California Split Is the Raging Bull of Poker Movies

AFS double bill pairs Altman film with Ron Mann's biographical doc

"...A great poker film comes around as infrequently as a straight flush..."

Jan. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Fernie Martinez

RG4N Loss Likely Won't Stop Meeker Council Run

RG4N spokesman reflects on court loss

"...In between poker tournaments in Las Vegas last week, your morally dissolute..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Lucky You

This romantic drama is set against a Las Vegas background and stars Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore, but it rolls snake eyes all the way.

"...like Huck Cheever (Bana). Born into a family of poker royalty and, by all accounts, blessed with an uncanny..."

May 11, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Many Unanswered Questions in Officers' Deaths

A fatal motorcycle accident was preceded by a long afternoon of barhopping

"...was scheduled to be the last stop on a "poker run," a popular charity event during which motorcyclists make..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...of the Republican majority are too important to be hamstrung, even for a few months, by personal distractions." –..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature

The Other Side of Hope

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

"...failing business, and gambles the proceeds in a high-stakes poker game for the money to purchase a run-down restaurant..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...are currently under way in Central Texas. Early voting runs through May 3; election day is May 7. Austinites..."

April 29, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Bar Targeted in APD Bike-Wreck Probe

TABC, DPS, and APD all looking at circumstances of Jacobsons' fatal accident.

"...was the fifth of five stops in a charity poker run – in which players go through five stops,..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Reel World

Korey Coleman started The Reel Deal as a scam; he ended up with a show.

"...gesture meaninglessly. Martin's bald head, ever forecasting his emotion, scrunches up in frustration. The 20 people in the audience..."

July 14, 2000 News Feature by Sarah Hepola

Naked City

APD says independent inquiry will allow for more public confidence

"...was the fifth of five stops in a charity poker run – in which players retrieve a card at..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

What's on the Slab

Texas roadhouses are far from middle-of-the-road

"...and Harry's has always been a stop on the Poker Run. Harry serves barbecue, and though the menu is..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Naked City

Headlines and happening from Austin and beyond

"...Jacobson headed out to Lockhart to join a benefit poker run on his bike shortly before noon and made..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Aggies Hook Horns, Astros Land Lee

"...Limas Sweed just before halftime, continue with the Horns' run defense deciding that since it's Thanksgiving, they'd take a..."

Nov. 25, 2006 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

World Series: Red Sox in Five

"...performance-enhancing drugs. More painful than realizing Gabe Kaplan playing poker interspersed by ads for Time Life’s Christian Rock series..."

Oct. 24, 2007 Sports Post by John Hunt

You Be the Judge

Sex, lies, and politics in the 331st District Court

"...asked the boy to teach her how to play poker. After 30 minutes she asked to play strip poker,..."

March 2, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Common Law

Are the Texas Hold 'Em poker tournaments that I host in my home illegal?

"...Are the Texas Hold 'Em poker tournaments that I host in my home illegal?..."

July 1, 2005 Column by Luke Ellis

Short Third-Degree Sessions

Jesse Sublett gets personal with four of Bouchercon 2002's featured authors.

"...BF: I like to describe Heart Seizure as Midnight Run with a human heart instead of Charles Grodin. Spence..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Luv Doc: Not Mellow at All

There is an unwritten social contract to indoor plumbing

"...Now, I realize there are certain tree-huggin', otter-scrubbin', Earth-lovin'..."

April 19, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Burn in Hell

String sorcerer went to my college?

"...AC: Should you have stuck around to run the family business?..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"...in Vietnam but resurrected by a "weird miracle." They overrun the multimedia works that have won him a Guggenheim..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Honeymoon in Vegas

"...has his sweet side too. Unfortunately, Nicolas Cage doesn't run into that side of the aging gangster when he..."

Aug. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood revs up with all the restaurant news you can read

"...like me and got hooked on Bravo's recent Celebrity Poker Showdown, here's an appealing evening of entertainment. On the..."

March 5, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Let Them Eat Cake

The Return of Tax Giveaways

"...that the companies will stick around once the deal runs out...."

May 5, 1995 News Feature by Alex de Marban

'The NFL Beat': Bye Week Bros

Fantasy fill-in friends

"...steal your tools. They invite their wives to play poker...."

Nov. 3, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Faster Than Sound: The College Kids Are Alright

First-ever KVRX Fest offers a buzzing platform for indie artists, Symphony Square, and industry-aspiring students. Also, Broken Spoke daughter Ginny White-Peacock needs "robot legs."

"...The nation's largest music festival solely organized by a student-run radio station kicked off May 10-11 at Cheer Up..."

May 17, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

To Trot, or Not To Trot

"...the Thunder Cloud Turkey Trot (Texas Largest 5 mile run - over 10,000 particiapants expected). Now, this could be..."

Nov. 21, 2007 Promotions Post

The Hells Angels Hit

Anthony Benesh was shot down by a sniper – the suspects, and theories, are legion

"...followed – was nothing new. "He had lots of run-ins" with people, says a source close to Benesh, and..."

May 19, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Echo & The Bunnymen

"...easily the most fun. The other three are a poker-faced trip from early drum-machine demos and the gloom-pop glory..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture

"...it, but then I'd probably end up having to run a similar story next week.) After the band phoned..."

July 11, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Shortchanged

A lot of belt tightening and creative thinking make getting by with low dollars possible for AISD

"...collect over the next year. But between how much running a modern urban school district costs, how little the..."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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