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July 27, 2012 Postmarks
Giving Up the Ghost
Donna Johnson's Holy Ghost Girl
"...revivals throughout the sawdust trail, a circuit trod by Oral Roberts and other holy rollers in the Forties. Johnson's..."
Oct. 21, 2011 Books Feature by Sarah Smith
The People in Your Neighborhood
America, One Square Mile at a time
"...a journalist, he credits the late, great writer and oral historian Studs Terkel as an inspiration, citing Terkel's pioneering..."
March 25, 2011 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
Reporting From the Front Lines
New media in troubled lands
"...lost generation for whom the passing down of personal history has been lost due to family deaths. It was..."
March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
The Houston Kid
Rodney Crowell reminisces on '˜Chinaberry Sidewalks'
"...memory? RC: Mainly memory. A lot of the family history is from before I was even born. My mother..."
Jan. 27, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell
Point Austin: Once More Into the MUD
What we get when we annex unplanned development: plenty of entertainment
"...5 – which requires Department of Justice preclearance of electoral changes that might adversely affect minority voters in covered..."
Nov. 20, 2009 News Column by Michael King
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Nov. 5-12
"...book of 22 stories derived from the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project. 1pm. BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar, 472-2785...."
Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature
A Revolution of Spirit
Ritual jazz theatre pioneer Sharon Bridgforth premieres a new work, her last in Austin
"...1920s rural South. Bridgforth's unique spellings and rhythm bring oral tradition to the page:..."
Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Abe Louise Young
Day Trips
The Top 10 day-tripping events of '08
"...The storm was the third costliest hurricane in U.S. history and spread its path of destruction from Houston to..."
Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Page Two: To Whine Is to Love Again
The GOP masterfully weaves a tapestry of deceit
"...establishment is attacking because her common decency and pronounced moral position are anathema to them: the witch hunts of..."
Oct. 3, 2008 Column by Louis Black
Off the Record
Commemorating the 95th birthday of Pinetop Perkins one year at a time, exploring Willie's Place at Carl's Corner, and a pregame pep talk with Paul Wall
"...the living embodiment of the genre, its traditions and history ingrained into his rough hands and trademark cane. He..."
July 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell
Splash Town
Baby Cakes and the Professor Brothers dive into Adult Swim
"...to compact in 11 minutes love and death and oral-sex oratories, not to mention astonishingly silly lessons in revisionist..."
May 23, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Naked City
"...to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the..."
March 21, 2008 News Feature
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
Seventy songs culled from 25 years of early American roots
"...American roots music divide this 3-CD retrospective, a Depression-era history lesson introduced by murder-ballad and disaster-song expert Tom Waits...."
Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder
Off the Record
The renovated Austin Music Hall breaks new ground; Brown Whörnet goes digital; and Roky Erickson rocks Austin City Limits with a little help from his friends
"...passing the savings on to the consumer." October's installment, "Bored=Oral," featured genre parody on par with Ween or Fantômas,..."
Nov. 16, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell
Reefer Madness
The odd logic behind federal sentencing guidelines
"...he automatically faced a 10-year man-min. But, citing Kimbrough's history and, importantly, the lunacy of the draconian 100-to-one crack-to-powder-cocaine..."
Oct. 26, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith
Supremes Examine Capital Punishment, Mental Illness
How mentally ill does a prisoner have to be in order to deem execution cruel and unusual punishment?
"...Alvarado, at their Fredericksburg home. Panetti has a long history of mental illness and had been hospitalized at least..."
May 4, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Johnnie Taylor, Soul Man
Johnnie Taylor's Live at the Summit Club gets released.
"...nine-minute workout of “Jody,” a clever confluence of African-American oral tradition and military cadence that still resonates today in..."
March 9, 2007 Music Post by Greg Beets
Out of Town, to a Conference
A guide to the Big XII NCAA men’s basketball tourney
"...land or the one that lost at home to Oral Roberts? Will Kevin Durant burn through what will probably..."
March 2, 2007 Sports Feature by John Razook
Supremes to Examine Death Row Appeals
Supreme Court agrees to hear three Texas death row appeals during its new term
"...whether the inmate had any mental disability or a history of childhood abuse; in 1991 the instructions were finally..."
Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith
To Your Health
What are the most effective treatments for curing and hiding the effects of vitiligo?
"...most people with vitiligo do not have any family history of vitiligo. It looks like a combination of several..."
Sept. 8, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.
Buried Alive in the Blues
The night Austin's Godfather of the blues granted Ed Ward a favor he'll never forget
"...stage, the other on the door. Folklorists call that oral tradition. Clifford called it the blues...."
May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...that this is the largest wind-credit purchase in the history of the U.S. and Canada and that it makes..."
Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...mid-decade redistricting and apparent violation of minority voting rights. Oral arguments are expected in March...."
Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature
Naked City
"...of Appeals came to Austin this week to hear oral arguments in connection with a Houston woman's quest to..."
Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature
Who Killed Father Ryan?
A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence
"...by the shirt collar and pushed Reyos to perform oral sex. Reyos complied...."
June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith
There's a Light Beyond These Woods
An unrestrained celebration of Nanci Griffith
"...such that these aren't just stories out of the oral tradition, but rather beautifully worded songs more about people..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black
A Day on Craigslist Austin
Inspired by Craig's call for democracy and Michael Ferris Gibson's documentation of it, I set out one morning to see what the good people of Austin were serving to their neighbors
"...11:28am: Barter: Revisit history. Trade anything from welding services to armoires...."
March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald
Farmers Insurance: Off the Hook Forever?
Internal memos suggest the insurer frequently mishandled claims -- and the state may not be able to investigate.
"...obtained by the Chronicle, suggest the company has a history of troubling claims-handling practices -- leading to the denial..."
Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Book Review
"...Minutaglio reports in the preface to his fascinating new history of this almost-forgotten event. The official tally was of..."
Jan. 10, 2003 Books Feature by Roger Gathman
ACL Live at the Moody Theater