Wife Stories

Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito on life as a comedy couple

"...September 2016 Instagram video of them that ended up getting a lot of traffic on Tumblr and other social..."

Sept. 27, 2017 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

Your Word Is Your Bond

Travis County moves toward broader pretrial release of the accused, but commercial bondsmen say it will never work

"...black robe and heads through a remotely locked door into a cinder-block-walled courtroom tucked into a basement corner of..."

Oct. 12, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Reefer Madness: The Thin Green Line

Author Jonah Raskin explores the contradictions of life in Marijuanaland

"...I think that the feds have just dug themselves into a hole, and they've been saying the same thing..."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'Cribdeath: Bellocq's Girl'

Second-place winner

"...through almost anything. Yeah, a good little kid. But getting too big for that crib. Let's see, eighteen-months-old, day..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Books Feature by F.J. Schaack

Letters at 3am

A bounty to getting older is that you grow tired of the uselessly dramatic aspects of yourself, and most of your fears evaporate

"...one) terrified that I was crazy. My terrors seeped into everything but my work; I wrote like the person..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

They Got the Beat

Living the pop life in Austin

"...melody it's a great melody, and people are gonna get into it. If you look at a song like..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"..."So we get the stuff and go into the club, buy some..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Knockout

"...every Thirties and Forties-era fisticuffs film and runs them together with such crazy gusto that I wondered if this..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exile on 48th Street

Attorney General John Cornyn files a lawsuit against the Rio Motel, a bane to the neighbors of this North Central Austin establishment.

"...in 1998, a man quietly loaded several trash bags into a truck at his home near 51st and Airport..."

Sept. 17, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

We Give Two Thumbs Up to These Weekend Events

Arty and culture-y things to get up to

"...about 20 international versions in rotation), you’re bound to get addicted. The biggest barrier to entry – who the..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Boy

Horrors: A nanny finds that her new charge is a life-sized doll

"...Another day, another evil doll, another nanny in trouble. It’s a wonder people even buy life-size human effigies..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hyde & Shriek

When Trouble Puppet Theatre tackles Dr. Jekyll's dark tale, the villain may not be who you think

"...inanimate block of prose so as to transform it into something odd, original, and (cue the lightning) alive!..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

Michael Caine zips around on a giant bumblebee and Dwayne Johnson is a pectoral spectacle in this family-friendly, fantasy-island adventure tale.

"...Journey to the Center of the Earth, this outing into lands unknown replaces Brendan Fraser with the pectorally spectacular..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The True Story

Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …

"...the Philippine Campaign included a bad kidney that would trouble him for the rest of his life...."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

All-American

Jimmie Vaughan at 50

"...the misty romance of his new album, Do You Get the Blues?..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Mr. South Austin

"...years to log and countless out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere dancehalls to stoke into dance frenzies. No, the one accordionist who has earned..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Reform on Hold

Want Telecom Reform? Hang Up and Dial Again

"...might be, but curious nonetheless.) We would be in trouble if we actually had new Legislatures with new issues...."

Dec. 20, 1996 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

With Honors

"...Too much studying, not enough Molson.” / “And?” / “Get this: their pointless, over-zealous lives are sent into an..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hero

"...Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack and Tom Arnold. It's getting to look like Stephen Frears may be the most..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Immigrant Women Stuck in Detention

T. Don Hutto detainees can't get their day in court

"...she was picked up by ICE agents and forced into the T. Don Hutto detention center...."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Inherent Vice

Highbrow mixes with lowbrow in Paul Thomas Anderson's screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.

"...they usually start with a woman, a woman in trouble. Larry “Doc” Sportello (Phoenix) thought he’d seen the last..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

ACL Interview: The National

Not-so-moody frontman on touring, recording, and family

"...Brooklyn quintet’s melancholic sound, subverting expectations on sixth LP Trouble Will Find Me, and his brother’s documentary, Mistaken for..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Post by Doug Freeman

A Good Day to Die Hard

Bruce Willis' John McClane is like Wile E. Coyote – always in the wrong place when things blow up but always persevering.

"...heads to Russia to help, but soon finds the trouble is even deeper and more complex than he originally..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Stealth

Masterful aerial action sequences don't compensate for earthbound plot.

"...and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The boys and girls of summer get a Mach-5 work-over in the newest big bang theory..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Never Been Kissed

A newspaper editor re-enrolls in high school for a story on what the younger generation is up to.

"...apparent that this mission is going to be more trouble than she bargained for. With an assist from her..."

April 9, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Phil Music

"...Austin City Council meetings live. When the council went into executive session, Monroe played music to cover the gap,..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Search and Destroy

"...and Destroy represents hyperrealist painter David Salle's first foray into filmmaking, following an art career shaped by drastic swings..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

"...page. This unruliness may be the source of the trouble with Things to Do in Denver…. A dark gangster..."

Feb. 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Swordsman II

"...Hark and directed by Stanley Tong, Swordsman II falls into the category of Chinese sword & sorcery films that..."

June 18, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Innocent Blood

"...so long undercover with the mob that he's having trouble coming back out. He runs into Parillaud's (La Femme..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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