Radio Silence: a word opera

Zell Miller III's hip-hop opera is fascinating when it isn't flying by so quickly

"...I also very much enjoyed stage manager Lindsey Ervi's execution of the sound design, which effectively underscored, with perfect..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...• Attorneys Still Hope to Halt Execution At press time, the execution of Jeff Wood was..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature

Federal Court Grants Wood a Stay of Execution

Federal Judge stays Wood's execution, opining that state courts trampled due process

"...Just hours before his scheduled execution this evening, federal District Judge Orlando Garcia granted Jeffery..."

Aug. 21, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Defense Lawyers Try to Halt Execution

State primed to deliver another lethal injection

"...Center. If Texas proceeds with the scheduled Aug. 21 execution of Jeff Wood, that number will climb to seven...."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Take

Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

"...desert to a penitentiary in order to witness Saul's execution. She has grown quite severe and understandably dour in..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Res Publica

Go, go, good citizen, go! Your civic agenda: Aug. 14-21.

"...SAVE JEFF WOOD RALLY Jeff Wood is scheduled for execution this Thursday, Aug. 21, for the murder of Daniel..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature

Art, Stunt, or Punk?

James Marsh on his dizzying documentary, Man on Wire

"...There are so many criminal elements involved in the execution of the plan, from breaking into the towers to..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Chi Execution Still On

Chi's fate is now in Perry's hands.

"...case of Heliberto Chi, the Honduran national scheduled for execution this evening...."

Aug. 7, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Supremes Will Decide if Chi Dies Tonight

Unless Supremes intervene, Texas will kill another foreign national tonight

"...Chi's scheduled execution comes two days after the execution of Mexican national..."

Aug. 7, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Those Who Are About to Die

Your Texas death machine gets rolling again

"...A Nation of Laws?Scheduled for Execution Aug. 5: José Medellín..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Death Penalty in Practice

"...years some states have approached Texas in per capita executions, in raw numbers of staged homicides, Texas has no..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Michael King

Additional Documents

"...Here are several documents associated with pending Texas executions:..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature

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.

"...lives up to its title in both tone and execution, a grim commentary on a grimmer reality. The only..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Also New in Graphic Novels

"...desires to those who decipher the pattern. Following an execution, a prison guard finds a piece of paper with..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Rick Klaw

'LeWitt x 2'

Austin Museum of Art's exhibit is successful in revealing nuances of LeWitt's work, but less so in showing art by his peers

"...the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair." What is intriguing about LeWitt's..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Luv Doc Recommends: 50th Annual Zilker Summer Musical – Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater, Thursday, July 10, 2008

"...of Barton Springs much more than they like the execution. Yes, it’s an idyllic setting with shade trees and..."

July 11, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Just Don't Call Him Bugsy

East Texas guitarist continues the fireworks

"...Mouse & the Traps, whose “L-O-V-E Love” and “Public Execution” singles charted across the state. He later bent six..."

June 30, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Homeless Community Put on Hold

Council member calls for one year moratorium on planned homeless community

"...The lease negotiations and execution of an agreement were approved by Council on April..."

June 20, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

CCA Jump-Starts the Death Machine

Executions resume after Court of Criminal Appeals rules against death row inmates' challenges

"...state Court of Criminal Appeals cleared the way for executions to resume in Texas, after an eight-month hiatus imposed..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

(Further) Beside the Point

Council members – some for their very last time – attempt to dot all their i's and cross all their t's before summer break

"...by our rules." The commission received a stay of execution until council's next meeting, July 24, after summer break..."

June 20, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Headlines

"...• Texas inmate Charles Dean Hood, slated for execution Tuesday was granted a reprieve after a flurry of..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Hyde Park Theatre, Thursday, June 19, 2008

"...point of interest that Che was responsible for the execution of hundreds of infidels – some personally – without..."

June 20, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Beyond City Limits

"...Court of Criminal Appeals cleared the way for Texas executions to resume after an eight-month hiatus imposed by legal..."

June 13, 2008 News Feature

Anthony Graves Case Raises the Dead ... Again

Judge once again okays testimony of dead witness

"...wife, Cookie, from police scrutiny. (Indeed, minutes before his execution, Carter again swore Graves was innocent: "Anthony Graves had..."

June 13, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Standard Operating Procedure

The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris delves into the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib to discover the "truths" they contain and whatever culpabilities they might reveal.

"...of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a study of the execution-device designer and Holocaust denier – a man in denial..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Developing Stories: What's Wrong With the Super PUD

The proposed PUD amendments won't fix the problems without a plan

"...is to allow for flexibility both in design and execution."..."

June 6, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Personal Days: A Novel

Personal Days' themes of corporate downsizing and office malaise have been done before and done better

"...more original and literary. Still, if this book's middling execution rankles, it's the lack of ambition that truly disappoints...."

May 30, 2008 Books Review by John Davidson

TV Eye

At the Death House Door examines the death penalty through the eyes of a former death row chaplain

"...out Pickett made tape recordings following each of the executions he witnessed (95 in all), documenting what he saw..."

May 23, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Common Law

My Credit Card Company Is Suing Me: What Can Really Happen?

"...you own real property and/or obtaining a writ of execution, which will direct the sheriff or constable to take..."

May 23, 2008 Column by Pat Fitzgerald

Speed Racer

The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.

"...eye-popping visuals are indeed psychedelic in both flavor and execution (this film owes everything to Japanese animé and Timothy..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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