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Happenings
"...For more details and events, see Community Listings. Thursday 5..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature

Civics 101
"...maps. 6:30pm. Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second, Boards and Commissions room, 539-0070. www.austintexas.gov/charter...."

Feb. 3, 2012 News Column

How Soon Is Now?
William Gibson talks about the short shelf life of cyberpunk.
"...cyberpunk, knows virtual reality. His books have influenced writers and technologists alike in the age of the Internet. But..."

June 6, 2008 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bibliomania
Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't
"...of Creation by John Phillip Santos 4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 5. Double..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Postscripts
Ins and Outs
"...July 28-31, co-sponsored by BookPeople. Sara Laas, Virginia Watkins, and Gus Gonzalez will expose campers to many different writing..."

July 25, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

2019 Austin International Poetry Festival Brings a World of Words to Town
"...because National Poetry Month – when versifiers from far and wide stream into Austin to join the locals who..."

April 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Dec. 23-30
"...so you can check out the giant, abstract "350" landscaped into a field north of the airport. The project..."

Dec. 24, 2010 News Feature

Zero History
The onetime king of modern sci-fi is becoming less Ray Bradbury and more John le Carré
"...The words "William Gibson" and "fashion" don't often end up in the same sentence...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

An Open Letter to Reno, Nevada...
Reno: Not such a great place for movies
"...Anyway, when I'm not off visiting my widowed and lonely mother up in, um, you, I'm doing the..."

June 24, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

No Small Feat
Scott Blackwood's novel experiments in form
"...to Meet Just Here, clocks in at 162 pages, and its original title was See How Small (which references..."

March 13, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Res Publica
Matters of the public, Dec. 11-17
"...AUSTIN GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOLIDAY PARTY LGBT-friendly businesses are..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

How Perfect Is That
Sarah Bird skewers Austin society in the days of George and Laura and the Dellionaires.
"...Bull, Stoli, Ativan, just the tiniest smidge of OxyContin, and one thirty-milligram, timed-release Spansule of Dexedrine" – can stave..."

June 6, 2008 Books Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postscripts
Curioser and Curioser
"...spring 1999. The local writer, former UT journalism professor, and Lloyd Doggett speechwriter has crafted "an ancient mystery solved..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

New Harry Potter Prompts BookPeople to Revive the Magic of Release Parties Past
J.K. Rowling's latest brings the gang back together for one last hurrah
"...height of reboot season. We watch with alternating cynicism and delight as creatives dredge up our and our parents'..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

'Guy Town by Gaslight'
New book digs up the dirt on Austin's scandalous 'hood of old
"...ways, you'd think two public soirees hosted by madams and sanctioned by the city would've passed into local legend...."

July 16, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place
Get crafty with Dandy
"...GET CRAFTY WITH DANDY..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Vive la Résistance
Joshua Long talks about Austin's evolution of weird, from organic to institutionalized
"...in a friend's car. I looked out the window and saw a scraggly, shirtless dude riding his bicycle standing..."

June 4, 2010 Books Feature by Wells Dunbar

Res Publica
Good events for good citizens, Oct. 23-30
"...For more details and events, see Community Listings. Thursday 23..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

The Hightower Report
"...product of free-market forces. "The fundamental laws of supply and demand are at work," crooned the president of Shell..."

June 20, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

TSOP
"...Just south of midnight, Scott and I staggered down Broad Street. Well, not staggered –..."

June 13, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Female Trouble
With mounting debt and rising rent, BookWoman faces closure, again
"...The other day a "tall, handsome stranger" left an envelope at BookWoman. Susan Post, the..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Fixing Up the Fringe
'Everybody laughed, and I breathed a sigh of relief and grabbed another beer'
"...For the previous installments, go to austinchronicle.com/issues/ dispatch/authors/joshmedsker.html , and keep an eye out here for future ones...."

July 11, 2003 Books Feature by Josh Medsker

In Person
P.D. James at Barnes & Noble Arboretum
"...the novel. I always describe it through the eyes, and therefore through the mind, through the senses of the..."

May 11, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Relapse Into Addiction Quietly Broke Up Street Sects, the Duo Has Exorcised Their Demons
The Gentrification V 7-inch hit last week, but Austin experimentalists are focusing on a balanced existence instead of rushing anticipated third LP
"...What happened next happened quickly. The calendar turned, and Ashline found himself out of a bartending job, trapped..."

May 27, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

A Change in Perspective
Tom Grimes doesn't rewrite history in his memoir, Mentor – he just understands it a little better now
"...the historic home Grimes led the effort to preserve, and had to spend the first 10 minutes of our..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Daily Hustle: 6/3/10
TDH gets ethnographic with Joshua Long
"...Weird City. As Josh's answers were so great – and politically relevant – TDH has the extended interview below..."

June 3, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Letters at 3AM: 'O' Is for Oligarchy (Continued)
The American Oligarchy has been growing for decades, and we've been its enablers
"...Part 1: What They've Done and Do..."

April 23, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Still Bringing It
Jessica Bendinger on the 10th anniversary of her snarky cheer comedy Bring It On
"...Most writers are good on page and near pathological in person, but Jessica Bendinger gives great..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Pops on Top
Father may not know best, but DadLabs has made it its mission to make sure knows a little bit better
"..."Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must..."

June 12, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Saturday Picks
"...mine was in Jamaica," starts a confident David Banner, "and he said the only thing people in Jamaica knew..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

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