The Ballad of Joe Hill

Get up, stand up – stand up for your rights

"...this night, "War has a special urgency. Weeks earlier, millions of people around the world had taken to the..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Dig Deeper

Now what kind of mother would take her kids to see a movie about juvenile delinquents serving time in a hard-labor prison camp? A smart one, if she's read Holes, Louis Sachar's wacky, wickedly funny children's book that makes the leap to the big screen this Friday.

"...Disney don't want you to know about their new kids' movie: namely, what it's about. What they do want..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

All-American

Jimmie Vaughan at 50

"...or three times a year. Do stuff with the kids. You can't get up early enough to do all..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Why Wall Street Is Betting on Austin's Multimedia That Magic Touch

"...much exactly, but he assures me it's in the millions-plural range, and that revenues will increase 300% this year...."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Kid Candidate D: Jasmine Stodel Producers: Jasmine Stodel, Chevis LaBelle,..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Austin Music's Cooperative Future

Could music collectives make Austin the next Music Row?

"...big ideas and people behind them willing to invest millions into our ragtag scene in hopes that it'll grow..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Hip-Hop on the Verge

Austin finally cemented a scene, but who will break out nationally?

"...soon guests of the festival, booked alongside UK whiz kid Dizzee Rascal...."

Jan. 16, 2015 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

A Walking Contradiction: Texas High Schools, Football, and Concussions

Thousands of students mash helmets every weekend – at what cost?

"...at Anderson, explained. “I think, for a lot of kids, that’s probably the downfall: staying in longer than you..."

Oct. 30, 2013 Sports Post by Joseph Baucum

The Watchmen

Three documentaries shine a light on playing to the audience

"...shotguns and there's barbed wire everywhere combined with the kid eating funnel cake who has stuff all over his..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Look, Ma, All Hands

Hammer & Tongs on why their Eighties-era childhood epic Son of Rambow is the anti-CGI

"...24 frames per second of something to do with kids, guns, French wannabe-ninjas, and Richard Crenna...."

May 16, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Report

The Invaders From Afar; and the Inspiring Power of Kids

"...that they rip right through fishing nets. There are millions of them, and they leap so powerfully from the..."

Jan. 12, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

After Napster Part 2

Does having your music free online bring more or less cash?

"...computer servers aren't free. Napster, for its part, had millions of dollars of venture capital poured into it. Investors..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Postmarks

HPBC is on the minds of many this week; Gotham lingers in the shadows.

"...interpretation of the scripture. I am not a new kid on the block, since I have lived in the..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column

Iron Writer

"...They would come by my 'cell' and yell, 'So, kid, you still like writing?' 'Do you hate writing yet?'"..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Recording the Day India and Pakistan Split in Partition

When one nation became two separate countries, it reshaped world history. Now Austin podcaster Neha Aziz is telling the personal stories behind that severing.

"...absolute terror." She suddenly learned about the tens of millions of people suddenly forced to pick a side, to..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Beto-Castro-Meter: We Need to Talk About Julián ...

Can Castro soldier on to Iowa, New Hampshire, and beyond?

"...for everything I've ever earned. I refuse to let millions in last-minute campaign cash drown us out. It would..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

State Rep. Bucy Hosts Town Hall on Schools, Border Crisis

Freshman legislator praises bipartisan support for “Texas values”

"...end up with "almost a thousand dollars for every kid" for extra resources...."

July 12, 2019 News Feature by Megan Menchaca

AISD: Thinking Outside the Schoolhouse

Task force schemes new ways to stabilize Austin ISD budget

"...those programs were scaled back, the district could save millions, but uproar from parents could lead to acceleration of..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Day Trips & Beyond: Luminous Lagoon, Jamaica

The glow of the water is a natural phenomenon rare in such abundance

"...on the protected lagoon, the only light is the millions of tiny pin pricks of a greenish glow. On..."

Jan. 25, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Keeping Busy

Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment

"...El Paso. I lived for a while as a kid in Houston, and then the last 10 years lived..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Letters at 3AM: A Jog in the Smog

What we know is increasingly disconnected from what we do

"...Island? Among other things, it would mean tens of millions of dislocated climate change refugees...."

Aug. 10, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Rick Baker: Monster Maker

An American Werewolf in London

"...myself "Rick Baker: Monster Maker" since I was a kid, and those are the kinds of things I really..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Getting Small

Austin's Red Fly Studio puts things into perspective

"...was the biggest risk around: two artists asking for millions and millions of dollars to make a game," says..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...stage right the whole time and was like a kid in a candy store. His passion was infectious. Malford..."

June 2, 2006 Column

Little Athletes, Big Dreams

Austin's youth sports boom is young athletes, big competition – and big money

"..."Our philosophy is to build kids who know how to achieve something," explains Wolfgang Suhnholz,..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Owens making the excuse that he was just a kid, and kids do stupid things, and she can only..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and more, to say nothing of the hundreds of millions of tax dollars used to bail out failed developments..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

Letters at 3AM

The collapse of the American political process in Election Year 2000 is both an event in itself and a world-class metaphor: The American Century is over.

"...become, in O'Connor's words, "routine" in America. This ain't kid stuff. This is your right to due process. (Knowing..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

State Musician of Texas

Tracing Doug Sahm's roots from San Antonio to potential State Musician of Texas

"...shirt and white jacket, and a shit-eating grin. The kid in that picture had been performing for 10 years..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Age Onstage

Getting Specific About Age in subUrbia and Hot Flash!

"...generational friction -- that is, it's about parents and kids, and it doesn't really matter if the old folks..."

April 4, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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