Death of Musician Bill Maddox Raises Gun Culture Issues

"...Austin musician Bill Maddox casts an uncomfortable spotlight on gun culture in Texas. I've read up on the case..."

Jan. 24, 2011 Postmarks

Point Austin: The Death Cult of the Gun

Slate study shows an estimated 90 U.S. deaths per day result from gun violence

"...The gun deaths are literally uncountable...."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: The Gun Cult ... Again

People keep dying; we keep doing nothing to prevent it

"...So here we go again. Another major gun massacre, another session of national hand-wringing, another backlash from..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Gun Crazy

More massacres, more conversations, more sanctimony ... more nothing

"...teachers at Santa Fe High School to get one shotgun out of circulation. That was the response of the..."

May 25, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Bedside Manner: Not for the Gun-Shy

Tracing the origins of the Gatling gun

"...world. But Gatling invented the world’s first reliable machine gun, not something the U.S. is likely to celebrate these..."

Feb. 14, 2011 Books Post by Mike Crissey

Culture Flash!

American Fiesta makes the finals of a national new play award, the Rude Mechs get their Gun from Creative Capital, and Katalin Hausel lands the Umlauf Prize

"...in support of a proposed production called The Method Gun, which follows the life of Stella Burden, architect of..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Rebooting Kitchen Culture With a Novel Concept: Sober Living

Food industry support groups encourage healthier lifestyles for restaurant workers

"...they are now sober and fighting to change the culture within their own kitchens and with the help of..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

Culture Flash!

Geeeeet a piece of Bernadette Peters or Reba McEntire from Arts on Real

"...strode sassily across the stage in Annie Get Your Gun and earrings that decorated the lobes of Ms. McEntire,..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Arts Column

Giving Up the Gun

Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij hits the Fusebox Festival with strings attached

"...seminars and got a sense of that the whole culture of it, and I was repulsed by it. The..."

April 26, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Culture Flash!

The Longs give a million, the Rudes add a co-PAD, Mills shows his new dance, and Kitch joins a board

"...– named for the patroness who donated her home, Laguna Gloria, to the people of Texas for use as..."

June 20, 2008 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

NEA grants in the stockings of three Austin arts groups, plus the Rude Mechs get their Big Apple on at the Public Theater's Under the Radar festival

"...Mechanicals: $12,000 toward development and production of The Method Gun, a new play by Kirk Lynn to be directed..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Chi-Raq

Spike Lee has his finger on our gun-crazy moment in history

"...theatres. It lobs a direct assault against our country’s gun culture and its repercussions in the horrific kill zone..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ready, Aim ...

Geoff Marslett's Loves Her Gun inadvertently finds itself in the crosshairs of a political discourse

"...When director Geoff Marslett began filming Loves Her Gun in September 2011, he hadn't known that he was..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Point Austin: Guns 'R' Us

Change our gun laws, change ourselves

"...intended to write yet another somber reflection on America's gun madness in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre,..."

Dec. 21, 2012 News Column by Michael King

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.

"...and a "No Smoking" sticker by the door. The gunman rarely does walk-in business. From the sidewalk outside, nothing..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Point Austin: Texas Backward

County takes one small step toward sanity on gun control

"...no resolution, the Travis County lease to the Saxet Gun Show for regular use of the Exposition Center was..."

Jan. 17, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: We'll Always Have ... Mass Murder

On not surrendering to pro-gun mythology

"...insist that neither woman-hating or ridiculously easy access to guns had anything to do with the Isla Vista murders,..."

June 6, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Making Sense of Newtown

A year later, small steps toward changing the gun violence paradigm

"...bluntly served to remind us that concerning restrictions on gun ownership, not much has changed in a year. The..."

Dec. 20, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: A Movement for Common Sense

Saturday rally highlights public support for gun regulation

"...said Hilary Rand, speaking of the movement to reduce gun violence. "We realize it's going to be an uphill..."

April 5, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Bowling for Columbine

"...humor and a keen eye for the absurd. Here, gun violence in America is the subject matter Moore sets..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: Another Night of Blood

One more episode in the culture of the gun

"...Twitter and Facebook the latest summary statistics from the Gun Violence Archive (www.gunviolencearchive.org), the nonprofit effort to collect nationwide,..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Beast Beast

Lyrical look at Gen-Z life trips on its own good intentions

"...(Madden), a 24-year-old with a YouTube channel about his gun collection...."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dope

Peppy caper film features unusual characters: black high school geeks

"...attending Ivy League colleges, and geeks for Nineties hip-hop culture, BMX bikes, Game of Thrones, and other things associated..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: In Defense of the Public Square

We need to keep rejecting publicly the preposterous notion that ubiquitous guns make us safer

"...Jan. 1 enforcement of the Texas Legislature's open carry handgun law, it's been gratifying to see the lengthening list..."

Jan. 15, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Series 7: The Contenders

"...Angelina Phillips. Forgive me for stating the obvious: American culture is in the grip of reality TV. Furthermore, every..."

May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: Shoot First

Boys and their toys, at the Legislature and elsewhere

"...The dust – or should we say the gunpowder? – has hardly settled on the 85th Texas Legislature,..."

June 2, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Assassination Nation

Dark satire lets social media tear us apart

"...everything is going to break down. Of course the guns and the knives and the ropes are going to..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

From Paris With Love

Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an American diplomat in Paris who is paired with a wise-cracking, trigger-happy CIA maverick (John Travolta) to stop a terrorist attack.

"...that all French people hate Americans and their gauche culture would be well-advised to take a gander at the..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Asian Connection

"...specimen of the Badass Cops and Triads With Enormous Guns product that crowds the racks of Asian video outlets..."

Jan. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Contemporary Culture

A show offering a wonderful variety of strong art, but grouped by an unnecessary theme

"...'Contemporary Culture'..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Arts Review by Kate Watson

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