How to Get Your Kids Through College

Once students enter the 'pipeline,' can educational plumbers stop the leaks?

"...going to redesign first semester experience so students couldn't escape being engaged, what you would do?" she said. "You..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Letters at 3AM

Despite the change in inhabitants, the buildings, people, and mood of the old immigrant neighborhoods haven't changed. The streets still whisper the same cautionary advice: Survive and get out.

"...Street –- dodging the cars was part of the game, and not one kid on that block got run..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

The Benda Mask

Untold secrets of Jean Arthur

"...positive press ("Arthur's beauty and personality pulled a tough game out of the fire for Paramount on Warming Up,"..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Like The Mountains

Like The Mountains' tale of two brothers fighting to survive the division of Berlin into East and West is little more than a soap opera sketched from history

"...having been shot in the leg while attempting an escape, yet despite this, he still retains his sprinter's speed;..."

July 9, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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Our readers talk back.

"...I reincorporate myself in Bermuda just so I can escape what I owe to pay for America's schools, highways,..."

June 18, 2004 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Cedar Street Courtyard Recently signed to Aspyr, a local video-game company-gone-record label, the moody Austin pop quintet had its..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...overseas. The Delgados are at the top of their game, with wry Alun Woodward and the rich lungs of..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

TCB

Gimme whatcha got for a poke chop…

"...surfaced everywhere from the Matrix: Reloaded soundtrack to video game True Crime: Streets of LA, with the local quartet..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

New Year's Eve Events

"...1886 Cafe & Bakery come morning -- if you escape Col. Driskill in the grill with the champagne bottle...."

Dec. 26, 2003 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Hightower Report

Public financing of elections works; and a Houston firm wants to take American tax dollars without giving any.

"...in these offshore islands and -- hocus pocus! -- escape paying taxes, since technically, it's no longer an American..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Our readers talk back.

"...was killed in a car accident going to a game, my family got nothing from the school district. Not..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Capitol Chronicle

Tort Deform gives business the gold mine, the rest of us the shaft.

"...100 votes) over the top. We certainly hope the game was worth the candle...."

April 4, 2003 News Column by Michael King

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Our readers talk back.

"...a war with Iraq Saddam and his buddies will escape or be permitted exile in some horrible place like..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

Denying Marisol

Third Place

"...lost her tooth while walking back from a baseball game, an aguas vendor with big bosoms, a giant Tweedy..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Nancy Moser

The Hightower Report

Corporations now charge you to pay them; and Calpers corrals big business deserters.

"...owe. The tax gimmick they're using is a shell game that lets them reject corporate citizenship in America and..."

Dec. 27, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Page Two

The City Council should negotiate the Stratus deal from a position of strength; we remember the tragic life and brilliant filmmaking of indie pioneer Eagle Pennell.

"...marketplace every decade. Every decade. Now, that many probably escape every week...."

July 26, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Bush's Xmas Stocking: Burning Coal?

New state and federal regulations threaten the Clean Air Act

"...2002. But they kept what we call 'the corporate shell-game provision,' which basically means that if they come up..."

Dec. 28, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols

20 Years of Austin Gifts

... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries

"...the kitschy/camp glass set you always wanted;the ironic/nostalgic board game you never knew you needed; the lamp/coat/ ashtray/bauble that..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Last Sunset

The day the DEA came for Dan Del Santo

"...a sorry bitch. I get how we play this game: You say whatever you think I want to hear,..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Anne Sherwood

Naked City

"...traveled around the U.S. fulfilling assignments and trying to escape being identified. "Every viewer could have potentially captured the..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...Terry Southern suddenly hot again? And how did he escape from Alvarado, Texas, in the first place?..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

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Readers weigh in on the criminality of musicians, the integrity of neighborhoods, and more.

"...know how easy it is for real criminals to escape justice. Conran's sister was right. After a while you..."

July 6, 2001 Column

The Art of Parenting With Art

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

"...family. Such as more space means the opportunity to escape to one's own room when the madness of parenthood..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Kitten With a Whip

John Waters must have loved this movie.

"...stabs a matron at a juvenile detention center and escapes. Goldilocks-style, she breaks into a house and curls up..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...seems more like the opening of a joke ("So Agamemnon, Achilles, and Ajax are watching a Broncos game ...")..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dress ya ass up for a hip-hop Halloween.

"...kids in orange jumpsuits aren't part of some mass escape from the State School. But you better give 'em..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Coach's Corner

Coach weighs in on a couple of sports-related lawsuits, and the presidential race.

"...want to imprison this nice guy and kill the game in the process? Many media types will parrot this..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Criminal Conversation

How Christopher McQuarrie, the writer of The Usual Suspects and the director of the upcoming The Way of the Gun, learned to say no.

"...was one scene in the film -- the card game -- where we shot an unbelievable amount of film..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...to rock shows at an early age as an escape...."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

2000 Kids Summer Fun Guide

Listings

"...animal enrichment, arts and crafts, train rides, scavenger hunts, games, goat milking, pony care and rides, and more. The..."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature

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