Savings or Slush?

In a tight budget year, Austin Energy's debt management fund is under scrutiny.

"...DMF but other pay-as-you-go AE cash outlays on capital projects, the utility has actually "overcollected" nearly $500 million since..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Land Mine

public access debate surrounds preservation issue

"...of purposes: water quality protection, endangered species protection, and plain old public recreation. What, exactly, is happening on those..."

March 3, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Huckleberry Minh: A Walk Through Dreamland

"...psyche. By taking on Vietnam in a book-length poetry project, Austin poet Glen Alyn happens upon the tragic and..."

May 28, 1999 Books Review

Record Reviews

"...BUTCH HANCOCK..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Music Review

Public Notice: Chill Out, America!

Too many stupid shootings; TGI 4/20

"...the people in the country are either idiots, or plain evil. I blame right-wing media for a lot of..."

April 21, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...Harrigan looks at such legends from angles that make plain their humanity, that show them not as giants marching..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The AggreGAYtor: January 9

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• A “former patron” is suing Philadelphia gay bar..."

Jan. 9, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

City Hall Hustle: Skid Marks on the Dais

The (slightly) new council takes up high-speed chicanes

"...Lodging.") With the large crowd predictably polarized over the project, few paid heed to Mayor Lee Leffingwell's somewhat hapless..."

July 1, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Lunacy and Sorrow

David Berman pokes the Silver Jews out of his shell

"...much to distinguish Silver Jews from a Pavement side project: The songwriter never toured and became an increasingly elusive..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...immigrant advocates, including PODER and the Texas Civil Rights Project, say they believe the raids are occurring and ask..."

April 28, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...know which of those statements represents your point of view...."

April 8, 2005 Column

Austin @ Large: Before the Flood

The Waller Creek Tunnel could have been a boon to Downtown; now its just another failed proposal in the City of Ideas.

"...sports arenas) into the center expansion as a "venue project."..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?

Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

"...to what the director sees while looking through his viewfinder. It is, as Robert Rodriguez notes, "infinitely closer to..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Liquid Proposition

Austin's Water Quality Protection Lands are few and far between: can they do the job they are meant to do?

"...place on a walrus, Conrad (who goes by just plain "Willy") looks very much at home on the range...."

July 6, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Postmarks

The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.

"...The Chronicle recently reviewed a book about why New Urbanist projects aren't working...."

June 8, 2001 Column

Guys Like Me

Was America Really Made for Dick Price?

"...The issue -- how someone as reticent and plain-seeming as Dick Price can muster the imaginative force to..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.

"...Of all the comments, talk, and reviews of this film I've read, seen, heard, no one..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column

Take the A-Train

Mike Clark-Madison discusses 10 years covering light rail, and urges voters to support it.

"...cities who now have successful rail systems saw their projects get shellacked at the polls more than once. Unlike..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Readers against Starbuckfucking, violence against children and rattlesnakes, and internal combustion engines.

"...know how the second one could suddenly affect her view, as the article says,when the first one didn't bother..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Column

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...in an unassuming, self-depreciating manner. Seeing them onstage wearing plain ol' everyday clothes said more to me about acceptance..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Day Trips

"...Come for the view, stay for the tranquility. photograph by Gerald E. McLoud..."

April 16, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

... In With the New

More on Upgrades for PCs

"...to CD, all on the computer. For a true project studio with pro capabilities, you'll need to add a..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Screens Feature by John Avignone

Untrained Wonders

UT's Exhibition of Self-Taught Artists Features Miracles

"...slides. The only tiny tear in this otherwise seamless project was the upside-down insertion of one of Ezekiel Gibb's..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...the long-absent Malick has begun production on a new project for next year: The Thin Red Line. For now,..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Justice Denied

"...he needed volunteers to help with his creek cleanup project. I guess not, as this person never even acknowledged..."

June 6, 1997 Column

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