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Most Recent in Politics:

1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

3Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

4First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

5Trump’s Twitter Account Alone Disqualifies Him for POTUS

6Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

Most Recent in Environment:

1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

3Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

4The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

5Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

6Report: Seven Texas Coal Plants Could Close in Coming Years

Most Recent in Border:

1Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

2Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

3In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

4Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

5Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

6TCEQ: Contested Coal Mine Can Release Wastewater Into Drinking Supply

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in Education:

1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

3Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

4Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6Judge Gives Go-Ahead to Parents Suing Texas Over Too-Long STAAR Test

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Tag Archives: Richard Linklater

Going through old writings with Louis Black in "Richard Linklater - dream is destiny"

by Michael Schrantz

A ‘Love Song’ to the Man Who Put Austin Film on the Map

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Tue, Mar 15, 2016 |

Film students and "Slacker" fans alike will appreciate Louis Black's new film about Richard Linklater, a kind of "love song" in documentary form....Read More

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by Josh Rosenblatt

In the Austin of Andrew Bujalski’s Results, Aimlessness is a Sin

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Fri, Aug 7, 2015 |

Independent writer/director Andrew Bujalski's newest film, "Results," follows a modern-day love triangle of three imperfect people grasping not just for romance...Read More

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by Josh Rosenblatt

Mike Judge and the Duplass Bros. Bring Texas to TV

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Mon, Mar 2, 2015 |

Austin filmmakers who were outsiders 20 years ago are now insiders who have forced the world to adapt to them....Read More

Josh Wiggins (left) and Aaron Paul in Hellion.

by Josh Rosenblatt

Hellion’s Aaron Paul and the Art of Collapse

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Mon, Sep 15, 2014 |

Hellion is a story about the unspoken consequences that come from growing up in a world where adults have no more answers than the kids do. ...Read More

Mason (Ellar Coltrane), age 6, in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood.

by Josh Rosenblatt

Richard Linklater Reels in the Years in Boyhood

Thu, Aug 21, 2014 |

Boyhood may not be a great film, but there’s no denying that watching it is an experience unlike any other....Read More

Richard Linklater and James Benning in Gabe Klinger’s documentary, Double Play.

by Josh Rosenblatt

Filmmakers Linklater and Benning Meditate on Memory in Double Play

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Mon, Apr 28, 2014 |

Linklater and Benning have always concerned themselves more with philosophy and the creation of new languages than with the existing conventions of storytelling...Read More

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