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  • Range War at the Dobie Ranch

    Michael Adams, director of the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program, next to the gravel driveway leading to the ranch house and the iconic, sculptured wood roadrunner that greets ranch ...

  • Then Theres This Swimming Upstream

    It's common knowledge that municipal swimming pools – once a neighborhood staple and valued community space in most towns – are always among the first to sink during economic downturns. The worst part? Economic rebounds seldom result in reinvigorated funding for the facilities, which, as Jeff Wiltse writes in his 2010 book, Contested Waters, increasingly makes public pools at ...

  • Point Austin In Defense of Womens Rights

    The spectacle of grown men (and it is mostly men) attempting to impose on the general public (in this instance, mostly women) their private notions of sexual and medical morality is not without occasional comedy. The Boob of The Week is Texas Congressman Michael Burgess, R-Lewis­ville, who informed a House committee considering an anti-abortion "fetal pain" bill that the proposed ...

  • Taco Tower Project on Councils Plate

    After about two months of postponements, the Taco PUD finally won a round last week. Previously, the city's Environmental Board failed to recommend the environmental aspects of the proposed Planned Unit Devel­op­ment at 211 S. Lamar, currently occupied by a Taco Cabana, and the Waterfront Planning Advisory Board has rejected it outright. Additionally, Zilker and Bouldin Creek ...

  • City Cuts Fee Waivers to Marriott Builder Labor Groups File Workplace Complaints

    After months of back and forth over the issue of how much the development corporation behind a new JW Marriott Hotel at Third and Congress should pay construction workers on the project, labor rights groups have stopped playing (relatively) nice. On June 14, the Workers Defense Project and the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers unleashed a flood of wage and ...


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Movie Review

The Killers (1964) [DVD]

The Killers (1964) [DVD]

It isnt surprising that not one, but two suspenseful potboilers have been made from Ernest Hemingways 1927 10-page short story The Killers. Hemingways story reads like a primer for a screenwriting class assignment, leaving far more questions than it does answers by the final page. Two mysterious men walk into a lunch-counter in a small town, tie up the occupants, and declare that they are awaiting ... ...

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  • Council Preview What Can We Afford

    That buzzing you hear may be the sound of looming helicopters; not the black variety of survivalist nightmares, but the more mundane variety charged with transporting big-shots across town – say, on their way to the next round of Formula One races – subject of one of the public hearings at City Council today, June 20. After a series of stakeholder meetings, city staff has drafted a ...

  • Texas Poised to Hit 500th Execution

    With the execution of Kimberly McCarthy slated for June 26, Texas is on the eve of a historic first: The first state to have executed 500 individuals since reinstatement of the death penalty – an event that also extends Gov. Rick Perry's record as the U.S. governor presiding over the most executions ever carried out. McCarthy is slated not only to be tagged with the infamous fate of ...

  • Redistricting Maps Head to House

    Seven minutes. That's how long the June 18 meeting of the House Redistricting Committee took to vote out House, Senate, and Congressional redistricting maps. The Republicans on the committee did the bidding of Gov. Rick Perry, who had called the session to adopt the interim maps drawn by the San Antonio courts in 2011 (see ...

  • The Hightower Report The class of 2013 seems to get it

    Harrell's Hardware, located near my home in Austin, Texas, is the opposite of a big-box chain store. It's an unchained, small-box store with a knowledgeable staff willing to help customers figure out how to do most any project. Harrell's slogan is: "Together, we can do it yourself." I borrowed that rich concept for a commencement speech I recently laid on high school ...

  • EUC Trio to Council Take This Volunteer Job and Shove It

    Those of you hoping for more drama in the long-running Austin Energy saga got your wish Monday night when three of the seven sitting Electric Utility Com­mis­sion­er members up and quit from the dais. The trio – Phillip Schmandt, Stephen Smaha, and Michael Webber (appointees of Council Members Chris Riley, Sheryl Cole, and Bill Spelman, respectively) – had been visibly ...

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