Full Circle

The gospel according to Ruthie Foster

"...Texas. Her mother, stricken with Lupus, had entered a nursing home, and her marriage was dissolving irrevocably, if amicably...."

Jan. 27, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Health Care: Flirting With Armageddon

Choosing between a 'firing squad' and 'death by starvation'

"...the state and covers almost two-thirds of people in nursing homes. Along with the Children's Health Insurance Program, Medicaid..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Blackouts Could Last Up to 45 Minutes

Updated information on rolling blackouts expected today

"...local utilities. Critical need customers such as hospitals and nursing homes are generally not included...."

Feb. 2, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Reefer Roundup 12/14/2010

News from the front line of the War on Drugs

"...The issue? The DEA's interfering with the ability of nursing home attendants to dispense certain controlled pain meeds –..."

Dec. 14, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

Pride Piper

Artist and Pride piper Silky Shoemaker brings DIY joy to the Pride table

"...offstage and change costumes. I would call around to nursing homes and book myself. At the time I thought..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar yearns for ... patchouli?!

"...storm. By Wednesday morning, the storm had arrived. After nursing a dreadful pain in my back, I went to..."

March 19, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Behind 'Broussard's Lament'

"...the death of a colleague's mother, drowned in a nursing home that was not evacuated (www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9dJjAEVZ4g)...."

Jan. 15, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

"...Nance over at Trudy's North Star the other day, nursing a Tecate (the other two are bravely laying waste..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...black John F. Kennedy, and a mummy in a nursing home? Too quirky, Lansdale opined. Perhaps the finest piece..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Esther Pearl Watson

The artist's new UFO-centric paintings are rooted in the saucers her dad used to build

"...her hip and had to be moved into a nursing home. It was there that the 35-year-old artist finished..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Feature by Audra Schroeder

Talking Travis: Donna Howard

District 48 rep on the pros and cons of getting studies passed

"...HB 2719, sealing a sovereign immunity loophole in the Nursing Practice Act. Howard explained, "Right now, nurses who are..."

May 11, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Mister Lonely

Oddly, Harmony Korine's film may be his most accessible as a director, featuring characters and images that are unforgettable – even if they don't add up to a complete narrative or visual whole.

"...Marilyn Monroe (Morton) while performing his act in a nursing home in Paris. Marilyn, who is married to Charlie..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame chases after the world's most wanted man and comes up empty but fulfilled.

"...Spurlock. The last time we saw Spurlock, he was nursing a rapidly deteriorating liver and an even more rapidly..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Indictments Pending: TRMPAC, TAB, and the Travis Co. D.A.

"...Indictments of TRMPAC, Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care, Bacardi, Cracker Barrel, Diversified Collection Services, Questerra,..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...experiment with a couple of rock tunes at a nursing home, Cilman was startled by the new quality the..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Hurricane Katrina Legal Roundup

A by-no-means-exhaustive recap of recent Katrina-related legal activity

"...• The trial of the owners of St. Rita's nursing home in New Orleans, where 35 residents died in..."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Training Program for Nurses in the Works

Hoping it will attract new nursing blood to Central Texas and keep it here, Seton Family of Hospitals announces formation of Versant RN Residency program for recent nursing-school graduates

"...formation of the Versant RN Residency program for recent nursing-school graduates, which it hopes will attract new blood to..."

July 13, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Page Turner

In this quiet, French revenge film, a creeping malevolence wreaks havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family.

"...the personality of his heroine: a woman capable of nursing a grudge of such epic proportions she would make..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Academy Award-Nominated Live Action Shorts 2006

And the Oscar goes to … see the five nominees and judge for yourself.

"...word, the men resort to reclaiming Granny from the nursing home to fulfill their needs, but the old woman..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nothing Here Has Any Real Value

Honorable mention

"...weekend off ever since Mother was sent to the nursing home and I closed up the house, only returning..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Sarah Elizabeth Eastep

Letters @ 3AM

Ban what you please, although the current campaign against secondhand smoke will not prevent the 21st-century universe from killing us. It merely provides the illusion of safety.

"...hey, you'll get a few extra years in the nursing home, where you'll be lucky if your kids visit..."

July 21, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Tsotsi

Winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Oscar, this South African entry is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a Johannesburg shantytown.

"...infant covered in ants. Frustrated, he randomly selects a nursing mother (Pheto) to suckle the baby at gunpoint. Over..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mojo Nixon is God

Third place

"...Momma and Daddy sent me down here for nursing school five years ago because Momma loves nurses. On..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Susan Shields

911, We've Got a Smoker

Austin's new smoking ordinance takes effect today

"...rife with legalese and nods to fraternal organizations and nursing homes, but what our club and bar owners are..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Head in the Clouds

Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, and Penelope Cruz co-star in this stilted romantic drama set against the background of Europe between the wars.

"...and psychically damaged Spaniard who escaped Spain to study nursing in Paris and eventually return to her homeland –..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Luv Doc Recommends: Extravagasm II Fantasy Ball

Parish, Saturday, October 16, 2004

"...Maybe you really are a French maid who’s into nursing. Maybe you’re a nurse who’s into nursing. Of course,..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

TRMPAC Indictments Come Down, 'More Work' Remains

Ronnie Earle and the Travis Co. grand jury announce the initial results of the TRMPAC investigation

"...accepted a $100,000 check from the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care Corp., a coalition of nursing home companies..."

Oct. 1, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

A Dirty Shame

John Waters, America's king of trash, is back with this tale of sex addiction, fetishes, and mad, bad, lascivious squirrel sexin’.

"...ah, nether regions, while doing the Watusi at a nursing home; Jackass star Johnny Knoxville plays a character named..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TRMPAC Indictments Come Down, 'More Work' Remains

Ronnie Earle and the Travis Co. grand jury announce the initial results of the TRMPAC investigation

"...accepted a $100,000 check from the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care Corp., a coalition of nursing home companies..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Babies Behind Bars

In the mirror world of TDCJ, life goes on

"...facilities, and a brief period of postnatal affection and nursing. But shortly after the births, the infants are delivered..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

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