The Final Option
"...audiences and critics on its home turf, The Final Option turns out to be a surprisingly pedestrian police melodrama,..."
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May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
Senators Debate Life-Without-Parole Option
Death penalty proponents trot out predictable
arguments against it
"...jurors in capital cases a third, true life-without-parole sentencing option. The measure, which has become a perennial bill at..."
March 25, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Oppose 'Nuclear Option'
"...likely vote on what the Republicans call the "nuclear option." This is about radical Republicans grasping for absolute power..."
March 25, 2005 Postmarks
Defending Spanish Language Option
"...immigration. African- and Anglo Americans now suddenly have the option of withdrawing money from their local ATM using one..."
Dec. 15, 2003 Postmarks
The Austin Transit Partnership Recommends the Flexible Light Rail Option
Stretching the light rail
"...Austin Transit Partnership has whittled down its light rail options from five to one...."
May 23, 2023 News Post by Benton Graham
Fallback Option
"...a mayor who views City Hall as a fallback option. At this critical time, Austin needs a mayor who..."
Oct. 8, 2022 Postmarks
A New Night-out Option
The Violet Crown Cinema brings the arthouse ethos to Downtown
"...the Ritz on Sixth Street, the only other Downtown option...."
April 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Prop. 1 Best Option on Ballot
"...let's here it; otherwise, Proposition 1 is the only option I see on the ballot...."
April 25, 2006 Postmarks
The Austin Transit Partnership Recommends the Flexible Light Rail Option
Stretching the light rail
May 26, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham
Man or Machine? Circle Option C.
Digital pioneer Amber Case on cyborg anthropology
March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky
AE's Nuclear Option
The seduction of the South Texas Project
Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum
Hutchison Co-Sponsoring 'Nuclear Option'
March 31, 2005 Postmarks
Community Wants Pearce in '09
Survey response instructs Carstarphen to work to re-open Pearce this year
"...year. The plan that got the most backing was option two, which calls for Superintendent Meria Carstarphen to work..."
July 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Carona Says Filibuster About Process, Not Vengeance
Watson blasts local-option opponents as "bumper-sticker arguments"
"...Sunset bill, after a conference committee stripped out his local-option gas tax...."
May 31, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols
Extend Our Trail (If Not Our Sympathy)
New astroturf org backed by developers pose as anti-developers.
"...does the CWS misinformation campaign admit that "the wrong option" they so aptly identify would be 100% their voluntary..."
Oct. 2, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor
Crossing That Bridge
Council approves a separate bike and pedestrian bridge over Town Lake near the existing Lamar Street Bridge, and hears neighborhood concerns about moving central booking to the new criminal justice center downtown.
"...-- and the costs -- of the two bridge options. "My brain is dead right now, and I can't..."
April 21, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson
Carona Says He'll Filibuster TxDOT Sunset Bill
Senator angered by removal of local-option gas tax
"...Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, ran into opposition for his local-option gas tax and it got stripped in conference committee..."
May 31, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols
As COVID Surges, AISD to Offer Virtual School
Remote option for K-6 students too young for vaccine
"...swiveled back to planning to offer a virtual learning option this fall. The decision came just before a special..."
July 30, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse
Queen & Slim
Tragic romance with a Black Lives Matter message
"...of a moment, Queen insists there is no other option but for them to go on the run...."
Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Red Sparrow
Erotic spy thriller is Fifty Shades of Gorky Park.
"...leg. Fortunately her spymaster uncle (Schoenaerts) gives her an option: Become a spy, and seduce CIA agent Nate Nash..."
March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Nerve
An online game of "Truth or Dare" turns dangerous
"...the party pastime “Truth or Dare,” except there’s no option to honestly answer a squirmy question in lieu of..."
July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Admission
Tina Fey and Paul Rudd go rom-drahm, while Lily Tomlin runs circles around everyone.
"...charts. John, a humanitarian whose good deeds include the adoption of a Ugandan orphan, has ulterior motives and –..."
March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Won't Back Down
Two mad-as-hell mamas take back their public school from the bureaucrats and unions that seemingly enforce the status quo.
"...union in the role of the story’s villain, an option that’s far too simplistic and unfair...."
Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Toy Story & Toy Story 2: 3-D Double Feature
"To infinity and beyond" gains new dimension in this 3-D-improved double feature.
"...all the more in 3-D. Plus, we have the option of seeing both films in a single double bill..."
Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fight Over Highway Taxes on South Steps
Anti-taxers/anti-tollers don't even want a vote on it
"...point of contention was an attempt to save the local-option gas tax. Originally in the SB 855 of John..."
May 29, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols
Choosing Life!
Texas lawmakers debate Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, and Pro-Adoption license plates
"...license plate law by adding an additional license plate option that reads "Pro-Family, Pro-Choice." The point, says Burnam, is..."
May 6, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith
Factotum
Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance; it's 100-proof Bukowski, but with a decent barkeep at the helm and Lili Taylor's Jan on his arm. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious and smart-stupid.
"...Jim Stark, renders the drinking life not as an option but as a necessity. As the title suggests, it's..."
Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Echoes of Innocence
Earnest and well-intentioned Dallas-based cast and crew have created a puzzling and inauthentic youth drama that promotes teenage sexual abstinence.
"...– which is of course a perfectly valid lifestyle option – as they romanticize and fetishize teenage marriage, casting..."
Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
It’s not big and bright and busy and boffo, but it's a perfectly marvelous matinee option for young children. It’s a sweet little story, from a kid’s-eye view, about the anguish of being too little to do stuff.
"...parents, is why Heffalump is a perfectly marvelous matinee option for young children. It’s a sweet little story, from..."
Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Friday Night Lights
H.G. Bissinger’s classic book about the secular religion of high school football was lovingly adapted for film prior to becoming a TV show.
"...for them … and their community. Losing isn’t an option – not in a town where many of the..."
