AFF Review: Ale

Pro-wrestling documentary with a micro-focus on personality

"...life. It's the kind of shift that could have derailed the entire project, but Bürgi keeps to the core..."

Oct. 26, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Could a Hotel Tax Help Save Austin’s Creative Sector?

A familiar debate returns under extreme circumstances

"...vote on the failed Proposition B, which would have derailed the Council-endorsed expansion of the Austin Con­ven­tion Center. The..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...of the installments. One confessor recounts a whirlwind romance derailed by the onset of bipolar disorder, from which Kat..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Pandemic Production: Karen Wacker, Producer

“It’s not fun telling a whole bunch of people that they’re not going to be working for a long time”

"...said. However, as weeks went by and the pandemic derailed further, HBO notified the cast and crew that they..."

July 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Sofia Tafich

Robert Rodriguez Filming Hypnotic in July in Austin

Hitchcockian thriller starring Ben Affleck moves from California

"...27 in Los Angeles, but the coronavirus pandemic lockdown derailed that plan. Now it will begin primary shooting in..."

June 25, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Tidal Wave of People Batter the Foundations of Austin’s Structural Racism

Thousands took to Downtown and Eastside streets to say, emphatically, that Black Lives Matter

"...Having been derailed a week prior by protest violence – mostly waged..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Now Streaming in Austin: "Here Comes the Neighborhood"

"One crazy night" comedy meets gentrification satire

"...the market takes off, well, could be a little derailed...."

May 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

City Scrambles to Get $15 Million to Struggling Austinites

The RISE-ing tide

"...March 18 ruling by District Judge Jan Soifer that derailed the Land Development Code revision as we know it..."

April 17, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Recap: (A Little More) Help Is On Its Way

Relief to include direct cash aid to struggling Austinites

"...the city will appeal a district court ruling that derailed the Land Development Code revision as we know it...."

April 10, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Travis County Primary Candidates Jockey to Champion Criminal Justice Change

A closer look at the heated District Attorney, County Attorney, and County Court at Law races

"...that she was rebuilding that process after it was derailed by the headline failures of the Austin Police Department's..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Jarrott Productions' The Niceties

In this staging of Eleanor Burgess' drama, the frictions of American society catch fire in an academic's office

"...conduct its own, more radical rebellion that might have derailed the moderate white one. The professor, Janine, isn't buying..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Will Austin Police Stop Making Marijuana Busts?

Council considers how to get “as close as possible to zero arrests”

"...of color we’ve had a lot of people’s lives derailed by criminalization of pot.”..."

Jan. 14, 2020 News Post by Kevin Curtin

Patrick Murphy Granted Second Stay

The Texas Seven member spared within days of execution

"...scheduled for Nov. 13, over the same issue that derailed his lethal injection last spring: access to a Buddhist..."

Nov. 8, 2019 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Richard Linklater Constructs a Frustrated Architect in Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett's character is the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright, but no less complicated

"...the creative process – or, more specifically, the process derailed. Even after 20 films, five Oscar nominations, and over..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Lege Stands Still on Justice Reform

But God forbid we take your guns away

"...owners. While the push for no-permit "constitutional carry" got derailed by its own advocates' threatening behavior toward Speaker Bonnen..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Headlines

"...at the Lege, a Senate bill that could have derailed the city's deal for a Major League Soccer team..."

May 10, 2019 News Feature

Lege Lines: Dem Lawmakers Boycott Anti-Abortion Bill Hearing

Brass ovaries vs. HB 16, and other battle lines drawn at the Capitol

"...Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee, which Leach chairs, was derailed when committee members Victoria Neave and Yvonne Davis of..."

March 29, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Dell Medical Is Bringing Health Care to the Homeless

UT school forms a street team

"...money; many saw their chances for a safe life derailed by physical and mental illness that does not improve..."

Jan. 18, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Council Heads Into Holiday Break Wrestling With Process

Trying to reinvent the wheel since 2014

"...of how policy conversations on the dais are often derailed...."

Dec. 14, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

"...we were shooting a key scene that was completely derailed by unscripted and uncontrollable vomiting, that I figured we'd..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Election TIcker: 60 Days and Counting

Labor Day is over

"...set to endorse Conway in August, but that got derailed by allegations regarding a 10-year-old child custody case. The..."

Sept. 7, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

4am With a Head Full of Whiskey

Ethan Hawke and Ben Dickey's late-night daydream

"...not a dramatic inevitability. It's a senseless tragedy that derailed a brighter future. Hawke compared his subject to the..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drunk on a Train

Four friends bar crawl their way down the Capital Metro Red Line

"...stops (just take our dipshittery to heart!). It almost derailed our plan before we even started because timing is..."

July 13, 2018 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

Strategizing a City Budget

Finance staff delivers tentative 2019 forecast

"...dip in labor costs – due in part to derailed public safety contract negotiations (therefore temporary) – and a..."

April 13, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

New PBS Documentary Uses Austin Photographer to Explore Death

What we (don’t) talk about when we (don’t) talk about death

"...Winterburn's illness almost derailed the project, and finally she dedicated the finished film..."

March 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Council: In the Shadow of the Dome

When "Austin values" clash with state Republican control?

"...the developer (over a settlement approved in 2016, but derailed in court by an inadequate agenda posting). That quickly..."

Feb. 9, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Nic Cage Plays Happy Families in Mom and Dad

The Oscar winner on parental love, and the calm before the storm

"...The latter part stays true, but the former is derailed when a strange affliction sends every parent on the..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Korea’s Blue-Collar Heroes

AFS highlights the films of Bong Joon-ho

"...miseries. A graduate student (Lee Sung-jae) finds his ambitions derailed from the academic tenure track because of corruption, and..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: Christmas in Connecticut

It's a wonderful lie

"...Connecticut farm, where the intended quickie wedding keeps getting derailed, especially when the war hero Jefferson – a total..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Heads to Sundance

Zellners' latest and Blaze Foley film booked for Utah fest

"...as a couple whose plans for frontier marriage become derailed by rogues, vagabonds, priests, and a miniature horse...."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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