U.S. Taxpayers Facilitating Mass Murder

"...Dear Editor, Think about it. The kind of abhorrent mass murder that took place at Fort Hood occurs on..."

Nov. 10, 2009 Postmarks

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

On not surrendering to pro-gun mythology

"...a singular inanity in the aftermath of last month's mass shooting near Santa Barbara. Excoriating anyone who might try..."

June 6, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Black Mass

Johnny Depp plays the notorious South Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger

"...involvement in 30-some criminal acts including extortion, racketeering, and murder. (Joe Berlinger released a documentary account of his trial,..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest: 'Kaifeck Murder'

Bavaria: Come for the beer, stay for the rituals

"...there of the dreams of a brutal and unsolved mass slaying in an abandoned house a century ago, and..."

Oct. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

See for Yourselves Who Texas Is Planning to Murder

"...yourself that the state of Texas is planning to murder a talented, articulate person who is a son, grandson,..."

July 11, 2007 Postmarks

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

The Force awakens, and a franchise reboots

"...and Finn (Boyega), an Imperial Stormtrooper who decides that mass murder isn’t his style after all – provide a..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Vera Farmiga is a knockout in this otherwise predictable and emotionally manipulative story about the horror of the German concentration camps.

"...poisoning her country had started to metastasize into institutional mass murder. Watching her wake slowly to the most awful..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Hannibal Rising

Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?

"...devoid of shock or suspense. Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...killed for seeking higher education), and allows allegedly moral murderers to train on their soil. They should establish a..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...killed for seeking higher education), and allows allegedly moral murderers to train on their soil. They should establish a..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Bring Some Common Sense to Gun Discussion

"...sense gun control [“Point Austin: We'll Always Have … Mass Murder,” News, June 6], but I have to say..."

June 5, 2014 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...of Bush and the daily headlines to appease the masses. It is sad that this tragedy doesn't bring out..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

A Danse Macabre

Our national preparations for war follow a choreography that has predetermined steps.

"...is equally true of Bush: He has weapons of mass destruction and has demonstrated his willingness to use them;..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...spent 20 years in a Texas prison for a murder he says he did not commit, but which investigators..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Killer Reputation

Murders from Austin's not quite forgotten past

"...Plumer points south to a parking structure covering one murder site, and north to another site, now a vacant..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Making a 'Killing'

Joshua Oppenheimer on the half-decade he spent filming for 'The Act of Killing'

"...– dreams of blood, dreams of decapitation, dreams of murder and genocide. They are dreams of his life. But..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Parliament of Experts

Did 'expert testimony' convict an innocent woman of murder?

"...a laryngoscope into Bryan's airway: "I saw a [reddish] mass to the back of the airway which initially I..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sharkwater

Rob Stewart, a marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety in this cautionary documentary about the eradication of the planet's sharks.

"...everywhere in the ocean) in the face of a massive, 20-year boom in the Asian demand for shark's fin..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Velvet Goldmine

"...made of finer, more ethereal stuff than the gray mass of men. They shine like stars because that's what..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Money Talks

"...a motor-mouthed street hustler who accidentally gets crossways with murderous jewel smugglers -- as a garbled fax image of..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Pine Curtain

First-time author Dina Temple-Raston's A Death in Texas pulls the James Byrd Jr. murder out of the East Texas woods.

"...who has subtitled her book A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, is after...."

Feb. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Point Austin: The Daily Carnage

Another month, another mass shooting ... will this one make a change?

"...listed above are just a few of the 35 "mass shootings" (four victims or more) recorded in the Gun..."

March 2, 2018 News Column by Michael King

On the Border's Edge

Drug war reporter Charles Bowden is telling El Paso-Juárez's secrets, one murder at a time.

"...pernicious legislation resulted, as well as promises of a massive clampdown that would make us all safe forever from..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Fall Film Previews

September

"...Kong director Yu driving the doll bus on its murder-and-mayhem-themed road tour. (Oct. 16)..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Letters at 3AM

Americans are paying the price for lies about Iraq told by their leaders.

"...months of intensive search we've found no weapons of mass destruction. Aug. 28, Los Angeles Times: "The weapons hunters..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

A Thousand Cuts

Lives on the line as press freedoms are threatened in Duterte's Philippines

"...Ronald dela Rosa, a posturing "hard man" who justified mass murder under the banner of "the war on drugs."..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

The saga ends … in fan service

"...(McDiarmid, sadly sleepwalking through the part) has constructed a massive fleet of Star Destroyers (don’t ask how) with his..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The First Purge

Blumhouse's political-horror franchise gets a timely prequel

"...the theocrats, plutocrats, and oligarchs who would benefit from mass murder...."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Flip the Crowd

"...Dear Editor, Regarding “Point Austin: We'll Always Have ... Mass Murder” [News, June 6]: An interesting response to the..."

June 7, 2014 Postmarks

DVDanger: School's Out!

"Evil Speak" and "Final Exam" vie for murder cum laude

"...campus slaughterhouses in this week's home releases, as the mass murderer stalking Lanier Collage in Final Exam goes up..."

May 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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