Mothers of Reinvention

White Denim's Fits of maximum R&B

"...From such a vantage point, a smaller, 27-foot mobile home can be seen rusting in the distance...."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Adding Insult to Brain Injury

Brain injury lab and its former director on the skids

"...has taken temporary work at an Illinois hospital, flying home once a month to visit his wife and 7-year-old..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Porn Busters!

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

"...Warner, that IP was assigned to Javier Perez's Road Runner account and billed to him at his Oak Hill..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...minimalist candor. Denton, Texas, has become Bella Union's vacation home with Lift to Experience and Jetscreamer giving way to..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

D-League Dreams

All roads lead to Toros training camp

"...the last 15 minutes, he's been watching his team run the "Poughkeepsie" play, and so far, he's unimpressed. He..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Sports Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week "You may be asking why run against Mayor Wynn? I can tell you I am..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...week announced its ambitious 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness. See "Naked City: No Homeless In Our Time?"..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Death of Ben Brownlee

A Rockdale teenager's suicide raises questions about official protections for gay and transgendered kids

"...When Karen Johle arrived home from work on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 18,..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...The Toronto International Film Festival is awe-inspiring, well-run, and stocked with enough films to program an arthouse..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

A Cook's Tour

You just had to be there: The Chronicle's Mick Vann compasses the cuisine of Thailand, in Bangkok and beyond.

"...were offering me a free, guided tour of their homeland! Sap had to stay and run the restaurant, but..."

June 28, 2002 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Secret History of Tuna

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

"...relationships of longstanding, where they feel comfortable and at home -- indeed, where both maintain homes...."

April 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...foresight, intelligence, or simple sense of fair play to run it with an immediate, levelheaded counterpoint. Questions posed, not..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...in 1999. She told of her young daughter coming home from school on the day of the attacks, scared,..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

The Art of Parenting With Art

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

"...suspended her active theatre life. While I continued to run The Public Domain Theatre Company, she took a job..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Tru Artistry

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

"...The actor who makes comedy look too effortless runs the risk of being thought of as no actor..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Theatre reviews! Film reviews! The Summer Smut Issue! Get your snipes here!

"...romantic notion to have an exotic pet in their home until they find it was more than they bargained..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Column

The Loyal Lieutenants

Bush Applies Litmus Test of Allegiance in Choosing Inner Circle

"...Allbaugh, Mark McKinnon, and Karl Rove are orchestrating Bush's run for the White House. All of them are white,..."

March 17, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Dancing About Architecture

Jeff Cole Leaves Doolittle Records, Marc Katz Leaves Top of the Marc, Hank Sinatra Returns and so does Ray Benson (again!). Plus all the news that pitches a fit.

"...Apparently so are enough of you that the first run of 4,000 wristbands priced at $75 are expected to..."

March 3, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

More a Man Than a Legend

Observing as the golden-throated Flatlander becomes a record-label executive

"...he lives with wife Janet in a weathered ranch-style home deep in the Hill Country outside of Austin on..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Our Lying Eyes

A New Revelation, like its predecessor, Waco: Rules of Engagement, will face an uphill climb with the intellectual and political establishment.

"...originally produced as a film, then released as a home video. Revelation takes the opposite route. It can be..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Dick J. Reavis

Men at Work

City's day laborer program undergoes successful overhaul

"...largely to the deleterious mixture of workers and the homeless and transient population that mingled together on the downtown..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Bad Dog

When we see a dog running free, why are we frightened? Longtime Austinite Paula James meditates on the effect that fear of the natural world has had on us.

"...yards away. She bounds for freedom -- deer, a running creek, and wilderness abandon just seconds away. A woman..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Paula James

Dancing About Architecture

Barton Springs Eternal

"...the Alaska show, but a delay in their flight home Monday kept the group incommunicado as a series of..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"...range and her imagination. On the novella-length "House, House, Home," one of the few stories in the collection not..."

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

Postmarks

"...certainly never said, "Damn, I can't wait to go home and read the Chronicle for the next two or..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column

Postmarks

Turner Is Worthy

"...to assess the label's track-record and prospects. A label run from a city which affords more awareness of the..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Column

The Rent Rub

Working Poor Getting Stiffed on Housing Costs

"...Bill Skeen, with son Billy, outside their Buckingham Estates home. photograph by Kevin Fullerton The South Austin duplex that..."

Aug. 21, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Behind the Mask

Fetish Nights

"...-- and they're as real as the shrieks and grunts and duct tape on some submissive's breasts...."

Sept. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Fight of His Life

Are Ronney Reynolds' Mayoral Hopes on the Ropes?

"...But it wasn't so much his words that hit home with the audience and reverberated throughout much of the..."

Dec. 6, 1996 News Feature by Alex de Marban

O.D. Whizz!

"...can be as fatal as heroin in the long run. As the Chronicle was going to press Wednesday, Tary..."

July 19, 1996 Music Column

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