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Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...any of you have ever routed your commute from downtown by way of Sixth Street to MoPac, then undoubtedly..."

March 17, 2000 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...to death near a "gay cruising area" on the Town Lake hike-and- bike trail. Charles Edward Lowery, who admitted..."

Oct. 30, 1998 News Feature

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...shows what happens when three guys plot the perfect crime in order to escape their dead-end lives......"

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...were rightly convicted – but more fundamentally, whether any crime ever happened at Fran's Day Care at all. Taking..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...First, buy up all the candles and flashlights in town, then cut the city's electrical power (Toivo's end of..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Off the Record

Local songwriter Johnny Goudie takes the stand while Trailer Space Records preps for Record Store Day

"...Crime and Punishment..."

April 15, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Taco Kings, Besieged

A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense

"...crave independence, not solidarity. As anyone who drives around town can see, the field has also gotten both crowded..."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

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.

"...time to hide his drugs by breaking out a small window in his front door and firing a single..."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...this insane real estate market and moving out of town? Maybe your hand didn't go up, but your mailman's..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

A Question of Equity

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

"...this show. The company producing the show is too small to have the resources to pay an actor Equity..."

June 9, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

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Losing Our Lunch

"...plan to tear down Liberty Lunch to build up downtown further and overcrowd that area even more. I'm sure..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Dead Women Owned His Soul

An Interview with James Ellroy

"...Ellroy began devouring crime novels at the age of 10. Growing up in..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Weekday Events to Make It a Craft Night, Movie Night, Trivia Night, and More

There's also some events during the day

"...zine-centric events on the same night at the same Downtown venue. Those out of their teenhood can join up..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin Gets Compared to a Lot of Cities. But Is Life Better There?

Shopping for home

"...are often compared to Austin – cities that are smaller than New York or Los Angeles, but bigger than..."

Feb. 21, 2025 News Feature by Abe Asher

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.

"...Doil Edward Lane shuffles into the small cage that is the visiting room for death row..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

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Park and Ride

"...long-range issues in our community such as traffic safety, crime, and the need for more parks. Should Austin residents..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Column

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a group of young..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Acevedo Unveils APD Reorganization Plan

Calls for beefing up traffic enforcement, rotating officers more frequently among shifts, and centralizing specialized units in effort to make department more flexible

"...department more flexible and ready to adapt to shifting crime trends. Notably, the reorganization will also spread the responsibility..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...at Roy Guerrero Park on the south side of Town Lake, to much public and board member dismay and..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...beaten them down. This, coupled with an education in crime and a contempt for authority bred by the types..."

July 12, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...I am an actor in this town who needs her auditions notices! First of all it..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column

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Don't Dissolve District

"...existence of the Aquifer District is under attack. A small group of people associated with a water supply company..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Beautiful Loser

Keith Ferguson: No Apologies, No Regrets

"...is a rustic wooded estate in the hills below downtown Austin. His voice is a dead ringer for that..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Josh Alan Friedman

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Bergstorm

"...charter pilot, a leaseback owner struggling to afford a small airplane. For those who recruit, equip, and train America's..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Column

Has Round Rock ISD Hit Rock Bottom?

Maybe not yet

"...Chronicle, that helped him see that something about the small package wasn't right...."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...He's committed no crime of any kind under any law: American law or..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

What Happened to Bonnie and Clyde's Missing Gun?

In which we hear the report of a gun and a secret is revealed

"...violent history of Clyde Barrow and his paramour and crime partner Bonnie Parker. The latest odd coincidence, also involving..."

July 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...coolest kid in high school, comes back to his hometown 15 years later to find he's no longer cool..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

HBO's The Leftovers Finds New Life in Austin

The second coming

"...says from a corner of the Sheraton bar in Downtown Austin while scenes were being shot upstairs. Her smile..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Full Agenda at Zimmerman's D6 Swear-In

Council Member Zimmerman hosts his constituents

"...in his Hous­ton courtroom a decade ago. "As a small token to Don, to remind him of God and..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

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