Rachel Proctor

The first Wednesday in March, a group of Howard Dean’s Austin supporters did what they’d been doing the first Wednesday of every month for more than a year. They crowded into a back room at Scholtz’s Beer Garten, a longtime … Read More

There are three of them, perched on their café stools like an elite flock of glamorous pigeons. They are perhaps 19, and indisputably lovely. One wears a cherry-red, knee-length coat, or manteau, over white capri pants. Her lipstick, too, is … Read More

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Fifteen years after its publication, Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa, is still on the bestseller lists in India. The basis for the 1999 film Earth by director Deepa Mehta, the novel features an 8-year-old girl named Lenny, who watches as … Read More

Deliberations were winding down when Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos (D-Austin) rose to offer a final amendment to House Bill 15, the ironically titled “Women’s Right to Know Act.” He had little reason to hope that the powerful pro-life contingent in the … Read More

While many people tend to think of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians as just that–a conflict between two nations–it is easy to forget that cleavages just as deep run within the Israeli and Palestinian communities. Cinema is a major … Read More

Despite the efforts of anti-abortion activists, support for Roe v. Wade remains unshakably high in this state. A recent poll commissioned by Texas family planning groups found that 84 percent of those surveyed agreed with a broad statement endorsing legalized … Read More

Andrew Garrison is an award-winning filmmaker and professor at the University of Texas. His narrative and documentary films consistently examine the meaning of place, and the role of art and media in harnessing its power to effect social change. Originally … Read More

Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East It has been called an apologist for terrorists, a Zionist mouthpiece, a CIA collaborator, and a propaganda outlet for radical Islamists. And all that was … Read More