85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...care about Senate schemes for school vouchers when their local ISDs are screaming for more funding? Do they really..."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Council Watch

City and developer Gary Bradley reach agreeement on development

"...when they first filed site plans -- since Bradley controls perhaps as much as 75-80% of the land affected..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

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Austin's own Owen Egerton directs his first movie

"...film festivals are often a prime launching pad for local talents. 2015’s Fantastic Fest was no different, with author..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Red Team Comeback?

Races south, west of town too close for Democrats' comfort

"...2021, "Texas Democrats' only hope ... is to take control of the Texas House," says Mark Jones of Rice..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Faster Than Sound: 12 Years of Peligrosa Drives ¡Eso Es!

Local DJ collective sets a mood at Margin Walker’s new fiesta-val of all Latinx talent

"...Local DJ Orión García grew up around the world. Born..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Last Word

A young writer has to pen a woman's obituary before she dies

"...the once-successful businesswoman now rattles around her empty house. Control-freak Harriet has gotten it into her head that her..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Leviathan

This Oscar nominee for best Foreign Language film exudes existential Russian angst in cinematic form.

"...this excoriating portrait of the state’s omnivorous hunger for control in a far-flung northern fishing community on the Barents..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Lowdown

Your Pentagon PAL tracks your every move, and the FCC lets media companies redefine "local."

"...THE CENTRALIZATION OF LOCAL NEWS..."

July 18, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...are in direct conflict with the interest of many locally owned businesses at Sixth & Lamar. Furthermore, to mask..."

July 26, 2002 Column

Natural Selection

This locally shot black comedy examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media, and, not least, our own bad selves.

"...a part of the problem as the solution. This locally shot black comedy, like Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers,..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

AISD Accepts Monitor in New Deal With Texas Education Agency

Lesser of two evils?

"...parents and teachers as an infringement on our community's local control of its schools and as a first step..."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin’s Steady Strides Toward Climate Sustainability

How are we doing and how effective can local policies be at mitigating a worldwide crisis?

"...the most specific demands of the organizers were directed locally, at what Austin can do – more aggressively than..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Austin Songwriter Symposium

Keynote Eliza Gilkyson leads the ‘Beauty Way’

"...on songwriters and publishers through workshops, mentoring, and performances. Local mainstays Eliza Gilkyson and Ian McLagan are featured speakers...."

Jan. 23, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Page Two

"...concepts of conservative political philosophy are personal freedom and local control. Anti-affirmative action, school vouchers, and cutting taxes are..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Column by Louis Black

The Propagandists in Our Backyard

KEYE CBS partakes in Orwellian pro-Trump script

"...video or a scene out of dystopian film, 66 local broadcast anchors across the country over the past few..."

April 6, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

Looking at the Lege After a Flaccid Special Session

Alpha males Abbott and Patrick can't get their red meat passed

"...19 more items to the call – attacks on local government, unions, teachers, abortion rights, and medical professionals; not..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Save Texas Schools Declares Independence

Have Texas lawmakers made 'adequate yearly progress'?

"...the flow of accountability, as the Legislature has replaced "local control with Austin control and local blame," while state..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Seducing Doctor Lewis

A tiny French Canadian fishing village tries to woo a doctor to take up permanent residence.

"...of a community pulling together to snare a full-time local doctor is pretty much the same – especially in..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teachers Eye Union Label

Four Texas Teacher Associations Fight for Members

"...among the state's 240,000 public school teachers. Two are local chapters of national organizations: The Texas State Teachers Association..."

Feb. 28, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

"...for her teenage son and her misguided attempts to control him is a punchy, gorgeous masterpiece, filled to bursting..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Roadracers

"...Invasion of the Body Snatchers is playing at the local theatre. This is a brilliant popular culture jam, a..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

Faster Than Sound: DJ Shani Unites Black Women in House Music

Also the search continues for missing musician Brenden "Chameleon King" Foster, and increased afterhours sound enforcement impacts local venues

"...Beginning in the late Nineties, local DJ Shani Hebert broadcast deep house cuts as Chicago..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Sen. Kirk Watson on the 86th Texas Legislature

“In Texas, we don’t focus on what our needs are; we focus on what we want to pay”

"...I’m going to have some legislation to enable a local option to allow money to go to transit, because..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Stealing Local Democratic Authority; and Grounding Our High-Flying Congress

"...STEALING LOCAL DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITY Have you been pre-empted yet?..."

April 14, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

Darwin's Nightmare

This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.

"...beyond ghastly, moving via Sauper’s exhausting interviews with the local populace, workers, factory management, prostitutes, the Western industrialists, and,..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Working It Out

"...with the state's -- and the governor's -- pro-privatization, local-control-oriented, "right to work" philosophy. Four years later, according to..."

Sept. 10, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Will the Texas Legislature Take On Police Reform?

George Floyd Act, APD takeover, TCOLE all on Lege's agenda

"...to fall and winter, the GOP held on to control of the Lege, and the COVID-19 pandemic worsened, attention..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

As Bars Go Wild, Austin Prepares for Inevitable Second Wave

Miss the coronavirus? It'll be back!

"...remain in place, and that the city's own still-in-effect control orders are supposed to require...."

May 29, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rep. John Bucy III on the 86th Texas Legislature

“We’ve got to do everything we can to keep attention on Medicaid expansion”

"...to cut property taxes and cap them at the local level. Based on the people you’re talking to, how..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

The Texas Hammer

Gov. Greg Abbott and cronies feasted on cities in 2017

"...ordinances throughout the first half of the year, targeting local ordinances regarding ridesharing; affordable housing; heritage tree safeguards; bag..."

Dec. 29, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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