The Flip Side

In Poor Shadows of Elysium's Richard II, a coin makes all the difference in what you see

"...(If you caught last summer's Rose Rage by Hidden Room Theatre, you know that Henry's actions have disastrous consequences..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

The Road to 10-1

The City Council districting destination is settled. Is anybody driving the bus?

"...were very vocal about it – was that the language in the proposed charter amendment was really open [to..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

A Boy Named Emo

What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?

"...injuries suffered when a taxicab crashed into his hotel room earlier this month, Jonathan was one of the original..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Feature

Catastrophe and the Cure

Behind the scenes of Explosions in the Sky's most challenging and personal album

"...same films and music and really speaking the same language before we'd even played a note."..."

July 1, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Letters at 3AM: Life as We Don't Know It

Our planet casts a shadow

"...The Hollywood Reporter online, Dec. 22, 2010: "Spanish-Language Show Tops Networks in Key Demo." "The No. 1..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Wide-Angle Lens

The Ransom Center captures photography's history with striking breadth and focus

"...A stroll through the exhibition "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection" or a scan of..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: My Top 10 of All Top 10s

A list of the Top 10 cultural artifacts that have shaped my life

"...petty theft, I filched the book. What a find. Language could misbehave! Language could play! Language could dance burlesque..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Poetry Roundup

Coffee House Press celebrates National Poetry Month with six new titles.

"...at a time than all at once. Boyer's snaky language loses resonance in large doses, in part because her..."

May 2, 2008 Books Feature by Yvonne Georgina Puig

Media Watch

Goodbye Air America, and Media Management Pettiness

"...Aus­tin. KOKE-AM owner Border Media Partners, a specialist in Spanish-language stations, refused to spend money to promote and market..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Column by Kevin Brass

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...Sacagawea. Think of Michael Dell in his UT dorm room, trying to make a buck out of electronic gargoyles..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Hightower Report

Garbled Translations; and Another War in Iraq

"...position to criticize anyone who's trying to grapple with foreign-language translations. Therefore, I say "blessings on you" to the..."

March 16, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

When the Family Business Is the Oldest Profession in the World

AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Mystelle Brabbée's 'Highway Courtesans'

"...it takes place on the bare floor of a one-room cottage that the family has set aside for this..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

TAKS Scores Show Both Improvement and Trouble for AISD

Numbers down for the crucial third and 11th grades

"...Texas students take TAKS tests in language arts, math, science, and social studies. The system separately..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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Our readers talk back.

"...the case may be) – to firmly dictate our language choices. While the LDS church may want to disassociate..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Leader-in-Exile Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, was in an Austin courtroom again this week, where his lawyers successfully argued that..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...the i Marjorie Baumgarten says that Gael García Bernal's language is Portuguese ["Film Listings," June 17]. Hello, he was..."

June 24, 2005 Column

Newsprint in Spanish

Sizing up Austin's Latino newspaper players

"...Will assimilation make Spanish-language newspapers quickly obsolete before they find an audience? Not..."

Feb. 25, 2005 News Feature by Belinda Acosta

Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches

Irvine Welsh's first novel 'Trainspotting' is one of the most successful first novels in recent history, but in this interview with Chronicle writer Marc Savlov, Welsh, whose new novel 'Glue' brings him to BookPeople on Monday, June 18, at 7pm, admits to thinking that "you had to be a bit strange to be a writer, to sit in your room, spending all this time with people that don't actually exist, you know?"

"...strange to be a writer, to sit in your room, spending all this time with people that don't actually..."

June 15, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...the limits of available space, the restraint of written language, the necessity of illustration, and this is the result...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Riders on the Storm

With The Leaf Storm, choreographer José Luis Bustamante and songwriter Lourdes Pérez have become the wind, blowing past boundaries between artforms to share their vision in collaboration and spinning elements of their lives into an artistic whirlwind.

"...not the culture that either was born to. Its language is not the language that either first spoke. Both..."

May 5, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

The Mystery of Irma Vep: Summer Camp

"...ricochet through the foggy moors and into the living room, lightning claps across the countryside, and no one is..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Arts Review

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Barrientos Misrepresented

"...gotten the impression that English is not my native language. Or even one I am remotely acquainted with...."

May 7, 1999 Column

The Gift of Words

Corrido

"...busy trying to sucker his way into the Modern Language Association. It is in the desert that the discomforts..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Books Feature

SWTSU's Top Twenty Triumph

Saving Literature... One Writer at a Time

"...receive teaching assistantships, and between the academic requirements and classroom experience, they emerge prepared to teach...."

May 22, 1998 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Music Channel Blues

Business Plans Unfinished, Suggestions Shot Down

"...According to the language of the current cable franchise agreement regarding the music..."

Nov. 21, 1997 News Feature by Michael Bertin

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...making sparking pop that rose above the crush of bedroom producers. His Twin Shadow arrives at this year's SXSW..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Science Goes to Court

Death row case sets new state law against prosecutorial resistance

"...Rigoberto Avila was in the living room of the small two-bedroom apartment on El Paso's west..."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Where There's Smoke, There's Hazing

It wasn't gender discrimination, says Fire Department – it was hazing

"...of closing arguments, took the case to the jury room for what stretched into two days of deliberations. Ultimately..."

April 2, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...10pm, Central Presbyterian Church Former New York University roommates Fred Nicolaus and Daniel Rossen craft richly orchestrated chamber-pop..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...strange that the real issues are the attitude and language of acting Chief Ellison. One would think that there..."

July 21, 2006 Column

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