Sine Die Part 2: The House

The House ends the 80th session like it has been for weeks: divided, fighting over the rule book, and pointing fingers at Speaker Craddick.

"...If the Senate left for summer vacation with a degree of..."

May 29, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Don’t Stop Believing: Moving Panoramas’ Leslie Sisson Overcomes the Trauma That Birthed In Two

Sophomore LP spins a sequel to the shoegazers’ extraordinary journey

"...Moving Panoramas is a band from Austin that began as an outlet for trauma and tragedy...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

Bill of the Week: Or, How Not to Pass Open Carry

How one gun group became its own worst enemy

"...Ever wonder how a bill dies? When it comes to open carry in Texas, it..."

Jan. 30, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hands That Feed

The groups that care for Austin's hungry could sure use a few more helping hands

"...The sweep of headlights cuts the night in two. The..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

The Case That Wouldn't Stay Closed

The facts: a tragic house fire, a man executed, a governor under suspicion. Everything else is a mystery.

"...The case of Cameron Todd Willingham, tried and executed for..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Jordan Smith

The Least That Money Can Buy

Prison health care is caught between growing demand and shrinking resources

"...about what I saw," a third-year medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch said recently, after finishing..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Austin Film Society Presses Play on the Career of TV Superproducer Aaron Spelling

The History of Television series spotlights the man who built The House That Would Not Die

"...In the age of instantaneous streaming and blind binging, made-for-cable movies..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Screens Feature by Sage Dunlap

Mayor Adler on How the 86th Legislature Will Affect Austin

“Something’s going to have to give. It’s real.”

"...In the wake of sine die, Mayor Steve Adler offered the..."

May 29, 2019 News Post by Michael King

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Posted after the jump is the entire transcript of CNN's Democratic presidential..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Sea Inside

Moving chronicle of the real-life 30-year battle waged by paraplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem) to end his life.

"...Rivera, Celso Bugallo, Clara Segura and Joan Dalmau. Among the obvious list of things that make moviegoers feel good..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

On the Lege

The second special session ends with a whimper, but the re-redistricting battle rages elsewhere

"...The second called special session of the 78th Legislature came..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Column by Michael King

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...There are two kinds of vampire. Sexy and pained, or..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Perry the Executioner

Texas leads the country in executions, and Rick Perry holds the record tally

"...30, 2007, Austin defense attorney Keith Hampton still had not heard a word from the Board of Pardons and..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

House: Livin' on a Pair

Tracking the Travis delegation through the 82nd Lege

"...For Travis County state reps, two is the magic number. Four of the six local reps managed..."

April 29, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

Lege Lines: Elsewhere Under the Dome

What happened during the wild week before sine die?

"...We're not done yet: Aside from the threat of a special..."

June 2, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

On the Lege

Redistricting: the end? the feds and the courts pick up the shattered pieces of Texas

"...That's the small and bitter prayer left to Texas voters,..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Column by Michael King

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

Sunset in the Blistering Heat

Rep. Carl Isett discusses why lawmakers are only rescheduling the Sunset bills

"...With the temperatures in Austin reaching unseasonably high triple digits for..."

June 30, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...Writers like Carlos Fuentes tend not to exist anymore. His vast body of work not..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

The Backstage Crew

Council Candidates' Consultants Direct the Show

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

April 11, 1997 News Feature

Sounding the Alarm on Texas' Nursing Home System

25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies

"...Back in July, news broke out of North Austin that a 90-year-old resident of a nursing home had accused..."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Bedside Manner: Taking It to the Couch

Book Learnin' for Gamers. What's Missing Here?

"...In which I tell the reader why I don’t read in the bedroom, why..."

Nov. 22, 2010 Books Post by James Renovitch

From the Archive: The Charlie Kaufman Canon

As Anomalisa opens in Austin, we revisit interviews and reviews

"...Is Charlie Kaufman the most talented screenwriter of his generation, or any generation?..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Live at the Lege

The Chronicle counts down to sine die

"...word on a special session. We're checking out for the day. See this week's "Lege Lines" in the paper..."

May 29, 2017 News Post by the News Staff

House of Wax

An occasionally creepy but mostly rote remake of the 1953 horror classic, with some putatively clever jibes at a certain high-profile hotel heiress.

"...Jon Abrahams and Robert Ri'chard. Imagine for a moment that you’re a sick little puppy and you want to..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...exhibition opening, but won't stay on screen too long. The pioneering punk bandleader says that could be cheesy...."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Lege Lines: Elsewhere Around the Dome

Sine die is less than two weeks away

"...Sine die, the technical name for the end of the session,..."

May 19, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Death Watch: Two Set to Die

Two inmates on death row deny murder was the end goal

"...avoided execution July 16, two Texans are scheduled for the gurney next week. Both inmates maintain that they didn't..."

Aug. 7, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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