May 4 Election

It's time to pick ACC Board members again.

"...not to raise tuition, no matter what. Others -- Lillian Davis, Nan McRaven -- have left the possibility of..."

April 26, 2002 News Feature by Cathy Vaughan

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...during the last six years. During the two years Lillian Davis has served as chair, the college has moved..."

May 3, 2002 Column

Winter Heat Wave at ACC

The heat is on Austin Community College President Richard Fonté.

"...around the president, though for apparently mixed reasons. Chair Lillian Davis believes Fonté has been a "good president," and..."

March 8, 2002 News Feature by Cathy Vaughan

Chronicle Endorsements

Chronicle Endorsements, May 4 election

"...served the last six years as a trustee, incumbent Lillian Davis knows the details of ACC board policy quite..."

May 3, 2002 News Feature

Chronicle Endorsements

Chronicle Endorsements, May 4 election

"...served the last six years as a trustee, incumbent Lillian Davis knows the details of ACC board policy quite..."

April 26, 2002 News Feature

Fonte's Inferno

ACC's New Pres Faces the Hot Issues in East Austin

"...workforce development a top priority," says ACC board member Lillian Davis. "And we need to establish better communication between..."

June 6, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

ACC Chooses Robert Aguero

The ACC board of trustees selects Robert Aguero as the college's new president

"...The 6-1 vote, with trustee Lillian Davis giving a thumbs-down and Nan McRaven abstaining, came..."

April 23, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Oh Boy! Another Campaign Season!

City of Austin, AISD, and ACC poised for another round of elections

"...are running unopposed. But in Place 1, with member Lillian Davis stepping down in May, two candidates have filed..."

March 7, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Politics of Annexation

Critics say ACC election unfair, but Austinites foot out-of-district bills

"...friends in the burbs. The decision may, as trustee Lillian Davis put it, "come back to haunt us." In..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Voters for Business Candidates

"...hard-core financial experience we need," says current Board Chair Lillian Davis, re-elected to the Board by a two-thirds margin..."

June 7, 2002 News Feature by Cathy Vaughan

Election at a Glance

"...Lillian Davis (I)..."

April 26, 2002 News Feature

May 4 Election at a Glance

"...Lillian Davis (I)..."

April 19, 2002 News Feature

Off the Desk:

"...decided 5-1 to pull out of the deal, with Lillian Davis dissenting. Nasworthy didn't vote, and says she would..."

Oct. 25, 1996 News Feature

Notes on a Scandal

This movie with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett is a hothouse psychodrama, full of outrageous and florid sentiments that are made semipalatable by the quality of the craftsmanship involved.

"...Scandal seems awfully redolent of one of those Bette Davis/Joan Crawford bitch-fights in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Night of the Hunter

1955's The Night of the Hunter stars the terrifying Robert Mitchum as a reverend with an evil-Elvis swagger, complete with knuckles on his right-hand tattooed with "LOVE" and knuckles on his left with "HATE."

"...Hunter (1955)D: Charles Laughton; with Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe,..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...All About Eve D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

When It Felt True

The Austin Chronicle's Raoul Hernandez curates an AFS Essential Cinema series on the 'enigma' of William Wyler

"...Wyler," wrote the actress, "because of stories from Bette Davis and other actors about his endless retakes and bullying...."

Oct. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem , more announced for 2024 festival

"...and successful songwriters music has ever known. Featuring Clive Davis, Common, Gloria Estefan, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jennifer Hudson, Cher, Randy..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Craig's Wife, Harriet Craig, The Little Foxes

Stephen MacMillan Moser celebrates those glamorous, backstabbing, deliciously bitchy divas: Rosalind Russell in Craig's Wife; Joan Crawford in the remake of that film, Harriet Craig; and Bette Davis in The Little Foxes.

"...The Little Foxes D: William Wyler (1941); with Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Dan Duryea, Patricia Collinge, Teresa Wright. Bette,..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...The Incendiaries Catherine Lacey – Certain American States: Stories Lillian Li – Number One Chinese Restaurant Julia London –..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...a way of seeing and then seeing again." [Pentimento, Lillian Hellman]..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: Musicians of Behavior

Actors are musicians of behavior

"...Bette Davis did the same, but in different pictures over six..."

May 2, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Could the Texas House Turn Blue?

"...run for office. Krusee also has a Libertarian opponent, Lillian Simmons...."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lowdown

"...the same provisions included in Perry's order, said assistant Lillian Ortiz. The difference between an executive order and a..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Column

Election Info

Dates, voting locations, and ballots

"...Tim Davis (L)Justice of the Peace, Pct. 2..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...in contemporary fiction that actually liked each other, as Lillian Hellman has pointed out. The chemistry between Powell and..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...collaboration by myself and Arts writers Ada Calhoun, Dawn Davis, Sarah Hepola, and Robi Polgar. Using the tried-and-true structure..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Scanlines

Night of the Hunter

"...D: Charles Laughton (1955) with Lillian Gish, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Billy Chapin, Peter Graves,..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Screens Feature

TV Goes Hollywood

TV Diary

"...Kathy Bates directing Sam Shepard as Dashiell Hammett, Judy Davis as Lillian Hellman, and Bebe Neuwirth as Dorothy Parker,..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta