A Little Poison With Your Plastic?

Polycarbonate plastic bottles pulled from shelves over health concerns

"...A popular type of plastic bottle may be seeping dangerous chemicals into its contents, and concerns over the health..."

May 16, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Northward, Ho!

Why we're headed to the Blue Genie Art Bazaar's new home

"...that dishes and coffee carafes are dumped alongside stuffed animals, clothes, and books. With shards of glass all over..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Green Events, Nov. 15-21

"...experts happy to answer your questions about grass-fed, pasture-raised animals. Get your picture taken on a longhorn today to..."

Nov. 14, 2007 Columns Post

Naked City

"..."If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?" – Late-night..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature

Whitney Lee: Power Craft

Artist Whitney Lee has taken cute farm animals and adorable house pets – icons of traditional domestic crafts – and postered them across the streets of Austin

"...the fluffy material. Whitney Lee has taken cute farm animals and adorable house pets – icons of traditional domestic..."

July 6, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

To Your Health

Is lithium safe for a teenager?

"...Animals fed a low-lithium diet exhibit behavioral abnormalities and give..."

July 14, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

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Our readers talk back.

"...motorcycling, even with a helmet, is much, much more dangerous than bicycling without a helmet. An absurd set of..."

July 7, 2006 Column

Shrinking Schools

While the suburbs sprawl, central city schools count their children – and their blessings

"...on to Pearce Middle School and Reagan High, whose dangerous reputations can scare off even the most zealous neighborhood-schools..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

City Searches for a Feral Cat Fix

Volunteers fight market forces and nature to control stray population

"...In addition, feral cats are wild animals, so even vets who are willing to take the..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Not Shutting Up Anywhere

This Al Franken is your Al Franken

"...supposed to wear a fabric made from two different animals. So, right away, say, you're in the Super Bowl:..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

163 Questions

Honorable mention, the 13th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...There is nothing worse than rape, unless it's circus animals. T F..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature by Rebecca Beegle

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"...century ago, people were already seeing them as lovable animals to be spared the pit, not kept there: the..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Column

Defending Pit Bulls

"...century ago, people were already seeing them as lovable animals to be spared the pit, not kept there: the..."

Jan. 25, 2005 Postmarks

The Dog Fighter

Beware: As recommended as this debut novel comes, if it were a movie, they could not honestly put the disclaimer in the credits that 'no animals were hurt'

"...the woman away from the town's most powerful and dangerous businessman, even if it means killing him...."

July 23, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Money Changes Everything

Greg Pak's 'Robot Stories' is ap-pealing to just about everyone, seven years after his appeal to the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund launched his career.

"...a replicant and not to be trusted around small animals and electrical outlets. It's also an anthology film –..."

May 7, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...around as if they are needed somewhere, like the animals out at the shelter need me. I want to..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Former City Forester Charges Harassment, Sex Bias at PARD

Susan Murray alleges her career as Austin's urban forester fell apart after she complained about her boss' conduct.

"...feral hogs, empty wildlife traps of live and dead animals, [mended] fences and [patrolled] for illegal and dangerous situations."..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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"...judge a nation by the way it treats its animals. If we continue with this pointless butchery, we will..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

To Dog or Not to Dog

The leash-law controversy continues in Old West Austin

"...efforts to establish the pilot period to "irrational and dangerous" people who value animals above children and OWANA members..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Coach's Corner

Coach ventures forth to a pre-dawn World Cup-watching party.

"...store novels, that solitary drinkers tend to be depressed, dangerous psychopaths...."

July 5, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Hightower Lowdown

The media buys the Pentagon's lies, W can't keep his free-market ideology straight, and biotechnology brings us Frankenpigs.

"...this is an unsound, highly contaminating, costly, and notoriously dangerous source of energy that has never been able to..."

Aug. 17, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.

"...cut into wildlife habitat and make it hard for animals to survive. Species are dying out right here in..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column

Hippo Snouts and Hyena Eyeballs

Through the years, Mick Vann explains, just about every edible thing imaginable, and some stuff even the most jaded imagination can barely contemplate, has been used to gird the loins of the hapless horny male. Remember: It's almost always the guys who feel the need to produce seed.

"...the consumption of the actual genitals of poor hapless animals that are usually considered fierce or frisky. And fourth..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...by Department of Public Safety narcotics agents, were too dangerous for an agent operating in a small, tight-knit community,..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Slimed!

Is Barton Springs Pool Losing Its Soul to Algae?

"...swims because of the algae, says the pool is "dangerous. It's unpleasant. And it's so tragically sad when you..."

April 21, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

After a Fashion

Black for every budget at South Lamar boutique Blackmail.

"...Black. Basic black. Black as night. Black as death. Dangerous, dramatic, and seductive, or staid, sedate, and chic, it's..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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Puzzled by Oppel

"...18, No. 51] shows, yet again, the environmental movement's dangerous failure to influence America's dummies...."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column

The Contenders

Place 1

"...rule in city animal shelters, which would spare all animals not seriously ill or dangerous. "We spend millions to..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature

Live Shots

"...Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." Or was that Dangerous Toys' "Sport'n a Woody"? Seems the Sunset Strip hasn't..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature

Where the Sea Used to Be

"...— a place of luminous beauty that is simultaneously dangerous and unyielding. Human beings are subjects of nature just..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Books Review

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