Beyond City Limits

"...July 20 that he will be running for Galveston’s Texas Senate District 17. The seat became unexpectedly vacant when..."

July 25, 2008 News Feature

Playing Through

Some people are destined to compete in triathlons, and some to watch

"...Vertiz, a senior at Southern Methodist University and originally from San Antonio, knew that..."

June 6, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

Day Trips

The Chinati Foundation's museum in Marfa offers world-class art in the middle of nowhere

"...in Marfa is like no other art museum in Texas. The Big Bend sky and the desert landscape fading..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Gritty, Groovy, & Gettin' It

What reissues are buried in the bottom of your closet?

"...title as "Miami's First Lady of Soul." Florida A&M University's Incomparable Marching 100 Band coats everything with blazing horns..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Sustainable Living

Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair is the place to learn about cutting-edge clean-energy technologies, as well as a one-stop shop for people wanting greener homes and natural backyard gardens

"...something about climate change. Smith, who heads up the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association when he's not coordinating the..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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Our readers talk back.

"...island cottage would be in the northern part of Southern Ontario ["Page Two," March 10]. Northern Ontario is a..."

March 17, 2006 Column

Wedding Vows

No one believes more firmly than Jack Ingram that Jack Ingram 'is' the future face of country music

"...at Deep Ellum open mics while a freshman at Southern Methodist University. By the time he picked up his..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Lost in Privacy Policy

FEMA regulations actually hinder Katrina victims from contacting loved ones

"...what we're talking about, see the monster list the University of Southern California's Online Journalism Review has compiled at..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Get on the Bus

A guide to anti-war events nationally and in Texas on Sept. 24

"...happenings, as well for details on anti-war goings-on in Texas..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

TV Eye

When most of us see younger versions of ourselves in pictures or home movies, it's in the privacy of our own home in the company of friends and loved ones. For Shelby Knox, some of those images will be seen across the nation, in prime time, when 'The Education of Shelby Knox' launches the 18th season of the 'POV' documentary series on PBS.

"...Born and raised in Lubbock and reared as a Southern Baptist, Knox soon found that abstinence-only sex education was..."

June 17, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Soccer Watch

"...host two more conference foes this weekend: Northeastern State University at 5pm, Friday, Sept. 10, and Missouri Southern State..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

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"...part of the project, they just tore up the southern part of South First by Ben White. Why not..."

June 25, 2004 Column

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, Central Texas, and elsewhere.

"...speech, were deemed "too political" by officials at the University of California and were struck from a fundraising pitch..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Still Lives

Kate Breakey talks to Clay Smith about why she photographs dead birds and flowers and other animals.

"...In the afterword to Small Deaths (University of Texas Press, $65), a recently published book of..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Arts Feature by Clay Smith

Blood and Guts and Dirt and Joy

Michael Miller may appear at first meeting to be withdrawn, but he is absolutely present onstage and off, and his willingness to "get dirty" with his characters and continuous challenge to himself to be better make this seemingly reserved actor one of Austin's best.

"...desire to explore, which seem limitless. We attended the University of Texas in the early 1990s, and I've worked..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Years of the Dead

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

"...in Oaxacaby Michael James Higgins and Tanya L. Coen University of Texas Press, 336 pp., $22.95 (paper)..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Austin At Risk

Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems

"...about growth caused by the explosion of the Central Texas technology industry. Update your conversation-starters accordingly, if you haven't..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Coach's Corner

Coach postulates that free-throw percentage determines longevity in the NCAAtournament, bitches about concession food at Frank Erwin Center.

"...in Austin was over 70% for the season. The Texas Longhorns, year after year, die at the line. A..."

March 31, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Double Take

Austin Scribe Lawrence Wright Tackles Noriega -- Twice

"...her attention," he says. While an undergraduate at Tulane University in New Orleans, Wright made the short drive to..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

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"...environmental interests are finding common ground all over Central Texas...."

March 3, 2000 Column

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Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

"...The University of Texas at Austin..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column

Annette Sanford

"...a prolific writer," Kathryn Lang, Annette Sanford's editor at Southern Methodist University Press in Dallas, told me when I..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Day Trips

Museum-hopping in Houston.

"...of several attractions in the Museum District at the southern end of Montrose Avenue, south of the downtown business..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Anne Rapp's Fortune

The screenwriter of Cookie’s Fortune talks about storytelling, working in the business, and the incredible collaborator she found in Robert Altman.

"...professor at the Michener Center for Writers on the University of Texas campus. A born-and-bred Texan, Rapp spent most..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Memories of My Father Watching TV: A Novel

"...teaches and co-directs a publishing program at Illinois State University, expresses in Memories both the amusement and horror that..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Books Review

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Hysteria Doomed Plan

"...Erica C. Barnett in "Southern Living" [Vol.18, No.14] appears to base most of her..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Column

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"...several years. Those halcyon days of 250,000 people, mostly university students, are long gone. The Chronicle publishers, who are..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Column

Live Shots

Beastie Boys, Rancid, Asiandubfoundation

"...Luckenbach, Texas, September 6..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...aquifer over which the BS/EACD presides, but in the southern, San Antonio area, the demand for pumping is more..."

Aug. 28, 1998 News Feature

Needs More Color

Progressive Papers Grapple With Chronic Complaint

"...Noel. Noel, who is African-American, wasn't writing for some Southern, conservative daily. He wasn't at some vaunted defender of..."

Nov. 28, 1997 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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