Showing Black Lives Matter

Facing race then and now onstage in Pretty Fire and Hands Up Hoodies Down

"...of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and on the police department there, and that 19-year-old Tony Robinson was shot..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Record Reviews

"...REGGATTA MONDATTA: A REGGAE TRIBUTE TO THE POLICE..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Music Review

Headlines

"...APD cop who won the lottery, settled a pricey brutality lawsuit, then went on to become Precinct 1 Constable..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...foul-mouthed drama that delivers an unlikely mix of pathos, brutality and humor. First-time director Yang Ik-June plays an angry..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Supremes Rule on Lawyers, Sex, and Guns

Court's rulings hit home

"...by death, it risks its own sudden descent into brutality, transgressing the constitutional commitment to decency and restraint."..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Unknown Terrorist

Flanagan deals with the interface of race and class in Australia using brutality the same way Tom Wolfe used humor in The Bonfire of the Vanities to deal with it in America

"...the interface of race and class in Australia using brutality the same way Tom Wolfe used humor in The..."

April 13, 2007 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Gary Floyd, Scene-Defining Singer of Austin Punks the Dicks, Has Died

WATCH: An exclusive look at Arts+Labor’s in-progress Dicks doc

"...while performing to Eighties Texas crowds. “Dicks Hate the Police,” a brutality satire often covered by Mudhoney back in..."

May 3, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Iranian Revolution Touches Austin

Woman, life, freedom

"...After suffering a blow to the head while in police custody, she went into a coma and died three..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

What Does It Mean in 2022?

"...in Austin ensures inequality. These issues were not addressed. Police misconduct and brutality continue to this very day. Those..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Postmarks

Indoor Queers Club: History’s No Mystery!

Qmmunity recommends readable & watchable media about queer history

"...Learn about the culture of police surveillance and brutality that preceded that fateful summer night..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

In the Frigid Cold of a Surging Pandemic, Tear Dungeon’s Blood-Spewing Chaos Made Us Feel Alive

Finally, a band that wears masks on stage – oh wait

"...Tear Dungeon’s standard live show, a visual lesson in brutality which mirrors their sonic style, a slew of unsuspectingly..."

Jan. 8, 2022 Music Post by David Brendan Hall

Headlines

"...institute a "No Call" policy. Citing cases of Austin police dishonesty, racism, and brutality, the activists ask Moore not..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Feature

Texas Thriller Coyote Lake Draws Suspense From True Crime

On the shores of the border with filmmaker Sara Selig­man

"...she can remember." However, that means she has normalized brutality. "Just a few deaths," she laughed...."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

There’s Never Been a City Council Candidate Like Lewis Conway Jr.

Grassroots organizer, convicted felon eyes Ora Houston's seat

"...of despair and poverty; the bundles of racism and brutality," he told a crowd of supporters, colleagues, friends, and..."

Dec. 8, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Point Austin: Celebrating the Kellers’ Exoneration

On a happy day, too many others endure criminal injustice

"...and nearly 25 years of enduring their reputations destroyed, brutality in prison, and a family scarred in a spasm..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Possessed by Paul James at Chicago’s Moonrunners Fest

ATX folker proves a reaffirming antidote to shocking violence

"...companions lay inexplicably unconscious on the ground. Soon the police arrived, hung caution tape, hauled members of both injured..."

April 28, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...has lied, John tells her to go to the police. Years later, John and Barron meet in a bar..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Not many people can say they created a music movement out of thin air

"...of hand-wringing by the event's organizers, and eventually the police shut the bands' amplifiers off, but not before several..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fantastic Fest Won’t Stop Announcing Awesome Stuff

May the Schwartz be with all of us

"...teens run our schools, our drugs and our prostitutes. Brutality and decadence are everywhere. Enter first-year teacher Andrew Norris..."

Sept. 8, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...saying that the story is not so much about brutality as it is about caring, about connection, and, mostly,..."

July 7, 2006 Column

TCRP Honors Rwandan Hero

Subject of 'Hotel Rwanda' comes to Texas

"...for which they are perhaps most well known: suing police departments for brutality. Harrington says TCRP works to "support..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Captive Audience

How a homegrown kidnapping thriller became the most popular film in Venezuela – and angered the Chavez administration in the process

"...few thousand dollars – not enough to interest the police – and then released or, sometimes, killed. In the..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

We Need to See 'Actual' Justice

"...the many other victims of APD's unchecked profiling and brutality. But justice should include a complete rehauling of APD..."

July 12, 2005 Postmarks

That Darn Documentary

Director Zev Asher on 'Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat'

"...film? Does a documentary film recounting horrific acts of brutality against animals count as exploitation of those acts and..."

June 24, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

War is how civilizations make love, so we should be careful of the partners we choose

"...though it's true that "make love" doesn't express war's brutality. "War is how civilizations inseminate each other" is far..."

April 30, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...submit that expanding our spy capability in a xenophobic police state like Iraq would have been difficult...."

Feb. 6, 2004 Column

Bash

In Bash, a collection of monologues by Neil LaBute, the protagonists appear to be considerate, decent people, but in the stories they share they prove themselves capable of committing crimes straight out of Greek tragedy, and the dirigo group production achieves a breezy intimacy with the audience, engaging us so thoroughly that when the darkness falls, we find it hard to abandon them.

"...could do? What looks to be an act of brutality was only a natural outcome in their eyes. Their..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Truth or Consequences

Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann's Long Night's Journey Into Day confronts issues of justice and forgiveness as it documents the hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The film screens Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour.

"...The fourth case involved the petition of a black policeman and his confrontation with the mothers of black youths..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Odds Against Tomorrow

"...New York efficiency, walls lined with photos from his police career, with only a German shepherd to keep him..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Undercover on High School's Ritziest Glitziest Night It All Goes Down at Prom

"...have to share with you is less about the brutality in the heart of some than the longing in..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature

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