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Letters at 3AM

"...It would help if we stopped trying to make sense of things. Then we might..."

April 28, 1995 Column by Michael Ventura

Carlson and Connolly's Further Plans to 'DESTROY'

Best Worst Movie filmmakers option local duo's script

"...After a successful fall tour promoting their book Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide..."

Feb. 16, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Chronicle Recommends: Back to School

Seven of the best movies about edumacation

"...theme and offer movie recommendations. As everyone heads back to school, we celebrate the best and worst of movies..."

Sept. 11, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Texas’ Hemp Industry Wants Smarter Regulation. Dan Patrick Wants to Nuke It.

Lieutenant governor pushes to ban all THC

"...I’m at some gas station gazing into a display case of weird loophole-weed products: random prerolls..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Letters at 3AM: Vulnerability/Connectivity, Part 1

As a species, we have a desire to connect electonically, but not ideologically

"...Dark Angel premiered October 3, 2000. Created by James Cameron and Charles H...."

Aug. 8, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Owen Egerton, Austin's Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves

An increasingly unwelcoming Texas leads to a big goodbye

"...with some text on the screen, each waiting patiently to deliver a single sentence from a book or story...."

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters @ 3AM

Samuel Adams gave Americans a vocabulary both for revolution and for the building of a republic

"...father, Samuel Sr., called Deacon for his passionate service to the Puritan church. Deacon Adams (1689-1748) was also a..."

July 4, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Effete!

It's never too late to see yourself as you are

"...family plus chance influences, mixed with how one wishes to be. A self-image is fragile, vulnerable to others' opinions,..."

April 14, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...a legend silk-screened on a trucker cap. I walk into a packed Chelsea gallery and before I can untangle..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Letters @ 3AM

Europe, Russia, and China can help install a new administration in the White House in 2008 by refusing to bail out Bush on his Iraq misadventure now.

"...a columnist on a weekly paper in Austin, Texas, to address the leaders and peoples of Europe, Russia, and..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

From Southerners to Seventh Grade

"...Feisty old women who presume to tell everyone what to do and how to do..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Books Feature

No Man of God

Elijah Wood dissects the mind of Ted Bundy

"...There's a famous photo. Two guys in a corner table in some rustbelt..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Letters @ 3AM

Something in me still wants to be a World War I fighter pilot – which is not only nuts, but helps me understand why we will always make war

"...like that, but the reason is less psychological than historical. There's been no generation of boys whose elders haven't..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

'God Bless Us, Every One!'

"...Dear Editor, The first sentence in Michael Ventura’s piece on Christmas..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM: A Prayer at the End of My Rope

The crucial element of prayer is "no alibis"

"...I've never been to a meeting, but Smith called me the other night..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 5

Our Bill of Rights guarantees are breaking down in state justice systems across the country

"..."Italy's former military intelligence chief was sentenced to 10 years in prison ... for complicity in the..."

July 12, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

'Practice,' in the modern sense, means to work at something persistently, trying to get it right – which also fits my meaning, my practice: the hour or so a day when I read my 'devotionals' (a Catholic usage), then to go to my altar to meditate and pray

"...says, "Write about your practice. That is your subject tonight!" But another self cringes: "I don't want us to..."

July 8, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Evaluating the Ten Commandments as a teaching tool in the American classroom

"...originally described a particular placement of one's feet (10 toes) on the surfboard. Those beer-drinking, pot-smoking beach boys --..."

April 14, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

Steve Erickson's new novel Zeroville shows what you have to go through to see how monotheism screws up your consciousness

"...writing in a kind of code, a sentence obscure to others because it's in the particular context of our..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The gargoyles guarding the great cathedrals are a part of religion, a part of humanity, even a part of God. You come to be redeemed, but it's possible you'll be devoured.

"...Catholicism ripped in two. Emotionally, I very much wanted to be a priest ... to perform the sacrament of..."

May 3, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

America's ideal of liberty shaped the country's finest authors

"...First to mind is Edgar Allan Poe – let's put in..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

The craziness of this country is that our public and private discussions have almost nothing to do with each other

"...had sat beside me on the bus from Muskogee to, eventually, Wichita. It was very late; she couldn't sleep;..."

July 6, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

What does this so-called "boom" mean to most Americans?

"...about a ruling elite (they are not populous enough to be called a "class") that doesn't care whether or..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Nations get into deep trouble by following inspirational leaders, left or right

"..."Fuck you! Why?!" My very dear friend prefers not to be named. From the tone and volume of his..."

March 28, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Are the Panhandle's many roadside monuments to Christ testaments of faith or unadmitted doubt, or some of both?

"...drive past Groom, Texas, in seconds – a tiny town barely managing to be a town anymore, like many..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters of Intent

Possible rape victim Virginia Glore has found a champion in Charlotte Johnson.

"...she's never been much of a letter-writer. But in October, after reading the Chronicle story about the alleged rape..."

Dec. 14, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

If I Can Cook/ You Know God Can

"...by Ntozake Shange Foreword by Vertamae Grosvenor (Beacon Press, hard)..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Food Feature

Letters at 3AM: James Hillman (1926-2011)

Remembering James Hillman

"...one lives in cities that know they are destined to die – a James Hillmanesque thought if ever there..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: For All Reasons

Terry Allen's music reflects the Lubbock mindset

"...There used to be a sign that marked the West Texas border..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: A Fallen Catholic in a Fallen Church

I can't hide from my sins and, now, neither can the church

"...During the election of 2008, I sought to pray for my country. Not to pray for a..."

July 16, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

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