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Editor Louis Black comments on our brief reunion with cover subject (and onetime Chronicle illustrator) Keith Graves, reconsiders Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter, and says “get well” to KVET talk-show mainstay Sammy Allred and “farewell” to former staffer Sarah Hepola.
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Local promoter and legend Tim O’Connor is retiring (well, he says he’s retiring), and I want only to praise him. Hell, look at his accomplishments — Castle Creek, Austin Opera House, Backyard, Austin Music Hall, La Zona Rosa, Willie, Farm Aid, and that’s just the beginning.
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To what citywide scandal has our monopoly daily directed its powerful attention? It’s a local scourge, a plague, a deep-rooted city problem: the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. (Okay, well, we don’t get it either.)
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There is probably no social agency we take for granted more than the police. In this week’s cover story, Mike Clark-Madison offers a powerful profile of Mike Sheffield, 22-year APD veteran and head of the Austin Police Association.
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