From Beer to Infinity

Austin gets ready to host the nation's first-ever cooperatively run brewpub

"...a homebrewer and founder of the Austin Women's Beer League but also thought she could help the organization deal..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...on the Alamo City's home team in the Texas league – white boy, vato, soul man, musician. His career..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Big 12 Power Rankings Week 2

Cowboys drop, Horns stand tall

"...term, seeing as how nothing about roughly half the league's teams seems particularly powerful...."

Sept. 16, 2009 Sports Post by John Razook

Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across the Disciplines (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2008

"...Trenton Doyle Hancock, had composer Graham Reynolds of the Golden Arm Trio write a score, and presented it live..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Science Fiction Gets the Vapors

On steampunk

"...audience. Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's comic-book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (which debuted in 1999 and shouldn't..."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Everything

What do Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Ocote Soul Sounds have in common? Prince, Maceo Parker, and Larry Harlow!

"...Prince needs you in L.A. right away for the Golden Globes afterparty."..."

June 13, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across The Disciplines (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2007

"...9) Golden Arm Trio's The Tick-Tock Club CD release Composer/bandleader Graham..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Eye

'Tis the season for TV marathons, plus, mark your calendar for the last season of The Wire, and no news is bad news on the strike front

"...is known as the "Boston Gold Rush," when a league of hard-edged social commentators and comedians hit the Beantown..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Hour Has 22 Minutes

Pop quiz on Canada, with a SXSW 07 musical cheat sheet

"...Mercer had governors, Ivy League professors, and presidential candidates – we'll let you guess..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

'Possession Arrow': Badgley<-Razook

"...of male hygienists moonlighting as escorts, but they're really Golden Eagles who represent an Oklahoma college founded by a..."

Jan. 15, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Film News

'Friday Night Lights' on the small screen – and in Idaho? Plus, the several recent successes of Tommy Lee Jones, 'Roller Girls,' Mike Judge, and more.

"...film is produced by Mark Ciardi, the former major league pitcher who became a Hollywood golden boy with the..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Spotlight: Rezillos

12mid, Elysium

"...incarnation, the Rezillos' hook-happy elixir of punk, pop, glam, golden oldies, and sci-fi has burrowed its way toward legendary..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...logical identity with the liberal/progressive Berkeley community, its classy Golden Bears, and its truly first-class university, presumably closer to..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Column

Shame on Us

"...logical identity with the liberal/progressive Berkeley community, its classy Golden Bears, and its truly first-class university, presumably closer to..."

Dec. 14, 2004 Postmarks

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...best skills of persuasion to build consensus with their colleagues on the council...."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column

What's So Special?

Gov. Perry calls a special session, and pits property taxes against schoolchildren

"...promote new state funding for education. The Texas Municipal League was up in arms, and several North Texas mayors..."

April 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...that it is teaming with the Texas Credit Union League to study why Hispanic immigrants do not use traditional..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Here We Go Again

The redistricting case resumes: one more battle in a protracted war.

"...the patience of one who believes he's being hornswoggled.The Golden Mediator Also not to be overestimated are the larger..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...that provide habitat for the endangered black-capped vireo and golden-cheeked warbler. Land to be acquired lies adjacent to the..."

July 25, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty

"We all know that Americans don't vote -- 51% turnout, what we saw for Bush-Gore in 2000, is about as good as we get, and in most elections (like the one on Tuesday, and certainly in Austin local races), we settle for far less," writes Mike Clark-Madison in his review of Thomas Patterson's The Vanishing Voter. But why?

"...does not -- beyond a twice-told (at least) inside-the-Beltway, inside-the-Ivy-League narrative of U.S. presidential politics (the only level of..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Books Review by Mike Clark-Madison

Coach's Corner

Mack Brown or Rick Barnes jump to the pros? Not likely, when just the hint of a threat will get them a fat renegotiated contract.

"...of personal ethics, in his day he was Austin's Golden Boy with a bright, unlimited future. It was also..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

The gauntlet is thrown: Major League Baseball is discussing "contraction." It's the Players vs. the Owners, and guess who's going to lose? The Fans, of course.

"...(lots of 'em) can still play in the Big Leagues...."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Dancing About Architecture

Mambo John Treanor dies, but Austin jazz lives!

"...and a selection of jazz-related films, courtesy of Tim League and the Alamo Drafthouse cinemas. McMillan speaks mainly of..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

TV Eye

PBS's landmark documentary series, "Point of View," announces its summer lineup.

"...other filmmaker whose Ma Vie en Rose won a Golden Globe in 1997. Then there's celebrity photographer Alan Berliner..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Coach's Corner

Coach rates the announcers on the NBA playoff broadcasts.

"...centers using the drop-step," like the NBA is his league -- gets on my nerves. So I'm a little..."

May 25, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Hill Country Food & Wine Guide

by Virginia B. Wood & the Cuisines staff

"...been doing it since before anyone ever heard of golden arches...."

April 13, 2001 Food Feature

Transforming Herself

Sissy Spacek's Most Memorable Movies

"...there's a club luncheon, then I have this Junior League thing this afternoon") is inconveniently affected when her maid..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Chronicles

The Ninth Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...co-sponsors -- 107.1 KGSR, BookPeople, and the Austin Writers' League -- without whom the short story contest wouldn't be..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

I never thought the letters in "Postmarks Forum" were real until this happened to me ...

"...fact, with the notable exception of the office volleyball league, it's safe to say that the right hand rarely..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Column

Coach's Corner

The media has dismissed both Latrell Sprewell and Allen Iverson as bad citizens, but that says more about the media than it does about the two young stars.

"...man. A hoops equivalent of Mike Tyson. After the league acted and justifiably suspended Sprewell for 60 days, costing..."

May 26, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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