Kansas, the Wheeled Giant Killers and More on the Texas Shootout

Kansas City Roller Warriors roll to victory at the world flat track championship.

"...taking a 116-101 win over Eastern top seed the Gotham Girls. They then pushed past the Carolina Roller Girls..."

Oct. 1, 2007 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Developing Stories: The Mistake on the Lake

The 'Save Town Lake' lawsuit turns up a legal mystery at City Hall

"...provides a clue. At the time, opponents of the Gotham, another reviled high-rise condo project then being contested in..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Cinema16: European Short Films

Some of the best directors working today, whether abroad in relative obscurity or amid the grimy existential zillion-dollar glitz of Gotham City

"...Christopher Nolan, amid the grimy existential zillion-dollar glitz of Gotham City – and their early work (or recent, as..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Planning South Shore Central: The ROMA Report

2000 study of redeveloping the South Shore was a good first effort

"...study the South Shore Central area surrounding the proposed Gotham/Mirabeau condo tower and to recommend updated development guidelines. The..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Rock & Roll Books

Summer reading

"...Gotham, 400 pp., $26..."

June 2, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Holiday You-Wish List

Once around the Xbox 360

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Holiday You-Wish List

Once around the Xbox 360

"...Project Gotham Racing 3..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Naked City

Downtown neighborhood battle ends with a thud instead of a bang

"...you can expect Rainey Street to be Big City Gotham...."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Film News

Under Tim McCanlies' Spell; plus, accolades aplenty all over Austin

"...picture nomination for the Independent Feature Project's New York Gotham Awards (Sideways won), special recognition for excellence in filmmaking..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect a variety of reading interests. This week's list comes from BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar.

"...The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)..."

July 16, 2004 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Gear Up and Get Away

The escapist magic of the holidays' hottest games

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...Me This, Batman A long time ago, in a Gotham far, far away, Batman and Robin wore muslin long..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

Austin soldiers on beyond SXSW with hot rods, SPAM, and puking

"...time to branch out," explained LoFrumento through a thick Gotham accent. "Austin is a very important center for us..."

April 11, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Born Again

Joel Schumacher & 'Phone Booth'

"...Gibson was attached to play the lead, a self-absorbed Gotham publicist who spends the entire movie trapped at a..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Get in the Game

Xbox's Project Gotham Racing and Halo screech and soar, respectively, into gameplayers' hearts; NBA Live 2002 and NBA2K2 for Playstation2 amp up the defense.

March 29, 2002 Screens Feature

Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One)

The Tongue and Groove Theatre gang have some serious fun with the disconnect between dreaming and waking life in their world premiere production of Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One), a 1940s-era suite of songs linked by spoken text, follows a dreamer across time and space to various landmarks of both the ancient world and the modern U.S.

"...the moment -- Cecil B. DeMille Egyptian tableau, MGM salute-to-Gotham pageant, Honeymooners-on-holiday luau number -- as quickly as he..."

March 22, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Box and Beyond

Games, hardware, and gadgets to make a techie's holiday dreams come true.

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Feature

The Box and Beyond

Games, hardware, and other tech toys

"...the term "all-terrain" vehicle, and the ultra-torqued, high-intensity Project Gotham Racing (so long, Need for Speed series), to the..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Summer Reading

"...Marie Brown, a fact-checker and junior reporter for the Gotham City Star tabloid who happens to know quite a..."

July 27, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Changing Face of Downtown

"...nixed this project when it was the hulking, gawking Gotham. Now it's 25% shorter in height and carries a..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature

The Blue Noise Band Brad Green From Queens (Chocolate/Southern Love)

"...before progressing into a cool, four-sax stroll through blustery Gotham courtesy of the BNB's David Lobel along with guest..."

April 13, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

Se7en

David Fincher's stunning directorial debut about a psychopath who uses the seven deadly sins as a model for his grotesque murders

"...their way through the mean streets of an unnamed Gotham that suspiciously resembles New York City, moving from clue..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

Naked City

Bennett There, Done That

"...but probably won't. "This is a lot bigger than Gotham or Hyde Park Baptist," says Rogers. "It's comparable to..."

March 23, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postscripts

Why dull people make witty writers and other mysteries in this week's Postscripts.

"...You Can't Lose includes intriguing information on these people ("Gotham's premier odds maker, Arnold 'The Brain' Rothstein, failing to..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Naked City

Council approves the relocation of the city's Central Booking Facility; the divisive East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Plan goes through first reading; and Lumbermen's Investment Corp. presents a tentative agreement on its property near the Seaholm Power Plant with the city.

"...that will permit the construction of the Mirabeau (née Gotham) condominiums on the south shore of Town Lake...."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Jackie, Oh!

"It's been a long time since a woman was mayor," Jackie Goodman mused the other day.

"...Austin constituency, for example, when she voted for the Gotham condominium project on Town Lake, while Griffith and Slusher..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District

"...with a fondly recalled past, Katchor gives his eccentric Gotham an unexpected substance, a taste of humanity that lingers..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Review by Robert Faires

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...with the audacious proposal to build the 120-foot, luxury Gotham condominiums tower next to Town Lake. Two years before,..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Road to Rail

Can light rail in Austin work well with Smart Growth?

"...an abstract sense, are appalling to Austin sensibilities. (Think Gotham.) In terms of character and ambience, "many in Austin..."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...they have a bunch of well-connected friends up in Gotham, where they have performed at the Ohio Theatre in..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

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