Austin City Limits Festival Picks & Sleepers

"...her has been here all along. (Austin, noon) -- Christopher Gray..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Steve Almond's Existential Pleasures

"...In English, there are no non-cheesy manuals on ars amatoria. Not that English literature is..."

May 10, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Naked City

"...the globe, including Jerusalem. The Austin vigil will feature music and poetry, and attendees will meet at the Cafe..."

Dec. 28, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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Rape saga redux and other local imbroglios.

"...soaring harmonies on "Like a Fall," or the rock & roll ferocity of "Love Will Make You Weak," or..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Column

Married to the Mob

"...dating couple at any given time. (For history of nonmarital liaisons, see Gordian knot.) Anne S. Lewis Until I..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

What's Wrong with Public Housing?

The remarkable turnaround of the city's Housing Authority

"...to be part of the solution. Compared to the nonsense one encounters among other players on the public-sector field,..."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...attractive option. Certainly a more romantic one. And, in non-boom times, the option of choice. Indeed, for every Driskill..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

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A mixed salad of Green letters and more.

"...his speeches or press conference remarks. Since you couldn't stop at 10 items on your top 10 list, does..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Column

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Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.

"...be more frustrating than to get to a bus stop only to see the operator pull away early, leaving..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Column

Express Success

Sometimes a Round Rock Express game resembles a combination county fair and amusement park : with the baseball game as background more than a sporting event.

"...version of "Mustang Sally" -- the Thursday night post-game music, one of the many added attractions at the new..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Sports Feature by Mike Butts

America Gone Awry

Philip Roth's strength as a novelist, Tom Grimes says, is that he never writes as if he's finally reached a point of permanent self-definition. He's always searching for that definition, as a writer, as a Jew, and now, through the aging, reclusive Nathan Zuckerman, as an American.

"...of himself by "passing" for Black -- in the music that he mimicked, the sexual moves he popularized for..."

June 23, 2000 Books Feature by Tom Grimes

Day Trips

The Dairy Queens and crumbling sandstone of Larry McMurtry's hometown, Archer City, Texas.

"...ago and is now a vacant lot. Sonny's Quick Stop in Texasville was at the end of the block,..."

May 5, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

"...In the sudden flurry of excitement about film studio and production uses at Mueller, I appreciate the recognition..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column

Letters at 3AM

Poetry is an act of faith.

"...dying, and they were looking for him both to stop him from some rash act and to save his..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

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Death Penalty Violates Constitution

"...guidelines and restrictions that are in place, there's no stopping the development simply by citizen intervention. I am very..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Column

Page Two

"...same. In the name of the people the leaders stop trusting the people because they are sure only they..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Our Murals, Ourselves

"...viewers and "introduced them to the exciting geometrics of non-objective art." However, the longer Fogel's mural stayed up around..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...or The Big Sleep, all superior films to this B&B potboiler, but it's one in a series of only..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

TV Eye

Austin Stories Chapter Ends

"...Stories garnered MTV the highest rating ever for a non-video show. The New York Times loved it. And for..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Tiffing Over the TIF

Waller Creek Rages On

"...be in agreement on the tunnel as sine qua non for creekside development. But guessing just what is meant..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

"...effort," "a naïve but ingenious look at the transvestism phenomenon," etc. etc. What the hell do critics know, anyway?..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Don't Smash the Melting Pot

"...will be plenty for you large ones, like: arts & crafts for sale; food by Ruby's, Gumby's, and Guiltless..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

The Adults

"...there's no time for scenic overlooks. Combining the aural non-sequiturs of Raymond Scott and Carl Stalling with an intimate..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Music Feature

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Chronicle Kills Poster Art

"...bleedin' episode) revealed to him. Too bad. Those boldface music gossip yammerings about it only devolve the Chronicle's exalted..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column

Burgers, Burgers Everywhere

The Chronicle Guide to Hamburgers in Austin

"...declare "the best" without attempting a complete sample -- none of us have that much time or slack in..."

June 20, 1997 Food Feature

Food-O-File

"...a job well done. And the accolades just don't stop there. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett was in South Austin..."

May 9, 1997 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

A Bunch for Brunch

Not Quite Breakfast, Not Quite Lunch

"...a definitive assortment of hometown types -- old hippies, slacker/musicians, aspiring screenwriters, West Austin yuppies, salamander-protecting environmentalists, perpetual students,..."

March 7, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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Latino Leadership

"...Christopher House Missed Editor:..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Column

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Bunch Replies

"...1996 Austin Chronicle Readers Poll choosing S.O.S. as "Best Non-profit Group" and the recent election of Slusher, Goodman and..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column

Sherman's March:

"...of both the pushy and pristine varieties. Southerners and non-Southerners alike should find such characters as the determined matchmakers,..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Screens Feature

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