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"...to the Swamp Romp but didn't end up going inside, as there was no place to go. Everything was..."

April 16, 2004 Column

Lessons of the Good Run

An interview with Dean cyberforce Joe Trippi

"...strength of his kick-Dubya's-candy-ass message, it was Dean for America's unprecedented exploitation of the Internet that really made folks..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...in each case, burglars picked door locks to get inside the apartments. Police identified three suspects -- Octavio Sims,..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Mutual Respect

Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.

"...those friendly eyes, flashed a smile, and welcomed me inside as he had so many others. Prior to seeing..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Shelf Life Support

As libraries struggle with slashed budgets, communities are asked to take up the slack. Melanie Haupt reports.

"...ultimate activist, Michael Moore, whom Ribon met at BookExpo America in May. "He's going to try to do it..."

July 18, 2003 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

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"...on to the structure and some local restaurants plopped inside. Pry off a few Texas stars and our convention..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Play Ball!

Microsoft Game Studios steps up to the plate with its first Xbox baseball title while Ea and 3D0 Improve upon Last year's Playstation2 models

"...Inside Pitch 2003Microsoft Game Studios, $49.99 Xbox..."

June 20, 2003 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

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"...My fellow Americans,..."

May 23, 2003 Column

The Hightower Report

French's Mustard ain't French -- or American; and a traveler wonders what country he's in.

"...The corporation's press release spoke of founder Robert French's "all-American dream" and about the mustard's iconic connection to hot..."

April 25, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Bush's tax cut creates jobs -- in China; and malls kill main street -- and replace it with a cheap knock-off.

"...small businesses in the heartland to create jobs for America. Don't think of it as a tax cut, was..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Bright Lights, Little City

It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

"...multiplexes where employees are lined up like bank tellers. Inside, another young girl works the concession stand with her..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...lengthening string of popular books on various facets of American history, H.W. Brands is earning his way into this..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...roadside vultures frenzied on carrion, another right at the American Legion outpost. Up the hill. Stop at Canyon Lake...."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Coach's Corner

Mark Cuban has transformed the once-pathetic Dallas Mavericks into an elite NBA squad -- but they're not quite there yet.

"...The blond-red brick facade of the American Airlines Center sprawls over the seedy industrial area west..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

A Colossal Wreck

The Intel Building and its discontents

"...able to see the Capitol," says Deatherage, untangling an American flag from its pole. He points to the east...."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Austin @ Large: Austin At Large

An Austin political response to the New York bombing

"...against humanity -- it was an attack on urban America itself in its most iconic aspect. If you're not..."

Sept. 21, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...ungodly heat. It was really my ruse to get inside the air-conditioned production igloo that was built around the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...Tinkering With Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in Americaby Kim Todd..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...and some downright ugly. Some had only black women inside and some had only white or Hispanic. Some would..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

Charlie's Angels

"...plenty of rump-shaking bump 'n' grindage. Sure, deep down inside we may have a tiny, politically correct shouter telling..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Loyal Lieutenants

Bush Applies Litmus Test of Allegiance in Choosing Inner Circle

"...oversees one of the largest public university systems in America. It's perhaps the most powerful patronage job in the..."

March 17, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Malcolm, Movement, Memory

With subjects that range from Malcolm X to choreographer Alvin Ailey, Orlando Bagwell's documentaries depict the African-American -- as well as American -- experience.

"...biography of a man around whose call-to-arms thousands of African-Americans rallied in the Sixties while police departments, whites, and..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Body Is the Music

The Beginnings

"...Ballet has its origins in folk dance. American popular dance is a fusion of European dance forms..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Huckleberry Minh: A Walk Through Dreamland

"...it's still a deep and unhealing wound in the American psyche. By taking on Vietnam in a book-length poetry..."

May 28, 1999 Books Review

Varsity Blues

"...get into the film arena (Beavis and Butt-head Do America and Joe's Apartment are the company's two most prominent..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...to Billie Holiday and Robert Johnson for having absorbed "Americans' needs to localize psychic demolition," and that's exactly what..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Wrapped and Ready

"...Middle America's obsession with home security is the object of satire..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...later loved to loathe, but also because it put American politics on the slippery downward slope of successful negative..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...AMERICAN COWBOY..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...already ticking, take a few minutes to get the inside scoop on a whole lot of bands you know..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

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