Fare Fight

The pending sale of Roy's Taxi company raises a host of Austin memories

"...papers, personal effects, and an enormous plastic mug of water and ice. Like most of Roy's drivers, Nwoko owns..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...the real purchaser was an insular breakaway Mormon sect, headquartered in the twin cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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"...makes a startling slap in the face of rising above usual constricting parameters of mainstream mentality by labeling her..."

March 28, 2003 Column

Day Trips

"...a diversionary tactic to attract the teenagers who prefer water slides, diving boards, and swings to lounging in a..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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"...significant raises during the last several years putting them above the situation at other community colleges. In fact, long-term..."

March 22, 2002 Column

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Hyde Park Baptist foofaraw and assorted cultural allegations.

"...from a rich and powerful private institution, bury their head in the sand, and hope that this nightmare never..."

March 9, 2001 Column

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...conference's registration, and just down Madison Avenue at Sony headquarters, topic A is getting into a game, not a..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Reviews

"...served as a greatest hits collection for the Talking Heads. Since Robyn Hitchcock has never had a hit, Storefront..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Review

Texas Platters

"...this love can't hold its liquor/It's like a drunken headless chicken wearing two left-handed gloves/This is all very awkward,..."

July 11, 1997 Music Review

Censorship 101

"...the tails of cats, little boys filling condoms with water for ammunition... I'd be very surprised if the "Guys"..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Column

Sun City Undercover

The Spinning of Del's Webb

"...has plenty of master-planned subdivisions, with golf courses and water features and streets named for dead governors, and except..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

One Size Doesn't Fit All

City Land Code Revisions

"...(CPC). The diverse, 22-member committee, created by Goodman and headed by Heimsath, has begun carrying out a city council..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Local Cookbooks Span the Globe Hometown Haute Cuisine

"...blonde woman surrounded by darker-haired revelers, dancing with abandon, head thrown back, a bottle of tequila in her hand...."

Sept. 8, 1995 Arts Feature

Coach's Corner

"...the 38-minute mark, when the boat should be comfortably overhead, our craft is no-where in sight. We're drifting in..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...off talents that are still doing incredible things." [The above descriptions are quoted from an extensive oral history of..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...– first envisioned, then invented, then lodged in kidhood heads where Jason and his Argonauts battle skeletons still...."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...brilliantly, with enough obscure one-liners to make Dennis Miller's head explode. (7/2-3) --Marc Savlov The Exorcist The Exorcist (1973)..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

UT Professor Rich Heyman Fired After Arrest at Pro-Palestine Protest

University groups see his firing as intimidation tactic

"...trooper pushed Heyman back, and Heyman then lifted the water bottle he was holding above his head in what..."

May 17, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Beside the Point

Council on deck to approve slip-n-slide water deal with LCRA

"...surfeit of items for this week, including dual omnibus water resolutions...."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...zoning negotiations (see "Beside the Point" and "Developing Stories"). Headlines• After weeks of negotiations and three days of unusual..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature

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"...of us are paid only a dollar or less above the minimum." Point one, "Us" Jim? You get minimum..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...… um … getting shot in the face by CheneyHeadlines• Early voting began Tuesday for the March 7 Democratic..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature

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"...Robert Moorhead..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Cicadas

Honorable Mention

"...hollow as a fuselage; and, at last, the severed head: but upon assembling these pieces, you discover that they..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Billy Cope

An Alliance of Friends

An Alliance of Dripping Springs residents forms to defend itself against unregulated development.

"...of their own was baptized in the clear, cold water. The creek is dry now, dammed by new subdivisions..."

Sept. 21, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...the walls is to realize the building is an above-ground nuclear bunker; it could take a direct hit from..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

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Blacks & whites & various Blues

"...Mambo joined the Vanguards with prison hanging over his head. In truth, he joined more than a year prior..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Column

When Good Food Goes Bad

"...his hunting lease, ask how long it was cooked above 155ºF. Anisakiasis is another roundworm that likes the human..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Peerless

All About Joe (York)

"...the level of anticipation in the room. It's like water on a boil: animated, intense. These people know something's..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Concrete Carpet Ride

Jim Bob's Road to Nowhere

"...of an ambitious three-pronged set of proposals to protect water quality in the Barton Springs watershed, launched an intitiative..."

Dec. 27, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

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