Rain, Broken Glass, and a Dead Body in the Dumpster

Fourteen hours of Elizabeth Reeder's A Very Bad Day

"...At the South Austin headquarters of the so-called Test Prep Guy,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

House Gives Perry the Finger

House Bills 2 and 3 die; it's back to square one

"...After a bizarre, yet thrilling, set of circumstances turned the special session on its ear Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry..."

July 29, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Into the Heart

U2 drops the 'Atomic Bomb'

"...To get an idea how U2 rates on the longevity meter, consider this. Twenty-five years after "That's All..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The AIDS Quilt Cover

"...The most painful event of the Eighties was the death..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shades of the Past

Austin's ghosts, from pioneer times to the present

"...Maybe the souls who lived here in the distant past, even..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature

The Lost Cause

"...Jack Jackson's Lost Cause: The TrueStory of Famed Gunslinger John Wesley Hardin is what..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Books Feature

The Dragon & the Tiger

Shadow Warriors, Glorium

"...Welcome to the shadow world of Glorium, a band shrouded in enough..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature

Adrian Quesada and the Long Path to His First Official Solo Release

Austin's unassuming superstar is a travellin' man

"...unimpressed with himself. Yes, things are very good for the multihyphenate, to say the least. Of course, Quesada has..."

July 15, 2022 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

How Austin Is Tackling Homelessness on the Street and at City Hall

More shelters, more beds, and more fights about ordinances ahead

"...When Arlene Page learned the tent she shared with her boyfriend Philip Mitchell had..."

Aug. 2, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

What Land Use Code Do We Need to Build the City We Want?

Planning a way forward after CodeNEXT

"...In hindsight, last year's shuddering halt to the CodeNEXT land use code rewrite looks less like an..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

City Council: The Race Is On

Previewing November’s elections for Districts 1, 3, 8, and 9

"...now into its fourth year, meaning it's graduated from the toddler stage and into early childhood. Already we're seeing..."

June 22, 2018 News Feature by the News Staff

Crime and the City Solution

How safe do you feel exiting the Sixth Street/Red River Austin music crucible at 2am?

"...unsafe ground." – "Six Bells Chime," by Crime & the City Solution, from the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Wings..."

June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The New Rage

Voxtrot finally conquers the LP

"...Ramesh Srivastava introduces a brand-new song in progress to the rest of the band...."

May 18, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

'Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers'

Marrit Ingman's new memoir: an excerpt

"...Memoir isn't quite the word, actually, and not just because most are excessive,..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Life of the Party

Marc Savlov talks with San Francisco-based director Greg Harrison about his new film, Groove and the burgeoning rave movement it depicts.

"...Harrison has managed what many thought impossible: He's captured the vital heartbeat of an entire youth subculture, distilled it,..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Thing Unspoken

"...A feeling stirs in the deepest chambers of your heart. You recognize it by..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shock to the System

Brace Yourselves: Deregulation Is Coming, Eventually

"...Like it or not, it's coming. Whether by federal or state mandate, Texas is almost guaranteed..."

Feb. 21, 1997 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

The Usual Mayhem

A Potpourri of Book Reviews

"...Evans Cartlage A blurb from Simon & Schuster, plugging the publication of Kinky Friedman's ninth and latest mystery novel..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Books Feature

Opinion: White Privilege in Austin’s Unhoused Community

Alberta Phillips, chair of the ECHO Board of Governors, explains the kind of racism that can lock Black people into a lifetime of living unsheltered

"...In the aftermath of a blistering winter storm that swept through..."

March 19, 2021 Column by Alberta Phillips

September Dawn

This movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, during which local Mormons murdered 120 members of a wagon train heading West, reeks of ulterior motives.

"...by real events, reeks of ulterior motives, yet even these unstated objectives are obscured by slack filmmaking choices and..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mi Vida Loca: My Crazy Life

"...Vargas, Marlo Marron, Jessie Borrego and Magali Alvarado. From the opening moments, you know you're seeing something that you've..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin's Next Shot at Ending Homelessness

Thanks to an infusion of philanthropic cash, the city and its iTeam embark on a new effort

"...be like this," says Judy, who last lived on the street back in the Eighties. "I was having a..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Harmonic Distortion

Malekko Heavy Industry's guitar pedals of mass distortion

"...Just north of the Austin city limits, in a nondescript warehouse, Josh Holley..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Autechre Melts IDM

UK duo spans from pirate radio to the dark side of the Internet

"...The foundry of Autechre melts decades of dance and experimental..."

Oct. 8, 2015 Music Post by Conor Walker

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...Last October, for Huey Lewis & the News' concert at the Long Center, the frontman talked..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...by: Charlie Kaufman. Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making History Personal

History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.

"...We cling to the idea that history can be recorded as fact, as..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

SXSW Live Shot: Mirror Travel

Austin trio’s guitar squall blows in from ‘Mexico’

"...In the wake of a well-received set from epic dance rock..."

March 13, 2014 Music Post by Greg Beets

He Called Me Baby

The genesis of One Eskimo's "Kandi"

"...At 55, I'm the old fart on our music writing staff, but when..."

Feb. 1, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

This Week in Campaign Fail

Gov. Perry makes fake turbine flap

"...Gov. Rick Perry – the man that has helped drive Texas over a financial,..."

June 9, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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