Capital City Black Film Festival Mounts The Last Defense

Viola Davis-produced documentary series added to fest

"...dive into cases that expose flaws in the American legal system. CCBFF will show all three episodes concentrating on..."

Aug. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Celebrating the Kellers’ Exoneration

On a happy day, too many others endure criminal injustice

"...egregious example, it is all too common that the legal system stumbles in criminal cases, often most extremely in..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Column by Michael King

AISD: Education for All Residents

The school system supports its students, no matter their immigration status

"...a memo went out to administrators that detailed the legal limits of what teachers may or may not say..."

Feb. 24, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Q&A Hole: What’s the Most Important Thing in Life?

With JT Habersaat, David Wheeler, Jodi Egerton, Marc English & more.

"...Yeah, to hell with beating around the bush of..."

Sept. 27, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...of an upstanding yank facing down a corrupt foreign legal system. In fact, it's the polar opposite of that...."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Homestead Exemption Puts Sobriety Center at Risk

City Council will weigh the cost of sobriety

"...keep people from cycling through the criminal justice and legal system. As of 2015, six cities have established sobering..."

July 22, 2016 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia

DVDanger: Identity Crisis

The Double, Filth, and Moebius melt minds

"...is selling the vitamin D stripped from the employees' systems by the sickly yellow lighting. He's the kind of..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hall Gets Hooked by Lawmakers

Transparency committee moves forward to impeach UT regent

"...Seems all that mud that UT System Regent Wallace Hall has been slinging finally stuck –..."

May 12, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel: Thank You for Letting Us Take Your Money

How does one get paid by YouTube?

"...the necessary background to understand how to exploit a system that’s not working in your favor is so dense..."

March 12, 2014 Music Post by Michael Bertin

Julian Assange’s SXSW Music Picks?

Rather, three suggestions for the SXSW Interactive Skyper

"...his pants. I bet Assange knows loads about the legal system and federal crimes. Plus, Callinan seems a little..."

Jan. 16, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Something Lost

This group exhibition organized by Phil LaDeau lets UT artists redefine loss

"...The three-piece series points to the compressed confusion the legal system has created when handling these cases, and the..."

June 14, 2013 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Point Austin: Texas Brinkmanship

State report card shows plenty of room for improvement

April 19, 2013 News Column by Michael King

SXSW Film Reviews: 'TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard'

A third-person video diary about the 2009 trial against filesharing giant Pirate Bay

"...managers and their journey through the oddly relaxed Swedish legal system. Klose's deliberately flat narrative tone – interspersed with..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Short-Term Rentals: Can't We All Live Together?

Publisher Nick Barbaro on the CSTR debate

"...them or not, are clearly a commercial use. The legal system and common sense tell us that a residence..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Scene of the Crime

Revisiting the yogurt shop murders: A cold case reconsideration of the 1991 crime points away from the prosecution's assumptions and conclusions

"...desperately to believe that the police and that the legal system is right, that it would be a sign..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Shalom, Y'all

Previewing the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...her neighbors. As the lawsuit grinds through the Israeli legal system, Salma and Minister Navon become a metaphor for..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature

Judicial Races Are Important!

"...attorney give her the most well-rounded view of the legal system. She is known for her fair decisions on..."

Aug. 31, 2009 Postmarks

Dismantling Family Planning Pt. 2

House budget amendment would subvert access to reproductive services

"...health care advocates say would completely undo the state's system for providing reproductive health services to low-income women. "If..."

April 16, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Day Trips

The Forbidden Gardens Chinese Cultural Museum in Katy offers a miniaturized view of Chinese culture and history

"...China. His government developed a unified language, currency, and legal system that evolved into modern China. The soldiers, their..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

AG's Office Warned Against Filing 'Punitive' Appeals

Warning stems from pending whistle-blower lawsuit against Gary Grief and the Texas Lottery Commission, for which the AG's office is serving as the defendants' co-counsel

"...In May 2006, Shel­ton Charles, a former Texas Lottery systems analyst, sued Grief and the commission, claiming they retaliated..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

The Hightower Report

What Torture Is; and the Coalition Goes Home

"...Bush is mincing words about running his own secret legal system in defiance of our Constitution. Let me ask..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Hard Fight 04, Dirty Fight '06, Court Fight '07

Ranking Dallas County Republicans face libel charges over 2006 election allegations.

"...2006 elections by two ranking Republicans have hit the legal system. According to a complaint filed on Monday in..."

Oct. 17, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

City Council Notebook

Town Lake Animal Center threatens to swallow the evening, and Will Wynn hates morning congestion.

"...October 11 council meeting: Item 5: Picking up the legal bills for former Officer Julie Schroeder in the civil..."

Oct. 11, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Americans Imprisoned in Iraq

"...Iraq, is breathtaking in its nightmarishness. To call the legal system Kafkaesque is to diminish it almost entirely: "At..."

Dec. 18, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Vote Pot!

"...enforcement priorities, to a Nevada proposition that would make legal marijuana possession and use by adults. Below, Reefer Madness..."

Nov. 7, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

R. Kelly

Gift guide

"...Kelly's had a rough couple of years with the legal system, but now he really does believe he can..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Best of the Fest, Bill B

"...reaction to a friend's rape trauma, articulated an unfair legal system that leaves perpetrators unpunished. Patti Neff pulled cloths..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Tort Reform Dangerous

"...Instead of trying to impose their will on the legal system with no regard for the well-being of old..."

Aug. 18, 2003 Postmarks

Page Two

More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.

"...of beliefs, of civil rights, and of a secular legal system, they want a world administered by vehement, narrowly..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Breaking the Chain

Troubling questions persist in the Rodney Reed / Stacey Stites murder case.

"...denied access to possibly exculpatory evidence, may never be legally addressed. The portion of Reed's writ addressing the DNA..."

March 1, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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