Postscripts

The details about what books have been selling in Austin in 1999.

"...In 1999, the Chronicle began publishing lists of bestsellers from a variety of Austin bookstores. One of..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 17-23

"...a favorable time for you to redefine the meaning of the term "sacred" and to deepen your relationship with..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Federal Judge Legalizes Texas Vote-by-Mail

Broad ruling says all Texas voters can request mail ballots

"...In the latest episode of the legal donnybrook over voting by mail in Texas,..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Is a New Austin Land Development Code Done Yet?

Council: Stick a pin in that!

"...In asking for that guidance, City Manager Spencer Cronk offered Council a short list of five multiple-choice questions, but..."

May 3, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Austin Jewish Film Festival Reaches Out

From homophobia to 'Hava Nagila,' these 21 features cross boundaries and borders

"...The 11th annual Austin Jewish Film Festival, which kicks off Saturday, April 13, is a bit of a balancing..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

Higher Ground

Stevie Wonder in 10 songs? It's a start.

"...AM radio as God intended, through a tiny speaker of horrid fidelity like Berry Gordy heard it before he..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

The Book of Grace

Tension runs through this lean domestic drama like a taut steel cord

"...The Book of Grace..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Page Two: Immigration by the Numbers

As our focus shifts from Iraq failures, an untenable and disheartening argument arises

"...social, economic, and political realities. (What is the value of the workers' labor? Do they do jobs others won't?..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

Heterosexuals are no longer the sole 'official' definers of marriage and gender.

"...An unfair headline: "Clinton Seesaws on Question of Gay Morality" (The New York Times, March 15, p.25)...."

April 27, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget: Reveling in the communal greatness that is Austin, without getting too specific

"...in the mid-Seventies, I ended up sharing two floors of an old Victorian house in Jamaica Plain, a largely..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Prayer for the Common Man

In the religious right's new democracy, principles prescribed by man have no value in the war between heaven and hell

"...to God above, howling up from this country out of the confusion of cheap rhetoric, meaningless polemics, and secularly..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

An oceanside contemplation of the Declaration of Independence

"...West Coast, where I'm sitting on the small porch of a beach house watching the waves leisurely roll in,..."

June 24, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

On the right wing's ideological sleight-of-hand, unenlightened self-interest, and the humanitarian legacy of Cousin Eli

"...I consider myself to be quite tolerant towards most of the blatherings of the left. Their First Amendment rights..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Attending the Toronto Film Festival provides some perspective on global perceptions of the United States -- as well as a truly great film experience; the City Council's budget performance is embarrassing, as is Rick Perry's state of vacuous denial.

"...time. More expansive and inclusive than most festivals, it offers an extraordinary range of films while also focusing on..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Day Trips

"...city in 1929, the 10-room building is a reminder of a time when simple elegance was all there was..."

July 25, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Hightower Report

Bush cracks down on freedom of information, the Republicans crack down on freedom of speech.

"...Even in the midst of his invasion of Iraq, George W. took time to..."

April 18, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Highest Stakes

Groobee gal Susan Gibson steps out on her own, chin up.

"...Spaces," Susan Gibson is concerned with the most mundane of activities on this late September afternoon: She's lavishing affection..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

With inaction, inattention, cowardice, and stupidity, Americans are watching tyranny take shape in plain sight before our eyes, while the overwhelming majority say and do nothing.

"...it. We must be -- or surely the events of the last month would cause an uproar, a protest..."

June 28, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3am

We are swiftly losing our civil liberties as a result of the USA-PATRIOT Act, although this administration has shown it is not impervious to citizen complaints.

"...Our Founders knew about the emergencies of war; they'd just fought a long conflict to free..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Coach's Corner

"...Orange room last week as an unusually eclectic mob of bored secretaries, curious players, relieved, heavy-hitting boosters, a legendary..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

"...nation's youth. This was not due to a love of Lincoln or an infatuation with the Socratic Method, but..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Pride and Prejudice

"...Jane Austen's story, set in the early 19th century, of five upwardly mobile sisters bucking to marry rich is..."

July 19, 1996 Screens Feature

Letters at 3am: Doppelgängers

Across generations and geography, doppelgängers emerge

"...Oxford English Dictionary; it means "an apparition or double of a living person." The literal German is more interesting:..."

March 8, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Reporting for Duty

Anti-government patriots poised to fix government

"...in a time when most don't accept the burdens of their own greater responsibilities but do actively lament and..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Obama Comes to Town

Full text of president's speech at UT Austin

"...gray then. And few folks thought I had much of a shot at the White House. A lot of..."

Aug. 9, 2010 News Post by Jillian Richardson

Page Two: The Long Scream

The endless Republican nightmare casts its shadow on health care reform

"...Louder and softer closer and nearer..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up

"...Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up...."

April 24, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

Samuel Adams gave Americans a vocabulary both for revolution and for the building of a republic

"...kingly government." They led the Boston Caucus. "This club of small shopkeepers, mechanics and North End shipyard workers," wrote..."

July 4, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Ego and Conscience

As citizens with the right to vote, we are responsible for what our government does

"...debate; it assumes such is the constant, ongoing state of the nation. Whenever I hear someone say that this..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Column by Louis Black

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...festival has begun feeling like as much a rite of Austin as its venerable spring counterpart, South by Southwest...."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

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