Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Warm up for summer with frozen margs and fests around Texas

"...machine was placed in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C...."

May 1, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Shefali Luthra on Texas’ Role in the Undue Burden Unleashed by Abortion Restrictions

Texas Book Festival author to discuss the loss of reproductive rights in Sunday panel

"...– Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America humanizes an issue hijacked by political extremists and religious..."

Nov. 15, 2024 News Feature by Carys Anderson

SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...leaves audiences rooting for them on and off the battlefield.”..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Emancipation

Will Smith's stunning Civil War drama is a B-movie in award-bait clothes

"...landscapes. We are treated to the desolation of the American South as ominous chords thrum in the background. There..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Audrey Diwan Recounts a History of Abortion in Happening

The French director explains why these stories are important

"...the threat of the reproductive rights being gutted in America on every front page, the release of French abortion..."

May 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: The Front Lines of Democracy

As voting's become a battlefield, Dana DeBeauvoir has stood up for all of our rights

"...over the guilt of being the general leaving the battlefield," she said, "and getting somebody competent to take over,..."

Nov. 19, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Share Some Truth, Justice, and Sustainability With These Civic-Minded Gifts

Keep the holidays real

"...Each chapter takes a look at how cities across America have turned to police departments as a means of..."

Dec. 4, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas Book Festival 2020: Mychal Denzel Smith

A conversation with the author of Stakes Is High

"...almost didn’t write Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, his insightful and sobering examination of the American..."

Nov. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

Beanpole

Post-war Russian drama reappraises the position of women veterans through a strange compact

"...One of the defining traits of post-World War II America is the idea of the honorable war. Moreover, it's..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: 10 Things We Learned From the Writers of Infinity War

Marvel scribes Markus and McFeely stay spoiler-free

"...six entries in the behemoth franchise (all three Captain America films, Thor: The Dark World, plus Avengers: Infinity War..."

Nov. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: Pecos National Historic Site

Travel tips for the Land of Enchantment

"...community enjoyed trade with other tribes from around North America, but the location also made them vulnerable to raids..."

Oct. 31, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Beautiful Boy

Steve Carell soars above this overly-earnest addiction biography

"...As America continues to fail to tackle not just the opioid..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...a New Yorker who becomes engulfed in a Latin American revolution. Allen continues to lay on the high-concept comedy,..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ben Wheatley Catches Free Fire

Director on making his U.S. action debut

"...saw two of the UK's leading directors arriving with American crime films. Edgar Wright unleashed Baby Driver, which he..."

April 21, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Gaming Award Nominees and Hosts

WWE star Xavier Woods to co-host ceremony in March

"...– Fantasy Flight Games Captain Sonar – Asmodee North America Inis – Asmodee North America Mechs vs Minions –..."

Jan. 25, 2017 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Page Two: The Apache Wars in History and Myth

Indeh, Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth's new graphic novel

"...conservative propagandist Dinesh D'Souza has to do, in Hillary's America, for example, is tell his audiences exactly what they..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Morris from America Director/Screenwriter: Chad Hartigan Morris From America is an endearing,..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Seeking Derangement

'Dating' site uses Obamacare to score new users

"...Ethically challenged Internet pimp Brandon Wade explains, “Younger, healthy Americans are essentially subsidizing those who need health care more...."

Nov. 16, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Letters at 3AM: Obama's May 23 Speech

Obama deftly weaves vagueness, misdirection, and a few outright lies

"...Maddow interviewed Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, who said of the speech: "When..."

May 31, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

'The NFL Beat': Week One

And like that, we're back

"...We now raise our heads and face the battlefield before us. This is "The NFL Beat."..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Battlefield America

It's You Got Served for a younger dance generation.

"...Okay, so maybe it's not quite that dispiriting, but Battlefield America can't hold a candle to Breakin' 2: Electric..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Respect People of Other Faiths

"...the height of World War II, the now famed Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion were..."

Dec. 26, 2011 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM: About 18 a Day

About 18 U.S. veterans commit suicide on an average day

"...he took office in January 2009, there were 34,000 American troops stationed in Afghanistan. By December that year, Obama..."

July 1, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...The Mighty Fighting Avengers: Before Captain America and Thor get the big screen treatment this Summer,..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Not for the Gun-Shy

Tracing the origins of the Gatling gun

"...It seems like the American inspirational parable. A farm boy follows his dreams to..."

Feb. 14, 2011 Books Post by Mike Crissey

Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Pagan Pride Day

Zilker Park, Sunday, September 19, 2010

"...puppies might stir up as much outrage as the Americans who want to build a mosque near Ground Zero..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics With an 18th-Century Brain

George Lakoff writes on a culture war in which "the main battlefield is the brain"

"...The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics With an 18th-Century Brainby George Lakoff Viking Adult,..."

July 18, 2008 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Beyond City Limits

"...reports at length in The New Yorker ("Preparing the Battlefield," July 7). Amplifying earlier reports by Andrew Cockburn in..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature

Letters @ 3AM

Financially and militarily, we're not a superpower anymore – though no presidential candidate can admit that

"...Economist (Feb. 14, p.18): "Typically in the past, when America's economy has weakened, the rest of the world soon..."

June 22, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

The Waco Mammoth Site tells an amazing story of the prehistoric elephant's natural parenting instincts

"...groups. Distant relatives of the hairier woolly mammoths, these American cousins ranged from Alaska to southern Mexico and looked..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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