That Fighting Spirit

Burned: Life In and Out of Texas Youth Prisons

"...could maintain control." Instead of a bunch of tough, street-smart criminals being rehabilitated in a state-run school environment, she..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: 'House of the Devil'

1983 is back from the grave

"...to see her stay? Check. The warnings from her street-smart but soft-hearted best friend (mumblecore heroine Greta Gerwig in..."

Sept. 30, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Brother Can You Spare a Ticket?

Paramount Theater's Summer Film Series 2009

"...is, and the overall stress level on the metaphorical street is higher than the entire cast of Easy Riders,..."

April 24, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Generation Overshare

What happens when the line blurs between our online and offline lives?

"...parents of your grandchildren to be rather wily, seasoned, street-smart characters on top of their game? Well, if that's..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fun Fun Fun Fest Interviews: Sunday

Still grindin'

"...Clipse's street-smart narratives tap straight into The Wire, pushing product and..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Revenge of the Space Pandas

Il Teatro Nostro's production of this play for youth by David Mamet outshines its shoestring budget

"...Harry Ransom Center, are best known for their gritty, street-smart style and harsh explorations into masculinity. Perhaps lesser known..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Excellent Tech Leap for Cap Metro

Let your cell phone plan your bus trip for you.

"...Capital Metro has just introduced a very smart way to make your bus-riding easier. Perhaps you've found..."

June 25, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

American League/Boston Red Sox Preview

"...Manny Ramirez from chasing the ice-cream truck down Landsdowne Street and Curt Schilling can keep his trap shut and..."

April 3, 2007 Sports Post by John Hunt

'Possession Arrow': Badgley<-Razook

"...loves the guy: He's actually tricking otherwise sensible and street-smart student-athletes into spending significant time there, isn't he? Not..."

Jan. 10, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Past Is Prologue

Rodney Evans and 'Brother to Brother'

"...He had this amazing scholarly intellect mixed with this street-smart savvy that I hadn't ever seen before. The video..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Beat Currencies

In a look at some recently reprinted classic works by the Beats, Chronicle writer Dale Smith examines why being on the road was such a dangerous place -- and why it no longer is.

"..."Howl," remains the defining prose expression for the spontaneous, street-smart, and culturally alienated group of artists, hustlers, addicts, and..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Dale Smith

Finley Quaye Vanguard

"...reflective of his Manchester/London influences and his work with street-smart sound svengali, Tricky. Not surprisingly therefore, Vanguard is infused..."

July 27, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

"...the tale of a man who wasn't "the first street-smart kid to discover that it was easier and more..."

June 22, 2001 Books Review by Barry Johnson

TV Eye

"TV Eye" delivers the skinny on the (mostly unimpressive) summer season debuts.

"...he took off for L.A. to launch M&S. His street-smart candor, his dark good looks, and the success of..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Nunsense: Amusing Grace

The State Theater Company's production of Nunsense is long on laughs if short on story, according to Chronicle writer Skipper Chong Warson.

"...car, is warm, tough, and, according to Mother Superior, "street smart" (which much to the Mother's surprise does not..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Book Reviews

Writes of Spring

"...an outcast among her peers at school, sensitive but street-smart, wise beyond her years, but not too wise so..."

April 14, 2000 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Sergio Troncoso's The Last Tortilla & Other Stories

"...differences in age, class, the college educated vs. the street smart, and ideas of what it means to be..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

Scanlines

Kenneth Branagh and Julie Christie in Hamlet. Mel who?

"...at others. Jada Pinkett-Smith stars as Woo, a sexy, street-smart babe who's looking for the right man. Enter blind..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Screens Feature

Life and Nothing But

"...worldly possessions, the camera lingers on a pair of street-smart black patent-leather loafers that couldn't be more perfectly emblematic..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Short Cuts

"...play a judge, a 23-35-year old Eurasian woman, a street-smart black male in his twenties, body builders, hip teens..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Something Old, Something New, Something Eighties, Something P.U.

Scanlines' Summer Rentals, Games, and Favorites

"...blonde-winged haircuts against the dangle-earring crew on the mean streets of California's San Fernando Valley. Thrashin' more resembles The..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature

Music Recommended

"...Deluxe. Strong Island's Hyenas in the Desert, a new, street-smart set of Chuck D. protegees, and Relativity's MOP open..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...or Reed slips "This Magic Moment" into his best street-smart leathers, while on others it's how Dylan, Hiatt, and..."

June 23, 1995 Music Review

Urban on the Rocks

It's the Sprawl, Y'all

"...So Smart Growth can, to the untrained or jaded eye, look..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Saturday Night Live

Mayor Kirk Watson takes his downtown vision to the streets

"...it seemed time to bring that conversation to the streets. Watson, as usual, was a great sport about the..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Sxsw

"...stick to your ribs like good chicken-fried steak. (Brazos Street Stage, 7pm) -- Christopher Gray..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Breaking the Code

Plain English Is the Goal for Land Development Rules

"...inflicted on the local body politic. So, naturally, the Smart Growth forces want to fix the system. Hence the..."

May 15, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Roger Duncan's Night Visions

Austin Energy's GM invites us to wrestle with the conundrum of clean energy

"...city and AE have kicked off an eight-month Austin Smart Energy public participation process...."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Postmarks

The libraries hit the books, and environmentalists speak out.

"...Smart Growth Needs Smart Ideas..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column

A New Social Order

Whither Equinomics?

"...and Slusher need each other. Slusher has been touting Smart Growth themes -- now most closely associated with Watson..."

Aug. 13, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

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