Recipe: The Night Hawk / Frisco’s Smothered Pork Chops

One of Harry Akin's signature dishes gets resurrected

"...asset and he treated them with kindness, respect, and compassion regardless of their gender or race...."

Oct. 27, 2023 Food Feature by Joel Fried

Austin Bicycle Meals Offers Pedal-Powered Distribution to the Streets

Meals on (two) wheels

"...too. I suppose the most basic act of human compassion is this: giving food to a stranger who doesn't..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Food Feature by Kevin Curtin

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

The lackluster return of the DCEU kid in a hero's body

"...Warner Bros. superhero films seemed unwilling to do: Restore compassion to the realm of heroes. Shazam! Fury of the..."

March 24, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Texas Tests Limits of Death Penalty With Mentally Ill Man on Death Row

"[The] applicant is clearly 'crazy,' but he is also 'sane' under Texas law."

"...the jury to see Mr. Thomas as deserving of compassion – the jury sentenced him to death." Crazy but..."

March 24, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Quiet Girl

Irish tale of a lost girl finding hope will break and mend your heart

"...drown the audience in a quiet, heartbreaking, and heartwarming compassion...."

March 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Alice, Darling

Anna Kendrick is crushingly brilliant as a woman in an abusive relationship

"...deep into the experience of a traumatic relationship with compassion, understanding and well-placed anger, and yet leaves you with..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

God's Country

Thandiwe Newton finds darkness in the heartland

"...everyone's lips: why are you here? Whether asked with compassion or a tone of bigotry, it's a cloud hanging..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What We’re Listening to Right Now

DJ Jester & DJ Marz, Willie Nelson on Billy Joe Shaver, Lisa Morales, High Heavens, and ZZ Top

"...teeth are cleaned, your bed is made." – Alejandra Ramirez Compassion Abounds in Lisa Morales' She Ought to Be King..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Funny Pages

Portrait of the comic artist as a young idiot

"...readers will be pleasantly surprised at the degree of compassion for and comprehension of the culture Kline portrays. The..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How Estate Services of Austin Finds New Homes for Treasures Left Behind

In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help

"...of emptying their home must be done with dignity, compassion, and respect. "We're the funeral directors of stuff," he..."

July 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cha Cha Real Smooth

The pains of growing up in this touching portrayal of post-college love

"...Mrs. Robinson tropes. There's no judgment here, just deep compassion for an impossible situation...."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Inside Season 3 of Barry at Moontower Just for Laughs

The cast spill the beans on Bill Hader's darkest secret

"...Anthony C: When I'm doing it? I have such compassion for the character and how deeply invested and earnest..."

April 28, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Compartment No. 6

Strangers on a train form a tense bond in this Finnish drama

"...at a moment when they could use a little compassion. This blossom may have its thorns, but it smells..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Cursed

Historical werewolf horror takes an innovative bite

"...with the infected doomed and damned to murder without compassion or control, their only relief being that they have..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Parallel Mothers

Almodóvar and Cruz's latest pairing unearths Spain's history

"...the entire project in a humanistic glow that finds compassion not only for doting mothers but those who lack..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Swan Song

Mahershala Ali faces himself in a melancholic clone drama

"...Cameron are allowed to exist with an air of compassion for their situations. Clone Cameron didn’t ask to be..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Licorice Pizza

PTA's San Fernando Valley memories are blurrily sentimental

"...same love for his protagonists, rather than the tempered compassion of Punch Drunk Love. It also has the same..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Silent Night

English nightmare comedy is as much Noël Coward as George A. Romero

"...half an hour in, you’ll be filled with unbearable compassion for them...."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

C'mon C'mon

Joaquin Phoenix's avuncular turn avoids cloying family clichés

"...is Hoffmann who communicates the tribulations of parenthood with compassion and exhaustion in equal measure; this is a movie..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Mass

Devastating portrait of four parents in the aftermath of a school shooting

"...and sympathize with Gail and Jay, but in finding compassion for the inconsolable social status as pariahs, the parents..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Old

Beach vacation, anyone?

"...If Shyamalan's early films channeled the resilient compassion of The Twilight Zone, Old aligns closer to the..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pig

Nicolas Cage’s porcine drama is a transformative soliloquy about love and loss

"...he’s matched its world-weariness, but he’s injected the strange compassion of drunkard’s prayer Leaving Las Vegas and the dusty..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Black Widow

What happened in Budapest no longer stays in Budapest as Marvel learns spycraft

"...in Iron Man 2. The assurance, the deviousness, the compassion, the scathing sense of comedy, all given free rein...."

July 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Stranger by the Shore

A heartfelt queer first romance in this gorgeous anime

"...(Briner), recently orphaned following his mother’s death. Shun’s initial compassion for Mio quickly develops into a friendship followed by..."

July 9, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Siberia

Dafoe and Ferrara head to the frozen north

"...novel, but modifies it. Siberia also carries a rare compassion with it: Clint has fallen away from life, pushed..."

June 25, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New French Shorts 2021

The annual best of Gallic cinema, in small chunks

"...of increasingly off kilter scenes examining identity, sexuality, and compassion (or the lack thereof). It’s a fitting finale to..."

June 4, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Beast Beast

Lyrical look at Gen-Z life trips on its own good intentions

"...it's abstract and observational, drifting somewhere between the wistful compassion of Jonah Hill's Mid90s and the sociological immediacy of..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Baratunde Thurston on Staying Civically Engaged During a Pandemic

The activist-comedian comes to SXSW Online with some tips

"...wouldn't wish Ted Cruz on because I have enough compassion to not want something so horrible for a fellow..."

March 12, 2021 News Feature by Trace Sauveur

Stray

It's not such a ruff life in this story of Istanbul's canine residents

"...of protective legislation about fifteen years ago.) As Stray compassionately demonstrates, criminalizing the extermination of these free-range canines and..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, Februry 12-18

"...a peak as you express excited kindness and affectionate compassion. Be a fount of fond feelings and cheerful empathy..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

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