Marvin's Metamorphosis

From Communism to Conservatism, Olasky Comes Full Circle

"...Nation? No, it's from a local source. Perhaps The Texas Observer, then? Wrong again. The speaker is Marvin Olasky,..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Give Us News, STAT!

Clooney's Cute, But Not After 10pm

"...on video slot machines, and President Clinton coming to Texas. Those stories, altogether, took even less than three minutes...."

Oct. 10, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Preserve Town Lake

"...recreation, but as a way to connect with Central Texas' natural beauty without having to leave the downtown area...."

Nov. 22, 1996 Column

Civil War

Stunning near-future drama about combat journalists

"...rebellion is being led by the unified forces of Texas and California. Whatever it is that the president (Offerman)..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Review: Rather

A clear-eyed history of the greatest living journalist from Texas

"...the career of Dan Rather, the softly-spoken but determined Texas reporter who has helped turn the spotlight on those..."

June 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Music Desk

On Willie, Billy, Stevie Ray, Blaze, and more highlights from four decades of covering Austin music

"...year in 1983 when he released his first album, Texas Flood, and I got to interview him. Stevie was..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Hall

Statesman Sold (We're Told)

Daily paper could go to GateHouse Media

"...on media conglomerate Hearst Corp. – owners of several Texas dailies, including the Houston Chron­icle and the San Antonio..."

March 2, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Ken Herman —30—

"...newspaper where his cringeworthy commentary can still pass as 'journalism,' let alone wisdom."..."

April 1, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Truth

Drama about how Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes got fired from CBS

"...suspicion that he had dodged Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard. Her research had actually begun with..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Into the Field: A Foreign Correspondent's Notebook

A UT professor recounts his three decades of reporting in Asia

"...by Tracy Dahlby University of Texas Press, 312 pp., $29.95..."

May 1, 2015 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

DVDanger: Advice to Young Journalists

What cinema tells us about what we expect from the news

"...what Stewart does on The Daily Show is not journalism. He is a comedian and commentator, and the commentary..."

Feb. 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Keep Calm and Party On

Everything you need to know to navigate SXSW Film

"...Long-form journalism is so passé. I prefer nugget-sized. You know you’re..."

March 4, 2013 Screens Post

David Carr Did Not Give Up the Secret Sauce

No silver bullet but NY Times guy still a helluva spokesman for new media

"...He was on the University of Texas campus yesterday to deliver the 2012 Mary Alice Davis..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Fun Platform

Helen Knode's new murder mystery finds her leaving noir and stepping into the light

"...and a little leg could penetrate: the movie industry, journalism, and detective fiction of the hard-boiled variety...."

April 27, 2012 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Festival, he exercised the utmost in lazy and unethical journalism by using a quote by me printed in another..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column

Letters @ 3AM

The federal government benefits from undocumented workers, therefore something is owed those workers in return: justice

"..."half" is mostly Latino. Already, California, New Mexico, and Texas have non-Anglo (mostly Latino) majorities; New York and Arizona..."

May 26, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

NASA Joke Has Aggie Punchline

It takes a real Aggie to spot an Aggie wannabe

"...acknowledged that he had not, in fact, graduated from Texas A&M, although he had listed an undergraduate journalism degree..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Lowdown

A business magazine gushes over the accounting practices of … Enron?; Bush gambles with your retirement money; and CEOs create "opportunity" by firing employees.

"...Biz 'Journalism' and Enron..."

Jan. 4, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Double Take

Austin Scribe Lawrence Wright Tackles Noriega -- Twice

"...the revered Southern physician-turned-novelist and the young writer from Texas...."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Media Clips

Two Fox reporters, fired by a Tampa station for their report on the continued use of the controversial recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, are coming to Austin to tell their tale.

"...The great irony of journalism is that excellent investigative reporting really isn't all that..."

Feb. 4, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Films Without Borders

Cine Las Americas

"...Film Society, Austin Community College, and the University of Texas' Radio-Television-Film Department have sponsored screenings of Cuban films, the..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

VanScorned

"...Donald Dodson Selective Journalism..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Column

Not Your Same Old News

Politico Taps Into Latino Affairs With Critical Eye

"...Chronicle and formerly wrote a weekly column for The Texas Triangle. "One of them was just to focus on..."

Jan. 16, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Fake News!

"...Hello, Is there anyone at your paper with a journalism degree or knows what journalism is? Peaceful protests? ["57..."

April 26, 2024 Postmarks

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday

Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more

"...recent release following four and a half years in Texas prison didn’t go uncelebrated. Certainly the artist in question..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Samuel Woolley and The Reality Game

UT professor's new book attacks the disinformation wars

"...the Truth. An assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas-Austin, Woolley warns against the..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Mike Berry

A Dance Writer Moves On

After a decade with the Chron, Jonelle Seitz takes her leave

"...The first thing you should know is, it isn't..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Taps ConsenSys Founder Joseph Lubin for 2019 Keynote

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency track programming comes into focus

"...and moderator Cesare Fracassi (Professor of Finance, University of Texas at Austin) for a conversation about permissioned (private) blockchains..."

Oct. 9, 2018 SXSW Post by Bonny Chu

Gary Hart Biopic The Front Runner to Close Austin Film Festival

New films by Yorgos Lanthimos, Asghar Farhadi added to fest

"...of an extramarital relationship with Donna Rice. As tabloid journalism and political journalism merged for the first time, Senator..."

Sept. 12, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mike Clark-Madison Named Publisher of Austin Monitor

Former Chronicle writer and editor becomes third to run local site

"...on the Task Force on Community Engagement, the Central Texas chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and..."

Feb. 9, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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