Happenings

April 5, 2007 - Wednesday, April 11

"...GOLD AND GREED: NORTH AMERICAN MINING IN CENTRAL AMERICA A talk from Carlos Amador Aleman..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature

The Hills Have Eyes II

This sequel to last year’s remake is as witless and simpleminded as the irradiated humanoids that serve as the franchise’s bad guys.

"...up into the hills and down into the old mining tunnels that snake through the mountains; they leave their..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alcoa, von Gonten Family Reach Settlement in Legal Fight

Critics charge suit was meant to intimidate citizens

"...the Texas Railroad Commission, the federal Office of Surface Mining, and the EPA, in which the coal industry is..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Freeport & Grasberg: A Chronology

"...1972: After years of building infrastructure, Freeport Sulphur begins mining at Ertsberg, immediately has problems with weather and with..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Lege Notes

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from under the pink granite dome

"...of contested case hearings, and, most ominously, allow uranium mining permit holders to conduct "minor" mining without additional permitting..."

July 1, 2005 News Column

Aberfeldy

"...slack-jawed with collective, gleeful grins, and Scottish band Aberfeldy, mining the fertile fields of pop-rock-folk ("pork!"), are apparently in..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Cellular

Feels like a B-picture, but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.

"...writer/directors toiling in the horror genre – have been mining the myriad story possibilities inherent in modern technology for..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ham

Hans Frank's 'Ham' offers a political drama in which a seemingly good man experiences a dangerous pressure from all sides

"...by his tours of duty in Vietnam, his years mining coal, his service as a county commissioner. Unfortunately for..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report

All is not lost: Grassroots activists win court battles; and the Pentagon revolving door is profitable for Bush buddies

"...from using a devastating, disgusting, and just plain dumb mining practice called "mountaintop removal." Instead of tunneling into the..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Door in the Floor

Jeff Bridges shines in this new adapatation of a John Irving work.

"...his presence, and so more skilled is he in mining the aching comedy in the tragedy...."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Manifesto Destiny

Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish

"...fitting considering the fact that when discussing a label mining a regional sound and fertilizing the figurative soil for..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Naked City

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

"...dumping of waste from coal-fired power plants into unlined mining pits and waste lagoons until the agency adopts federally..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Japanese Story

An off-the-charts performance by Toni Collette is just one of the many rewards of this unconventional love story.

"...firm. When he arranges a tour of the company’s mining operations, Sandy is sent to squire him around in..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Catch That Kid

Kids commit heist – all for a good cause.

"...eccentric Spy Kids trilogy has had a field day mining the ever-fertile ground of childhood imaginings, and while those..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

FronteraFest Schedule

"..."A Short History of Coal and Coal Mining in England," a short film by Robi Polgar and..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature

Timeline

Time-traveling archeologists can't make the time pass quickly enough.

"...film features.) So why bother? Clearly, the prospect of mining the fertile fields of Crichton one more time played..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

The village outs its opponents in its battle to stay incorporated

"...than a year. Concern about the continuing interest of mining giants like Texas Industries Inc. and Trinity Industries in..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

X2: X-Men United

"...that Marvel long ago mastered the art of niche-character mining and marketing (teen-angster Peter Parker and alcoholic industrialist Tony..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

"...Coal mining began in the area as early as 1886 and..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...Last week, Beaumont-based mining company Trinity Materials Inc. canceled its application to the..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Hightower Lowdown

Tom Daschle goes whoring for gold; SBC changes the rules; Rudy Giuliani tries to steal home -- playing against the taxpayers.

"...-- a Canadian outfit that's one of the biggest mining corporations in the world. It seems that Barrick owns..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

An eco-conscious Elgin resident answers his mayor's demand to "show me the money."

"...lobbying local governments to endorse its plans to expand mining operations to the south and west. Local papers recently..."

Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Clean Campaigns heat wave, Alcoa's new problems, No Pipeline solutions at AAS, Personnel puzzles at AISD, City resignations, Mueller redevelopment candidates, Hyde Park meets again & Ed Herman's letter to the Times

"...has informed Alcoa that its voluminous application for a mining permit for its proposed Three Oaks mine has numerous..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Split Decision

"...from the United States in 1997. Born into a mining family in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, Chavez relocated to Chicago..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Bounce

"...real-life former flames Paltrow and Affleck, who doubtless are mining some of their own tension while playing their roles...."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ask Questions First, Shoot Later

In 1967, Hobart Ison shot and killed Hugh O'Connor, who was filming a documentary on Ison's property. In her documentary Stranger With a Camera (showing at the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday, November 1), Elizabeth Barret examines the context that brought these two men together -- one with a gun and one with a camera.

"...meet on the pathetic wage paid by indifferent, rapacious strip-mining coal companies; hungry, illiterate, gap-toothed women and barefoot children..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

"...world wherever the Cornish settled, especially the hard rock mining areas of North and South America, South Africa, and..."

July 21, 2000 Column

Postmarks

We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

"...expected a small turnout since the resistance movement against strip-mining in Kentucky seems far removed from Central Texas consciousness...."

March 10, 2000 Column

Naked City

Henry Kissinger travels to Jakarta, Indonesia, to meet with the new Indonesian president on behalf of his client, Freeport-McMoran head Jim Bob Moffett.

"...behalf of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, the New Orleans-based mining giant. Kissinger is paid $250,000 per year to sit..."

March 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Fast Food Women

"...a grassroots environmental organization that tried to abolish strip mining in eastern Kentucky in the mid-Sixties. Anne Lewis will..."

Aug. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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