Actual Innocence

Austinite wrongfully convicted for a decade-old school prank hopes to clear his name

"...On May 19, 1998, just after classes let out at Austin High School, someone shot..."

July 29, 2011 News Feature by Caitlin Meredith

Safety Net or Dead End?

The politics of Austin animal welfare

"...One woman claimed to have video footage of dogs frantically jumping up and down after not being allowed out..."

Feb. 18, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...to the left and back again while guitar feedback balloons at an ear-piercing midpoint. As sirens of amplifier worship..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Slave to the 'Rhythms'

Art is afoot, and words only slow it down

"...It's been years now, more than a decade: When I..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Whatever Works

Confessions of a cranky misanthrope.

"...Directed by: Woody Allen. Starring: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed..."

July 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...me that birth is real, death is real, and all between is a game. It is hard to quarrel..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Earth

This nature film is derived from the Planet Earth miniseries and is edited with an eye toward the kid-friendly audience.

"...self-explanatory new arm, Disneynature, is at the very least peripherally concerned with the planet and its dwindling prospects, but..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...Keller and her husband, Danny, on charges that they'd sexually assaulted a young girl, Christina Chaviers, in the summer..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Double-Barrel Beautiful

Texan sweetheart of the 1960s folk rodeo, Carolyn Hester

"...had known and worked with Buddy Holly left no small impression on me and I liked being around her...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

What We Do Is Secret

Darby Crash, the L.A. punk rock junkie godhead leader of the Germs who died of an overdose in 1980, is revivified in this long-gestating but strangely sterile biopic.

"...process too slow to save his soul (or his life), but Darby Crash (né Jan Paul Beahm), the mad..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Friday Sleepers

"...All showcases subject to change The Lovely Sparrows..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Two Towers, Six Years, and 16 Millimeters

The remarkable journey – and uncertain toll – of Steve Bilich's 'Native New Yorker'

"...Every film has a backstory just like every life has a history, but rarely do the two commingle..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Every Last Word

Vincent Gallo: The Complete Transcript

"...Vincent Gallo is a man of many words. Many, many words...."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

I'm Not There

This meditation on Bob Dylan is infused with love – not the slavish kind but a true-eyed tribute to the artist who belongs to nobody and everybody at once.

"...we get six incarnations that represent cycles in the life of the artist formally known as Robert Zimmerman, from..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Starting Over

For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm

"...road portraying the assorted Lone Star lunatics of Texas' third-smallest town in either Greater Tuna or its 1989 sequel,..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mr. Woodcock

Mr. Woodcock is funny for exactly five minutes, with the kind of subversive humor that boosted Billy Bob Thornton, but the rest is just a self-pitying, half-hearted retread.

"...Thornton is fast becoming the master of what can only be termed “deadpan malignancy.” What other actor working can..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Lookout

The Lookout, an odd caper story, marks Scott Frank’s directorial debut after years of working as a screenwriter on movies like Get Shorty and Out of Sight.

"...and Sergio Di Zio. If the army of psychologists, life coaches, and TV therapists who have become the shamans..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...sock on the sidewalk outside a record store before all too long. And not just because of BÖC either...."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stranger Than Fiction

A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman but lacks that writer’s conceptual rigor and imaginative power.

"...he has the voice of an Englishwoman narrating his life. The voice describes the state of Harold’s lonely existence;..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Big, Bright Eyes of Texas

Celebrating the life of the bigger-than-life Ann Richards

"...Ann Richards spent a lifetime dispensing advice, often unsolicited and sometimes brutally honest, to..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Hard Habit to Break

Moonlight Towers' DIY road rage: This is you, Austin

"...After all, you know we really don't care...."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Taco Kings, Besieged

A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense

"...van on the corner of Cesar Chavez and Pleasant Valley and approach the Piedras Negras taco stand. It's part..."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

This Oscar nominee from Germany chronicles the last desperate hours of Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul of the gestapo while distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

"...and desperately resolved hours of its Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mission: Impossible III

It's all poppycock, of course, but done with great vim, vigor, and flair.

"...the third director to helm this orgiastic action franchise (after Brian De Palma and John Woo), both recognizes that..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...keep government honest. The cost associated with opening up all government information is astounding. The writers bashing Mr. Black..."

April 21, 2006 Column

Ushpizin

This Israeli comedy is a wholly original movie that's set and filmed entirely within the insular realm of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Hasidim.

"...Sukkoth, a thanksgiving for the autumn harvest that is symbolically commemorated by observant Jews by moving out of their..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

With oil in the future rationed to agriculture, essential services, and (inevitably) the military, and personal long-distance driving and passenger flight no longer feasible – then, if the United States is to remain a continental entity, the only answer is trains

"...change may be drastic, catastrophic in places, but not universally catastrophic, forcing civilization to change but allowing it to..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Crackpot Crackdown

Joining a long East Texas tradition, Jackson County DA Bobby Bell has convicted 28 black people on drug charges via manufactured evidence and railroaded trials. One small-town exile, her family, and a few neighbors are finally fighting back.

"...Frederick "Rick" Patterson was born in the small Southeast Texas city of Edna, seat of Jackson Co...."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Rare Bird

From her office vantage point, beside the rosy glow of the majestic Capitol dome, 78-year-old feminist, political powerhouse, and gay rights lobbyist Bettie Naylor keeps a watchful eye over the doings at the legislature

"...Legislative Session, during which tax and education issues remained virtually untouched, but distracting anti-gay legislation took up lots of..."

June 3, 2005 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Madagascar

Animated zoo animals head back to the wild

"...of squirming, screaming little, er, angels. I mention this only to set my mood (cantankerous): That is to say,..."

May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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