Letters at 3AM

In the next presidential election, only the Democrats can be counted on to preserve the Bill of Rights

"...Two weeks ago I documented the George W. Bush attack on..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Choosing to Blame America Rather Than Looking at Themselves

"...Editor, You suggest foreign aid as a more reasonable alternative to the Iraq war ["Page Two," Jan. 23]. Translating..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

Our president and attorney general have turned the protection of our civil liberties into the new national crisis.

"...In a national crisis you and I don't meet as writer and..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Lost at Sea and Back Again

Bill Broyles' Extraordinary Adventure Story

"...FedEx, Noland's job is, in fact, to control the path of the items shipped all over the globe by..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Letters at 3AM: The Lincolns of Hollywood

It is dangerous to view history through the eyes of sentimentality

"...studio. In those days, only "picture people," as they were then called, were privy to the grit and grind..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The 'Austin Sun' Gets Hung

Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum

"...memory, leaving in its place a bright plastic artifact that pretends to be one's past. Not that the past..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

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

"...A long morning line at a designer coffee joint in Lubbock, Texas. The man..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Austin @ Large: Austin At Large

An Austin political response to the New York bombing

"...a new mayor on Nov. 6. As in Austin, that new mayor will be filling what the media says..."

Sept. 21, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

War-on-Drugs Style Bill Won't Help Fentanyl Crisis, Advocates Say

Meanwhile, a fentanyl test strip bill has stalled

"...the Travis County medical examiner’s report was released last Wednesday, detailing a more than 1,000% increase in fentanyl-related accidental..."

May 1, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

LBJ Library at 50: An Interview With Mark A. Lawrence

The Library's current director takes a historian's view

"...Mark A. Lawrence barely had a moment to enjoy being the new director..."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Nathan Harris Pens an Intimate Civil War Tale in The Sweetness of Water

In his debut novel, the Michener Center alumnus brings "a new story to the table"

"...is trying to make sense of his freedom. Newly emancipated and unaccustomed to roaming the woods alone, he is..."

June 18, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM – Manifesto: A Radical Aesthetics

Get stuff out there; work with cause: That's the genesis of LettersAt3amPress

"...work. A radical aesthetic is something more: the crossroads at which your vision of beauty meets the way you..."

March 21, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The Q&A Hole: Why Didn't the World End?

With: John Erler, Annie La Ganga, Arcie Cola, Owen Egerton, and more

"...Welcome to The Q&A Hole...."

Dec. 24, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM: NDAA: Obama's Betrayal

NDAA: Obama's Betrayal

"...The president signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act on New Year's Eve, certain of..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Occupy the Future

Corporations are not people

"..."I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Why I Voted for Obama

"...Obama because he is the most honest and intelligent candidate out there. (I support the Green Party, but they..."

Oct. 22, 2008 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

Nations get into deep trouble by following inspirational leaders, left or right

"..."Fuck you! Why?!" My very dear friend prefers not to be named...."

March 28, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Most of the American soldiers who have died in Iraq came from little places that the 21st century has left behind

"...agribusiness, and they come from small or midsize cities that have been stripped of factories. I'm speaking of our..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft

"...The shameful news of American torture at Abu Ghraib prison, and all its implications, has rightly..."

May 14, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

At Long Last Love

Love will get you when you least expect it. So it goes in Charles Mee's Big Love, a vigorous update of the ancient Greek drama The Suppliants, and so it went when the Rude Mechanicals theatre company saw the play. They fell unexpectedly and unabashedly head over heels for it and are staging it now in what they describe as "a huge love affair."

"...You might as well not bother searching for it. You don't find it;..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.

"...without night or day ... most of us lit cigarettes that fumed in metal ashtrays beside our typesetting machines,..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Twitter Flame War Fires Up Austin FC Supporters to Help the Unhoused

For Los Verdes, y'all means all

"...January 2 of this year, Chris Saldaña sent a tweet, tagging Austin's mayor and police chief: "Happy New Year..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Kit O’Connell

Letters at 3AM: My Top 10 of All Top 10s

A list of the Top 10 cultural artifacts that have shaped my life

"...in "know thyself": List the Top 10 cultural artifacts that shaped you most. Be honest and unembarrassed. That's the..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Turf War in Hyde Park

"...July 24, and the opposition to our proposal by Karen McGraw. It's good to see the Chronicle taking a..."

Aug. 1, 2007 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

Americans and Iraqis are dying for Bush's pride and his hopes of re-election

"...of last year, a U.S. colonel announced from the battlefront: "We own Baghdad." A year later to the day,..."

April 16, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Another Drug War Casualty

Testimony continues this week in the capital murder trial of 23-year-old Edwin Delamora, accused of firing the fatal shot that killed Travis County Sheriff's Deputy Keith Ruiz in February 2001.

"...Testimony continues this week in the capital murder trial of 23-year-old Edwin Delamora,..."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM

Dictates

"...December 6. Attorney General John Ashcroft's defense of the Bush Administration's anti-Constitutional..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3am

We are swiftly losing our civil liberties as a result of the USA-PATRIOT Act, although this administration has shown it is not impervious to citizen complaints.

"...Merry Christmas, done anything lately to defend your Constitution?..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Empowering the Syrian Refugee Community One Mediterranean Recipe at a Time

A mother's story of falafel and family

"...For Afia Foods founder Farrah Moussallati Sibai, spending time in the kitchen has always been..."

May 10, 2019 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

We're Still Here

Assessing the continuing black Austin experience

"...The first recorded African-American in Austin, Texas, was, somewhat predictably, a slave. Arriving in 1839 with Alexander Mur­chison,..."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

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