The Music Never Stopped

After 20 years and a loss of memory, a father and son learn to reconnect over the music of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan.

"...Directed by: Jim Kohlberg. Starring: J.K. Simmons, Julia Ormond, Lou Taylor Pucci,..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Yogurt Shop Case Cross-Examined

Appeals court decision may undermine yogurt shop prosecutions.

"...does not want to see how Mendez applies," said Jim Sawyer, trial attorney for defendant Robert Springsteen. "Because if..."

Feb. 1, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

"...film makes you long for the sonorous ennui of Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise. Aren’t there any superheroes who..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Owens Shooting

Competing scenarios fly through the community, and APD's staffing and procedures come under scrutiny

"...Austin attorney Jim Sawyer, retained by Owens' family, could not be reached..."

July 11, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

News Shorts

"...why some Dem leaders are wooing former Attorney General Jim Mattox, who recently told "Austin Stories" that "There's a..."

Sept. 7, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Will Supremes' Ruling Scuttle Yogurt-Shop Cases?

The high court's unanimous Sixth Amendment ruling gives hope to attorneys for Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott

"...it – a view shared by Springsteen's trial attorney, Jim Sawyer. "This means an end to ... courts letting..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'Something Went Wrong'

Six months after he was killed by an Austin cop, Jessie Owens' family still wants some basic answers

"...out shortly before, at the office of family attorney Jim Sawyer, that Glasgow had been charged with criminally negligent..."

Dec. 12, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Preparing for Springsteen's Appeals

Two attorneys build separate cases for overturning yogurt-shop defendant Robert Springsteen's death sentence.

"...a death sentence. But at Springsteen's trial, his attorneys Jim Sawyer and Berkeley Bettis inexplicably declined to offer such..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Unexplained Death of Jennifer Cave

Laura Hall's trial ends with conviction – but no insight

"...The next day, Aug. 18, Sharon and her fiancé, Jim Sedwick, drove to Austin, hoping to find Jennifer. They..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Articulations

More money for the Long Center, more art for AMOA, and more national exposure for a Flaming Idiot.

"...company that Bill Nowlin co-founded with Jeff Kodosky and Jim Truchard. "When we actually understood what was happening to..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine

Support local business while maintaining your social distance

"...Jim Jim’s Water Ice Service available at walk-up window 11am-7pm..."

March 16, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Mona Remix

Leonardo's lady gets a modern makeover in Rino Pizzi's Mona Lisa Project

"...of mystery. And with the assistance of master printer Jim Sipowicz – whose deep involvement in the project and..."

July 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blowing the Whistle?

City Hall Bureaucrat Says He's the Fall Guy No More

"...water treatment plant, Fabela sent a protest letter to Jim Clarno, the project manager at Ullrich, and ordered that..."

March 28, 1997 News Column by Alex de Marban

Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books

Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs

"...Miller; gripping human figures with surreal flourishes by Luis Jiménez and Julie Speed; piercing satire in cartoon form by..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...season of Lost ends with a cliff-hanger involving Kate, Sawyer, Jack, a family of pygmy gorillas, a gum-gum tree,..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Exhibitionism

Big River: Pleasantly Adrift

"...In Virdell Williams Jr., cast as the escaping slave Jim, the musical has an actor whose voice soars into..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Review

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Anna Sawyer distrusts authority, disrupts class time, and disobeys gender roles..."

July 2, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Qmmunity: Fangirling Over Austin’s Queer Film Fest

Plus make marriage with p1nkstar and Y2K, and Erica Nix promises no cults

"...see Qmmunity's Beth Sullivan moderate a panel with Troche, Jim Fall (2019's other tribute winner for his 1999 film..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Friday Interviews

The Church, Leon Bridges, Best Coast – vintage, meteoric, and sincere.

"...neo-soul. I had a song about my mom, 'Lisa Sawyer,' and it just seemed to fit that old sound...."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

News Roundup: A Deadly Shooting, Rick Perry, and City Council

Police kill an armed man, Perry's ready to run, and more

"...Austin Police Department, they received several calls reporting that Sawyer Flache, 27, was shooting at streetlights in an Oak..."

Feb. 9, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Styx and Stones

A priest has his canoe trip sunk by a spiritual crisis in The Catechism Cataclysm

"...film, crashing together midway through, not long after Tom Sawyer (Koko Lanham), Huckleberry Finn (Miki Ann Maddox), and slave..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

The End of the Cardigan-Clad Wise Man as We Know Him

"...opportunity to enact revenge, couldn't do it, and got Sawyer to do it. Yes, it's confusing. All you need..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

A Tinker's Damn

"...is the bitter reality playing itself out in the Jim Crow South. Like his father, Tink Buchanan, Carter tries..."

March 2, 2001 Books Review by Mike Shea

Dancing About Architecture

The usual suspects return: Miles Zuniga, Daniel Johnston, Sandra Bullock, Bob Schneider, and the Asylum Street Spankers; also, Patti Smith returns to Austin for SXSW, as do a bunch of other people.

"...Hamell on Trial, Shelby Lynne, Gomez, Kim Richey, Jayhawks, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and of course Ms. Patti. More acts..."

March 10, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Art

Art Openings

"...and commitment rings by jewelry artists Kate Pearce, George Sawyer, Ed Levin, Van Craeynest, and Steve Dixon. 9722 Great..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

Fall Film Previews

September

"...Susanna Styron; with Harvey Keitel, Andie MacDowell, John Franklin Sawyer, Scott Terra...."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Roll Camera

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Announces Winners

"...(A Healthy Baby Girl), George Huang (Swimming With Sharks), Jim McKay (Girlstown), and producers' representative and author John Pierson..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Roll Camera

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Announces Winners

"...(A Healthy Baby Girl), George Huang (Swimming With Sharks), Jim McKay (Girlstown), and producers' representative and author John Pierson..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Feature

Off The Desk:

"...DEM: John Odam, Victor Morales, Jim Chapman, John Bryant..."

Feb. 16, 1996 News Feature