Creative Capital?

In the City of Ideas, the people with ideas are dancing with day jobs.

"...own art -- the sculptor found herself working clerical jobs, again, to pay the bills, and scraping up time..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael Erard

Craddick's Cash

Texans for Public Justice file ethics complaint about former speaker

"...complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission accusing the Texas Jobs & Opportunity Build A Secure Future PAC of illegally..."

Oct. 7, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Is There a Deeper Wave Than This?

Jobs come in one door, out the other

"..."Jobs, jobs, jobs," runs the recessionary chorus, from the televised..."

March 5, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Public Notice: Working Hard for the Money

City offers temp jobs and green job training … and lifeguarding

"...– there happen to be a couple of city jobs programs in the news this week...."

May 13, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Ciao, Professore!

"...must round up his delinquent third-graders from their various jobs around town. Part truant officer, part therapist, part teacher,..."

Sept. 2, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Split Council Approves Incentives

5-2 Vote on Websense and Dropbox suggests shifting perspectives

"...and Dropbox – planning to move roughly 640 high-salaried jobs to Austin over the next 10 years. But the..."

Feb. 24, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Visa Council Debate Begins

City Council sets public hearing for incentives package

"...for Visa Inc.'s "Global IT Center" and nearly 800 jobs. The special called meeting was only to set the..."

Nov. 28, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Cast Away

Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood

"...kept up with their permits, and provided regular blue-collar jobs – all very conventional public virtues in 1968. But..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

American Job

"...Everyone knows this is nowhere, this world of minimum-wage jobs, stultifying labor, and dead ends. Another day, another meal,..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Food Issue Extra Helpings: 10 Years a Server

The trenches of the service industry are full of lessons

"...of us, I have had to work service industry jobs to pay the bills. What began as a simple..."

Feb. 17, 2014 Food Post by Claire Gordon

Dirty Pretty Things

Stephen Frears’ low-key thriller casts its eye toward the furtive lives of London’s illegal immigrants.

"...who live shadow existences in London by taking the jobs no one wants and the apartments without addresses, all..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

City Plans '[re]Manufacture' for Landfill

City hopes to create jobs while moving Austin closer to its zero-waste goals

"...turn recyclable materials into new products and bring manufacturing jobs to a disadvantaged area. At today's City Council meeting..."

Aug. 8, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Visa Wants a Chargeback

Governor and city propose economic development deal

"...major local investment and the promise of 794 new jobs, the Texas Enterprise Fund has pledged $7.9 million "contingent..."

Nov. 26, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Samsung Invests $3.6 Billion

Austin gets biggest foreign investment in the U.S.

"...fabrication plant is anticipated to bring about 500 permanent jobs, and about 1,000 short-term construction jobs, to Austin...."

June 9, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Meet the New Bosses

Long Center director Cliff Redd and ALO director Richard Buckley compare notes on leading an arts institution, the challenges they face, and being new to Austin

"...Chronicle brought these two men together to discuss their jobs, their careers, art, and Austin. The following conversation took..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Slut in a Good Way

Charming sex-positive teen comedy is good old shameless fun

"...it is. After Charlotte’s breakup, the girls get part-time jobs at Toy Depot, primarily because a lot of hot..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Capernaum

Lebanese drama of the destitute is tough to watch, but tougher to live

"...(Bankole) in a laundry bag while she works multiple jobs...."

Feb. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Minding the Gap

Sundance-lauded Hulu skateboarder doc surpasses Thrasher equation

"...the struggling working class and all its woes: shit jobs, shut-offs from the electric company, depression, toxic masculinity, and,..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Taxing Times for Film and Music

Council looks to raid the budget intended to bring creative jobs to Austin

"...swap potentially raiding the budget intended to bring creative jobs to Austin...."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Patti Cake$

A hip-hop star is born in New Jersey

"...bills a constant plague, Patti works two dead-end bartending jobs, and holds her mother’s hair back when she pukes..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I, Daniel Blake

Ken Loach's latest offers dignity in the face of humiliation

"...the first time, since he’s required to apply for jobs while waiting to appeal his denial of assistance (a..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lovers

Breaking the doldrums of marriage

"...via monosyllabic non sequiturs at home while working soul-sapping jobs in the daytime. Twenty-five years into their lonely matrimony,..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don't Think Twice

In this comedy about comedy, Mike Birbiglia nails what's funny and true

"...spent laboring at the kind of dull, soul-sucking, service-industry jobs that support the continuance of their comedy habit. Although..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Be Single

This millennial romantic comedy wears that same old shaggy dress

"...al. These characters move in oxygen-starved, simulated universes, where jobs and friends only exist if they have some bearing..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spotlight

This terrific newspaper movie gets all the elements right

"...faces. Spotlight is a story about people doing their jobs, and combating scandalous misdeeds with dogged determination...."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Truth

Drama about how Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes got fired from CBS

"...delivering a plausible facsimile), both of whom lost their jobs at CBS in the wake of the Memogate scandal..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Capital Idea

How Josh Baer helps people 'quit their jobs' to join the bustling hive at Capital Factory

"...as Baer likes to say, "helping people quit their jobs."..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

City Council: NI deal approved

Incentives package, Hotel ZaZa, and looking into ridesharing . . .

"...major expansion and capital investment, and 1,000 new high-paying jobs...."

March 8, 2013 News Post by Michael King

The Apple in Austin's Eye

New campus to bring 3,600 jobs over 10 years

"...at SXSW this year. However, the House that Steve Jobs Built is more than making up for it with..."

March 9, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

One Day

This gimmicky romantic drama charts 20 years of one British couple's ups and downs in one-day blips.

"...not – through the newly adult landmarks of first jobs and failed love affairs. Perhaps inevitably, the book's structure..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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