SOS Sues Over Stratus Plan

Stratus Properties plans to develop 1,253 acres in the Barton Springs watershed, but the Save Our Springs Alliance believes state law prohibits their lofty plans.

"...tracts to the city (104 and 105) and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (111-113). Stratus has also agreed..."

June 28, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Stratus Status

"...Stratus, city officials, the Save Our Springs Alliance, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Circle C Homeowners Association,..."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

War and Remembrance

Time Warner Cable and the LBJ Library and Museum hosted a local premiere of HBO Films' new LBJ film 'Path to War.'

"...Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide 1964 election. Although the ailing Lady Bird Johnson could not attend the premiere, McGill (above,..."

May 24, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Recommended

"...honors Liz Carpenter, author and former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson and the star of this year's Texas..."

April 26, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Governing Post-Boom Austin

Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.

"...his to-do list is developing a trail from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center down to the Rutherford Ranch..."

April 12, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Paula Kamen's New 'Strain' of Female

"...met Kamen through Liz Carpenter, former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, who attended Kamen's signing at Book Woman..."

March 22, 2002 Books Feature by Laura Donnelly

The Governor Salutes Texas Music

Conference Panel

"...on your veggie quesadilla and people watch (is that Lady Bird?), waiting for any surprise from the sea of..."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

FWS Approves Stratus-pheric Development

"...an important cast of characters in the deal: the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the city of Austin, and..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Food-o-File

Food Editor Virginia B. Wood gets ready to attend the Southern Foodways Symposium.

"...and Stars on Thursday, Nov. 1, 7-10pm, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (4801 La Crosse). The event..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

Fredericksburg-area residents are working to preserve the area's one-room rural schoolhouses.

"...Wrede School is on TX 16 near the Lady Bird Johnson Park south of Fredericksburg. Established in 1896,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...I get to dress up and have dinner with Lady Bird Johnson. It works for me." Not that there's..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER Unfortunately, only two sessions are..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Old Man River

Once an outlaw, always an outlaw: The Return of Steven Fromholz

"..."Cactus is amazingly funny. We once did a Lady Bird Johnson wildflower thing together, and while I'm here..."

April 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Luckiest Girl in the World

An interview with Sissy Spacek, inducted into the first annual Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9.

"...amazingly strong women. From Jane Long to Ima Hogg, Lady Bird Johnson ... the list goes on. They come..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Sister in the Spirit

Praising the Lord with one of Austin's most talented sisters

"...and TV commercials, as well as a gig at Lady Bird Johnson's niece's wedding. In the past several years,..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

The Little Station That Could

Austin's AAA station KGSR and its market ascendance.

"...of. In July 1997, the Sinclair stations merged with Lady Bird Johnson's KLBJ stations (KLBJ FM, KLBJ AM, and..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Tit for a Tat

Five Snapshots in the Struggle Against Breast Cancer

"...is also famously Democrat, having been press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson in the White House. Before her mastectomy,..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Features Feature by Margaret Moser

Ask Questions First, Shoot Later

In 1967, Hobart Ison shot and killed Hugh O'Connor, who was filming a documentary on Ison's property. In her documentary Stranger With a Camera (showing at the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday, November 1), Elizabeth Barret examines the context that brought these two men together -- one with a gun and one with a camera.

"...piece about America, and the film was controversial. Apparently, Lady Bird didn't like it. She thought it should have..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Naked City

S.O.S vows to fight Stratus deal on Edwards Aquifer land, TARAL supports pro-choice candidates and raises money.

"...an Austin writer, institution, and former speech writer for Lady Bird Johnson, won TARAL's annual Voice for Choice award...."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Naked City

After months of litigation over who owns what portion of the Sand Beach Reserve on Town Lake, Lumbermen's Development Corp. has offered the city a deal. Also: the council discusses a settlement with Stratus properties over development on their land over the aquifer, and the city amends the camping ordinance.

"...Holding Co. have chosen Overland Partners, designers of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, as the architects for the..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Postmarks

The Starbucks Showdown continues; and readers voice their opinions on last week's Best of Austin issue.

"...crusty, outspoken grande dames of Texas like Liz and Lady Bird Johnson and Ann Richards who so magnificently evoke..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Column

Public Notice

Public Notice asks not what it can do for its community but what *you* can. This week features the third of a three-part list of Austin area Volunteer Opportunities.

"...Training sessions begin Saturday, Sept. 30, 8:30am, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. www.nwf.org or 476-9805...."

Sept. 22, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Food & Drink

"...How can a retail outlet that fills orders for Lady Bird Johnson not make the top of the list?..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Best of Austin Feature

Classical Revival at the Blanton

The Art of the Deal

"...is San Antonio-based Overland Partners, who gave us the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the San Antonio Museum of..."

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

Postmarks

Readers are baffled by the Chronicle's "no endorsement" for the mayoral race.

"...decisions and future Austin-bashing legislation. Personally, I thank the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for accepting the third-party role..."

April 28, 2000 Column

Naked City

Gov. Bush presents a new plan to clean up "brownfields," or abandoned industrial sites, across Texas, but environmental leaders say the plan greenwashes his poor environmental record.

"...week's state Task Force on Conservation hearing at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The hastily recruited group, which..."

April 21, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

Little City Hall

Architectural Team Picked to Design Scaled-Down Building

"...along with San Antonio-based Overland Partners, which designed the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center; Austin-based Moore/Andersson, the firm founded..."

April 7, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Land Lock

from east to west, land use a hot topic

"...updates included Bradley's assent to several demands of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which continues to stay at..."

March 24, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Day Trips

A Valentine's weekend Hill Country winery tour.

"...9. Hill Country Cellars, 259-2000 (http://www.austin.citysearch.com/E/V/AUSTX/0001/97/95) has Lady Bird Johnson as a silent partner. Currently, the winery..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Year 1. Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

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