The Luv Doc: Where is Dan Savage?

The Luv Doc's knowledge of analingus is abominably sparse

"...So yes, I share your distrust of myself. There..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

DVD Watch

Olive Films collects three of Otto Preminger's last films

"...what with the sudden craze for all things youth culture that was ushered in with the success of Easy..."

Nov. 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

No One Can Change Men but Men

"...express an opinion. In the entire history of Western culture as far as I have studied it, the sexuality..."

Sept. 13, 2010 Postmarks

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...Woodard, who spent 27 years in prison for a rape-murder he did not commit, is one step closer to..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature

Postmarks

The union's due, the boys in blue, The Sopranos' view, and Miracle Mike takes it on the, um, chin.

"...this season the "Violence Against Women" season. The brutal rape of Dr. Melfi, the murder of Tracee, and let's..."

April 13, 2001 Column

We ™ You

"...dauntless volunteers -- the folks who hold our hurting culture and stoke it back to life...."

Dec. 15, 1995 Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...in her banishment from the village. Next, she's arrested, raped, and beaten in prison. Following that, she is kidnapped..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Recording the Day India and Pakistan Split in Partition

When one nation became two separate countries, it reshaped world history. Now Austin podcaster Neha Aziz is telling the personal stories behind that severing.

"...she was child, but she was raised in the culture and language of the nation of her birth. She..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...artists, as educators, as patrons, and as advocates for culture. Their talents and steadfast commitment not only have been..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...can clearly recall a preadolescence awash in Japanese pop culture, then, as now, mysterious, alluring, and infinitely, deliciously other...."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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Our readers talk back.

"...conditions reveal the difficulty America has in blending multiple cultures like the metaphor suggests. At present America may be..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

Letters at 3AM

"Mediocrity is never passive; it avenges itself for its deprivation." -- Nelson Algren

"...owe them, Nelson," I said aloud. This is a culture where professors teach that literary theory is more important..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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The Real Obscenity

"...problems (in favor of a wealthy individual's right to rape and pillage their property for profit!), and SB 766..."

April 30, 1999 Column

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Duff Gets Tough

"...Women get stalked. We live in a rape-prone culture, and violence towards women is constantly sexualized. Now,..."

June 27, 1997 Column

Public Notice

"...of struggle and survival, have influenced not only the culture of their direct descendants but also of mainstream America..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Column by Kate X Messer

The Opportunity to Reimagine Public Safety Is Here Right Now. Will Austin Take It?

“We want everything that can be done outside of the police, to be done outside of the police.”

"...under heavy criticism since 2019 for its "warrior cop" culture. Its closure, and the deferral of several cadet classes,..."

April 30, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

City Hall Gets Better at the Basic Business of Budgeting

Early indicators are good, but difficult fiscal conversations linger

"...services counselors, more funding for DNA evidence processing (including rape kits), more staff in the Office of Police Oversight,..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Last Act Theatre's Seven

In this documentary play, seven women from around the world tell stories that are tragically familiar

"...different spot on the globe, each from a different culture, but all sharing a sickening familiarity: They're stories of..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Struggles to Adjust as SB 4 Takes Its Toll on Immigrants

"We are not safer as a community when victims are running away from us rather than coming to us."

"...were pushing SB 4 as part of their aggressive culture-war posturing in 2017, Republican lawmakers targeted newly elected Travis..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Cameron Esposito Asks Us to Take My Wife

Happily streaming ever after at the ATX Television Festival

"...Esposito fashion – she's been known to make acceptable rape jokes on more than a few occasions – the..."

June 8, 2018 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Luv Doc: Sacrifice

It's always best to seize the moral high ground

"...I think it's wonderful that you and your husband..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Assessing This Year's Tumultuous Fantastic Fest

Notes from the subdued chaos at the Drafthouse

"...wondered, or is something critically wrong with modern film culture?..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Standing Rock Pipeline Protests Bring New Life to Old Struggles

“It’s about all of us”

"...cultural diversity and the significant role that Native American culture plays in our nation's history and its future." Carbon..."

Sept. 30, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

More to the Story

Advocates work to change the conversation around human trafficking

"...to about 20 people who each paid $25 to rape her...."

April 22, 2016 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Nick Broomfield Tells Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Filmmaker talks about his new HBO doc, LA, race, and death

"...the real subject. "The film about Lonnie Franklin, it scrapes the surface," Broomfield said. "It's the same with all..."

April 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Trivia Pursuit

Competing in Geek Bowl is no trivial matter

"...much we drink," adds Consuelo. Team Jameis Winston Birthday Rape­tac­ular..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by R.U. Steinberg

Reefer Madness: The Thin Green Line

Author Jonah Raskin explores the contradictions of life in Marijuanaland

"...sustained the regional economy; the emergence of a marijuana culture and de facto mainstream alliances within pot's shadow economy..."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...and unicorns, but it's also about hate crimes, homosexuality, rape, and dystopian nightmares...."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

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Our readers talk back.

"...or central heating for offenders in Texas prisons. Prisoner rape is common, but little is done to decrease it..."

June 4, 2004 Column

TV Eye

Questions and answers

"...critically received series offered a candid view of football culture: drug use, female assault, deal-making – all of it...."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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