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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.

Sept. 1, 2000 Column

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Dec. 24, 1999 Column

Queens, Kings, and More Events to Help You Celebrate This Weekend

Movies, theatre, classes, dancing, and more reasons to get out

June 14, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...declared, “Austin used to be ‘Groover’s Paradise,’ now it’s dot-com gigabytes.”..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Powerhouse Animation Is Making a Mark

Local studio continues to expand portfolio

"...Thumbelina and Space Jam. Then Zippity disappeared in the dot-com crash, and the three pondered their collective futures. Graeber..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: Burnie Burns

Rooster Teeth founder on RTX, Fullscreen, and convergence

Aug. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Formula Stun

My Yacht Club returns to Austin

Nov. 13, 2013 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Fun Fun Fun Announces Full Fest & Aftershow Schedule

Metal, hip-hop, and comedy, all day and all night

Oct. 17, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Theatre Thinker

In the online dialogue about the art of the stage, Travis Bedard is a star

"...a warehouse in San Francisco – there'd be a dot-com start-up in that."..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

Computer Chess & Sexy Tech

Monofonus Press explores early computers and the games they played

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

The (Re-)Rise of Start-Up Culture

Are we closing in on a sustainable model?

"...warned that while there may not be a new dot-com bubble, there's definitely some worry frothing in the start-up..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Of Facilities and Communities

AISD facility master plan task force makes last draft changes

March 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Discount Government, Part II

Historically low city tax rates bite back in the longer run

"...But then sales tax receipts were battered by the dot-com bust recession, then worsened by the aftermath of 9/11..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

All Access

Austin's B-Side Entertainment rethinks how to get a movie to the masses

"...less revolutionized festivalgoers' experiences. Still, to be the finest dot-com purveyor of film festival support did not represent the..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Mike Kanin

Making It, Weirdly

A little elbow grease and perseverance pays off for creative entrepeneur Luke Iseman

"...Iseman, who worked in business development for a local dot-com, quit their day jobs months ago in favor of..."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Vance Joins Porky in Wackyland: Bogus Economic Analysis Offered With Authority

"...needed to boost overall economic expansion and jump-start the dot-com boom. The minimum wage unfortunately stayed in place, but..."

June 18, 2007 Postmarks

Go Directly to Iraq; Do Not Pass Afghanistan, Do Not Collect Bin Laden

Austinites' board game does what Bush cannot

"...on behalf of medical privacy, after an advertising and dot-com career; Rita previously served on the board of Amnesty..."

Sept. 8, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Zoot Allure

Don't Take the class, charm, and reputation for granted

"...all price categories. Over the years, especially during the dot-com boom, they tended to feature higher-priced wines. I'm happy..."

June 20, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Dancing About Architecture

The last installment of "Dancing About Architecture."

"...As the dot-com boom/bomb progressed, things got even worse; reporting the city's..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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"...Congress, the rest of central Austin feels like a post-dot-com-crash/post-expansionist ghost-town...."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

The Pentagon lies to us … and unashamedly admits it; Global Crossing investors and employees get Enronized; New York City whores its parks to the highest bidder.

"...true source, "the return address will probably be a dot-com" that the OSI will create...."

March 1, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Thinner Reads, Fewer Reporters

As the economy gets tight, newspapers around the state feel the pain.

"...occasionally on A1." Zipp says the massive collapse of dot-com businesses was to blame. "'Erosion' is just a polite..."

Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Food-o-File

Last week's events, Virginia B. Wood writes, have made it almost impossible to focus on such mundane things as newsy tidbits, interviews, and deadlines. I finally realized the only way I'd get through a column was to look for good news and upbeat stories to fill this space.

Sept. 21, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Eating the New Economy

22 is elegant in that minimalist, California sort of way, Barbara Chisholm writes. The walls are gently curved and unadorned except for their warm, soothing colors of ocher and gray. At least she thinks those are the colors; the lighting is kept very low and intimate, so it's hard to be certain.

"...enough that those of us a little short on dot-com cash can partake of the luxury offered at 22...."

Feb. 9, 2001 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...was forbidden. Vagrants, rather than the shiftless or the dot-com casualties, were defined as "all able bodied persons who,..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

Stratus Flows Downhill

A description of the Stratus Properties / City of Austin development negotiations, and the historical precedents (Freeport-McMoRan)

"...the company's economic might. Indeed, if Stratus were a dot-com, it would have been shut down long ago...."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Dancing About Architecture

Collapsing Beams at the Mercury, Asleep at the Wheel Beams into Your Home, SXSW Marches On

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Jackie Davies

Austin entrepreneur was national restaurant delivery pioneer

"...of the pie.“We did a huge business with the dot-com companies at one point, and we've always had been..."

April 10, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Tests of Mettle in Austin Hip-hop

Stop passive-aggressive and aggressively-passive mediocrity

March 3, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

A dystopian future meets a pop-culture obsessed past in Ready Player One

"...with such enthusiasms evaporated around the time of the dot-com boom or, at the latest, when the comic-book-obsessed Seth..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Books Feature by James Renovitch

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