Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...The Wrong Story This was inevitable. The first police shooting after..."

June 21, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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Our readers talk back.

"...page when you say they will be there is wrong. This is information that many people need. We actors..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

Re: Resisting Evildoers

Defense against one's enemies presents a conflict for individuals who identify themselves as members of a Christian society instructed to turn the other cheek.

"...a preposterous figure saying something outrageously inappropriate to the wrong people at the wrong time. I wonder what the..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Flies on the Wall With Attitude

Cinéma vérité pioneer Robert Drew, coming to town this Wednesday for the Texas Documentary Tour, speaks about the films he has made and the film style he helped create.

"...the subject of the film. You have something like Cops, which is a trashy subject matter, but it's great..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Rerun at the D.A. Corral

Republican Shane Phelps challenges Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle for a second time, and seems to be trailing.

"...was, as he put it, hanging out with the wrong crowd in Stockton, California, while his father was away..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Public Notice

Public Notice notes a few great ways to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend by helping a good cause.

"...to the feature scoop about how prepared the Philly cops were in anticipation of another WTO -- not that..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...growing body of evidence that something has gone terribly wrong. The operation, Swisher County's first major drug sting, began..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

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Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...for me the next day, but I couldn't get cops and kids together on the same page. The dude..."

March 17, 2000 Column

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Readers respond to Zero Tolerance, the Longhorn Pipeline, and Being John Malkovich.

"...weapon, there is no clear and present danger, and cops should not be executing no-knock warrants (not to mention..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Column

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Solid Gold 40 is shocked and dismayed; non-fans of Carole Keeton Rylander add their two cents; a tear for Tony's Vineyard; and more letters to the editor.

"...have focused on these when trying to convince the cops I've had the chance to talk to that their..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Column

Those Crazy Kids Will Do Anything ...

"...brisk pace, the show poked fun at game shows, cops and magicians (in the same bit, no less), and..."

April 16, 1999 Arts Feature

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...And once all the drama of a love gone wrong dies down, is there really any better choice than..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

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Facts, Not Gossip

"...ancient history. Didn't you hear? The council gave the cops a $27 million raise without requiring one concession related..."

June 5, 1998 Column

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...writes, directs, and stars in this hard-boiled story of cops and yakuza, a film whose touching blend of deadpan..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...do with whether the crooks' behavior is right or wrong. The concept of amorality is almost as irrelevant as..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

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Waring Responds

"...City: Gold Bike Program?" [Vol.17, No.6] Your facts are wrong; journalistic privilege, making things up for a deadline, or..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Column

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"...to make our own decisions about what's right and wrong and that advocacy to the contrary is inappropriate, then..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Column

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ACC Needs Planning, Not Damning

"...upper-middle class family where I learned that different is wrong. I was taught to feel sorry for these people,..."

June 20, 1997 Column

I Interviewed My Dad About Marijuana

The Family (Smoke) Circle

"...the night the freeze hit, and I think the cops just wanted to check me out. It was pretty..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Eighth Street Survivors Still Wait for Resolution From the City and APD

Sixteen months later, civil and criminal cases move slowly

"...Council is not doing enough to right the City’s wrongs.” Another Unlikely "Rioter"..."

Sept. 29, 2021 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Austin at Large: A Pre-November Pep Talk

Reasons for optimism as we ride this circus train into Election Station

"...to live under bridges, only crooks don't love the cops. That's what we're fighting against, but we are not..."

Aug. 7, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: People, Get Ready

We can all be responsible Austinites – now that we know what that requires

"...by two different engines, down the same track, the wrong way. The snarling old workhorse that is right-wing nihilism..."

May 1, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

This Is America: Part Two

More from the Notes From the Field cast on living black

"...a lot of these white kids, and when the cops showed up, they were the ones running. So y’all..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Horrors of SXSW Can’t Touch Nate Southard

Local screamworthy scribe is sitting, we reckon, on a killer property

"...There’s this story in the collection, "Something Went Wrong," and I haven’t stopped thinking about it, for at..."

March 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Jenn Wexler Teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, come up against..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...And the guy's like, "Heroin killed Billie Holiday." "No. Cops!"..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Letters at 3AM: Hitting the Street

Michael Ventura remembers how poverty bred contempt toward those he loved the most

"...many things – that your smallest misstep at the wrong moment could rain a beating down. I knew even..."

May 30, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Brian Bosworth is Not Stone-Hearted

The Boz on football, drama and Stone Cold

"...1991 with Stone Cold, a no-brain, all-muscle and guns cops-and-bikers flick, whose cult status earns it a special screening..."

May 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Frightmare', 'The Flesh and Blood Show'

Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker

"...Butcher) is the jail bait hanging around with the wrong crowd and finding a perturbing skill in manipulation. Meanwhile..."

March 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Alyce Kills'/'A Virgin Among the Living Dead'

Women on the edge of a supernatural breakdown

"...alarmingly disappointing Zombie Strippers (seriously, how could they go wrong with a title like that?) is laughable. For that,..."

Aug. 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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