Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Nic Cage delivers one of his best and most outrageous performances in Werner Herzog's cops-and-iguanas drama.

"...had more fun watching Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (twice) than I did at any other movie..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DOJ Closes Police Inquiry

APD needs to close 'gaps in use-of-force reports'

"...its inquiry into the use-of-force practices of the Austin Police Department, which it began in 2007, concluding that it..."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Police Oversight: Starting From Scratch

Farah Muscadin’s work in progress

"...At a City Council work session in late May, Police Monitor Farah Muscadin sat down to talk about her..."

Sept. 14, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...levels of confidence and cleverness. "Run It" finds the New Orleans transplant reading poet Nikki Giovanni after casually warning..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...life. He sets the phone down to play a new tune he's just written, "Buddy You're Living My Dream,"..."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Name, Same Game

S-Comm's end hasn't lessened the fear of deportation for Travis County's immigrants

"...million undocumented immigrants a temporary stay in the U.S., renewable every three years...."

July 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Five Things to Do Indoors This New Year's Weekend

From unmissable books to housebound horticulture, fill up your indoor Hogmanay

"...former gallivanting glory in Austin (where they started) and New Orleans and Portland and all? But in running the..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...his once biting, lisped voice for a smoother, South Texas-meets-New Orleans drawl. It's still no quivering Slim croak, but..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...I certainly did intend to!" shouts Felix on potent new single "Bigots Beware." Over Sloane's slamming power chords, he..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Playback: The New Face of Austin Music Festivals

Taking stock of Austin’s festival landscape a week after the conclusion of ACL Fest

"...while also hosting Voodoo Music + Arts Experience in New Orleans on Halloween weekend. Competing with themselves is nothing..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Reefer Roundup: 2/24/12

Your drug war news

"...After a rather extended hiatus, Reefer Madness' drug war news roundup is back – and this week we've got..."

Feb. 24, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Big Seedy

Werner Herzog talks about his eccentric tour de farce, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

"...His new film, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, is..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...a helicopter plucked them from the balcony of their New Orleans apartment, Lester Sampson and Irma Louis found themselves..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Black and Blue

Corrupt cop drama feels awkwardly dated

"...make an insightful thriller about the challenges of inner-city police work, the odds were never exactly in Black and..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Albino Alligator

"...of lowbrow robbers who find themselves trapped in a New Orleans basement bar one night after their heist goes..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hot Pursuit

Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara are on the run

"...making deer noises (?) to elude capture at a police checkpoint? The list goes on. And on. And on...."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mardi Gras 2015: Mardi Gai

A traipse around the South on the trail of LGBTQrewes

"...Gay Mardi Gras is a conundrum wrapped in an..."

Jan. 21, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

BPness, Part 2: A (Long) Line (of Boom) in the Sand

Notes from Kate's trip thru Lafourche Parish to Grand Isle, LA., Part 2.

"...An opportunity arose to go to New Orleans. But I couldn't shake a nagging feeling: It..."

June 25, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Katrina Through the Eyes of an EMT

Philipp Meyer, a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at UT and an EMT, drove to New Orleans and spent 24 hours working with a local police department as an EMT.

"...at UT and an EMT, drove all night to New Orleans, arriving there Monday morning during hurricane Katrina. He..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Philipp Meyer

Sixth Street Blues

Downtown stakeholders raise questions about policing ... the police

"...2004 was not a flattering month for the Austin Police Department, nor for Austin's image as a mecca for..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two

Overreaction to the Ozomatli incident ignores years of outstanding police performance during SXSW

"...into the street, as they often do. Outside, the police ordered them back into the club, as they were..."

April 16, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...a long and badass shadow in their hometown of New Orleans, where their red-hot blend of soul, funk, and..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Jay Hardwig

Fort Knox on Poydras

Freeport Shareholders Are Secured

"...Gold (FMCG) shareholder meeting at the company's headquarters in New Orleans. Looking tan and thin, Moffett gave a 20-minute..."

May 9, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...permission to enforce Senate Bill 4, the highly controversial new law that allows state and local police to arrest..."

March 22, 2024 News Feature

Guns, Disaster, and the Lege

New law says that during disaster, state cannot seize legally owned guns from private citizens

"...firearms confiscated by law enforcement." After the hurricane hit, New Orleans Police Superintendent P. Eddie Compass ordered all privately..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Written in Stone

UT's Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan ride a new wave of allegations of business as usual: exploitation, cronyism, and environmental devastation

"...R. ("Jim Bob") Moffett and he's the chairman of New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc...."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce

More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...crime writer Corey Mitchell cracking the whip at the new Housecore Horror Film Festival, it's no shocker that the..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Detroit's Rising 'Sun'

AMC brings a corrupt-cop tale to the Motor City

"...in as Austin for Whip It. But in AMC's new corrupt-cop drama Low Winter Sun, the struggling city is..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Accountable Now Launches a National Effort to Track Uses of Force

A national effort to track uses of force, starting with Austin

"...the last nine years trying to gather information from police departments about their uses of force, as an attorney..."

Feb. 26, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Heaven & Hell in 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History

We return to the Red River strip of March 1966 to witness Roky Erickson and crew

"...a show by the 13th Floor Elevators from the New Orleans Club in Austin...."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Jon Savage

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