Choose Your Own Adventure

A short list of the most promising games slated to hit home systems before Christmas.

"...It was once noted that 90% of everything is crap. In the world of video games,..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Brendan Sinclair

A Big Crowd for Little Wars: Millennium Gaming Convention

"...The author of War of the Worlds played with toy..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Screens Feature

My Slammer Vacation

How I Spent...

"...144 poets loose in a sleepy Connecticut town, give them the impetus of a scored competition and the added..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Coach's Corner

"...Were I President of the Sportsfan's Union, and you claimed, as a card..."

June 6, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Online Hit

Instant Sports Patents a Pastime

"...Just over 75 years ago, the country's first radio station (KDKA) aired the medium's first..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Screens Feature by Andy Langer

Public Downsizing

Reynolds Wants Public To Lay Off

"...The fact that Council- member Ronney Reynolds may have his..."

Sept. 13, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

"This Is Austin Bashing on Steroids"

This legislative session, state GOP lawmakers ran an all-out assault on municipal values

"...In early February, just as the 85th Leg­is­lature was getting going, Gov. Greg Abbott declared..."

June 16, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Reptile Hunters Rattled Over Ban on 'Texas Tradition'

Feeling singled out, they're threatening to sue state over legislation banning roadside hunting of wild animals

"...Lizard collectors are threatening to sue the state over what they call the destruction of a..."

July 27, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Race to Innovation

With $1,000 each and eight weeks, five teams compete to take theatre to a new level

"...In order to start a fire, you can do the normal thing with matches or a lighter. Or you..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Coach's Corner

"...Twelve months of constant summer has beaten the creative energy out of..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Humane

When the government asks citizens to self-euthanize, a bourgeois family weighs what to do

"...Ever been sure that there are just too many damn people in the world?..."

April 26, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Exclusive SXSWI Interview: Tim Langdell, Part Two

Gaming guru talks about where the industry is missing out.

"...(Part one of this interview is now online) Something is making gaming..."

March 8, 2008 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Games Gift Guide

It's easier to kill when it's for a good cause

"...Assassin's CreedUbisoft $59.99..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Connective Issue

Web 2.0, online gaming, but everything's in-between

"...drive SXSW: bands and labels, movies and distributors. For the Interactive Festival, it's links between content and modes of..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Roller Derby Information and Distinctions

"...In response to Belinda Acosta's Jan. 20 article about the A&E series Rollergirls [“TV Eye,” Screens], we are compelled..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Postmarks

Little Athletes, Big Dreams

Austin's youth sports boom is young athletes, big competition – and big money

"...Twelve years ago, my wife and I took our then 5-year-old daughter Amelia to her first recreational soccer game...."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Bill Crawford

TV Eye

In anticipation of the upcoming writers' strike, networks are beefing up their reality programming, including Worst Case Scenario, No Boundaries, and -- yep, it's that bad -- another Big Brother.

"...Negotiations are touch and go between the Writers Guild of America and representatives of the major..."

April 20, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Desert Island Games

"...1. Diablo (Blizzard Entertainment).It floored the critics. It flew off the shelves. It knocked the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Coach's Corner

"...sports compass get so turned around? I gaze out the large picture window at the now subdued first fairway...."

May 28, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Soccer Watch

"...Austin FC's roster will start coming together in a hurry next week, as the team will..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Live Shots: Faith No More

Austin Music Hall, July 26

"..."Some of you are looking a little nonplussed at this point,..."

July 31, 2015 Music Review by Richard Whittaker

Chapter One: A Team Is Born

A season preview for the Austin Aztex and the United Soccer Leagues

"...It's not easy building a top-level professional soccer team from scratch. But make no mistake about..."

April 17, 2009 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

Playing Whack-a-Deer at Pace Bend Park

Ex-ranger blasts Travis County culling hunts

"...gangsta cultures, through gunplay no less – all in the name of deer-population control...."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

When There's Motion, but No Pictures

Guest Artistic Director Ed Halter adjusts Cinematexas' experimental aim

"...more than a decade, Ed Halter has been one of the most enthusiastic supporters of alternative and experimental film..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Over the Aquifer?Dear Editor,..."

April 22, 2005 Column

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Access Denied

"...Charlie Sotelo's ACAC program The Show With No Name has long been one of..."

July 14, 2000 News Column by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Austinite Edward E. Toutant wants to be a millionaire : and in this interview, he tells of his near-miss adventure to get into the hottest seat on prime time.

"...Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC) has shot to the top of the Nielsen ratings and doesn't seem destined..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Coach's Corner

"...How many times have I wailed and bemoaned the evils of talk radio? Only a few weeks ago,..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

"...The room is dark, eerily illuminated with blues, reds, oranges,..."

May 23, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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