Ciao Lolla

"...organ, drums, and mainframe – made more noise than NASA on launch day ("Becky") before setting back down on..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Feature

Having Your Baby

The anti-choice "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" are spending taxpayer funds on misinformation, scare tactics – or nothing

"...of directors are an oil and gas man, a NASA doctor, and an assistant attorney general – none of..."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

It's Noon. Do You Know What Your Children Are Eating?

Fernando Saralegui is in 'Papi's Kitchen' trying to help kids with healthy habits

"...really not rocket science, but it may take a NASA-like effort to get the simple 'back to the garden'..."

June 9, 2006 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Run-off Roundup

Congressional District 10: Ankrum Wallops Foreman

"...McCaul was a rural vs. urban battle – former NASA bureaucrat Ted Ankrum of Cypress took Travis and Harris..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

With 1,000-plus bodies packing the Paramount on March 30, clearly Austin wanted to hear what superstar artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude had to say

"...in an anecdote Jeanne-Claude told about being contacted by NASA some years ago. The agency wanted to see if..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Challenger Park

"...is also the window into the specifics of the NASA world. Harrigan gives us the training program in minute..."

March 31, 2006 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

From 'Voices of Valor,' a Play by James E. Garcia

"...After the war, I even worked for NASA. (chuckles) Can you imagine a Mexican on the moon?..."

March 17, 2006 Arts Feature

Letters at 3AM

When we say, "This is Nature, and this is not," we're just picking and choosing according to our ideologies, desires, and needs – in other words, a power play to make life behave as we wish. That it never does is life's answer to our machinations.

"...says oceans may rise 16 feet this century; a NASA report says maybe 20. Goodbye, Florida. Goodbye, Long Island,..."

March 3, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Endorsements

Democratic and Republican Primaries, March 7

"...believe Ted Ankrum offers the best chance. The retired NASA employee from Cypress is very articulate in presenting a..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

Endorsements

Democratic and Republican Primaries, March 7

"...the first place. In interviews with the four, retired NASA employee Ankrum, of Cypress, and writer/publisher Paul Foreman, of..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature

The 'Gatchaman' Cometh

Four episodes of seminal Seventies animé get Alamo treatment

"...Before the Strategic Defense Initiative, before NASA became mired in bureaucratic infighting, before even James Tiberius..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Find the Real Reporter: A Questionnaire

The city has decided to be the arbiter of quality journalism. We decided to help them out.

"...cool Web site demands media credentials to the latest NASA briefing. Sure, he may not be the stuff of..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Leather Tuscadero, Don Shula, and Alan Shepard in a wet space suit

"...year.Alan Shepard orbited Earth in a wet space suit. NASA scientists hadn't yet figured out how astronauts could go..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Is It Fair That Hurricane Victims Will Get So Much Aid?

"...Bush tries to make positive for space workers at NASA and their subcontractors, such as Halliburton, Bell Helicopter, and..."

Oct. 11, 2005 Postmarks

The Monkey Time

How communing with the apes inspired the artists of the Texas Monkey Project

"...1960s. An Internet search turned up cryptic information about NASA chimps living near San Antonio. A few e-mails later,..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Arts Feature by Cindy Widner

Naked City

Watchdog group questions whether a public-school Bible course is purely academic

"...wrong or downright bizarre, such as its claim that NASA scientists have discovered a "lost day" that proves the..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Hey NASA, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NCAA, you wieners are..."

July 29, 2005 Column

Open Letter to Initials

"...Dear Editor, Hey NASA, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NCAA, you wieners are..."

July 26, 2005 Postmarks

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...cinematic twist of fate, Walker's father had worked at NASA during the real-life Apollo 13 mission) took in the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...debate? Salon is still pursuing the story, aided by NASA image-enhancement technology: www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/29/bulge/index.html...."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

That Thinking Feeling

L.B. Deyo and Buzz Moran's Dionysium puts the fun back in cogitation

"..."Next month's debate topic," says Moran, "is 'Resolved: NASA should not be privatized.' [Full disclosure: This reporter has..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...According to NASA, an average of one nonfunctional spacecraft, launch vehicle, or..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

ZZ Top

CD/DVD

"...pyramid as a much cooler space shuttle than anything NASA ever designed. Watching Billy, Frank, and Dusty shuffle through..."

June 18, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Geeks Get Paid

What's cool about gaming? Apparently, everything.

"...says Garriott, the son of an artist and a NASA astronaut. "It's an old hippie town and the live..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

In Space

More Bill Bennett than Zogby: election odds online

"...everything from J.Lo's next boyfriend to the chances of NASA discovering life on Mars. The Brits give Dubya 4-to-7..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Margaret Chapman

Who Pays?

While the economy burns, the Bush administration promotes Mars, moonshine, and marriage

Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Nukes Are Back!

The Bush administration plans for the next (little) nuclear wars

"...many schools of fish; the astronaut in his royal-blue NASA jumpsuit; Miss Nebraska, who teeters winningly, even with aplomb,..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

Daniel Johnston

Texas Platters

"...crammed full of mathematical, pictographical, and tonal information, all NASA ever really had to do was send up a..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Austin in the Big Apple

If Texas food can make it here, it can make it anywhere. MM Pack explains.

"...the spreading popularity of Mexican food, tequila, and barbecue; NASA in the news; and, of course, the current resident..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...building the American space program, serving as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for 20 years...."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

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