OK Restarting the Nuke

Despite not really knowing why South Texas Project 1 sprang a leak, federal regulators are satisfied with the $4 million repair job.

"...Among the nation's 103 commercial nuclear reactors, the twin 15-year-old nukes at the South Texas Project..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature by William M. Adler

Letters at 3AM

Why has the Bush administration ignored warnings about the catastrophes that would befall our nation as a result of a terrorist attack on any of our 103 nuclear plants?

"...Mr. Markey has called for putting anti-aircraft weapons at reactor sites, saying that only four of the nation's 103..."

April 19, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Timing Is Everything

Events in Japan cast a long shadow

"...Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced March 2 that two proposed reactors at the South Texas Project had passed a final..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

"Ryan Cronk: Migration Wisdom, Chalk Lines, Tracings, and Undertow"

This solo show explores new existential threats in sharp analytical prints and layered chaotic collage

"...glass; on the other, a schematic of a nuclear reactor. The reactor in particular seems incredibly well-ordered, but on..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

In Space

BitTorrent

"...of sites, often hosted overseas. SuprNova (www.suprnova.org) and Torrent Reactor (www.torrentreactor.net) are two such pages riddled with popular and..."

May 7, 2004 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Record Review

"...track. Pushing into the Reagan era, 1981's cranky, trebly Reactor has surprisingly little to say between "Opera Singer" ("ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho")..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...of South Texas Project 1, Austinites' very own nuclear reactor. So says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which reassured Texans..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Superfuzz

"...picture features Terence Hill, whose encounter with a nuclear reactor provides him with super crime-fighting abilities, telekinesis, and mind..."

July 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What a Dump

What Does Gov. Bush Have Buried in West Texas?

"...and financial resources. The senator described how entire nuclear reactors would be dismantled and shipped - from as far..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...-- made the list of America's 25 worst nuclear reactors, according to a Public Citizen study released last week...."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature

1995-96 City Budget: The Electric Utility Holding the Line

"...into this year's budget expecting an outage for [nuclear] reactor #1," says Kasper. "To our surprise, the reactor was..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Feature

The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem

EXT. RURAL MAINE, POST-COLLAPSE: 3 old pals, one nuclear-powered car

"...together by a retrofitted tunnel digger with a nuclear reactor as its engine...."

Nov. 12, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

Spirit Adrift's Nathan Garrett Lands His Astral Metal Rocket in Bastrop

Ride into the light

"...Summer solstice tilts our overcooked globe toward its nuclear reactor for the longest day of the year in the..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dale Watson Lights Up the Screen in Yellow Rose

Starring the honky-tonk hero as himself

"...where this is my craft. I'm more of a reactor than an actor," he admitted. "Eva, now she is..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

Pueblo Viejo's New Location, Bishop Cidercade's Austin Debut, Pinballz Japanese Whiskey, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...but not totally – not unless they have Gottlieb’s Reactor from 1982 among their array of buzzing cabinets, baby...."

Sept. 2, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Surviving COVID-19: Ray Benson Lives to Tell

Asleep at the Wheel turns your living room into a dance floor

"...gig outside of Three Mile Island when [the nuclear reactor melted down], and we were scheduled to play the..."

July 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Godzilla Roars Over SXSW

First footage from the new version smashes through screening

"...This Godzilla feels like a dinosaur with a nuclear reactor in its chest, glowing and rippling (plus the redesigned..."

March 14, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Horror! The Horror!

The Woodlawn Theatre has cooked up a doozy. Another slice, anyone?

"...importantly, dear hot patooties, this production steps up the reactor power three more points, with three RuPaul’s Drag Race..."

Oct. 30, 2013 Qmmunity Post

The Hightower Report

Won't Take Nuke for an Answer; Drat. Oiled Again.

"...state approval for continuing to operate the 40-year old reactor – and our legislature has decided, in a word,..."

May 6, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Half-Dead or Half-Life?

South Texas Project expansion not quite dead – yet

"...for the company to withdraw its applications for a reactor license and federal loan guarantees for the project. NRG..."

April 29, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Letters at 3AM: Obama, Nukes, and Us

President Barack Obama fudges the truth of his nuclear policies

"...of the Three Mile Island accident, in which nuclear reactors have had to be shut down for more than..."

April 8, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Why Are We Still Fighting About STNP?

"...Office estimated that the chances of a new nuclear reactor defaulting was better than 50/50. The CBO assumed that..."

Feb. 28, 2011 Postmarks

Austin Stalked by NRG Energy

"...to see that Austin is being stalked by nuclear reactor builder NRG Energy. It would appear that once again..."

Jan. 26, 2011 Postmarks

Shake Appeal

James Williamson's Raw Power is all in the mix

"...Sony Legacy – the original 1973 LP, Atlanta's live reactor melt from the same year, plus an outtakes CD..."

May 28, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Five Peace Band

Chick Corea & John McLaughlin's all-star Five Peace Band lands at Bass Concert Hall Thursday, April 2

"...Clarke, and Lenny White still burn in the fusion reactor memory of last May’s two-night Return to Forever reunion..."

March 31, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

Russia has gone from a crippled to a powerful nation, using the model of what might be called "national capitalism"

"...to ship nuclear fuel to Iran to power a reactor it has been helping to build" (The Week, Oct...."

Aug. 29, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

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