A Change in Perspective

Tom Grimes doesn't rewrite history in his memoir, Mentor – he just understands it a little better now

"...returned home from travels to find his Internet down. Then he set the alarm off at the Katherine Anne..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

You Coulda Walked Around the World

The LBJ of Lone Star songwriters lays siege to the Cactus Cafe

"...Every time Townes Van Zandt played the Cactus Cafe in the late 1990s, my..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Welcome to Capital Metro

Whoever the new CEO turns out to be – she'll have her hands full

"...to announce whether it has chosen New York's Deborah Wathen Finn or Orlando's Linda S. Watson as its new..."

June 18, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Page Two: Praying for an Early Death

Louis Black sucks, and he makes SXSW suck

"...with Louis Black's usual indecipherable drivel of excuses, justifications, and self-congratulatory plaudits. I'm sure this incident will be chalked..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Joseph Stack Manifesto

Reprint of pilot's suicide note

"...happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing..."

Feb. 18, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...Sundance announced its 2010 short film program yesterday, and a handful of Texans made the cut, including Park..."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Tire Mound of Mystery

Thousands of city tires lie moldering southeast of town – and the city is claiming ignorance

"...Stacked in long rows and towering piles in the middle of a field southeast..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Fire at AFD

Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr leads a department flaming with labor, race, and gender politics

"...Kerr is sitting in her office. Apart from books and binders, memorabilia line the bookshelf – plaques, accolades, and..."

Oct. 16, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Riding to the End of the Line

Can Cap Metro weather the recession, balance its books ... and run the buses and trains on time?

"...news has tested the patience of riders, area politicians, and taxpayers. For many, that patience ran out long ago...."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Letters at 3AM

We did not fall from the Garden; we journeyed away

"..."Woodstock," the song – written and recorded after Woodstock, the concert – expressed the longings..."

July 31, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

The Never-Ending (Crime) Story

Although their case has hit a dead end, prosecutors of the yogurt shop murders say they're determined to find the 'unknown suspect' – and then to retry Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen

"...On Wednesday, June 24, Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen walked out of jail after spending nearly..."

July 17, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two: A Pleasant Summer Afternoon Outing

With an all-too-familiar rant recalled and reoffered

"...been somewhere else for a number of weeks now and just returned. Getting the old engine running leaves this..."

April 10, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Dissecting Mercer's Anti-Evolution Editorial

Because shooting fish in a barrel is fun!

"...few days ago, I touched lightly on Tuesday’s dishonest and contradictory anti-evolution editorial in the San Antonio Express-News by..."

Feb. 16, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

A Cacophony of Passions

Why the City Council changed the boards and commissions system – and what still needs to be done

"...need for transparency as council modifies the city's boards and commissions system – explains in a nutshell why Austin..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Page Two: Proposal Postcards

Proposition 2 and other economic quandaries

"...– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Keep On Chooglin’

John Fogerty talks past, present, and future

"...Except for Robert Plant, the only real geezer (and I mean that in the most loving way) playing..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...“I want somebody to tell my mother and go down yonder in Georgia and tell my father..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The New M.O. at City Hall

City Manager Marc Ott opens up on his new job, his new city, and his philosophy of governance

"...enormous new job: managing 12,000 city employees, 25 departments, and a budget of approximately $2.8 billion. Then in June,..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Why's Everybody Always Picking On Him?

David Sedaris on nitpicky fact-checkers and spiders' thighs

"...some of the 3,500 who have prepurchased signed books and vouchers with the faint hope of catching a glimpse..."

June 27, 2008 Books Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Page Two: The Glory of It All

Celebrating the insane energy and rippling barrage of popular culture

"...Those who denounce, accuse, castigate, and deride me are completely right. They need read none..."

March 16, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Looking More Closely When Others Look Away

On directors examining structure, storytelling, and how pictures can move us

"...There are two criteria you have to meet to land..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

After the Storm

Austin's Louisiana exiles remain suspended between before and after

"...the bodies of two of her former neighbor's rottweilers were piled on top of each other near the curb...."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Eve of Destruction

Lawrence Wright on 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9 / 11'

"...The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Books Feature by Taylor Holland

Okie Dokie Stomp

Clifford Antone didn't invent the blues, he immortalized them

"...out that real blues didn't come from Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton, the two seminal British acts that led..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Dreaming of Buffalo

Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin's eyes – and energies – eastward

"...sickly result of spending a couple of centuries plowing and grazing and messing things up...."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Justice or Vengeance?

A tale of tragedy and punishment in Williamson County

"...Four seconds. A flash. A moment here and gone. In four seconds, lives can change forever. One..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...Highway 277, approximately 45 miles south of San Angelo, and is surrounded by a vast landscape of mesquite and..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Zupan on Impact

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

"...the world's greatest rugby players is in a wheelchair, and even if he's currently slumped in a booth at..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...As an attorney and the editor of a national journal on No Child..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Column

When Doves Cry

Purple fingerprints on our past and present

"...it be a song, a riff from a school-dance standard, something that sends you into embarrassed giggles or wistful..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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