Page Two: New Jersey Reverie

Autumn rain, returning memories

"...what you do with whatever comes your way. 1) New Jersey..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Austin Film Festival Review: Brave New Jersey

Orson Welles' alien-invasion broadcast turns a town upside down

"...place over the course of one long night, Brave New Jersey trots out the usual panoply of small-town figures...."

Oct. 17, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Jersey Might Nix Death Penalty

“I think it is part of this bigger picture where the death penalty is on the defensive.”

"...It appears New Jersey is poised to abolish the death penalty. The..."

Nov. 21, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

New Jersey Checks in on Austin Smoking Ban

"...could get me a better deal and had a new insurance company check me out. I had quit smoking..."

April 15, 2005 Postmarks

Jersey Girl

Ben Affleck plays a widower dad in this family dramedy from an uncustomarily sweet Kevin Smith.

"...Tyler, George Carlin, Raquel Castro and Jennifer Lopez. Before Jersey Girl screened at the Paramount Theatre during SXSW, Kevin..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jersey Lawmakers Become Drug-Law Reformers?

Garden State to change drug war landscape

"...a week left before the Democratic governor leaves office, New Jersey lawmakers have approved two major drug policy reform..."

Jan. 12, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

Jersey Boys

Even though Clint Eastwood guides this Broadway hit to film, there’s not much new in this rise-and-fall, music-biz story.

"...a film. Four wayward guys who came together in New Jersey and named themselves the Four Seasons, rise to..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Linda Watson Hired as New Cap Met CEO

Opinions on the incoming transit chief

"...transportation industry consultant who had public sector experience in New Jersey and Buffalo...."

June 17, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Finding The Common Thread: Austin's New Fabric Heaven

Austin's newest fabric emporium is more fun than going for ice cream.

"...Brown really loves fabric. When she needed a print jersey for a project and couldn't find it, it struck..."

Sept. 29, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

The Best of the New York Underground

"...Break opens the film, giving us a pair of Jersey schnooks intent on killing the guy who slept with..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Common Law: Strange Brew – Interesting New Texas Laws

New Texas laws affect eating, drinking, weapons, and tanning

"...Hundreds of new Texas laws took effect on Sept. 1. Some of..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Column by Luke Ellis

FTA 'New Start' Funds MetroRapid Buses

Federal grant covers 80% of $47.6 million bus rapid transit program

"...signing a deal to bring $38 million in FTA New Starts funds for Cap Metro's MetroRapid bus rapid transit..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The New Tony Sanchez

Perry's presidential aspirations dying with a whimper, not a bang

"...crowd gathered at Dartmouth College for the Washington Post/Bloomberg News event were, if the Perry rhetoric was right, going..."

Oct. 12, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Ruminations on a Sleepless Night or How the ‘New' Longhorns Look so Very Familiar

Joe O'Connell on the newest version of the UT football squad

"...Which brings us to the new and somewhat improved Texas Longhorns. I ponied up 10..."

Aug. 31, 2008 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Austin Says, 'No, Thanks,' to Investing in New Nukes

City's decision based on an 'apolitical' financial risk analysis, Wynn says

"...New Jersey-based NRG Energy to the city of Austin: Yo,..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

New Medicare Plan Infringes on Sovereignty, States Say

Attorney General Abbott leads states' legal charge

"...New Medicare Plan Infringes on Sovereignty, States Say Led by..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Covering New Ground

Robin Rather talks about Austin's future, and her own, after stepping down as chair of the Save Our Springs Alliance.

"...Robin Rather has been in the news a lot lately. The former chair of the Save..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Stars Reveal New Jerseys

Proving hockey players aren't the best models

"...they look to next season by revealing the squad's new uniforms...."

May 23, 2013 Sports Post by James Renovitch

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...to debut Swim Team, the longing "Miles," and Vonne's new piano meditation "Elders?" on Bandcamp. A newly solo Sells..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D Talk Trap, Basketball, Bogus Conspiracies, SXSW, and Their New Book

"We realized that all we do have, before this started and after it ends, is the three of us.”

"...they're thinking about the past. The seminal rap trio's new scrapbook/autobiography, October's Beastie Boys Book, released six years after..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Season Begins Marking The Territory

"...Every season, the series presents a well-chosen collection of new film and video works that might be rarely seen..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Arts Feature

Tapping Into the New Old Settler’s Music Festival

Checking in with Donna the Buffalo, Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, the women of I'm With Her, and more

"...notches 30, and the band's own celebrated gathering, upstate New York's Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival, clocks 28. Jeb Puryear,..."

April 20, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin

A look at the unsung filmmaker, whose collaborators included Jerry Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, and Porky Pig

"...cultural ghetto, misunderstood even by experts, and uses the Jersey-born filmmaker's career as a lens for examining a number..."

May 25, 2012 Screens Review by Leah Churner

Garden State

A mash note to love that speaks to Generation Y as powerfully as The Graduate did to the Boomers.

"...among twentysomething misfits in the brackish wilds of modern New Jersey. And like Ben Gibbard’s achingly gorgeous music, Braff’s..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chuck

The rise and fall of the real-life Rocky

"...rounds with “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali, in 1975. A New Jersey liquor salesman and journeyman boxer with a reputation..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Clerks II

Kevin Smith is on solid footing with this sequel, which finds the filmmaker and his raunchy protagonists at the precipice of maturity but moving ahead with cautious baby steps.

"...of films, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Jersey Girl. Twelve years have passed since we left counter..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Not Fade Away

Five years after the end of The Sopranos, creator David Chase directs his first movie, which takes him back to New Jersey in the Sixties.

"...episodic TV, you still can’t take him out of New Jersey. In his debut feature film as a writer..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don Jon

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a guy who prefers porn to his girlfriend Scarlet Johansson in this film which also he wrote and directed.

"...Jon (Gordon-Levitt) is an Italian-Catholic gym rat from New Jersey who prefers online pornography to sex with women...."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Patti Cake$

A hip-hop star is born in New Jersey

"...the body of a plus-sized white girl in northern New Jersey who dreams of success as a rap superstar...."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Kid Eternity

A tale of teenage luck in New Jersey

"...much better than I did. The only thing I knew was that I would never have such a perfect..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Louis Black

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