The Shark Bites Back

Mitchell Says the Eastside Needs Sharp Teeth

"...stand outside of Windsor Methodist Church in East Austin. They waved "Eric Mitchell for Place 6" signs in the..."

April 18, 1997 News Feature

The Family Stone

This likable romantic comedy runs the gamut of emotions – hitting tenderness, rage, remorse, and everything in between – but there are too many characters with too little chemistry to be a real keeper.

"...sense that Sarah Jessica Parker, late of Sex and the City, would want to avoid typecasting and steer clear..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

X Games: Kanye West Touches the Sky

Godlike MC ushers in his 37th birthday with a commanding set

"...Rare is the Austin concert where you turn around in an amphitheater..."

June 9, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Hightower Report

Can the GOP establishment get any more out of touch?

"...Exciting news, people! The Republican Party's establishment has a secret plan to stop..."

April 15, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

Austin Film Festival Review: The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

A recurrence not at Owl Creek Bridge, again and again

"...that. Tunde’s problem is time. Specifically, May 28 and the one single moment in that day during which he’s..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Music: Live at the BBQ

Wyclef Jean, Trae tha Truth, Bun B, 2 Chainz, DJ Khaled, Nas

"...Slow burner, sure, but the blaze went uncontained at the end. In what’s fast..."

March 18, 2016 SXSW Post by Kahron Spearman

Alison Macor Tells the Tale of Austin’s Greatest Rewrite Man

New book delves into the career of Top Gun script doctor Warren Skaaren

"...be an entryway into its tight but legendarily supportive clique of filmmakers, the writer Alison Macor has become the..."

June 2, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

The AggreGAYtor: February 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Megan Rapinoe has an evening out, Jennifer Lopez gets the green light, and Adam Lambert gives some questionable advice...."

Feb. 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

FF2012: 'The King of Pigs'

And you thought your schooldays were hellish

"...want about animation being a flimsy to convey mature themes and imagery that, pre-CGI, would have been impossible to..."

Sept. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Playback: Make the Austin Music Poll Great Again

Getting the vote out for the 2016/17 Austin Music Poll

"...We realize everyone feels burned from the last election – the one where the morally bankrupt..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop

Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America

"...Ultimate democratizer, the internet leads you to a mostly black and brown..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Feature by Clara Wang

On the Santa Trail

Ace reporter Jordan Smith is hot on the trail of Austin's own Santa.

"...Or that he is an award-winning chili chef in the off-season? Or that, aside from that North Pole workshop,..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

The Backstage Crew

Council Candidates' Consultants Direct the Show

"...The Dream Team Scheme..."

April 11, 1997 News Feature

All the Right Moves

Democrat Donna Howard faces self-proclaimed moderate Republican Cynthia Thornton in the general election for Austin's seat on the State Board of Education

"...Given the recent controversies ignited by influential Christian conservatives on the..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Hightower Report

GOP unhinged by Obamacare

"...Whacking yourself on the head with a ball-peen hammer would be stupid. But..."

Oct. 18, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Lobbyists' BFF; and California's Budding Union Movement

"...perhaps never heard of this Ohio Republican, who's been the minority leader for almost four years, but he has..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Blog to the Future

Where P2P might be taking journalism, or not

"...The weblogging world is only a couple of years old,..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Beside the Point

Books at Green, Drunks on Sixth

"..."A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life," congregational minister Henry Ward Beecher once..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Playback: HAAM's Time of the Season

HAAM Day fills its coffers for uninsured live music capitalists

"...Rare are the entities in Austin music that transcend the subjective barriers..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Hightower Report

America's Gaping Economic Divide; and The Bizarre Idolization of Reagan

"...THE BIZARRE IDOLIZATION OF REAGAN..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Railing at the Rail Yard:

Capital Metro runs into (surprise!) angry neighbors as it contemplates redeveloping its Eastside rail yard.

"...Just another day at the office for Capital Metro -- angry..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Welcome to the Primaries

A roundup of primary races important to the Austin area

"...to score an unprecedented hat trick: control of both the Texas House and Senate and the U.S. Congressional delegation...."

March 1, 2002 News Feature

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony Bourdain..."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Slabs, Screw, and Stories from the Country: Deezie Brown & EC Mayne Soundtrack Bastrop County

Candy Blue Like Screw reclaims Texas rap heritage

"...The biggest mistake everyone makes about small towns is considering..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Hip-Hop on the Verge

Austin finally cemented a scene, but who will break out nationally?

"...Months before becoming only the second local rapper to play the Austin City Limits..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...The following program notes were originally printed in conjunction with..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

The Deal of a Lifetime

TDHCA Board member Florita Bell Griffin is standing trial in a Houston federal courtroom on allegations that she, along with two co-defendants, conspired to profit from deals she helped approve.

"...The story that emerged in the courtroom where state housing..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Doughnut Man

"...Randall Lee Malone tends to fancy himself the Joan of Arc of the Austin Police Department. In..."

Aug. 8, 1997 News Feature

The Guy Is Everywhere

Lloyd Maines

"...just about any great pedal steel guitar player would; the word "legend" may be used much too liberally these..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

The Faces of "New" Country Buck and Hag Revisted by Lee Nichols

"...150,000 and few tall buildings, it seems more like the rural towns that surround it. It's a placid, quiet..."

May 26, 1995 Music Feature

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