Naked City

Warren Chisum resurrects the Andrews County nuclear waste dump, Longhorn Pipeline politics under scrutiny, and Austin marches against hate

"...more than the scrapped nuclear plants of Maine and Vermont -- which were destined for a Sierra Blanca dump..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Louis Dubose

SXSW Film Reviews

The gags come fast and furious, and the fair amount of gross-out humor makes Super Troopers play like a cop version of Caddyshack.

"...Things are kinda quiet in these super troopers' upstate Vermont precinct. The hot-dog highway patrolmen pass the time growing..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Getting Their Due

The Texas Film Hall of Fame Debuts

"...'Texas film,' whereas there's not such a thing with 'Vermont film' or 'Iowa film.' It's about the individuals, the..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...last September, the company moved its corporate headquarters from Vermont to Barton Creek Plaza, incensing environmentalists by locating smack..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Laying It All Out

Novelist Shelby Hearon has made an art of the little white lie.

"...or less 30 years. Forget that she lives in Vermont with her New Englander husband William Halpern (who, carrying..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Identity Crisis

Looking back at the highlights of Austin's music scene in 2000.

"...Napster as a choice nugget from the vault of Vermont jamlords -- and onetime Orange Mothers openers -- Phish...."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Capitol Chronicle

As Gov. Bush moves to D.C. in a wave of acclamation, the Legislature prepares to meet over redistricting and new legislation.

"...yuppies, New York its toxic sewage, and Maine and Vermont are just desperate to send us their nuclear waste...."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Column by Michael King

Scar Vegas and Other Stories

"...meeting in the hilarious "Unapproved Minutes of the Carthage, Vermont, Zoning Board of Adjustment," to the soldier witnessing the..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Books Review by Martin Wilson

TV Eye

Why are this year's season premieres so darn dull? Also, a goodbye to Steve Allen and news on a class action suit alleging age discrimination filed by 28 TV writers.

"...as a frozen dairy product. Ben & Jerry's, the Vermont-based ice cream vendors, will create a Seinfeld-inspired flavor named..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...Hill beasts. Which brings us to Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the House's one socialist -- oops, "left-leaning independent" --..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...Arizona, Indiana, Maine, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming...."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Preview

"...Dems are favored in Delaware, Indiana, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington; the GOP figures to hold Utah...."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature

That's a Wrap

Notes From the Austin Film Festival and Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference

"...is the center of a sleepy little town in Vermont turned upside down by a visiting movie crew. As..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Screen Play

Austin Film Festival Reviews

"...spoof about a film crew ascending on a small Vermont town. Hoffman plays the stuttering screenwriter, who falls for..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.

"...WCS site in Andrews Co. is chosen as the Texas-Vermont-Maine compact site, Austin has a fight on its hands...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Column

Do It Now Foundation Joy Juice EP

Texas Platters

"...had trouble keeping a drummer since relocating here from Vermont in 1993. It's also made them among the most..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture

Ritalin Kids sign a record deal; Steve Wertheimer gets wet all over.

"...if they've got a song called "Yellow Rose of Vermont"?......"

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Chrysta Bell quits the Souvenirs; the Meat Puppets' new record could come out in record time.

"...Phish fans got their wish this week as the Vermont hippies came down to shoot an Austin City Limits..."

July 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...of frog deformities throughout Minnesota, and in Quebec and Vermont too. The deformities were mainly extra limbs or not..."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Songs in the Key of Ethan

A Postmodern Fear of Significance

"...with my parents, hanging out in the sunshine in Vermont...."

June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Indian Summer

"...Austin Music Scene when they arrived in town from Vermont around the turn of the decade, but they were..."

June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Mr. Mom

More men are taking time off from work to enjoy fatherhood

"...that effect is pending in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington...."

June 30, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll

Dancing About Architecture

The Gourds weren't Phishing for trouble when they covered "Gin and Juice"; the Meat Puppets have (probably) found a new home.

"...song is most often mislabeled as being performed by Vermont jam band Phish. That band's Web FAQ (Frequently Asked..."

June 16, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Page Two

"...other ways fine citizens. Twenty-five years ago back in Vermont we used to buy pot from a local deputy,..."

April 14, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

A plethora of environmental concerns are argued in this week's letters to the editor.

"...demands for political correctness" are concerned, last Thursday the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill that would recognize..."

March 31, 2000 Column

Naked City

Where the Delegates Are

"...Vermont 12..."

March 3, 2000 News Feature

Book Reviews

The Politics of Prose

"...Carolina. In the hilarious "Unapproved Minutes of the Carthage, Vermont, Zoning Board of Adjustment," he enters the head of..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, Battleground

William Wellman's larger-than-life legacy: Reviews of Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, and Battleground.

"...though, and dispatches him to the wilds of Warsaw, Vermont, to investigate young Hazel Flagg, a beautiful girl dying..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Page Two

Smart Growth and other millennial hallucinations ...

"...and read a detective novel set in Bellows Falls, Vermont, where I used to live. Almost a week later,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Louis Black

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...In 1970 I moved toVermont. There I found myself listening to Oar more and..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

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