Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Vincent J. Hooper, Hairspray Jessica Hughes, The Quarry Aaron Johnson, Skylight/Tribes Iris McQuillan-Grace, Tribes Michael Miller, Disgraced Amy Nichols,..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...Honeytrap (UK) Director/Screenwriter: Rebecca Johnson Honeytrap is a tragic teen romance, set in London..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

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

"...Caro (The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson) Dale Carpenter (Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v...."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Fuse Box by Day

Schedule

"...Emily Johnson (Minneapolis), Al Le Razer and Lorn MacDougal (Austin)..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The End of the World as He Knows It

Richard Kelly does decadence plus dystopia in Southland Tales

"...there's an action hero (played by Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson) and a porn star (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who have..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...Wade in the early Seventies by pushing Austin attorney Sarah Weddington to take on the reproductive rights case of..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Remembering Sarah Ing..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

A False Confession?

Witness testimony in the capital murder trial of Michael Scott, the second defendant to stand trial for the yogurt shop murders, began August 14.

"...four teenage girls -- Eliza Thomas, 17, Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, 17 and 15, and Amy Ayers, 13 --..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postscripts

Not one day back from vacation and the growing list of noble souls who need to be congratulated is making Books Editor Clay Smith uneasy.

"...uneasy. Some people, it appears, actually work during vacation. Sarah Bird's work on The Yokota Officers Club was completed..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Books Column by Clay Smith

Texas Platters

"...SARAH DASHEW Some of My Stuff..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

The War on Women's Health

To attack Planned Parenthood, lawmakers undermine health care ... and promote more abortions

"...who didn't think birth control should be legal," says Sarah Wheat, vice president of communications for Planned Parenthood of..."

April 22, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

All the Way With LBJ's Play

Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'

"...in our company of actors. Jack Willis [who played Johnson in Ashland] is extraordinary. I do get the economic..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...growing pains in post-Katrina New Orleans; and director Josh Johnson debuts ode to home video Rewind This! An Unreal..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Accounting and the War on Women

anti-PP groups claim non-profit engages in fraud

"...PP generally – or against PGCC in specific. Abby Johnson, the gregarious former Byran clinic director turned darling of..."

Aug. 15, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...didn't know (identified in police reports as 26-year-old Luke Johnson, reportedly a grad student from Virginia in town for..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...Maleem Mahmoud Ghania's Ensemble at Bab Makina photograph by Sarah Walker..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...D: Michael Martin; with Master P, A.J. Johnson, Gretchen Palmer, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., John Witherspoon...."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Pressure Drop

The State of Modern Reggae

"..."To this day," notes Killer Bees singer Michael E. Johnson, "reggae is country music! It comes from out in..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...(Chenneville, A Novel of Murder, Loss and Vengeance) Kim Johnson (Invisible Son) Vicki Johnson (Molly's Tuxedo) Eskor David Johnson..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

New Districts Set the Stage for the Politics of the 2020s

The city and state begin to show their work

"...There's already one federal lawsuit (whose plaintiffs include Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin) asking that the current Lege process be..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Texas Book Festival Unveils Its List of Participating Authors

In-person and virtual panels and discussions abound

"...Ellen Riojas Clark Ann Cleeves May Cobb Paul Coggins Sarah Coleman Chrsitina Conklin Rodrigo Corral Marisol Cortez Adrianna Cuevas..."

Sept. 22, 2021 Arts Post by Adrienne Hunter

Texas Dems Take the Voting Rights Fight to D.C.

Breaking quorum again, lawmakers leave state to thwart Abbott's restrictive bill

"...nine Democrats in the Texas Senate – including Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin – had joined their colleagues...."

July 16, 2021 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Kimberley Jones’ Top 10 Films of 2019

"...Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story), Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Rian Johnson..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...1991 (founded as the New Texas Festival), Craig Hella Johnson's company of voices has steadily built a world-class reputation..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...sidekick Lefty Brown (Bill Pullman) has ridden with Eddie Johnson (Peter Fonda) his entire life. But when a rustler..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...Else­where on education, HB 314 from state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, seeks to create an educational curriculum and academic..."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

News Roundup: No Fun

Lege goes anti-LGBT; Council debates noms; fests could get curfews

"...on marriage equality and the marriage of Austin residents Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant, who received their license from..."

May 11, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

2014 was a busy year for crime

"...himself was shot and killed by APD Sergeant Adam Johnson from more than 100 yards away...."

Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...connecting flights, which is how I found Donna M. Johnson's Holy Ghost Girl (Gotham). Subculture stories hook me hard,..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Articulations

The Austin Circle of Theaters has handed out its annual B. Iden Payne Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in local theatre from August 2002 through July 2003.

"...Actor & Actress, Musical: Holton Harrison Johnson, The Pirates of Penzance Claire Vangelisti, The Pirates of..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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