A Certain Ringing in the Ears

Rat Bastard's noise caravan rolls into town

"...Floridian, I spent many a night at the dank, dirty Miami dive known as Churchill's. Every Thursday night for..."

April 4, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Austin @ Large: The Writing on the Wall

If neighborhoods don't embrace Smart Growth, the city as a whole will get stuck with stupid growth.

"...the same time got involved in my own neighborhood's affairs, I (and my friends and colleagues and editors and..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin At Risk

Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems

"...the noxious waste products -- clogged roads, inflatable rents, dirty air, chain stores, demographic inequities -- began to obscure..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

UK Calling

Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.

"...officially the most loathed and precariously peerless realm, a fair number come with their heretofore stiff upper lips curling..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...stepped outside the Austin Convention Center for some fresh air and sunshine, when the sudden jolt of a strange,..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Murder in the Suburbs

Good Luck Penny

"...Roger's increasing absence was due as much to the affair he was carrying on with a 28-year-old APS secretary..."

Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...Back Scratcher," and Storm's "The Do-It" to fill the air while the band sets up...."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Monsters, Inc.

Re-released in 3-D.

"...closets of becoming “contaminated” by articles of kidhood like dirty socks and whatnot. Decontamination squads leap out of the..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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Texas Our Texas loves Texas; Neighbors for Neighbors hate strip-mining; Justin B. Andrews returns; and other delighted and dismayed letters from readers.

"...get involved so they can reach allowable levels of air pollution standards. The only real solution here is to..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column

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Different Traditions

"...balance would be great. I see no need to air Car Talk and The Prairie Home Companion twice. Although..."

July 30, 1999 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...pay for an awful lot of library books, pothole repairs, and AISD teacher's salaries, not to mention that the..."

June 14, 2002 Column

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Extremists Not Righteous

"...is always the possibility that he is talking about dirty gay sex, as opposed to straight sex...)..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Column

Luv Doc: Dog-Sitting

This gig could go south in a really ugly way

"...I have been with my boyfriend since August. We..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Filthy and Respectable!

Legendary transgressive film director and author John Waters comes to Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...I made a person nervous once. I take Cape Air a lot, which is a tiny six-seater plane. And..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...tour kickoff in Austin. The deejay and I bullshit on-air for a while about stinky testicles and funny names..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

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The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.

"...where you get your facts, Mr. Morris, but the I-35/Airport Blvd. neighborhood has been calling 911 on the Rio..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...the process so thoroughly. Even the manipulative, raucous, negative, dirty, money-funded, bullshit campaigns we mostly get now are not..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Keeping Busy

Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment

"...disapproved revisions, known as "flexible permitting," to Texas' Clean Air Act implementation plan, though the state had been issuing..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Clear as Smoke: LCRA May Face Lawsuit Over Fayette Emissions

Environmental groups threaten lawsuit over emissions at Fayette

"...emits all sorts of unsavory toxins, hence the nickname "dirty coal" – but Fayette hasn't seemed quite so dirty..."

June 29, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Heavy Metal

Even in blazing summer, Austin's welders and forgers fire it up and make like rock & rollers

"...to have to make tools and be able to repair everything on a farm. Historically, this range of items..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...death. "I'm looking at this guy – tall, handsome, silver-haired, grandfatherly – thinking he must be full of wisdom..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...I did so mostly at Beer Park, an Eastside, open-air gem of a beer garden just west of where..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...read haltingly from a laminated card headed, "How to Chair a Meeting." By all accounts, Nagle was one of..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Inside Agitator

Fulani Follower Stokes Fires of Resentment and Reform

"...harbors no heartfelt love for the quirky right-wing Texas billionaire who first became a lightning rod for voter dissatisfaction..."

Dec. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

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Our readers talk back.

"...institution licensed to a taxpayer-supported university using the public airwaves to ask the public to send in money.]Guilt by..."

March 24, 2006 Column

Naked City

Austin is now officially in non-attainment of the Clean Air Act's ozone standard, but it's still unclear how Texas cities will enforce the federal law.

"...like it is indeed in violation of the Clean Air Act. But what that means is still months and..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Austin and the surrounding cities and counties still have a long way to go before they reach an agreement on reducing ozone emissions that everyone can live with.

"...like this. You may have heard of the Clean Air Act. You may have heard the term "nonattainment" --..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...The Skull 9pm, Dirty Dog Bar Led by ex-Trouble singer Eric Wagner, this..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Rise Above

SST Records' Greg Ginn jams econo in Taylor, Texas

"...The permeating sense of unpacked history and lack of air conditioning make the upstairs feel like a self-storage facility...."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Page Two: Feels Like the First Time

On onion rings, barbecue, and the never-ending "Best of Austin" debate

"...in Miami. So the East Coast run was a fairly regular event for a number of years, even after..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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