Supremes Agree Texas Inmate Should Have Appeal Heard

Extends 2012 ruling on ineffective assistance of counsel

"...of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Texas death row inmate Carlos Trevino may raise for the..."

May 29, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

ACL Review: Local Natives

Third time proves yet another charm for L.A. pop savants

"...band proved stadium-ready late Sunday afternoon during an explosive performance at the Honda stage...."

Oct. 3, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Texas Senate Warms Up to Film Incentives After Taylor Sheridan's Testimony

Yellowstone franchise mastermind makes argument for funding

"...months away from the next legislative session, but the Texas Senate Finance Committee was busy yesterday with a long..."

Oct. 10, 2024 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Senate Education Committee Advances Its Own School Finance Plan

SB 4 would essentially gut the House version of the bill

"...The Texas Senate Education Committee voted 8-0-3 to advance a fleshed..."

May 1, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

SXSW Film Review: Shouting Down Midnight

Years after Wendy Davis’ filibuster, doc follows those still fighting

"...national attention for conducting a daylong filibuster of a Texas law positioned to significantly reduce access to abortion care..."

March 13, 2022 SXSW Post by Vivie Behrens

Austin Film Festival Review: Jules of Light and Dark

Defeat, desire, and dreams deep in the heart of Texas

"...broken hearts and busted lives in a Lone Star State small town could easily be pegged as a paean..."

Oct. 28, 2018 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Chicago

Hello, suckers!

"...act of the touring Chicago, hoofer-turned-femme fatale Velma Kelly (Texas State University's own Logan Floyd) greets the audience with..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Terror Fest Review: Dorthia Cottrell, Panopticon

Windhand singer and outdoorsman Austin Lunn stage own AMAs

"...imagine that crowd not only giving a pair of Texas singer/songwriter-obsessed headbangers their full attention, but also recognizing the..."

June 9, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

White Ghost Shivers

Record review

"...a formidable live band over the last half-dozen years. Performance prowess has garnered the local octet live radio spots,..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Music Review by David Lynch

City to Review LGBT Rights Performance

CM Riley wants Austin to be equality leader

"...Austin may lead Texas in supporting LGBT rights, but City Council wants the..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Jerry Bywaters: Lone Star Printmaker

The landscape shapes us, say these prints by the Texas regionalist, and we are it

"...Anyone who has driven west across Texas and seen where the plains give way to the..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Even the Winter Storm Disaster Couldn't Budge the Texas Lege on Climate Change

Maybe when hell freezes over?

"...D-Driftwood, in January at the beginning of the 87th Texas Legislature, she was "optimistic that the body [would] openly..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Hovvdy Stays True to Texas on New Self-Titled Album

ATX-launched duo talks songwriting and special unplugged release shows

"...You can take the band out of Texas, but Hovvdy’s allegiance to their home state remains stronger..."

April 26, 2024 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Pageant

There's something inherently entertaining about men in women's clothing, and you'll rarely see so many men in so much women's clothing as you will in Naughty Austin's quite entertaining revival of Pageant

"...third straight holiday run. Like so many other live performance venues in town, Naughty Austin seems to have found..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Texas Two-Step

Richard Linklater and Matthew McConaughey on their true-crime comedy, 'Bernie'

"...shared by these old friends. Bernie is a supremely Texas movie based on a strange-but-true crime story set in..."

April 27, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...he scored points with critics and colleagues with Dancer, Texas Pop. 81; and he's acknowledged as the uncredited innovator..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Texas Platters

"...1940, there's little about Phil Ochs' music that says "Texas," other than an affinity in his later recordings for..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

Fantastic Fest Review: Bad Times at the El Royale

Was it good times for the Fantastic Fest closing film?

"...The El Royale, which straddles the state line between Nevada and California, was once a hotspot..."

Oct. 3, 2018 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Fantastic Fest Review: Halloween

Does the sequel that ignores all the other sequels work?

"...knowing that Michael Myers is still alive in a state-run mental institution. The damage that has inflicted on her,..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Moontower 2018 Review: "Weird Al" Yankovic

With his latest tour, "Weird Al" causes the nerd apocalypse

"...it still aims to please. The bulk of the performance focuses on his most popular original songs, like the..."

April 23, 2018 Arts Post by Ashley Moreno

The Trojan Women

A version that shows us in the women of Troy the brutalized women of our own time's wars

"...of this new adaptation produced by the University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance make the case that..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Cinderella

ALO's version, set in 1930s Hollywood, is the definition of audience-friendly

"...the program and supertitles of the libretto during the performance to make it audience-friendly...."

Nov. 14, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Your Neighbors, Your Money: ACC Looks for Support

Austin Community College seeks to build support for a tax referendum even as a state audit blasts ACC leaders.

"...fuel to the bad-PR pyre, the day before Thanksgiving state Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander held a press conference (at..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

She's Her Own Grandma

Carole Keeton Strayhorn – what a long strange trip it's been

"...waiting more than two months for the secretary of state to validate her voter-signed petitions, Strayhorn wasn't about to..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

The latest Texas Performance Review says AISD schools are operating under capacity, but AISD says their methodology masks school crowding.

"...were hardly shocked that the preliminary draft of the state comptroller's Texas Performance Review audit was harshly critical of..."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Campfire Horror Story

How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids

"...Thera­peutic Camp and School. Inside the Chevy Suburb­ans were Texas Child Protective Services caseworkers who'd come to take custody..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Daily Hustle: 11/8/10

Meet six finalists for Police Monitor

"...looking at six finalists to chair the OPM's Citizen Review Panel...."

Nov. 8, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

A Whole Lotta Lit to Hit

Texas Book Festival's 2015 Lit Crawl is as huge as the state

"...Ghost stories in the State Cemetery. Nerd Jeopardy. Crimes Against Humanity with books. Writers..."

Oct. 14, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Scratch That: Lege Ends Lottery, Then Changes Mind

House avoids $2 billion school funding hole by saving scratch cards

"...be a prosaic procedural measure: the reauthorization of the Texas Lottery Commission. Yet, somehow, this morning the Texas House..."

April 23, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Madame Comptroller gets her back up over HB 7.

"...office of the responsibility (and the staff) for the "e-Texas" state-agency performance reviews and the Texas School Performance Reviews...."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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