Point Austin: Season of Discontent

Bungling a high-profile project is not the best way to ask for a raise

"...This holiday season has not been the hap-hap-happiest time of the year at Austin Energy. Less..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Obama Comes to Town

Full text of president's speech at UT Austin

"...town. I remember paying you all a visit during the campaign. I toured the stadium with Mack Brown. Got..."

Aug. 9, 2010 News Post by Jillian Richardson

Page Two: Mutiny: A Ballet in Several Parts

Part II, Illustration Not Validation

"..."There has never been a mutiny in a ship of..."

May 14, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Love Bath

SXSW 2010 keynote speaker Smokey Robinson originally wanted to be a cowboy, but they didn't have any horses in his hood

"...Looking into Smokey Robinson's enormous green eyes compares to nothing. Immediate..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

City Hall Hustle: Do You Feel a Draft?

Big-leaguers back Leffingwell, but really, who'd want the gig?

"...At high noon on Monday, the campaign floodgates officially opened...."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Hill Country Militia

Grassroots homesteaders tighten ranks to fight urban encroachment

"...In the hills outside San Antonio, we may be about to..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Greg Harman

Media Watch

KXAN promises a new approach to 'Austin News' – but will it go beyond just a new set?

"...with as much hoopla as local TV can muster. The set is the linchpin of a far-reaching rebranding campaign..."

July 13, 2007 News Column by Kevin Brass

Naked City

"...Quote of the Week "President Bush has been wrong at every step..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature

Let Me Show You Something You May Have Missed

Sean Perry's photographs offer to show you familiar settings in a whole new light

"...Does the world need another photograph of Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week "I am proud of the things I saw..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature

Good Humor Man

Former 'Seinfeld' writer Pat Hazell is funny, upbeat, generous, and, oh, yeah, he lives here now

"...– theme song of the NBC sitcom American Pie..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Point Austin: Lessons Learned

I was down at the precinct last Tuesday, but I didn't see you

"...The most sobering instruction, of course, is that nobody much..."

March 17, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Shane Black's directorial debut is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretensions that’s just as full of them as the pulp it lampoons.

"...Bernsen, Dash Mihok, Larry Miller and Angela Lindvall. Blammo! The directorial debut of screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jarhead

Though lacking a clear point of view, the film seems to say that war not only dehumanizes soldiers but also infantilizes them. It’s not a pretty picture, but it is a lovely film.

"...not hell, war is purgatory, with sporadic excursions to the Delta House to Get This Party Started, Motherfucker; girlfriends/wives..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...Three days after a helicopter plucked them from the balcony of their New Orleans apartment, Lester..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...Just to prove the world was here...."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Page Two

The nose knows when SXSW is coming

"...Driving through Austin streets about 3:30am Monday morning with the windows down – the car, thankfully, nearly driving on..."

March 19, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Weird, Spooky, and Rich

David Dewhurst runs against everybody but money.

"...who are pumping tens of millions of dollars of their own money into their campaigns. Both made fortunes in..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...The Travis Co. Clerk reminds you that the voter registration..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Feature

Letters at 3AM

The Flatlanders' collective voice of experience still dares the odds and rings true.

"...Near the Troubadour in West Hollywood -- a stone's easy throw..."

July 26, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Dagon

This H.P. Lovecraft-inspired fish story is so extreme that it borders on camp.

"...Godden. Director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna -- the filmmakers whose very first feature film Re-Animator in 1985..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spider-Man

"...It must have seemed like a terrific gamble when the suits at Columbia elected to go with director Sam..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Food-o-File

Food editor Virginia B. Wood makes corrections on the Chronicle's recent "Barbecue Dynasties" article and updates readers on local goings-on.

"...There are plenty of local food lovers who would put..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Articulations

Four months after using a new guideline to declare Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks ineligible for city arts funding, threatening the company's survival and sparking community concern, the Austin Arts Commission reversed course and cleared the way for the company to receive money from the city.

"...Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks ineligible for city arts funding, thereby threatening the company's survival and sparking community concern, the..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Baise-Moi

"...Eudeline, Ouassini Embarek, H.P.G., Karen Bach and Raffailla Anderson. The new French film Baise-Moi arrives amid a storm of..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Local news in Austin, Texas

"...The end appears to be close at hand for Victoria..."

May 18, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Sweet November

"...Liam Aiken, Brian Leonard, Greg Germann, Jason Issacs, Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves. Get out your handkerchiefs. No, scratch..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

The summer drought is making historical Indian sites throughout Texas more accesible to archaeologists ... and to looters.

"...looking for flint tools and projectile points are destroying the story of Texas' past like ripping pages from a..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...Suzan Zeder has a dog named Ozma. The dog is 20 years old. "We got her with..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Un Dios

"...Like a summer storm, the piano playing of Jesus "Chucho" Valdés comes in..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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