SXSW Panel: Covering POTUS: A Conversation With the Failing NYT

Editor Dean Baquet defends NYT's “honorable pursuit of the truth”

"...defied the Daylight Saving daze this morning to hear New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet defend his paper’s..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Michael King

A New Jail for Travis County?

County moves forward with new women's building despite vote to delay and community outcry

"...issue: whether or not Travis County should build a new women's jail. The planned project is just the first..."

Sept. 7, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

The New Evolution

Is technology providing the ladder to the next stage of human consciousness?

"...or a digital camera (or all seven) at all times isn't just as unhealthy as needing a cigarette, a..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The New Traditional

Damian Mandola has the restaurant business in his blood

"...eyes to a world of Italian cuisine I never knew existed," he says. Since then, Damian has traveled extensively,..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Kill the Messenger

Jeremy Renner stars in this crusading-journalist story that recounts the downfall of real-life San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb.

"...Messenger recounts the downfall of real-life San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb (Renner). Already a Pulitzer Prize-winner, Webb..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Democratic presidential primary debate between Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois on Thursday,..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Count Her In

For 30 years, article by article, Denise Schmandt-Besserat has built an ironclad case to explain a mystery that foiled archeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers for hundreds of years.

"...little pieces of fired clay. For years no one knew what they were, though it was evident they were..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Ada Calhoun

The Year in Books

What New Book Did You Most Enjoy in 1998 and Why?

"...of her Gifts protagonist, and entering into a whole new range of exploration and narrative experimentation. The Dogs is..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Feature

A Starring Role: Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our man Brenner talks with the famed astrophysicist, because science.

"...subject of a thousand Facebook quote-posters, the Daily Show's new man-about-science, the former Austinite, the man whom media wags..."

Nov. 26, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...House convened to hear HB 3 on redistricting. I knew I'd entered an episode of the surreal when the..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Letters at 3AM

This is the number of deaths a year caused by how we do (or don't do) health care. A decade of that, and it's as though terrorists nuked Chicago.

"...tiny medical devices that prop open heart arteries" (The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2006, p.22). And "46.6 million..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...in the music business to the show with the new biodoc Sheryl, one of the titles in the music-centric..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

All those brilliant 'financial instruments' turned into monsters that no one can stop

"...From Maine to Montana, from New York to Georgia, administrators have delayed or cut projects..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

Europe, Russia, and China can help install a new administration in the White House in 2008 by refusing to bail out Bush on his Iraq misadventure now.

"...than not being heard is having a voice and failing to speak...."

Sept. 19, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

He's Coming Back

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

"...In 1988 in New Orleans, Bush wanted to get even. And that was..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...and group activities, is always a period rich with new movie releases. The holiday season is the period the..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...knee-deep in the political muck and corruption of the times. They make enemies, and they pay the price. This..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Page Two: Running in Place

Movie-serial style coverage plagues the most thrilling, genuine, and troubling Democratic contest in decades

"...Sometimes serial heroes were original; other times, they were more..."

May 30, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Where There's a Heartbeat, There's Hope

Author Michael Brick and principal Anabel Garza on saving Reagan High School

"...Spoiler alert: In Michael Brick's new book, Saving the School, the main character survives. That..."

Aug. 17, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Spinning The Color Wheel

Bob Byington supplies the Q's, Alex Ross Perry the A's

"...Of the film A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote:..."

July 27, 2012 Screens Post by Robert Byington

The Hightower Lowdown

The Firestone Tire / Ford conspiracy; genetically engineered corn and StarLink; WTO's complaints about citizens

"...of both corporations. "There is no question the companies knew they had a problem," said former Highway Traffic Safety..."

Nov. 17, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...should leave its readers wondering if Michael King, the News editor, actually investigates the candidates before giving them the..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

Naked City

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's drkoop.com, an Austin-based online pharmacy, has established close ties with a "scientific" organization widely viewed as a front for its corporate underwriters.

"...seems more like America's used car salesman. As The New York Times has reported, Koop's latest enterprise, an Austin-based..."

Jan. 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?

"...too overwhelming to control. Historians may look at The New York Times of September 1, 1998, and decide that..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

News Roundup: Sad Stories for Christmas

Foster care unconstitutional; voting rights rolled back; and more

"...In this week's News Roundup, Texas' foster care system is broken, its voters..."

Dec. 21, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Letters @ 3AM

We have become a space-faring species and are discovering that the universe is stunningly gorgeous and implacably dangerous – like us

"...and sound; but on that Saturday, I'll check the news often until I know the fate of the space-farers...."

June 6, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Arab Star

Texas journalist Aziz Shihab on Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine

"...1950, Shihab has had a long career as a newspaperman, especially in Texas, at the San Antonio Express-News, The..."

July 20, 2007 Books Feature by Michael King

Smoking Ordinance Headed for the Ballot

Onward Austin gets its anti-smoking signatures

"...to place the measure on the upcoming ballot. The new ordinance would outlaw smoking in nearly all public places..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...homosexual rights, save mutts at the shelter, read The New Yorker, shave less often, and swear that David Brooks..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column

Thou Shalt Not Sue?

Van Orden's suit against the Ten Commandments is no slam-dunk.

"...to Washington, Van Orden must find a way to New Orleans early next year to argue before the U.S...."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann

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