Depressed on Pot

Yes, its spring, which means it is time again for the Office of the National Drug Control Policy's annual 'lets-talk-shit-about-pot' report.

"...being the gateway to other illicit drug use. Such great tales! This year, we've got depression – man, depressed..."

May 12, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Germinal

"...a workers collective, like the one recently created in Great Britain. Slowly, patiently, he sells his fellow miners on..."

June 3, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life With Mikey

"...and story mean. This is like one of those Depression musicals, where social reality is merely a backdrop for..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

'The Next Thing You Know, You're Robbing Banks'

Lane Garrison lives a life of prime for 'Bonnie & Clyde'

"...other," Garrison reasoned. This was the height of the Great Depression, when gangsters became celebrities. Garrison explained: "John Dillinger..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hello I Must Be Going

The marvelous Melanie Lynskey, for once, gets the starring role in this movie about a woman who gets blindsided by divorce.

"...in with her parents after falling into a deep depression when her husband blindsids her with his request for..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.

"...Hearing the subject read the clinical definition of "manic depression" elicits humor and pathos: “There you have it, I’m..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Hightower Report

'Consumer Reports' explores capitalistic idiocy; and libraries go begging while boondoggles get funding

"...In the depths of the Great Depression, not a single public library in America closed..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Those Were the Days

Earlier this spring, University of Texas Press began publishing a series of books about politics in Texas. Because the editors of the series, which is spearheaded by Don Carleton, the director of UT's Center for American History, understand that it's more interesting to read about underdogs than the ruling class, all three books in the series are about Texas liberals. Here's a brief overview of the series.

"...and personal fortunes declined with the onset of the Great Depression, people quickly began to move away from the..."

April 26, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Steal This Movie!

"...generation about the man, the myth, and the manic depression that was Abbie Hoffman. Unfortunately, that's also the film's..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Last Summer in the Hamptons

"...and well-known actress Helena Mora (played by the late, great Viveca Lindfors) and her family, all of whom are..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Here Comes Mr. Achewood

Chris Onstad tours with his Great Outdoor Fight book

"...tour) the annual test of red-blooded manliness called the Great Outdoor Fight. Among many other things. Among many other..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

King Kong

Jackson's remake is a corker of an action/monster movie: part RKO serial; part square-jawed, manly romp; and part classic journey into the unknown that recalls and references Heart of Darkness.

"...King. The interplay between Watts’ melancholy blond and the great ape is almost too real to be believed. It’s..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...has attended ACC. And they all talk about how great their professors are and how much ACC helped them...."

April 25, 2003 Column

The Boys in the Boat

Classic sporting underdog story of the 1936 Olympic rowing team

"...mood as it started slowly coming back from the Great Depression. It’s a potent theme, especially since we see..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Opinion: History Says Now Is the Time to Invest in Transit

Transformative projects like the San Antonio Riverwalk and UT Tower were forged during troubled times

"...Texas' most cherished public places were built during the Great Depression. In 1938, San Antonio voters approved a bond..."

June 26, 2020 Column by Chito Vela

Day Trips

The geologic magnificence of Palo Duro Canyon.

"...its uniquely spectacular beauty. Traveling south from Amarillo, the Great Plains are almost billiard-table flat until you reach the..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

10 Minutes with Robbie Fulks

Chicagoan could almost be local given his Austin collaborations

"...South by Southwest this year, and you had a great band of Austin players with you, including Brennen Leigh...."

June 1, 2016 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Honor Russell Lee

"...was to record the life of America during the Great Depression. Their body of work is one of the..."

April 9, 2016 Postmarks

The Invitation

Girlfight director Karyn Kusama helms dinner-party thriller

"...that work in The Invitation: The cast is uniformly great (Tom Hardy – er, I mean Marshall-Green – is..."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Joseph Stack Manifesto

Reprint of pilot's suicide note

"...I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a..."

Feb. 18, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Batman Begins

Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.

"...and Joel Schumacher. This is as close to the Depression-era Bat Man as films have yet ventured, and although..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Mutual Respect

Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.

"...subsequent recovery of America from the travails of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era. With the financial..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

The Hours

"...suburbs as she recuperates from a bout of debilitating depression and struggles with the genesis of her first great..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jazz: By the Episode

"...jazz singers Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, early composing/arranging great Jelly Roll Morton, and a look at early white..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Legend of Bagger Vance

"...on the golf course, Junah goes off to the Great War and returns home a drunken wreck. Ten years..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Never-Ending Story

Independent? Chain? The Bookstore Dilemma

"...his store's recent title and space downsizing of the great majority of the third floor (everything except for the..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Day Trips: Texas State Parks

Celebrating 100 years of Texas parks and the contributions of Civilian Conservation Corps

"...In 1933, as the Great Depression gripped the nation, President Franklin Roosevelt created the..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

12 Mighty Orphans

Historical football drama can't get past first down

"...There is no denying that being parentless during the Great Depression called for a lot of resilience, but 12..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Hottest August

A month-long portrait of NYC captures our fears for the future

"...a lot of arguments about who was the single greatest chronicler of American life, but anyone that says it..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: "Trouble Comin' Every Day"

And too many couldn't be happier about it

"...the time, a shared zeitgeist – Manifest Destiny, the Great Depression, a support of World War II, the Space..."

May 5, 2017 Column by Louis Black

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