City Offers $10 Million to County for Palm School

Funds to purchase historic landmark to come from hotel tax

"...responded to Travis County's offer to sell the historic Palm School property at I-35 and Cesar Chavez, with a..."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

A Permanent Vacation in Palm Springs With Max Barbakow

A time loop movie influenced by everything but Groundhog Day

"...Andy Siara weren't envisioning when they first started writing Palm Springs. Still, they inadvertently ended up made one of..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Palm School: A Battle Between City, County, Advocates, and Rodeo Austin

County Judge Eckhardt goes big, community stands firm

"...isn't just unfolding at the Convention Center; next door, Palm School is the stage for a complex ballet involving..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

As Austin's I-35 Mess Gains National Attention, the City Refocuses on the Palm District

Applying an "equity lens" to reimagine the blocks alongside Austin's gnarliest highway

"...which have been refashioned by city leaders as the Palm District, are finally getting the closer look Council asked..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

County Rejects City's $10 Million Offer for Palm School

The fate of the historic building at I-35 and Cesar Chavez remains in flux

"...The fate of the historic Palm School at I-35 and Cesar Chavez remains in flux,..."

July 16, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin at Large: Reading the Palm District

A new plan-of-plans puts the spotlight on Downtown’s hard, rough eastern edges

"...spanking. So let's talk about city stuff! Remember the Palm District? It first emerged as a City Hall concept..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Palm Springs

Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti do more than just rehash Groundhog Day

"...and Andy Siara (writer) want no part of that. Palm Springs diverges from its filmic ancestors to tell a..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

Day Trips: Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Brownsville

Sanctuary safeguards rare island of palms behind border wall

"...Sabal Palm Sanctuary in Brownsville protects a rare piece of old..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

County Revives Proposal for Palm School / Expo Center Land Swap

County Judge’s latest offer to city manager expires Dec. 16

"...Neal W. Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center, the neighboring Palm School, the Travis County Expo Center, and the city..."

Nov. 22, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Palm School Pawn

"...Dear Editor, For Mexican Americans who went to Palm School and were gentrified out of our neighborhood, it..."

July 23, 2019 Postmarks

At Palm Beach Community College, Queers Have It 'Ruff'

Pets are people too! But gay people probably aren't, according to this junior college.

"...Back when I went to what is now Palm Beach Community College, it was named Palm Beach Junior..."

Nov. 24, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Austin City Council Prepped to Tackle Palm District, Micro-Mobility, and More

A preview of the May 23 Council meeting

"...the southeast quadrant of Downtown – Convention Center expansion, Palm School, Waller Creek, Rainey Street, a tourism-based public improvement..."

May 22, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

The Palm Beach Story

Feb. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Black Book

This is what happens when the "don't ask, don't tell" policy fails young lovers.

"...Derek goes out of town and leaves behind his Palm Pilot. Egged on by a Machiavellian co-worker (played by..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cronos

"...are told that a 16th-century alchemist created a small, palm-sized Cronos device that would bestow the gift of agelessness..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City, County Clash Over Future Hotel Tax

The city’s “Palm District” vs. the county’s Expo Center

"...are embedded in its much larger vision for the "Palm District" in Downtown's southeast quadrant. An omnibus resolution approved..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Traces of Red

"...he's walking and talking. He's cruelly miscast as a Palm Springs detective who's fatally attractive to women. Yet it..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Political Action Committee Proclaims Support for Convention Center

PHAM says expansion means millions in community benefits

"...expand the Convention Center — community groups representing the Palm School, homeless services, artists, and musicians declared their opposition..."

Aug. 8, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Beast

Murder-mystery rewritten as a chilling fairy tale romance.

"...and clenches a piece of shattered glass into the palm of her hand. She sets off for a beach..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Wrong

Quentin Dupieux, the director of Rubber, is back with another film brimming with encounters with the bizarre and surreal.

"...to find that his dog is missing and the palm tree in his yard has morphed into a fir...."

March 29, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Top Chef Texas, Week 10: Restaurant Wars

This restaurant war needs more spies and razor wire.

"...very little fanfare. The chefs saunter into a dead-empty Palm Door, which is downtown near the conference center. “We..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Akina Adderley & the Vintage Playboys

Paper Cuts, June 21, 2011 at the Palm Door

"...Vintage Playboys knocked out an RSVP house at the Palm Door with a sweaty set of hot and sultry..."

June 21, 2011 Music Post

Coachella

Where else can you see Iggy Pop & the Stooges back to back with Morrissey, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, and Nine Inch Nails? Nowhere but in this rambling, celebratory documentary, which covers performances from all six years of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and manages to catch the laid-back, slow-fi charm of the actual event.

"...this year. Every April, in the desert outside of Palm Springs, on the perfectly manicured pitch of the Indio..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Collateral

Michael Mann returns to his stock-and-trade: the glossy, kinetic crime thriller, this time starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.

"...at night – the neon-saturated streets, the promenades of palm trees, the nexus of freeways lit up with taillights...."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Revenge is a dish best served bold – and deliciously, by Quentin and Uma.

"...who possesses the secret of the mysterious "five-point exploding palm technique" of assassination. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 is a..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thirteen Days

"...script with voluminous, straight-from-the-transcript details), continually ratchets up the sweaty-palm level time and again. The script, and Donaldson's handling..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Third World Cop

"...Blackwell (of Island Records fame) and his new company Palm Pictures. Clearly, the idea is to market the hell..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dr. Akagi

"...Gamblin, Jyuro Kara, Kumiko Aso and Akira Emoto. Two-time Palm d'Or recipient Inamura (1983's The Ballad of Naramaya and..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heaven's Prisoners

"...of Heaven's Prisoners isn't going to be winning any Palm d'Ors. From Baldwin's on-again/off-again Cajun accent to Roberts' endearingly..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Council Gives Green Light to Convention Center, Scooter Riders

May 23 meeting tackles "Downtown puzzle," "micro-mobility"

"...plan to expand the Convention Center while preserving nearby Palm School, and new regulations on “micro-mobility devices” – such..."

May 24, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

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