No Other Land

A Palestinian-Israeli team produced this Oscar-nominated documentary about displacement in the West Bank

"...Abraham would become friends and collaborators. They could be brothers: skinny, casually dressed, shaggy hair a little long between..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

¿No Habla Land Use?

One thing about CodeNEXT: It’s definitely in English

"...the Statesman, Mayor Steve Adler wrote of the current land use code: "It's a mess, but we can fix..."

June 9, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

No Man's Land

This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.

"...Directed by: Danis Tanovic. Starring: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Simon Callow..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Land Is Your Land

This muckraking populist grab bag of a film isn't so much a documentary as it is a harried piece of grassroots agitprop.

"...is a harried piece of agitprop, but low or not that's the case. Not that there's anything wrong with..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

New Road Trip Drama Travels into No Man's Land

The filmmaking Allyn brothers see Mexico through a new lens

"...No Man's Land, the new cross-border road trip by North..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Land Lock

from east to west, land use a hot topic

"...week to the Eastside, where there are two percolating land-use issues figuring into the neighborhood's vision of itself. More..."

March 24, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

YA Novelist Elizabeth Acevedo Has No Room for Hopelessness

How the author of Clap When You Land and keynote speaker at the 2020 Texas Teen Book Festival writes toward the positive

"...About halfway through Clap When You Land, protagonist Camino Rios reflects, "I remember that to walk..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Land Ho!

This buddy comedy travels all the way to Reykjavik – but does it actually go anywhere?

"...featured funnymen pals, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. It’s enough to be backseat voyeurs to their travels as they..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

This Land Is Our Land

News From the Fronts of State-City Land War

"...citizens, 98% of whom came to bury Triangle Square, not to praise it. And Austin is still a democracy...."

April 24, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

New Podcast Uncovers the Truth Behind 95 Bodies Found in Sugar Land

A mystery reveals a dark side of Texas’ history

"...construction crews working on a new school in Sugar Land, Texas, discovered 95 bodies in unmarked graves...."

June 24, 2023 News Post by Amelia Nonemacher

Oh No, It's Mr. Bill!

Do Bill Bunch's Tactics Hurt the Springs He Loves?

"...There can be no rest for a man whose whole being is the..."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Public Notice: Setting an Agenda for Land Use

"...to make progress on its renewed push to improve land use regulations, focusing on two proposals that'll be on..."

June 3, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council Attitudes on Land-Use Change as Limits on Building Near Houses Are Eased

Council cuts compatibility with little opposition

"...In the latest sign that the politics around land-use has dramatically shifted in Austin, City Council directed staff..."

June 9, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Council Recap: Land Code Revision Advances to Final Round

Late-night second-reading vote features familiar 7-4 split

"...Austin City Council advanced its effort to rewrite the Land Development Code to the third-and-final stage late on Thursday,..."

Feb. 14, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

What Austin Can Learn From Other Cities

Seattle, Minneapolis, and Nashville leaders share at RECA Exchange

"...“Nothing is more contentious than land use,” Marilyn Strickland, President/CEO..."

Sept. 18, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

No Room at the Complex

Renters scramble for housing as dirt churns on new condos

"...least. Gone from Hyde Park, gone from South Congress (no news there – seriously, why'd you even bother adding..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

A Place To Land

With 'A Place To Land,' dancer Leticia Rodriguez realizes a longtime dream of producing an event that encompasses the idea and meaning of home inside an actual residence

"...Home. Few other words in the English language can speak to each..."

June 9, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Puerto Rican Literature The Land of the Brave Lord

"...evidence of this admittedly anemic anthology, Puerto Rico does not yet appear to have a literature...."

Feb. 2, 1996 Books Feature

Five O'Clock Land

Closing Encore Records is no walk in the park for Chuck Lokey

"..."I like this place already," says John. "Yea. I know what you mean," says Chuck...."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Why Is Austin Such a Promised Land for Food Entrepreneurs?

The land of milk and honey and consumer packaged goods

"...It's not the picturesque Hill Country views, or Austinites' penchant for..."

March 8, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Devenyns

No Depression in Heaven

No more No Depression

"...This past Tuesday, No Depression editors Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock announced that..."

Feb. 21, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Beer Land: A Fairy Tale

'Something's Brewin' in Shiner' is all color, no condescension

"...interview so that he may provide visual aids. It's no surprise, then, that Woolf's documentaries are so, well, nice...."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by John Gray

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...Fourteen months after the Land-Development-Code-rewrite-that-shall-not-be-named went down in flames, amid squabbles over parking requirements..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Land Mine

public access debate surrounds preservation issue

"...and around Austin are being held out of the land rush for a variety of purposes: water quality protection,..."

March 3, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Land for Water

The city is asking voters to send more money to a little-known program that protects Barton Springs

"...be following him into this small cave. Thuesen, a land manager for Austin Water Utility who loves to tell..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

No Man's Land

Substandard Conditions Are a Way of Life for Northridge Acres

"...Turning off FM 1325 onto tattered Northridge Acres Drive is like rolling into the Twilight Zone...."

June 9, 2000 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

City Hall Ready for Liftoff on New Land Use Rules

It's as easy as flood protection, affordability, parking, transition zones ...

"...of the three votes required to approve a new Land Development Code, the same conflicts that have animated land..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Other Sister

Multiple Personalities

"...360 (Capital of Texas Highway), RR 620 (which has no snazzy name), and RM 2222, which is actually called..."

July 2, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

No Parking at Pease

Griffith: Don't Even Think of Parking Here

"...construct a driveway through a patch of unused park land. City Hall is considered a crucible for madness, and..."

Jan. 17, 1997 News Column by Alex de Marban

What Land Use Code Do We Need to Build the City We Want?

Planning a way forward after CodeNEXT

"...In hindsight, last year's shuddering halt to the CodeNEXT land use code rewrite looks less like an act of..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

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