Fixing Broken Windows?

Police tackle crime in downtown Austin

"...race next weekend, Carter reiterated, but rather as a broken windows-style initiative, where police show zero tolerance for the..."

Nov. 6, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Broken Glass Shuts Down Bowie High School

Vandals leave $200,000 in damage on Southwest Austin campus

"...Friday due to vandalism left the building with 80 broken windows and a repair bill that could reach $200,000...."

Dec. 21, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Defend Our Hoodz Denies Responsibility for Vandalism at Austin Creative Alliance

Group “applauds the hood for defending itself from greedy sellouts”

"...on San Marcos St. They threw rocks through two windows and spray-painted slogans – “ART WASH” and “SELLOUTS FUCK..."

Feb. 12, 2019 News Post by Michael King

The Department of Irresponsible, Unconfirmed Rumor

Is the city facing a secret crunch this budget?

"...the street to catch/deter so-called graffiti artists and other "Broken Windows" offenses should be primary. People are offended, and..."

April 25, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Four Brothers

A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.

"...cops on the take, informers flung out of housing-project windows and left broken-boned on the sidewalk, Marvin Gaye and..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Secret Window

Even the powerful combination of Johnny Depp and John Turturro can't save this Stephen King film adapatation.

"...and Maria Bello. Secret Window’s tag line – "Some windows should never be opened" – is so snarkily appropriate..."

March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ratcatcher

Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.

"...of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. The only way..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hearth & Soul

A Pain in the Sash

"...at a mirage. Well, I have several cracked or broken windows, but I want to put some of that..."

May 12, 1995 Column by Suzy Banks

Defend Our Hoodz Gets Mixed Up With Arts District, Presidium, Chronicle

"...on San Marcos Street. They threw rocks through two windows and spray-painted slogans – "Art Wash" and "Sellouts Fuck..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

A Boner Bizarre, Improvised Love Stories, and More Arts Events

Get some culture and love this week

"...amidst daily struggles and pleasures.” Last weekend, however, brought broken windows to the OFC gallery, who remarked it was..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Jon Reiss Drops a 'Bomb' on Graffiti World

'Bomb It 2' screens at the Drafthouse Aug. 7

"...unsanctioned.” That’s why the first film touched on the Broken Windows theory, which advocates zero tolerance for urban vandalism;..."

July 31, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ike's Lessons

Galveston's land-use decisions exposed by storm's wrath

"...come and gone, causing only some minor flooding and broken windows and ripped-off roofs – well, that's what a..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature by Tom Curtis

When Tomorrow Comes

"...foyer of McFarlin Memorial Auditorium, but the will call windows are open and taking ID. Soundchecking through the double..."

Oct. 16, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

North Central Blues

APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods

"...of glass shards and bottle caps, rusty car parts, broken and rotting wooden chairs, random boots and sneakers, plastic..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Umlauf After Dark ft. Daphne Tunes

Popular sculpture garden presents live music to recover from burglary

"...city to shut down indefinitely and then it was broken into and burglarized...."

July 27, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

May 11 AISD Bond Election: The 'Chronicle' Endorsements, With a Note From the Publisher

"...right. If we raise taxes to pay for the broken windows the Statesman admits need fixing, 45% of the..."

May 10, 2013 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...Heard at a Distance Through the Broken Windows of Battered Buildings the Too Loud, Barely Intelligible..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Beside The Point

Rethinking our old water treatment plant, and other feces-related topics

"...absolutely none – but the repeatedly discredited yet ever-resilient "broken windows" notion of policing is back again, inevitably, this..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Hickenlooper vs. Chickenlooper

"...have increased since the department has undertaken a so-called “broken windows” approach to law enforcement – that is, in..."

April 13, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

Sweet Home Edinburgh

Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble on living in the past

"...classmates, the energetic fivepiece released the melodic, snappy 100 Broken Windows in early 2001, well after the fall of..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Idlewild

SXSW Records

"...panoramic Highland vistas. As with their 2001 debut, 100 Broken Windows, it's hard not to detect a hint of..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Wasteland

Radioactive Waste and Money Woo Sierra Blanca

"...Boarded up gas stations sit alongside abandoned houses with broken windows. The stucco on the walls of the State..."

Oct. 17, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Boom and Gloom

Austin's Budget Struggles to Keep Up

"...the work of departments that are most directly `fixing broken windows' and supporting the kids and the families and..."

Aug. 22, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Site Unseen

"America Starts Here" shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible

"...this ideal with a relatively simple gesture: replacing a broken sidewalk. The couple was invited to create a public..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Day Trips & Beyond: Wright in Wisconsin

Wisconsin driving trail showcases architect’s diverse styles

"...There are no traditional windows in the building. The 43 miles of Pyrex glass..."

July 27, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Lake|Flato's Impact on Austin

The firm behind the new library has changed our city's look

"...also broke open the bunker-like facade and installed two-story windows etched with images of items in the center's literary,..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Page Two: For What It's Worth

Thoughts on conflict of interest and the staying power of Neil Young

"...they began to throw bricks and stones through businesses' windows. Again, some of this was organized, but a lot..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Summertime

L.A. poetry slam never quite makes a full movie

"...at Sundance in 2020, director Carlos López Estrada has broken into the Disney family co-directing Raya and the Last..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Bloodsucking Bastards

Cubicle horrors: Vampires bloody the workplace

"...drawn from the Dr. God comedy troupe – think Broken Lizard crew with way more gore – score high..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who Owns Sixth Street

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

"...bullets to help them sweep the street. There was broken glass everywhere, which took three street-sweepers most of Sunday..."

May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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