Day Trips & Beyond: Holiday Lights 2024

Lights, camera, action

"...Ford Fiesta de las Luminarias Dec. 6-22, San Antonio, www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com..."

Nov. 27, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Catch up on Lone Star State news and plan some fall fun

"...President Gerald Ford signed the Big Thicket National Preserve into being..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: The Big Thicket National Preserve, Kountze

One of the first preserves turns 50 against all odds

"...protect what remained of the region’s 10 ecosystems. President Gerald Ford signed the legislation creating the Big Thicket National..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: Holiday Lights 2023

Add some sparkle to your holiday season

"...Ford Fiesta de las Luminarias Dec. 2-17, San Antonio, www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Catch up on news from around Texas and travel destinations for fall

"...occupied by many historic buildings and a 1974 O’Neil Ford-designed public library...."

Sept. 1, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Summer travel opportunities and news from all over Texas

"...1908 Littlejohn farmhouse, antique telephone museum, bootleggers church, 1936 Ford fire truck, extensive artifact collection, genealogy library, and gift..."

June 2, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

It's a great time to get out and explore

"...San Antonio Ford Model T Show May 14, San Antonio, www.txtransportationmuseum.org..."

May 5, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Patti Smith: “I don’t claim to be a progenitor of any particular movement – I just did my work”

Ever-evolving singer, writer, & artist communes at ACL Live Saturday

"...This evening, President Gerald Ford’s press secretary Ron Nessen was the guest host..."

May 2, 2022 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Saddle up your reindeer

"...Holiday Boat Caroling Dec. 2-23, San Antonio, www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/events/ford-holiday-boat-caroling..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

September events around the state are waiting for you to arrive

"...Ford Parade of Lanterns Sept. 3-5, San Antonio, www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/events/ford-parade-of-lanterns..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

This Job Will Change Your Life

Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle

"...By Gerald E. McLeod..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Common Law

Can President Trump pardon President Trump?

"...pardon power has been permitted in the past. President Gerald Ford issued a "full, free, and absolute" pardon of..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Column by Luke Ellis

Will the Third Time Be a Charm for an Austin Rail System?

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...to keep that thing up," says Harper-Madison. "She couldn't afford a car payment. So she bought a cash car...."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

Day Trips & Beyond: August Travel Updates

The latest on safe travel during the pandemic

"...Bonnet Cafe opened in Marble Falls in 1929 the Ford Model A sold for $450 and the Great Depression..."

Aug. 6, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Slay the Dragon

Hard-hitting political documentary shows the menace of gerrymandering is coming back

"...Barak Goodman (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy) and Chris Durrance (Gerald R. Ford: A Test of Character). They don’t pretend..."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: Daytripping in the Age of a Pandemic

Stay home, stay safe, and still scratch that travel itch

"...Step inside the Gerald R. Ford Museum and take a virtual tour with..."

April 8, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...Rivers: The Fracturing of a Texas Family Ranch Randal Ford – Animal Kingdom: A Collection of Portraits Ben Fountain..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Beside the Point: Everybody’s Got the Right

Concerning the fate of Mark Conditt’s confession

"...Samuel Byck (Richard Nixon, also attempted), and Squeaky Fromme (Gerald Ford, same fate)...."

April 13, 2018 News Column by Chase Hoffberger

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Start April with a scenic drive along fields of flowers

"...Ford Mariachi Festival April 24-26, San Antonio, www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/events/ford-mariachi-festival..."

March 31, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

'Tis the Filing Season

Progressives can breathe a sigh of relief – Sen. Bernie Sanders officially filed

"...– Don Rios, John Sisson, Sally Hernandez, and Todd Rad­ford – have spoken out against facilitating immigrant detainment. Recurring..."

Dec. 18, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Justice Says Legalize It

Retired Supreme Court judge weighs in on pot prohibition

"...to the Supreme Court in 1975 by former President Gerald Ford, told NPR's Scott Simon...."

April 25, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Assassins

Sondheim's black comic musical about presidential killers and would-be killers gets a fantastic staging by Soubrette

"...mom Sara Jane Moore, respectively, who share a target (Gerald Ford) but are distinguished by dramatically different backgrounds and..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

SXSW Band Announcement, Part III

1,500 of some 2,000 showcasing acts now vetted

"...Bright Light Social Hour, Crooks, Dead Earth Politics, Elijah Ford & the Bloom, Ruby Jane, Leopold & His Fiction,..."

Jan. 7, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

It All Began So Beautifully ...

LBJ Library and Museum houses Austin's key connection to Kennedy's assassination

"...historic figures in the first days after the assassination: Gerald Ford, Nellie Connally, Rose Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.,..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Science Goes to Court

Death row case sets new state law against prosecutorial resistance

"...safe is hurting him," El Paso Assistant District Attorney Gerald Cichon told jurors during closing arguments: "He's on his..."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...government partial shutdown was on Sept. 30, 1976, when Gerald Ford vetoed a funding bill for the U.S. Depts...."

Oct. 11, 2013 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Who the Hell is Fred Karger?

Latest polling shows why Perry is avoiding New Hampshire

"...pretty peerless (he was a senior campaign consultant to Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush) but in..."

Jan. 5, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Watergate Break-in to a Broken News Media

Key players in All the President's Men reflect on what 35 years have wrought

"...legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis and starring the all-American Robert Redford and a squirrelly Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein..."

April 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...Camino. Special Effects: Milton Rice. Makeup: Ted Cooley. Wardrobe: Gerald Alpert. Sound Mixer: Le Roy Robbins. Script Supervisor: Joyce..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Headlines

"...serendipitous – in the mayor's absence, his candidate, Mindy Montford, lost to Karen Sage in Tuesday's run-off...."

April 16, 2010 News Feature

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