That's a Wrap

Notes From the Austin Film Festival and Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference

"...are more apt for this wobbly tale of inner-city corruption and its effects on family. Cast and crew score..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

Take the A-Train

Mike Clark-Madison discusses 10 years covering light rail, and urges voters to support it.

"...lane miles, corridors, Crestview, Pflugerville, El Concilio, Ole Mexico, corruption scandals, audits, ISTEA, TEA-21, SH 45, FTA, APTA, NEPA,..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

He's Coming Back

Who gets punished when George W. Bush comes home to Austin after losing the election.

"...that he believes grudges should be transgenerational and involve corruption of blood and children avenging the wrongs visited on..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Letters at 3AM

Austin's Best Novelist

"...-- Billy Lee, after all, describes a state of corruption and confusion that's shockingly contemporary. But what's remarkable, re-reading..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Criminal Conversation

How Christopher McQuarrie, the writer of The Usual Suspects and the director of the upcoming The Way of the Gun, learned to say no.

"...find out that he's involved in all sorts of corruption. He has good reasons for why he started, but..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lie in the Dark

"...really is lived among the ruins. Religious zealotry, famine, corruption -- Fesperman covers the spectrum of issues not often..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Books Review by Barry Johnson

By the Book

Reviews

"...then, is to be on guard against the inevitable corruption ensuing from that process -- half history, half fiction..."

July 21, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Video Reviews

"...languid pace only emphasizes Sosa's gradual descent into the corruption that pervades his whole occupation. Free of shoot-'em-up action..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, Strangers on a Train

"...pictures of the period. Chandler's story of betrayal and corruption at nearly every level is more in keeping with..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Kings of Monterrey

Hanging out in Monterrey with a passel of up-and-coming Mexican rockers

"...America, groups here don't dwell on political oppression or corruption in their lyrics. Ask most musicians in Monterrey what..."

June 16, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Primary Colors

"...Bulworth. The amazing conceit of Primary Colors is that corruption, being at the heart of the American political process,..."

June 16, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

TV Eye

Looking for something to watch this Easter? Try a little history lesson with George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire. Also, Antiques Roadshow comes to Austin; Great Writers, Great Cities premieres on PBS; no one takes the flap for Who Wants to Marry a Multi-millionaire.

"...Years of economic hardship, devastating natural disasters, and police corruption have dramatically changed Mexico City, but it is the..."

April 21, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Glass Shield

"...sheriff's substation. He soon comes up against ingrained racism, corruption, and violence on the force as he tries to..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Watson Way

Mayor Kirk Watson talks about challenges for austin during his next term.

"...finance reform, and since it was originally passed as anti-corruption, that somehow you're going to be corrupt. But I..."

March 31, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Run

"...to religious leaders. Winter weaves themes of power and corruption into the narrative with all the subtlety of a..."

March 24, 2000 Books Review by Barry Johnson

Naked City

kaye trybus tries to save tree, neighbors try to keep home depot out of their Woodward neighborhood, becky motal and alan sager square off april 11 for gop county chair, linda curtis is running for city council.

"...vacating. She's running on the same "A Little Less Corruption" slogan she used last time around to get voters..."

March 24, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...Jimmy cowers at the center of a tornado of corruption, surrounded by coke-snorting detectives and sour drug deals. At..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Everything That Rises Must Converge

SXSW 2000 Interactive Festival

"...not in [the corporations'] interest to do so. The corruption of culture has been going on for a long..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Ron Deutsch

The Least of These

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

"...was the emblem, the spectacle making clear that the corruption in which he trafficked was not "Southern" at all,..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

Cross Examination

An El Paso medical supplier says the American Red Cross took part in an illegal scheme to ship medical supplies and other goods into Mexico without paying import taxes, and conspired to keep it a secret even after he was wrongfully imprisoned as a direct result.

"...associate with lifesaving heroes has become a symbol of corruption, a Red Cross he bore for eight months while..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Book Reviews

The Politics of Prose

"...fit subject for discussion and talk of it a "corruption of public discourse," the U.S. Army was dealt the..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Karl Monger

Postmarks

Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.

"...Count Out Corruption!..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column

Naked City

Candidates lining up for city council races; things are heating up in the district 48 race; the austin police association is not happy with the manner in which chief stan knee has picked his assistant chiefs, and the jesus video is being mailed to every texas household.

"...say, was created to "prevent the type of systemic corruption that you find when you have a police department..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

While the rest of the nation was rallying around the flag, screenwriter and director Sturges was spitting out a series of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land from sea to shining sea.

"...of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

A scandal in the modeling business?! Gasp!

"...BBC1's MacIntyre Undercover did a segment on corruption in modeling, complete with an undercover reporter/model. Some fairly..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Last Fool of Chelm

How Nathan Englander Survives His New Fame

"...he performs a stunning subversion of the historical Nazi corruption of language: "-- They called their aches "mother's milk,'..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

The Next Wave

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

"...rap group Control Machete, whose lyrics concentrate on political corruption and oppression, the station often receives complaints...."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

"...got a nose for shit!" Somewhere between innocence and corruption, Sam Peckinpah's imagination quickened again and again -- and..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Kathleen Murphy

David BowieHours (Virgin)/Iggy Pop Avenue B (Virgin)

"...his ever-present adolescent swagger accompanies a raised middle finger ("Corruption," "Shakin' All Over"). He's one of the few who..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Review

Destruction as Beauty

Profile of local alternative band Trail of Dead; explication of their new album Madonna

"...rail defiantly against the twin scepters of apocalypse and corruption, using abstract-yet-structured guitar work and a highly developed lyrical..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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