Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...Paul Hanley and Kieran R. Healy's epic tale of small-scale blood, guts, and action figures, Viva the Nam, the..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Art Is Formally Known as Prints

A somewhat kaleidoscopic glimpse of Austin's screen-printing scene

"...Asel Art Supply on MLK, and they had a small Speedball silk-screening kit," says the man who created this..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Opportunity Born Anew

In working together as Americans, there is hope

"...– the madness of those stranded by storms in small shelters has been portrayed as cabin-fever raging. This was..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Seussical the Musical

This theatrical tribute to the good doctor tries to take on too much at times, but its heart is in the right place

"...version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas vs. the small-screen take animated by Chuck Jones. Not that Seussical is..."

July 18, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Ascension of the Toros; and the Joys of Minor-League Basketball

"...has probably ever hosted, Friday night’s game was a small watershed for the second-year Toros, an evening of legitimacy..."

Feb. 6, 2007 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: The Time of the Toad

The New McCarthyism, or why the way the Dixie Chicks incident passes into history matters

"...weapon, and our fear of it, and even a small crisis is better than none. But what they especially..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Soldier of Morality

Spc. Mark Wilkerson learns that it's a lot easier to get in the Army than it is to get out

"...publicly as a war resister, becoming part of the small, but growing, veteran anti-war community. According to the Web..."

Sept. 8, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Paggi House

The new Paggi House's model is 'Nothing you expect, everything you want.' Um ...

"...Jackson Salad. But the food attractions here are the "small plates" created by Thomas and available in the evening...."

Oct. 21, 2005 Food Review by Claudia Alarcón

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...school can evidently go a long way in a small neighborhood...."

May 27, 2005 Column

Postmarks

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

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...forever. Lon Chaney, the original Man of a Thousand Faces, is as dead as a doornail, but his bag..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

The Oklahoma City Memorial and Ground Zero stir feelings of the dead calling on us to live

"...fence: photos, crosses, plastic flowers, sympathetic notes, and many small stuffed animals tied to the wire with string and..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

The LCRA Moves to Turn on the Tap

Future of Hill Country waits on Authority's decisions on water plan

"...antiquated, and therefore costly, water and wastewater systems in small communities. As a publicly funded institution, the LCRA can't..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Dark Horses

The redistricted Centex Democrats bravely into battle go

"...runs from East Austin to Mexico, and where he faces little more than token opposition from novice GOP candidate..."

July 30, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Minouli Steals a Kiss

First Place

"...Pandelis," he muttered. He opened the gate to the small avlea outside the house. Now he heard Yah-yah talking,..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Wynn Parks

The Hightower Report

Bush's long vacation benefits America; his Ag Department pick ain't exactly a family farmer.

"...working away on all the problems that our nation faces. Worse, the criticism stung Bush so much that his..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Another Drug War Casualty

Testimony continues this week in the capital murder trial of 23-year-old Edwin Delamora, accused of firing the fatal shot that killed Travis County Sheriff's Deputy Keith Ruiz in February 2001.

"...Delamora, but he does face life imprisonment. The jury faces many difficult questions, but perhaps the hardest one of..."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Amusing Ways of Life

Three Central Texas traditions continue to make fun a destination.

"...will compete with 25,000 light bulbs and the expectant faces of local teenagers who, squealing and shuffling together in..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Anne Harris

The Pine Curtain

First-time author Dina Temple-Raston's A Death in Texas pulls the James Byrd Jr. murder out of the East Texas woods.

"...her book A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, is after...."

Feb. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...scene, had closed. Stevie Ray Vaughan was still playing small clubs. The music scene was in transition. The city's..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...40th and I-35. The tract of land included a small brick house a block up from the Chronicle, where..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...Dr. Seuss, Max Graves stands sole sentry to a small-scale amphitheatre and its absent audience. Leaning against a little..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden

The exhibition "Charles Umlauf: A Retrospective, 1933-1992" at the gallery Spazio by Lytle Pressley, is a fresh reminder that Umlauf was an artistic virtuoso in many ways and not simply an artist who lived in Austin, but an artist who was Austin, who embodied something of the character of the city and revealed it in his artwork.

"...The small bronze sculpture offers a modest depiction of a Scriptural..."

June 1, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Capitol Chronicle

The Legislature enters the home stretch -- two weeks to go.

"...Likewise, the possibility of reining in runaway charter schools faces conferees, after Sen. Teel Bivins derailed substantial House reforms..."

May 18, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Child's Play

Writer Kevin Wood discovers that there's a lot to learn while teaching kids.

"...hard as I looked at the 20 or so faces staring back at me. I found the teacher's desk..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Features Feature by Kevin Wood

Bahn, Bahn, Bahn ...

Apparently, most Austinites don't know that New Braunfels' Schlitterbahn Waterpark has a resort.

"...I could see the look of horror on their faces -- a look inspired not by concerns of their..."

May 26, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...Singly and in small groups, inmates walked past Nagle's desk en route to..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Viva la Revolution!

Installation art may be notoriously hard to define, but its role in art history isn't. It helped change the way we look at art, and the Blanton Museum of Art's survey of three decades of installation art, "Blurring the Boundaries," provides a window on the revolution.

"...of 50,000 nickels with match tips glued to their faces lying in perfectly symmetrical rows on a platform just..."

March 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Postmarks

Warning: blatant use of music knowledge within

"...this agency and our communications staff as your contact. Small wonder we declined to be interviewed for this article...."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...of examples of its three major stylistic branches: solo, quartet/small ensemble, and full choir. It's surprisingly light on the..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

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