Point Austin: Those Who Sow the Wind

The national GOP continues to perpetuate its permanent culture of extremism

"...that, for purely ideological reasons, prefers ignorance to knowledge, power to governance, war to peace. This week's spectacle of..."

Sept. 25, 2015 News Column by Michael King

The Race for Prez Is Already Reality TV. Let's Cast the Movie Version.

Cruise as Cruz? Wiig for Warren?

"...a contest to bestow the title of “World’s Most Powerful Person” on some poor schmuck who will immediately age..."

Aug. 8, 2015 Screens Post by James BigBoy Medlin

The Ballad of Davy Jones

Hickoids guitarist keeps breathing

"...To Davy Jones, stationed in Killeen, the nuclear reaction occurring at the nightclub on Guadalupe proved the..."

May 22, 2015 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

News Roundup: Marriage (In)equality, Buehler, and the Mayor

Paxton vs. true love; Buehler civil suit dismissed; and more

"...Chinese to use their influence on North Korea concerning nuclear weapons. He also wished the audience a Happy New..."

Feb. 23, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

"EcoNetwork" Launches Online Enviro Voters' Guide

Environmentalists can see where candidates stand

"...on the nuances of shutting down the coal-fired Fayette Power plant (or squirming out of a junior stake in..."

Oct. 24, 2014 News Feature by Greg Harman

Doubling Down

In The Great Society, playwright Robert Schenkkan and his subject, LBJ, both gamble big

"...raising the civil rights stakes with calls for "Black Power." And then there's Vietnam, the Far Eastern conflict that..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heavy Psych

"...Kadavar (Fri., 9pm, Levitation Tent) Berlin power stamps out metallic rivets of Seventies muscle rock on..."

May 2, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Top Tens

Tired of Brooklyn indie rock? Me too.

"...1) Carcass, Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain

When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's

"...not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Church of Misery

Japandroids

"...the Unholy (2009) and Buried Death (2008) fissioned a nuclear-strength sheen that recedes organically on their follow-ups. Sabbath worshippers..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Church of Misery / Coffins

White-hot metal for your red-hot summer

"...the Unholy (2009) and Buried Death (2008) fissioned a nuclear-strength sheen that now recedes organically on the bands' follow-ups...."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Green Day

"...of early classics Dookie and Kerplunk. ¡Uno! starts promising: "Nuclear Family" packs the hand-grenade urgency of the band's midlife..."

March 15, 2013 Music Review by Austin Powell

Maddowpalooza

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow brings political (un)convention to SXSW

"...York Times-chart topper Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power...."

March 11, 2013 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

Fantastic Fest Is Here To Bash Your Brains In

Shock, schlock, and awe at America's premier genre fest

"...monster masks, an affectionate portrait of where the modern nuclear family and the ancient rituals of October 31 collide..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Say Hello Again to His Little Friend

Scarface blasts its way back to the big screen

"...era has grown into a pop-cultural (F) bomb of nuclear proportions...."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

After Bin Laden

Local experts discuss how one raid reshapes the world

"...means that Taliban commanders can re-start negotiations for a power-sharing deal: For some, it is an opportunity to end..."

May 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

Seismic Jolts in Shreveport; and Hoovernomics, Part II

"...so simple, sensible, and even slick in a boardroom PowerPoint presentation, largely because it ignores inconvenient realities, such as..."

April 15, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Something for Everybody

The lineup for the 2010 Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...Pink's Haunted Graffiti, the Appleseed Cast, Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos, Toro y Moi, Junius, Woven Bones,..."

Aug. 4, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Point Austin: What the GOP Wants for You

The 2010 Republican Party platform is a real nightmare

"...to "state sovereignty" (a hot button this year), the nuclear family, and, of course, the free market. The preamble..."

July 23, 2010 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Marooned on BP Island; and Dems Cave on Disclosure

"...This is the nuclear bomb of politics, empowering corporations to drop megatons of..."

July 9, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Before Save Our Springs ...

Big events in Austin's enviro history, pre-SOS

"...1971: Voters reject joining "joint venture nuclear generator facility"... "Environmental councilman" Lowell Lebermann helps establish Office..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Shearwater

Man vs. nature on The Golden Archipelago

"...the mid-20th century due to its use as a nuclear bomb test site by the United States. Alongside the..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Journey to the Center of the Discographies

"...breaks orbit on Rolie's high priest vocals summoning Schon's nuclear test range guitar. Their synthesizer/guitar duel over the Dune..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Res publica

Citizens calendar, Aug. 27-Sept. 3

"...say in what mix of renewables, fossil fuels, and nuclear will power Austin's electricity through the year 2020? Speak..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature

A Recipe for Revolution

Food, Inc. serves up some scary facts on food production in America

"...I realized these corporations will do everything in their power to stop us from thinking about the food, to..."

June 19, 2009 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Scott McClellan and Family

A telling timeline of McClellan's life

"...author, attorney for National Labor Relations Board and Federal Power Commission under President Lyndon Baines Johnson..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature

Rights of Citizens Marginalized

"...of part of the funding for the South Texas Nuclear Project, this was the norm until November 1998, when..."

March 17, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

"...to expand the city's interest in the South Texas (Nuclear) Project concluded it is too rushed and too expensive...."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

"...for years – that Iran does not have a nuclear-weapons program – radically undermining the Bush administration's simmering case..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature

TV Eye

News From the Front

"...characters of Jericho are coping with unusual circumstances (a nuclear holocaust) that bring out the best and worst in..."

May 11, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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