Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...and as ramrod real as Veronica Lake's résumé: This Gun for Hire, All Women Have Secrets, Bring on the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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"...We are strictly monitored. We have instituted additional internal quality-control oversight. People who choose to participate in a clinical..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Column

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Forget the middle ground: Why don't the progressives take over the Democratic Party and make a real fight of this thing?

"...came into your house and robbed you with a gun. The bribery and extortion they've used to do this..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column by John Sayles

'Iconoclast' Country

It's election time in Crawford – peace and free speech keep right on waving and smiling

"...Over at the Yellow Rose gift/gun shop, part-time clerk Kendra Bowdoin has noticed an increase..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

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"...production; I heard hints of Lee Hazelwood and the Gun Club, strengthened by J.R. Keyton's guitar playing (I think..."

July 30, 2004 Column

Anatomy of a Shooting

The circumstances around Jessie Lee Owens' shooting were anything but clear-cut

"...car, pistol drawn, and called the dispatcher: "One at gunpoint," he said calmly; it was 1:28am. One minute later..."

March 12, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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"...untitled drama by John Flynn about excess, need, and control in a relationship, the drive not to give up,..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature

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"...organization that for more than a century enjoyed total control in Texas, is unseemly and pitiful to behold...."

Oct. 31, 2003 Column

At Home With Capital Punishment

The fourth annual March for a Moratorium surrounds the Capitol.

"...technician who initially provided the evidence supposedly connecting Williams' gun to the murder later retracted his own testimony, and..."

Oct. 24, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

The Clash

Reissue

"...over. Included are videos for early hits like "Tommy Gun" and "Complete Control," as well as early-Eighties MTV-style videos..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

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"...the time, place, and means? Or after another "smoking gun" is laid on our doorstep?..."

July 18, 2003 Column

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"...involves threats, fines, closures, and ultimately the violence of gun-wielding police for people who refuse to cooperate. Choice two..."

May 30, 2003 Column

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"..."'If this isn't the smoking gun on the smoking issue, I don't know what is,'..."

May 23, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...citizens up to speed on past work on the flood-control project, first proposed 30 years ago and approved by..."

May 16, 2003 News Feature

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"...-- funding both sides of the trumped-up conflict to control the whole deal. And, the CIA, which has never..."

March 21, 2003 Column

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"...continues to utilize an archaic, finite means of energy controlled by gang warfare, while many more advanced forms of..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

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Al Qaeda could not have hoped for a more perfect response to 9 / 11 than the American invasion of Iraq.

"...Hussein didn't pilot the planes himself, he used mind control to make it happen. He wasn't involved...."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...close the book on the three-year battle to wrest control of the block from Harry M. Whittington, who had..."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature

Omaggio a Tropicalista

Putting Brazil's musical poet laureate in his place.

"...reliable musical beacon, fired up his entourage of Gatling gun-tight drummers and liquid, piercing guitarists, his presence, poise, and..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

The Hightower Lowdown

Bush's policy toward democracy is loaded with irony; Corporate Big Brother is watching you shop; Our government legal robs us -- of our rights.

"...so analysts can watch the shoppers from a hidden control room. Manufacturers pay a fee to put a product..."

May 17, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...in veteran border pop mobsters La Mafia, newcomers Grupo Control, and chart-climbers Palomo and Costumbre. Slick sounds to go..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

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"...members quite often. I understood the City Council had control. The 4B Corp. was formed by the City Council..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column

Eric Mitchell Speaks!

"...We did not have a big turnout, and they controlled a number of votes, and they did me a..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

The Father's Day Massacre

A brief analysis of a number of Gov. Perry's vetoes

"...consider SB 430, which creates an NRA-sponsored "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program in elementary schools. Political correctness depends on..."

June 29, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...-- for whom he wrote or contributed to Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop 2 -- and with Tim..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Person

"When I was talking to my wife about coming to speak at the conference I told her that I expected to be pelted with rotten tomatoes," environmental journalist Michael Pollan said at the opening session of the Organic Trade Association's (OTA) first annual All Things Organic Conference & Trade Show, held in Austin last week. "She said, 'Well, at least they'll be really good, organic tomatoes. Hopefully, Muir Glen.'"

"...genetically modified NewLeaf potato's appeal to our sense of control...."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Maria Hong

Coach's Corner

In his "View From the Couch," the Coach takes on a variety of pressing subjects, from the demise of the Detroit Red Wings and Pat Riley, to the sad state of women's golf.

"...most destructive influence in modern basketball. Riley is a control freak who resented Magic and Kareem because everyone understood..."

May 4, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Spotlight: Ike Turner

Ike Turner is about to be 70 and still a mack.

"...vilified in books and film as a woman-beating, drug-crazed, gun-toting control freak, 69-year-old Ike Turner still has a lot..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...year for intellectual rap. It was Jurassic 5's Quality Control that made the biggest strides, though, as the L.A...."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Capitol Chronicle

Surveying the George W. Bush Legacy in Texas

"...Now the state is under the federal gun because all our major urban areas are either in..."

March 16, 2001 News Column by Michael King

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