New Plan Reimagines Walter E. Long Park

New plan reimagines Austin's largest park

"...Austin's largest park is slowly getting closer to a long-promised makeover, with the Parks and Recreation Board's unanimous endorsement..."

June 28, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Walter Hill, Keenen Ivory Wayans for AFF

Writer-centric film festival awarding boundary-busting pioneers

"...honors, as the script-centric fest is lauding legendary filmmaker Walter Hill and barrier-busting comedian-turned-TV mainstay Keenen Ivory Wayans with..."

Sept. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Walter Kirn Revisits 'Up in the Air'

On Clooney's star turn and how to wield a Blackberry in bed

"...Hollywood even make a movie this pessimistic?" That was Walter Kirn's first reaction to rewatching Up in the Air,..."

April 20, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

July Is Crime Month: Raymond Chandler’s 'The Long Goodbye'

Sleuthing for a childhood relic

"...gave me a worn paperback of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye. My mind still reels...."

July 11, 2014 Books Post by Raoul Hernandez

Christmas Carols With Walter Cronkite

Holiday memories of the legendary TV newsman

"...I met Walter Cronkite while Christmas caroling in Austin at his daughter's..."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Phinney

AFF Brings Walter Hill for The Warriors and Then Some

Writer/director comes out to play

"...Walter Hill picks up the phone with a simple "Hello."..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

As Long As There's a Plan

Council, "people" co-exist on effort to create affordable housing

"...ever offered to its voters, and could go a long way toward uniting Austin's split over how to treat..."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...by Jason Stout You know you're in for a long, hot summer when the weather has hit 100 degrees..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Public Notice: Something at Lake Long?

If not golf, what?

"...to mortgage the future of the public parkland at Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park to private developers, Suttle opted..."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...Above the fireplace, balanced on a clock, sits a 2-foot-long, hand-made model of the Goodbye canoe...."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Big Eyes

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the Keane couple, the artists behind the craze of those ubiquitous portraits of wide-eyed waifs.

"...sold – my grandmother had a pair – and Walter Keane became a very wealthy individual. Except that he..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Beaver

Jodie Foster directs Mel Gibson in this odd family drama.

"...additional baggage. Mel Gibson’s first acting job in a long time comes at the behest of his longtime friend..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties

Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis

"...Walter Daniels holds up a 7-inch vinyl EP to be..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

King Tears

A decade after the ValuJet crash claimed Walter Hyatt's life, his posthumous archive celebrates his tender abilities once again

"...On the afternoon of May 11, 1996, Walter Hyatt boarded a DC-9 in Miami. With the flight..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Secondhand Lions

In this unique family film that's also an ode to heroic movies gone by, a boy is sent for the summer to live with his two eccentric uncles in Texas.

"...RKO (not to mention Douglas Fairbanks) used to make, long, long ago, it’s almost a valentine to heroic movies..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Can the Earth Be Saved?

Walter Cronkite and the creation of Earth Day

"...At long last, on April 19, the University of Texas at..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Douglas Brinkley

Undisputed

"...Directed by: Walter Hill. Starring: Master P, Fisher Stevens, Wes Studi, Jon..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Man Standing

"...Directed by: Walter Hill. Starring: Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, David..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Muppets

This Muppet reboot is an absolute delight and puts an end to the great Muppet diaspora.

"...item, with all the original Muppet characters on board, along with one new one: the small, orange Walter (voiced..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nowhere in Africa

"...relocate, virtually penniless, on the Kenyan veldt. Here father Walter (Ninidze), formerly a lawyer, toils on a British-owned farm..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Destiny Turns On the Radio

"...Tarantino, Nancy Travis, James Belushi, Bobcat Goldthwait and Tracey Walter. Very strange stuff indeed. Baran's Sundance-nurtured “mystical love story”..."

May 5, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sense of an Ending

A man's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a letter

"...by: Ritesh Batra. Starring: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery and Emily Mortimer...."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Telling The David Whiting Story or, the Cesar Romero Joke

Louis Black reflects on working decades ago with Walter Reuben

"...Tuesday by the Austin Film Society, is by filmmaker Walter Reuben, who came quite late to the moviemaking game...."

Feb. 16, 2015 Screens Post by Louis Black

Lousy With Desire

Soulman Walter Tragert and the light at the end of the tunnel

"...On a smoky Sunday night at the Saxon Pub, Walter Tragert has six women doing the snake dance two..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Trespass

"...Directed by: Walter Hill. Starring: William Sadler, Bill Paxton, Ice T, Ice..."

Jan. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exposure

"...Directed by: Walter Salles. Starring: Peter Coyote, Tcheky Karyo, Amanda Pays, Raul..."

Jan. 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We're Back! a Dinosaur's Story

"...Simon Wells. Starring: John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman, Walter Cronkite, Julia Child, Martin Short, Kenneth Mars, Joey Shea..."

Dec. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Cadillac Records

The story of the birth of Chicago blues is well-told through this ensemble portrait of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Etta James, Little Walter, and their label, Chess Records.

"...baby, and they named it rock & roll.” But long before that famous birth came the courtship, conception, and..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grumpy Old Men

"...Directed by: Donald Petrie. Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Kevin Pollock, Ossie Davis, Daryl Hannah and..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

A Young Man on Death Row

Juvenile offender Randy Arroyo's case puts Texas's execution factory on trial.

"...Austin attorney Walter Long, an expert on the subject, believes a break..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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