Palmer Picket Persists

"...Workers). The workers are currently picketing the Palmer Auditorium/Community Events Center building site on Barton Springs Road, charging general..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Charles Lloyd

Record Review

"...LloydHyperion With Higgins (ECM) As one of the last direct descendants of John Coltrane and his musical quest for..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

A Dream Collaboration: Richard Linklater and 30 animators team up to produce a startling, surreal new film.

"...they are dreaming and consciously alter the course of events in that dream state. But, he says, "it never..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Citizens Not Invited

The Dems and Repubs posture over redistricting, while the rest of us just look on.

"...The best thing about this most recent turn of events is that it made John Cornyn so apoplectic he..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Articulations

It may still be too hot to frolic in the noonday sun, but it's not too hot to put on a show to help someone in need, and that's what a number of Austin artists are up to this month, raising funds for flood victims in Houston and an Austin musician with a spinal cord injury.

"...Mayor/ Aspiring Attorney General Kirk Watson. As Austin arts events go, they don't get much bigger. It all goes..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Stirred up by the arts, sounding off on local TV

"...Executive Director..."

July 20, 2001 Column

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...on November 23, 1963, in the crazy, tilted-universe-swirl of events just after JFK's assassination. Ellroy rips the guts out..."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

It's a Wrap!

A Legislative Wrap-Up on the 77th Session

"...External events may have finally forced the Lege's hand (or perhaps..."

June 1, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Dancing About Architecture

Willie Nelson, not burnt down

"...of charge, with a $15 charge for the evening's events. For more information call 800/311-8990 or just drive out..."

May 25, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...a postmodern narrative trick, whereby she relies on imagined events as opposed to documented history, assists her careful contemplation..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Home on the Ranch

Life at Marbridge Ranch defies rehab and assisted living clichés.

"...The Special Olympics holds 184 events annually within Texas in sports as varied as soccer,..."

April 20, 2001 Features Feature by Stuart Prestidge

Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy

UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.

"...This spring, Peter Bay, music director and conductor of the Austin Symphony, had the bright..."

April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

A flood of weather (and music) following SXSW

"...with tickets on sale this Saturday. Mike Tabor, executive director of the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, says that, "In spite..."

March 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Sheffield, the APA, and the Cop Wars

A Brief History of the APA

"...from 1987 to 1989, who led the association's first-ever direct attacks on City Hall, buying radio ads to protest..."

March 30, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...She's on the Board of Directors of the Mother's Milk Bank and performed at their..."

March 16, 2001 Column

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.

"...fired Hirschorn in a highly publicized dispute over the direction the magazine was headed...."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

The History of an Investigation

A History of the Mala Sangre OCDETF Investigation

"...The following is a chronology of the major events associated with the Mala Sangre investigation. Sources: court documents,..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...Catering is an in-house business that primarily serves ACC events, from box lunches to full French-service meals. Students are..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

In Search of Marcel Proust

Once UT's Dr. Seth Wolitz discovered Proust, he didn't turn back, but it took a real beating for him to get to that point.

"...restored house in Illiers that inspired many of the events of The Novel, Proust reading groups sprouting up just..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

Standing Next to a Mountain

Examining the 3-CD Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble box set.

"...in the long-term project, their responses are short and direct...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Articulations

More Austin theatre turning up in New York: Despair’s Book of Dreams and Lipstick Traces set for spring 2001 runs.

"...Awards, of which it took home five, including Outstanding Director of Musical for Bonnie Cullum and Outstanding Lead Actor..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

Turk Pipkin goes to The Sopranos and other upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...of its "top 30 scripts worldwide." Brammer, who's already directed a 30-minute short version of the script, titled "Borderland,"..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

We're sorry you feel that way.

"...I'm afraid that Bryce's bloodless, inaccurate depiction of the events surrounding editor Michael King's departure cannot go unaddressed...."

Oct. 6, 2000 Column

Altman Speaks!

The ultimate indie director shoots straight about breaking into the business, staying there, and loving it.

"...Chase, creator of The Sopranos, and Paul Mazursky, the writer/director of Next Stop Greenwich Village and Bob & Carol..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

On the Bus

In the process of writing her new play con flama, Austin poet / writer Sharon Bridgforth discovered that the piece was not complete without her own voice in it. In the process of observing con flama's development, writer Belinda Acosta discovered something about her own voice, too.

"...days before the first rehearsal of the F@HPT production, director Laurie Carlos sat with Bridgforth in a Hyde Park..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Road to Recovery

A private health care consultant has improved efficiency at the county's primary health care clinics. Looming Medicaid cuts protenda new crisis.

"...and county staff, and reporting to a board of directors as well as to the City Council and Travis..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Making Waves

Austin Screenwriter Bill Wittliff Discusses The Perfect Storm

"...Photography. Add to those credits his work as a director and producer, and it often seems there's nothing he..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Truth and Reconciliation

The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.

"...and verbal cues to create new versions of the events. The effect is direct but clever: At once, the..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...found its voice. So when Linda Hartzell [SCT artistic director and a cast member of the 1979 production] suggested..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Council Watch

Business as Usual: After Bradley, Council Moves on to Other Things

"...was ultimately postponed), Mayor Kirk Watson said he would direct City Manager Jesus Garza to schedule all future meetings..."

April 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

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