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Oct. 12, 2001 Column
Neighbors vs. Neighbors
A profile of the Central Texas struggle over Alcoa Rockdale and its plans for expansionAlcoa announces new "voluntary" emissions reductions.
"...the whole thing away," the plant's power supply supervisor told the weekly Rockdale Reporter in 1985...."
July 27, 2001 News Feature by Michael King
Virgin Fiction
First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.
"...recently Time spent three pages reviewing spring fictional debuts. Thousands of novels are published each year, but it seems..."
April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson
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Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.
"...Exxon is still planning to run gasoline through a 50-year-old oil pipeline under South Austin. More and more roads..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Column
Faith Healers
A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.
"...until disrepair. Today, Rock Island is the kind of older, boarded-up neighborhood that figures in the ghost stories every..."
Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle
Austin Exposure
"...In a town where every 12-year-old geek with a modem has his own Web page,..."
May 5, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
Naked City
Parents and neighborhood activists are outraged that the city has failed to implement recommendations made by the Sidewalk Task Force years ago.
"...Even the bitter cold and rain couldn't stop a dozen-plus citizen activists --..."
Dec. 31, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
What the Right Hand Is Doing
Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.
"...experience a cosmic collision of fates, I drove my old bread truck-turned-hippie mobile down to Armadillo World Headquarters and..."
Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin
Writes of Spring
"...actual book is thicker than what your hands remember holding. The best device he uses to achieve this strange..."
April 9, 1999 Books Review
Homage to a Road
"...or less. And then ... you can drive a thousand miles in most directions and still have more distance..."
March 19, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura
Exhibitionism
"...comedy institution. And lately, it's pretty steamy in the old Pool...."
Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Review
Coach's Corner
"...out. These are all silly, backward arguments of conservative old coots like me, who don't like change. The old..."
Dec. 11, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
Congruent Angles
"..."Martin Banks told me I had to leave town, because here, you..."
Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess
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Nofziger Responds
"...Mexican immigrants who came to this country to be household help. Dad didn't learn English until he was in..."
April 25, 1997 Column
Remember the Angle
Familiar Props and Tired Stories at the Alamo
"...the fact that Cisneros whipped up the kind of old-fashioned excitement that made the president's somewhat tired delivery seem..."
Nov. 8, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters
Coach's Corner
"...Super Bowl by now. Parcells seems to typify the old-line coaches who haven't adjusted to the realities of modern..."
Sept. 6, 1996 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, August 2-8
"...who naturally exudes “irrepressible charisma.” You “shine like a thousand suns” and “strut your stuff with unabashed audacity.” All..."
Aug. 2, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny
Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup
Plus dispatches from SandFest, farewell to Gary Oliver, and more
"...west of Nacogdoches have survived for more than a thousand years, but in a few minutes in 2019 two..."
May 3, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
It Takes a Village: Memories of Kerrville Folk Festival 2023
Dispatches from the 51st campout, from Ray Prim to Flamy Grant
"...cooler tap in the campground, and laughing hard with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time. This..."
June 19, 2023 Music Post by Hank Erwin
The Best Things We Saw at Austin Psych Fest 2023
Toro y Moi, Automatic, and more highlight homegrown festival’s return
"...28-30, starting with evacuation due to downpour delaying the sold-out Friday afternoon. Knocking two sets and causing a mammoth..."
May 1, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe
The Most Memorable Moments of Saturday’s ACL Fest Weekend Two
Lido Pimienta, Habibi, and Princess Nokia’s Kirby squirt gun
"...("My body, my choice, free abortion for Texas!"), and “14-year-old boy”-level libido. Between sips of Liquid Death, the performance..."
Oct. 16, 2022 Music Post by Kriss Conklin
How Estate Services of Austin Finds New Homes for Treasures Left Behind
In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help
"...it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless! Like the Ark. Men will..."
July 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker
SXSW Interview: Inbetween Girl Director Mei Makino
Down with Sixteen Candles says the Visions award-winner
"...section (read our review here), is the story of 16-year-old Angie Chen. She’s got a white mom and Chinese..."
March 25, 2021 Screens Post by Selome Hailu
The COVID-19 Long Haulers
Nearly 1 in 3 coronavirus survivors have strange, often changing symptoms without known causes or cures. Here’s what they and their doctors are doing about it.
"...themselves, living through prolonged disability without any cure. Yagoda told the Chronicle earlier this year about caring for multiple..."
March 26, 2021 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas
The Luv Doc: Poo
Is not a rose nor does it smell like one
"...am afraid that it could affect my job. The old adage, "Don't poo where you eat," seems to play..."
Jan. 22, 2021 Column
The Make It Movement Wants You to Learn a Trade and Love What You Do
Can skilled jobs and career education change Texas culture?
"...It's a story he's told a thousand times before, but that doesn't make it..."
Dec. 27, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
10 Free Week Acts to Watch This Weekend
Keep an eye out for these musicians in 2019
"...Thu. 3 For the next three years, Austin hopefully holds on to Abhi Sridharan Vaidehi. Credible assurance arises from..."
Jan. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe
100 Local SXSW Music Acts
A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest
"...art rock on 2014's IX. Fresh off headlining Keely's Golden Street Festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday's showcase features..."
March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff
Swingle All the Way!
Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland
"...AC: So were there any of those old holiday specials that meant something special to you as..."
Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Playback: I'm in Love! What's That Song?
Weekend one ACL Fest wrap
"...was gorgeous, the bands were on time, and a golden weekend in the park was had by most, if..."
Oct. 10, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin
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