Rights and Consequences

The Redistricting trial pits "partisan gerrymandering" against the Voting Rights Act.

"...we were standing at the door. They pulled the trigger, that is what they did." But the star witness..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...tree is easier to care for, less likely to trigger allergies, and can be reused. (Nadine told Selby the..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

To Your Health

My father has just been diagnosed with COPD. Do you have any suggestions on nutritional help for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?

"...Avoid exposure to noxious chemical fumes that may trigger asthma. Lungs are perilously sensitive to such challenges that..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Page Two

The United Way and the Boy Scouts have both acted admirably in their parting of ways; their decisions call for a sense of moral nuance that is lately all too rare.

"...of others' aberrations; there are more moral absolutes that trigger standoffs...."

Nov. 28, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...an existing commercial space will be less likely to trigger the entire city development-review process. As well, the city..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Faster and friendlier, Part II: Revisions to the land development code

"...change of use that increases the parking requirement can trigger the entire lengthy and expensive development review process, businesses..."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Piece of Work

Trying to walk through the purposefully spaced metal tines of Mowry Baden's K Walk is a challenge, one that leads to the discovery that each person on this planet has a claim to his or her own singular pattern of movement through space.

"...physical interaction with his pieces that will, in turn, trigger a "neuromuscular" experience. Walking through the bars of K..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

Ondine on Edie, On Warhol, on Ondine

A 'Chronicle' reprint

"...about nothing, Edie: An American Biography is like saying, Trigger, a Western Horse. Now what the hell does that..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood delivers a half-ton o' news in this week's "Food-o-File."

"...able to run the entire board with a quick trigger finger... If you were a fan of Aster's Ethiopian..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Moving," an occasion that finally resulted in his signing Trigger, Willie's beat-up Martin guitar. That came on the heels..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

TCB

Willie's July 4th picnic showers Spicewood with more than just fireworks.

"...act, jamming alongside the Horse on his acoustic(!) sidekick Trigger for 15-20 minutes. "Rockin' in the Free World," complete..."

July 11, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"

Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.

"...Forrest Gump, skewers shiny, happy psychiatric trends and the trigger-happy pharmaceutical industry, lobs rounds at its hero's left-wing conspiracy..."

July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I am in his shoes, I am pulling the trigger also. In a scenario of me vs. another where..."

July 4, 2003 Column

Journalist George Crile on His 'Charlie Wilson's War'

Journalist George Crile believes that "something about Texas and its oil heritage seems to permit its citizens to reinvent their histories and to carry out their lives as if they were part of an ongoing theatrical experience." So, how does this relate to legendary Lufkin Congressman Charlie Wilson, the CIA, and Afghanistan?

"...the role of the Afghan war in helping to trigger the collapse of the Soviet empire," Crile says, "suddenly..."

June 27, 2003 Books Feature by Clay Smith

How Can We Miss Them If They Won't Go Away?

Although the Die is not quite Sine, the buzz is already of a Legislative special session.

"...also wary of the budget's "anti-bounce" provisions, which will trigger additional across-the-board cuts to major program areas (public safety,..."

June 13, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Little Big Man

Arthur Penn's film is an eclectically epic anti-Western that turns Ford's red-hued racist conventions on their ear.

"...young would-be Indian brave to earnest Christian evangelist, from trigger-shy gunslinger to cavalry scout, and, finally, back to his..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...freakin' war? So the bombs-and-Jesus administration finally pulled the trigger. Now that Dick Cheney has met with the big..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Sally Crewe

Music Showcase

"...that Crewe's songs, sharp jabs of narrative set to trigger-quick pop hooks, shouldn't have been enough in and of..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Hess

New In Print

"...Cayce has removed the logos -- certain logos that trigger anxiety attacks -- making them now wearable. Gibson fetishizes..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Ride in the Whirlwind

Hellman's cult uses Western frontier justice to reflect the political climate of the mid-Sixties.

"...following morning they find themselves surrounded by a large, trigger-happy posse of vigilantes. The three cowboys are caught in..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

Naked City

Medical Marijuana Victory

"...that include discussions of the medical use of marijuana trigger the policy. Moreover, the policy does not merely prohibit..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Breaking Out

"I wanted to write a prison movie, and it felt like the Retail Rodeo was the perfect place to set it," says screenwriter and actor Mike White of his new film, The Good Girl.

"...and pull effect on the audience -- they can trigger empathy, then disgust, in the time it takes to..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Confessions of a 'Little House' Lover

Bonnets and braids and pioneer lovin': Christina Smith treks to the land of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

"...can creep into your head. A mere name can trigger it. Like, say, Nellie -- that bitch...."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Feature by Christina Smith

Buying Certainty for Stratus

"...companies that are potential takeover targets, allows Stratus to trigger a huge dilution of the outstanding shares of the..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Spells-bound

Seattle's 33 Fainting Spells, which enchanted local audiences with the dance drama The Uninvited in 1997, makes its long-awaited return to Austin.

"...to recognize how things can embody our experiences and trigger moments of understanding." Those moments are ours for the..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...did it" -- i.e., the officer who pulled the trigger -- and that "brothers talking about meeting up this..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Book Reviews

"...nails, sloping unibrows, riotously ill-conceived get-rich-quick schemes, and itchy, hair-trigger tempers that often go off without much notice and..."

July 5, 2002 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...interested in whether Monroe did or didn't pull the trigger -- early readers of the book were evenly split..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...one jarring error. Cindy is currently playing bass with Trigger Happy every Tuesday night at the Parlor, so let's..."

May 10, 2002 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

"...feature, Cindy Toth is still a member of both Trigger Happy and Seaman's own Violet Crown. To prove it,..."

May 3, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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