Going for Broke

Fruit Salad Days

"...Geissler reportedly got genuinely giddy when artists such as Carla Olson would stop by the label's offices (back then,..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Common Law

You Become Responsible When You Co-Sign a Loan

"...You Become Responsible When You Co-Sign a Loan..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Column by Luke Ellis

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Jeremy Piven stars in this swift-moving, cynical, equal-opportunity offender about a team of used-car liquidators.

"...is a swift-moving, equal-opportunity offender about a team of used-car liquidators hired to save a Temecula, Calif., dealership from..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Barbershop

"...is to sell off the barbershop to the local loan shark Lester Wallace (David) for a paltry $20k; he..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City Hall Hustle: With Interest

Absent state action, council moves to regulate payday lenders

"...the Hustle's readers have recently taken out a payday loan – easy money offered by unregulated lenders at predatory interest..."

Aug. 19, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Fool's Gold

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star in this tale of two gorgeous, love-tossed, star-crossed treasure hunters who reunite to search for a lost 18th century galleon.

"...typical: Finn (McConaughey) is a perpetual dreamer, with no car, no money, no sense of responsibility, and no idea..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Drag Me to Hell

Sam Raimi makes a triumphant return to the "splatstick" horror genre he more or less invented with The Evil Dead and its two sequels.

"...moves with the herky-jerky gait of a spook-house trolley car, rocketing along for whole sequences and then punctuating them..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arnold Prieto Scheduled to Be First to Die in 2015

"...four-and-a-half hours up I-35 to the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, where they met with two local detectives, and took..."

Jan. 16, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Pick Your Transport Future

Camaro and plug-in hybrids compete for 'ooh' factor

"...but they've just put in for a $608 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles..."

May 5, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Economics From the Bottom Up

A profile of Accion Texas, CDC, and other microlenders

"...young children by herself. If she could open a child-care center in her home, Okoro reasoned, that would allow..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Stop, Thief!

Austin Among 10 worst cities for bike thefts

"...thieves can pry out the post with crowbars or car jacks, or break the locking mechanism with drills. Bluejay..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Postmarks

Don't Blame the Movies

"...Littleton in a sneak attack by two twisted misanthropes. Career politicians immediately started trying to use the tragedy to..."

May 28, 1999 Column

The Hightower Report: When Will Wall Street Quit Being Stupid?

Auto loans, this decade's mortage bubble?

"...nonsense – such as bundles of high-risk, subprime auto loans...."

Aug. 11, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

Katrina Through the Eyes of an EMT

Philipp Meyer, a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at UT and an EMT, drove to New Orleans and spent 24 hours working with a local police department as an EMT.

"...back the wrong way on the highway, hoping another car wouldn't run into me head-on. Finally I noticed a..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Philipp Meyer

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...(CSC), the city granted the club a reported $600,000 loan to help it relocate to 815 Red River. Now..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...money. It's time to start planning for people, not cars. A few apartments downtown isn't enough...."

March 26, 1999 Column

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Animated Haruki Murakami adaptation finds his fabulist tendencies

"...colleague Komura (Bommarito). Both work at a savings and loan, and both are considering exactly what they're doing with..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Exposing the Art of the Scam in Lie, Cheat & Steal

Comics Pat Sirois and Kath Barbadaro school you on the grift in their podcast

"...most people know of involve murder. Were you deliberately carving out a different niche in that landscape, or was..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Climate Protection Plan

The five components

"...5) Going carbon neutral as a city 1) The Municipal Plan: Leading..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Dancing About Architecture

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lunch

"...voted down a request to recommend that the city loan $400,000 to Liberty Lunch in order for the club..."

April 2, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Banking on Amtrak

Kay Bailey Hutchison's Been Workin' on the Railroad

"...cutoff date, Lone Star legislators approved a $5.6 million loan to keep the Eagle chugging through September...."

June 13, 1997 News Column by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Mark Killian's "Future Planning"

Second Place winner

"...hell are you doing!?" When I emerge from the car he begins a countdown to incontinence...."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Mark Killian

The World's Fastest Indian

Anthony Hopkins' great performance as Burt Munro, the real-life New Zealand codger and Indian motorcycle enthusiast who in 1967 set a land speed record that still stands today, is not enough to crash through this unabashedly sentimental wall of schmaltz.

"...Anthony Hopkins, Lana Antonova, Juliana Bellinger, Chris Bruno, Martha Carter, Jessica Cauffiel, Wesley Dowdell and Christopher Lawford. All one..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dumb and Dapper

The former AG lands in solitary in Lockhart after trying to buy two fancy cars while claiming to be indigent.

"...2002 gubernatorial candidate Dan Morales rides in a luxury car again. Last Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ordered..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Manor Expressway: Oh, the Vehicle Miles You'll Travel!

Cash and criticism for the $623 million toll road

"...cost more than $623 million, received a $31.6 million loan from the State Infrastructure Bank last week. The loan..."

July 3, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

"...with UT-Austin to adopt guidelines governing its dealings with student-loan providers. The agreement follows the firing of financial aid..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...behalf of Joseph Galloway, a disabled inmate who was incarcerated for several years beyond his original sentence and repeatedly..."

April 13, 2007 News Feature

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...questions about a program to provides students free dental care. Then he moved into the reminders: Come to the..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

Postmarks

The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.

"...activities will provide scholarships statewide, to anyone pursuing a career in food or wine...."

March 24, 2000 Column

Small Wonders

They just nabbed two festival awards, next up is HBO, and Ed Wood is their greatest influence. Meet Austin's most successful 12-year-old filmmakers.

"...back inside as fast as my scabby knees could carry me. Movies were a safe haven, be it Christopher..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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