Point Austin: Dark Money, Sunlight, and Political Soccer Games

Shadowy funding works its way into Austin campaigns

"..."Dark money" is not exactly new to Austin politics. In..."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Dark Money

Campaign finance reform as true-life political thriller

"...finance law into exciting film subject matter. And while Dark Money largely succeeds in this mission, uneven storytelling sometimes..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Buck Wood on Dark Money

Campaign finance lawyer rejects Prop K claims

"...a PAC. And if they raise or spend any money for that [political action committee], they have to disclose..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Dark Money v. Precourt?

Fighting a "billion-dollar giveaway"

"...city would amount to a "billion-dollar giveaway" of taxpayer money. The claim has since been debunked by several economists,..."

July 27, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Out of the Dark

"...the weirdest movie of the year. Out of the Dark chronicles some tenants' exploits to rid their building of..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Dark Skies

Aliens mess with a suburban family's peace of mind in this unsettling, slow-burn thriller.

"...Effectively unsettling, Dark Skies is a science-fiction thriller that plays like an..."

March 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dark Knight Rises

An uncannily accurate mirror of the contemporary cultural zeitgeist, this epic finale to the Batman trilogy is just that: epic.

"...every generation gets the superhero it deserves, and Nolan's darkest of dark knights is surely ours – and no..."

July 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Streets

A collection of blues originals by the likes of Aaron Neville, B.B. King, and Etta James lightens this otherwise dreary exercise in modern film noir.

"...and Toledo Diamond. Let no one ever say that Dark Streets doesn’t have the perfect title. It may not..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Dark Knight

The visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, although this Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our age of anxiety.

"...do. Or so goes the nihilistic logic behind The Dark Knight, a grim little parable on the wages of..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dancer in the Dark

Björk goes goes to the death chamber in musical interludes.

"...There's rarely any uplift for his characters in their dark emotional descents, and by the time the final reel..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crossing Over to the Dark Side

Alan Parsons answers the $64,000 question

"...Alan Parsons about his engineering experience for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. SXSW 08 proved no exception..."

March 20, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

"...is our doing. His action movies make gobs of money and only we can cause that to change. Under..."

July 21, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

AISD: Outside Money, Mixed Results

"...Strange tides and strange money flowed into and through the Austin Independent School District..."

Nov. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Long Trip up the 'Dark Mountain'

Writer/director Tara Anaïse brings her wilderness horror to Austin

"...to combine, it's claustrophobia and agoraphobia. Found footage horror Dark Mountain blends both, as a hapless camera crew gets..."

July 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kickstarter's Dark Side

Don't forget your due diligence

"...when you thought Kickstarter was a fairy land where money magically appeared for worthy artistic endeavors and nary a..."

May 2, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Dark Was the Night

Blind Willie Johnson gets his place in history

"...“If I Had My Way,” and his most famous, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground."..."

June 2, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Muckraking documentarian Alex Gibney here directs his camera toward the influence-peddling scandals that erupted around Jack Abramoff.

"...Oscar winner for his 2007 film Taxi to the Dark Side, landed some very big interviews – both the..."

May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Whose Money Is Behind the Convention Center Election Battle?

Local PACs raise and spend for and against Prop. B

"...Unconventional Austin raised and spent the bulk of its money earlier this year, primarily on the paid-petitioner campaign that..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Follow the Money ... to the Polls

Election funds flow to and from candidates and PACs

"...• Prop K's dark-money origins (see "City Slickers,"Oct. 12) helped set up the..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dark Days

Six years ago, Marc Singer wasn't homeless, and he wasn't a filmmaker. With Dark Days, he became both.

"...take credit for the film. As he sees it, Dark Days -- an evocative film about a society of..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

When the album becomes Immersion

"...Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol)..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...Because of money, of course. But even when the only cash trading..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...has been chronicling the form since his 1998 book Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, and he..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fuck Money, Unmasked: The Solid Core of Austin's Most Unhinged Noise Band

“We reserve the right to say no to shit”

"...... hmm, well, I guess thy name is Fuck Money...."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Money for Nothing

Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services

"...program's roughly 55 participants are crisis pregnancy centers. Siphoning money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) –..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Dark, Dirty Money

"...support anonymous attacks like this; there is already enough dark, dirty money flowing into politics. I hope the Chronicle..."

Feb. 25, 2018 Postmarks

Shot in the Dark

The Texas Documentary Tour presents Paul Devlin's 'Power Trip'

"...streetlight, a tram line, the metro. Either way, no money changed hands. Or at least that's the way it..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

One in a Crowd: What's Kind About the Dark

Indie horror, just in time for Halloween

"...What's Kind About the Dark is the debut feature from Austin-based director Colin Bryan,..."

Oct. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Big Money, But Who Pays? The Cost of Emerging TV Studios

TV budgets get bigger, but so do network and streamer demands

"...120-page movie script, but TV often didn't have the money to do the source material justice. However, with movie-level..."

June 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Money the Culture of This Century

"..."individual use of marijuana." The murder [“Double Murder: The Dark Side of Reefer Madness,” News, July 13] was over..."

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