TV Eye

A small-screen return to twitching noses, magic potions, and girls who hold the power; also, a review of TNT’s daring live-action Animal Farm.

"...in American history. The Vietnam War, a reemerging women's movement, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of John and..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...been loaded with good material, including the gay liberation movement, the gay civil rights movement (the two are related..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Quote of the Week

"...kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never..."

Jan. 3, 2020 News Column

Tomar Williams Hones Four Decades of Soul

Breakout of his family band, the performer seizes on his pop, soul, R&B, and hip-hop successes and failures in Tomar & the FCs

"...find placement with another label given the material's publishing rights issues with RCA and Fowley. 6:AM never recovered. Purple..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Local Workers Strike for $15

Fast food employees take part in an "unfair labor practice" strike

"...campaign for higher wages as part of a larger civil rights movement; the Facebook event page for the Austin..."

Nov. 10, 2015 News Post by Amy Kamp

Point Austin: What Would Cole Porter Say?

Indiana's RFRA is an invitation to progressive response

"...was once employed to justify racial discrimination, until the Civil Rights Movement (and laws) put an end to that..."

April 3, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Redistricting Map Is 'Deplorable'

"...to take over Texas and take away the legal rights we fought so hard for in the civil rights..."

June 21, 2011 Postmarks

The Marvelous Jew

Larry Harlow talks salsa consciousness

"...lot of things going on in the 1960s: the Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, Woodstock, and the..."

Oct. 7, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Naked City

News and happenings around Austin and beyond

"...For more info, see www.cityofaustin.org. And speaking of the civil rights movement, one of its leaders, James Farmer, grew..."

Jan. 14, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Capitol Chronicle

Political commentary on the career of Henry B. Gonzalez

"...manifesto" and the official white supremacist defiance of the civil rights movement. He was a fearless member of that..."

Dec. 8, 2000 News Column by Michael King

SXSW Film Review: Clemente

Baseball doc shines a light on a small-market superstar

"...be the face of the Pittsburgh Pirates during the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Pick any year..."

March 12, 2024 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

“Music America” Exhibition Makes National Debut at LBJ Library

Exhibit details American music history through memorabilia and sound

"...amid its 1964 release, became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement. Flash forward to 1977 – the Bee..."

Feb. 14, 2024 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue. Cast: Naoise..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2023 You Haven’t Seen Yet

From the Toxic Avenger to school shootings, the best of the fests

"...make a change from his nerve-racking work chronicling the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 when he decided to take..."

Dec. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Hairspray

This may be the big hair state, but does this musical go too big?

"...girl with big dreams against a backdrop of the civil rights movement in 1962 Baltimore. Sixteen-year-old Tracy Turnblad lives..."

June 14, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Tribeca Film Review: Rather

A clear-eyed history of the greatest living journalist from Texas

"...those pivotal moments that defined late-20th-century America (Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, Watergate), and go toe-to-toe with not one..."

June 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

The weather’s ideal to learn about Bob Dylan or see hot air balloons

"...Black Power. Two charismatic leaders of the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s come together in a..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

"If These Walls Could Talk" at Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery

The artists in this Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery exhibition get the walls not only to talk but to spin some fantastic tales

"...One is the late John Lewis early in the civil rights movement, the other Derek Chauvin after his murder..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Review: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Jeffery Robinson's captivating lecture on America's shared legacy

"...the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, the lost promise of the Civil Rights movement, its revival with Black Lives Matter …..."

March 24, 2021 Screens Post by Michael King

We Have an Issue: Check It Out

In this week's issue, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez reflects on Checking In, his Q&A series chronicle musicians' lives under COVID-19 lockdown

"...Sam Pollard on changes in making films about the civil rights movement over the last 30 years, and Gabriela..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival 2020: Isabel Wilkerson on Caste

Festival talk highlights structural foundations of U.S. divisions

"...the possibility of freer, less legally oppressive communities. The Civil Rights Movement (catalyzed in part by that migration) began..."

Nov. 17, 2020 Arts Post by Michael King

Texas Book Festival 2019: Who Belongs?

Authors explore what it means to be an American outsider

"...from any sense of what her role in the Civil Rights movement was...."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Post by Saskia Henn

SXSW Music Review: Mavis Staples

The freedom highway extends all the way to the Clive Bar

"...Staple Singers’ message music provided a soundtrack to the civil rights movement and on Tuesday, Mavis led a 30-minute..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

14 R&B Acts to Soothe Your SXSW Soul

"...a century and penned a veritable soundtrack to the civil rights movement. Her voice can't soar like her 1969..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Steve Cropper Recalls Rhythm & Blues History Through Six Strings

Chatting with the most egoless guitar hero in history

"...MGs was its interracial lineup. You guys were a civil rights movement unto yourselves...."

Feb. 21, 2019 Music Post by Tim Stegall

New Documentary Highlights the Legacy of a Black Queer TV Pioneer

Ellis Haizlip is the unapologetic Mr. Soul!

"...The confrontation came at a pivotal time for the Civil Rights movement, when "black people were trying to rediscover..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Screens Feature by Charlie Neddo

LBJ Library Celebrates Fight for Equality in American Sports

The “Get in the Game” exhibition’s opening ceremony is April 21

"...go on to become an influential member of the civil rights movement; demonstrating that anyone, no matter the color..."

April 18, 2018 Events Post by Milo Webb

Texas Film Awards Announces Presenters

Michael Shannon, Nick Kroll, Henry Cisneros join lineup

"...Children of Giant and Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement...."

March 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Staple Singers

"...the second CD. Disc three walks hand-in-hand with the Civil Rights movement ("Freedom Highway," "Long Walk to D.C."), and..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

DVDanger: Mad Max

Before we hit Fury Road, the original revs up

"...to warlord the Lord Humongous from the sequel, because civilization has not declined enough for such pre-barbarians to prosper...."

May 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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