The Hightower Report: North Carolina's Moral Freedom Summer

The Moral Monday Movement is on the move again!

"...with the intention of registering 50,000 new voters this summer. The central rallying cry for this mobilization is for..."

July 18, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Plan Yourself a Hell of a Summer

Holy-moley, this is one smokin’ hot Summer Events Calendar

"...Maybe this’ll sound sacrilegious, but this year’s Summer Events Calendar is a devilishly good one. That’s right,..."

May 16, 2025 Features Feature by Chronicle Staff

Summer Fun: It's a Pagan Thing, We Might Just Understand

Celebrating the solstice with some of that old-time religion

"...on the wubs and in the paper – the Summer Fun issue?..."

May 15, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...Stout You know you're in for a long, hot summer when the weather has hit 100 degrees before the..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Support Freedom of Speech and Choice

"...of their prophet? Supposedly, our country was founded on freedom of speech and a free press. Celebrate that by..."

Feb. 13, 2006 Postmarks

Oh, Oh, Those Summer Bites

Camp Food

"...With the onset of summer, I feel oddly displaced. Disorienting heat aside, summer prescribes..."

July 9, 1999 Food Feature

The Girls of Summer Redux

Girls Rock Camp Austin valedictorians Schmillion

"...ideas about gender, class, and expectation at the first summer showcase...."

July 22, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...3.) A utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government."..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

2000 Kids Summer Fun Guide

Listings

"...THE AUSTIN ZOO Zoocademy summer day camp sessions will be held weekly in June..."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature

The Flavors of Summer

Memories of Tastes

"...A Bowl of Independence The first summer after my freshman year in college, I impulsively decided..."

July 13, 2001 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Detainees Strike for Freedom

Hunger strikes call attention to plight of women and children refugees

"...their children were part of a refugee influx last summer. In launching their strike, the women emphasized their children's..."

April 17, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...of the Austin Zoocademy sessions are filled for the summer, there's still plenty to see and do at Austin's..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Freedom for the Kellers

Fran and Dan released after 21 years for 'satanic abuse'

"...sexual abuse of 3-year-old Christy Chaviers, who, in the summer of 1991, was an infrequent drop-in at the couple's..."

Dec. 6, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

The Fab Four ruined so-called 'rock 'n' roll music'

"...Paul Whiteman and Connie Francis. It also buys him freedom to avoid conventional wisdom about rock history. "The Beatles..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Austin Film Festival Review: Two Trains Runnin'

Freedom Summer and the blues align in this informative doc

"...Freedom Summer began in June 1964. Yet alongside the Northern..."

Oct. 19, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rosewater

Jon Stewart makes his directing debut with this story about a journalist's imprisonment in Tehran.

"...to during his hiatus from The Daily Show last summer should be pleasantly surprised by the outcome. Rosewater is..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup

The latest on Texas festivals, swimming holes, and terrifying worms

"...Bard’s back in the barn. Shakespeare has returned to..."

July 2, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Swimming

"...and Lauren Ambrose. Swimming opens and closes with one summer spent at Myrtle Beach, a summer bookended by what..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Flipper

"...Wesson. There are worse ways to spend a hot summer's evening than sitting in a cool theatre watching playful..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Megan Thee Stallion Was More Than a Hot Girl at Moody Center

It's the summer, so we had to get hot with the stage titan

"...support the queen of spicy seasonal shenanigans. Hot Girl Summer indeed...."

June 14, 2024 Music Post by Cy White

The AggreGAYtor: June 25

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...HRC is hosting a Freedom Summer Conference with a focus on LGBT African-American equality...."

June 25, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

City Slickers

"...It's a type of entertainment that allows men the freedom to talk about feelings and emotions instead of always..."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...I didn't read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); I inhaled it, giddy with..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Vortex’s Wild Horses

This staging of Allison Gregory’s new play takes you back to your 13th summer with all its freedom and fear

"...in the experiences of an unnamed girl during her summer at that pivotal age, as recalled by her older..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Both ridiculous and ridiculously fun, this is over-the-top robotic mayhem.

"...completes the Sturm-und-Drang auteur's transmogrification from helmer of cheeseball summer explodathons to sentient, machinelike (with product placement from Northrop..."

July 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mortal Engines

Dystopian YA adaptation relies on spectacle over character

"...nature documentary, with a smaller, wounded animal lunging for freedom with its last breaths. When there are no more..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...life? – would echo in my brain during the summer before high school. Ninth grade promised to liberate us...."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Haven

Exploring the grounds and sounds at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top

"...This summer, as with every summer for the past 34 years,..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

True Crime and Punishment

True crime writer Suzy Spencer interviews fellow true crime writer Vanessa Leggett about how she snatched the record for the longest contempt of court imprisonment of a journalist in United States history.

"...them in hot water." I remember seeing that last summer right before all this happened, and seeing it again..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Suzy Spencer

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...his favorite Hollywood directors, the beast known as the summer movie blockbuster had not yet fully reared its head..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

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