This Week's Waste of Time

Free games for racing cars and eating meat

"...RC Pro Am on ice. The trick is to ram other cars to gain extra turbo boosts. Win, and..."

Jan. 6, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Jhootha Hi Sahi

Bollywood romantic comedy.

"...Directed by: Abbas Tyrewala. Starring: John Abraham, Pakhi, Raghu Ram and Manasi Scott. Not reviewed at press time. When..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bostich + Fussible

"...neon in accordion. Bulevar 2000, second serving from Bostich (Ramón Amezcua) and Fussible (Pepe Mogt) following the duo's debut..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Still the No. 1 Hit

Drug warriors ignore the rise in alcohol abuse

"...to 10% last year from 9.3% in 2008. More dramatic was the increase in drug use among fiftysomethings, which..."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Column by Jordan Smith

The Hightower Report

Marooned on BP Island; and Dems Cave on Disclosure

"...go to the people; and rally grassroots America to ram meaningful reform down the throats of these thieves...."

July 9, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...the individual and the universal, the particular and the panoramic. When I sit down to watch these, I try..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Black Minutes

Everywhere you turn in this ambitious debut novel, there's the wretched stench of deceit and corruption

"...the first quarter of the book finds police Detective Ramón Cabrera investigating the death of a young journalist. When..."

May 21, 2010 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Friendless UT

Citizen rep quits Cactus Cafe talks, blames admin bad faith

"...has quit, suggesting that the admin is trying to ram through a new and equally unpalatable future for the..."

April 2, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: 'Roadie': 30 Years Later

The screenwriter of Roadie visits his younger, more serious self

"...about that woman and get back to work, I'll ram this thumb into my right eye."..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Fucked Up

"...one giant tour de force, with a three-guitar battering ram and a relentless rhythm section. That gave the singer..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Culturally Vacuous

"...up a server based on RAID drives, gigabytes of RAM, web-enabled business applications, firewalls, and global broadband infrastructure in..."

Nov. 5, 2009 Postmarks

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin

"...the path of the storm. There are definite time frames to call for voluntary evacuation, and then the next..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

David Ducharme-Jones

Pop rocks

"...maneuvers, while a cover of Al Green's "I'm a Ram" gets gritty...."

July 24, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman

The Big Legebowski

The session will be remembered largely as an opportunity lost to partisan displays

"...a bill to the floor – in order to ram through the voter ID bill, Senate Bill 362, over..."

June 12, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Senate Bills in Flames

Chubs and piggybacks.

"...rule early in the session so that they could ram the voter ID bill (SB 362) through to the..."

May 29, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Res Publica

"...HOUSING LIBERATION MOVEMENT Max Ram­eau of Miami's Take Back the Land discusses the movement..."

May 8, 2009 News Feature

Lance Letscher Collage

This first full-length monograph of the local collagist's work is pure pleasure

"...specific connections to the works of James Castle, Martín Ramírez, Adolf Wölfli, and the quilters of Gee's Bend and,..."

April 24, 2009 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Texas Biennial 2009 – DIY: Double Wide

This group exhibition spins an intriguing narrative of fusion and confusion

"...elephant, a wolf, a cougar, a warthog, and a ram – as if they've been grafted onto the bird..."

April 10, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Surprise, guess what Bay Area metal behemoth played Stubb's after all?

"...hours later with all the subtlety of a battering ram, delivering an apocalyptic catharsis of thrash metal that will..."

March 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Watson's 3/17 Speech Against Voter ID

Transcript of Austin senator's remarks

"...Whatever complaints one may have about Austin Sen. Kirk..."

March 18, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Dunnam Tries to Put Brakes on TxDOT

Democratic leader says transportation agency spending federal stimulus money without oversight

"...“I’ve never heard so much doubletalk in my life”..."

March 3, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Letters at 3AM

I am not my thoughts; I am not my feelings

"...I am not my feelings, etc. As poet Juan Ramón Jiménez might put it, nothing and everything had happened...."

Feb. 13, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Rowling's Resignation

Highlights of the UTIMCO chair's brutal Senate Finance Committee dust-up

"...The entire meeting is on-line, and it's worth catching..."

Feb. 8, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Sueños Latinos

The Culinary Institute of America's San Antonio campus raises awareness of Latin American cuisine

"...million to the CIA to fund Latin culinary studies programs and facilities at the main campus in Hyde Park,..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...Video, is, according to the Alamo Drafthouse's Terror Tuesday programmer and VHS evangelist Zack Carlson (see "Never Forget"), also..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Some Stories

The best books of 2008

"...of the same characters, most especially the titular battering ram, whose hard shell conceals ... well, even more hardness,..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Politics Perks Up in Hays County

Two Hays incumbents try to keep their Commissioners Court seats

"...Ingalsbe is up against the curious Repub­lican candidate Nick Ramus, an area chef and entrepreneur known for his local..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

Austin Public Library Tightens Belt, Introduces New Branch Hours

The Austin Public Library introduces a staggered branch closures as part of its 2008/2009 budget

"...Nobody's safe these days from the great battering ram of the imploding economy, and that, sadly, includes our..."

Sept. 30, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Continental Drift

Scenes from the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

"...in. But after 45 minutes of waiting in line (programs in that theatre were running late due to technical..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report

Dead Executives; and Lawmakers Cash in as Lobbyists

"...of the House, with the likes of superlobbyist Jack Abramoff given a free hand to cut corrupt deals. While..."

July 11, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

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