Three Canyons

The Southwest Edge of Texas Hill Country -- Home to Lost Maples and Garner State Park -- Is Rich in Both Beauty and History

"...most surfaces. At that time Austin was a minor paradise principally because fresh cool water rose from hundreds of..."

May 18, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Treats of Laredo

Shopping South of the Border Guarantees a Feliz Navidad

"...thrill of a Mexican border town, a penny pincher's paradise, a haggler's Shangri-La. Welcome to Nuevo Laredo, the gateway..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Features Feature by Amy Smith

Saving All Our Changes

Cyber-castoffs are curated at Austin's Goodwill Computer.

"...time and distance until the current moment of technological paradise: when even your virtual great-grandmother has several gigs of..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Features Feature by Michael King

Good Taste

You spontaneously slow down and breathe easier when you enter Basil's, Barbara Chisholm writes. This is not a hipster hot spot that is peopled with folks checking the door to see if someone more interesting than their current partner has entered. People come here to concentrate on each other without distraction.

"...appreciate our unique jewel. When I arrived at this paradise, I lived in the requisite funky large house near..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Terms of Enqueerment

What happened when gay Austinites decided to come out of gay bars and into straight ones

"...If you like stereotypical gay house disco music, it's paradise," he says. "But if you've become sort of bored..."

Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature by Clay Smith

The Art of Eating Well

Aquarelle brings to the Austin dining scene a studied elegance and a decidedly Old World taste for unrestrained luxury, Chronicle Cuisines writer Rachel Feit writes. But it is still a young restaurant.

"...with patriotic zeal. Americans today love to dine out almost as much as we love shopping. Like our national..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Stacked in Her Favor

Loony Lockhart Librarian Leaves Land and Logic Behind

"...claim to being Texas' oldest continually operating library, built almost exactly 100 years ago with $10,000 bequeathed upon the..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Features Feature by Stuart Prestidge

Too Much Caffeine Woman

Watching Jean Caffeine's eyes light up.

"...1968, but instead of psychedelia, Caffeine found a post-punk paradise. First it was as a DJ at venues like..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief

"...or Don DeLillo, and his review of Toni Morrison's Paradise is almost hostile (although I suspect this is because..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Review by Stacy Bush

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...School. In some respects, the Eastside is a developer's paradise: Poverty it has in abundance, yes, but also magnificent..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Pet Sounds

A 15-minute phone interview with the Beach Boys visionary Brian Wilson

"...behind the compelling myth of Southern California as teenage paradise, a place where summer never ends and there are..."

July 21, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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Our readers talk back.

"...not, Austin may end up as yet another spoiled paradise...."

June 16, 2000 Column

Jim the Boy: A Novel

"...Tony Earley (Here We Are in Paradise: Stories) has bypassed postmodernism, irony -- in short, any..."

June 2, 2000 Books Review by Clay Smith

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...War, and the Ayatollah, Seventies America wasn't the stoner's paradise shown on revisionist fare like That '70s Show; by..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Austin At Risk

Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems

"...tech-fueled, money-lubed "culture creep" will bleach their slice of paradise. But what the Slacker Nation has sustained is what..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Evil New Yorkers and Bit-Whoredom

They're horrible! They're evil, mean, and terrible! They're New Yorkers! They're the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre, and they're giving laid-back Austin a shot of scrappy, sophisticated, lowbrow, smart-ass theatre.

"...of comedy. At another point in their career, they almost put together an educational outreach program called "Experimental Artistic..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Postmarks

Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...Paradise Lost..."

March 17, 2000 Column

Postmarks

We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

"...Paradise Lost..."

March 10, 2000 Column

Coach's Corner

Part II of the Coach's trilogy on girls' high school basketball, wherein Salado comes a cropper against the Lady Eagles of Goldthwaite High.

"...was inconsiderate enough to move away from the desert paradise of Palm Springs, ruining my opportunity to write off..."

March 3, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Long Live Liberty Lunch

"...few choice words about the club and its closing. Almost all were happy to oblige. Some of these words..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Summer Reading

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

"...Ben Neihart's so-trashy-it's-almost-good thriller follows the working-class, shy, poetry-reading Drew and his..."

June 4, 1999 Books Review

In Order to Live

An American in Paris (1951)

"...conventional quintet on which to hang what seems like almost every marvelous George and Ira Gershwin song ever written..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

An American in Paris (1951)

"...conventional quintet on which to hang what seems like almost every marvelous George and Ira Gershwin song ever written..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

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Sucking Us Dry

"...despite its flaws, is in many ways an earthly paradise). So, please, let's help lower-paid citizens live here. Let's..."

May 21, 1999 Column

Additional Ranch Info

"...Owned and operated by the same family for almost half a century, Mayan is a paradise for all..."

May 21, 1999 Features Feature

Click on This

"...as creamy, muted shades meant to calm and soothe. Almost every site uses sound and moving images to create..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Why I Read ...

"...... Right now, I'm reading Laura Furman's book Ordinary Paradise, which I think is a really, really beautiful book...."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

1998 Austin Theatrical Movie Openings

"...FAMILLE 3.0 (M.S.) 11/27/98 THE ALARMIST 1.0 (S.D.) 11/27/98 ALMOST HEROES 0 (R.S.) 6/5/98 AMERICAN HISTORY X 3.0 (M.S.)..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Live Shots

"...the Alamodome's usually appalling acoustics muddle most instruments and almost any nice guitar tones, everything Clapton played this Saturday..."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature

Cybernistas!

Will the Revolution Be Computerized?

"...- a cause so dated now that it seems almost precious. (It has since occurred to me that I..."

May 29, 1998 Screens Feature by Jay Hardwig

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