Black and White and Rick All Over

The ABCs of 'The School of Rock'

"...screenwriter and actor Mike White, and director Richard (aka Rick) Linklater are the primary creative forces that shaped The..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Geek Confidential: Echoes From the 21st Century

A stellar tour of cultural ephemera from Rick Klaw

"...I confess: I have an action figure of Rick Klaw's grandfather, Irving. It came with my "Bettie Page..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Books Review by Marc Savlov

Coyote on a Fence

Bruce Graham's Coyote on a Fence makes a strong political statement about the unfairness of capital punishment, but both the script and Real Rain Productions' staging of it are uneven, with choices that undercut the undeniable tension inherent in the dramatic situation of death row inmates.

"...scenes are those in which characters interact? Besides, director Rick Fonté sometimes has his actors blow through the monologues..."

July 26, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Corpus Christi

In Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally's retelling of Jesus' life, the playwright's provocative spin on the tale -- setting it in 20th-century Texas and making its protagonist a gay man -- never obscures the Gospel story's essence or message of love, and as staged by Real Rain Productions, it succeeds in bringing us to this old, familiar story by a new path, through theatricality, modern idioms, irreverence, and a winning ensemble.

"...Director Rick Fonté gives us a tender, funny, dramatic, touching, very..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

News/Print

Talk amongst yourselves.

"...one that could eclipse the 20-30% across-the-board cuts President Rick Fonté pitched on Tuesday......"

March 7, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...in 1998 Senate race Montana-At Large StatewideR - Open TossupNCFRick Hill retiring; state schools chief leading potential Democratic sweep..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature

Election 2006: All Their Base Are Belong to Us

Crunching the numbers on the November 2006 election

"...(50, 48, and 47). While that would suggest that Rick Perry lost votes to Kinky and Grandma, it ain't..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Big $penders

Jan. 1, 2001-Dec. 31, 2003

"...Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) $10,000, contribution to Gov. Rick Perry $20,000, unspecified travel..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature

Intelligent Briefing

In 'Nobelity,' nine Nobel laureates offer straight talk on the planet's future

"...Africa; and Kenya as he speaks to nanotechnology pioneer Rick Smalley (Chemistry, 1996); femtochemistry pioneer Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry, 1999);..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Tom DeLay to Todd Baxter

Top 10 state stories

"...Bill of Rights (ironic, eh?), we can expect Gov. Rick Perry – head cheerleader for the Prop. 2 campaign..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

Think Outside the Book

Eric Schlosser on Richard Linklater's adaptation of his Fast Food Nation

"...on a book tour in Austin, and I met Rick Linklater, and we started talking about a fictional adaptation,..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...to the Texas Democratic Convention, jabbing both Republican Gov. Rick Perry and KinkyHeadlines• There's no City Council meeting today..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature

The Recognizables

One night, one of a kind

"...Smith. "The imaginativeness, the inventiveness, the raw creativity. The Rick Linklaters and Robert Rodriguezes of the world – only..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Uhler

E Is for Everything

Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.

"..."Rick and I had been talking, we had had a..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Coverage

"...Oklahoma, Washington, and New York (the seat vacated by Rick "Sign here!" Lazio), the GOP held on to nine..."

Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...YorkD - OpenTossupNCFHillary Clinton holds slimmest of leads over Rick Lazio in race to replace Pat Moynihan VirginiaD -..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...an 8-by-10. Four or five megapixels should do the trick. For your landscape hobbyist, a bigger camera means better..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

Naked City

News and happening from Austin and beyond

"...following its hiatus for the Bush inauguration, and Gov. Rick Perry delivered his State of the State address with..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Slack Where We Started

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

"...did really well and launched a terrific career, namely Rick's, there is still this perception that it was a..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Whitmire: Janek Must Go From Health and Human Services

Update: Second lawmaker call for resignation over contracts

"...2008, and was appointed as executive commissioner by Gov. Rick Perry in Sept. 1, 2012. Since then, he's been..."

Jan. 15, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Challenge of Judge Dietz

School finance decision puts responsibility where it's always been - on all of us

"...of course, one valiant holdout against that consensus: Gov. Rick Perry, who argued that the legal process is "only..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Lege Lowdown

"...Health, Hype, and the HPV Vaccine Opposition to Gov. Rick Perry's surprise HPV vaccine mandate had begun even before..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Column

Without Evidence: Executing Frances Newton

Another Texas death row case marked by official carelessness, negligence, and intransigence

"...the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Rick Perry act to stop it, on Sept. 14 Frances..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Why Is Doil Lane Still on Death Row?

Despite a Supreme Court ban on the execution of the mentally retarded, those prisoners remain on Texas' death row.

"...have banned the execution of the mentally retarded. Gov. Rick Perry called it unnecessary and vetoed it, saying, "We..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

WWJD?

Jesse Sublett's insider guide to Bouchercon.

"...Town Noir" (9-10am), where my chief interest is Vicki Hendricks (Sky Blues, Voluntary Madness). I don't have Hendricks' last..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

It's Not Just An Adventure

"...seemed to come out fully formed, didn't it?" muses Rick Reed, one of the evening's performers. Reed's performance consisted..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

The Last King of Texas

"...The Last King of Texasby Rick Riordan..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Review by Jesse Sublett

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...haze. – Doug FreemanNightwalker by David Garza Aural Canyon Presents: Rick Reed..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

For the Love of Chocolate

The taste, the look, the feel of an obsession

"...Rick Bristow: In the Mood..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack

Film News

Austin movie crews are coming home for the holidays and should quickly unpack for frightful film fun

"...of the town's black population on drug charges. Gov. Rick Perry later pardoned most of the accused... Denzel Washington..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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