Not Clucking Around

East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.

"...processing two million chickens per week, a prepared foods factory, and a rendering plant. (Pilgrim's Pride prefers to call..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...rules, no legislation can be brought to the Senate floor unless it already has support of two-thirds (21) of..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

Odds Against Tomorrow

"...Hudson from New York City on a day before factory payrolls come out. What Burke hadn't counted on, though,..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Human Resources

"...be. His first assignment, creating a questionnaire for the factory floor-workers to complete, is heralded as a master stroke..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heat

"...enough to get disturbing, and then falls on the floor, where she rubs herself with the sole of Joe's..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Review by Bryan Poyser

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...squirt, after an active life, settles on the sea floor and, like a professor given tenure, absorbs its brain...."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Day Trips

The defunct Comal Power Plant in New Braunfels finds new life as a hotel.

"...largest power plant west of the Mississippi, the electric factory has been reduced to its steel girder skeleton and..."

June 2, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Golden Arm Symphony

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

"...it can get there, Reynolds is down on the floor helping the violin section annotate his score...."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Rocky Horror Show: Spaced Out on Sensation

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...of Campbell's Soup cans; Basquiat graffiti art on the floor and walls of the Frankenstein place/Warhol Factory; Columbia sporting..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

What the Right Hand Is Doing

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

"...had a lot of mystery joints hidden beneath the floor of my van...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin

Neighborhood Watch

"...As her assistant, I did everything from sweep the floor to making every physical cut. She'd mark them with..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...no mural, just a gravel pit for a dance floor and a few dozen hippie-types strewn about. Not an..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...sample the fare at this legendary Central Texas sausage factory and restaurant. A family named Moon founded the sausage..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR D: Josef Rusnak; with Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Postmarks

The Real Obscenity

"...up a retail shopping mall planned on the ground floor of the parking garage. Is that what you were..."

April 30, 1999 Column

Sleep Walk

"...few stools between the two bathrooms, but the dance floor and bandstand in front of the stage were empty,..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Louis Sachar: Top of His Class

"...30 stories high with only one classroom on each floor -- that is, sideways -- was not distributed well..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Status of the Original

"...and maybe not that clean and like an old factory. BookLab not only had great tools, we had great..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Record Reviews

Ani Difranco

"...Blondie hits the floor pulsing on No Exit with the trashy ska-pop of..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Review

Cultural Coolness Around Texas This Month

"...in common the transformation of the vehicle from a factory-made commodity into a personal statement or expression." The couple's..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

The Gift of Words

Corrido

"...allegedly enlightened Seventies with a hazardous job in a factory, where she strips latex gloves off ceramic forms. Nights,..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Books Feature

The Man Who Loved Little Girls

"...Arranged chronologically and thematically on the fourth floor of the Flawn Academic Center (on the West Mall),..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Live Shots

"...move a few of the locals to the dance floor in a clumsy approximation of the elaborate dance of..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Feature

Light and Power

The Future of Seaholm

"...in some places, 95 feet of open space from floor to ceiling, Seaholm could house just about anything from..."

May 8, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...unkempt, smoking nervously, crouches in the center of the floor, as if the walls were his prison and his..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...riding cool behind the wheel, boot to the metal, flooring it to the devil stomp of "Angry Cockroaches" or..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Day Trips

"...are displays of historical photos and documents and a second-floor balcony with a bird's-eye view of the square...."

Feb. 20, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...with Ionic capitals. There are seven fireplaces and parquet floors framed in decorative molding...."

Feb. 13, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...and are more informal than their Sundance counterparts (offering floor cushions for viewers and enthusiastic encouragement for their showcased..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Hundred's Not Enough

One Word Is Too Many...

"...year seems to bring new books about him, the Factory, or his entourage. And so many are the same..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

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