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Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature
DVD Watch: My Neighbor Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki's sweet and monstrous classic arrives on Blu-ray
"...I'm glad we're just out of the era when cut-price import houses would make up a clumsy translation in..."
May 21, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Page Two: Rogue Waves
Ghosts of SXSW and the Chronicle past
"...off with the Film and Interactive Festivals. It was two-and-a-half decades back that SXSW launched, initially as a regional..."
March 11, 2011 Column by Louis Black
We Were the Urban Pioneers
Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown
"...be no airplanes, polio vaccines, or Botox. Our history books are filled with their stories – tales of woe,..."
March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Dining Up and Down West Lynn
Venerable spaces and new faces
"...reverse of most happy hours, the drinks are full price, but the bar-menu items (a short list of apps..."
Feb. 16, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack
More McCanlies, Texas
The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'
"...time to break in. This was before any screenplay books were on the shelves at the local Barnes &..."
Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black
The New Sobriety
SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews
"...have been hacked in the last year?" asked Mellie Price of Monsterbit. "How many know they've been hacked?"..."
March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
Missive to the Ending Year
Letters at 3AM
"...Dear Sir-or-Madam 1996: Like every year, you began as half promise, half threat. We wanted to believe the promise,..."
Jan. 3, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura
Like a Rose
The LCRA and Mark Rose: It's a Beautiful World
"...from Destec at what Rose calls a very good price (he won't give the price). The LCRA can then..."
Nov. 24, 1995 News Feature
Back From the Dead
Stephen Romano cheats the grim reaper to launch Eibon Press
"...recover to resurrect an old passion of his: comic books based on horror movies. He'd pervasively worked on a..."
July 15, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Waste Not
Local groups work to "rescue" food from loss and landfills
"...organic material, like food scraps and yard trimmings, and half of that amount is food waste. Austin's numbers may..."
Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross
Lit-urday: 'Some Dead Genius'
Lenny Kleinfeld paints a vivid portrait of murder in Chi-town
"...Niaux-Noir Books, 334pp., $14.99..."
July 12, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Letters at 3AM: Articles of Faith
"That all things are possible is God"
"...So I was never without a book, and, in books, I found signs of belief. I mean, signs like..."
Oct. 18, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura
Reefer Madness: The Thin Green Line
Author Jonah Raskin explores the contradictions of life in Marijuanaland
"...Dispatches From an American War, published by High Times Books. Raskin journeyed through the heart of America's pot economy,..."
Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Texas Faith and Freedom
Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas
Freedom Network
"...for Emily's List for about a year and a half, and I looked up one day and realized I'd..."
Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Naked City
"...Corridor -- a road project that's been on the books for nearly two decades -- has now been dropped..."
May 3, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II
"...TV Books, 192 pp., $39.95..."
Dec. 15, 2000 Books Review by Jesse Sublett
Genius of Love
"...unhealthy looking. The the 38-year-old songsmith looks like some half-mad, aging Mozart overworked to the point of exhaustion from..."
March 19, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck
Megachurch Miracle
Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches
"...who prefer big screen TVs to following along in books. Ominous, Gothic houses of the Lord are scrapped in..."
Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy
Wreckless Recs?
Garza's Affordability Strategy Slides Into Uselessness
"...best possible service to our customers at a reasonable price."..."
Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
The Pope of Avant Garde
Remembering William S. Burroughs
"...All we had to do was arrive at a price. I proposed $250 plus one (or was it one-half?)..."
Aug. 15, 1997 Books Feature
Postmarks
Former TFSC Counsel Responds
"...cars. The new city hall will cost $30 million. Half of this -- $15 million -- will go to..."
April 9, 1999 Column
Mike Martinez: 'Leadership of Austin's Tomorrow'
"...might not be coming, and 2) it drives up prices and property taxes. How do you strike that balance?..."
May 30, 2014 News Feature
Who Wants to Run A Coffeehouse in Austin, Texas?
Four local javamongers tell us what it's like
"...budget, it took us about a year and a half to open with all the Austin city regulations and..."
Aug. 22, 2012 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Trouble at Station 15
Austin firefighter sues city after officials stonewall unequal treatment
"...tables, TVs, vending machines, and the station library of books and games. Other than lockers, the women's room was..."
Jan. 16, 2009 News Feature by Caitlin Meredith
Art + Commerce
Marc English Design's DIY Criteria
"...Books, tattered, well-thumbed, and loved to the quick, are piled,..."
Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
Gift Guide
"...A Baker's Half Dozen Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & Moreby..."
Dec. 14, 2007 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Uncommon Generosity
Following restaurateur Michael Vilim's time and money
"...say that Vilim feeds people well at a fair price and helps assure we have high-quality television programming in..."
Jan. 20, 2006 Food Feature by Wes Marshall
Power, Forward
Dave Zirin on 'What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States'
"...Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books, $15, paper), goes from Lester Rodney to Jackie Robinson..."
Nov. 11, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley
The Hightower Report
'Consumer Reports' explores capitalistic idiocy; and
libraries go begging while boondoggles get funding
"...people a day who count on the library for books, literacy courses, Internet access, afterschool programs, and other services...."
