Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...Pigskin and kids pick it: The Green Bay Packers beat the Washington Redskins 28-14 on Oct...."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

Toll Road Plan Remains in Fast Lane

But Gerald Daugherty (of all people) wants to slow road-building down

"...think is right," Daugherty told the luncheon crowd at Green Pastures. "I've gotten 5,000 e-mails in the last six..."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

New Leader for the Long

Dallas area arts administrator Cliff Redd named executive director of the Long Center for the Performing Arts

"...nine months have passed since David Fleming left for Green Bay, Wis., to run the Weidner Center for the..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Enviros Give Dell a (Barely) Passing Grade

Hopeful signs – but continuing challenges – for electronic recycling effort

"...rated an "environmental laggard" last year to earning a green grade this year that was second only to Hewlett-Packard...."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Texans join call to limit coal waste dumping, and New Source Review changes get panned

"...regulations requiring industrial facilities to install the best pollution-control technology available when they make substantial upgrades to equipment. Alcoa..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...reviews and heard from friends, I expect nothing from Greendale, his new narrative song cycle. I love it. Almost..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

A Blue-Sky 'Silver' Plan for Austin Energy

Austin Energy and a former city employee team up to publish an idealized, clean-energy vision of the future.

"...-- along with corollary investments and advances in energy-efficient green building and renewables technology -- is perhaps the least..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Animation Revelation

Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment

"...being acquired by Sapient Corp., a leading business and technology consulting outfit with an office in Austin. It was..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

The General Land Office throws the doors open for wind power in the Gulf.

"...get all the power it needs to serve its Green Choice subscribers from its contractors' Permian Basin wind farms.)..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the invective of talk radio for years. Until the Green Party, the Libertarians, the Socialists, Populists, and yes, even..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Deals (Yet> at Wal-Mart), the PATRIOT Act (see below), green power, minority contracting, Town Lake Park, historic zoning, the..."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Short Cuts

Hello Murdah, Hello Foddah: Marc Savlov reports from the Alamo's Camp Hacknslash, where more than 1,000 horror fans saw Freddy Vs. Jason while not sloshing their way around a softball field and flashing their kibbles and bits.

"...adjunct to just my basic character-actor career, it's the technology that I've seen change the most, and which has..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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"...Look to the west from downtown -- the once green hills, our Violet Crown at sunset, are covered with..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Do Aibos Dream of Electric Corner Kicks?

Gearing up for RoboCup VII

"...station in order to recharge themselves. This is a technology that was developed by RoboCup. I think that it..."

April 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...The painting of 1962 saw Andy Warhol's Green Coca-Cola Bottles and Marilyn Monroe...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Gourmet Gadgetry

The Food staff offers some ideas on stocking stuffers for the kitchen enthusiast on your list.

"...not look pretty or be the latest in cooking technology, it's hard to beat good old-fashioned cast iron for..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Articulations

Austin Musical Theatre survives, the Center for American Music is born at UT, and the Texas Fine Arts Association is renamed Arthouse.

"...The board has given Artistic Director Scott Thompson the green light to restore reduced operations by Dec. 1 and,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

(Backroom) Journeys With George (and James)

Revisiting The War Room -- the electrifying '92 campaign documentary starring the Lone Ranger and Tonto (Stephanopoulos and Carville) -- with executive producer R.J. Cutler.

"...someone in the Clinton campaign with the authority to green-light the filming of Clinton: "That person turned out to..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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.

"...don't want to lose the point. Today, with new technology, there are more garage feature filmmakers than garage bands...."

July 26, 2002 Column by Louis Black

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"...against it is that it is a relatively untested technology in this country. Heaven forbid that we implement something..."

June 14, 2002 Column

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"...evaluate all three incumbents, just as it did when "green" Council Members Sally Shipman, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, and George Humphrey..."

March 8, 2002 Column

Long Fringe @ Blue Theatre

"...onto a small stage as an ironic symbol of technology's dehumanizing and alienating effects on society. Tue, 1/22: 8pm;..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature

A FAB Toxic Inventory

"...the past decade, including (1) dramatic changes in the technology resulting in safer manufacturing methods, (2) safer chemical substitutes,..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Eric Mitchell Speaks!

"...a community — whether you’re black, white, brown, red, green, whether you’re north, south, east, west, whatever — wake..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

For Your Consideration ...

Austin Film Festival Preview

"...(10/13, 7pm, Paramount)GREEN DRAGON..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

After Napster Part 2

Does having your music free online bring more or less cash?

"...to do so. Not to the company supplying the technology and infrastructure, not to the record labels owning the..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Neighbors vs. Neighbors

A profile of the Central Texas struggle over Alcoa Rockdale and its plans for expansionAlcoa announces new "voluntary" emissions reductions.

"...buying power off the [electric utility] grid." The single, green-glowing exception is Rockdale, still in operation. "That's because here..."

July 27, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Almost Famous

Three years after leaving Austin for Hollywood, comics Chip Pope and Howard Kremer still aren't celebs, but with pilots for HBO and Comedy Central and a willingness to schmooze, they've come agonizingly close.

"...Howard Kremer: We shot the pilot, but HBO didn't green-light the show. It may have a second life as..."

July 20, 2001 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Postmarks

Expanding on neighborhood expansion, taking C. Robison to task, and much more.

"...As a semiconductor technology company founder, property owner, and chair of SOS, I..."

July 13, 2001 Column

Raising the Dead

Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television

"...shifting viewing patterns, and the ongoing impact of new technology on the meaning of "community" and "local."Back in the..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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