Election 2000

Chronicle Election Coverage

"...pickup MinnesotaRod Grams*Mark DaytonD pickup MissouriJohn Ashcroft*Mel CarnahanD pickup NevadaJohn EnsignEd BernsteinR pickup VirginiaGeorge AllenChuck Robb*R pickup Winners in..."

Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...Senate incumbents most obviously in trouble -- Ds in Nevada and Virginia and Rs in Florida and Minnesota --..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...Corzine hitting backlash in race to succeed Frank Lautenberg NevadaD - Open Leans RLeans RIn third try at statewide..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...Nevada, 4, Bush didn't expect any trouble here, but hasn't..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature

Johnny Belinda, Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows

"...The Conqueror, which was filmed in 1954 in the Nevada desert close by to where the government was doing..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Contempt of Court: The Turn of the Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism

"...On January 23, 1906, Nevada Taylor, the 21-year-old beautiful blond daughter of a cemetery..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Review by Mark Berman

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...by federal subsidies. The Mormons were replaced by two Nevada mainstays, gambling and prostitution. It is true that the..."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Public Notice

Watch out far too many local public service organizations are holding very cool events this hot summer.

"...and all that. Even cheaper than a milkrun to Nevada is ASA's annual blast Viva Las Vegas, Sat, Jun..."

June 23, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Dancing About Architecture

Aqua Fest seems unlikely, but there's plenty of other summer fun to be had; the Austin Music Network is a bit of a mess.

"...act selected to play the Las Vegas Shakedown in Nevada this August, alongside the likes of Wayne Kramer, Nashville..."

April 14, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Speed of Technology

SXSW 2000 Interactive Festival

"...in the side of a specially purchased mountain in Nevada. The mountain has bristlecone pines on the summit, the..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...as he follows a quest throughout New Mexico and Nevada seeking Neftoon Zamora. Zamora is a mythical woman rumored..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Ken Lieck

Postscripts

Why has the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $50,000 to Southwest Texas State University, with the possibility of awarding the university $5 million more.

"...the Southwest region includes Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada. One other university from the Southwest, Arizona State in..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Moto Guzzi Rules

An online discussion group leads to a pair of Bonneville Land Speed Records for Austin motorcycle enthusiast Russell Duke and the Moto Guzzi.

"...and again, even from the relative wilds of the Nevada desert, it was the usenet group that bailed them..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

Grand Theft Auto

"...colorful characters are soon chasing each other across the Nevada desert. Hot on everyone's trail is loudmouth D.J. (Fabulous..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Where Bush Is Banking on Votes

"...0.00 Kansas 0.00 Kentucky 0.00 Montana 0.00 Nebraska 0.00 Nevada 0.00 Oregon 0.00 Rhode Island 0.00 South Dakota 0.00..."

July 30, 1999 News Feature

Alternate Universes

"...second führer, isolating his cast and crew in the Nevada desert, depriving them of water and food, using hypnotic..."

March 12, 1999 Books Feature

Report From L.A.

"...There are also fault lines in Nevada, Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas ... the list goes on...."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Live Shots

Beastie Boys, Rancid, Asiandubfoundation

"...folk, singing of Greyhound buses, fishin' poles, and Reno, Nevada, they also indulged some of the excesses of rock:..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Postmarks

For the Record

"...Reno, Nevada You Are the Victims!..."

May 15, 1998 Column

Top Ten Food Stories of 1997

Best Bites of 1997

"...4. Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale Citrus-y, with a ton of Cascade hops...."

Jan. 9, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Coach's Corner

"...jingle-jangle sensory overload of this Sodom/Disneyland in the central Nevada desert, 7:45am is a very early time indeed...."

July 25, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

L.A.: Drastic Space

Letters at 3AM

"...the hottest place on earth. Death Valley, and the Nevada Test Site, which is the one place on earth..."

May 23, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Coach's Corner

"...guys, like Frank Nitti, selling sin in the western Nevada desert. I see the old Mafia-run casinos of the..."

May 16, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Book Reviews

"...those who seek the hallucinations and insight that the Nevada desert can provide after 20 hours on the road,..."

May 2, 1997 Books Feature

Immaculate Perception

Author and Visionary Bruce Sterling

"...1992), and authored reams of text on everything from Nevada's Burning Man Festival to op-ed pieces for The New..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Looking for a Fight

Ruth Margraff Recasts Texas History as Barroom Brawl

"...States of the States of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and..."

March 14, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Energizer Lobbyists

Deregulation Keeps Lobbyists Going... and Going...

"...solar power business with a big installation at the Nevada Test Site, and it recently bought Zond, America's biggest..."

Feb. 21, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Out-Gunned?

Sierra Blanca Dump Proponents Divide and Multiply

"...hectares [about 2000 acres] of federal land in Goldstrike, Nevada for $5,190; the tract contained gold worth $10 billion."..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Sun City Undercover

The Spinning of Del's Webb

"...Canyon State to Las Vegas, Palm Springs, the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of Sacramento, Hilton Head Island in South..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Innocuousness That's Insidious

Pat Boone

"...the racquetball court at the Riverside Hotel in Laughlin, Nevada, where he's spending two weeks crooning a mix of..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Music Feature

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