Naked City

Funders gather at Kirk Watson's House, a new campaign finance reform group is born in Austin, and Club DeVille goes Republican.

"...was held in the West Austin home of Mayor Kirk Watson. District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who is again facing..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Naked City

Vignette discusses its options for a planned move downtown.

"...halls of Lakeside. Then, in a follow-up story, Mayor Kirk Watson tried to explain the goof as "brainstorming," but..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Council members announce Planning Commission appointments that promise to calm the harsh political winds that have blown through the commission of late.

"...already halfway through the 2000 round, as both Mayor Kirk Watson and Council Member Danny Thomas have filled their..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Despite the many good arguments in their favor, Beverly Griffith's parks bonds and Raul Alvarez's housing bonds get shot down at council; meanwhile, Kirk Watson's $150 million transportation proposal glides through with nary a hitch.

"...Through it all, Mayor Kirk Watson said little publicly, dropping occasional reminders that the..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

Council members' feuding bond proposals are sure to set off a major tectonic event at this week's council meeting.

"...parks and acquiring green space over the aquifer. Mayor Kirk Watson had already planned to put $150 million in..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

I never thought the letters in "Postmarks Forum" were real until this happened to me ...

"...positive. It is not clear in the article if Kirk Hunter or the writer made the remark about me..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Column

Naked City

Beverly Griffith and Raul Alvarez rain on the mayor’s bond parade by adding a few proposals of their own; Cedar Avenue settlement goes back into mediation.

"...sibling began repeating it minutes later. Last week, Mayor Kirk Watson must have flushed when Council Member Beverly Griffith..."

Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Throwing Down Love

The seven-year rise of Knolly Williams, the Master P of Christian hip-hop

"...and the continuing crossover crusades of God-fearing acts like Kirk Franklin, Sixpence None the Richer, and DC Talk, Christian..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Paths of Glory

"...Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou and George Macready. Kirk..."

Aug. 2, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everyone's a Critic

The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.

"...Critics' Harshest Critics Kirk Lynn, alias "The Littlest Rude Mechanical," is one of..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I urge fellow citizens to write the mayor at kirk[email protected] and the Department of Parks and Recreation's director, Jesus..."

July 14, 2000 Column

Council Watch

The council approves on first reading an East Austin apartment complex 500 feet away from a plant where toxic chemicals are stored, but some council members are promising to scuttle the project if it comes back for final approval.

"...to apply for a federal tax-credit subsidy. But Mayor Kirk Watson and two council members said if the project..."

June 30, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

Council Watch

New council members are sworn in.

"...impassioned prayers for economic and social justice, and Mayor Kirk Watson's brand of Everyman humor would seem to set..."

June 23, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

WAR: Conflict in the Cubicles

In his latest script, playwright Kirk Lynn sends the Rude Mechanicals off to War, and the result is another Rude Mechs show that is conceptual and cryptic, literary and obscure, but also very funny, with the company managing to make genuinely original observations on conflict and escapism in the energetic realm of absurdist comedy.

"...offering from the Rude Mechanicals and their resident director-playwright Kirk Lynn. Influential on both is also the Hobbesian philosophy..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Naked City

CAMPO adopts a 25-year plan that calls for bigger, longer roads and full funding for Austin's transportation plans, a stipulation that will require some creative funding solutions.

"...Mayor Kirk Watson's ever-growing transportation initiative, version 2.0 of which was..."

June 16, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Mayor Kirk Watson announces a transportation plan with something for everyone.

"...Mayor Kirk Watson finally showed everyone his tool box. And it's..."

June 16, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Council Watch

Council reluctantly approves retail in the new city hall, with the stipulation that there be no gaudy storefronts on Second Street.

"...to be successful," says Shaw. At Thursday's meeting, Mayor Kirk Watson threw his support behind a retail presence at..."

June 16, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

Statesman ignores Bill Bunch as part of its SOS history; Mary Arnold, Whole Foods and Lee Walker honored for their SOS dedication; the Austin Police Association's mailers for Rafael Quintanilla never got mailed; Mayor Kirk Watson will lay out his transportation vision.

"...think? We might find out Monday, June 12, when Kirk Watson lays out his transportation vision at a noon..."

June 9, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Articulations

Goodbyes and good news at the 2000 Austin Theatre Critics Table Awards.

"...for a directing fellowship. Also fresh from Gotham was Kirk Smith, a Critics Table nominee this year for his..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Center of Gravity

City's influx of new money and new businesses shifts council's political sails

"...to support him, and, by the same token, Mayor Kirk Watson's era of big deals. That split, along with..."

May 26, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

Travis County GOP Chair Alan Sager is considering organizing a petition drive to recall Kirk Waston and City Council; Jerry Rusthoven is Jackie Gooman's new aide; Linda Dailey is Danny Thomas' aide; Will Wynn has hired Frank Kopic as his executive secretary; Kristen Vassallo leaves Bill Spelman's office to become Kirk Watson's chief of staff; Smithville residents are opposed to zoning change

"...What's all this about petition drive to recall Mayor Kirk Watson and his council? For now, it's just talk...."

May 26, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Council Watch

Intel secures $15 million in incentives to locate its facility downtown, saying only $2.5 million of that consists of actual "incentives"; the council votes to annex the property owned by the Regents School, whose sports facilities have annoyed neighbors in the nearby Travis Country subdivision.

"...can get cozy in the downtown environment. As Mayor Kirk Watson pointed out during Thursday's meeting, the city's "incentives"..."

May 26, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

Austin At Risk

Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems

"...politics, they'll at the very least support politicians like Kirk Watson who likewise fire before they aim. More likely,..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Leslie Cochran discusses his loss in the mayor's race and his modeling contract with Yclip.com.

"...convincing Austinites that he'd be a better mayor than Kirk Watson. But Cochran, who had apparently been celebrating his..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Council Watch

City lays out new housing program, Southpark Meadows goes for world-class venue, Zilker Neighborhood Association holds council candidates forum

"...bandied about freely, most of them expressed by Mayor Kirk Watson. Watson expounded from the dais on various ways..."

April 28, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Naked City

Brigid Shea resigns from the Save Our Springs pac over the board's refusal to endorse Kirk Watson for mayor; Millennium March on Washington is April 30.

"...Action, because its board of directors refused to endorse Kirk Watson for mayor, meaning the votes (roughly 50-50, we're..."

April 21, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Pinocchio Commedia: I'm Your Puppet ... Still

The familiar misadventures of the wooden puppet who wants to be real get a high-spirited comic treatment in JohnnySimons' Pinocchio Commedia, and Tongue and Groove Theatre's spirited and playful production make the hundred-year-old tale delightfully fresh.

"...Beltramo, Pinocchio's newfound friends on his way to school. Kirk Smith is incorrigible as Arlecchino. And Elizabeth Doss steals..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Postmarks

"...that in turn gets both flaming scorn (as does Kirk Watson and the City Council) and gushing praise (as..."

April 14, 2000 Column

Council Watch

Business as Usual: After Bradley, Council Moves on to Other Things

"...oppose the project (the item was ultimately postponed), Mayor Kirk Watson said he would direct City Manager Jesus Garza..."

April 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Going, Going, Gone?

Gary Bradley agrees to sell 1,000 acres of land to the city

"...determined to move the agreement forward Thursday, with Mayor Kirk Watson and the city's legal counsel warning that Bradley's..."

March 17, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

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