If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

Travis Co. commissioners agree that county's tax collection system isn't broken, vote to do another exhaustive study of it anyway

"...partner in the Austin law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, one of the largest private collection agencies..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

ACC Race

A tangled web of work relationships roils the Kaplan / Mejia-Dietche contest

"...Martin Blair, senior buyer in the purchasing department and former colleague..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Election Notes

A tangled web of work relationships roils the Kaplan/Mejia-Dietche contest

"...Martin Blair, senior buyer in the purchasing department and former colleague..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City

"...• What do Tony Blair, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Richardson … and Roger Duncan have..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature

Vampyress

October is a fitting time for the Vortex to premiere Chad Salvata's opera 'Vampyress,' about a ghoulish countess who killed 600 women so she could bathe in their blood

"...crimson light steeping the stage in a bloody wash. Blair Hurry's extravagant costumes, blending Elizabethan pageantry and contemporary S&M..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...opposing enforcement." When contacted for comment, Smith's press secretary, Blair Jones, said "There is nothing new or surprising in..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature

Linebarger, Oden Still Pushing for County Tax Business

But county officials say collections are very efficient

"...came calling a few years back – Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson LLP. Things are different now, Oden insists...."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...partner in the Austin law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, one of the largest collection firms in..."

July 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Layer Cake

A contemporary gangster film that both looks and feels like a Britnoir classic filtered through the Jam’s bang-on sense of style, Layer Cake takes a realistic approach to Britain’s criminal underclass.

"...native England’s Britpop movement, and his Snatch paralleled Tony Blair’s Cool Britannia marketing scheme, then Layer Cake, directed by..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Range War at Commissioners Court

Officials choose up sides over law firm's proposal to privatize tax collections

"...work for the Austin-based law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, the largest private collection contractor in Texas..."

May 6, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Linebarger to County: Have We Got a Deal for You

Travis County officials spark a feud over the prospect of privatizing the county's delinquent tax collection duties

"...aggressive lobbying campaign by Oden's firm – Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson – Travis Co. commissioners suddenly, with inexplicable..."

April 29, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Food-o-file

You still have a chance to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? for Project Transitions; plus, events from all over the Austin food map

"...• The Blair House Inn (100 W. Spoke Hill Dr. in Wimberley,..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Cabaret

UT's Cabaret is a risky departmental production sufficiently primed as postelection catharsis

"...skirt about in underwear and lacy bloomers. Costume designer Blair Hurry clothes the Kit Kat cast with panache, including..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

'Tarnation' Sensation

Jonathan Caouette's inexplicably perfect documentary of growing up gay in Texas is the astounding new face of DIY moviemaking

"...films, D.A. Pennebaker and the Maysles brothers' documentaries, The Blair Witch Project – all of these came out of..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Some Kind of Documentary

"...of Berlinger's crippling experience on the sequel to The Blair Witch Project. Ironically, the birthing of Metallica: Some Kind..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Open Water

Is it wrong to root for the sharks?

"...Denny's. Open Water feels like a riff on The Blair Witch Project, with its heightened reality and unseen predators,..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Soccer Watch

Iraqi soccer team makes the Olympics, but if only they had a country; the Lightning get whupped; and more soccer news from 'Old Europe'

"...got little help, despite letters to Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George Bush. He added that Blair eventually..."

May 21, 2004 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Blair Hurry, The Trojan Women: A Love Story..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

Ah, to live the life of the Chronicle Food editor; plus, Gingerbread pancakes, Girl Scouts, and the Gilstraps of Wimberley

"...girls selling cookies in your neighborhood... The owners of Blair House country inn (100 W. Spoke Hill Dr., 512/847-1111;..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Love Actually

This merry skein of loves lost and found in holiday-season London is written and directed by the Four Weddings and a Funeral scribe.

"...there are Labour Party regulars fed up with Tony Blair’s doggedly pro-Bush Iraq policy. Briefly, if such a thing..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Trojan Women: A Love Story

A Chuck Mee play is a veritable playground for young artists, but while they put a lot of thought and effort into the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of The Trojan Women: A Love Story, the students behind it only scratched the surface of his work.

"...bright colors and silly antics (kudos to costume designer Blair Hurry for her distinction between the olive-drab grimness of..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Swimming Pool

Ozon’s film is like Eric Rohmer meets Brian DePalma – questions of identity and perception come to the fore, but slowly.

"...– Rampling’s character is English, and there’s that whole Blair/lap-dog thing to consider, as well. But no, she’s a..."

July 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Owning Mahowny

"...is not too far removed from that of Jayson Blair and The New York Times. The corporate oversight in..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wrong Turn

"...of upstart nightmares over the past decade – The Blair Witch Project, Wes Craven’s pomo switchback Scream, the first..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Identity

"...quasi-indies like Memento and startling, original shockers like The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense. I suppose from..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

What do Osama Bin Laden, Aretha Franklin, and Blue Genie Art Industries have in common? Absolutely nothing, but go ahead and read about them anyway.

"...our allies. Not so fast, say the allies. Tony Blair and Dubya may share a sleeping bag and roast..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Requiem for Tesla

Genius and madness are the ac and dc of inventor Nikola Tesla's life, as portrayed in the Rude Mechanicals' biographical tribute Requiem for Tesla, and this new version provides the atmosphere and quickening charge of an old Universal horror film.

"...the eerie keening of the theremin (expertly played by Blair Bovbjerg) to a tesla coil sending bolts of magenta..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Capitol Chronicle

As the year turns, the auguries of war predict the worst

"...inspections to continue as planned, and even Me-Too Tony Blair, faced with strong popular opposition in the United Kingdom..."

Dec. 27, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Hug

Texas Platters

"...supplies texture with a wash of bong-resin-clouded guitar; and "Blair Hug" carries on like the unholy bastard child of..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Hill Country Food and Wine Guide

"...Blair House, A Fine Country Inn (63)..."

April 5, 2002 Food Feature

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