This Congressman Wants SXSW to Cancel Its Snowden Talk

Kansas' Mike Pompeo's full letter

"...knew South by Southwest's decision to host whistleblower Edward Snowden via videoconference would turn a few heads...."

March 8, 2014 SXSW Post by Monica Riese

Snowden

Oliver Stone tackles the famous whistleblower

"...first news seemed an odd choice to play Edward Snowden, the introverted, nerdy government contractor who pulled the curtain..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snowden Defends Fourth Amendment

'Would I do it again? The answer is yes.'

"...to SXSW Interactive from an undisclosed location, whistleblower Ed Snowden defended the Constitution, addressed potential protections against mass surveillance,..."

March 10, 2014 News Post by Michael King

SXSW Announces Edward Snowden Videoconference

Controversial figure will speak on how tech can fight surveillance

"...to others: SXSW Interactive has just announced that Edward Snowden will be part of a videoconferenced conversation with the..."

March 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: The Patriot Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is the American equivalent of the man who stood in front of that tank in Tiananmen Square

"...Disclosures by the patriot Edward Snowden will have at least one penetrating and unpredictable result:..."

June 28, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Citizenfour

When Edward Snowden was in that hotel room in Hong Kong sharing his initial intel about NSA surveillance, Laura Poitras' was there with a camera to film his disclosures.

"...documentary about the early-on brouhaha surrounding government whistleblower Edward Snowden, you’ve got to wonder why his story – and..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Greenwald on Politics, Privacy, Journalism

Reporter/editor says bigger Snowden revelations to come

"...became a blogger and then reporter – and Ed Snowden’s go-to journalist to publish his cache of National Security..."

March 10, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Official Secrets

True story of a whistleblower who saw the lies behind the Iraq War

"...of gray. Mention the name of the exiled Edward Snowden or the recently (again) incarcerated Chelsea Manning in a..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Risk

Doc follows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

"...winner Citizenfour, in which she filmed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden while he was in hiding in Hong Kong in..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jason Bourne

The former CIA op resurfaces in a new era of electronic surveillance

"...data. She has joined forces with a Julian Assange/Edward Snowden-type character who wants to reveal all the information about..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: Firefighters in Action

Snowden and allies on the tech side of human rights and personal privacy

"...The relevant names include Aaron Swartz, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Glenn Greenwald. Swartz was the free-information hacktivist who..."

March 14, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Courting Ecstasy

Exploring the Landscapes of Playwright Lisa D'Amour

"...Lisa D'Amour as Oscar Snowdenphotograph by Bret Brookshire There must be a bar- room..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Online Privacy: Technical, Political, or Both?

When it comes to encryption, there's solidarity in numbers

"...During his live-streamed appearance at SXSW Interactive ("Snowden Defends Fourth Amendment," March 10), exiled cyber-security whistle-blower Edward..."

March 28, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

Fast Forward Austin Does Compute

New-music champions science the shit out of its upcoming concert with The Difference Engine

"...Density512, and Peter Stopschinski. Fast Forward Austin co-founder Steven Snowden says that he and co-founders Ian Dicke and Robert..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Won't You Come In?

For four years, playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl have forged an uncommon bond with audiences through the welcoming, intimate quality of their theatre work. They've also forged an uncommon bond with each other, a mutually fulfilling creative partnership that will continue for the rest of their lives.

"...on accidentally" while creating her first solo piece, Oscar Snowden and the Magic O, a fantasia inspired by the..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Laura Poitras Takes a Risk

Oscar-winning documentarian on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

"...in form and conclusions. Where her study of Edward Snowden was mostly set in one hotel room in Hong..."

May 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fast Forward Austin

This is not your standard music festival – you'll hear sounds you've never heard before

"...composition students – Ian Dicke, Robert Honstein, and Steven Snowden – were looking for new places to present music..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Watching the Watchmen

A crash course in privacy, in case you've been (not unreasonably) living under a rock

"...The actions of Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and WikiLeaks are examples of challenges to..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...Sixth Street by hard-drinking country singer and songwriter Gene Snowden in 1947 that inspired Campi to become a musician...."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Steven Snowden, This Place..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Revel Solstice Festival

Revel inaugurated its contemporary chamber music festival with three programs offering music for everyone

"...between minimalism and maximalism, was really lovely. Though Steven Snowden's "Steam Man of the Prairies," receiving its Austin premiere,..."

June 28, 2013 Arts Review by Matthew Irwin

String Quartet Smackdown

Golden Hornet Project adds a touch of March Madness to the alt-classical scene

"...near (Andrew Sigler, Austin Critics Table Award winner Steven Snowden) and far (Ivan Bozicevic of Serbia/Croatia; Argentina-born, Germany-based Juan..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Alchemies of Anatomy

Choreographer-performer Rosalyn Nasky has a penchant for details

"...Weaver. That piece also used a composition by Steven Snowden, who will perform onstage with Nasky in Program A..."

June 22, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Exclusive: Nightbitch, The Room Next Door to Screen at Austin Film Festival

Fest adds five world premieres in second round of titles

"...by: Marielle Heller Cast: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowden, Emmett Snowden, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Archana Rajan, Jessica..."

Sept. 16, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

A stunning portrait of the life of activist Nan Goldin

"...herself an Oscar for the film about whistleblower Edward Snowden. Poitras has a knack for revealing the layers in..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

The Academy's five favorite animated shorts, plus two ringers

"...laugh. “Animal Behaviour,” directed by David Fine and Alison Snowden, is the funniest film of the lot. Within the..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: If There's a Hell Below

Director Nathan Williams on his post-Snowden thriller

"...Austin Chronicle: The idea of a national security whistleblower, post-Snowden, post-Wikileaks, post-Manning, seems timely, but what was the genesis..."

Dec. 10, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Vortex's Privacy Settings: A Promethean Tale

Ancient myth meets modern surveillance memorably in this devised work at the Vortex

"...Prometheus Bound. Mythological fire-stealing, human-protecting Prometheus and whistle-blower Edward Snowden are combined, played with a quiet passion and strength..."

June 10, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Spy

The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy onslaught continues with a Bond parody

"...that fact that you find yourself rooting for the post-Snowden CIA...."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unfriended

Social media strikes back in this grisly teen horror

"...from the mindless droogisms of online bullying to Edward Snowden’s revelations of global data collection. In that sense, Orwell’s..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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