My Policeman

Harry Styles' celebrity overshadows this bloodless period drama

"...In late 1950s Brighton, a policeman is courting a schoolteacher. Marion (Corrin) is pretty but..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In My Country

Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche star in this John Boorman political drama about the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

"...personal struggle and acceptance. The trouble is that In My Country doesn’t translate smoothly from Antjie Krog’s novel (titled..."

April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

My Life as a Zucchini

A poignant stop-motion coming-of-age tale

"...My Life as a Zucchini arrives in town with a..."

March 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Policeman: Countdown City

In which, among other things, an author hits Earth with a huge asteroid.

"...arrives at the end of your apocalyptic The Last Policeman trilogy, you, sir, are fucking killing me...."

Aug. 7, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

My Slammer Vacation

How I Spent...

"...Henry, Genevieve Van Cleve, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, Wammo, and myself) the actual competition could have left us with a..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Memories of My Father Watching TV: A Novel

"...literary daring in his most recent volume, Memories of My Father Watching TV. White, who teaches and co-directs a..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Books Review

Forget What the Article Actually Said, Here Are My Issues .....

"...peppers it with a "lots of kids" insinuation; enter policeman James Hellums suggestion to write tickets as a deterrent...."

May 10, 2004 Postmarks

Austin At Large: For the Price of a Policeman

The cost of public safety, in different community currencies

"...and the most activist Council on this front in my memory, an atmosphere of calm is not the worst..."

Aug. 23, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Wonder Stories

My fascination with Dick and chubbies

"...first Philip K. Dick novel I read was Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, dismissed in many circles as..."

July 25, 2008 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Faster Than Sound: Unpacking Harry Styles' Austin Run With the Professor Teaching a Class on Him

Texas State's Dr. Louie Dean Valencia offers a crash course in the Harry-verse

"...about to come out – Don't Worry Darling and My Policeman. [In Dec. 2020], he was the first guy..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Firehouse Rock

Benefits That Really Make Money

"...most enduring numbers in the huckster's repertoire is "The Policeman's Ball" -- also fondly remembered by its alternate title,..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Music Feature

Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

An Anti-abortion Exhibit Produces Protests and a Free Speech Controversy at UT

"...of an electronic megaphone. Seizing the device, a university policeman roughed up some students and slightly injured Mia Carter,..."

March 23, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Better All the Time

Cabaret and musical legend Barbara Cook is still learning

"...accept it from me? How about the song "Loverman"? My god, we're talking about Ella Fitzgerald. We're talking about..."

Sept. 19, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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"...and civic pride in East Austin. I stand by my comments to Ms. Apple that the city would get..."

July 4, 2003 Column

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"...violence-ridden flick to get off and feel better about myself and somehow closer to my God – who has..."

April 9, 2004 Column

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"...governor not of New Hampshire (as I wrote in my last column) but of Vermont. One reader suggested I..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Column

Crossing Literary Borders

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

"...loosely linked collection of 13 short novels set in mythical Belken County, a county situated on the Texas-Mexican border...."

Aug. 29, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Princess Mans Up For a Female Sci-Fi Future

Alexis Gideon + Michael O'Neill's 'Out There' is in here on Thursday

"...at least twice a day for the rest of my life, probably, even if I lived to be older..."

April 16, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Case Against Kissinger

War criminal or elder statesman? Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki makes a case in The Trials of Henry Kissinger.

"...As with many children of the Seventies, my initial knowledge of Dr. Henry Kissinger -- then-President Nixon's..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity

Surprise: This is an actually, seriously funny thing.

"...I know, because it's part of my job to receive publications like this – hey, get..."

April 14, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: We Won!

Celebrating 'the fierce urgency of now'

"...presidential race. After obsessively reviewing the daily polls, consulting my few national sources, and longing to be in Grant..."

Nov. 7, 2008 News Column by Michael King

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...the way up. Asked to see if she got my note from yesterday asking her to return the house..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Riding in Cars With Boys

"...Anders (Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca, Grace of My Heart) might wish she had made. As is, Penny..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Moontower 2014, Day 4: Fred Armisen

Less comedy show than meet-and-greet, but oh, Armisen charmed

"...in the vein of the Sex Pistols, like “Hey Policeman” and “Livin’ in the Gutter, demanded to be reckoned..."

April 28, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Postscripts

How the Gutenberg Bible and the world's first photograph was moved from the Harry Ransom Center to the LBJ Library.

"...two artifacts leave the HRC, an armored car or policeman has to be with them at all times. The..."

April 13, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Food-o-File

Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood describes the amusing history behind discovering the new Roy Henry's Famous Waffles & Chicken and updates readers on changes in Austin's restaurant scene.

"...the police car had pulled in beside him. The policeman rolled down his window and asked, "Do you work..."

March 3, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

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"...Travis County, over their handling of the case of my son, Aiden Joe Perez. Their incompetence has caused a..."

July 7, 2006 Column

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"...in history classes, we do not teach astrology in astronomy classes, and we do not let the Flat Earth..."

July 25, 2003 Column

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"...Education and the New Economy..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

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"...only members of NUNA would have been offended by my letter. Let me also mention that I'm confused by..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column

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