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Supports Proposition 2
"...of this sort to specific entities (always very large business interests) violates the equal protection of the laws. While..."

Oct. 27, 2008 Postmarks

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
In the Tunisian desert, a young girl and her grandfather spin stories of woe, lost love, and religious disenchantment in this trancelike movie.
"...Tunisian, French, Iranian, German, Hungarian, and British banks and business conglomerates. Do that and you’ve got a pretty good..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: Dead Dinosaurs
The only legitimate shot at energy independence is to develop alternative power sources
"...money. A share of stock annually pays a very small dividend. In order to be generating enough income from..."

July 4, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Deep Water
The documentary Deep Water tells the white-knuckled true story of the first single-handed around-the-world yacht competition.
"...Jerry Rothwell. Imagine a 12-story building towering over a small truck. Now imagine the truck is your boat and..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Group Aims to Stop Handouts for Retail Developments
Petition effort seeks to prevent city from subsidizing retail projects
"...The campaign by local businesses to end tax-based incentives for retail developments has entered..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Happenings
Oct. 11-17
"...TAXPAYER SEMINAR FOR BUSINESS OWNERS offered by the Texas Office of the Comptroller...."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature

Event Menu
April 5-13
"...The city of Austin's Small Business Development Program invites aspiring restaurateurs to attend the..."

April 6, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Texas Left Holding Short HUD Hurricane Aid Stick
State gets a sliver of total it requested from Congress
"...Management Agency data, as well as information from the Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Program and U.S. Geological Service..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
A singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.
"...sequel’s interminable 83 minutes, you have the following: Asian small-dick jokes, an uncredited Norm Macdonald (as a Scottish "man-whore"),..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Point Austin: Doing the Right Thing
The city takes a small step toward racial reconciliation
"...interactions, jobs, investment in East Austin, housing, education, and business and economic development." The categories are not equivalent in..."

June 3, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Members of the small-business community have met with all of the City Council..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column

Council Issues Complex, Exhilarating
"...Dear Editor, Members of the small-business community have met with all of the City Council..."

Nov. 23, 2004 Postmarks

¿Adelante con Bush o Kerry?
Election talk at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber's Austin conference
"...says that Hispanics vote Democrat. Other CW says that business owners prefer Republicans. Combine those two demographics, and you..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...sides of the Y in Oak Hill, and a small segment of MoPac South – as well as finish..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tears of the Sun
"...kick some Iraqi butt and was, thank goodness for small favors, softly rebuffed). Tears of the Sun feels like..."

March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sweet Home Alabama
"...Melanie says yes, with reservations: She has some unfinished business back home in Alabama, a place she left seven..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Governing Post-Boom Austin
Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.
"...on "investment in areas where unemployment is highest, with business and industry that wants to go in those areas..."

April 12, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Miguel and the Miracles
Why Austin's most revered restaurant, Fonda San Miguel, is still in business against all odds.
"...York and at other restaurants and a now-defunct catering business in Austin, he first went to Fonda's famous Sunday..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Food Feature by Clay Smith

Naked City
South Austinites aren't too happy with proposed zoning changes.
"...resident Kelley Smoot says "at least 200" residents and small-business owners have signed a petition opposing the changes to..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Pitch People
"...Seventies, as I did, then you doubtless have a small portion of your heart reserved for those magical, shoddy..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Here Comes the Nice
Small Face Ronnie Lane's tenure in Austin is preserved on Live in Austin.
"...of the British Invasion. A co-founder of both the Small Faces and later the Faces, Lane enjoyed a colorful..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The New Nuevo Leon
The new Nuevo Leon more than doubles the previous Nuevo Leon's space at 8,000 square feet. But it took quite a bit of work for the Davila family, the Nuevo Leon owners, to get there.
"...When Rachel and Dan Davila went into the restaurant business 18 years ago, they had little more than determination..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Food Feature by Belinda Acosta

First Round Draft Picks
As owners, brewers and distributors of Austin's Live Oak Brewing Company, Chip McElroy and Brian Peters have reached the highest level of malty geekdom. They are self-described "beer nerds gone pro."
"..."There were a lot of SBA (Small Business Administration) loans all over the place at first,"..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Page Two
"...Austin's downtown works because of a thriving but fragile small business climate that has developed largely on its own..."

June 4, 1999 Column by Nick Barbaro

The Love Letter
"...of stimuli to start it pumping. Set in the small New England town of Loblolly by the Sea where..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In Dreams
"...dynamic, replaced instead by unrelievedly grim doings in a small town. Bening is fine -- she goes off the..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Commercial Venture
Preempting Shania Twain
"...start trying to cut our little advertising pie into smaller slices is if the station came out and was..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Endorsements
AISD Board of Trustees
"...Business owner Doyle Valdez has both the credentials and the..."

April 17, 1998 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Wag the Dog
"...along in quite some time. This quickly shot, relatively small-budget (considering the fact that it features two of the..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ice Storm
Emotional deep freeze during a 1973 Thanksgiving weekend in Connecticut.
"...Moody, gets so many of the outward trappings and small period details so wondrously right that the sheer accumulation..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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