Silo

Farming accident drama is more than just a long PSA

"...how the only jobs are farms, stores, cops, and nursing homes. It's also become a tool for educating farmers..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...rescue their grandmother from a COVID outbreak at her nursing home. Cast List: Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Anne Sward..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Eighth Street Survivors

They came out to protest police brutality. They were met by a life-altering wave of police violence. Eight months later, they still await justice and change.

"...winning cases involving wrongful imprisonment, deaths in jails and nursing homes, sexual abuse of minors in state care facilities,..."

Feb. 5, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Some Kind of Heaven

America's retirement heaven shows some splinter in the clouds

"...12 years and works in the facility’s rehab and nursing department. She longs to return to her hometown of..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

aGLIFF Review: Twilight's Kiss

A Hong Kong tales of lives lived long in the closet

"...to testify in order to gain funding for gay nursing home project. Dior (Wai-Keung Chu), Hoi’s friend and the..."

Aug. 17, 2020 Screens Post by James Scott

ACC Is Almost Entirely Online and Students Are Enrolling in Droves

Start here. Stay home?

"...At Austin Community College, nursing students began their summer classes playing educational video games...."

July 3, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Following Protests, Expect a Jump in COVID-19 Cases

City releases new metric for judging stages of risk, and promises better outreach to communities of color

"...on June 2 identifying "two key vulnerable groups" – nursing homes and communities of color – and positing that..."

June 5, 2020 News Feature by Kimberley Jones and Beth Sullivan

Austin Identifies Area's First COVID-19 Cases

Two presumed to be infected pending CDC confirmation

"...issued on Wednesday that require restrictions on visitors to nursing homes – and expected to release more in the..."

March 13, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders and Margaret Nicklas

Saint Frances

SXSW 2019 light-touch comedy faces growing up at 34

"...their eldest child, Frances (Edith-Williams), while Maya is still nursing their new baby and Annie goes back to work..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Latest on the Local Actions and Reactions to COVID-19

Health officials feel wary but ready

"...Washington, where a number of residents of a skilled nursing facility in the town of Kirkland have died. [inset-1-right]..."

March 13, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

SAFE Alli­ance Sees Fewer Assault Survivors Seek Services

Decrease follows nationwide trend

"...sexual assault clinic Eloise House and launched its forensic nursing program in 2015. For comparison, 2016 to 2017 saw..."

Jan. 17, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Edie

Sheila Hancock braves the elements in a tale of defeating old age

"...who refuses to give in to a life of nursing homes and Gin Rummy, instead packing her knapsack and..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review

Good Manners

A Brazilian werewolf tale that takes a while to bite

"...clubs but incapable of following up on her flirtations, nursing the one beer she can afford. Ana is rich,..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

A madcap animated ramble through Kyoto's drinking district

"...Meanwhile her fellow student, the clueless Senpai (Hoshino), is nursing a huge crush on her, and is convinced that..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Souvenir

Isabelle Huppert as a musician reconsidering celebrity.

"...we find Isabelle Huppert’s Liliane, parked on the couch nursing an Alka-Seltzer, watching a game show on TV, when..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music

Local garage band recounts their origin story

"...a psych band," says Leather Girls guitarist/vocalist Mike Garrido, nursing a Topo Chico on a noisy Friday night patio..."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Kermit the Therapy Dog Wants to Talk About Your Funeral

This grief counselor wears a collar

"...to go into places unavoidable for a mortician, like nursing homes and hospitals...."

Feb. 16, 2018 Features Feature by Katarina Brown

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Annette Bening soars in the last days of starlet Gloria Grahame

"...straight to Peter’s mom, played by Julie Walters, lovingly nursing Gloria in her final days). The lion’s share of..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: A Very Uninteresting Robot

What doesn't take two thumbs, both eyes, and the lives of innocents?

"...even has phone conversations anymore, outside of people in nursing homes? These days, everyone texts. The most frequent text..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Whose Streets?

A you-are-there portrait of the tragedy in Ferguson

"...most compelling of those voices belongs to a twentysomething nursing student and mother of a grade-schooler, Brittany, a passionate..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mark Killian's "Future Planning"

Second Place winner

"...for in order to cover the cost of his nursing home...."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Mark Killian

Allan Rising

The Allan Early Childhood Center is home to a flourishing collection of nonprofits

"...say, 'Ah, there's a Skillpoint Alliance class, there's a nursing class, I'd like to take that,' and eventually it..."

Feb. 5, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

7 Chinese Brothers

Jason Schwartzman stars in this comedy from droll Austin auteur Bob Byington

"...He sometimes visits his wealthy grandmother (Dukakis) in a nursing home, where he also purchases discarded pills from his..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Eye: Professionalism vs. Fashionalism

A Father's Day meditation on double standards

"...form of a sign at the UT School of Nursing forbidding female students from wearing short-shorts, crop tops, low-cut..."

June 13, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Riddick

In this third outing, the science-fiction antihero played by Vin Diesel is stranded on an inhospitable planet.

"...devour our antihero, but the resourceful Riddick ends up wet-nursing a death puppy and injecting himself with the tentacled..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

LoneStarCon 3: The Lois McMaster Bujold Interview

The Hugo Award nominee and past winner on biology as politics

"...nurse's aide who gave pills and shots on a nursing unit. I worked on all different kinds of nursing..."

Sept. 1, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

News Ticker: June 10

All the news that's fit to blog

"...you ever wondered what ever happened in the Elgin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center's over-easy eggs battle, feast now...."

June 10, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Starbuck

A sperm donor learns 20 years after the fact that he is the father of 533 children in this mild, French-Canadian comedy.

"...another off heroin; he befriends another living in a nursing facility. The film plays it both ways: He doesn’t..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Up Too Early

Google Streetview fashion critique from West 38th Street

"...lifted it in a caffeine haze from some poor, nursing mother at the Starbucks. If it’s the latter, at..."

July 31, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

The Salt of Life

This Italian import by the director of Mid-August Lunch addresses the concerns of aging men who realize they are no longer attractive to young women.

"...sit on the corner all day leisurely gabbing and nursing their coffees. At the movie’s climax, he imbibes a..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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