Top 10 Police Beat Stories

Shades of Blue

"...2) Brown Killed, Olsen Fired Even before Acevedo was sworn..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Hollywood Scrambles to Sensitize its Fall Slate

In the wake of last week's tragedies, not only have several films depicting terrorism been shelved, but anything even featuring the World Trade Center in the NYC skyline is being examined for possible alteration.

"...examined for possible alteration. Sony Pictures has shelved the Spider-Man teaser trailer featuring a helicopter stuck between the Twin..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Column by Michael Chamy

Naked City

"...anticlimax, City Council adopted on Monday the fiscal year 2008 budget, at a cool $2.5 billion and amidst an..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...raises more questions than it answers. For example, the $2,000-per-day penalty the city is charging the construction company --..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Column

Journey Into Clarity #83

For years he'd blamed his sister for destroying his comic book, a book worth over two grand today. Looking back at a painful memory brings Wayne Alan Brenner that much closer to understanding why losing that darned comic book at age seven meant so much.

"...My sister cost me $2,000 when I was seven years old...."

Dec. 24, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

RoboCop Is Alive and Well and Kicking Ass Onstage

Eighties blockbusters and a 'cardboard aesthetic' courtesy of the Old Murder House Theatre

"...the adults. We did it late at night, like 12:30, and we got all the drunks. We essentially wanted..."

June 17, 2011 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lupita Murillo Tinnen: American DREAM

These photos put a face on undocumented students without putting faces on them

"...stuffed Eeyore on the shelf in Culinary Arts, age 10½; the Mickey Mouse pillowcase on the bed and Spider-Man..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Spirit of the Beehive

"They felt the film was ... simply unendurable. That no one would go see it."

"...of the Beehive, but they accent the best review Víctor Erice ever got. Franco's censors playing Ebert & Roeper?..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Bright Lights, Little City

It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

"...Georgetown's first and only movie palace was built. In 1925, it was a brick storefront building with a pressed..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Free Comics

"......"

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Danny and Michael Philippou Say Talk to Me

Creators of the new A24 horror on the foolishness of youth

"...In new A24 horror, Talk to Me, the greatest peril is not..."

July 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Rodriguez Brings Big Dad Energy to We Can Be Heroes

Sharkboy and Lavagirl return to pass the torch to a younger generation of heroes

"...friend Eli Roth to make his first family-friendly movie, 2018's The House With a Clock in Its Walls). But..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

I, Tonya Smashes Into AFF

Biopic of ice skating's greatest scandal and more for fest

"...The sports flick, directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and..."

Oct. 10, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

HavenCon Creates Safe Spaces for Gaymers

LGBTQ gaming culture convention returns for its third year

"...The LGBTQ and gaming communities have long overlapped. The..."

April 26, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

KRAKATHOOOOM!! Free Comic Book Day Is Soon Upon Us Once Again!

Annual giveaway of popular sequential art stirs area interest, desire

"...May, the very first FCBD having occurred on May 2, back in 2002 – to coincide with, to borrow..."

May 3, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL Music Fest 2014 Friday Listings

Blurbing Friday ACL

"...12:15pm, Honda stage..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature

Three Cheers for Reading

Our favorite books of 2013

"...– you've already heard most of my cooing about 2013's new releases. I loved exploring the ideas of technological..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

How Literature Saved David Shields' Life

The author of 'Reality Hunger' dodges those ol' bullets of anomie

"...What I mean is that, in the author's new..."

Feb. 4, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

On the Verge

Tapping the play's frivolity and optimism, St. Ed's students create a charming show

"...Running time: 2 hr., 10 min...."

March 11, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

All Access

Austin's B-Side Entertainment rethinks how to get a movie to the masses

"...On Jan. 25, The New York Times ran what was a fairly..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Mike Kanin

Comic Books and Forward Motion

"...I was a kid I was a moron. And 2) because nostalgia is a waste of time...."

July 11, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Drawing Interest

Books with graphic value

"...The World of Steve Ditkoby Blake Bell Fantagraphics Books, 220 pp., $39.99 Bottomless Belly Buttonby Dash Shaw Fantagraphics Books,..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Myth Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock's mythic creatures rise from the canvas, with help from Stephen Mills and Graham Reynolds

"...to Color: Notes on a Collaboration," showing through April 27 at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, 700 Congress...."

April 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Jon Dee Graham goes under the lens for a new documentary, Joel Laviolette culls spirits with Rattletree Marimba, and the new Austin Music Hall finally opens (sort of)

"...Graham's work through his appearance on Willie Nelson's live 2005 benefit DVD, Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Wyrd Sisters

The Vortex's 2007 Summer Youth Theatre showcases more talented youth with Terry Pratchett's lighthearted, adventurous Wyrd Sisters

"...The Vortex, through July 28..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

The Darkling Band: Lay on, Macduff ... again

With his latest novel, The Darkling Band, comics writer Jason Henderson returns to the story of Macduff and creates a sort of Western with dark elves

"...has covered some of the world's most famous characters: Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Highlander, and Dracula. Now he's..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Joey Seiler

Tween Titans

The adventures of Taylor Lautner and Taylor Dooley (Sharkboy and Lavagirl, respectively), in conversation

"...eye-popping life. Both originally from Michigan, 13-year-old Lautner and 12-year-old Dooley are the superhero endoskeleton to the film's serpentine..."

June 10, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

"...instruction and practice the beginner can become a regular Spider-Man...."

May 17, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Record Reviews

Built to Spill

"...The world may not make any more sense to..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Spider's Web

This talky Agatha Christie mystery is long but serves up an amusing little puzzle

"...The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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