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Sept. 6, 2013 Food Post by Carly Yansak
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Our readers talk back.
"...Christopher Gray seem unconvinced that the drop in bar business is due to the smoking ban ["TCB," Music, Oct...."
Nov. 4, 2005 Column
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Our readers talk back.
"...the tennis center. The city's neighborhood parks are typically small parks with playgrounds and one or two other facilities...."
May 13, 2005 Column
Dialing for Dollar$
Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world
"...These cynical, CD-loving, Toby Keith-hating, iPod-toting malcontents are a "small minority," Black said. "Radio is as strong as it's..."
Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass
The LCRA Moves to Turn on the Tap
Future of Hill Country waits on Authority's decisions
on water plan
"...the utility's brass. "It's essential that we have our business house in order," one director sternly told General Manager..."
Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith
Day Trips
"...two-story rock building that was once the largest mercantile business between San Antonio and El Paso. Founded in 1870,..."
May 31, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
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Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks
"...and religion for years. I saw it today, in small ways, in the beautiful city of Ohrid, when we..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Column
Matter Over Mind
The proposed Cypress Realty Development in Dripping Springs
"...late Seventies, when Austin was still clinging to its small-town roots, a youthful group of visionaries decided it would..."
Sept. 21, 2001 News Feature by Rob Curran
Day Trips
Barry's Coffee Company in Temple provides fuel for
the discerning I-35 driver in the form of real coffee,
desserts, and the best chicken salad sandwiches in
the universe.
"...secret of the three-year-old coffee shop's success. While many small town cafes cater to the lowest common denominator of..."
June 23, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Hot Line to Jesus
Edison's Speaking Phonograph
"..."Small Change got rained on by his own .38" From..."
Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig
Returns to Sender
Recovering From the Returns Crunch
"...Publishing has always been a chancy business; indeed, it has even been called the "worst business..."
March 13, 1998 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland
Vertical Integration
One-Stop Music Manufacturers
"...worked. A mere eight years later, his is a business in which sales have grown by 4,000% and several..."
Oct. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...the city council and use my expertise working with small utilities," said Reynolds, "but I won't be involved with..."
Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature
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Extremists Not Righteous
"...targeting only gay bathhouses, ignoring the "several other Austin businesses" that "are basically commercial sex establishments for straight men..."
Jan. 31, 1997 Column
Sixth Street Blues
Downtown festivals cramp merchants' style
"...but disruptions and headaches for the street's property tax-paying business owners...."
July 26, 1996 News Feature
Taking the Low Road
Are Boycotts Still an Effective Strategy?
"...If you own a business, particularly a small start-up venture with little in the..."
Jan. 19, 1996 News Column
Whether You Like It or Not...
Eric Mitchell's Redevelopment Dreams
"...After the citizen's closing remarks, the 41-year-old councilmember and business-owner bolted out of the chambers and into the foyer..."
Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature
Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked
It's Top of the Hops VII!
"...Wood Aged Beer category, but it remarkably plucked the Small Brewery of the Year (0-799 BBL group) honor away..."
Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga
Roots Chicken Shak to Open at Revamped H-E-B Mueller Food Hall
Chef Tiffany Derry proves that working moms should run the world
"...If there's a business uniquely equipped to open a new five-part food hall..."
Aug. 7, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape
Crash Course
Cabs try to survive in the era of Uber
"...permit, and cuts your contract. How is that your business? There's no one at any of the three franchises..."
Aug. 7, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
Permanent Markers
How a trailer becomes brick-and-mortar
"...When Wesley Hurt pioneered the food trailer business in the 1600 block of South Congress in the..."
April 10, 2015 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
The Hot Spot
How Richard MacKinnon and the Wireless City Project are making Austin the center of the tech universe – again
"...MacKinnon's nonprofit group (he also founded wireless business Less Networks) launched in October of 2003, and he..."
June 11, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"
Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.
"...The business of buying and selling sounds commercial because it is...."
July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Weird, Spooky, and Rich
David Dewhurst runs against everybody but money.
"...into their campaigns. Both made fortunes in the energy business. Both lust for power: Sanchez for the governor's office,..."
Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Fish Tales
Eaves Bros. Quality Seafood, At the Sign of the Neon Lobster
"...In 1957, Chester C. Husted bought the prospering retail business; it moved to the present Airport Boulevard location in..."
March 22, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack
Thirty Years on Location
An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.
"...virtually every single film made in the state, from small independent films, like the Austin-lensed Coen brothers' 1982 debut..."
June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Flight of the Night Bird
Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.
"...city too diverse for all the people making crucial business and political decisions in this city to be making..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Parallel Universe
Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's
"...the door open again, and opening windows." It's a small, modest house in East Austin, as modest as the..."
Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Backstage Crew
Council Candidates' Consultants Direct the Show
"...election is more about changing the way we do business in this city than anything else, about the way..."
April 11, 1997 News Feature
The Fight of His Life
Are Ronney Reynolds' Mayoral Hopes on the Ropes?
"...a visual Who's Who of the city's civic and business activists. Among the attendees were Walter Hinojosa, Texas AFL-CIO..."
