BPP Retreats on 'Special Condition X'

No more sex-offender restrictions for parolees who aren't sex offenders?

"...for determining when parolees can be saddled with release conditions – known as Special Condition X – normally reserved..."

June 17, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

BPP Retreats on Arbitrary Imposition of 'Sex Offender' Rules

New rules for "Special Condition X"

"...for determining when parolees can be saddled with release conditions normally reserved for sex offenders...."

June 13, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

For Patients With Opioid Use Disorders, the B-Team Offers Help

Dell Seton Medical Center’s “Buprenorphine Team” and its innovative approach to addiction

"...be given buprenorphine – a medication, also known as suboxone, that provides relief from the always harrowing and sometimes..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

One of the Great Ones

"...are crime fiction novels, the rest are split between Texana, military history, and miscellaneous subjects. The crime section bulges..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

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Libertarians Say No to Doggett

"...about the future of our state and country. For example, I am completely mortified that Doggett voted to allow..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column

Season's Grazings

"...passed away during the Christmas of 1976, and the next year my younger sister and I joined Mother for..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Food Feature

Texas Platters

"...to Run") that passes for redneck wit. This 10-song mix is so formulaic and ballad-heavy, it seems Sony was..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...in the peeper. Melies' ancient in-camera edits and flickering semispecial effects seem exquisitely antediluvian when compared to even the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...this is a generalized outline, and there are many exceptions, as well as an increasing appreciation of the value..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Contradictions Exposed

"...as an admitted virgin, he's done no real living? ["Anti-sex Crusader," Vol. 16, No. 18]..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

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Balcones Responds

"...quote? "After years of filing garbage bags with envelopes, faxes, mailers, and boxes, it has been satisfying to send..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

What Now for SXSW?

A year after tragedy, the city and the Festival look to a sustainable future

"...his partner on a Polaris Ranger all-terrain vehicle at Sixth Street and Brazos, and they immediately broke north toward..."

March 13, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Holiday Wish Lists 2003

Presents for public service

"...the end of the calendar year, charitible gifts are tax write-offs, too! We hope these public service wish lists..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Features Feature

Internal Affairs

One night on adult trauma at Brackenridge

"...between. A year or so ago there was an extra shift open on adult trauma, the eighth floor of..."

Aug. 16, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Event Listings

"...LEAH DeVUN: OUR HANDS ON EACH OTHER This artist explores lesbian space while "our hands" explore everything else. Gorgons..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...Legal weed or foggy climate, Vancouver, British Columbia's been exporting gunky stuff. This Beerland all-nighter features two fine examples..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

Holiday Wish Lists 2006

Give 'til it helps: Part 2

"...a great way, not only to enjoy an end-of-the-year tax-write-off, but to give back to our community in a..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Features Feature

Eve of Destruction?

The City plans for a big New Year's Eve party downtown while East Sixth Street merchants complain of threat of competition

"...coordinator. On Dec. 31, both men will join what's expected to be a crowd of nearly 200,000 on Congress..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Feature by Andy Langer

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Open Records Good

"...commentary on the Open Records Act dispute between the Texas Supreme Court and Attorney General Dan Morales ("Open and..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...junkies) uses Jenny's dazed meanderings as a way to explore the seamy underbelly of America's urban youth. We see..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

Top 20 Austin Breweries of 2020

It's time for our annual Central Texas Brewery Power Rankings

"...plan for most – if not every – Central Texas brewery was to go full steam ahead into SXSW..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

Porn Busters!

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

"...officers -- FBI agents, accompanied by investigators with the Texas attorney general's Cyber Crimes Unit -- was demanding entry...."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...forefront of a new generation of jazz musicians. His sixth album for Blue Note, Same Mother, has just been..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Off the Record

The estate of Don Walser and Southbound's Lowkey both get their respective days in court

"...Don Walser against his former record labels Antone's Records, Texas Music Group, and Texas Clef Enter-tainment took place last..."

June 4, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two

If you want to cut government spending, legalize pot, plus more pearls on government spending (or lack thereof) and the Austin Film and Green festivals.

"...Mark Blumenthal. Admission is only $10. If the current condition of state and national politics has you down, here..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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"...I'd like to correct and expand on Lauri Apple's article last week titled "Cyclists Chastise..."

June 20, 2003 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...it becomes the in-house pleasure organ of the SOS Axis? Judging from the latest issue, the city "News" department..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...OF JOY: Arguably the old-time gospel group in Central Texas, the Bells of Joy are synonymous the quartet-style gospel..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Tribute Records

Tammy Wynette Remembered

"...Man." A clever idea, if not a new one, except that John's cover is damn near unpalatable: meant to..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Review

Live Shots

"...to the more contemporary Irish propensity to celebrate whatever condition or situation -- no matter how miserable or exuberant..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature