Court Orders Change to Camping Ban Ballot

Following a ruling from the Texas Supreme Court, City Council changes ballot language

"...Court, City Council has made two changes to the language that will appear with Proposition B on the May..."

March 5, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

dot the i

In his English-language debut, Gael García Bernal plays one of the sides of a twisted love triangle

"...Well, that’s not true in English, which is the language spoken in the London-set movie. Neither is it true..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

APD Lacks Multi-Lingual Officers as Populations Continue to Grow

Who’s speaking your language

"...to increase, the city is seeing more and more languages other than English being spoken. That poses a big..."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Omar Rodriguez Ortiz

Warrior Voices

With a Spanish-language production of The Vagina Monologues, Austin Latinas are making themselves heard

"...show has played in Austin, it is the first all-Spanish-language version produced in Austin, and perhaps all of Texas,..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

City to Open Investigation into Alleged Racism Atop APD

Accused assistant chief retired abruptly earlier this week

"...Police Assistant Chief Justin Newsom alleges he used racist language on multiple occasions to describe African-Americans...."

Nov. 8, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Zach Theatre's Tribes

Nina Raine's award-winning drama explores the different forms of language and how we understand each other

"...Yet Tribes emerges more as a story about language and hearing as understanding. Billy's brother Daniel (Aaron Johnson)..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn rides again in this Coen brothers' remake of the Western classic.

"...examples.) It is the dark comedy inherent in the language of Portis’ novel which, no doubt, drew the Coens..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream

"...in the production design with basic reverence for Shakespeare's language and characterizations. This is a sublimely sensual film. Bathed..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Feds Deny Women's Health Renewal

Language intended to exclude Planned Parenthood may jeopardize entire program

"...program is now in jeopardy. At issue is new language crafted to eliminate Planned Parenthood from providing any WHP..."

Dec. 23, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Speak the Speech

"...say that simply because Kurosawa chose to ignore Shakespeare’s language, his movie isn’t as good as it could be...."

Aug. 19, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Boss of It All

Lars von Trier assures us at the outset that this will be a "cozy comedy," the last thing you might expect from this prickly filmmaker. (AFS@Dobie)

"...veers drastically in tone from the Dane's recent, allegorical, English-language dramas (Manderlay, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark). This new..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

Al Pacino stars as Shylock in this film rendition of Shakespeare's thorniest play.

"...of its prickliness still intact. The poetry of Shakespeare’s language is given the freedom to soar by director Radford..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Land of the Deaf

"...ordinarily hear. Most of the speakers communicate through sign language and their comments are translated for the audience via..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

K.G.F: Chapter 2

Sequel to the 2018 Kannada-language action drama

"...K.G.F: Chapter 2, the sequel to the director’s 2018 Kannada-language blockbuster crime epic. In K.G.F: Chapter 1, we were..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

"Mathieu Grenier: Expanded Nomenclature" at grayDUCK Gallery

In his first solo show in Austin, this Montreal photographer blurs language and lines

"...tell much. I'm deconstructing myself in order to reconstruct language," he says with a good-natured laugh...."

July 5, 2019 Arts Review by Barbara Purcell

Past Life

Avi Nesher's film is a thoughtful examination of forgiveness

"...woman who is visibly distressed. Sephi doesn’t speak her language, but the translation chills her to the bone: “Your..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Texas Supremes Deny Uber

Ballot language to remain the same

"...stay to require City Council to rewrite the ballot language for the May 7 ordinance regarding transportation network companies..."

March 14, 2016 News Post by Mac McCann

Good Day, Ramón

This Mexican hit tells a heartwarming story about a teen who's forced to rely on the kindness of strangers when he travels to Germany to find work.

"...This Spanish-language, Mexican/German co-production (aka Buen día, Ramón and Guten Tag,..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Apes and humans: Why can't everyone just get along?

"...for this colony), and live in Anasazi-like dwellings, where English-language skills and philosophical teachings (“Ape not kill ape”) are..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Angels' Share

Scottish social-realist director Ken Loach is back with a new movie about young delinquents and a whisky-distillery heist.

"...version is subtitled.) It’s possible I got lucky: this “language barrier” may have added a measure of otherwise-lacking exoticism..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Cairo Time

Patricia Clarkson gives a glorious performance in this film about a woman's unexpected discovery of love.

"...Their closeness grows wordlessly, and we watch their body language as the cultural barriers between them melt and their..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sugar

Sugar, by the makers of Half Nelson, follows a major league hopeful's path from a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic to stateside spring training and single-A ball in rural Iowa.

"...for a horny, homesick 19-year-old who doesn't understand the language. There's ambition and real achievement in Fleck and Boden's..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ice Cream Man Presents!

Ice Cream Man slings the Love Language

"...In the few short months of 2009, the Love Language's self-titled debut takes the cake – or ice cream,..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Matt Allen

Evolution: Hanging On by Its Fingernails

Fundamentalists on the State Board of Education (barely) lose their fight against science

"...be taught in Texas high schools, in favor of language requiring that students “evaluate and analyze” evolution...."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Nowhere in Africa

"...bereft of creature comforts, cultural commonalties, or even basic language skills, most people will either seek to flee or..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Your Friends & Neighbors

"...conversations as though eavesdropping were his full-time occupation. The language is cutting, foul-mouthed, and raw; words are the ammunition..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nell

"...up removed from civilization and speaks her own idiosyncratic language. Nell fascinates both the town doctor Jerry Lovell (Neeson),..."

Jan. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ransom Acquires Ruscha

Influential artist who made art of words sends archives to UT

"...In the era of Mad Men, as graphics and language were being manipulated in new ways for the purposes..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

To Zhoosh or Not to Zhoosh: aGLIFF Spiffs Up in a Word

The Polari Fest (nee aGLIFF) asks "What’s in a name?"

"...and gender minorities have always had a knack for language. Depending on the political climate, our labels can be..."

Sept. 27, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

No Hablo Espanol

Rasmussen shows the perils of monolingual polling

"...worse. But who were they asking, and in what language?..."

April 29, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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