VIDEO: Travis County Violating Rights by Barring Attorneys From Bail Hearings, ACLU Claims

Virtual hearings at times conducted through slots in jail cell doors

"...in the cell, arrested for suspected drug possession and drunk driving, approached the meal tray opening. With the Zoom..."

April 19, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

The Strip Club: Lake Creek Festival Shopping Center

Sampling noodles, shoes, salsa, and silencers at the Northwest Austin strip mall

"...adjacent to a go-kart track. I'm tempted to practice drunk driving and carve more brodies, but I resist, and..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Holland

AFF Review: Day of the Fight

Boxing drama hits hardest out of the ring

"...with his biggest mistake: killing a child in a drunk driving accident. It’s the performances that make the friendship..."

Nov. 6, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Still Austin Whiskey Co-Founder Explores a Spirited History in New Book

Colonialism, distilleries, potations, and probity

"...spirits, or 12 drinks a day, as a "confirmed drunkard." In 2004, the biggest drinkers in America were clocked..."

June 30, 2023 Food Feature by A. Richmond

The Luv Doc: Deadeye Dick and Harry

The Luv Doc's hot and sweaty take on team rec sports

"...let yourself get pressured into inviting someone with two drunk driving convictions to a quail hunt. Bowling? Sure. If..."

May 5, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Shoot First, Create a Law to Make It Legal Later

Texas bill ensures zero consequences for police who injure people with "less lethal" rounds

"...to cause injury or death – in cases of drunk driving: "If a drunk driver doesn't intend to kill..."

April 21, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Ur Sweet? Actually, Ur Drunk: State Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, was arrested Tuesday on..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...An aimless 28-year-old Brooklynite lands in the hospital after drunkenly breaking her hip being stupid. An encounter with a..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Hays County Dems Romp as San Marcos Legalizes Weed

Everything's blue (and green)

"...Gutierrez Cohen with 61%. The only sad note was drunk-driving mendicant Commissioner Walt Smith, who prevailed over independent candidate..."

Nov. 11, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Fallout From DWI Crash Follows Hays County Commissioner

Walt Smith's got one more week to breathe easy

"...arrested by the Austin Police Department in 2021 for Driving While Intoxicated...."

Oct. 10, 2022 News Post by Jordan Buckley

Cap Metro Pitches in as Mobile Cooling Center

As temperatures rise, bus stops serve as shelter from the sun

"...of the first episode. "I felt like I was drunk."..."

July 8, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Austin Man’s Suicide in Jail After Seeking Medical Care Raises Question: Why Was He There?

Suffering from criminal depression

"...on the evening of Feb. 7. Bell had been driving JJ to the Sobering Center on 12th and Sabine..."

April 1, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin Film Festival Review: Buck Alamo

Sonny Carl Davis shines as a fading Austin burnout

"...the old guy selling electrified geodes on South Congress, driving a pick-up that's more rust than steel, and has..."

Oct. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...visibility for Family Business around Austin-proper. That’s important because driving out to Hamilton Pool Rd. from anywhere north of..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

Ema

Pablo Larraín fuses sex and dance in this kinetic drama

"...one played at clubs to numb the minds of drunk youth. Ema’s sexuality is fluid, her marriage is a..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Rise and Fall of Jason Dusterhoft (and His Frenemies)

A trip down APD's Memory Lane, from the Chronicle archives

"...then was fired again in 2010 after allegations of drunk driving and violence against a former girlfriend (also an..."

May 7, 2021 News Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, Februry 12-18

"...soaring above and looking down. We are two clouds driving overhead. We are seas mingling, two cheerful waves rolling..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

10 New Year’s Eve To-Go Drink Options in Austin

Keep your festivities well-watered and safe at home

"...up your beverages before taking your first sip – drunk driving is as sinful as going to H-E-B without..."

Dec. 29, 2020 Food Post by David Brendan Hall

Promising Young Woman

Unevenness sabotages this takedown of "nice guy" culture

"...man’s truck (who just yelled at her about her driving), I was reminded of my run-in a few hours..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Half Brothers

Screwball road trip comedy should have stayed in the garage

"...motifs as well, such as all Americans being either drunk and violent racists or just entitled, blithely unaware racists..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Faguette Bakery Serves the Qmmunity, One Sweet Treat at a Time

"...slur, or be merrily shouted by a group of drunk queerios at each other when they're getting lit at..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Food Feature by James Scott

Review: Buck Alamo

First look at the new film starring Sonny Carl Davis

"...the old guy selling electrified geodes on South Congress, driving a pick-up that's more rust than steel, and has..."

Sept. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Police Department is getting a jump on Labor Day drunk driving stops with a DWI initiative running nightly, 9pm-5am,..."

Aug. 28, 2020 News Feature

Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

The Canadian musician's legacy re-enforced, not reconsidered

"...Now 81, “Gord” himself makes a welcome host. Lightfoot driving through downtown Toronto hyping fellow homie Drake belongs in..."

July 31, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...the wheel of an old convertible Buick from Rent-a-Wreck, driving her bandmates aimlessly around and stopping at random places...."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

Travis County Primary Candidates Jockey to Champion Criminal Justice Change

A closer look at the heated District Attorney, County Attorney, and County Court at Law races

"...of the organizational disarray that followed predecessor Rosemary Lehmberg's drunk­-driving arrest and prosecution. She campaigned as a "reformer" and..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Speaking of inns, and therefore booze, and therefore pissing drunk on the Alamo, Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...actually be a very real interview with a very drunk Sprauer, containing plentiful shit-talk, including this gem about booking..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Headlines

"...Don't Drive Drunk: The Austin Police Department reported 83 Driving While Intoxicated..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature

SXSW Comedy: Loud Village Live Stand-Up Showcase

L.A. comics offer a tasting menu of approaches to stand-up

"...his only interest being in “beer, my truck, and drunk-driving my truck”) and embrace of the niche (an extended..."

March 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Rosalind Faires

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