A Corner in Cyberspace Turned Blog Party

Jon Lebkowsky asks, why blog?

"...During the dot-com frenzy an important technology emerged from the need to..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Creative Capital?

In the City of Ideas, the people with ideas are dancing with day jobs.

"...science with other Austinites outside the university, and the daily newspaper doesn't even report on science any more...."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael Erard

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...as elitists out of touch with regular folk and daily life. However, when you think about artists as critical..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

I Want My MP3s

The rise and demise of Austin's once dominant file-sharing service, Audiogalaxy

"...Though millions of files are swapped over these services daily, the quality and selection of accessible MP3s pales in..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: The Toxic Agenda

The Statesman's sensational report on Barton Springs is much less than meets the eye.

"...The Sunday query on the "unscientific" and easily manipulated dot-com survey was "Do you feel safe swimming in Barton..."

Jan. 24, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Enron's Masters of the Universe

A Conversation with Robert Bryce

"...when Enron was essentially converted into a perverted accounting-fueled dot-com...."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Talking Trash

A huge garbage dump in northeast Travis County causes a stink with its neighbors.

"...English's dining room table, the three women share odor anecdotes from the past year. Thoresen has lived in the..."

May 17, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The New Sobriety

SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews

"...boom. Fast money! Business plan? Schmizness plan! IPO fever! Dot.com explosions! Gourmet coffee! Power! Condos! Money!..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Unsung Heroes

Chefs get the credit; sous chefs get dinner on the table.

"...work and butchering have to be done on a daily basis along with all the regular administrative duties. "Multitasking..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Pure Beef

Some years ago, Barbara Chisholm writes, hipsters clearly informed us that Thai, Indian, Italian even -- anything but a steak house -- was cool. Not a slave to fashion, Austin Land and Cattle Company proudly flew its steak house flag. It was beefy when beefy wasn't cool.

"...Daily, 5:30-10pm..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Cast a Giant Shadow

Evaluating the mayoral legacy of Kirk Watson

"...and deep caring that has had to be a daily part of the Watson family's survival, and so I..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...calls from curiosity seekers, out-of-towners looking for the Austin daily, people who would want me to read them the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...is on the horizon, having debuted during the paper's daily SXSW supplements in March 2000...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...of alley access, and the numerous old trees that dot the land, it's unlikely that the new houses would..."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...Giant transformed the rural township of Marfa from a dot on the map to a somewhat more iconic dot..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

The Greater Chamber of Commerce wants AMD to build its next mega chip facility in Austin; Gary Bradley is calling on his friends at the Lege for help; the city's libraries have been hit with a budget crunch; Molly Ivins is glad she's left the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Austin police spokeswoman Sally Muir has moved upstairs to become Chief Stan Knee's assistant.

"...the group was pretty much rendered insignificant during the dot-com era. Clearly, an AMD recruitment victory could put the..."

April 27, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW begins

"...you hold in your hands right now and our daily supplements starting Thursday and continuing through Sunday, we're trying..."

March 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dot-bombers

Despite the clouds of layoffs, a virtual silver lining shines for some caught in Austin's online bust.

"...In some circles, watching dot-coms go down in flames has become an entertaining spectator..."

March 2, 2001 Features Feature by Carol Brorsen

Never Content

Salon Editor David Talbot and Inside.com Editor Michael Hirschorn have been on the media frontline throughout their careers. And both are well-versed in the pitfalls of providing a product -- online content -- that, so far at least, has few willing buyers. But the two have taken different approaches to achieving profitability on the Web.

"...gleeful delight in watching at the deathbeds of fading dot-coms...."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Postmarks

Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...was left? In the pocket of fuckin' Kirk "mob-ties, dot.com whore" Watson! From day one supporting his evil plans..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...was forbidden. Vagrants, rather than the shiftless or the dot-com casualties, were defined as "all able bodied persons who,..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

Killer Reputation

Murders from Austin's not quite forgotten past

"...their origin. Gazing up at the moonlight towers that dot central city neighborhoods, most Austin residents probably feel a..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...treated to some of the best material for The Daily Show ever...."

Jan. 5, 2001 Column

Saving All Our Changes

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

"...when "computers" first became an ubiquitous part of your daily life. If you're under 30, you might well be..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Features Feature by Michael King

Dot's Place

Austin has grown so far north that Dot's Place is no longer really in the country; the construction worker clientele is now joined by hungry high tech office workers from the Silicon Hills. Diners patiently snake their way through a maze inside the front door to a cafeteria line loaded daily with an embarrassment of riches.

"...Dot's Place13805 Orchard Lane, 255-7288..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.

"...Melissa Dotson's letter in "Postmarks" (August 11) upset all of us..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Column

Eight Prominent Online Diarists

"...winner of Diarist.net's legacy awards, Kymm Zuckert is a daily fix for nearly every online diary reader -- just..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Kim Mellen

Naked City

Ken Martin sells In Fact to Jo Clifton; Log Cabin Republicans set up a "booth in exile" at Republican convention; AustinAtWork.com debuts; Whole Foods closes its Web site.

"...Hall scribe and editor of In Fact, an online daily newsletter for local political news junkies, has sold his..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...single, emotionally and physically stable, successful in a Austin-based dot-com startup company making God knows what...."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin Exposure

"...on advertising and share it" -- is, unlike other dot-coms' models, built to last. "Audiopia is only one part..."

May 5, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

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