Postscripts

Shuttle Carnage Looms

"...is placed squarely on the backs, doors, quarterpanels, and head on at you driving there in already fever-pitched traffic...."

Aug. 22, 1997 Column

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...went on to play a mutant serving the `squid head' guy in Invaders From Mars. The technical work on..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Bonus Tracks

"...busking on Sixth Street -- it somehow chirped just above the traffic. But this all-too-short three song cassette of..."

July 5, 1996 Music Feature

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...the live fireworks exploding off the tops of their heads...."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters From the Women of SAFPF

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

"...or ankles, feet flat, hands on legs, eyes straight ahead. The clock was removed so we could not see..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

The Banks of the Blanco

Environmentalists and Hays County clash over river-clearing project

"...just north of where it joins the cool, spring-fed waters of the San Marcos. The excavator, which has a..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Top 10 Censored Stories of 2000

The news stories that didn't make the mainstream press in 2000

"...you hundreds of dollars a month for your tap water? Or the one about military "psychological operations" specialists manipulating..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Karynn M. Fish

Scanlines

"...Movies & Music, I Luv Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo Video for their help in providing videos, laser discs,..."

April 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Saturday Night Live

Mayor Kirk Watson takes his downtown vision to the streets

"...KW: Because you have to dig and you've got water table problems and things like that. The sheer cost..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"...taken with the late-night charms of that stalwart neighborhood watering hole: the cheap pitchers of Pabst, the hoarse laughter,..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Exhibitionism

Woody Guthrie's American Song: Up with the People

"...dispossessed in a theatre charging up to $18 a head for the experience (which may say as much about..."

April 11, 1997 Arts Feature

Reissues

"...MUDDY WATERS & MEMPHIS SLIM..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

Kick Me, I'm From Austin

Visiting the Lege, City Council, and Bergstrom

"...with developer contributions, seek to punish Austin for its water quality initiatives. These attacks emanate from the same capitol..."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

What Can a Century Tell Us?

Looking at two art exhibitions that both survey 100 years of imagery, the more things change ...

"...system – that when you try to wrap your head around it all, it can set your mind reeling...."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

The Hanna Springs Sculpture Garden is just one of many reasons to visit Lampasas

"...that flutter in the air on long, curved poles above the visitor's head. The bright-yellow figures seem to defy..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Oakland's Sixties-loving witch doctors the Gris-Gris are leaking dirty water garage nuggets sometime this spring, following singer Greg Ashley's..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Candy Hell

Or, it takes a lot of patience to play Mrs. Santa Claus.

"...regional recipes. It's just butter, sugar, salt, vanilla, and water with a little semisweet chocolate on top, but it's..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Sunset vs. Goliath

Tiny Sunset Valley defends the aquifer -- but could use a little neighborly help

"...Heading west on Jones, Cowan points out some of the..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Off the Desk :

"...Secretary Bruce Babbitt, is returning to River City to head the Austin office of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF)...."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Feature

Summer Solace

More From the May Bookshelf

"...don't go to Galveston for the beach tend to head south - Port Aransas, Rockport, Corpus Christi.... Some go..."

May 23, 1997 Books Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a marketing campaign that left audiences scratching their collective heads. And now this... mess. Based on his short story..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

Texas travel news and more

"...Head scratcher. Since the late 1990s, three Easter Island Heads..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Page Two: Praying for an Early Death

Louis Black sucks, and he makes SXSW suck

"...All three of the above quotes are from posts on a non-Chronicle forum. II..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Two-Wheeled Texas

Bikers' best bets on the highways and byways

"...Entertainment Antone’s Austin’s “Home of the Blues.” The Muddy Waters posters plastered all over the walls might inspire you..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Angela Armstrong

Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...The cover to Original Suffer Head, for example, features a deathlike character in the shape..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...American cowboys crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, driving ahead of them a herd of 1,500 longhorn cattle they..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Turning Point

Relations on the Mend

"...Forum's pro-mitigation arguments, and came out looking like the head-in-the-sand anti-growthers some critics have charged them to be. Nevertheless,..."

Feb. 19, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Record Reviews

"...hearing he was making an "acoustic" record: the spare, ditchwater blues of 1994's One Foot in the Grave. He's..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Review

America's Ethnic Music Mantle

"...jumped its banks. The pavement runs joyless through this watery stretch of land, streetside signs announcing the wrong towns:..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Postmarks

"...E) Encourage farmers to supply clean water supplies to farmworkers and migrant farm workers to prevent..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column

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