Strayhorn Blasts Foster Care System

Comptroller releases findings of two-year investigation

"...subjected to double jeopardy when they enter the state's foster care system, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn charged last week..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Contact

Carl Sagan's novel about the celestial mysteries is embodied onscreen by Jodie Foster as the astronomer heroine and Matthew McConaughey as her spiritual counterpart from the other side of the fence

"...Directed by: Robert Zemeckis. Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, Angela..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Flightplan

Aiming to be a Hitchcockian-type thriller set within the tight quarters of a jetliner, this Jodie Foster vehicle runs aground.

"...Directed by: Robert Schwentke. Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Marlene..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Loop

In the Loop is a scabrous and funny study of how an offhand remark by a career politician can metastasize into an international conflict and, ultimately, war.

"...offhand nonremark by the UK's minister for development, Simon Foster (Hollander). Foster, a cultured dishevelment and a man far..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Best of the Best Two

"...Directed by: Robert Radler. Starring: Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Christopher Penn, Ralph..."

March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

A hardscrabble, heartbreaking, love-and-death affair is gorgeously captured in David Lowery's Texas feature.

"...by: David Lowery. Starring: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine, Nate Parker, Kennadie Smith and Jacklynn Smith...."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: One Small Step

Gov. Rick Perry spares the life of Kenneth Foster

"...the BPP and commute the death sentence of Kenneth Foster to life imprisonment, is a historic step toward greater..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Home for the Holidays

"...Directed by: Jodie Foster. Starring: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inferno

Hanks tours the museums of Europe trying to save the world

"...Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ben Foster, Ana Ularu and Ida Darvish...."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Death Watch: Executing Texas' Law of Parties

Jeff Wood never killed anybody; Robert Pruett may not have either. Why does the state want to put them both to death?

"...Robert Pruett is scheduled for execution on Tuesday, Aug. 23...."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Drag Queens Assaulted Downtown

Two friends were jumped upon leaving Tuezgayz at Barbarella

"...robbed upon leaving Barbarella's weekly gay dance party, Tuezgayz. Robert Foster, aka Serotonin, and his friend Nicholas Brading were..."

Jan. 6, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Buck

The real-life "horse whisperer," Dan "Buck" Brannaman, is the subject of this documentary that reveals how he derived his hard-won knowledge.

"...horse whisperer, as popularized in Nicholas Evans’ book or Robert Redford's film, than a calm, cool cowboy who just..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

AFF Knows We Like to Watch

Local film Harmony and Me tops sneak peek at festival lineup

"...year's lineup, including three intriguing-sounding documentaries about black comedy (Robert Townsend's Why We Laugh), screenwriting (Peter Hanson's Tales From..."

Aug. 26, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DSA Queer Coalition Organizes and Mobilizes

Democratic Socialists subgroup has the LGBTQ community's back

"...queens were attacked upon leaving Tuezgayz in late December. Robert Foster, aka Serotonin, lost two teeth after being punched..."

Feb. 7, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sloane Smith

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...movies and shows, with new films from Olivia Wilde, Robert Rodriguez, Christopher Morris, and more...."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

BPP Recommends Life

Whether Perry will agree remains to be seen for death row inmate Robert Thompson

"...Rick Perry that the death sentence for condemned inmate Robert Thompson be commuted to life in prison. Now its..."

Nov. 19, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Garth Manor Brings Out the Dead

FX maestro Robert Kurtzman on the seminal Evil Dead 2

"...saw-wielding craziness. Without the beast-wrangling skills of effects genius Robert Kurtzman, the sequel would have had much less splatter...."

July 31, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

Attendees include Junot Díaz, Cheryl Strayed, and... Tony Danza?

"...hitters in fiction (Junot Díaz, Justin Cronin) and nonfiction (Robert Caro, Douglas Brinkley, Cheryl Strayed, Naomi Wolf), plus pop..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Perry Clears Way for Executioner

Perry rejects BPP recommendation to spare Robert Thompson

"...Board of Pardons and Paroles in the case of Robert Thompson, clearing the way for Thompson's execution last night...."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Howl, Fantods, Howl.

The late, great David Foster Wallace's work gets an Austintatious celebration as Infinite Summer more or less reaches its climax.

"...if you've only skimmed a story in which David Foster Wallace allows his supra-narrator characters to get a word..."

Sept. 16, 2009 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Am Legend

After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.

"...Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith, Dash Mihok, Darrell Foster, April Grace and Joanna Numata. In a bit of..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Snapshot: 37th Street Lights

The holidays may be over, but you can catch this iconic stretch of Austin oddballness for a few more days

Jan. 4, 2019 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

Talking Prince With Revolution Drummer Bobby Z

Purple punk, purple polka bands, purple pancakes

"...Born Robert B. Rivkin in Minneapolis in 1956, “Butzie” met up..."

Oct. 10, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Into The Black Hole at Other Worlds Austin

Director Gary Nelson on Disney's sci-fi epic, returning this weekend

"...a two-year shoot with an all-star cast (Maximilian Schell, Robert Foster, Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, plus the voices of..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Music Awards’ Message of Love

35th annual local prom sets a new standard

"...steadying herself on a new prosthetic leg as Liz Foster led a soulful reprise of “Rise Above.”..."

March 13, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...hook filled, earning him comparisons to Whiskeytown and Radney Foster. – Jim Caligiuri The Ditty Bops11:45am, AMD stage..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Fostering Family Values

The Legislature engages in its biennial exercises in gay-bashing -- families be damned.

"...this particular measure, which would prohibit the placement of foster children in gay or lesbian households, the articulate, soft-spoken..."

May 2, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Wisdom of Deacon Talton

Rep. Robert Talton's testimony on gay foster parents before the State Affairs committee.

"...the House Committee on State Affairs, at which Rep. Robert Talton, R-Pasadena, introduced HB 1911, which would ban gay..."

May 2, 2003 News Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...at the U.S. government and commercial hip-hop alike. – Robert Gabriel BLACKALICIOUS6:30pm, Town Lake Stage @ Auditorium Shores Exploring..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Trench Warfare

Federal judge rules for LCRA on the Dripping Springs pipeline project, but the SOS lawsuit proceeds

"...To Erin Foster, co-chair of the Water Planning Partnership, Sparks' ruling was..."

May 11, 2001 News Feature by Rob Curran

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