Parquet Court’ing Catastrophe
Brooklyn Indie stalwarts bring divisive, funky new album to Austin
"...The last time Parquet Courts filled Stubb’s Amphitheater with their brand of shouty, shuffle-punk..."
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Nov. 20, 2021 Music Post by Julian Towers
Living History
The debate on how best to honor the history of Rosewood Courts continues
"...Residents of Rosewood Courts, a public housing complex flanked by Chicon and Salina..."
March 25, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma
To Build a Courthouse
Current civil courthouse leaves a lot to be desired
"...arguments for a new Travis County Civil & Family Courts Complex – to be constructed, as it happens, on..."
Sept. 18, 2015 News Feature by Michael King
What Now? What Next?
With clinics already closing, Texas' extreme abortion restrictions head to the courts
"...been enjoined or otherwise blocked by state or federal courts. Can these latest iterations survive legal challenge, or will..."
July 26, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Will Vote-by-Mail Happen by July?
Legal battle clouds election planning timeline
"...Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’ll appeal. Will the courts provide a resolution by May?..."
April 23, 2020 News Post by Michael King
Beaten by Wackenhut
A former Travis County inmate alleges that Wackenhut Corporation bears responsibility for his prison beating.
"...Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. "The courts really have moved in the last 10 years to..."
July 5, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
SOS Files for Bankruptcy
The stalwart defenders of Barton Springs reorganize in face of court loss.
"...advocate in the court of public opinion and the courts for preserving our Hill Country water and wildlife for..."
April 10, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar
As Trump Consolidates Power, SXSW Focuses on Fate of Democracy
Kings, courts, and creative dissent
"...Musk, operate in incredibly harmful and unlawful ways with courts across the country having to intervene to strike down..."
March 7, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Austin Chronic: The Many Crusades of Adam Reposa
Months after being raided, lawyer continues to taunt the courts, the cops, and Ken Paxton
"...officers, who he calls “Plastic badge federales,” and the courts, snarling: “I see it in your style/ Let’s have..."
June 14, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin
Judge Replacing Nick Chu in JP5 Will Handle Evictions, Bonds, Misdemeanors
He expects a seamless transition
"...Peace for Precinct 5, running one of the busiest courts in the county. But that’s the mantle he’ll take..."
Sept. 20, 2023 News Post by Maggie Quinlan
The Strange Case of the 353rd District Court
"Vexatious Litigant" Connor vs. incumbent Judge Sulak in Dem primary
"...been officially declared a “vexatious litigant” in two different courts...."
Feb. 18, 2020 News Post by Michael King
Love, Simon
Coming-out story remembers the romance.
"...about this big-screen Romeo and Romeo romance, as Simon courts an anonymous closeted schoolmate he’s met online in the..."
March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Woman in Gold
Helen Mirren plays an aging Jew who wants to win back a painting looted from her family by the Nazis
"...famous Austrian composer, fought in the Austrian and American courts to win back that painting, along with five other..."
April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Men, Women & Children
We might be able to connect as human beings if we could just disconnect from from our wired lives, says this movie about our modern world.
"...At shopping-mall food courts and Friday night football, the title’s interlocking men, women,..."
Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Law Abiding Citizen
Vigilante justice may be just what the law requires in this film starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx.
"...painful subtleties and Faustian backroom dealings of the Philadelphia courts: Rice, unwilling to risk his near-perfect conviction rate, nails..."
Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Crude
Expert documentarian Joe Berlinger sheds light on the epic environmental lawsuit filed by 30,000 Ecuadorans against the oil company Texaco, which is now owned by Chevron.
"...that surrounds the epic environmental lawsuit filed in U.S. courts by 30,000 Ecuadorans against the oil company Texaco. In..."
Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Capitol Chronicle
The state gridlock persists on public school finance.
"...the Texas school finance system's last trip through the courts, to which Robin Hood was a supposedly temporary and..."
Oct. 10, 2003 News Column by Michael King
Charlotte Sometimes
A sophisticated relationship drama about young Asian-Americans.
"...mood piece than a standard relationship drama, Charlotte Sometimes courts a vague and opaque tone which, although part of..."
Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Hail the Judge
"...a little bit helpful in ancient China's wildly amoral courts, has the star reaching such a level of put-down..."
Aug. 29, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
Bad Behavior
"...love I've ever seen. The look of Bad Behavior courts shabbiness, the film wanders, and its end is modest,..."
Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires
Dragon Inn
"...rescue of two young orphans from the dreaded Eunuch Courts by swordsmen Chow (Leung) and Yau (Lin Ching Hsia)..."
Aug. 27, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Story of Qiu Ju
"...to the district chief, the town government, the civil courts,... to wherever each of them tells her to appeal..."
July 23, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Authors of Police Oversight Act Sue City for Failing to Fully Implement Ordinance
Suit names interim police chief and city manager as defendants
"...system of police oversight will now move to the courts...."
Dec. 6, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders
Public Notice: Texas vs. Austin vs. COVID-19
In the courts and schools and bars, the battle rages
"...happen, because Paxton knows he's not likely to find courts sympathetic to his "put teachers and kids at risk"..."
Aug. 20, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Travis Judges Loosen Misdemeanor Bond Requirements
Judges issue "Standing Order" to expand use of personal bonds
"...the seven judges of the Travis County misdemeanor criminal courts issued a “Standing Order” to officially expand the use..."
Feb. 7, 2020 News Post by Michael King
The Hightower Report: Turning Human Misery Into Corporate Profits
Corporations use the courts to prey on financially devastated Americans
"...the debt profiteers turn to their meanest dog: the courts...."
April 3, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower
Raich Down But Never Out
"...she was done fighting for patient rights in the courts – at least for now. Part of the problem..."
May 15, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith
Iraq: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Did the Pentagon deliberately hide evidence of a friendly fire incident in Iraq from British courts?
"...inquiry into the Iraq debacle is being suppressed. British courts are finding their investigations being hog-tied, and the political..."
Feb. 6, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
On the Lege
Redistricting: the end? the feds and the courts pick up the shattered pieces of Texas
"...redress, somewhat wistfully, to the DOJ and the federal courts. Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, said the map contains..."
Oct. 17, 2003 News Column by Michael King
The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King
The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.
"...on the grass behind her apartment at the Rosewood Courts housing project, where she was known and feared by..."
