A Little Eclectic

Texas Documentary Tour brings Immy Humes to town.

"...pet of Lamon Redd, a poor black resident of Stanford, Conn., gets himself into trouble when he repeatedly bites..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Loving and Fighting

A history of struggle at Blackshear Elementary

"...see how unusual Blackshear's results were, Ed Haertel of Stanford University said, "It's a good idea to check that..."

June 28, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Free the Mouse!

Constitutional lawyer Lawrence Lessig spoke at SXSW Interactive Saturday about the need to keep big corporations from indefinitely extending copyrights so that we can create a "creative commons."

"...Notable author and Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig came to SXSW Interactive with..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

Information Wants to Be Worthless

Money was never the most interesting thing about the Internet. Which is a good thing, since now it's gone.

"...subject of "The Creative Commons." Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford law professor and Lessig is one heavy cyber-dude, he..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

Inherit the Net

Lawyer and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig talks copyright law and the Internet.

"...evil? Meet Lawrence Lessig -- constitutional lawyer, superstar. When Stanford snatched him from Harvard, it made a splash in..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Coach's Corner

Believe the hype. Longhorn freshman point guard T.J. Ford is something special -- maybe the best player in UT basketball history.

"...what you deserve. Shut up, Gary! Oregon lost to Stanford at home. Illinois lost by 25 at Michigan. They..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

New Fest

Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria

"...After graduating from Stanford, Poirier happened to meet Larry McMurtry, whose goddaughter had..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...first saw a Chronicle in the computer lab at Stanford University in the spring of 1992. By fall, he..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Cumulative Staff Box

"...Bernis, Gene Cockrell, Dragon, Robert Bostick, Joel Bradley, Judy Stanford, Marie Javins, Wende Lerway, Michele Cook, Jose Salazar Jr.,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Player

With Adventures of a No Name Actor, a comic memoir of his adventures in the screen trade, anonymous player Marco Perella is finding literary stardom.

"...sideways. He didn't study acting in college, instead leaving Stanford after his junior year to "go live in a..."

July 6, 2001 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

The Girls on the 50-Yard Line

Documentarian Mylène Moreno always wanted to be a professional athlete. Instead, she made True-Hearted Vixens, a film about women who did. Moreno brings Vixens, documenting the attempt to create a women's professional football league, and her short "Cormac's Trash" to the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday.

"...about her -- she had degrees from Harvard and Stanford, and while she was living here in the Nineties,..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Kosher Meat

"...that the publication of these voices is overdue. Rick Stanford's "Isaac and Moshe," for instance, is a ballsy depiction..."

March 23, 2001 Books Review by David Garza

Coach's Corner

Maybe the old coach has been out in the desert too long, but if there's anything to these rumors about Bobby Knight and Texas Tech, it sounds too good to be true.

"...win-win deal for them. As I mentioned, this isn't Stanford. But divining Knight's motives, if this comes to pass,..."

March 16, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Saving All Our Changes

Cyber-castoffs are curated at Austin's Goodwill Computer.

"...was called a 'CroMemCo,' after Crothers Memorial Hall at Stanford," he says, "where its student designers attended school. It..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Features Feature by Michael King

Coach's Corner

Coach went to his first Texas / OU football game last weekend, and boy, was it a doozie.

"...has faced. Lauding gaudy statistics earned against Louisiana-Lafayette, Houston, Stanford, and Oklahoma State is like bragging about the six-year-old..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

With Style

"As corny as it sounds, I have to say that my life changed 14 years ago," Anne S. Lewis writes, "the day my bike tire blew out -- the second time in one week -- right in front of John Trimble's house. I'd never heard of the author of the venerable Writing With Style book or his legendary UT writing classes."

"...the book -- now required reading at places like Stanford -- gave J.T. the chance to do the thing..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Books Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Night at the Opera

Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.

"...Fellow from 1988-93, Else now teaches at Berkeley and Stanford...."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Domestic Bliss

As gays and lesbians gain acceptance in society, more and more companies are offering health care benefits to their employees' domestic partners.

"...universities, including the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Stanford University, and Harvard University, have updated their policies to..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll

Endorsements: Saturday June 3 Runoff Election

"...desire for a more open government process, took his Stanford education to heart and has thrown himself into community..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature

June 3 Runoff Endorsements

"...desire for a more open government process, took his Stanford education to heart and has thrown himself into community..."

May 26, 2000 News Feature

Habits of Mind

Texas has a wealth of universities and colleges that offer creative writing classes, but four of them -- the University of Texas at Austin, Southwest Texas State University, University of Texas at El Paso, and the University of Houston -- offer Masters of Fine Arts degrees in creative writing. Here's all the information about each program you could hope to find.

"...and essayist Wallace Stegner, who taught creative writing at Stanford University, had this to say about the efficacy of..."

April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Sphere of Influence

The creators of Phantasm talk about the amazing success of their work over the years and why on Earth it's been so successful in the first place.

"...was about 12 years old, grew up, went to Stanford, and then went, of all things, into mortuary science..."

March 31, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Cars and Speed and Flight

Just prior to his appearance at SXSW Film for a retrospective of his work, Monte Hellman talks about a career in film.

"...a Rhodes scholar, he was an engineering student at Stanford University, he's just absolutely one of the brightest people..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Bikes, Beets, and Bastrop.

"...deputy superintendent, by the grace of his amigo from Stanford days, Mr. Forgione. A triple strike on us from..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column

The Brain Behind Cyc

Doug Lenat discusses artificial intelligence and its increasing presence in the next century.

"...for Lenat's 1984 exit from the academic cocoon of Stanford University to the Austin-based operation (initially incubated by MCC)..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Man of the Hour

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

"...I didn't get some graduate training. I applied to Stanford, and went out there to be a superintendent of..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Tailgating Teasips

Mick Vann makes a foray into the curious and often elaborate rite of University of Texas fandom known as "tailgating" and discovers some intriguing practices.

"...to cooperate -- they're all Horns.The Teams Before the Stanford game, I saw a group of guys who turned..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Zigal Excerpted

"...On meeting Wallace Stegner, the founder of the Stanford Writing Program:..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Final Judges

Profiles of the Short Story Contest judges.

"...Austin and an M.A. in creative writing from the Stanford Writing Program. For 25 years his short stories have..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature

Getting Personal

"...the 46-year-old former University of Texas doc-maker, now at Stanford, has cut a wide swath through topics as diverse..."

July 16, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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