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On this drive, the universe condensed into one word: invitation.

"...South of Rapid City, up in South Dakota, driving the Black Hills, I pass a little turnoff marked "Gumbo..."

June 23, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Beside the Point: Council's Best Friends

Austin is a dog's - not to mention city manager's - town.

"...For now, Jennifer Kim's proposal permitting pups on the patios of consenting Austin restaurants is in the doghouse..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: Earth, Stones, and Thorns of the Wild Ground Growing

The poetry of the right-wing soul: an appreciation

"...that, even with eyes open, it is as though they are shut. I hardly feel attached to my body...."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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The Devil gives you five seconds, and God gives you none at all

"...I intended a trilogy of novels set in Vegas: The Death of Frank Sinatra (written and published), One Marilyn..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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Stanley Crawford's 1966 novel 'GASCOYNE' has been out of print for 35 years, a literary crime redressed this month by the Overlook Press

"...we proceed it must be noted that in GASCOYNE the word GASCOYNE is spelled in caps at all times,..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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We are a community, we and the creatures. There are only a few tenths of a percent of difference between the chimpanzees' DNA and ours, yours, mine.

"...At the habitat of the chimpanzees, a stupendous cacophony! Chimps screaming..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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We take cars for granted, yet people have been living like this only a short time, and, when this era exhausts itself, people may never live like this again. What will they think of us, I wonder.

"...Smoking a cigarette in the parking lot of a Super 8 motel somewhere in..."

June 10, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Still Looking for the Truth at APD

Chief Knee may be guilty of the same offense for which he fired an officer

"...Lie Not a Lie?," Jan. 21). Late last week, the independent arbitrator hired to consider Little's civil service appeal..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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The numbers tell a different story than the pundits: The next election will again be the Democrats' to lose if party members don't learn to talk plainly and with respect to people who are different culturally, and are uneducated, left out, or left behind

"...The gab doesn't jibe with the numbers. The numbers don't..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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Cry over the election if you must, but don't let the bastards sap your vitality. American progressives started seriously mass-scale organizing only about a year ago, and in just one year we came within reach of victory.

"...organizer executed on trumped-up charges in Utah in 1915. The night before his murder he telegrammed his comrades: "Don't..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

"...what's right for his country can be wrong for the world."..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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All the economic numbers point one way: Hard times are about to get harder

"...controversy and grab headlines from two stories that hit the same day. The New York Times, Sept. 8: U.S...."

Sept. 17, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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The White House resorted to scare tactics, terror alerts, and slander following the Democratic Convention in order to avert the public's attention from newly released statistics documenting the country's economic downturn

"...line at a designer coffee joint in Lubbock, Texas. The man behind me is maybe 67, large-bellied, white beard..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

The Book on Lance Letscher

What lies behind the buzz of Austin's hot collage artist

"...than buzz going on; he has mystique workin', too. The buzz comes from Letscher's art: poetic collages concocted from..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

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Speaking through your children's blood, and the words of the past and the present

"...There are nights when I don't know how to write..."

June 11, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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War is how civilizations make love, so we should be careful of the partners we choose

"...express war's brutality. "War is how civilizations inseminate each other" is far too clinical; clinical talk can't do justice..."

April 30, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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Although it may sound like hooey in the retelling, this is the story of the author's discovery of his soul's expression.

"...The subject is the soul and the form is the..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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Memories of the first stirring of Self and Soul.

"...I watched a group of boys my age kick another 5-year-old almost into unconsciousness...."

Dec. 12, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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Americans are paying the price for lies about Iraq told by their leaders.

"...carrier landing to announce victory (a stunt that cost the taxpayers $1 million), more American soldiers have been killed..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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Ralph Nader's stubborn refusal to acknowledge any difference between the Republican and Democratic political platforms cost the Democrats the election.

"...During the '96 election I wrote that there was little functional..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Twenty Years of Battle in the Barrio

The two main Eastside neighborhood camps -- and other figures on the margins -- each try to take the reins of redevelopment.

"...a few blocks south of Plaza Saltillo -- it's the one whose fence is covered with political campaign signs..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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Seniors graduate into the world of the Bush junta.

"...cared for by nurses, doctors, family, and friends, and the purpose of all their lives is influenced and enhanced..."

June 13, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Hit Parade

Documentarian Jamie Meltzer pokes under the rock of the music industry in Off the Charts: The Song/Poem Story.

"...In Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story, Jamie Meltzer takes an intimate..."

March 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May

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Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Our "best-of" lists in the last Chronicle concurred that 2002 was an exceptional year..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Latest in Paper

Kathy Acker's "work cut a swath of influence through literary and pop culture so wide that she might have entered the strange, paradoxical state to which all cultural goliaths are prey: waning visibility by virtue of social penetration," writes Cindy Widner. "Two new publications could help keep that from happening."

"...Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Ackeredited by Amy Scholder and..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

The Gods of War

America is distracted by the Pledge "crisis" while our government readies for war.

"...There are few public spectacles more entertaining than the tribe..."

July 12, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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With inaction, inattention, cowardice, and stupidity, Americans are watching tyranny take shape in plain sight before our eyes, while the overwhelming majority say and do nothing.

"...used to it. We must be -- or surely the events of the last month would cause an uproar,..."

June 28, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

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Technological progress is altering fundamental issues of identity.

"...my writing desk since high school -- reports that Prometheus, in Greek, means "forethought," and that he was the..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

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.

"...ear with a celery stalk -- okay now freeze there, because there's a story behind that ......"

July 6, 2001 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

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The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty

"...so years ago: As though I'm a brick in the wall (my consciousness is present but I am not),..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

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