Letters @ 3AM

Ban what you please, although the current campaign against secondhand smoke will not prevent the 21st-century universe from killing us. It merely provides the illusion of safety.

"...jogging, wasn't the equivalent of smoking a pack a day. They both said the same words: "At least."..."

July 21, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Icing the Batter Electric

Cake decorators both professional and passionately amateur prep for local competition

"...that she was recruited to teach the method. These days, she teaches regular classes at the Michaels near the..."

June 10, 2005 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...same-sex marriages in TexasHeadlines• Senate leaders jumped ship last Tuesday on plans to have a statewide tax replace property..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

To Your Health

Are vitamin D supplements necessary for everyone?

"...as much vitamin D as they need for the day in as little as 10 minutes. Longer exposure is..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Food-o-File

For the first time in 50 years, Austin is without a Holiday House restaurant. Plus: Event-o-Rama.

"...Holiday House..."

April 30, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Will Women Have a Voice at the New Women's Hospital?

Issues of choice and midwifery still perplex women using Brack's hospital-within-a-hospital.

"...of, 'Well, it's just not cost-effective,'" said Dr. John Day, a family practice physician who trained at Brackenridge under..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Changing Places

The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood

"...new students just arrived from Mexico after the winter holidays.) This situation presents a number of challenges for the..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

Living in the Moment

MM Pack profiles legendary foodie Ann Clark.

"...and inexperienced creature), was that the Austin of those days did indeed contain a lively, if small, community of..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Libertarian writer. I could outdo Hightower's predictable rants any day. He's gotten so god-awful boring. How much y'all pay?..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

"...up to 100% as his band continues its weekly Thursday 7:30-9:30pm Vegas-style revue at Romeo's Midtown, 2222 and Burnet..."

May 10, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW News

"...charitable donations, note that there's a SIMS Open House Thursday afternoon, 3-6pm, at the new Hard Rock Cafe on..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

World affairs and more Critical Mass mess missives

"...is something missing in her assessment of the situation. Today the Austin American-Statesman once again reports that Syria is..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Rape saga redux and other local imbroglios.

"...participate in the "Best of Austin" Awards Party on Wednesday. Unfortunately with football practice we won't be able to..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Column

Page Two

Acting decently and continuing to live as we've always lived are the best acts of revenge in response to recent terrorism; our redesign debuts but will take some time to refine.

"...Driving to work Tuesday morning was eerie. I was really depressed, floating in..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column by Louis Black

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...a culprit has never been determined and to this day no arrests have been made -- set fire to..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...reporting its demise every year beginning in 1958, the day Elvis Presley went into the army, their cries getting..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Blank's Slates

"...the lives of women from Lauren Hutton to Sandra Day O'Connor of having a space between their two front..."

June 18, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

In With the Old, In With the New

"...one of the most original writers working in poetry today, performance or otherwise...."

Oct. 23, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West

From Southerners to Seventh Grade

"...in Texas lore as horses and bad weather. Yet modern-day readers -- with appliances, air conditioning, cable TV, and..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Books Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Grab the End of the Poll

"...off the SXSW subject without a reminder that this Sunday, 2-6pm at the Electric Lounge, is your last chance..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Column

America the Brutal

Missed Information

"...reform, including a daily countdown to April 1, the day that the welfare clock began ticking on most benefits...."

June 27, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Women Dive into WATERTechnology Gainer

"...short films to be aired during an International Women's Day. "They're providing editing and training at WATER, and once..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Ken Hunt

Rock, They Wrote

Writing From Both Sides of the Musical Fence

"...yarn about loneliness and emotional risk that captures the day-to-day moments and setting of a changing blue-collar world...."

June 21, 1996 Books Feature

Fastball Always Finds Their Way Home

Single “Hummingbird” is a nostalgia rush

"...aching desire for those awkward middle and high school days. Things were easier to digest, easier to handle. Manifesting..."

Sept. 18, 2024 Music Post by Cy White

TDCJ’s Bryan Collier Challenged at Public Meeting

Families and advocates complain of death, misery in the state’s prison system

"...angrily, some wearily – that it had been 165 days since Motley’s death, but TDCJ still has not adequately..."

May 3, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Feedback From the Chronicle’s Prison Heat Series

Pleading for prisoners’ lives

"...escorting them. Employees are hard to come by these days it appears. With the heat, nobody wants to work..."

Sept. 1, 2023 News Feature by Chronicle Staff

How One Cottage Food Purveyor Helps Launch Careers

Kimchi Rók and the Clifton Career Development School bring young chefs to the table

"...They are bused from their home campuses for a half-day block on alternating days and receive instruction in a..."

April 14, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

What We’re Listening to This Week

Angela Strehli, Quentin Arispe, and an improvisation supergroup

"...back to his native Norway. Together for a single day in January 2021, the longtime friends and collaborators baked..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Column by Jay Trachtenberg

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...didn't rest upon their band maintaining its upward surge. Today, their whirlwind youth is but a chapter in stable,..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Faster Than Sound: The Austin Music Census Returns While the Live Music Fund Faces Delays

A spring music ecosystem news roundup with all those familiar players: the Austin Music Census, Live Music Fund, and HAAM

"...business finances. PNC also presents the annual fundraiser HAAM Day incoming Sept. 13, and sponsors the HAAM Corporate Battle..."

May 27, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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