License to Wed
A couple seeks connubial advice from a celibate with an affinity for Popeye impressions.
"...his sudden involuntary chastity – by using the same self-defense weapon he’s mastered as the ineffectual and lovelorn Jim..."
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July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Cleanliness Is Close to Confession
Will a shopping list prove murder?
"...that Miss "That's just how I roll" Hall gave self-confessed killer Colton Pitonyak a shopping list of what was..."
July 2, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Beside the Point
A weird week at City Council
"...of Austin Energy's Downtown districtwide cooling plant for stalwart, self-described "consumer advocate and environmental activist" Robbins, who first proposed..."
June 29, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film
"...The final essay, "In Defense of the Filmmakers," by Robert Brent Toplin, is rather..."
June 29, 2007 Screens Review by Ken Lieck
Yogurt-Shop Murders Update
District Judge remands Robert Springsteen to Travis Co., where he'll remain in jail until retrial for murder in connection with infamous yogurt-shop killings
"...do so would violate Scott's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. So when his statements were read into the record,..."
June 22, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Beside the Point: Game Over
How to win friends and influence budgets
"...and Lee Leffingwell; even Brewster McCracken's somewhat dubious, after-the-fact defense raised points against the program, namely its narrowness. And..."
June 22, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Proposed Animal Shelter Move Gets Community Howling
Plan to move ailing Town Lake Animal Center to East
Austin creates strange bedfellows
"...constellation of reasons, including worries about affordable housing, Eastside self-determination, and not-in-my-back-yard neighborhood fears – not to mention what..."
June 15, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Knocked Up
Although it’s extremely funny in bursts, Judd Apatow's new comedy flirts once too often with schmaltz before toppling into melodrama in its third act.
"...good-natured schlub who uses his deadpan wit as a defense mechanism against a world that often doesn’t put much..."
June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Point Austin: Green Is as Green Does
Saving the planet begins at the grassroots
"...remember Chisum ever employing the "I'm just a dumbass" defense, as Bonnen did when asked by the Statesman's Asher..."
May 25, 2007 News Column by Michael King
Delta Farce
In this multination offender, Larry the Cable Guy and two friends are Army reservists who are shipped off to Iraq but mistakenly wind up in Mexico – and can't tell the difference.
"...This one will not be. This movie is Best Defense meets Three Amigos, with the latter’s mild fruity overtones..."
May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
There's a Boob Here, All Right
Dan Patrick loves him some wings and breasts.
"...Hooters is wrong? To dust off the shopworn stripper defense, we're sure it's put a bunch of nice girls..."
May 8, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar
Polygamous Possible Prophet Update
FLDS leader Warren Jeffs reportedly reveals he's mere mortal
"...and what effect, if any, they'll have on his defense is unknown. According to reports in both Salt Lake..."
April 13, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
NFL Analysis 101: Messiahs, Little Women, and Birth Control
"...the draft was hot and naughty by going with defense over that sexy Reggie Bush from SoCal. They recently..."
April 11, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun
The Hightower Report
Family Values, and Inescapable TV Ads
"...TV has now escaped from the home and positioned itself all over today's society to assault us. It can..."
April 6, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower
Bring Your Gun to Work Day! (No, Please Don't)
More concealed gun licenses, fewer safety instructors, and a new bill that extends the definition of self-defense to "shoot first."
"...attempt to contact law enforcement before falling back on self-defense. It also protects the killer from any criminal prosecution..."
March 22, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
'NFL Analysis 101': Fiendish Fish, Frolicking Amphibians, and the Fancy Lads of Fitzgerald
"...head above water in this division you must play defense. The ‘boys need a safety and a defensive end...."
March 19, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...of bands and the formation of a still-thriving women's self-defense center. O'Kane deftly navigates the tension that arises between..."
March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt
Enviro-Rentalism
Saving the planet when you don't even own your own (low-flow) pot to piss in
"...your income, the lower your energy use. So, pat yourself on the back for your piddling paychecks. Second, if..."
March 9, 2007 News Feature by Nora Ankrum
Letters @ 3AM
The widespread and richly deserved condemnation of President Bush's new Iraq "plan" has been high on rhetoric and low on specificity
"...How to be coherent about a situation that is itself incoherent?..."
Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura
Naked City
"...Real Threat, the ACLU has documented the Department of Defense's monitoring of at least 186 anti-military protests in the..."
Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature
Point Austin: Act Against the War
Doggett:"We have to do everything we can"
"...regime is up to in Iraq, least of all itself...."
Jan. 19, 2007 News Column by Michael King
Page Two: In This World
The all-consuming genius of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth
"...Dylan, and spending any amount of time daydreaming any defense of him would be ridiculous and masturbatory for me...."
Jan. 12, 2007 Column by Louis Black
Remedy: Reduce Stress, Reduce Fear
"...when exposed to unknown cultures and religions. It's a defense mechanism to stress and an unconscious strategy for survival...."
Jan. 2, 2007 Postmarks
Holiday Wish Lists 2006
Give 'til it helps: Part 2
"...EVERYWOMAN'S SELF DEFENSE..."
Dec. 22, 2006 Features Feature
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...off for it." – President Bush, speaking of outgoing Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld. No, seriously...."
Dec. 22, 2006 News Feature
Point Austin: Wal-Mart's Xmas Gift
Bringing coal to Northcross, something better for the rest of us
"...dais, so it's hardly a "done deal," in the self-satisfied parlance of those folks who normally disdain any public..."
Dec. 22, 2006 News Column by Michael King
Naked City
"...the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve. "We ask that you remove yourself from the box the Utility has unnecessarily put the..."
Dec. 8, 2006 News Feature
Spatchcocking!
I will be your guide and translator as we cover what is sure to be a revolution in turkey preparation
"...ensures radically increased gravy consumption out of sheer culinary self-defense. At 145 degrees, the juices from the thickest part..."
Nov. 17, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann
Beside The Point
A light council agenda for this week, focusing on Downtown and salamanders
"...Beyond the flagrant self-promotion, such concerns take a scenic route to today's City..."
Nov. 17, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Pilgrim in an Unholy Land: Notes of a Lonely Cowboy
"...State team has blown what would be, for any self-respecting Top-25 team, at least, insurmountable leads. Against A&M. Against..."
