One More Detour on Holly Street

Power plant demolition delay reprises neighborhood history

"...neighborhood and smoke from the fires hung like dark clouds over the tiny houses. "Then, after white people started..."

Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Amy Smith

This Way to the Big Top!

From budget disaster to hysterical bloodletting, the legislative circus is back in town

"...Moreover, the current fiscal situation clouds funding for all women's health, including the always vexed..."

Jan. 14, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

UT Spending Squeeze: Departments Juggle Priorities

UT faculty attempt to do more with less

"...Austin's biggest employers. Yet with a flatlining budget (see "Clouds Over Campus," May 21) and the recent decision by..."

June 4, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...is prepping a May disc, Veckatimest (Warp). Daniel Rossen & Co. return to the haunting melodies and harmonies that..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

The Last Five Years

Jason Robert Brown's musical anatomy of a relationship gets a tender, wistful staging

"...pleasure to see, as Cathy's clock turns backward, the clouds clear from Johansson's face and her smile broadens and..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Page Two: Opportunity Born Anew

In working together as Americans, there is hope

"...into view Clicking, clacking of the high-heeled shoe Ford & Fitzroy, Madame George Marching with the soldier boy behind..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Nix to Negativity

Overheard at the broadcasters schmoozefest: Crisis? What crisis? Have some candy.

"...it's "negativity." That darn negativity "could possibly jeopardize the future of the entire business ... and threatens to paralyze..."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

WorkSpace: Fabián Bercic

Meditate on this: a Zen garden made of perfectly smooth, shiny plastic

"...Asian Candy Land atmosphere. Bercic has made white scrolling clouds, a vine with flowers, and a stream with lily..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Nothing Less Than Magical

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

"...third year as special activities director for the Parks & Recreation Department, my dear friend Gene Traylor wanted to..."

July 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Austin: What's at Stake?

There will be blood

"...your eyes ... and vote as you will. Storm Clouds..."

April 25, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"...there may be a silver lining to the rain clouds that have plagued Austin all summer. The Edwards Aquifer..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature

love conjure/blues

Sharon Bridgforth's love/conjure blues is a ritual steeped in the magic of the Southern black oral tradition and West African spirituality but encircling all of us

"...that exists in "the past, the present, and the future."..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Review by Abe Louise Young

Beside the Point

If this was a good year, what's a bad one look like?

"...Despite the fluffy clouds of council's comment – the toughest debate was if..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget: Reveling in the communal greatness that is Austin, without getting too specific

"...But that was all in the future, then. Then, we were young; we were scared and..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Ten Ways of Looking at an 'Austin Chronicle'

In celebration of our 25th anniversary

"...close to death-mask faces and actual, ominous, dense black clouds floating above their heads. But the predominant activity would..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Beside the Point

The future is sunny, cab drivers are stormy, and water treatment's horizon is cloudy

"...came at 11am: The city's "financial forecast" parted the clouds, shining cotton-candy sunbeams into 301 W. Second. "Cautiously optimistic"..."

May 5, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...than yours and ours – to gather the storm clouds...."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature

Where There's Smoke …

Across the country, perspectives on the smoking bans offer a very mixed bag

"...it may well be impossible to tell if any future closings might be laid at the feet of the..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Page Two

Finding peace in the wonderful chaos of SXSW

"...needing to be done at some point in the future, and a dozen other ongoing issues – all facing..."

March 25, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Omnium Gatherum

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of 'Omnium Gatherum' starts as captivating, then rounds a hairpin turn to become compelling

"...sky, towers crumbled, and a city was swallowed in clouds of smoke and ash. That was a moment of..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Speaking through your children's blood, and the words of the past and the present

"...Japanese by John Stevens: "Entrust yourself to the windblown clouds and do not wish to live forever."..."

June 11, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Animation Revelation

Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment

"...the outside, it could easily be mistaken for the future location of Mike Judge's mythical Office Space sequel. Though..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Redistricting Shuffle Commences

Doggett jumps into the new District 25, Barrientos is peeved; Congressional wannabes find themselves on the new Texas map.

"...among potential candidates for those not-quite-settled seats. Locally, the clouds are beginning to form around U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The city may go where it feared to tread last year -- tax hikes, layoffs, and cutting public safety budgets.

"...these, ô la the Intel building, until the fiscal clouds depart...."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to "Dancing About Architecture" and chart a new course, a bit.

"...or state social services, education, and, of course, the future...."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Day Trips

"...We decided it was too risky to subject our future in-laws to our Texas-accented Chinese. We dropped out after..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Authors Who Need Authors

Authors who need authors are the luckiest authors: We assess the harmonies and tumults at the 2002 Texas Book Festival.

"...The threatening clouds of a Dago downpour passed over with nary a..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Graffiti on the Superhighway

The digital age has ushered a new era in visual art, with the Internet offering artists a new medium for the creation of art, an infinite space to display their work, and a marketing tool. But with this expansion of creative opportunities come sticky questions of ownership and the communal experience of art.

"...computer and the World Wide Web. Tarbell's site features clouds of animated cubes and photographic images of outer space...."

Dec. 28, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Articulations

Danceworks director Cindy Goldberger leaves Austin as playwright Colin Swanson returns for a visit, and who are Ballet Austin's lucky mothers?

"...with her parents and then some time in the clouds. "I'm going to try to get to Costa Rica,"..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

20 Years of Austin Gifts

... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries

"...and fish. Conscientious owners Rex and Christy Flaczynski direct future dog and cat owners to certified breeders or the..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

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