The Wild, Wired West

CD-ROMs Make Virtual History

"...tion of barbed wire has technology flashed across the American frontier with such terrible brilliance. This time, the technology..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Screens Feature

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...Joining him is Hugo Sakamoto (Yellow Dragon's Village, '21)..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

"...till they get results they like. It's the liberal American way -- no one should have to accept any..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Column

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As the Guardians of the Galaxy gather once more, every MCU film reviewed

"...over-the-top as Gamora and Nebula bring out the big guns to settle who daddy loves best...."

May 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Opinion: Governor Abbott, Do Not Tell Our Children the Same Story About AR-15s

A survivor of an AR-15 reflects on the governor’s position on gun violence and the mental health crisis

"...AR-15, one of 20 million in the hands of Americans. Gov. Abbott, if your beloved child had ever felt..."

June 10, 2022 Column by Julia A. Olson

We Have an Issue: Another Day of Gun Violence in America

Do gun owners honestly think we don't have a problem here?

"...to Texas Republicans, at least – is to make guns even more accessible; see their 2020 state party platform,..."

April 23, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Local Duo Harvests Up Some Hilarity in Texas Gothic

Booker & Maykus are sure ’nuff sharper than a pitchfork

"...Gothic, like a Lone Star version of Grant Wood’s American Gothic painting, that we could just stand there and..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin at Large: We Have Had It With That Guy

Republicans, come get your bros. Dems, get out your voters.

"...even newsworthy anymore that the malfunctioning white men with guns who now drive the GOP party bus are casually..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...premieres for feature films (101 World premieres, 9 North American, and 3 U.S. and counting), today's list also includes..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...world premiere of her feature directorial debut Booksmart, while Americana legend David Crosby (who will be in town for..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Six for CD 10

Dem primary candidates contend at Pct. 149 forum

"...and supports the Second Amendment, but would close the gunshow loophole and add a voluntary blockchain registry for firearms...."

Feb. 13, 2018 News Post by Michael King

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...his money. Take away the law, and give men guns and a free hand, it argues, and you don’t..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived

The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism

"...speed bump in an uninterrupted journey. White Hat and Six-Guns..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Someone – Why Would Anyone – Vote for Trump?

With Leslie Bonnell, Arcie Cola, Lashonda Lester, Tim Doyle, and more

"...that’s just sad, because you’re denying yourself the full American experience. As far as that Mother’s Cafe trucker, he..."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Five Nights on Dirty Sixth

Is Dirty Sixth Street the wasteland the music scene makes it out to be? Five straight nights answer loud and clear.

"...goes wild over the opening chords of Tom Petty's "American Girl." Here's the piano equivalent of painters working as..."

July 17, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lege Lines: Session Winners and Losers

As sine die nears, bills drop left and right

"...the Legislature moved on with its same agenda of guns and abortion restrictions...."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Geckos Go Chameleon

The sun rises on Robert Rodriguez's 'From Dusk Till Dawn' TV adaptation

"...he and Quentin Tarantino were the enfants terribles of American cinema, their respective sophomore efforts – Desperado and Pulp..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

HD 50: Will Dem Split Enable GOP?

Front-runners emerge in the race to replace Strama

"...Tejano Democrats when he walked out of the Mexican American Democrats in 1993. "Next time you see Mr. Barrientos,"..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Christopher Hooks

The Dark Right Rises

Rhetorical lows of the fringe right after Aurora attack

"...And where there's God in GOP rhetoric, guns quickly followed. Gohmert and host Ernest Istook quickly segued..."

July 25, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday blurbs slim down from the Wednesday bloat

"...home last year when it was re-released on the Americana-leaning New West label. – Greg Beets Benjamin Francis Leftwich..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Scene of the Crime

Revisiting the yogurt shop murders: A cold case reconsideration of the 1991 crime points away from the prosecution's assumptions and conclusions

"...says Jones, the same caliber as one of two guns used in the crime. But it became clear to..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...tapped as a 1970s transistor radio. Scrolling past my Guns n' Roses holdings toward her Mediterranean of Morrissey, I..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...door of a trailer where there were volunteers with guns on them. He did a lot of Wild West..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

License to Shrill, Uncensored

A conversation with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

"...red-meat issues, the three Gs – God, gays, and guns – plus abortion, things like that. Why race?..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Weed Watch: Goose Creek Police Geese

Nearly three years after police in Charleston, S.C., suburb made guns-drawn high school raid, ACLU announces federal court has approved 'landmark settlement with students who sued school officials and police

"...Charleston, S.C., suburb of Goose Creek made an early-morning, guns-drawn raid at Stratford High School on an ultimately futile..."

July 21, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two

'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.

"...unique combination of high-art culture pedants and the modern American know-nothing-and-proud-of-it movement that subscribes to the belief that most..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Unpardonable

The Bush record of 'compassionate conservatism' is amply illustrated by his clemency record in Texas

"...probation is one of the brightest ideas of 20th-century American criminal jurisprudence, up there with Miranda rights and stun..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The scene: Wednesday, July 30 Austin American-Statesman headlines...."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

Tokyo Drifter & Branded to Kill

Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki was fired from his film company for his off-the-wall cinematics; these two Sixties gangster movies explain why.

"...background. Gunmen pull off incredible feats of marksmanship, shooting guns out of each others' hands. The movie's finale is..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Coronation Coverage

"...three certainly missed it in the Sept. 22 Austin American-Statesman's front-page article titled "Bush targets illegal gun use."..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

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