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Gay Place
Pride Month marches on
"...Self-Defense & Prevention of Identity-Based Violence Q Toys kicks off..."

June 22, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Strangers: Prey at Night
Home invasion classic becomes a franchise.
"...dopey things like failing to use a gun in self-defense when given the opportunity, opening doors, or entering spaces..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gay Place
Take a moment to enjoy Austin before SXSW barrels into town
"...Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement Hands-on self-defense with Sun Dragon Martial Arts while..."

March 2, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place
Magical Realness, an Austin spin on vogue / drag balls
"...Take Back The Night: LGBT Self-Defense Class We don't really wanna fight for our right..."

July 8, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Ip Man 3
Donnie Yen returns as the grandmaster who taught Bruce Lee his moves
"...Possibly, Yip set the bar too high for even himself to top in his immensely entertaining first two Ip..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Music: First Band List of 2016
Initial names for (154) and days remaining until (146) March madness
"...slow garage-punk was produced by Steve Albini. Post-punk gang Self Defense Family plants a boot both in L.A. and..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

From Tokyo to Austin
The Japanese argument for the TPP and bullet trains
"...scholars arguing that Japan cannot enhance its own national self-defense. Instead, it depends on what is known as collective..."

Aug. 15, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Cartel Land
Vigilante groups on both sides of the border fight the Mexican cartels in this harrowing doc
"...subject of this harrowing documentary. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embedded himself with groups on both the U.S. and Mexican sides..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

St. Vincent
Bill Murray plays a hard-hearted grouch who warms to his new neighbors – Melissa McCarthy and her young son.
"...of course). Among other things, Vincent teaches Oliver some self-defense moves, takes him to the track and his bar,..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ready and Abel
Drafthouse Films unleashes Abel Ferrara's 'Ms. 45' on Austin and NYC
"...concealed carry, America still roils with the debate about self-defense. Ferrara said: "At what point do you say, 'Hey,..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Heroes vs. Terror
Two women's bravery is more important than one man's evil
"...his trial begins. His histrionics are already apparent. Claiming self-defense, Breivik spoke about his refusal to recognize the authority..."

April 16, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Frank J. Rivera

Abduction
Twilight's Taylor Lautner makes his bid for solo action stardom.
"...a school project, a teen discovers a photo of himself as a child on a website for missing children...."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Res Publica
Citizen affairs, March 12-19
"...FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE SPEAKER SERIES kicks off with In Defense of Self: The Politics of Women's Health in War..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature

Bra Boys
Russell Crowe narrates this insider's documentary about Australia's Bra Boys – a family of brawlers whose exploits are legendary.
"...rowdy but who only avail themselves of violence in self-defense! All of this may be true, but with a..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Wish List
Give 'Til It Helps, Part 2
"...6002 Jain, 462-2181. www.swkey.org SUN DRAGON MARTIAL ARTS AND SELF DEFENSE..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Features Feature

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..."

July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. October
"...Deuce McAllister down the throats of the baby-soft Bucs defense? No. 26 had a whopping 117 yards by halftime,..."

Oct. 9, 2006 Sports Post by Robert Gabriel

SXSW Film Reviews
"...in this hourlong feature critiques humanity's willingness to destroy itself, whether through violence, pollution, guns, or words. "A Buck's..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Blix In Austin:
The UN weapons inspector blasts Bush at the LBJ School
"...also allows member states to take armed action in self-defense if an armed act has occurred, and then, even..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...is to say nationalist sensationalism. It will truly outdo itself once it is figured that they can run the..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column

Love Walks In
The first Rockrgrl Music Conference gets a blessing from Seattle's rain goddess.
"...of issues important to women musicians. Home Alive, a self-defense and awareness group formed after the rape-murder of the..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Second Austin Latino Comedy Fiesta: A Long Way
Local Arts Reviews
"...stole the show in a brilliant sketch, "The Pendejo Self-Defense Kit," written by Adrian Villegas. Arredondo demonstrated a kit..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Review by Mary Jane Garza

Big Momma's House
"...a scene in which Big Momma commandeers a senior-citizen self-defense class, enlisting a small army of septuagenarians to “take..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Straw Dogs
"...attacked by marauding Neanderthals. Feminists, espousers of non-violence, and self-defense activists have been battling out the meaning of this..."

Nov. 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...guv. Some of them, including the Chronicle's Robert Bryce ("Self made man, my ass"), even dare to point out..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature

Dead Man
Jarmusch's elegiac, black-and-white meditation is a dream in the form of a Western about the enterprise of America.
"...spent his life savings on the trip, Blake finds himself stranded in the godforsaken town without so much as..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clockers
"...Victor lands in jail and confesses to murder “in self defense,” local detective Rocco Klein (Keitel) puts the heat..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
"...we might, well, fix things. Chomsky's theories of “intellectual self-defense,” that is, the notion that people must arm themselves..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Far Off Place
"...catch the perpetrators, he promptly kills one poacher in self-defense, then takes dead aim at the other who, unarmed,..."

March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...whiskey's flowing. Not so with Austin's Hard Feelings. Their self-titled debut on Sympathy for the Record Industry features lots..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

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