'Shock Corridor' and 'The Naked Kiss'

Sam Fuller had the inside scoop on American culture

"...Sam Fuller had the inside scoop on American culture. The filmmaker (and former newspaperman..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Banking Reform Gone Bad; and Abacus Among Us

"...Only – ohmygod, don't look! – it's been turned inside out, stuffed, and twisted into a bad idea. Republicans,..."

May 7, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters at 3AM: The Missiles of October

Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis

"...attack, it would be equally immoral and insane for Americans to retaliate. History would praise us for millennia if,..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

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America's ideal of liberty shaped the country's finest authors

"...Let's say we're talking about literature, American literature, and we're just talking – not concerned with,..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

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People who might not want anything to do with me look at my car and know there's something about America we agree on – something embodied in a '69 Chevy Malibu

"...But the car is kind of my passport to America. People who might not want anything to do with..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Katie Pell: Tiny Acts of Immeasurable Benefit

Pell's not-tiny work invites you in and leaves you with a feeling of abundant energy

"...enliven the bug wings, to be the center star inside the bright cheerful wings. While I just described them..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Continued Story

Daniel Johnston's songs find new life in the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle

"...perfect: They used Daniel's songs to dramatize the world inside Daniel's mind, using characters and symbols from his artwork...."

Feb. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Kathy McCarty

The Hightower Report

The Luxury of Chinese Labor; and Taking Care of the Smithsonian

"...China" label? Some slippery conglomerates hide it in an inside pocket of the produce. Some of the crafty ones..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Opposition to Immigrant Detention Centers Mounts

Georgia detention center, Texas' usual suspects in spotlight

"...the private, for-profit facility operated by Corrections Corpor­ation of America, under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce­ment. The..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

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A Sick Policy; and Bush's Imperial Designs on Iraq

"...Contrast this natural pace with the grind of most American workers, many of whom have two or three jobs,..."

June 15, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Weak "America is a Christian nation. … We pledge to exert..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature

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A Little Something for the People; and Long-Distance Burger Orders

"...recently proposed that Uncle Sam send $100 to every American family as a way to assuage public anger over..."

June 2, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

In Aspen, an Austin-Flavored Celebration of the Chef

A weekend at the 'Food & Wine' Classic

"...had to stop in El Jebel at Breakfast in America. Now, neither the name of the town nor the..."

July 15, 2005 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Day Trips

The 'Baseball As America' exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a baseball lover's dream come true

"..."Baseball as America" brings back memories. The summer headline exhibition at the..."

June 3, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...in something like financial security for the family of America's best-loved totally unknown songwriter. Be Here to Love Me,..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Soldier's Heart

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

"...March 25, Dr. James Scully, medical director of the American Psychiatric Association, testified to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

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"...National Park Service granted BNP Petroleum permits to drill inside the park. Heavy trucks roll down the beaches and..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column

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"...live. Wal-Mart's growing big-box mentality is a result of America's shop-or-die attitude. We gotta have cheap stuff and lots..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Column

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"...site. I didn't even know Communists existed in 21st-century America. And to think that I, a member of MoveOn.org,..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Column

Sheet Music

Summer Reading

"...Pantheon, 350 pp., $24.95Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Musicby Arthur Kempton..."

June 6, 2003 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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"...under the age of 18. Studies conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other reputable professional organizations all..."

May 9, 2003 Column

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"...have been living in Seoul, and though I see America through a small peephole called the "media," there is..."

May 2, 2003 Column

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"...a weapon of mass destruction that kills 65,000 innocent Americans every year. This is truly the tobacco holocaust...."

April 18, 2003 Column

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

There is plenty of bad and ugly to go along with the good, yet each character in Sergio Leone's American opus seems to live inside a cinematic glass orb in which his virtue and his vice settle like snowflakes around an elegy to himself.

"...ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Review by Alexander Marcus

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"...["A Place for Democrats," Nov. 15]. Ironically, Democratic Party insiders made the characterization easy by getting Akins to "take..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column

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"...retirement plans. (Of course, we won't be privy to insider information.)..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column

Cumbia Sobre El Rio

Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia

"...across a cumbia from some futuristic megalopolis in Latin America: "Desde Monterrey, pura cumbia Colombiana para todo el mundo"...El..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

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"...often than other inmates. Ask anyone who has been inside and they will tell you the same. State prisons..."

July 12, 2002 Column

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"...I am grateful that my feet are planted firmly inside the Austin city limits. Perhaps this letter will help..."

May 10, 2002 Column

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"...could have been left by putting the perimeter road inside the new fence rather than next to the original..."

April 19, 2002 Column

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