Luv Doc: To Search or Not to Search?

How did you fail so spectacularly as a parent?

"...Every morning when I go to wake him up, my teenage son's bedroom is locked..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Shared Services or Shared Suffering: UT's Plan to Cut 500 Jobs

Critics charge lack of transparency

"...Some faculty members will be returning to UT this semester with plans to educate their university..."

Jan. 24, 2014 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Raise a Glass to 'Drinking Buddies'

Something big is brewing with Joe Swanberg these days

"...According to Drinking Buddies director Joe Swanberg, microbreweries are just like..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: We Have Just Begun To Fight

The budget battles are only skirmishes in the long march toward democracy

"...rally, watching the river of people flow around the Capitol, I ran into Louis Malfaro of the American Federation..."

March 18, 2011 News Column by Michael King

The First To Question

Remembering the ultimate theatre historian, Oscar Brockett, 1923-2010

"...is well nigh impossible, but consider this: His books History of the Theatre and The Essential Theatre have been..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What's a Hungry Brit to Eat in Austin?

It may not be Mum's bubble and squeak, but it's close

"...Yes, everything is boiled to flavorlessness. No, we don't believe in vitamins. Yes, we..."

May 7, 2010 Food Feature by Richard Whittaker

Never Coming to a Theatre Near You

Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies

"...the tease, the come-on, the promise of cinematic bliss/adventure/thrills to come. By definition, they are attractive, whereas their full-length..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Critical to the Success

Pakistani public opinion runs strongly against the United States, even though our president insists we're partners fighting a common enemy

"..."The past" he referred to looks awfully like the present. "The head of Pakistan's..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

APD Shooting: Chief Responds to Community Concerns

Acevedo apologizes to family of Nate Sanders II

"...Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo apologized to the family of Nathaniel Sanders II on Monday night,..."

June 5, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Point Austin: Levy Steps Back ... and Shoots Long

Running the city is easier campaigned than done

"...When Mike Levy told me last fall that he was considering a run..."

Feb. 20, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Welcome to Hard Times

Ausitn Interfaith's summit addresses economic plans, current crisis

"..."We can't allow the politics of despair to corrode our spirits."..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Column by Michael King

It Came From the Back Yard

House of Torment's yearlong scare tactics pay off in Halloween screams

"...Mall parking lot. For the six weeks leading up to Halloween, the House of Torment is a gore-drenched charnel..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker

CAMPO Poised to Pass Toll Plan – Despite Uneasiness

CAMPO driving toward vote on humongous toll plan

"...A significant balance of the Central Texas regional tollway plan – a five-road proposal covering stretches east and..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

10 Reasons to Love a Streetcar

The 'streetcar effect' – offering Austinites far more than a free ride

"...digs deep for an expensive streetcar system, it's sensible to ask, "Why not just run more buses or 'Dillos..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Return to Sin City

Gram Parsons, back in a big way even if he never left

"...sexy and dead, Parson's musical legacy remains influential thanks to more than 30 years of reissues and rare recordings...."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Music to Wallow By

Wayne Alan Brenner's list for maudlin millennium-toasting listening displeasure is sure to send you flinging yourself off of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song."

"...Hello, Darkness, my old friend; I've come to talk with you again. But we could use a..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

News Fit to Censor

Observer Among Media That Went After Real News

"...Agency published by The Texas Observer made project Censored's top overlooked news stories of 1996. This year's version of..."

May 30, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Curriculum I: 10 Movies to Know America By

"...is that, from the beginning, there's never been anything to measure it by, no precedents, no frame of reference...."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Revolution: The Power to Begin

Letters at 3AM

"...people talk about them. This simple fact is impossible to overestimate. Talk has always been the single most essential..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Column

In Politics to Win, Again and Again

Introducing the passionate people who get our local politicians elected

"...Two kinds of people work political campaigns, David Butts told us. There are those hitching a ride on an..."

Sept. 13, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Looking at the Hard-to-Handicap Race for a Texas Senate Seat

Who will take Kirk Watson's Texas Senate District 14 seat?

"...election (concurrent with the run-offs in races left pending back on Super Tuesday in March), encompasses all of Bastrop..."

July 10, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Shock to the System

Brace Yourselves: Deregulation Is Coming, Eventually

"...by federal or state mandate, Texas is almost guaranteed to have a completely deregulated electric industry by the new..."

Feb. 21, 1997 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

'When I Was Your Age'

The full text to the Obama back-to-school speech

"...conspiracy theorists were right! Argh! Pres. Obama wants kids to disrupt the social order by staying home from school!..."

Sept. 7, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Prescriptions for Survival

When it comes to going back to school, what will be, will be…

"...August has shimmied to town, and the smell of school is in the..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

We Have an Issue: The News Is Always Breaking

It’s our Back to School issue... but what does “Back to School” even mean in pandemic time?

"...dead zone between the time we send the issue to the printer on Wednesday nights and the time roughly..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Re-Education of Molly Singer

Back-to-school comedy updates the curriculum for modern laughs

"...Directed by: Andy Palmer. Starring: Britt Robertson, Nico Santos, Wendie Malick, Jaime Pressly and Ty Simpkins...."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Queers on Campus

Your back-to-school guide for a gay ol' time

"...are again: another year at college. One year closer to graduation, and one more year where you vow to..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Features Feature by Beth Sullivan

Au Revoir, Les Enterns

Go back to school with the 'Chronicle' interns

"...Whether you are returning to campus, literally, or taking a sputtering moped down memory..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

We Have an Issue: Your Austin Starter Kit

Back to School issue

"...fall semester next week. So we've taken the occasion to speak directly to incoming freshmen, giving y'all the lay..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

#ACreads: 'The Hundred-Year House'

Chat about Rebecca Makkai's ghost story/satire/mystery Aug. 25

"...as August's Austin Chronicle Book Club selection for the back-to-school angle, and it's true that Rebecca Makkai's new novel..."

Aug. 13, 2014 Books Post by Amy Gentry

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