Naked City

"...• Two days before its first meeting of the interim, Lt. Gov...."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature

Messy Investigation of a Mess

Did Austin Police Sgt. Michael Olsen use excessive force when he shot and killed 25-year-old Kevin Brown? According to Internal Affairs, the answer is "inconclusive."

"...response Futrell concurred, but what might have been an ordinary and uneventful recommendation has sparked the ire of the..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Day Trips

Bearly Making It isn't your ordinary chain-saw sculpture operation

"...Bearly Making It isn't your ordinary chain-saw sculpture operation. Cam Dockery started the business despite..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Arab Star

Texas journalist Aziz Shihab on Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine

"...the things you do in the book is take ordinary experiences or details and turn them into metaphors for..."

July 20, 2007 Books Feature by Michael King

The Morales Murder: Misreported worldwide

Blame for sloppy reporting goes to ... APD?

"...in an unusually wide broadcasting of an otherwise fairly ordinary, local crime story – on Tuesday, June 19, 40-year-old..."

June 29, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6. Three days later, Nagasaki got it, too, via the "Fat Man."..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Cool City: Water Utility Flows Green

Daryl Slusher hops from Austin Energy to Austin Water Utility to serve as first assistant director of environmental affairs and conservation

"...that's created downtrodden, lackluster window-watchers – guys counting the days until they retire," the 15-year employee said. Another problem..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Concord – At Last

Up from the muck at Concordia

"...Concordia rather implausibly claiming that waiting a few more days for council action would forever destroy the university's deal..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...a great similarity in prices, which range between the out-of-reach-unless-you-revert-to-the-great-old-ramen-noodle-days-of-yesteryear ($200s) and the you've-got-to-be-kidding-me ($1 million and up, up,..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Number 23

Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey combine their dubious talents to create an even more dubious movie in which a man becomes obsessed with the number 23.

"...unwatchable. Witness The Number 23, a tale about an ordinary guy named Walter Sparrow who stumbles upon an extraordinary..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Developing Stories

Citizen passion against city-approved site plan for redeveloping Northcross Mall continues to run hot and deep

"...hating Wal-Mart. Rather, the uprising of activism in this ordinary middle-class part of North Central Austin is fueled by..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

The Hightower Report

Support the Severely Wounded; and Bush's Health-Care Tax

"...Ironically, this despicable cutback came only days before George W.'s State of the Union speech, when..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

On the Lege

Rose, Dukes rewarded for standing with Craddick

"...the House from considering bills within the first 60 days of the session. The rule also prevents committee consideration..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

Pitonyak Trial: From Court TV to You

Jury finds former UT student Colton Pitonyak guilty of "knowingly and intentionally" murdering Jennifer Cave, gives him 55 years

"...Beyond the sentence, it would have been an ordinary gunshot murder, not the headline and Court TV-grabber that..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Celebrating Barrientos

Gonzalo Barrientos is stepping down at the end of his current legislative term in January, after 21 years in the Senate and 10 years in the House.

"...was also among those sharing tales about the old days, recalling in particular his first meeting with Barrientos, at..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

The Cult of Pitchfork

How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

"...the landscape has changed severely. Since the Seventies halcyon days of Creem and Rolling Stone, the Internet has become..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...race-car drivers don't try to put race-car helmets on ordinary motorists, although such helmets would no doubt save lives..."

July 28, 2006 Column

The True One

The Byrds' fifth dimension, Gene Clark, eight miles high and as wide as Americana

"...place filled with mystery and certainly neither dull, nor ordinary...."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Louis Black

Point Austin: Budget Time

Running all the numbers, we have to pay for what we need

"...that political capital (and a good deal of the ordinary kind) to beat up the council for months –..."

June 9, 2006 News Column by Michael King

This Voice in My Heart

A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith and Forgiveness

"...God, speaking strength, saving his life, and imbuing his days with new meaning. Switching between the horrific and the..."

June 2, 2006 Books Review by Rita Radostitz

The Big Pitch

A horror film starring UT students aiming for the big screen

"...Meet Five Time Champion. Think Days of Heaven meets The Squid and the Whale, writer/director..."

May 19, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...counsel, as A&B abruptly resigned in April, a few days after City Council hired two other firms to review..."

May 5, 2006 News Feature

Point Austin: Refighting the Last Wars

Prop. 1, Prop. 2, Saving Barton Springs ... and Everything Else

"...amphibian named "Sal A. Mander," recalls the good old days, when Austin was just a "sleepy college town" populated..."

April 21, 2006 News Column by Michael King

TV Eye

Injustice, devastation, and bowling

"...A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (D: Bill Bryan, Alex Browne, Chris Browne). Laugh..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Strayhorn believes the verification process could take just two days if Williams would simply use statistical sampling, and verify..."

March 31, 2006 News Feature

Open Up – It's the Filmmakers!

Kirby Dick raids the MPAA

"...(and perpetual Beltway insider) Jack Valenti's supersecret cabal of "ordinary American moms and dads" whose sworn duty it is..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

APD's Michael Clark Video

Footage documents events that led to Michael Clark's death

"...encounter with Clark turned out to be anything but ordinary. The episode lasted nearly two hours, eventually involved nine..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

TV Eye

In with old, in with the new

"...The media trades said that the days of Everwood (the WB) were numbered. Now that UPN..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Mrs. Henderson Presents

This staid British music-hall drama seems calculated to earn Judi Dench lots of award notices. Mission accomplished.

"...know what to make of Stephen Frears’ career these days. He goes from movies as piercing as Dirty Pretty..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Christian Peacemakers

Texan activists worry about their abducted colleagues in Iraq

"..."He said that in the prisons, they take just ordinary men off the street, preachers and shop owners and..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

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