The Duke

Jim Broadbent is charming in this socially minded true-crime comedy

"...by: Roger Michell. Starring: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Jack Bandeira, Richard McCabe, Andrew Parker and Darren Charman...."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: And Now for Some Good News

In this week's issue, an optimistic story about Camp Esperanza and a heartfelt sendoff to retiring Music Editor Raoul Hernandez

"...in its weeklong hybrid festival in October, including Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad), Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango..."

July 23, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Voyagers

SF snoozer never exceeds its "Lord of the Flies in space" pitch

"...Burger. Starring: Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Colin Farrell, Fionn Whitehead, Chanté Adams, Archie Madekwe, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Quintessa Swindell..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Willie Nelson to Deliver SXSW Online Conference Keynote

Shotgun Willie brings a few hundred friends to the virtual stage

"...this online iteration mixes business (Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, Square co-founded Jim McKelvey, and Riot Games Chief..."

Jan. 13, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Community First! Village Honored With Homelessness Memorial

Statues hope to humanize an often stigmatized community

"...emerging from chronic homelessness. During his keynote speech, Donald Whitehead of the National Coalition for the Homeless spoke to..."

May 19, 2019 News Post by Lilli Hime

Field Trip

Ben Wheatley's historical horror tackles the English Civil War

"...The foppish and fearful Whitehead (Reece Shearsmith) has been dispatched by his master into..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Delma Banks Takes Life Sentence

Death penalty is off the table, but so is clemency

"...a life sentence for the 1980 slaying of acquaintance Richard Whitehead – a murder he has long maintained he..."

Aug. 10, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Banks Gets Life

But is he guilty?

"...a life sentence for the 1980 slaying of acquaintance Richard Whitehead – a murder he has long maintained he..."

Aug. 7, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Bedside Manner: The October Country

By the pricking of our thumbs, some books wicked this way come

"...Also on Savlov's Bookshelf of Doom of late: Richard Kadrey's just-released Aloha From Hell, the third in a..."

Oct. 31, 2011 Books Post by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival Announces Lineup

Heavy-hitter attendees include Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jonathan Lethem

"...Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and Colson Whitehead, to name a half-dozen. Oh,..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Announces Lineup

Atwood. Russo. Whitehead. Lethem. Nelson. Safran Foer. Do we have your attention yet?

"...Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and Colson Whitehead...."

Sept. 3, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...Richard Holland, Don Graham, Larry Speck, James Magnuson; Moderator: Richard..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Babs George, Richard III..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nominations for the 2004-2005 B. Iden Payne Awards

A complete list of all Payne Award nominees.

"...J. Richard Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Arts Feature

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...J. Richard Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of FripActress, Musical..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Payne Pleasures 2004

Sam Bass Theatre's Forever Plaid took top honors at the 30th anniversary B. Iden Payne Awards

"...Plaid, which received four awards, including nods to Dennis Whitehead for both his direction and musical direction. Austin Playhouse..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Payne Pleasures 2004

Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals

"...atmospherics provided by set designer Christopher McCollum, lighting designer Richard Winkler, and sound designers the Gunn Brothers). Among the..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

The high court rules – solidly – against Texas in death-penalty case

"...sentenced to death for the 1980 murder of 16-year-old Richard Whitehead in a park near Texarkana – a crime..."

March 5, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...was sentenced to die for the 1980 murder of Richard Whitehead in Bowie Co., a murder that Banks maintains..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Supremes to Banks' Prosecutors: 'Tell the Truth'

The death row case of Delma Banks reaches the Supreme Court.

"...Banks Jr., convicted of the 1980 murder of 16-year-old Richard Whitehead near Texarkana. Earlier this year, the high court..."

Dec. 12, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Scott Thompson and Richard Byron, My Fair Lady/Sweet Charity..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Supremes Take Banks Case

"...his conviction for the April 1980 murder of 16-year-old Richard Whitehead near Texarkana. For over two decades, Banks' case..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Supreme Court Ponders Banks' Death Row Case

The U.S. Supreme Court grants a last-minute stay to Delma Banks, Jr.

"...conviction in Bowie Co. for the murder of 16-year-old Richard Wayne Whitehead. "I just thank the Lord," Banks said...."

March 21, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Condemned Banks Looks to Supreme Court

Delma Banks death row appeal reads like a laundry list of everything wrong with Texas capital punishment.

"...convicted of the April 1980 Texarkana murder of 16-year-old Richard Wayne Whitehead, shot dead in a park near Nash,..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

2002 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...Bud Shrake & Bill Wittliff, including tributes by Ann Richards & Stephen Harrigan..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Books Feature

Naked City

"...Though they got invitations, national Democratic leaders Tom Daschle, Richard Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, and Terry McAuliffe will not visit..."

June 7, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days (Anchor, $14), is the kind of..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...meet a friend of mine. So I went to Richard's office [Richard Kasak, publisher of Masquerade Books]. He was..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Flight by Michael Connelly 3. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead 4. Borderlands by James Carlos Blake 5. Bad Men:..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Postmarks

More tributes to Doug Sahm

"...In reply to Richard G. Bailey II's letter, where he expressed concern that..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column

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