The Luv Doc: Soberingly Preggo

Pot, like most drugs, is pretty fucking wonderful when used recreationally

"...and I haven't yet told my boyfriend that he's the father. The reason why is that he is a..."

April 21, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

The Hightower Report

Public Works Work; and Big Oil's Charm Offensive

"...slicks who don't use it to help anyone but themselves, why don't we use our public funds to build..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

What We All Share Is a Deep Concern for the Country

"...Louis, I know your mailbox is filled to the rim with letters regarding your comments regarding 9/11 revisionists..."

July 12, 2007 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Bush wants to deplete your Social Security; ChoicePoint may have helped deplete your bank account

"...THE CHOICEPOINT SCANDAL A U.S. senator campaigning for re-election visited..."

March 11, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Latest in Paper

Based loosely – very loosely – on the Seventies German film actress and cabaret singer of the same name, Ingrid Caven's is a world psychologically damaged, and perpetually haunted, by the horrors of the 20th century

"...and make-up artists are called "Minister"; where Andy Warhol, "the old, powered vampire," and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "the most..."

July 9, 2004 Books Review by Dominic Luxford

The Wizard of Oz Gift Set

"...The Wizard of Oz Gift Set(Warner Home Video, 1999, DVD:..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

The Hightower Report

Chickens Come Home To Roost; and Cut Congress, Not Food Stamps

"...That's how many the Food and Drug Administration has recalled after salmonella contamination..."

Sept. 17, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Cola Sisters Speak

Arcie and Shasta's Best Public Access TV Show

"..."They're so sexual, those retards." – Shasta Cola..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Features Feature by Meghan Ruth Speakerman

The Hightower Report

The Wal-Mart way in Latin America is a bad way, factory monitor learns; and economic theorists not thinking in real-world terms

"...Jim Bill Lynn was recruited by the retailer, and he readily bought into what's called "the..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

SXSW Film Review: The Age of Disclosure

New documentary probes the changing government position on UFOs

"...It’s been said there are two kinds of people: those that believe in..."

March 12, 2025 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: The Mob, 9/11, and Your Garbage

Don't look too closely at your garbage collection

"...The years between 1966 to 1973, during which the World..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Fluoridation Under the Microscope

Conflicting opinions on the safety of what's in our water

"...of environmental chemistry at St. Lawrence University, director of the Fluoride Action Network, and co-author of the recently released..."

Nov. 12, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Prying Open the Case of the Missing Door

Mystery surrounds case of missing right-hand door of Mt. Carmel

"...Like a sentry, the left-hand door from the ruins of Mount Carmel stood..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Grad Student

Chronicle reviewer David Garza uses Tom Grimes' new history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop to question whether creative writing can be taught.

"...wooden bat and take a few clumsy swings on the baseball diamond with her closest poet-friends, or if she..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

Killing the AMN Softly

"...They were two seemingly unrelated events. First, the Review Team..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Michael Bertin

Seen / Soon Sept. 22

Being dazzled by Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles on Austin Museum Day and adventuring with the Theorists at Zilker

"...Seen Forever Bicycles was arguably the brightest spot of many bright spots on Austin Museum..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Arts Column

Page Two: Looney Tunes

A swan song for the conspiracy series

"...What is my obsession with 9/11 conspiracy theories? There are many reasons, some far more significant than..."

July 13, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Conspiracy Theories

Can you handle the truth?

"...of easy triggers. I am less of a conspiracy theorist than most Americans, if polls are to be believed,..."

June 22, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Slippery Slopes

Insights on the way to a point, a peek at future topics, and an argument against reductionism

"...Driving to the office this morning, I entertained several ideas for "Page..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Column by Louis Black

2017 Austin Dance Festival

This year's showcase of two dozen dances proved how Austin's dancing has risen to the level of its dance making

"...to Austin, in 2008, I interviewed Ellen Bartel about the dance festival she directed, Big Range Austin. Austin was..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Austin Creative Alliance's Artists Emergency Relief Fund

ACA provides pandemic assistance, one artist at a time

"...Amy Diane Morrow was struggling even before the pandemic hit Austin. Just the month before, she'd lost..."

April 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Page Two: Grand Schemes and Enthralling Documents

Film, conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories on film coalesce as SXSW looms

"...off, with SXSW Film's opening movie screening that night. The excitement level keeps rising, as it usually does at..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Brain Wash

Coming to terms with conspiracy theorists, with some help from Loudon Wainwright III

"...This is not part two of the "Conspiracy Theories" column ("Page Two," June 22). That column..."

June 29, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Timecrimes

Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo's first feature film is a tremendously entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into The Twilight Zone – and one helluva blast to watch.

"...tremendously entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into The Twilight Zone. Spanish director Vigalondo's first feature film is..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Grand Illusions

The only problem with wide-ranging, all-encompassing conspiracy theories is that they're wrong

"...There are conspiracy theories and grand conspiracy theories. The latter..."

July 6, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Never mind the consipracy theorists, the death of literacy, and the Democrats' chronic foot-shooting – 'Page Two' needs a break.

"...belief is in evolution but not limited to Darwin. Rather than regressing to animal and atavistic states, mankind is..."

July 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Film Cops to Seth Rogen and More

SXSW Film announces the premiere of a new Seth Rogen comedy, as well as new panelist and docs

"...has very little to recommend it – it heralds the season of dogs at the moviehouse (literally and figuratively)..."

Jan. 12, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

White Noise

Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future?

"...In modern usage, there has yet to emerge a mainstream successor to postmodernity...."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Parkland

The events surrounding the assasination of JFK are witnessed through the eyes of those who were there in this made-in-Austin film.

"...Parkland chalks one up for the little people, the largely unheralded workers and citizens who..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: By Vote or by Violence

How will naysayers and protesters 'take back the country'? And from whom?

"...Liberals to the left of Obama, radical groups, conspiracy theorists, working-class representatives,..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Louis Black

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