Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...By the time of the American Revolution, a sizable Moroccan Muslim community had developed at..."

March 6, 2015 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Music DVDs

"...walls of the fictional radio station. From the iconic American Revolution poster of Kiss to hair waterfalls off Emmylou..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington With This New Graphic Novel

John Lewis pens civil rights history in new graphic novel

"...of the largest peaceful demonstrations for civil rights in American history...."

Aug. 28, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Civics 101

"..."THE NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION: BEYOND CORPORATE CAPITALISM & STATE SOCIALISM" Cooperation Texas..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Column

Civics 101

"...taking questions via Skype about her book The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. Open to..."

July 12, 2013 News Column

While My Ukulele Gently Weeps

Get ready to see a lot more ukuleles

"...since its release in 1993. It lingers in the American consciousness. The Change..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...HMS Romney was used by the British in the American Revolution...."

Sept. 28, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Causes of Underdeveloped Conditions in Mexico

"...capitalist economic system we understand today emerged following the American Revolution. This assertion seems no more defensible than “The..."

May 8, 2010 Postmarks

Texas Teabagging Not So Sweet

Wednesday's anti-tax protest show tensions in the conservative movement

"...these gatherings were "the first shots in the second American revolution." While he toned that down to say it..."

April 16, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Concessions, Admissions, Distractions, and Leather Pants

"...are super-hero movies. I didn’t want you to remember American Splendor or Ghost World or A History of Violence...."

July 10, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Rocky R(evol)ution

Ron Paul gets his evol all over UT.

"...rally on Friday night. His is, after all, the Revolution. But there was a much smaller audience and a..."

Feb. 24, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Abbott: D.C. Wrong on Guns

AG argues in brief to Supremes that Second Amendment protects right to bear arms

"...gun control advocates what would have happened to the American Revolution if there had been gun control at the..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Happenings

May 24-30

"...MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution sponsor this annual event featuring patriotic music and..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature

Who Is Paying for All of This?

"...done about it. Wasn't "taxation without representation" what the American Revolution was about?..."

July 13, 2004 Postmarks

Against High Property Taxes

"...without representation" was the battle cry that started the American Revolution. With our appointed appraisal boards and inability to..."

July 8, 2004 Postmarks

The Invasion Handbook

Paulin has been publishing good poetry for more than 25 years, but the rest of his background -- as a scholar of literature, as an essayist, and as a deeply political writer -- serves him well as he journeys across a large physical and mental landscape of rich historical and literary allusion.

"...worth of history books -- big ones on the American Revolution, the Civil War, the World Wars, and Vietnam...."

Nov. 28, 2003 Books Review by Tim Walker

Naked City

Happenings

"...friends of the Eagle Forum, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and other right-wing, super-Christian organizations. The Austin chapter..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature

New York

"...such monumental subjects as New York's role in the American Revolution and its repercussions as the epicenter of the..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Peter Matthiessen

"...in Sal Si Puedes: César Chavez and the New American Revolution early in his career, and still calls him..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Bruce McCandless

Bittersweet Ending

Notes From the Republican Revolution

"...were those traditionally associated with extreme Democratic loyalists: women, African-Americans, Hispanics, and senior citizens, with a fair sprinkling of..."

Nov. 6, 1998 News Feature

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...come to understand is a couple of things. Their revolution is based on social hatred. If the society actually..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Parallel Universe

Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's

"...Carrico It has been said the world over that Americans have no sense of history. Where are your castles,..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

James Cameron, Ted Lasso team, Bill Hader also announced

"...and Indigenous People of Color in the fourth industrial revolution and beyond. Foundry Group and Techstars co-founder Brad Feld,..."

Feb. 11, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...with Jesse Garcia as Richard Montanez, the man who revolutionized the snack game with the Flamin' Hot Cheeto...."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Occupy the Future

Corporations are not people

"...very long way toward getting corporate money out of American politics...."

Dec. 16, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...lengthening string of popular books on various facets of American history, H.W. Brands is earning his way into this..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

Reissues

"...Wailers' first two Jamaican releases, Soul Rebels and Soul Revolution, produced by the island's legendary producer Lee "Scratch" Perry...."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...expatriates, became the founding fathers of the underground comic revolution. Returning to Austin in the 1970s, Jaxon also produced..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...Like thousands of other American readers with a taste for food and travel books,..."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

History doesn't repeat itself but the rhymes are terrifying in this unmissable documentary

"...to liberty were a lie. Put simply, the French Revolution didn't replace Louis XVI and his aristocracy with a..."

May 1, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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