The Government Shutdown Hits

Affordable Care Act takes effect as Tea Party throttles government

"...it out at Big Bend. That's closing too. The Tea Party's shutdown of the U.S. federal government is in..."

Oct. 1, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Election Day Today Could Spell Perry Troubles

Primary run-offs become GOP testing ground for governor and allies

"...campaign manager, and the self-appointed head of the Texas Tea Party...."

July 31, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Doggett vs. the Doctor

Will right-wingers oust the liberal congressman? Tea party on, dudes.

"...Austinite Jim Stutsman). But don't tell that to the tea partiers – they've gotten it into their heads that,..."

Oct. 22, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Banners Without Errors

Who wins the protest spelling bee, immigration reformers or tea baggers?

"...What are the biggest differences between the tea party crew and the immigration reform advocates that marched..."

May 4, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Drawing Restraint 9

Iconoclastic artist Matthew Barney and his paramour Björk flood the screen with arresting images and sounds, and though little of it makes ordinary sense, it's compelling nevertheless.

"...film's hauntingly obtuse score) embarking upon a hyper-ritualized sea voyage-cum-marriage-and/or-tea ceremony aboard a gargantuan Japanese whaling vessel. The narrative,..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Good Earth

TEA for Texas

"...presented a smorgasbord of transportation improvements competing for federal TEA-21 (that's Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to..."

July 23, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Treat the Maternal Figure in Your Life to These Mother’s Day Events

Treat Mom to a stellar time at these local celebrations

"...of local fun from handmade crafting to a lakeside tea service. These’ll also work for moms looking to have..."

May 7, 2025 Events Post by James Scott

The Steeping Room to Close

Local bastion of fine teas and cuisine will shutter its Rosedale venue

"...Put a handful of loose tea in a heated pot of water right now, keep..."

Sept. 1, 2022 Food Post by Memory Harker

About That AISD Waiver

Following backlash, confusion, district will seek TEA waiver to extend virtual learning, phase in classroom instruction after Oct. 5

"...miscommunication) to ensue. The day after the board meeting, teachers' union Education Austin organized an email-­writing campaign imploring the..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Big Bill’s Oddball Odyssey

A robot’s epic adventure getting to tea in “Mainly Manly” video

"...across Austin to meet a little girl for a tea party. Along the way, our metal-plated protagonist gets repeatedly..."

June 6, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Dickensian Texas

Budget boss warns ending Medicaid means patients on the street

"...If Texas goes ahead with the Tea Party plan to drop out of Medicaid, that will..."

Nov. 24, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Weed Watch

U.S. Supreme Court clears way for small sect of O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal church to continue sacramental use of ayahuasca tea.

"...to continue its sacramental use of the hallucinogenic ayahuasca tea. In a unanimous ruling, written by Chief Justice John..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

24-Texas Teachers Talk of “Trauma” at TribFest

Educators discuss the challenges of reopening schools, TEA head defends decision to administer STAAR tests

"...Ale Checka began teaching last week, but she's not just concerned with running..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Nine Reasons Why Trump Is in Austin

Deciphering the most baffling campaign stop of 2016

"...in a crystal ball. Observing chicken entrails. Reading the tea leaves. All about as useful as political science to..."

Aug. 23, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

News Roundup: Schools, Fair(?) Housing, and Plastic

TEA releases rankings, Linda Curtis returns, and more

"...In this week's News Roundup, the TEA ranks schools, Linda Curtis returns, the city releases its..."

Dec. 29, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?

Audiences shrug back.

"...Unfortunately, Who Is John Galt? substitutes the most knee-jerk Tea Party beliefs for Rand's far more ambitious and complex..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Nymphomaniac: Volume 1

Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.

"...It’s also, against all suppositions, frequently hilarious and aims instead to arouse the mind over the libido...."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Winter's Tale

Neither Colin Farrell's charms nor Will Smith as the Devil can rescue this soggy valentine.

"...Catching him in the act, she (naturally) serves him tea, ruminates on the nature of destiny, and, later, dies..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

News Ticker: June 4

All the news that's fit to blog

"...Rick Perry, Lustre Pearl fights a lawsuit, and the Tea Party refuses to drink the Kool-Aid. Potables are on..."

June 4, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Margin Call

A high-powered cast drives this fictional depiction of what might have occurred in a top investment firm in the hours leading up to its collapse.

"...Unlikely to be either the tea party or Occupy America's first pick for best film..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Crazies

A mysterious pollutant in their water supply is making the residents of a small Iowa town insane in this remake of George Romero's topical horror tale.

"...zeitgeist it might well turn out to be the tea partiers’ and Fox News folks’ favorite film of the..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fish Tank

In this raw and award-winning film, a prickly British teenager hurls herself into scenarios fraught with danger.

"...Mia wakes up to find a half-dressed man making tea in the kitchen: He’s Connor (Fassbender), her mother’s new..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tony Takitani

This adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.

"...a delicate little curio, underlaid by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s exquisite tea-room piano score and filmed in a floating-camera mise-en-scène that..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Stage Beauty

Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.

"...in Love at A Star Is Born's house for tea: It's sexual politics, protofeminism, and 17th-century playacting in the..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Intimate Strangers

In this surprisingly romantic tale of confused identity and psychoanalysis, the doctor isn’t in, but the tax attorney is.

"...a ditz when it comes to directions, goes right instead of left and winds up not at the office..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Good Old Naughty Days

"...French) such as "The Musketeer at the Restaurant" and "Tea Time," the short films invariably follow the same narrative..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Out of the Dark

"...attention. The pair, along with Leon's beloved plant, soon team up with a handful of cowardly security guards to..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Ashes of Time

"...viewings, and therefore, may not be everyone's cup of tea. (A fellow viewer dubbed it, with deliciously overblown hyperbole,..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Taiga

"...meat and cloth for such necessities as flour and “tea bars.” In order to capture the feel of life..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Afraid of the Dark

"...blind mother (Ardant) and policeman father (Fox). His mother teaches knitting at the nearby school for the blind where..."

Nov. 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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