Stay Positive

"..."I'm not voting for anyone who runs negative campaign ads." His wife replies, "So you're not voting?" I am..."

Oct. 8, 2018 Postmarks

Snapshot: Austin Discovery School’s Garden Work Day

Teaching kids empathy, one plant at a time

"...That's in large part due to work done during ADS's biannual Garden Work Day, a fall and spring volunteer..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

Micael Priest 1951-2018

Austin’s godfather of poster art moves on

"...calendars to performance posters and many of the newspaper ads, Micael was the defacto organizer of the AWHQ Art..."

Sept. 12, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Summer Shindig With Austin’s Sex Workers Outreach Project

SWOP hosts a fundraiser for housing, employment, and safety

"...to make rent or people who needed money posting ads, because, as Khan notes, “the price of ads are..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Charlie Neddo

Feds Shut Down Backpage.com

Alt-weekly founders charged with facilitating sex trafficking

"...U.S. Senate investigation found Backpage.com, which historically included adult-oriented ads, knowingly facilitated child sex trafficking, and concealed the evidence..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Ready Player One

Video gaming and Eighties culture get the Spielberg treatment

"...over the Oasis and use it to sell pop-up ads (which is no crazier than any other, game plot)...."

March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books

Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs

"...logo by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv glorified in ads across all media in the Sixties and Seventies –..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Niche Streaming Sites for the Holidays

Give the gift of worlds of entertainment just a click away

"...Fans can access the site for free, but the ads are frequent, repetitive, and often crash mid-show – not..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Zac Efron and Adam Devine are a bratty fraternity of two

"...worse behavior to accompany them to the ceremony. The ads proclaim the movie is “inspired by a true story,”..."

July 8, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Hightower Report

Transforming humans into billboards

"...this a "stylistic move," the mammon-worshipping owners say the ads will be modest – just a two-and-a-half inch patch..."

March 18, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

Everybody Has Some

In a round-robin interview, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Louis Black open up about their new films

"...Linklater: I don't remember TV ads, or ads, even. But you guys are geniuses. Isn't..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...Rick: I don't remember TV ads, or ads, even. But you guys are geniuses. Isn't..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

In Stereo

Indie romantic comedy doesn't resonate

"...Angeles, the former Austin resident found commercial success directing ads and music videos, skills and connections he put to..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Merchants of Doubt

This doc calls out the spokesmen for Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and Big Oil, as well as the tactics they use to blur the facts

"...The film is most damning when pointing out well-paid figureheads and their preferred methods of obfuscation, such as the..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Speaking Volumes

The secret history of Austin's First Cookbook

"...an apt reflection of the appetites of turn-of-the-century Austin. Railroads arrived by 1871, which meant that residents had access..."

March 6, 2015 Food Feature by MM Pack

10-1 Ticker... Run-Off Election Updates!

Everyone has an opinion about who you should vote for

"...that D4 candidate Laura Pressley has been running campaign ads on the "pirate" local radio station, 90.1FM, that features..."

Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature

Randall Stephens: 'I Can Handle the Job'

"...model. Value and Unlimited, and Unlimited also has a spreadsheet uploader that nobody else ever designed. We coded it..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

The Hightower Report

The flim flam of the Employment Policy Institute

"...The same should apply to putting information in our heads...."

March 14, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Flapper Era

What 'Flappy Bird' can tell us about the present and future of game design

"...Notch, planted the seeds of such dreams in developers' heads when Minecraft went on to make him a household..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

HIV/AIDS: Pushing Past the Plateau

Local agency fights stigma with new PSA campaign

"...by the smiling faces of athletic men in drug ads. The lurking danger of the Eighties and early Nineties..."

Dec. 27, 2013 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Five Things Baymageddon Taught Me

No pain, some gain from last weekend's Michael Bay marathon

"...shots? They're real. And they look like military recruitment ads. Or military recruitment ads look like them. Apart from..."

April 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: October 15

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Anti-marriage equality ads make debut in Washington State. The AggreGAYtor is disappointed..."

Oct. 15, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The AggreGAYtor: September 27

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Pro marriage equality ads include everyone but the gays...."

Sept. 27, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

FCC: Local TV Affiliates to Post Political Buys

New ruling means Austin stations to put campaign data online

"...the details of spending by political parties on campaign ads, including how much they spend and, fascinatingly, what ads..."

April 27, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

Corporate 'citizenship' triggers amendment movement

"...will be caught in an unprecedented blizzard of campaign ads...."

Oct. 28, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Budgeting Room for Ignorance; and Shocking: Fed-Up Voters

"...be trifled with. LWV recently ran some hard-hitting TV ads taking Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown and Missouri Democrat Claire..."

July 8, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Headlines

"...• The avalanche of TV ads, direct mailers, and flame-wars incinerating inboxes across town will..."

June 17, 2011 News Feature

Point Austin: Race-off

Tovo's Place 3 council campaign gets off to a dubious start

"...off its Place 3 City Council run with TV ads and mailers denouncing a potential "city subsidy for a..."

May 6, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Cedar Rapids

A wonderful cast turns Cedar Rapids into a semisweet charmer that fluxes between edgy comedy and palpable pathos.

"...Kurtwood Smith, Alia Shawkat and Rob Corddry. Although the ads pitch it as being somewhere between The Office and..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Of Politics and the Production Block

Take two with Austin's voice-over studio

"...picked up a lot of voice-over work for campaign ads. It's been a mixture of statewide ads, like Lt...."

Dec. 22, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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