Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...his name from the list of potential candidates for higher office when he announced Dec. 22, 2009, that he..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature

Crime Declines

FBI reports a decrease in both violent and property crime in 2009

"...year (a total of 169,612 cases) reached an all-time high, up 42% from five years ago, and increasing nearly..."

Dec. 22, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...and vitality. Last year he was even awarded Spain's highest filmic honor, the Goya Award. Fantastic Fest is deeply..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Stephen goes to San Francisco, hunting for Trannyshack and rolling papers

"...Full House was filmed – both of which constitute crimes in my book. Kitty-corner to that was the apartment..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Dispatches From Darfur

Austinites Rio Tenango and Leah Pries take their activism, and their aliases, all the way to Africa

"...camps with staff from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Programme, and..."

July 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Reefer Madness

The odd logic behind federal sentencing guidelines

"...guidelines, laying out mandatory ranges for a host of crimes, could now only be considered "advisory," lest they run..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...study showed that PAH levels in runoff were 65% higher from sealed parking lots than from unsealed ones, that..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature

TV Eye

For black and brown people of my generation, the Jackson debacle is particularly painful in a way that few have articulated

"...when compared to the O.J. Simpson trial, the other high-profile trial fueled by charges of heinous and lurid crimes...."

June 24, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Texas Faith and Freedom

Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas Freedom Network

"...navy brat, but I'm a fifth-generation Texan, went to high school and junior high in Dallas, I've got a..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Homeland Security Comes Home

For the next round of protests, the DPS has new toys

"...a concern that gas might negatively affect business in high rises downtown, however, the normal "escalation of force" to..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Unfinished Business at APD?

A Monday public hearing will review a woman's "official oppression"

"...who had frequented the grounds of Austin's Porter Junior High. As a result of his abduction, Neyens' son had..."

May 16, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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"...2001, down by one from 2000. Overall, however, violent crimes and property crimes all took an upward turn --..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.

"...Austin has not done since Kirk Watson was in high school."..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

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"...A mayoral debate sponsored by the Martin Junior High PTA, Con Ganas Inc., the East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood..."

Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

"...(which would take forever, anyway), but only for those crimes for which a court could find him guilty today...."

May 11, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

Rerun at the D.A. Corral

Republican Shane Phelps challenges Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle for a second time, and seems to be trailing.

"...already determined that two men did not commit the crimes for which they were convicted in Travis County. So..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

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Off the Desk:

"...said the facility will not necessarily go to the highest bidder, but rather to the "most appropriate" new keeper...."

May 2, 1997 News Feature

Anselm

Two postwar German masters: one in front, one behind the camera

"...Kiefer, a monumental creator whose work stands on a high-wire between purposeful chaos and discovered order. A prodigy with..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation

Tunisia's buried history burns in this chilling supernatural noir

"...The crumbling high-rise mass is an unfinished and abandoned development just outside..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Saul & Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band

Survivors' story never finds its rhythm

"...their 90s, and survived one of the most historic crimes against humanity of the 20th century. But Saul and..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Grudge

A new haunting from the J-horror franchise

"...corpses of films for which the studios clearly had high hopes (The Bye-Bye Man, Insidious: The Last Key, The..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: The Queer Stories That Made 2019

Looking back, enjoying gelato, and the return of Middle School Dance Party

"...the battles we lost this year – the hate crimes, the Chick-fil-A bill, the attacks on drag storytime, the..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Golden Glove

Serial killer biopic is too gruelingly accurate for its own good

"...But that's not the only aspect of the crimes that director Fatih Akin (In the Fade, Head-On) re-creates..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Old Man & the Gun

Robert Redford has rarely shone more than in this true-crime tale

"...(with the optional fake mustache), Tucker cordially executes these crimes like a true gentleman, the flash of his handgun..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...his own TV success in The Man in the High Castle) as the Last Free Man, a proto-Alex Jones..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Good Time

A crime caper goes horribly movie

"...City of Z with James Gray, and the upcoming High Life with Claire Denis). The Safdies, however, are totally..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don't Breathe

Home-invasion thriller is more methodical than innovative

"...Detroit; Money (Zovatto), a hooligan who digs the adrenaline high of his crimes more than the profits; and Alex..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coming Home

Zhang Yimou's latest is a family drama set against the winds of history

"...Feng Wanyu (Gong), but he’s been imprisoned for unspecified crimes against the Chinese state and had been sent off..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hightower Report

Global bankers holding a pity party for themselves

"...love, and it seems that the global princes of high finance are glum because they're not even respected, much..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Criminally Innocent

How can you be exonerated of a crime that never happened?

"...are a growing population: individuals wrongly convicted of sex crimes who have no concrete scientific proof to help them..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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