Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

It seems rather churlish to complain about entertainment aimed at little girls, who almost never get big-budget movies made just for them, nevertheless … this movie substitutes pluck and spunk for drama and sparkle.

"...but wonder if, in the face of all-out market collapse, it might serve a dual purpose as primer for..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Next Austin Bust

Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?

"...losses by 2011, without any fundamental change in our economic trajectory. "We were one of the last cities in..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Cinema of the Americas

A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture

"...announces, displaying enormous shapes of land that appear to collapse under the social and mythical weight of the U.S.A...."

April 13, 2001 Screens Feature by David Garza

From Tokyo to Austin

The Japanese argument for the TPP and bullet trains

"...Georgia, and Tennessee. "We basically discuss the state of economic recovery in Japan, and also how are we facing..."

Aug. 15, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...A Destructive 'Economic Imperative'..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Column

We Can't Make It Here Anymore

As the city's Economic Development Department readies its recommendations to City Council on Mayor Adler's Austin Music & Creative Ecosystem Omnibus Resolution, is it already too late for local artists in terms of local affordability?

"...a move to stimulate local music industry growth. The Economic Development Depart­ment then had 90 days to deliver its..."

May 27, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Page Two: Scary Monsters

Election season raises the specter of undead ideologies and devilish strategies

"...serious problems facing this country are not actually complex economic, political, and social issues but rather are caused by..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...5%. Wynn, the obvious heir apparent of Austin's failed economic policies, has become a standard bearer for Smart Growth..."

April 25, 2003 Column

City of Dreams

Visions in Earlier Austin Plans Not Unlike Our Own

"...with great fanfare in November of 1988, only to collapse under its own weight and the ill will of..."

Dec. 1, 1995 News Feature

Page Two: An Injury to All

The universal perils of union busting

"...and unavoidable response to budgetary shortfalls, given the terrible economic downturn, is far-fetched. In general, it is agreed that..."

April 8, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Outlays Another $3.5 Million

City program supports 28 venues with ongoing grants as national Save Our Stages funds stall

"...alongside COVID-19 relief efforts under the Save Austin's Vital Economic Sectors (SAVES) Fund, allocated $5 million for local music..."

April 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

In Lawrence Wright's Novel, an Imagined Pandemic That's Frighteningly Real

If disease-ravaged world of The End of October feels like our own, that’s because the author did his research rigorously

"...killing people in staggering numbers and wreaking havoc with economic, social, and political systems. Sound familiar?..."

May 1, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...– though his main beef back then was not economic. Instead, he and his neighbors complained that when they..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

This Is the Box We're In

Council doesn't have a budget, but they're cutting it nonetheless

"...will be?" she asked. She objected to the disparate economic effects of the exemption, with the benefits proportional to..."

June 12, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

How Sweet It Is

Austin Honey Company to host beekeeping workshop at Springdale Farm

"...of rainfall. These higher yields allows these farms to economically compete more so with the overall industrial agriculture system..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Food Post by Anna Toon

The Far View From the Water's Edge

Neighbors fear an overconstruction of mansions along Lake Austin

"...with environmental matters and what he considers a missed economic opportunity to attract tourists to the lake, it's the..."

Dec. 9, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Time To Build a New World

"...Dear Editor, The impending total collapse of the global economy is a necessary event that..."

Aug. 10, 2011 Postmarks

Page Two: The Future Is Glacial

Revisiting change in rocky times

"...by minorities, immigrants, the rural poor, and the lower economic classes...."

Dec. 25, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Living in Illusion

Chris Hedges on the inevitable consequences of empire

"...now face an environmental crisis as profound as our economic crisis. These are interrelated, for in the dark ethic..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Auld Lang Syne at the Cinema

How Hollywood has created a holiday of unreasonable expectations and why we should probably stop buying in (but never will)

"...American in Paris! You too can be blessed with economic and creative freedom at the stroke of midnight, like..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters at 3AM

The economic future of the United States is no longer in our hands

"...while we're still in trouble. That would be the economic equivalent of getting kicked while we're down. It could..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Ghosts Are Good Company

AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema

"...a world away from her small hometown in the economically despondent East. Before she gets on that train, however,..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: Grand Illusions

The only problem with wide-ranging, all-encompassing conspiracy theories is that they're wrong

"...because it is such a clear example of the economic, political, and social heights that can be achieved in..."

July 6, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Call and Answer

It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.

"...edition) is a collection and recapitulation of Palast's major political/economic stories of the last few years, and anyone otherwise..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Information Wants to Be Worthless

Money was never the most interesting thing about the Internet. Which is a good thing, since now it's gone.

"...SXSW Interactive has suffered surprisingly little from the collapse of dot-communism. The core demographic at SXSW is the..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

Cast a Giant Shadow

Evaluating the mayoral legacy of Kirk Watson

"...shadow started to shrink, because those problems -- growing economic inequality, public safety concerns, social service gaps -- don't..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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.

"...point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse -- widespread extinction, exotic species invasions, global warming, rainforest..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Love of Labor

More Than Hot Dogs

"...and poor could be hurt by the recent worldwide economic upheavals; a list of employment and job training resources;..."

Sept. 18, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Mulling Over Mueller

"...would disappear, only to see the alternative airport options collapse. Even now, with cargo planes actually landing at the..."

Oct. 31, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Stressed Out? Let Your Freak-Out Flag Fly!

Making stress into a friend instead of a foe

"...triggered by the health crisis, such as unemployment and economic uncertainty...."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

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