Letters at 3AM

Happiness costs. I know better now than to indulge this happiness, but still I drive on and I can't or won't stop. It isn't right that I and my Chevy, and you and your car, eat up the world's resources at the rate we do. We're driving in sin.

"...On that road we seemed alone – in those days, when people didn't drive constantly..."

May 27, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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"...insurance, allowing preventive medicine and medical advice. Every Texan living in poverty should have access to a doctor provided..."

March 4, 2005 Column

There's a Light Beyond These Woods

An unrestrained celebration of Nanci Griffith

"...about wanting and not having, being together and being alone, sometimes at the same time. They're about people and..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Goose & the Gander

The Rise and Recover and what it's like to live like a rock star – sometimes

"...lyrics breach a different wall. Controversial only to those living in bubbles and parents, his true-to-life poems of parties..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

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"...convenience store in order to try and make a living at minimum wage, this wonderful state of ours will..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Column

Suffer the Little Children

The Lege cutbacks to CHIP and social services have little to do with fiscal conservatism

"...Chronicle. "As a result of CHIP cuts, Harris County alone will lose $139 million in state and federal matching..."

April 9, 2004 News Column by Michael King

The Death of Ben Brownlee

A Rockdale teenager's suicide raises questions about official protections for gay and transgendered kids

"...house and called the police; Johle fell to the living room floor, screaming and crying...."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Paycheck

Affleck and Uma race to descramble the past in this futuristic thriller based on a Philip K. Dick short story and directed by John Woo.

"...Affleck plays Michael Jennings, a reverse-engineer-for-hire, who makes his living ripping apart other folks’ work and redesigning them from..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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"...adversely affect the health of the 1.25 million people living in those five counties. According to the Texas Commission..."

June 20, 2003 Column

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"...SB 350: Living Wage for School District Construction..."

May 23, 2003 Column

How Can Wynn Lose?

The mayoral odds are with Wynn, but could a run-off be a race?

"...have to win this election in a run-off, let alone without one?..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...is not for the exclusive use of the persons living in the houses on those streets. This isn't a..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column

Adaptation.

"...Brian Cox, Cara Seymour, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ron Livingston and Jay Tavare. Adaptation. is a profound natural process..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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"...is comforting to see that a majority of voters living inside Austin are informed enough to know that Democrats..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column

Between Round Rock and a Hard Place

Northridge Acres can't find water, water anywhere.

"...County seem so willing to let them go on living this way. With all the fancy developing going on..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Walter Howerton Jr

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"...for Travis County Commissioner several years ago! He was living with his girlfriend in her house. Representative Kitchen has..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column

Stuart Little 2

"...previous film by the Little family, a Cleaver-esque clan living in a NYC brownstone. Stuart Little 2 has retained..."

July 19, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bartleby

"...parked at his desk and apparently subsists on Handi-Snacks alone. In adapting Herman Melville's 1853 short story "Bartleby the..."

June 14, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Big Trouble

"...looks like a commercial success based on pre-sold constituencies alone. It's also -- and this is high praise indeed..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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"...digest the injustice that has occurred in America. We're living in difficult times as foreseen; and as written; in..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...an issue for environmental groups like SOS to shoulder alone. "One of the things I focused on [as SOS..."

July 13, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Now Serving ... Time

Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation

"...But before he landed in prison, Conran was living in Austin, trying to save up money and start..."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...on his mind. Ten years ago, when he was living in El Paso but happened to be in Austin,..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...so maybe this round is on you. Andale! (The Living Room on 6th, 9pm-1am) -- Raoul Hernandez..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

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Good cops and bad cops, radio waverings and global warming warnings.

"...job with regular hours and that he was home alone with his wife and children on the night they..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Column

Before Night Falls

"...follows. No director can achieve that kind of sensitivity alone, and Schnabel is blessed with equally sentient performers. Arenas..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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"...but I also work with my hands for a living." See, I work with my hands for a living,..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Column

Image of a First Lady

Based on her physical appearance alone, Jean Stapleton is a natural to portray Eleanor. But it turns out that the accomplished actress' resemblance to the first lady doesn't end there. It extends to her idealism, her feminism, and even her awakening to activism.

"...that encompasses the world. Based on her physical appearance alone, you can see why someone would think Jean Stapleton..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Organized through Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish congregations, the Industrial Areas Foundation's Saturday gathering was not unlike a secular church service.

"...9am on a Saturday morning in September -- let alone yelling and cheering state politics and politicians. But such..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Cruel Summer

Kate X Messer remembers Lisa Davis: professional photographer, Austin music scenester, activist, suicide victim.

"...a night that could've been remembered for those merits alone, were it not for the unforgettable horror...."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

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