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Small Disputes – Should I Hire a Lawyer?

"...Alternatively, from a financial standpoint, it may not make sense to hire a lawyer to assist in your dispute...."

Nov. 4, 2011 Column by Luke Ellis

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Holiday Shopping and Defective Presents

"...to pursue a small-claims court matter may not make sense for every defective purchase...."

Dec. 3, 2010 Column by Luke Ellis

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Taken Advantage of on Holiday Shopping?

"...to pursue a small-claims court matter may not make sense for an inexpensive purchase...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Column by Luke Ellis

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Moving Somewhere New? Your Lease Terms Are Important.

"...the move and considering whether a particular lease makes sense for you. You are not alone – summer is..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Column by Luke Ellis

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Ripped Off During Holiday Shopping

"...to pursue a small-claims court matter may not make sense for an inexpensive purchase...."

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

Mediatruck Makes Software That Makes Sense

"...their constraints," he explains. "If you want to create common database applications that have a common use, Mediatruck makes..."

May 14, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

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Austin's Urban Livestock Movement – Chickens & Goats Anyone?

"...whether owning the barnyard animal of your dreams makes sense given your circumstances...."

Aug. 6, 2010 Column by Luke Ellis

Finding The Common Thread: Austin's New Fabric Heaven

Austin's newest fabric emporium is more fun than going for ice cream.

"...so the emergence of these interesting prints makes perfect sense...."

Sept. 29, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

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Austin Dispute Resolution Center

"...Mediation makes sense in situations like yours for lots of reasons. Mediation..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

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Bad Credit – Should I Hire a 'Credit Repair' Company?

"...something that you can do yourself. It might make sense to hire a credit-repair service if you don't have..."

July 13, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

The Common Law

Small disputes, should I hire a lawyer?

"...Alternatively, from a financial standpoint, it may not make sense to hire a lawyer to assist in your dispute...."

June 4, 2004 Column by Luke Ellis

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Before the TV series, there was the movie in which a Nineties Valley Girl discovers her true calling.

"...warrior practically overnight and you suspect that her fashion sense still outweighs her common sense. Other nifty plot elements..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Obtaining a back-alley abortion in Romania proves to be rivetingly tense in this visually spare but assuredly virtuosic film.

"...her roommate, who is possessed of enough strength and common sense for the both of them. Over the film’s..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

On the Ropes

"...his frequent, seemingly parental advice. Most of it is common sense -- stay in school, hang tough, winning isn't..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Double Jeopardy

"...(The Rock) give to things like logic, reality, and common sense. As an alcoholic parole officer, Tommy Lee Jones..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Regeneration

"...the profession's infancy and treating his patients with whatever common sense he can apply. He is clearly feeling the..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trapped in Paradise

"...both, Trapped in Paradise flouts the laws of logic, common sense, humor, and narrative coherency. If it isn't the..."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Reefer Madness

Results of new study suggest environmental factors have more influence on behavior than government would like us to believe

"...the hallmarks of an "emerging" theory they call the "common liability model," which posits that "the use of illegal..."

Dec. 22, 2006 News Column by Jordan Smith

Get Out

A stellar racially charged horror comedy

"...attempts to make Chris comfortable stirs in him a sense of little micro-affronts, and the friends and neighbors who..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The BFG

Steven Spielberg tackles Roald Dahl’s 1982 children's book

"...Sophie (Barnhill), a pert little moppet with a healthy sense of outrage, would spit out the word “cute” like..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tapestry Dance Company's In Your Shoes

The rhythm tap troupe explores homelessness with a common sense of the form's capacity for complexity, subtlety, and risk

"...of them new to the company – with a common eagerness to explore rhythm tap's capacity for complexity, subtlety,..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Just an Old-Fashioned Cat

Eartha Kitt is one funny dame

"...love it when the women particularly have a good sense of humor. Because when all is said and done:..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Questioning Clark-Madison's Common Sense..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column

East-West Dissent

Neighborhood Concerns

"...and sound bite -- captive to his philosophy of "common sense" government that doesn't intrude on the freedoms of..."

April 23, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Barton Fink

This Coen brothers' comedy has a wicked sense of retribution.

"...Barton Fink, the Coen brothers' comedy with a wicked sense of retribution. Loosely modeled on left-leaning playwright Clifford Odets,..."

Oct. 4, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Brain Behind Cyc

Doug Lenat discusses artificial intelligence and its increasing presence in the next century.

"...into our systems they won't have the kind of common sense that's needed for all those applications that we..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Roe's End?

After nearly three years of fighting, Texas reproductive rights advocates will get their day at the U.S. Supreme Court

"...changed to protect her privacy) also shared another trait common among women who choose abortion – she lacked financial..."

Jan. 29, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

He Makes What He Loves and Then They Consume It

YouTube phenom Jon Cozart is more than just Ariel/Belle/Jasmine/Pocahontas

"...Hitler, Harry Potter, and Disney movie heroines have in common?..."

May 3, 2013 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

1408

Even though 1408 is one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever, this movie belongs to star John Cusack and director Mikael Håfström all the way.

"...that. Cusack plays Mike Enslin, a cynical writer (a common King protagonist) who authors books about the supernatural world..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Red-State Specials

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

"...what it is, we despair over the dearth of common sense (which has nothing to do with "common" or..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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