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The cancellation of The Reagans by CBS was an act of cowardice in the face of noise from the afar-right banshees.
"...CBS canceled The Reagans because of an unspecific fear of a pervasive meanness,..."
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Nov. 14, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura
Postmarks Web Extra
Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks
"...rebels during the war against Russia in the early Reagan years, the United States has both directly and indirectly..."
Sept. 28, 2001 Column
The Best of The Nation: Selections From the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
"...titled "66 Things to Think About When Flying Into Reagan National Airport." In six brief, verbless paragraphs, Corn damns..."
July 20, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker
Public Notice
Gather round the Yule log and the figgy pudding, get out a paper and pen, and jot down some of these items from our Annual Holiday Wish List 2000, Part 2. Local organizations need you!
"...-- was early December, 1980. After choking down a Reagan victory (and quickly realizing that our 20s were doooo-oo-oo-oomed..."
Dec. 29, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer
Naked City
A recap of a conversation with the late Henry B. Gonzalez, the Bush press machine rumbles along, the press speculates on Bush's appointments.
"...after he had introduced a resolution to impeach Ronald Reagan but before he had introduced a resolution to impeach..."
Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose
Gorgeous George
George P. Bush capitalizing on Latino roots to stump for Uncle George.
"...to the Bush dynasty told the crowd of cheering high school students. After the talk, young doe-eyed Hispanic females..."
Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Russell Contreras
Jayhawks, Beechwood Sparks, La Zone Rosa, June 23
"...so of their La Zona Rosa performance was one high point after another, as they seamlessly wove old favorites..."
July 7, 2000 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Live at Liberty Lunch
The Neville Brothers
"...out discussing the finer points of who sucked more, Reagan or Thatcher. That was the summer that Martian's band..."
July 23, 1999 Music Feature
Brouhaha Below the Border
No Simple Answers
"...and shadowy CIA operations during the worst of the Reagan/Bush covert excesses. And, as the book's chief spook says..."
Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature
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More tributes to Doug Sahm
"...doing sound for Doug at Soap Creek was the high life. Whoa! What an incredibly seared memory. Oh god,..."
Dec. 3, 1999 Column
Austin Music Yearbook: Can You Name These Musicians?
"...notable Austin musicians pulled from their elementary, middle, and high school yearbooks? In the monthlong process of hunting these..."
Aug. 29, 2019 Photo Gallery
Public Notice: Ted Gordon Believes
Is it too late to fix the AISD bond package?
"...the campus it shares with low-income students at LBJ High, and to drop a much-anticipated Mueller middle school from..."
June 23, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Countdown to Ecstasy
A New Drug for a New Millennium
"...dopamine, chemicals responsible for memory, sleep patterns, and emotional highs and lows...."
June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
That Old Revival Spirit
Testifying About Movies
"...the verge of divorce, Grant and Dunne play a high-society couple seemingly unable to let the relationship slip through..."
June 13, 1997 Screens Feature
AISD’s Big Balancing Act
The Austin Independent School District is considering bringing a $1 billion bond to voters in November. That's a lot of money. What all would it do? And can the package keep everybody happy?
"...historically known as Old Anderson, the district's first African-American high school. This puts it within walking distance of Austin..."
June 23, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Reefer Madness: The Thin Green Line
Author Jonah Raskin explores the contradictions of life in Marijuanaland
"...briefly a Yippie – is now a writer (for High Times magazine, among other publications) and a professor at..."
Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
All I Really Need to Know I Learned Watching Movies
A good student is a prepared student. Here's our back to school curricula.
"...Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)..."
Aug. 2, 2002 Screens Feature
Carrying the Burden
During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.
"...curious about hunger conditions here in the thriving Sunbelt high-tech boomtown were he currently lives. To his credit, Bush..."
April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Lust for Life
The 2015/16 Austin Music Awards' bedrock mania
"...Return to Austin High might have been the most important set at the..."
March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Sharpening More Than Just Pencils
Sometimes 'Back to School' means way more than Trapper Keepers and book bags
"...pouch, glitter pencils, and cheetah print lunchbox well into high school due to some "style" advice from our older..."
Aug. 23, 2013 Features Feature by Jordan Gass-Pooré
Naked City
"...recently released Johns Hopkins University study labeled six Austin high schools "dropout factories" as part of a nationwide review..."
Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature
Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud
September 1982-August 1988
"...get some fresh air. We played at Fulmore Junior High and at the field behind the fire station on..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Fatal Error
Hooked on Drug Money
"...no longer exists, though it is still touted in high school civics textbooks as a hallmark of U.S. society..."
Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen
AISD Delays Plans to Close Eight Schools
Advocates push to save Pease, Brooke
"...Changes scenarios, including one to make Northeast Early College High School, the former Reagan HS, a 6-12 campus (an..."
Nov. 8, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Public Notice: Here Comes the Spin
CodeNEXT draft three winners & losers?
"...capacity should be cheering at the consultants showing the highest capacity numbers yet – without disrupting existing neighborhoods (much)..."
Feb. 16, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro
SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup
Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more
"...High profile narrative features receiving their World, North American or..."
Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki
Standing by Stanley
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad interview with actor Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of the iconoclastic director.
"...who had appeared in films with John Wayne (The High and the Mighty, 1954) and Robert Mitchum (Man With..."
Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald
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Our readers talk back.
"...to the state Democratic Party's corporate establishment and their high-priced political consultants and anointed statewide candidates, all of whom..."
Nov. 15, 2002 Column
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Rape saga redux and other local imbroglios.
"...Austin does not have five low-performing high schools, as News Editor Michael King attributes to former..."
Oct. 26, 2001 Column
The Hottest Race in Texas
The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House
"...up in East Texas. In the auditorium of Frankston High School in Anderson County, the Tyler League of Women..."
