Preserving a 'Special Kind of Place'

Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’

"...sat down recently with Scott Swearingen to talk about his new book, Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Face of Inclusiveness

Hint: It isn't white or male

"...Can a machine be racist?..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hands That Feed

The groups that care for Austin's hungry could sure use a few more helping hands

"...enough. Sometimes, Alan honks the horn, just to let everyone know it's us. The moment is at once disconcerting..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Page Two: Masters and Commanders

Meditations on moving forces

"...quite convoluted, even given the always-extended boundaries of focus characteristic of this column. The point of the column was..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Column by Louis Black

A Gathering of Tribes

Timmy Hefner sleeps in a fortress of vinyl just to bring you Chaos in Tejas

"...the bands he's booked flights for in advance of this year's fifth Chaos in Tejas festival: Crude, Amebix, Cock..."

May 22, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Generation Overshare

What happens when the line blurs between our online and offline lives?

"...blog or broadcast interview, prompting reactions ranging from alarmed discomfort to approval (Webster's New World Dictionary 2008 Word of..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

All Access

Austin's B-Side Entertainment rethinks how to get a movie to the masses

"...Sundance Film Festival. There, mixed in among various Chicken Little-isms, reporter Michael Cieply quotes filmmaker Joe Swanberg, director of..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Mike Kanin

Lenny

Leonard Cohen's U.S. tour to open at Austin's Long Center April 2.

"...Not Bruce, Cohen. Veteran Austin bassist Roscoe Beck, musical director for the live juggernaut of..."

Jan. 22, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Camp Camp

The queer performance series' last show may not have been the finale advertised

"...monologues and ballads and broody poems. But even with this directed motivation, Camp Camp was an outlet for true..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Kate Getty

Around the World of Weird

The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008

"...Fantastic Fest is coming. Get some sleep while you can...."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Days of Future Past

The history of Salvage Vanguard Theater's unlikely sci-fi success, The Intergalactic Nemesis

"...coffee shop. Nobody involved had any high expectations for this lark of a show. It was going to be..."

July 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Austin: Animal Passions

If the dogs recognized their spokesmen, they'd run the other way

"...The Town Lake Animal Center will stay where it is – and it will move to the Eastside...."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: Turn to Sinatra

Considering media objectivity and losing yourself in art

"...for me in that way as well, except there is a bit of time, the buildup – long or..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...moment or action by others to make a contribution. This might be true for a cultural scene more than..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...A passport is issued by a national government. It identifies your citizenship..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Page Two: Dial 1-800-Bentzin

How a rejected candidate can win back hearts and minds

"...would be featuring during the next semester. When I finished the piece, I went home...."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Louis Black

FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Two

For an evening that included a mutilated cat, a self-loathing writer, and selling one's soul, the second Thursday at the 2006 FronteraFest Short Fringe proved surprisingly upbeat

"...second Thursday in the 2006 FronteraFest Short Fringe proved surprisingly upbeat...."

Jan. 27, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"..."He's just a boy, that has lost his way. He's just a boy, that's all." – "Renegade,"..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The current commissioner's [Karen Sonleitner] letter to the editor on Dec. 16..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...20 Years in Prison?Dear Editor,..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Column

Food-o-File

The Domaine Dupeuble Pere et Fils 2005 is the one; plus, taking measure of the Mercury's rising

"...greeting card featuring an animated turkey warbling the Seventies disco anthem "I Will Survive." When I called Wes Marshall..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

TCB

Austin rallies to help Jon Dee Graham's son save his legs

"...else, admits the idea of a benefit, even for his son Willie's rare hip ailment, was hard to swallow..."

June 24, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

2004-05 Austin Music Awards

Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 16

"...with tolerance, open-mindedness, and love for the common man is tradition...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Page Two

The right's most troubling victory may be its brilliant subversion of the language of political debate

"...its complex subversion of the very language of political discussion. Humpty Dumpty and the gang – "When I use..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Texas Faith and Freedom

Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas Freedom Network

"...her resignation, Chronicle readers awarded Smoot the designation "Best Activist" in our annual "Best of Austin" Readers Poll. Recently..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Letters at 3AM

It takes fierceness to grow old well

"...while rounding that curve on I-15 where suddenly Vegas is laid out before you in all her gaudy glow,..."

June 25, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...["TV Eye," Screens, Jan. 4] until the Top 10 Disappointments' No. 7. You just don't get it. Poor Mexicans..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Column

Page Two

The very nature of the police's job should earn more consistent praise, but at the same time it demands monitoring.

"...let you know that I'm going to pick up every copy that I can find of The Austin Chronicle..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Entertainment Economy

As the Austin film, music, and gaming scenes become a "cluster," civic leaders are looking for industrial-strength creativity

"...Throughout our 17 decades of existence, Austin has been a government town, and from nearly..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Danse Macabre

Our national preparations for war follow a choreography that has predetermined steps.

"...William L. Shirer was an American journalist reporting on Hitler's Berlin from 1934 to 1941 (he..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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