Death Watch: Mitigation Appeal Denied, Abel Ochoa Set to Die

He'll become the first person executed in Texas in 2020

"...weeks and was craving a rock. She gave in to his pestering, and when they got home Ochoa smoked..."

Jan. 31, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

It's Time to Party With Holiday Lights, Gremlins, and More Events

Fill your week with bright and shady things to do

"...Where are we going? Why, to the North Pole, of course! This is the Polar..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Welcome to Capital Metro

Whoever the new CEO turns out to be – she'll have her hands full

"...time you read this, the Capital Metro board of directors may have already decided who will lead that agency..."

June 18, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...in a meteorological sense but a literary one. The Texas Book Festival has released the full list of authors..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...viewed from the outside is any number of famous actors and actresses, a few brand-name directors, and even fewer..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Gagging the Right

Republicans muzzled the Religious Right during the GOP convention

"...It's Tuesday morning, the Texas delegation to the Republican convention is gathered for breakfast..."

Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

From Southerners to Seventh Grade

"...Feisty old women who presume to tell everyone what to do and how to do..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Books Feature

The Texas Gamut

Titles From Texas

"...Lyle Lovett look so much alike. I then began to wonder just what kind of person would enjoy reading..."

May 15, 1998 Books Feature

Book Review: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen

New authorized biography vividly exhumes the artist’s West Texas world

"...No Texas artist has been as simultaneously celebrated and confounding as..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by Doug Freeman

Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins

The legend of Texas journalism gets the coverage she deserves

"...There are plenty of great things to say about director Janice Engel’s portrait of the late,..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived

The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism

"...The appearance of Public Citizen Execu­tive Director Tom Smith at the November meeting of the Lone..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...Texas Book Festival authors, friends, and coordinators gathered at The..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Big, Bright Eyes of Texas

Celebrating the life of the bigger-than-life Ann Richards

"...Ann Richards spent a lifetime dispensing advice, often unsolicited and sometimes brutally honest, to..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Big, Bright Eyes of Texas

Celebrating the life of the bigger-than-life Ann Richards

"...Ann Richards spent a lifetime dispensing advice, often unsolicited and sometimes brutally honest, to..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

The New Texas Family Planning

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

"...which has offered family planning and reproductive health services to low-income and uninsured women since the early Seventies, discontinued..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Life and Work, Light and Dark

How the legacy of Townes Van Zandt more than met its match in 'some dumb New York girl'

"...New York premiere and national release of Be Here to Love Me, her toast-of–the-music-and-film-world Townes Van Zandt documentary. At..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Texas Treasures

Moody Anderson and His Western Warehouse

"...It's high noon, midweek, not long ago. I'm tooling westbound on Highway 2244, 20 or so miles out..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...Utter the words "Herb Alpert tribute compilation" too loud in my neighborhood and you'll get more than..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Texas Platters

"...out of business for 10 years, is coming back to life under the power of Sony Nashville, and it's..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

A Commitment to Playwrights

The Life and Legacy of David Mark Cohen

"...Cohen, and Connie McMillian I wish I didn't have to write this piece. I wish I knew that I..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Arts Feature

Texas Platters

"...PHIL OCHS..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

Texas Platters

"...DALE WATSON..."

July 11, 1997 Music Review

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...mustache and a moon tan. As I pull up to the curb and park behind a faded blue VW..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

MAGA Moms and the Republican Resistance to School Vouchers

Make education public again

"...“I did vote for Trump,” Plemons told us. “And I block walked for him. I’m a..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Debate Over How and Whether to Jail Kids in Austin Is Just Getting Started

Travis County proposes a new facility to hold kids accused of crimes

"...drew guns and shot. A 32-year-old man lost his life. Wallace was arrested six weeks later, taken to the..."

Jan. 26, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Charlie Robison, Charismatic Texas Country Singer-Songwriter, Has Died at 59

Following 2018 retirement, Robison had returned to the stage this year

"...Charlie Robison, the artist behind such Texas staples as “My Hometown” and “New Year’s Day,” died..."

Sept. 11, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

How Texas Wreaked Havoc on One Man's Journey to Citizenship

Living the American nightmare

"...Roberto Mejía's greatest fear crossing the border was a simple..."

May 19, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...When Hasmukh Patel was shot to death in his San Antonio convenience store in 2004,..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin’s Animal Shelters Struggle to Uphold No-Kill Reputation in the Face of Overcrowding

How overcrowding and mismanagement of Austin Animal Center and Austin Pets Alive! have them struggling to keep up

"...more than a decade, Austin was the largest city to designate itself a no-kill sanctuary for animals. That came..."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Podcast the Myth: B.J. Novak Goes to Texas in Vengeance

The Office star explores the stories that Texas tells itself

"...Cooper's BBQ on Austin's Congress Avenue. If you've been to Austin during South by Southwest, the odds are pretty..."

July 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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