'Telling' the Truth

Austin veterans perform their pasts to bridge the civilian-military divide

"...Regina Vasquez saw the haircut as a practical choice. Her fellow Marine recruits..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Robyn Ross

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...Waller Creek and environs is to live intensively in the modern world and at the same time to be..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

The Heartsick Poet

Poet Dean Young celebrates a new book and hopes for a new heart

"...There are two things that never leave Dean Young's side..."

April 8, 2011 Books Feature by Amy Smith

The Daily Hustle: 11/19/10

Waterlogged meeting for council

"...major votes on Water Treatment Plant No. 4 and the water/wasterwater service extension request to the Formula One racing..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Man With Two Brains

Ghostland Observatory pulls back the curtain

"...and trademark shades whipped off, Aaron Behrens bursts through the sturdy door of Thomas Turner's home studio, letting the..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Thousand-String Guitar

Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar

"...in June, you expect local teens to be marking the summer break in the time-honored ways: minimum-wage-slaving it in..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Muckraking documentarian Alex Gibney here directs his camera toward the influence-peddling scandals that erupted around Jack Abramoff.

"...Directed by: Alex Gibney. “There's no place out there for graft or greed or..."

May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Army experiments in the paranormal become a warped platform on which George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey run narrative circles.

"...take on Jon Ronson’s book about Army experiments in the paranormal because it all sounds so deeply ludicrous. Never..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...– a baffled Hank Hill to son, Bobby, in the series finale of King of the Hill..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

The Hangover

The Hangover is deliciously darker than Todd Phillips' previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice or drenched in the "bromance" creed of the present.

"...Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Mike Tyson, Mike Epps, Sasha Barrese,..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney puts the famed journalist, icon, and myth Hunter S. Thompson before his lens and comes away with a telling portrait of the man and his era.

"...by: Alex Gibney. It would hardly be surprising if the most brazen and incisive words ever spoken by Hunter..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the patterns of abuse committed by American armed forces against enemy combatants in Iraq and elsewhere. Instead of bad apples, he finds bad orders.

"...(and, it must be said, thoroughly nonpartisan) documentary on the patterns of abuse and outright murder of "enemy combatants"..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

George Kinney & The Golden Dawn

Fanning the flames of legend

"...As George Kinney peered into the crowd that August night at Room 710, he couldn't..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

The Haven

Exploring the grounds and sounds at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top

"...this instance, is a good thing. Festival Hill represents the value of the arts. It's a place where the..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Facing the South

The Democratic primary for the new CD 25 pits Austin's Lloyd Doggett against McAllen's Leticia Hinojosa

"...If you want to get from one end of the 25th Congressional District to the other without actually leaving..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Sisters Under the Scrim

Six of the finest theatrical artists in Austin discuss their work behind the curtain designing lighting schemes, mixing sound, and creating and constructing sets and costumes and how their careers have been affected by the fact that they're women.

"...I'm sitting in the atrial calm of Mother's Cafe, studying the hands of..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

The In-Laws

"...Suchet and Maria Ricossa. Mention Arthur Hiller’s 1979 film The In-Laws to people of a certain age, and you’ll..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Feeling the Heat

A profile of the new Texas ACLU and Executive Director Will Harrell

"...For an organization that limped through the Nineties with virtually no presence at the Legislature, the..."

April 27, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Shoot for the Moon

Actor Danny Trejo has made a film career out of playing criminals. Before that, he made a career out of being one. In town to shoot Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids, Trejo visited Travis High School to talk to students about the lessons he learned the hard way.

"...The busboys at Güero's stare at Danny Trejo hesitantly, unsure..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

The Language of Light

The Children's Photographic Collective at Andrews Elementary

"...There's a slide projector beaming an image onto the white..."

May 19, 2000 News Feature

The Ego Has Landed

Love Supreme frontman Noah Lit shares his interests and disinterests - and talks about his band occasionally.

"...one word. Beer in hand, he looked squarely into the camera and smirked, "Me." While this brand of staggering..."

April 28, 2000 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

The Green Mile

"...Sam Rockwell, Barry Pepper and Harry Dean Stanton. Oh, the time and money we all could have saved had..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doing Sports the Craig Way

Mike Butts profiles sports stats man and voice of the Texas Longhorns, broadcaster Craig Way, of KVET's Sports Day and Fox Sports Southwest's High School Extra Live.

"...sports-crazed mind. It's a Thanksgiving night, and he's foregoing the traditional after-meal living-room couch flop to broadcast a high..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Features Feature by Mike Butts

The Big Lebowski

A case of mistaken identity embroils the supremely go-with-the-flow character of the Dude (Bridges) in an intersecting mix of kidnapping, pornography, German nihilists, sultry women, gumshoes, missing money, and missing toes.

"...Buscemi, John Turturro, David Huddleston and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Coen Brothers -- Joel and Ethan -- go for..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shaking the Money Tree

The Sources Differ, But the Aim's the Same

"...around noon, Bill Spelman and Manuel Zuniga were working the room where a political forum was about to get..."

May 30, 1997 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...The night Austin state Sen. Kirk Watson urged the community..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

The Death and Life of Free Radio

Austin microradio lived fast and died young -- can the movement live to broadcast another day?

"...We're listening to the sound of a man kicking in a door...."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Squaring the Triangle

The Three Austins Collide at a Central-City Crossroads

"...-- symbolizes a lot of things, but one of them is "change." And whatever else the three-cornered empty space..."

July 4, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Menacing Behavior Under the Dome

Witness removed after threatening senators that dare to vote against sanctuary city bill

"...There was nothing secure about the Senate Transportation and Homeland..."

April 15, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Homoween, Day 2: The Ex-Gay

Homoween costume #2!

"...An Ex-Gay, or if you really want a challenge: the Ex Ex-Gay. Now, some of you may be familiar..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

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