Partial Nekkidness and the New 'Nudity' Tax

Big "gray area" in sexually oriented businesses-fee law

"...clothing not sufficiently opaque around the breasts, buttocks, or genitals, such as burlesques or experimental theatres...."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Does Harry Potter Cause Sexual Violence? Only in Texas.

Defending a new nudity tax, the AG says topless bars cause sexual violence

"...in clothes insufficiently opaque around the breasts, buttocks, or genitals. In drafting the comptroller's enforcement rules (not yet issued),..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Return of the Titty Tax

New 'nudity' tax could include not just strip clubs but cabarets, bars, fashion shows, and even mainstream theatres

"...the person is female, or any portion of the genitals or buttocks." Texas already has a statutory definition of..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Media Watch

Despite naitonwide tune-out trend, Austin viewers keep watching local TV news

"...TV news. It's the insidious horror yapping at the genitals of all TV news executives. Despite all their slick..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Column by Kevin Brass

Porn Busters!

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

"...deems "obscene," "graphic sexual intercourse," or "lascivious exhibition of genitals or pubic area." Access to this evidence is tightly..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Platters

Live Shots

"..."We've Got the Beat," and a generous offer: "Our genitals will be available to females after the show." Song..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pitbull Daycare

"...for the finale "Purple Head" and modestly covered his genitals with a straw cowboy hat to exit the stage...."

July 28, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...It's blocking our view beyond her knees to her genitals. Oh, wait! That's right, the human body is obscene!..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column

Can't Stand Wimpy Companies

"...It's blocking our view beyond her knees to her genitals. Oh, wait! That's right, the human body is obscene!..."

Feb. 14, 2006 Postmarks

CRP Leak

The city wants to know who leaked the Citizens Review Panel recommendations to the press

"...staffers strapped into chairs with electrodes taped to their genitals...."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Nude Works 13

What draws the eye into Neil Coleman's images of female nudes is the comfort of the models with their own bodies and their connection to the photographer

"...poses and gauze veils were utilized to hide the genitals when photographing both women and men. Any visible pubic..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Arts Review by Benné Rockett

'Figure It Out 2005': George Lopez

Irrational and impotent posturing distinguishes the figures in the drawings that George Lopez is exhibiting in the Eastside Art Palace's "Figure It Out."

"...legs, protruding bellies, double rows of teeth, and underdeveloped genitals, Lopez's toddler-size men wait expectantly. Like Robert at the..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Review

After a Fashion

Stephen does drag in cartwheels or cartwheels in drag... you'll have to read to figure it out

"...young woman who seemed to have something extra (male genitals, I guessed). As the opening strains of "I Am..."

May 13, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Common Law

Topless in Texas

"...class B misdemeanor) if they expose their anus or genitals with the intent to arouse or gratify another person..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Column by Luke Ellis

Williamson DA Puts the Squeeze on Defense Bar

John Bradley sees nothing wrong with compelling testimony about indicted clients

"...on a recent evening her stepfather had touched her genitals after she'd climbed into bed with her parents, seeking..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Abstinence Makes the Head Grow Softer

A new report finds that federally funded abstinence-only educations contains "false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health."

"...by 10 grantees, teaches students that "touching another person's genitals can result in pregnancy."..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Ajax (por nobody)

Theatre Review

"...sort of way, like a malignant tumor on your genitals that forms itself into the shape of a smiley..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

PSR DVD Vol. 1

DVDnds

"...Brandon Crowe crushing an empty beer can against his genitals? By comparison, the band's Moog-laden, herky-jerk performance goes down..."

June 11, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...witness in the redistricting trial to talk about his genitals. See p.14...."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Maspero: Drinking, Whizzing, Barking

The Williamson County sheriff is accused of a slew of embarrassing transgressions

"...sheriff's office working on budget documents; and exposing "his genitals in a public place" while urinating into a lake..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

The alleged victim of a sexual assault by a former UT police officer sues the university for negligence

"...asked her to take pictures of her breasts and genitals, propositioned her for a "threesome," and showed her pictures..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

One More Time

Wrapping up SXSW 03: Saturday Showcases

"...over before you can say "Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe," or any of..."

March 21, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Dancing About Architecture

Can you believe it, another club gone. And another gone, and another gone…

"...colored red (with nonpermanent ink of course). The genial Genitals say they'll get the red out when they leave,..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and definitely not the time for "proudly" displaying one's genitals, sex toys, or fetishes. I took aside the girl..."

June 21, 2002 Column

Susanna Kaysen Lays It on the Line

The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, is a memoir that has nothing to do with either the author's camera or her mother, Marion Winik writes. It is about her vagina. It is the chronicle of a mysterious and intractable medical problem she had with this little-discussed part of the body, and of the interesting experiences she endured in what I think of as Patient-World, the alternate reality inhabited by those of us who have something wrong with our bodies.

"...I don't think anyone has written a book about genitals in the way you have...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Grounds for Appeal?

A brief list of possible grounds for appeal in the yogurt shop murder prosecutions.

"...there were no trauma or abrasions evident on Ayers' genitals or rectum. Medical experts told the Chronicle that it..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Surreal Science

Looking at three books -- Plague Time, Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy, and The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, Roger Gathman observes that for every advance in technology, nature counterbalances with new opportunities for disease.

"...likes the respiratory tract. The syphilis spirochete likes the genitals. STDs have a problem rhinoviruses don't have. Although we..."

March 2, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Dancing About Architecture

Bush's balls drop.

"...Fellow Sideshow Marvel Joe Lifto (who once sprained his genitals at the Back Room while lifting weights with his..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

G.G. Allin (Arrest Report), Cavity Club, February 18, 1992

"...by me to make any lewd gesture with his genitals [sic] or anus...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Review

Is That a Perfectly Legal, Anatomically Correct Condom Education Model, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

"...(and all other items made specifically to stimulate the genitals) can't be collected, bought, or sold in the state...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Erica C. Barnett

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