Trial of APD Officer Will Be One of the Most Consequential in Austin History

Here’s what it could mean for our city and for how law enforcement is held accountable

"...Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd and protests against police violence swept the nation, outrage in Austin sparked by Ramos'..."

Oct. 20, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Opinion: Over 200,000 Asian People in Central Texas Feel the Heartache of Georgia. Do You?

Central Texas leaders and community members should stand against anti-Asian hate through specific actions

"...the mail until I get home, I'll bring a gun to keep us safe," said another husband. "I am..."

April 2, 2021 Column by Darlene Lanham

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...There's a man with a gun over there..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...said, he heard "what he believed to be" a gunshot. As he made his way through the front door..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Land of Confusion

Michael Simon's first detective novel finds a transplanted New Yorker struggling to solve a murder in a 'completely different' Austin

"...AC: Your book has its quotient of violence. I wonder how you balance the gruesomeness of description..."

July 30, 2004 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...UK's Increase in Crime Not Related to Gun Control..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column

A Month After Mike Ramos Died, Some Hesitant Steps Toward Accountability

Justice comes slowly

"...him with a rifle. Ramos did not have a gun on him or in his vehicle...."

June 5, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

New Evidence Could Clear Death Row Inmate Rodney Reed

Jimmy Fennell's impending trial on kidnapping and rape charges unearths old suspicions that he was responsible for the 1996 murder of his fiancée

"...additional evidence regarding Jimmy Fennell's apparent proclivity toward sexual violence...."

July 25, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

They All Start Out the Same

Guns and the law

"..."The gun has always been a fascinating item for Americans," says..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Bio of John Wesley Hardin The Fortysomething Killer

"...The Last Gunfighter by Richard Marohn..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Arts Feature

Kandahar

Tense exploration of Afghanistan's chaos camouflaged as an action flick

"...the Taliban took over. Even if grizzled everyman Tom, gun in hand against a setting Middle Eastern sun, is..."

May 26, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

“Might Have to Kill a Few People”

And other texts that suggest Daniel Perry intended to commit murder at a Black Lives Matter demonstration

"...the hatred he harbored for BLM demonstrators protesting police violence in the summer of 2020...."

April 7, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Seeking Justice for the Killing of Alex Gonzales

Gonzales’ mother says, “I will not stop”

"...need to lose their jobs and never hold a gun again in their lives."..."

Jan. 20, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Devotion

Airborne biopic finds warm friendship across the military's racial divide

"...be all too easy to compare Devotion to Top Gun: Maverick. As the second fighter pilot drama to star..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Naked City

"...by intoxication-related incidents, police say – the number of family-violence-related assaults has declined 9.5%. Police attribute that to officer..."

Sept. 8, 2006 News Feature

Cyrus Gray Hasn’t Been Convicted of a Crime, but He Spent Years in Jail

Now he is an advocate for the rights of the accused

"...Department of Public Safety swarmed through his workplace, aimed guns at him, and took him into custody...."

March 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Shadowboxer

Not reviewed at press time. Stars Çuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren as passionate yet unlikely lovers, as well as assassins and stepmother and stepson. And if that's not enough drama, one of them also has a fatal disease.

"...with a pool cue, a child fires his father’s gun, and a handful of bad-guy cronies get shot up..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

Postmarks

The Real Obscenity

"...that Gandhi promoted the spinning wheel during the Indian nonviolence movement for independence. I think few remember why...."

April 30, 1999 Column

Fighting Sexual Assault

Amid growing national momentum, UT-Austin takes steps to protect incoming students

"...amendment, enacted last year, is called the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, or Campus SaVE Act. In order to..."

May 16, 2014 News Feature by Jessica Luther

Blood on the Controller With The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Who will play, and what will become of them?

"...So if Kentucky-based video game publisher Gun Interactive has big expectations to meet with The Texas..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...To Gun or Not to GunThe Supreme Court heard arguments this..."

Nov. 17, 2023 News Feature

City Says No More DPS, Abbott Sends in More Troopers

Mayor Watson’s DPS gambit just got a lot messier

"...ending the partnership. This likely references incidents of police violence, threatened or realized, by state police. Since May, troopers..."

July 14, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

APD Releases Incident Video of Gonzales Shooting

Escalating quickly

"...that the man cut him off and pointed a gun at him. The incident video does not show what..."

May 7, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Road Against Hate

The Hurtado murders measure the distance Austin and Texas must travel

"...to greet the visitors, Norma did so. Shortly thereafter, gun shots rang out; Lidia could hear them from the..."

May 6, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

More Than One Purpose

"...Dear Editor, Re: “Killing Is Guns' Purpose” [“Postmarks,” July 9]: Daniel Lea states that the..."

July 9, 2010 Postmarks

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...to save the day – reportedly by firing his gun into the air in the middle of the street...."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

Guns, Disaster, and the Lege

New law says that during disaster, state cannot seize legally owned guns from private citizens

"...deadly force in their home. But another potentially significant gun-rights bill slipped through the Lege with little opposition and..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...and Family Alliance Inc., Life Works, Travis Co. Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Survival Center, SafePlace, Push-Up Foundations Inc.,..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

In Person

Barry Glassner on fear in the media and how to hide a pony

"...end, Glassner said, "Instead of the arrival of superpredators, violence by urban youths continued to decline, and so in..."

April 8, 2005 Books Feature by Jess Sauer

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...a few miles from base to practice marksmanship. When gunfire rang out from a nearby village, Padilla wheeled his..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

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