Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro

The author of The Path to Power shares the methods and motivations he employs while producing his award-winning biographies

"...the release of his 1974 book The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A...."

April 5, 2019 Arts Review by Roberto Ontiveros

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

The battle over NYC's urban planning

"...the historic battles between New York City’s “master builder” Robert Moses and the writer and activist Jane Jacobs. It’s..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red

Over-the-hill crime-fighters band together to save their own in this smirky, goofy mashup of a rom-com and action picture.

"...Directed by: Robert Schwentke. Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton leads a stylish, meandering trip around a corrupt 1950s NYC

"...Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale, Dallas Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Josh Pais, Leslie Mann, Fisher Stevens, Peter..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

BAM! Performing Arts Festival: What's that sound?

Pro Arts Collective gets your attention with BAM!, a new performing arts festival bringing dancers, actors, poets, and musicians to Austin to display the surge of creativity among African-American artists

"...Topdog/UnderdogÊfrom Phoenix's iTheatre Collaborative; and the inspired dance troupe Robert Moses' Kin. And performing side by side with them..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Public Notice: Motherless Austin

Building a better city, but at what cost?

"...Baldwin's sharp yet nuanced portrayal of the lightly fictionalized Robert Moses, the "master builder" of 20th-century New York who..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Everybody vs. Injustice

Using hip-hop to build a just city

"...like Jim Crow laws or problematic city planners like Robert Moses...."

Oct. 13, 2016 News Post by Annamarya Scaccia

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...following is an excerpt from 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Caro's The Power Broker about Robert Moses of New..."

May 19, 2000 Column

Catwalk

"...Directed by: Robert Leacock. Starring: Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Carla Bruni, Kate..."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Country of Exiles?

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

"...in the last 10 years, however. As readers of Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses know, the creation of..."

July 9, 1999 Books Review

News Roundup: Textbooks, Buehler, and More

Your Monday morning news update

"...Moses and Manifest Destiny, Justice Ginsburg checks her work, and..."

Oct. 27, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

The Writer, The Editor, and the Filmmaker: The Story of Turn Every Page

Lizzie Gottlieb on her father and LBJ biographer Robert Caro

"...one in which a single conversation never happened, maybe Robert Caro would have been the one to tell the..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Making History, Part One

Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...In his new play All the Way, Robert Schenkkan draws on his time growing up in the..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Johnson Treatment

It's been a dozen years since Robert Caro's previous book about Johnson, and now he's back, this time with Master of the Senate, an exhaustive and exhausting examination of the United States Senate during the years of Johnson's time there.

"...The first volume of Robert Caro's protracted meditation on the dark side of Lyndon..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Dick Holland

In Memoriam: Phyllis Slattery

Remembering the longtime director of Dance Umbrella

"...staggering, a who's who of contemporary dance: Donald Byrd, Robert Moses, 33 Fainting Spells, Dah Teatar, Vincent Mantsoe, Tere..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin @ Large: Highway Ho-Ho-Ho!

As concrete Christmas arrives, who's got the last laugh now?

"...of unworthy endeavor you would have thought died with Robert Moses if not Le Corbusier, a bridge to the..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Take the A-Train

Mike Clark-Madison discusses 10 years covering light rail, and urges voters to support it.

"...that loop, in those central-city corridors, unless we resurrect Robert Moses to tear down wide swathes of the urban..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Articulatons

Sayonara, Synergy

"...encompassing Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Fred Curchack, Paula Hunter, Nina Martin, Robert Moses, 33 Fainting Spells, Australia's Red Mole, and the..."

June 12, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Breaking the Chains

Slavery may be illegal, but it's not eradicated

"...forced labor – of African-Americans. Stephen F. Austin's father, Moses Austin, was among the first who planned* to immigrate..."

June 19, 2015 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Dancing About Architecture

Flamingo Road

"...of weeks at the Blue Flamingo, as owner Laura Moses battles business partners, the health department, and the TABC...."

May 23, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Featuring: Michael Dukakis, Sam Donaldson, Tom DeLay, Mary Matalin, Robert D. Novak Regional Premiere..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Saturday

"...to show off their table manners and techniques. – Robert Gabriel WE8pm, Emo's Main The best part about the..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Wrapped and Ready

"...this year Miramax brings us the Christmas-day release of Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty, written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Booth's Richard III by the Hidden Room Theatre

Beth Burns and company unearths a fascinating theatrical time capsule with this version of Shakespeare's tragedy

"...system, with its sumptuous backdrops – painted by Thomas Moses, a famous scenic painter of the period – flying..."

June 22, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...THE INCREDIBLE LEROY MOSES: It'd be too trite to say this one's all..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Leave No Child Behind

In a an excerpt from their new book, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose expose Bush's No Child Left Behind policy as an educational Enron.

"...sell Agillion, and buy Tivoli. The boom was like Robert Earl Keen's song "The Road Goes on Forever and..."

Oct. 3, 2003 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Only the Fourth Wall Is Forever

After 10 years, Salvage Vanguard Theater is moving on

"..."Sweet Betrayal" performance, dreamed up with literary raconteur David Moses Fruchter. The painting's been invisible for years; not a..."

June 24, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Mad Parent PAC Funding Report

Texas Parent PAC reports raising nearly $56,000 since starting up six months ago

"...Bill Ratliff ($2,500) and former state Education Commissioner Mike Moses ($500). By and large, though, the PAC's 243 contributors..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week"Oh Moses, you stubborn, splendid adorable fool. You can worship any..."

July 1, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Dinosaur

"...death and separation are frequently raised. There's something of Moses and the Israelites to this tale of desert-wandering dinos,..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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