Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...beloved Happy Minutes, the daily 15-minute interlude when 10-ounce domestic beers cost only 40 cents – will close down,..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature

Far Away

In the space of an hour, this ACC Drama Department production shows the world coming apart

"...Caryl Churchill's drama Far Away is a story of domestic distress of the most ordinary kind. A girl in..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Elaine Bradford: Freaks of Nurture

In her exhibition "Freaks of Nurture," Elaine Bradford's crochet-covered menagerie of stuffed animals is equal parts lighthearted nonsense and poignant sadness

"...Elaine Bradford melds two extreme forms of domestic kitsch – taxidermy and needlework – to create hybrid..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

UK Calling

Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.

"...equating two consonants and a vowel with promoting gun violence. One spin of Bizzle's insanely catchy "Fire," with its..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

TPCN Flack Attack: No Nutritional Content

Tax-funded anti-abortion group uses PR campaign to smear Chronicle, rather than truly responding to our story

"...wide range of topics (including adoption, abortion, parenting, and domestic and sexual violence). By contrast, the providers funded by..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Reefer Madness: Top 10 joints

"...of all pot seized by cops under the DEA-funded Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program in 2006 was actually "volunteer" hemp..."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...III. Lubbock Police Officer Matt Doherty responded to a domestic disturbance 9-1-1 call from Nunez's home on April 16...."

May 5, 2006 News Feature

Answering to a Higher Power

"...is despicable, totally against American ideals. Prohibition triggers more violence, suffering, and death than the drugs themselves. Alcohol prohibition..."

April 3, 2006 Postmarks

Really Over There

The Texas Documentary Tour: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds' 'Occupation: Dreamland'

"...by avoiding the highly flammable and visible daytime street violence – the now-familiar, then-sporadic hit-and-run shoot-outs between Americans and..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Page Two

A functioning democracy is a very hard thing to love, and even harder to trust

"...and 9/11, and 57 percent believe that increases in domestic spending have not contributed significantly to the current federal..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Left-leaning criticism is not the same as political extremism

"...that I do. He is a pathetic president; his domestic and international policies are devastating; his championing of restricting..."

July 9, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Choice one involves threats, fines, closures, and ultimately the violence of gun-wielding police for people who refuse to cooperate...."

May 30, 2003 Column

The Other Guys

The Greens and the Libertarians present alternative candidates for governor

"...it's become an excuse for the increasing militarization of domestic law enforcement."..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.

"...argue that we have ourselves to blame for terrorist violence. In fact, there is little that we can do..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

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Calling on Doggett

"...Bill 2975 ("The Patriot Act"), which would allow expanded domestic spying by police agencies...."

Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Summer Film Calendar

Your month-to-month guide to summer film

"...cats and dogs bent on world (or at least domestic pet) domination in this live-action comedy...."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...us with an interior monologue that evinces Annabel's more domestic concerns. "Mating was more embarrassing that she'd imagined," Gross..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...Onto this rich tapestry, Cartwright sketches his domestic arrangement at the time. He was sharing an SMU..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

"...Jordan's war is domestic and civil, a pitched battle between the conflicting ambitions..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Books Review by Craig Arnold

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

The new photo exhibitions “Kosova24: Life After Wartime” and “The Welcoming Table” may document radically different experiences, but they share a sense of life turning from season to season, generation to generation, persisting even in the face of dramatic upheavals. Life goes on, and both shows offer portraits of human resilience and perseverance.

"...an extreme nature -- cultural disruption, geographic dislocation, poverty, violence, genocide -- and cling to those things that matter..."

June 23, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Money, It's a Gas

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

"...Straightjacket." In the resulting growth of the GDP (gross domestic product), income inequality is a given, the labor markets..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Postmarks

How the WTO touches our readers' lives; and other hot-button issues like film reviews, bikes, and Kevin Fullerton.

"...those folks who knows all too well how pervasive domestic abuse is in our society. That sad chapter of..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Column

TV Eye

A small-screen return to twitching noses, magic potions, and girls who hold the power; also, a review of TNT’s daring live-action Animal Farm.

"...Samantha Stevens or Jeannie. They were nice, but captured; domesticated creatures in suburban, ranch-style prisons (that "comfortable concentration camp,"..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Record Reviews

Ibrahim Ferrer

"...Negra. Instead, that distinction belongs to the band's sole domestic release from a decade back, Puta's Fever, represented on..."

June 11, 1999 Music Review

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...a wild and mysterious other realm, perhaps a shadowy domestic environ invaded by a strange guest, as in The..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...the same time to earn money by carrying out domestic tasks for white families in the vicinity - often..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

Post Marks

Muddying the Waters

"...voluntary family planning services is a priority of both domestic and foreign policy. Addressing the population crisis is critical..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Column

Dancing About Architecture

The Quiet Game

"...60 ft. Dolls, with a new track for the domestic version reportedly featuring Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, and Ocean..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Column

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Off the Desk:

"...Dumping dirt and other fill material into domestic waterways is, under most circumstances, prohibited under the Clean..."

March 21, 1997 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...who brings new meaning to the term Òsex and violence.Ó Ouromov and Onatopp are out to steal GoldenEye, a..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

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