In “How Many Cats Did Austin Save Last Year?” News, April 3, in briefly summarizing long-term trends, we mischaracterized the euthanasia rate over the last nine years, and we regret the error. Although the total numbers of animals killed at the Town Lake Animal Center slowly declined over the previous decade, the marked improvement in the euthanasia rate (that is, the percentage of received animals killed) has occurred over the past year in connection with the new Mission: Orange partnership. The larger trend is that, for most of the Nineties, Austin was killing two-thirds of the animals received at the center but is now killing less than a third.
The article “Disharmony at the Live Music Task Force,” News, April 3, had a misleading title implying that there is controversy within the task force; in fact, the article was about controversy within the Save Austin Music organization. The Chronicle regrets the error and has changed the title online. See “Disharmony Over City Music Department.”
In the March 13 “Letters at 3AM” (“Crazy at the Flickers”), Michael Ventura’s memory reshot one Mabel Normand scene. In The Extra Girl, Normand did not “sit playfully with lions”; she stood playfully in, and at the open door of, a cage containing one large, grouchy lion.
This article appears in April 10 • 2009.