Steven Fromholz

"...to hear Steven Fromholz say something like that these days. After all, he is 53 years old and he's..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Reflections

SXSW Film Festival and Conference

"...they're the traveling salesmen of the Nineties, but these days they're not peddling Encyclopedia Britannicas, they're selling Bibles. And..."

March 14, 1997 Screens Feature

Has Round Rock ISD Hit Rock Bottom?

Maybe not yet

"...stop Christian nationalists from taking over Round Rock's public school system...."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...story set in the Bronx and at a pricey school for girls on the Upper East Side of Manhattan...."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Future of Health Care?

Dell and Central Health "re-think" the way we provide – and pay for – health care

"..."until they absolutely have to" – would arrive. "Some days we can have 20-to-25 percent no-shows," Koenig said. "Either..."

March 24, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Expressing Himself

How David Bologna made the leap to Broadway and a Tony nomination in Billy Elliot the Musical

"...on the Great White Way while still in middle school, skirt or no skirt, demands a mountain of moxie..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What the Task Force Wrought

Austin ISD's facilities review became a panic drill of cuts, closings, and contradictions

"...hour three of the meeting, and the Austin Independent School District board of trustees was bogged down with questions..."

May 27, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin

An Interview with Convention co-chairs Nate Southard and Lee Thomas

"...for my MFA program – I went back to school, to Vermont College of Fine Arts. It’s a low-residency..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...too-detailed dreaming of a sleep that goes on for days. The imagined intricately interweaves with memory and actuality to..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Jim Gaffigan

Pack up the kids: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is back, taping his Austin shows for cable

"..."little world," the minutiae that everyday people experience. These days that microcosmos has been quietly cornered by stand-up comedian..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18

"...Despite the local proliferation of music schools, teen bands are considered a novelty. True, native sons..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Planting a Seed

Local schools see students not only eating all of their vegetables but growing them, too

"...gardens. They probably had a friend in the hippie days who grew an organic garden. There is still a..."

March 23, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Learnin' Calendar

You still have the opportunity to have a say about when Austin ISD begins the 2006-7 school year

"...Should the 2006-07 school year begin on Aug. 15 or Aug. 21? The..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Schoolchildren Learn to BegDear Editor,..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Column

Cured HAAM

Health Alliance for Austin Musicians is now served

"...July, and August. If we book all of the days we have reserved for HAAM during the summer, the..."

May 13, 2005 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

Wild Rides

UT students pack bigger, better New Works Festival with more thrills than a carnival midway

"...the influential playwright, critic, and educator who headed the school's playwriting program from 1990 until his death in 1997...."

April 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...painted cinder block recreation center of the Austin State School.Father Knows Best..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

What's So Special?

Gov. Perry calls a special session, and pits property taxes against schoolchildren

"...Whatever else happens over the next 30 days at the special legislative session on public school finance..."

April 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...on the police blotter. She had stayed home from school to accompany a family member to an attorney's office...."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Postmarks

Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...the impact of bond issues. In the good old days of 1980, Travis County's total bond debt was $15..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

Homecoming Queen

Many actors leave Austin seeking a career on the stage and are never heard from by the folks in their old hometown. But Austin native Starla Benford has come home as the star of a national tour. She talks about starting out at Harvard, making her mark as a professional, and nine months on the road with The Vagina Monologues.

"...scattered about the country, and theatre's generally low profile nowadays insures that their accomplishments aren't enough to raise a..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Readers are baffled by the Chronicle's "no endorsement" for the mayoral race.

"...economic boom and return to sleepy college town/state capital days, all you would have to do is make air..."

April 28, 2000 Column

Just Call Him "Coach"

Westlake senior Eli Kooris profiles the Westlake Chaparral football's legendary head coach, Ron Schroeder.

"...it all is Westlake High, the area's only high school, with a student population of more than 2,200. The..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Sports Feature by Eli Kooris

Man of the Hour

Superintendent Pat Forgione discusses his goals for AISD in a Q&A interview with reporter Kevin Fullerton.

"...It's rare that a school superintendent enjoys the celebrity status that has been foisted..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...what the 1980 Paramount Pictures smash was about: trailer-park days and honky-tonk nights. It's fitting, then, that nearly 20..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Working Worked Out

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...Ice Factory with new work, which meant the few days they had to prepare for their opening were intense..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Old House

"...Pratz, currently an assistant principal in the Round Rock school district, delivered a clear, concise, virtual monologue summation of..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...Hernandez's days were numbered since 1989, the year then-President George Bush..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions

Roots

"...of a name for himself. After graduating from high school in neighboring Smithville, he stayed in Crafts Prairie to..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Justice Denied?

Advocates Still Fighting for Lacresha Murray's Freedom

"...a 14-year-old resident of the Giddings State Home and School, a Texas Youth Commission reformatory 60 miles east of..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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