LGBTQ Activists Urge AISD to Better Support Queer Youth

Activists want AISD to do more with church money

"...would still suggest that there's substantially more Celebration income than the district has committed to Pride, which came as..."

June 14, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Tomorrow Is Better

Walter Meyer is more than just a survivor of Nazi Germany; Katherine Catmull reveals why.

"...as the rest of that book, Tomorrow Will Be Better: Surviving Nazi Germany (University of Missouri Press, 224 pp.,..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Sex and the Senate

What will it take to curb sexual harassment at the Texas State Capitol?

"...Not more than two days into the 86th Texas Legislature, the 150-member..."

Jan. 25, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Austin at Large: We Have Better Things to Do

Stay mad, Dan Patrick! Public safety will be reimagined, with or without you

"...shooting, or cops going Nazi or proving to be sex pests, or people going through utterly predictable precarity because..."

April 16, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

'Better This Way'

The first-place story

"...and I'd hear you before I saw you. "Hey, Buttsex! Where'ya smokes?" You'd nudge me and smile, and I'd..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Benjamin Reed

Bigger Than Me: The Musical Journey of BLK ODYSSY

A child of funk who lost his brother to police brutality soundtracks a revolution on BLK VINTAGE

"...have a room full of people who are all better musicians than me, and who can all bring ideas..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

40 Songs to Make You Feel Better (or Worse) About Drinking

A sampling of drinking songs local, south of the border, and global

"...of Ten New Songs, Leonard Cohen weaved alcohol and sex together in a manner both familiar and different from..."

July 13, 2018 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Faster Than Sound: City on the Fence Regarding Red River’s Homeless Problem

Red River merchants push to finally enclose dangerous alley with 10-foot fence, electro-pop diva p1nkstar touches down at Fuego ATX, and more

"...building, remains a hotbed for the Downtown drug and sex trades...."

Jan. 25, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Spanglish

The venerable filmmaker James L. Brooks stumbles badly with his new dramedy starring Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni.

"...the Los Angeles minions, almost any movie would be better than this misguided effort from the usually dependable James..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Backbeat

"...Chris O'Neill, Scot Williams and Kai Weisinger. Drugs and sex and rock & roll: rarely has a film captured..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother's Day

The movie is a moneymaking contrivance, just like the holiday itself

"...you’re as lazy as the movie. You’ll make a better impression with the old standbys of Hallmark and flowers...."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wicked City

"...is back (does it ever go away?) in this better-than-average slice of stuff we've all seen before. Representatives from..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rich in Love

"...Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle Mclachlan, Suzy Amis, Piper Laurie, Ethan Hawke and Alfre Woodard. The team who brought us..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fathers and Sons

"...in the post-Christmas dump pile and it deserves far better than that. Though its screenplay is at times too..."

Jan. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cannes Festival of Humor in Advertising

"...of which seems to be that they're often far better than the products they try so desperately to sell...."

March 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Working the Kink Out

Smut City wants to cinematically sex up your November

"...distance? That's the sound of pussy l'amour ratcheting up thanks to the drop in temperature. Everything, it seems, gets..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lawnmower Man

"...a vague future where Virtual Reality looks a lot better than it does now. The lovely Pierce Brosnin plays..."

March 13, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Bona fide "art" movie starring this season's It Girl, Scarlett Johansson, is as flat and enigmatic as the titular portrait by Vermeer.

"...vision of an artist, but the class structure and sexual conventions of the time prevented a young servant girl..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Resurrection of Gavin Stone

A former actor finds faith in his hometown

"...for extra verisimilitude. (God is love, apparently, but not sex.)..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Like Someone in Love

The latest film from Iranian filmmaking legend Abbas Kiarostami is set in Japan and looks at some characters playing out approximations of love.

"...none of the characters in this triangle manages anything better than an approximation of love: Akiko (Takanashi) is a..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

The Bridesmaid

Claude Chabrol's latest film is based on a Ruth Rendell novel and, though not one of his best films, is still a good reminder of the madness that sometimes lurks in plain sight.

"...France and America had seen enough movies to know better than get involved with batty women – no matter..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Don't Cost a Thing

A nerdy high school student pays a cheerleader to pretend to be his girlfriend in order to appear cool.

"...job but there’s little more to say about it than that. The plot remains essentially the same, except the..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Under the Tuscan Sun

Bella Italia substitutes for the Caribbean in this clunky but enjoyable version of How Frances Got Her Groove Back, starring Diane Lane.

"...Tuscan Sun made me happy. Lane has fantastic, liberating sex with an Italian himbo in full view of the..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Brady Bunch Movie

"...of the apocalypse, The Brady Bunch Movie is much better than most of its ilk. Nestled in their Seventies..."

Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Short Cuts

"...drinking problem, a pool cleaning man and his phone sex hostess wife, as it tells its stories. As with..."

Oct. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Luv Doc: A Break Is a Break

Regardless of what the book burners will tell you, more science is always better than less science.

"...scenario – is that he would like to have sex with some other women but also keep you around..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Uncontrolled Experiments

AISD says charters and single-sex academies will lift all students' boats – and attacks any research that says otherwise

"...wants to turn Pearce and Garcia middle schools into single-sex academies...."

Dec. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Designed To Fail

As Pearce may face another repurposing, AISD gets excited about single-sex schools

"...about pulling the plug and turning Pearce into a single-sex academy?..."

Nov. 18, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Science of Sleeping Together

Mary Roach has taken on ghosts and cadavers. Now she's taking on sex.

"...new book, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex...."

April 11, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

South Park takes on sex ed.

"...a Santa Claus cap on TV, there it is, thanks to those boys' knack for bringing the unthinkable to..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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