Booze, Bad Guys, and Bamboozlement

Analyzing the Stereotype of Detectives and the Bottle

"...together like pancakes and syrup. It makes sense -- job's rough, stuff's legal, deadens senses continually exposed to the..."

April 25, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

T.C. Broadnax Selected as Austin’s Next City Manager

City Council to initiate hiring process next week

"...Council’s preferred candidate. They plan to offer him the job formally at next week’s Council meeting, April 4...."

March 29, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin’s Sole Federal District Judge May Be the Most Overburdened in America

The case of the missing judges

"...wanted to leave when I could still do the job. I knew some judges who stayed on too long...."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Travis County Tries to Fix Its Public Defense Problems

But advocates warn about the middleman

"...meeting there was a lot of discussion around the job description for the position, to ensure that they would..."

June 23, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

When Did the Single-Family Home Go From Being the American Dream to an Urbanist Nightmare?

One policy wonk's view of how we got here

"...workers, teachers, and many others who work in lower-paying jobs and face serious financial obstacles in finding housing within..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

New City Music Manager: Erica Shamaly

Marketing veteran takes over top municipal music post

"...“I feel like every job I’ve had, which have all had ‘Austin’ in the..."

July 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Enforcing the 'Double Standard'

Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin

"...sustain itself through independent revenue sources of its own creation is another story. Nevertheless, this administrative doctrine makes it..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Feature by Tom Palaima

Face Off Recap: Bad For Your Gums

Candy-coated nightmares as the contestants suffer sweet dreams

"...maybe another aging application? Nope, it's a candy creature creation, aka this season's version of the Tim Burton challenge...."

Feb. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Face Off Recap: Not So Super Heroes

One of the CenTex delegation goes home in week two

"...in favor of the female Cenobite with a dye job and some cyber hardware. Seriously, did you think we..."

Jan. 27, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

The fast and the furious: the sentencing of J Kapone, Steve Wertheimer's Hot Rod Revolution, and 'How to Tour in a Band or Whatever'

"...Derailers accentuate the afternoon like a custom flame paint job and chrome exhaust, while Top Notch on Burnet Road..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Running the UT Numbers

Unless you're the football coach, budgetary times are dire

"...of Texas at Aus­tin tops the list as a job provider. In the current economic and legislative climate, UT..."

Dec. 18, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Weathering the Storm

The Austin Lightning look to gain a foothold in Austin as soccer is primed for the national spotlight

"..."It is arising big time," says Mimbela, whose day job is in the semiconductors field. "Players are begging me..."

June 22, 2007 Sports Feature by Joe O'Connell

Petty Nastiness in WilCo

After more than a year of legal wrangling, federal judge sets date for jury to decide whether Williamson Co. Sheriff James Wilson demoted former WCSO officers Barry Simmons and Ralph Fisher in retaliation for reporting wrongdoing within department and/or for supporting Wilson's rival, former sheriff Jim Wilson

"...The contentious sheriff's race also sparked the creation of an anti-Jim Wilson Web site, NotJimWilson.org, on which..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature by Patty Ruland

The Hells Angels Hit

Anthony Benesh was shot down by a sniper – the suspects, and theories, are legion

"...the notion that the Bandidos might be behind the job, but rather to note that those who knew Benesh..."

May 19, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and progressives dictate that Ms. Hinojosa should get the job, regardless of Rep. Doggett's experience. The greater social good..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Column

Barbecue and Good Ol' Boys

A promotions scandal suggests the good ol' boy network is alive and well at DPS.

"...a wholesale reorganization of DPS's Narcotic Service and the creation of seven new captains' positions. The seven openings for..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...Jake Heggie readily admits that his part in the creation of Dead Man Walking is as unlikely as the..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Weak at the Knee?

Chief Stan Knee's tenure at the APD has had many external successes, and several internal failures.

"...as chief, a post he kept until accepting the job in Austin in mid-1997. On paper, he was an..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.

"...the thousands of African-Americans who support him and the job he did as councilman. I am a fervent Democrat...."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column

ChileChaser

Crowd pleasin' & commercial bottlin' with a hot-sauce guru

"...10 years now," he explains by phone from a job in California. "At first, I would strive to improve..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.

"...if Amy Babich might not actually be a fictitious creation of the anti-environmentalists; she plays the role of the..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column

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The Chronicle endorsements (or lack thereof) under fire.

"...Mayor Watson did an adroit job of handling the Lege in 1999, but we don't..."

May 5, 2000 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...then they should do like Mr. Dell said Mr. Jobs should do with Apple Computers, shut it down and..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Column

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First, the good news ...

"...is protected by the city and the Parks & Recreation department, and will be devoid of future development. Again..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

Naked City

Working It Out

"...ensure that private companies vying for contracts to provide job training and welfare services were financially stable or that..."

Sept. 10, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

Bruce Hughes

"...I want and not having to work a day job."..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Untangling the Web

An Interview with Sue Beckwith and Gene Crick

"...really starting to rock. It's a partnership with SER Jobs for Progress and Our Lady's Family Center. We're submitting..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Men Who Would be Mayor

Scrambling for Money, Consensus, & Power

"...audience to Baylor: "If you had done a better job as a boardmember, things might not have been so..."

April 25, 1997 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Mind the Bullock

"...couple of paragraphs to the grassroots organization against the creation of another strip mall on what is now public..."

March 28, 1997 Column

Sweet New Nut

Ballet Austin Gives an Old Favorite a New Look

"...of wonder and drama, is akin to plotting the Creation. Only, it costs money...."

Dec. 13, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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