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Our readers talk back.

"...Having read your two recent articles about Georgetown ["Georgetown Smackdown," Aug. 17, and "Something Stinks," Sept...."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

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Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.

"...accurately reflect the attitude of the Austin School District about the state comptroller's ongoing Texas School Performance Review...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Column

Justice Denied?

Advocates Still Fighting for Lacresha Murray's Freedom

"...of the Giddings State Home and School, a Texas Youth Commission reformatory 60 miles east of Austin. Today, Earle..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM

This month celebrates the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' 'Don Quixote,' the first great novel of Western literature and the most prophetic, in which deconstruction, postmodernism, and literary theory wind up bumping into one another and falling down hard

"...it we do not depart one iota from the truth." But what truth? He tells us the most likely..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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Our readers talk back.

"...want to be dealt with harshly they can stay out of the county. I think that you fail to..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Column

Letters @ 3AM

The cancellation of The Reagans by CBS was an act of cowardice in the face of noise from the afar-right banshees.

"...a TV miniseries, probably as second-rate as most, canceled out of fear. Fear of what? Of nothing specific. Yet..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Luv Doc: Ask the Muleskinner

You go down there

"...will interrupt private conversations in the hallway to talk about her fabulous weekend. She regularly speaks up in meetings..."

May 10, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Campaign 2018: Can Anyone Beat Lamar Smith?

Candidates line up to challenge longtime congressman

"...Austin's five heavily gerrymandered con­gress­ional districts, linking West and Southwest Austin with a wide swath of the Hill Country..."

June 9, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Travis County Celebrates Marriage Equality

Clerk issues 313 marriage licenses by close of business

"...like transgender rights, people of color, and LGBT homeless youth,” he said. “This fight for equality is not over."..."

June 26, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Surfer Girl

Local wakesurf phenom Raleigh Hager acclimates to life at the top of the podium

"...and has been winning ever since. With as many wins as she's accomplished, the Hill Country Middle School sixth-grader..."

May 16, 2014 Features Feature by Sarah Marloff

Tinkering With Death

Texas Defender Service attorney David Dow's memoir covers his his work defending the condemned

"...and in 2009 just nine new sentences were handed out in Texas, the fewest since the reinstatement of the..."

Feb. 22, 2010 Books Post by Jordan Smith

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Our readers talk back.

"...Does the city plan to open and re-adjudicate all outstanding complaints against male APD officers or administration? It is..."

July 21, 2006 Column

Disarming Dubya

First-time director Alexandra Pelosi discusses Journeys With George, her surprising and fascinating documentary on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, viewed from the back of the press plane.

"...most crucially, post-September 11 -- with what we wondered about him then...."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Disarming Dubya

First-time director Alexandra Pelosi discusses Journeys With George, her surprising and fascinating documentary on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, viewed from the back of the press plane.

"...most crucially, post-September 11 -- with what we wondered about him then...."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...It just wasn't working out for Sims Ellison. Not Pariah's album, which had not..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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Puzzled by Oppel

"...enviro-bashing ["Media Clips," Vol. 18, No. 51]. I spent about 45 minutes talking with him on the phone the..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column

Previewing the knockout bracket

Round of 16 matchups now set; U.S. to play Monday

"...nemesis in recent years, most notably knocking the Americans out of the last Olympics. Expect better today for the..."

June 21, 2019 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Preserving a 'Special Kind of Place'

Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’

"...I sat down recently with Scott Swearingen to talk about his new book, Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Weird, Spooky, and Rich

David Dewhurst runs against everybody but money.

"...public feud with Republican Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander over about $1 million in taxes he owed the state on..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...football, Texas A&M football games on Saturday, barbecues, hanging out with your friends. That part of College Station was..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Film

Film Reviews

"...affluent Los Angeles housewife who busies herself with the routines of her life. Then, a new couch she purchased..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Bloggers and Pamphleteers

Karl Frisch and Lawrence Lessig on netroots politics

"...group scours the media landscape for conservative and institutional half-truths, lies, and misrepresentation, then posts the results online for..."

July 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

American Hypocrisy Revealed in The Misogynists

“Self-righteous, smug and wicked.” Onur Tukel pulls no punches in this extended Q&A

"...we did. But the movie at its core isn't about misogyny at all. It's about language."..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Someone – Why Would Anyone – Vote for Trump?

With Leslie Bonnell, Arcie Cola, Lashonda Lester, Tim Doyle, and more

"...person – am nonetheless compelled to wonder a thing about this presidential election. And so I asked that thing,..."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Inside the Texas Wine Trade

Four Texas wineries are joining to launch Texas Fine Wine

"...Texas wines are now gathering a fan base even outside the state border. Double-blind competitions are forcing the hard-nosed..."

March 21, 2014 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Luck and the Literature of Football

Longhorns live to fight another day

"...favorite film or the most literary of novels. It’s about a struggle. Someone wins, someone loses, and sometimes the..."

Dec. 7, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Flush

Ariel Dance Theatre's Gyre Project ends on a visually thrilling but confusing note

"...you can't sleep, it might be because you're concerned about the North Pacific Gyre, where ocean currents have pulled..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Naked City

"...Town Lake Animal Center to the Eastside was made without adequate public input or City Council discussion and appears..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...would've known what killed her father last summer, within about 24 hours of his death...."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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