Other Worlds Austin Goes to an Alien Nation

Sci-fi and horror fest releases full, final lineup

"...30th-anniversary screening of a classic sci-fi political allegory: Alien Nation...."

Nov. 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beasts of No Nation

Idris Elba co-stars in this Netflix drama about child soldiers in Africa

"...by these young warriors never are. Beasts of No Nation is bathed in inescapable immediacy – both a credit..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

FF2011: 'Juan of the Dead' Premiere

A love letter from Cuba to Austin, signed in zombie blood

"...Last night's US debut of Juan of the Dead was a strange sort of homecoming for Havana's first..."

Sept. 24, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

27 Dead, Including 20 Children, In Connecticut School Shooting

Gunman identified as Adam Lanza

"...Twenty-seven people are reported dead, including 20 children, in a Connecticut elementary school shooting..."

Dec. 14, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Years of the Dead

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

"...A wall full of faces, at once living and dead...."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...The Jinx The blues is you're 43 and dead. The blues is when you live in the Mississippi..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...had at one time been a teacher at the nation's first Freedmen's school for blacks – the first of..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Dead & Buried

Recapping 2003

"...in a decade that local releases meant more than nationals. That's because the greater music biz as we know..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Staying Hospitable During Our Nation's Division

Local restaurateurs discuss civility at the table

"...the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds [...] to do all which may achieve and..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...and Encore – are doing considerably better than the national average...."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Anti-Sharia Bill Dead, but Sentiment Alive

HB 562 unlikely to make it out of the House, but the Islamophobia behind it is here to stay

"...House floor vote), while Rep. Molly White, R-Belton, generated national headlines in January for her unwelcoming attitude toward Muslim..."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Scalia's Dead, But It's Politics as Usual

Scalia's body was barely cold before arguing about his successor got started

"...13, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead, and Repub­licans immediately used his death as an opportunity..."

Feb. 19, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Making Pronoun Choices for the Dead

"...Brownlee" News, Jan. 30). Many transgendered youth around the nation suffer tremendously due to peer pressure and assaults, and..."

Feb. 4, 2004 Postmarks

COVID’s Toll on Texas Inmates Among the Worst in the Nation

LBJ School study details dismal infection, death rates

"...crime. It’s a mortality rate that’s 35% above the national average for prison systems and nearly 2.5 times higher..."

Nov. 17, 2020 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Abbott to Refugees: Drop Dead

Religious orgs condemn governor for refugee ban

"...members." Also critical are the leaders of Abbott's own denomination, the Texas Catholic Con­fer­ence of Bishops, who reacted: "It..."

Jan. 17, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Sabrina Ellis Sings National Anthem for Hurting Nation

Mass shootings on the mind at Blues on the Green performance

"...shootings in El Paso and Dayton, OH., leaving 31 dead over the weekend...."

Aug. 8, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Point Austin: Dead Reckoning

The TDI rules don't quite blind the navigators

"...have others, that timing is a real problem: "The deadline to sign up for health insurance through the federal..."

Jan. 24, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Edward Kennedy Dead

Lion of the Senate dies before realizing the "cause of my life," reforming the health care system

"...The Boston Globe has a nice obituary here...."

Aug. 26, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Second verse, much the same as the first: The Games may have changed but Katniss Everdeen is still our favorite pawn.

"...Suzanne Collins’ bestselling, alternate-history, young-adult book series about a nation of have-nots under the boot of a fascistic ruler...."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Postman

"...upon a wrecked Postal Service vehicle and pilfers the dead driver's uniform and mailbag. These become his tickets to..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Shot Caller

The metamorphosis of the prison system

"...Club) to become a key player in the Aryan Nation. From thereon in, the action trips backwards and forwards..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bitter Harvest

In 1930s Ukraine, young lovers fight Stalin and forced starvation

"...the Ukrainian wheat harvest, leaving the entirety of the nation to starve to death, a U.N.-recognized catastrophe known in..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Homesman

Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones point their wagon east while confronting the myths of the Old West.

"...is a story about the human toll of our nation’s westward expansion, about the frontier that cruelly consumed the..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch: Combat Girls

The dark shadow of a post-Hitler youth, plus new releases

"...But to be a neo-Nazi in Germany – a nation that will bare the fetid scar of the reich..."

July 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...of exceptional musical and dramatic intensity, poetry and power. Dead Man Walking, adapted by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Destruction as Beauty

Profile of local alternative band Trail of Dead; explication of their new album Madonna

"...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead knows their way around the art of breaking apart...."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

When We Were Kings

This documentary Oscar winner is a vivid retelling of the "Rumble in the Jungle," in which Muhammad Ali bested George Foreman in a storied boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire.

"...then. This Academy Award-winning documentary by Leon Gast (The Dead, Hell's Angels Forever) revisits the storied “Rumble in the..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Poltergeist

They're here … again. But why?

"...by Gil Kenan, produced by Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) – makes largely cosmetic changes to the material without..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The Identical

The fabricated ghost of Elvis Presley's twin brother hangs over this complete muddle.

"...only realized to the extent that admirers across the nation would easily pin Wade and Hemsley as lookalikes for..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Last Dance

"...James Woods. Stone used her win of an Oscar nomination for that role as a public means of proving..."

May 10, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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