Public Notice: Taking Our Toll

New toll booths on I-35 will benefit transit, TxDOT, and the Chronicle

"...Capital Metro – is as old as antiquity: a toll booth. Or in fact a whole new toll system,..."

April 1, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

State Picks Up a Toll-Free Call

Road-weary local leaders win a sympathetic hearing at Transportation Commission

"...The Central Texas toll road plan – recalls and audits and pickets aside..."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Doesn't Like Toll Roads

"...the blatant disregard for public opinion and input regarding toll roads that these two "public servants" have for their..."

June 13, 2005 Postmarks

Modern Tales as Old as Time

New AFS series travels back to the seat of civilization

"...In writer/director Tolga Karacelik's Toll Booth, the maddening monotony endured by Kenan (Serkan Ercan)..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

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Our readers talk back.

"...but hasn't uttered a peep about CAMPO's $22 billion tax-and-toll boondoggle...."

June 17, 2005 Column

Miles to Go

A transportation bond package combining roads and light rail is planned for November.

"...along -- would be the first bona fide state toll roads. (Dallas and Houston have highways built by local..."

March 10, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Come Play

Monster living within your phone doesn't deserve your screentime

"...sequences, with Oliver and his dad trapped in the toll booth where Marty spends his nights. Surrounded by darkness,..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...Toll (Brazil) Director/Screenwriter: Carolina MarkowiczProducers: Bianca Villar, Fernando Fraiha, Karen..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: Pandemic's Effect on Travel

Out of town closings due to the threat of COVID-19

"...Toll-booth operators in Harris County will no longer accept coins..."

March 17, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Then There's This: Consumer Alert

There's a glimmer of hope that we won't go broke paying for electricity

"...banging the taxation-without-representation drum. "We could put up a toll booth at various locations" around the perimeter of the..."

Feb. 17, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Is Knowledge Power?

A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor

"...A Toll Booth on the Information Superhighway? As an "open source..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Cox Guarding the Henhouse

For Whom the Polls Toll

"...matter not. Only the last poll, at the election booth, does...."

Nov. 27, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

June 18, 1996: Aguascalientes in La Realidad, Chiapas

"...we need to pay, as if it was a toll booth, a fee to be able to go in...."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...both ends, a generous dance floor with a DJ booth overlooking it, and plenty of seating and standing room...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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Our readers talk back.

"...on Election Day expecting the miracle of the voting booth to save us just as, to some, the miracle..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...The Toll D: Michael Nader When a young woman and her..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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Our readers talk back.

"...Jein BoothTolls Levied East of I-35Dear Editor,..."

July 28, 2006 Column

Point Austin: Saturday Smoke Signals

Place 3 surprises, while the rest of the vote follows the program

"...Blame it on TV, smoking, or the tolls?..."

May 13, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"...Trans Texas Corridor project: a 4,000-mile network of new toll roads, high-speed freight and passenger rail lines, and utility..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

We Have an Issue: Best of Austin: Restaurants Finalists Announced

Vote now!

"...of postage by voting in person at our pop-up booth at Cheer Up Charlies' Hot Summer Nights showcase tonight,..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...decade of bristling against increasingly slicked Americana took its toll. Frontman Vasquez retreated to Wimberley, while the rest of..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Terror Behind Terror of Frankenstein

Austin debut of mind-bending horror Director's Commentary

"...grappling with the creation of this monster, and the toll it takes on their psyches."..."

Aug. 24, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sweet Spirit Tour Diary

On the road with Spoon

"...Most bands on the road play a game called “Tollbooth I Love You.” After paying a toll, the driver..."

May 26, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

StoryCorps Reservations: The Sequel

New slots available Dec. 7, but time is of the essence

"...few weeks ago, we told you that the StoryCorps MobileBooth would be back in town and that you could..."

Jan. 6, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Point Austin: Green Fallout

Picking up the parties and the pieces, there remains much work to be done

"...questionable strategy of incorporating the not-entirely-germane issues of the toll warriors and the anti-cop cadre – and adopting their..."

May 19, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Endorsements

The Chronicle's picks in the Nov. 2 election

"...and not a tough call. As voters approach the booth, we can either pretend the last four years have..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...may have been the last stand for opponents of toll roads fizzled Monday night – though not without nasty..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Know Dog

Kathryn Walat's Know Dog is a tale of loneliness and longing, but an authentic howl of desperation is missing from Salvage Vanguard Theater's world premiere

"...are at his side, and he slyly reveals the toll her indifference takes on him in his melancholy nods..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Gram Parsons Legacy, Austin Convention Center, Friday 16

"...biographer David Meyer, who sat in for no-show Stanley Booth, about whom panel moderator and Rolling Stone Press editorial..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Born on Highway 61

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.

"...table crackles as Cotton gets comfortable in the wooden booth when the food arrives. Since moving to Texas in..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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