Dark, Dirty Money

"...anonymous attacks like this; there is already enough dark, dirty money flowing into politics. I hope the Chronicle will..."

Feb. 25, 2018 Postmarks

A Low Down Dirty Shame

"...easily could have been referring to his own film. Money may be tight, but Wayans seems to have more..."

Dec. 2, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Friends With Money

Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, kids, mortgages, and so-called life plans? That’s the short list of differences between the depressed, single stoner, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her circle of female friends.

"...walking and talking and terrifically damaged. Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, with kids, with..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...columnists flourish. The confessions of women of leisure and dirty dicks of all types are available in chain bookstores...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Money for Nothing

Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services

"...program's roughly 55 participants are crisis pregnancy centers. Siphoning money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) –..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Me Talk Dirty One Day

Bryan Poyser and Jacob Vaughan come clean on their 'Dear Pillow'

"...Houston to Newark to Amsterdam to London to Edinburgh money-saving itinerary, we sat down to talk. We were looking..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by John Pierson

Can Dirty Sixth Be Cleaned Up?

City Hall, the bars and clubs, and now a big developer say, “Maybe?”

"...you without much prompting what could be fixed about Dirty Sixth. Its high concentration of single-serve shot bars draws..."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Capitalists, Conservationists Say No to Dirty Coal

Showdown taking shape over plans to build 16 old-style coal-fired power plants, which threaten to push Austin's marginal air quality into the red

"...TXU," said Litman. "We are all for companies making money. But you've passed off some of your costs on..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

You Dirty Smokers!

"...Dear Editor, Of course, all you dirty smokers whining about not being able to hot box..."

Nov. 21, 2005 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: Money Changes Nothing

The $33 million question: Will the city and county ever get along?

"...Travis Co. Courthouse over a $33 million box of money that hasn't been delivered to the neonatal Travis Co...."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Down and Dirty

The Cornyn Culture

"...Cornyn doesn't deny that in some cases he took money from those lawyers. "I never intentionally took money from..."

Oct. 30, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

News Roundup: Council Gets Dirty

Representatives engage in ... legal combaaaaaat!

"...in favor of the city delivering $600,000 in settlement money to Billie and Larry Mercer, the parents of Larry..."

Feb. 8, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

True Cost of Dirty Fuel

"...do not include the true costs associated with the dirty fuels we use: climate change, respiratory disease, mountaintop removal,..."

Aug. 25, 2009 Postmarks

Council Does the Money Mambo

The bones of the city -- roads, sewers, power lines -- took center stage for last Thursday's installment at City Council of "Budget: How Low Can We Go?" Not as low as we might like.

"...a huge mess," Garza says. "They've invested lot of money, and are now investing more, trying to get it..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Money's Green, Too

The Nature Conservancy & Big Bidness Makes Cents

"...them the kind of green PR that, until recently, money couldn't buy...."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

All the Dirty Little Secrets: Halina Reijn Digs Up Bodies Bodies Bodies

The director of the Gen Z Clue on why she won't direct on stage

"...be very poor. They glorified it! They had no money! They didn't like money! But if they had done..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

It's a Dirty Job ...

New arts tsar Vincent Kitch rolls up his sleeves to give Austin arts funding a clean start

"...programs proposed in that document. We only have bed-tax money at this point. We don't have another source [of..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Illegal Tender

A throwback to the Eighties crime dramas and Seventies blacksploitation films, this Latino action thriller about family ties and blood feuds rarely transcends clichés.

"...his interest in the fine lines that can separate dirty money from clean money, especially in the crucible of..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Disaster Movie

We're running out of genres to spoof: This time it's disaster movies.

"...worst about us, we’ll never stop giving you our money. So that’s what they do: They degrade, and we..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Dirty Money

Richard Stark's professional thief is back in action

"...Dirty Moneyby Richard Stark Grand Central Publishing, 288 pp., $23.99..."

May 9, 2008 Books Review by Jesse Sublett

Dirty Money: The Job of Sex

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...Dirty Money: The Job of Sex..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Brooklyn's Finest

Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle star in this clichéd police drama that's capped by an outlandish third act.

"...on the way, commits desperate acts to get the money for a down payment on a bigger house that..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cop Out

Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan star in Kevin Smith's painfully unfunny throwback to the Eighties buddy-cop movies.

"...the indie success of Clerks, the director took the money (had there been money, that is), ran straight into..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...spread the nastiness so quickly, and the power of money (needed to buy the ads) to corrupt the process..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Page Two

"...purify the dialogue. The argument would be that big money manipulates and distorts the democratic process by hiding its..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Inside Agitator

Fulani Follower Stokes Fires of Resentment and Reform

"...of time from you, and/or a little bit of money." The cold call -- from what Curtis calls a..."

Dec. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Postmarks

The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.

"...Mauro's Dirty Money..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

Compadres

Mexican action comedy

"...memory (and that’s coming from the guy who reviewed Dirty Grandpa). Nearly every scene has a moment at which,..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Lord of War

Gattaca writer-director Andrew Niccol shines his usual cynicism on the subject of gunrunning in his new film, a strange amalgam of compelling visuals and fascinating vocational details forged with deep moral ambivalence and often hollow didacticism.

"...to be in the business to make governments, not money) and Orlov would have been welcome, as would more..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bootmen

"...lad to stay on at the factory 'cause the money's steady, innit? Though little does 'e realize the mill's..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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