Junk Mail

"...would be distasteful to think of him delivering your mail. But, indeed, Roy is a postman. He does not..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Too Much Junk Mail

"...filling up my old, puny container with all that junk mail that I never asked for, never read, and..."

Sept. 10, 2008 Postmarks

Outbox: The Death of Snail Mail?

Local company turns your physical mailbox into an inbox

"...and again. Outbox: A service that takes your snail mail, opens it, scans it, and sends it to your..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

The Fight Against Unsolicited E-mail

"...after waking and joining the world was to check e-mail, to see if any new messages had dropped into..."

July 4, 1997 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Case of the Mystery Voice Mail

"...this week to spread copies of his personal voice mail messages shows just how nasty he can be...."

Aug. 28, 1998 News Feature

Love Letter From a Boston Performance Duo

They Gotta Be Secret Agents deliver a kind, personal note

"...– an actual, handwritten, stamped-and-addressed letter – in the mail? The feeling of receiving a personal note, prepared with..."

Dec. 20, 2011 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar takes out the trash ... junk mail trash, that is, and lets you in on the big secret of how you can, too!

"...CIRCULAR LOGIC I hate all those junky ad circulars that jam up my mailbox at home...."

Aug. 26, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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My Vote, My Message

"...Kurt Standiford Stop That Junk Mail Dear Chronicle Member,..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Column

311 Story in Error

"...Stop That Junk Mail Dear Chronicle Member,..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column

Fastpitch

"...the World Championship with a Lakota anthem. Meanwhile, despicable junk-mail magnate and sports-franchise dilettante Peter J. Porcelli, Jr. threatens..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Hightower Report

Bill Gates wants to tax your e-mail, and the Bush administration finds the science it wants

"...PAYING POSTAGE FOR E-MAIL..."

March 5, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

It Pays to Recycle

"...years, you couldn't give telephone directories away. As for junk mail and mixed paper? Forget about it," said Apotheker...."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

Easy Ways to Save the Planet

How to take saving the Earth into your own hands

"...penny saved is a good thing. Opt Out of Junk Mail..."

April 21, 2017 Features Feature by Jessi Cape

Poste Restante

A cocktail of a performance about what it means to send a letter

"...– an actual, handwritten, stamped-and-addressed letter – in the mail? The feeling of receiving a personal note, prepared with..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Back Off, Big Business

"...I neither need nor want. When I check my mailbox, I'm constantly interrupted by big business mailing me junk..."

Sept. 20, 2009 Postmarks

Res Publica

"...EXHIBITION Artist Annette Lawrence (r) uses 265 pounds of junk mail to delight the eye and explore consumer culture...."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature

At Your Solid Waste Service

"...separate bin or brown paper grocery bag place: paper, junk mail, magazines, catalogs, and sticky notes. Corrugated cardboard should..."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Spotlights

SXSW Film Festival: Five in Focus

"...chronicle the day-to-day insanity of working for America's heavyweight mail-order CD and tape club, he clearly refused to identify..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Larry L. King on . . .

"...would rush you $9 worth of clothes by return mail and could wear 'em five years."..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

1998 Austin Theatrical Movie Openings

"...3.0 (M.S.) 7/24/98 JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES 2.5 (M.S.) 10/30/98 JUNK MAIL 3.5 (M.B.) 6/12/98 KILLER CONDOM 3.0 (M.B.) 8/21/98..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

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VanScorned

"...for the new year's onslaught. Perhaps responding to your e-mailed, off-the-cuff request to have the council do your work..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Column

Police Blotter

"...range: $300-$500) and a piece of Publishers Clearing House junk mail sent to the rocker's Los Angeles house (range:..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Column

East Austinite’s Plan to Sell Home Nearly Thwarted

CM Houston's historic lack of compassion

"...thrown away the envelopes with the rest of the junk mail. He also pointed out that older residents may..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Caleb Pritchard

It's About the Lying

"...factual distortions and logical contortions that arrives in my mailbox in the form of gigantic slabs of junk mail...."

May 5, 2016 Postmarks

(Apple) Core Values

The East Side Compost Pedallers are cycling across a gardener's gold mine

"...your vacuum cleaner, nail clippings, receipts, and even nonglossy junk mail. To protect compost quality, there are a few..."

May 10, 2013 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Increments of Destruction

Chris Jordan's 'Running the Numbers' at Austin Museum of Art

"...this country each year to make the paper for junk mail...."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Annette Lawrence: Free Paper

Artfully crafted stacks of junk mail address time, the environment, and much more

"...stacked on shelves. Each 2-inch-wide stack consists of unsolicited junk mail balanced in piles of various sizes. Lawrence presents..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

The Dirt on Composting

"...old bread, and fruit, as well as shredded newspaper, junk mail, and soiled paper towels, as long as they're..."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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Our readers talk back.

"...more money (using out-of-state companies no less), floods of junk mail asking for more donations, lies about revenue shortfalls,..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Column

What's Really Happening at KUT?

"...more money (using out-of-state companies no less), floods of junk mail asking for more donations, lies about revenue shortfalls,..."

Sept. 6, 2006 Postmarks

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