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Feb. 27, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Opinion: An Open Letter to Chip Roy, U.S. Representative, Member of Congress
A retired principal urges Chip Roy to reconsider his position on the free availability of military-style automatic weapons to civilians
"...Dear Representative Roy:..."
June 3, 2022 Column by Gregory Swimelar
Failure of Representative Government
"...do a great job of illustrating the failure of representative government in Austin: The refusal of the Texas Legislature..."
July 1, 2011 Postmarks
Gómez a True Representative of the People
"...Dear Editor, Margaret Gómez is a true representative of the people. She does not kowtow to special..."
March 10, 2010 Postmarks
Lege Lines: Empower Sues Representative Over House Press Creds
Charlie Geren claims group is a political action committee, not a news organization
April 26, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Not My Representative
"...Dear Editor, Rep. Lamar Smith, one of five Republican representatives the GOP has gerrymandered into Austin, said recently in..."
Jan. 22, 2017 Postmarks
State Representative: Let's Hang the Artist!
Borris Miles decides he is the arbiter of taste and free speech at the Capitol.
"...regret his actions and claims that more than 50 representatives have told him, either in person or by e-mail,..."
March 30, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Doesn't Think Cover Is Representative of Issues
Dec. 9, 2003 Postmarks
If Republicans Really Want to Be Representative ...
"...have to go to make room for the Hispanic representatives and the blacks and women as well. We can..."
Aug. 7, 2003 Postmarks
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Portrait of the artist as a young man is more a portrait of NYC.
"...outside the frame. And maybe that’s appropriate, because it’s representative of what he was at the time. The young..."
May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White
Prometheus
In his return to science fiction, Ridley Scott's stunning, ambitious visuals are waylaid by his quasi-metaphysics.
"...board the titular spaceship are Theron's frosty Weyland Corporation representative, Fassbender's unknowable robot, and Elba's flinty ship's captain (there..."
June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Contagion
Steven Soderbergh and an all-star cast remind us to be very afraid.
"...Control and Prevention head (Laurence Fishburne), World Health Organization representative (Marion Cotillard), and Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould) work,..."
Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
American Teen
A princess, jock, rebel, heartthrob, and geek: It could be The Breakfast Club, but American Teen is instead a documentary that ducks the consequences of its own making.
"...necessary to ask if these students are a truly representative lot or whether they’re stereotypes that fit Burstein’s preconceptions...."
Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Jellyfish
This prize-winning Israeli film is set in contemporary Tel Aviv and is both a realistic and magical portrait of contemporary women.
"...portraits of modern life in Israel. If they are representative, the women of Israel are an amorphously yearning lot,..."
July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Hunting of the President
This Friend-of-Bill doc recounts the hard-right campaign to cut short the Clinton presidency.
"...book) is a record of an extremist assault on representative democracy in the name of a false moral righteousness,..."
Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Michael King
Japanese Story
An off-the-charts performance by Toni Collette is just one of the many rewards of this unconventional love story.
"...Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour, Sandy and Hiromitsu are strongly representative of their cultures, and their emotions exist within the..."
March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
No Man's Land
This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.
"...whole of the Serb-Croat maelstrom to a handful of representative players. The film opens with a rag-tag group of..."
March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kansas City
"...Player before it, tackles an entire city and its representative mentality as its subject matter. The events in Kansas..."
Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Basketball Diaries
"...things that make the book such a clear and representative document of its time. Furthermore, the limited narrative arc..."
April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Dialogues With Madwomen
"...the voice of interviewer LIght off-screen. They are a representative cross-section: straight and gay, Catholic and Jew, young and..."
May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
True Romance
"...in their less-than-sizable roles. Likewise, Walken as a Mob representative and Pinchot as a coke-addled gofer to a Joel..."
Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Emma & Elvis
"...emotional resonance. Shot in Dayton, Emma & Elvis is representative of the recent trend toward regional feature filmmaking, a..."
May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Incident at Oglala
British filmmaker Apted makes a carefully reasoned, yet passionate statement about the legal system that has ensnared American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier.
"...on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Leonard Peltier, as a representative of the American Indian Movement was convicted of their..."
July 10, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher
Toy Soldiers
"...having a role in their own salvation and a representative cast including kids of all colors. For those concessions..."
April 26, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher
Meet the Texas Lawmaker Working to Ban Conversion Therapy
Rep. Celia Israel on politics, queerness, and transportation
"...In 1992, Celia Israel had one thing holding her..."
April 2, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime
Lawmaker Files Bill to Strike SB 4
Ft. Worth representative wants to repeal the anti-immigrant law
"...a law that puts all people in danger." Godspeed, representative...."
July 14, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Vela to Dukes: Resign "Immediately"
Candidate tells rep. to consider values, interests of constituents
"...chairman of the Workers Defense Project, and potential state representative for House District 46 Chito Vela called for the..."
Nov. 30, 2016 News Post by Sarah Marloff
Farm to Table Learning
Local Culinary Program offers new Agriculture-based Curriculum.
"...Michel Escoffier join Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell and State Representative Eddie Rodriguez at the ceremonies...."
Aug. 29, 2012 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood
This Is Not A Test: Strayhorn Alert System
11/12 – Never Forget
"...to be someone she clearly isn't – a courageous representative of the people, and we bit on it, hook,..."
Nov. 13, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar
Chisum Cracks Keffer Over Craddick
Republicans squabble and Craddick challengers open to pick up the pieces
"...this response to Keffer's presser: "House members know that Representative Keffer's press release is just hyperbole and is not..."
