'Chronicle' Endorsements

March 4 primary election

"...a dramatic change in the way things have been done in Washington for the last 16 years. He has..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by The 'Chronicle' News staff

Pay for What You Get

"...because of medical expenses), minorities, young people (who usually don't have significant financial assets), and poor people. Employers, use..."

Jan. 6, 2008 Postmarks

School Board Election Preview

Race to fill District 2 spot on AISD board of trustees promises to be highly contested, with four candidates vying for empty seat left by board's longest-serving member, Rudy Montoya

"...achievement gap, where two schools – Johnston High and Webb Middle School – face possible closure for underperformance...."

April 20, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Planting a Seed

Local schools see students not only eating all of their vegetables but growing them, too

"...Vegetable gardens don't have to be formally associated with a school for..."

March 23, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Time for Cap Metro to Wake Up

"...13, and for those of you who have never done so, you might want to think about at least..."

March 15, 2007 Postmarks

Point Austin: Compared to What?

Crisis at Kealing the latest chapter in a too-long story

"...the district, had to be addressed directly, whether at Webb Middle School (proposed for closing because of low test..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Let's Have a Bit of Human Decency

"...People aren't saying to keep Austin weird because they don't recognize the growth: they're saying it because there are..."

Sept. 12, 2006 Postmarks

Democrats Get a Boost From Court Redistricting

District 25 will now be more rooted in Travis County, yet also more conservative

"...23 – Hispanic voting strength was restored by reuniting Webb Co. within the district, whereas it had previously been..."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Point Austin: Blue Goes Red

The GOP-proposed redistricting map takes another nasty shot at Travis County voters

"...The Republican state leadership has done plenty of silly things on the road to re-redistricting,..."

July 21, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Bruce Robison

"...with Eleven Stories Austin's Bruce Robison demonstrates how it's done. Of course his bread and butter comes from Music..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Point Austin: Supremes v. Texas

The future of U.S. politics may become, "Vote for Show, Map for Dough"

"...voters to Republican Henry Bonilla's CD 23 while shoving Webb Co. Latinos into CD 25 as an "affront and..."

March 10, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...just too much. And saying that Terry [Trautman] said, "Don't shoot if they're carrying a shovel," that was over..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...they are getting desperate." Brown Santa is seeking the donation of a 20,000- to 30,000-square-foot warehouse with heat, air..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Look Out! She's Got a Gun!

Angelina Eberly returns to the scene of the crime

"...In case you don't know this bit of local lore, Angelina Eberly was..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

"...Quote of the Week: "I just don't think people like Ricky are meant to be in..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Arts Community Needs Another Boom

"...Austin ["Austin's Cultural Makeover," Arts, Feb. 20]. Now I don't have to drive around with questions unanswered when I..."

Feb. 23, 2004 Postmarks

Lights Out

The Seventies represented the heyday for film programming at the University of Texas. Marjorie Baumgarten recollects the days of CinemaTexas and the Texas Union Theater.

"...in 1981 on the roof of the CinemaTexas office. (Don't ask.) I, too, was a CinemaTexas person before seguing..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sheet Music

Summer Reading

"...of songs for the canon. What's more, the authors don't really care much; it's all entirely subjective, and they..."

June 6, 2003 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

TCB

Austin soldiers on beyond SXSW with hot rods, SPAM, and puking

"...should be the panel featuring Glen Campbell muse Jimmy Webb, Grammy hoarder Ray Benson, and Destiny's Child sire Mathew..."

April 11, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Christian Wisdom

"...story] that is not absolutely accurate." Purdy's editor Willis Webb reiterated that his paper "stands behind everything she reported."..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Dancing About Architecture

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...Moore & Morris manager George Couri, "particularly since they don't have anything like Abra!" Couri's hoping Davis and company..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Friends of Dean Martinez

Seven and Seven Is

"...indie label empire Glitterhouse Records, Wichita Lineman transforms Jimmy Webb's melancholy pop standard into the soundtrack centerpiece of some..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Road to Nashville

Road to Nashville is a wonderful snapshot of what Nashville was like in the years before all the Shania Twains and Tim McGraws of the world took things over.

"...substituted for the Doodles Weaver role ("Beetlebomb" was Weaver's pseudonym during his days with Spike Jones' band). After disregarding..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Texas Tales

For those of you who are still pondering the eternal question that seems to arise wherever beer and English majors appear together in the Lone Star State, the answer is: Texas does indeed have a separate and distinctive literature, Tom Doyal writes. If you have been arguing the other side of this proposition, the writers and publishers of Texas have issued you a sharp rebuke in their new spring releases.

"...endeavor doesn't even invoke the old names of Dobie, Webb, Bedichek, Graves, Porter, Kelton, Humphrey, Goyen, King, and, dare..."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

Shelby Lynne, Club DeVille

Friday Night

"...Elizabeth Ashley. Closing with a dusky rendition of Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman," Lynne was suddenly the hottest bottle blonde..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Scanlines

Practical Magic

"...Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn, Chloe Webb...."

May 7, 1999 Screens Feature

Searching for The Man

"...statement of "CIA Vision, Mission, and Values" (if you don't think that's a contradiction in terms). There you'll find..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Screens Feature by Jay Hardwig

A Cultural Phenomenon

"...Boyd met Sierra Maestra's star trumpeter Jesus Alemany in London. Because Boyd had long been disgusted with U.S. policy..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Giant Country

"...Don Graham's book of essays, Giant Country: Essays on Texas..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Books Feature

Cubanisimo!

Ray Barretto and the Roots of Afro-Cuban Jazz

"...playing with big bands such as those of Chick Webb, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, and in 1939-40, Cab Calloway...."

June 12, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

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