Tech Toys

Gift guide for the tech-minded.

"...Good medicine: Beep 'N Tell ($49.95) looks like an ordinary prescription bottle, except it reminds you to take your..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

This Old Mouse

Facing accusations of market saturation, cultural homogenization, and unethical labor practices, Disney keeps manufacturing the magic … but for how long?

"...why not? Humans have a tendency to elevate otherwise ordinary symbols and objects to a transcendental level, from religious..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

University High

Community colleges are pushing "college credit" courses for high school students -- but the education is in doubt.

"...this course. John found he didn't care for the extra work and dropped the class, enrolling in the high..."

June 8, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Good Impressions

Si Bon is located on South Lamar in a comfortable old home. Step through the door and you find a warm, friendly atmosphere: happy customers tended by smiling staff. A cozy bar. White tablecloths, a comfy fireplace and lip-smacking aromas. Before you ever get to your table, Si Bon makes a good impression.

"...the greens, which were simply dressed with lemon and extra virgin olive oil. My wife had Escargot over Butter..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Nouvelle Cafe

Chronicle Cuisines writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry finds something unexpected in Granite Cafe's latest incarnation.

"...a beef tenderloin to make up for the oversight. Extra shrimp were spirited out on a side plate in..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Food Feature

Postmarks

Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

"...and professional manner in which they often made the extra effort to assist the elderly, youngsters, and the "differently..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column

A Day

First Place

"...brought out flavors you'd swear were tropical from mud-sucking ordinary catfish. We sat down to the golden brown filets,..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Karl Monger

Use Only as Directed

Patenting the Formula

"...your little neighborhood, you'd probably deserve more than the ordinary attention from the city. The rest of y'all, it..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Musical Manifesto

Davíd Garza's

"...find a copy seemed a little out of the ordinary...."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Control Freaks

Film Top Tens

"...The complete list of all the films released in..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

A Hundred's Not Enough

One Word Is Too Many...

"...invitation... a barren landscape is rich in texture... an ordinary object takes on a nobility within the frame of..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Live Shots

"...in sight when Ian Svenonius, looking like a wayward extra from Austin Powers, starts jerking like a sinister Pentecostal..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Music Feature

Postmarks

Nofziger Responds

"...schools. If book bannings are not your idea of "extra curricular" school activities than please support Steve Copenhaver and..."

April 25, 1997 Column

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...vox in this new electrified context, adeptly alternating the extra overtone note from a high-pitched flutelike sound to an..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Sunset II

Ag Department Cleans House

"...giving out information freely, instead forcing them to request ordinary public documents formally through the state's Open Records statute..."

June 30, 1995 News Feature

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