News Roundup: Council, Court, and the Lege

Council announces proposal, 5th Circuit hears arguments, and more

"...In this week's News Roundup, the new City Council lays out a plan to (hopefully)..."

Jan. 12, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

From the Archives: Linklater on Linklater

Our 1991 self-interview by the Slacker filmmaker

"..."Austin has the highest per capita ratio of wonderful people and the..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Linklater

Dewhurst the Critic

Tarleton State cancels student plays after Lt. Gov. condemns production

"...leader? Because he's decided to get all condemnatory about the play Corpus Christi, thus drawing unwelcome and extraordinary attention..."

March 27, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel Explores the Rising Number of Journalists Killed on the Job

Free press under fire

"...A likely place to begin a discussion of the human costs of journalism is with the Committee..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Just the Facts

Bills to Watch

"...Among the 58 bills that the organization supports, Tillotson and Wentworth..."

April 2, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Beto O'Rourke's Long, Hot Road to the Texas Primary

We report from the 2020 Democratic campaign trail on whether all the blue, sweat, and beers are worth it

"...They're out early, long before lunchtime, in the off-and-on rain,..."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Sanctity of All Life?

Notes on David Joseph's death

"...“We do value the sanctity of all life here at the department. So..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Post by Kahron Spearman

The Next Bush in Line

Split opinions on George P. Bush as “Latino Leader”

"...If you have an opinion on General Land Office Commissioner George Prescott Bush – in particular his status..."

March 30, 2015 News Post by Michael King

The Joys of Meanness

Scott Blackwood's initiation into the writing life

"...and white, studded with restaurants and stores, mere copies of restaurants and stores that had been thought up someplace..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Assessing the Damage the 88th Texas Legislature Has Done So Far ... and Bracing for What's Yet to Come

When the Lege hits home

"...The Texas GOP had a bone to pick with a..."

June 2, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Protesters Rally on 50th Anniversary of Roe

Organizer says it’s easy to be angry, hard to stay focused

"...“Not the Church, not the state, women must decide their fate,”..."

Jan. 25, 2023 News Post by Leena Alali

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Posted after the jump is the entire transcript of CNN's Democratic presidential..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The 'M' Word

Don't mention blood atonement! Parsing the Romney religion speech.

"...When is a test of faith not a test of faith? When Republican presidential..."

Dec. 6, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

From Erwin to Hartzell: 60 Years of Conservative Politics at UT

Treatment of current protests is just the latest action against progressive students and faculty

"...Before Jay Hartzell there was Frank Erwin...."

May 3, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The 'Machete' Is Family

Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, and Alexa Vega, together again

"...Used to be, the favored killing weapon for Austin filmmakers was a chainsaw...."

Oct. 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Type So Hard You Bruise the Screen'

Owen Egerton has 30 things to say to struggling writers

"...In the late 1950s, Jack Kerouac typed out a list of..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Books Post by Owen Egerton

Bedside Manner: The Cheat

Sometimes the best books are the ones you don't read

"...dogs, I'm shocked no one has yet resorted to the Stooges reference. "I'll lay right down in my favorite..."

Dec. 28, 2010 Books Post by Cindy Widner

Kevin McNamee-Tweed: The Exit Interview

As he leaves Austin, curator and artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed reflects on the city's artists and art community

"...To be a part of Austin's nascent art scene is to know Kevin McNamee-Tweed...."

March 10, 2017 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

The Bumpy Road to SXSW's Online Harassment Summit

Learning the hard way

"...Last October, South by Southwest Inter­active admitted they made a mistake. Shutting down panels featuring speakers that..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Nina Hernandez

News Roundup: John Legend, the FBI, and Paul Pryor

Legend calls for criminal justice reform; Pryor passes away

"...John Legend wants to use his celebrity for good; the DOJ discovers flawed FBI testimony in capital cases; local..."

April 20, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Richard Attenborough: Tougher Than The Rest

Recalling a 2000 meeting with the late, great director

"...Forget all the eulogies praising him as an aristocratic poet of cinema...."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

My Party Country, 'Tis of Thee

Colin Quinn exposes the rowdy Founding Fathers we never knew in 'Unconstitutional'

"...Was a bottomless bowl of spiked punch essential to the Constitution's creation? Did the..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Martin

Page Two: Lullaby for the New World Order

The birthers have no endgame

"...This column could begin, "American politics has long privileged the trivial over the substantive." But that would be misleading..."

May 20, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The Consequences of Getting Personal

BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone

"...SXSW Interactive is evolving. Alongside the exhibitions of better-faster-more emergent technologies – from BattleDecks and..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Glass of `93

Five Years of Austin Brewpubs

"...Anderson Has it been five years already?" Billy Forrester of Waterloo Brewing Company wonders aloud. "Summer of '93... I..."

April 24, 1998 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

The Work Matters

A look back at some of our most impactful reporting

"...There's always been news in this newspaper. We used to..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

The Most Dangerous Man in Austin?

Cody Wilson's day-to-day life is pretty routine. But the product he's selling threatens to make gun control laws obsolete.

"...There's no sign on the walls outside of Cody Wilson's..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Food Issue: When Vegetables Aren't Enough

John Mackey, “Conscious Capitalism,” and the Ideology of Food

"...roughly from purist vegans through sushi savants to connoisseurs of deep-fried turkey. They pursue their gastronomic passions with singular..."

June 12, 2013 Food Post by Michael King

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...It's an overly romanticized notion, the idea of every generation having some sort of defining..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

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