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Naked City
"...he thinks the National Park Service should allow loaded guns in national parks Headlines..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature

Best Approach to 'Gun Problem' Is to Enforce the Law
"...are worth noting, when he says, "Those figures [10,000 guns confiscated annually by Chicago Police] don't differentiate between crack..."

Oct. 15, 2007 Postmarks

Jana Hunter: 'Feow!'
Jana Hunter launches Feow!
"...Bates, who are in Houston bands Bring Back the Guns and Wicked Poseur, respectively. Upcoming releases include singer-songwriter Deer..."

Aug. 15, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Macbeth
This Australian film puts a modern, hyperstylized spin on an old tale: Should it be, "Out, damned spot" or "Off, damned Ray-Bans"?
"...gangsters where everyone’s leather jackets hang just so, where guns gleam perfectly in the moonlight, and where the latest..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Utah Supremes Say Search was a Real Stinker
Court reminds cops not to be led by the nose...
"...wasn’t home right then, he knew his brother kept guns in the trailer and had threatened to use them..."

March 30, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Hills Have Eyes II
This sequel to last year’s remake is as witless and simpleminded as the irradiated humanoids that serve as the franchise’s bad guys.
"...tunnels that snake through the mountains; they leave their guns behind when they go off to look at something..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Trailer Park Boys: Seasons 1 & 2
Alliance Atlantis released the show's collected episodes season by season last year without frills or fanfare, but even without extras, they're worth discovering
"...This is not television that thinks gangster goofballs with guns in a trailer park are funny. This is television..."

March 23, 2007 Screens Review by Marrit Ingman

God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan
This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three “lost boys” of the Sudan, chronicling three years of their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.
"...Bul Dau sums up, “People come at night with guns, and if you are not Muslim, they can kill..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Painted Veil
Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.
"...nice to do this work together without your country’s guns pointed at our people.” But the movie is not..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Heading South
North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.
"...for coming armed with weapons more dangerous than the guns of the previous invaders: These tourists come with dollars...."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas-Sized Basketball: The Houston Rockets and Why I Moved to Texas
"...especially Texas. Texas is unimaginable heat and cowboys and guns; cultural conservatives, the death penalty, and Tom DeLay. Texas..."

Nov. 23, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters @ 3AM
Something in me still wants to be a World War I fighter pilot – which is not only nuts, but helps me understand why we will always make war
"...I remember his fury at Britain's shoddy weapons merchants (guns on their planes jammed at alarming rates). It was..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Act for the Good of the People
"...4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it has been..."

Nov. 2, 2006 Postmarks

Drug War Czar Stumping in the Silver State
"...sympathetic morning anchor, if Nevadans “want more kids bringing guns to school” then they should feel free to vote..."

Nov. 2, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...by outright treason are not accompanied by evidential smoking guns...."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

Cartoon Heritage
Food faces, renegade puppets, rainbow purses, and nicotine washes – it's all part of the art of Matthew Rodriguez
"...doesn't like it when you try to bring cap guns on planes. Also, you can't buy cap guns in..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Weed Watch: Goose Creek Police Geese
Nearly three years after police in Charleston, S.C., suburb made guns-drawn high school raid, ACLU announces federal court has approved 'landmark settlement with students who sued school officials and police
"...Charleston, S.C., suburb of Goose Creek made an early-morning, guns-drawn raid at Stratford High School on an ultimately futile..."

July 21, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Weed Watch
U.S. House of Reps once again votes down measure that would prevent Department of Justice from spending tax money to raid, arrest, and prosecute sick people using medi-pot
"...last week released its latest pork report, aiming its guns at the White House Office of National Drug Control..."

July 7, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Down in the Valley
Sadly, this is less the epic modern Western it aspires to be than a muddled melodrama about a delusional drifter played by Edward Norton.
"...like a Sergio Leone cowboy; he fancies himself a gunslinger. It’s love at first sight when Harlan, who’s pumping..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Naked City
"...court in an effort to answer the age-old question: Guns or Hoses? That's right – a three-on-three basketball tourney..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature

Point Austin: The Schroeder File
For APD and Austin, Knee's decision was the right one
"...culture cliché. The principal reason we give police officers guns is that we believe they are both mature enough..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Column by Michael King

TCB
Books, video games, movie stars: TCB investigates this 'multimedia' business
"...really ruled the world. My generation grew up on Guns N' Roses and Poison and Metallica and Nine Inch..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.
"...method acting straight from the original amphetamine reptile. Dope, guns, and fucking in the streets? Both real and reel..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Domino
Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.
"...those opportunities and can only get a rise from guns, danger, and other thrill-seeking behaviors. It’s also a story..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Without Evidence: Executing Frances Newton
Another Texas death row case marked by official carelessness, negligence, and intransigence
"...the hallway. Police found no trace of residual nitrites (gunshot residue) on Newton's hands, nor on the long sleeves..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Batman Begins
Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.
"...and although Nolan’s Gotham isn’t sporting flivvers and tommy guns – to judge by the art direction, the film..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two
The artistic genius of 79-year-old cinematographer Haskell Wexler is only the beginning of his story; the passion and eloquence of his lifelong political commitment stand equal to his cinematic achievements
"...most of those releases. Matewan, Passion Fish, Men With Guns, The Secret of Roan Inish, Lone Star, The Brother..."

June 10, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Layer Cake
A contemporary gangster film that both looks and feels like a Britnoir classic filtered through the Jam’s bang-on sense of style, Layer Cake takes a realistic approach to Britain’s criminal underclass.
"...here, all smooth edges and tough-guy panache. "I hate guns," he offers at one point, only to fixate moments..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two
'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.
"...morning. The Mexican general for whom they have stolen guns is brutally torturing Angel, one of the gang, because..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Naked City
New rules clarify when weapon may be used; opponents still dissatisfied
"...that Houston police have been armed with electroshock stun guns, they've deployed them 144 times – and in 87%..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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