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Joining a long East Texas tradition, Jackson County DA Bobby Bell has convicted 28 black people on drug charges via manufactured evidence and railroaded trials. One small-town exile, her family, and a few neighbors are finally fighting back.

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The Texas Documentary Tour: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds' 'Occupation: Dreamland'

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

Actor Ed Begley Jr. explains how he was inspired to write a musical honoring his friend Cesar Chavez

Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy have starred in bigger stinkers, but this wheezing comedy may herald the death knell of the interracial buddy-cop farce.

Four Texas writers on fathers and sons

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

Stephen does drag in cartwheels or cartwheels in drag... you'll have to read to figure it out

The paths of a seemingly unconnected, multicultural group of Los Angelenos cross in the most compelling American movie to come around in a long while.

Production companies are mad at work shooting sitcoms and dramas for consideration on the fall TV slate

This ultra-noir adaptation of Frank Miller’s black-and-white cult comic series is a visual feast ripped straight from the original medium’s blood-soaked pages.

Anyone who tells you the impact of a smoking ban will be negligible doesn't appreciate that it's the very number of Austin music clubs, including the swarm of the more marginal ones, that enables the scene's vitality

Downtown stakeholders raise questions about policing ... the police

Filmed in Austin with Tommy Lee Jones, Man of the House is nothing to write home about.

Lots of midseason premieres in March. So, without much fuss, here's what's coming up ...

Glorious performances and Eastwood's confident direction result in a film that transcends the rules of its genre and shows us, with an unvarnished simplicity, how human beings struggle to come to terms with the unthinkable.

This new version of John Carpenter's classic is superfluous in the extreme, and while it’s not technically a bad movie, per se, viewers unfamiliar with the film’s lineage will likely write it off as yet another midwinter also-ran, the sort of action film that never quite takes off and instead focuses on random gun battles and cheesy dialogue.

Year in review for cops and firefighters

Gift guide

Austin's Amplified Heat turn both – their amps and the heavy metal heat

Saw is indeed a horror movie, but not necessarily in the manner the filmmakers intended.

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Both McNeill and Hamilton say a new lockup is TCSO's top priority

Don't get burned on these leftover stereotypes.

Who tickets what in Austin

If we're very, very lucky, a solid TV series comes from all of this pain

Whatever disasters City Hall hath wrought, the old airport isn't one of them

The Bush record of 'compassionate conservatism' is amply illustrated by his clemency record in Texas

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