Checking in to the Democratic National Convention

'Chronicle' cartoonist Jen Sorensen is heading to Charlotte, N.C.

"...plenty of behind-the-scenes wackiness. One moment, you’re brushing past Jimmy Carter; the next, you’re photographing a Midwestern delegate in..."

Aug. 31, 2012 News Post by Jen Sorensen

Think

Aretha Franklin heats up the Moody

"...– now down to ever feisty sole original member Jimmy Carter – which guested two-thirds of Nickel Creek in..."

Nov. 16, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Party on the Patio

Live review of ZZ Top's 1st Annual La Grange Fest.

"...Never mind Johnny Depp and Billy Gibbons joining Bill Carter onstage at the Continental Club Saturday night. YouTube footage..."

Oct. 24, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

From the Watergate Break-in to a Broken News Media

Key players in All the President's Men reflect on what 35 years have wrought

"...toward a little-known, toothy, born-again, Georgia peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter...."

April 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...a book, and for the Beltway academic in me, Jimmy Carter's long and long-overdue White House Diary (Farrar, Straus..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Weedaholic

The unofficial Teapot Party anthem and other half-baked ideas

"...smoking on the roof of the White House with Jimmy Carter,” pauses Ray Benson, “that’s all true.” In light..."

Dec. 2, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Jimmy Carter, loam, Lassie, figs, and expenses

"...Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to screen an..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Outlaw

Alex Cox, still shooting film, and the finger, after all these years

"...start singing original ballads about Vicente Fox or about Jimmy Carter. It was amazing, because these were really, really..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Snoop Dogg, Vikings, and more fun facts

"...the United States had all of 44 breweries. Then Jimmy Carter signed legislation legalizing craft brewing...."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

If Not Killed, Kennedy Would Have Done Everything Right

"...Dear Editor, Compared to later Democratic presidents like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton (a Democrat in name only)..."

Aug. 8, 2010 Postmarks

Real History

"...into stinger missiles to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was recruiting "freedom..."

Feb. 11, 2010 Postmarks

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...Fraser, Brad Pitt, Owen Wilson, Renée Zellweger, Gary Busey, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Depp, Jeff Goldblum, Jeff Garlin, Pamela Anderson,..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Off the Record

The politics of Austin music in 2008: Barack Obama boogies back to Texas, a Man From Plains, and the Live Music Task Force

"...Eliot L. Spitzer, and Alejandro Escovedo made friends with Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention and Bruce Springsteen..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Letters at 3am

Obama won the election through a uniquely American combination of inspiration and cash

"...1964 – and topped Ronald Reagan's 1980 majority against Jimmy Carter" (The New York Times, Nov. 9, p.19). "Mr...."

Nov. 21, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Jones and the Green Economy

Netroots Nation closing keynote put the 2008 election in terrifying perspective

"...He argued America needed to take the ideas of Jimmy Carter when it came to energy efficiency and international..."

July 20, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Supports Making Voters Show IDs

"...Commission on Federal Election Reform, headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, issued..."

June 23, 2008 Postmarks

Environmentalists Noble, Local Publication Inattentive

"...political figure has asked of the American people since Jimmy Carter (and we can see where that got him);..."

April 27, 2008 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Big-Spending George; and House the Rich

"...more than double the annual spending growth under Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton...."

April 25, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Off the Record

The sound of music at the 2008 SXSW Film Conference, Barack Obama boogies back to Texas with Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel, and Bubble Recording sports a diamond

"...• The Jonathan Demme-directed, Alejandro Escovedo-scored Jimmy Carter documentary, Man From Plains, finally opens for a..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Point Austin: One Small Step

Gov. Rick Perry spares the life of Kenneth Foster

"...signatures on a petition from Germany alone." Former President Jimmy Carter and South African cleric Desmond Tutu spoke out..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"...lawmakers, and a bevy of celebrities, including former President Jimmy Carter, who decried the injustice of executing a man..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature

Art of the State

Retiring director Rick Hernandez reflects on three decades with the Texas Commission on the Arts

"...the Arts, Dolph Briscoe was in the governor's office, Jimmy Carter was in the White House, and Elvis was..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

"...the 1980 presidential elections in order to make then-President Jimmy Carter look weak. At the center of the rumors..."

April 13, 2007 News Feature

A Sense of History

People other than the president undertaking diplomacy with foreign nations? Not the first time.

"...until after the 1980 presidential elections, to make then-President Jimmy Carter look weak. At the center of the rumors..."

April 9, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Call North Korea's Hand

"...go and mediate their return, and let him take Jimmy Carter along to bore them into agreement...."

Nov. 21, 2006 Postmarks

Injunction Blocks Abbott Enforcement of Ballot Law

"...facially unconstitutional. The Bipartisan Commission was Co-Chaired by President Jimmy Carter and Secretary James Baker, and included as members..."

Nov. 1, 2006 News Post by Lee Nichols

James Talley

Record review

"...hip, a talent that saw him perform for President Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977. His latest, Got No Bread,..."

March 10, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Out There

Reviews and reports from SXSW Film and Interactive 05

"...colorful lineup of interviews (ranging from Michael Ovitz to Jimmy Carter), it's easy to forget that The Last Mogul..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Hightower Report

Jim hopes Dubya enjoyed his inauguration, because polls show the next four years may be bumpy

"...presidents have been party-poopers and tightwads compared to Bush. Jimmy Carter, for example, provided only peanuts, crackers, cheese, and..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Reinstate Windfall Profits Tax

"...to imported oil) on the American oil companies that Jimmy Carter slapped on them in the Seventies. Boy did..."

Feb. 9, 2005 Postmarks

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