Notes of a Football Addict (Vol. VI)
Ags worse than Bears?, Tech misses Leach, etc.
"...heavy doses of football watching, writing about it is another matter entirely...."
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Oct. 23, 2010 Sports Post by John Razook
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar cleverly distills this weekend's news overkill, so you don't have to
"...Farrah Fawcett? Darling Farrah. Everyone who reads this column knows of my enduring love for her, so I'm just..."
July 3, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Article Is Flawed
"...was present for the trial and clearly you were not, let me address some of your concerns. Firstly, Randy..."
March 31, 2009 Postmarks
Point Austin: Nobody in Charge
For the Cap Metro chaos, blame a feckless board
"..."We had no choice but to strike – we couldn't just take..."
Nov. 14, 2008 News Column by Michael King
Letters @ 3AM
As much fun as it is to blame speculators and oil companies, and as certain as it is that some reforms would help, the real culprit is global demand
"...he looks down. Then, when he sees that there's nothing under him, he'll fall." I wrongly predicted $4 a..."
July 18, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters @ 3AM
We have become a space-faring species and are discovering that the universe is stunningly gorgeous and implacably dangerous – like us
"...station. It's handling "solid waste" all right (NASA does not say "feces") but not urine (a word NASA is..."
June 6, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura
Pitonyak Trial: From Court TV to You
Jury finds former UT student Colton Pitonyak guilty of "knowingly and intentionally" murdering Jennifer Cave, gives him 55 years
"...jury found the 24-year-old former UT student guilty of "knowingly and intentionally" murdering Cave and quickly sentenced him to..."
Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
After a Fashion
Huzzah! Stephen is back, jingling his balls and getting all Carrie on yo' keister.
"...JINGLE JANGLE It was the Jingle Ball, dammit, not the Jingle Cocktail Party. So what was with all..."
Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Two Trips to Costco
A mother and a private chef share their notes
"...From a Family's Perspective..."
Dec. 22, 2006 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm
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Our readers talk back.
"...Bishop of Austin DisapprovesDear Mr. Black,..."
Feb. 24, 2006 Column
Luv Doc Recommends: Sixth Street for Bourbon Street Benefit Concert
Sixth Street, Thursday, September 15, 2005
"...OK. New Orleans is a pretty mixed-up place, and not just because it’s currently stewing in a dark, swirling..."
Sept. 16, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc
More Rabid Narcissistic Dementia
"...his agenda-seeking ilk, the vote on Proposition 2 this November is in fact very necessary [“'No Gay Marriage Amendment'..."
Aug. 29, 2005 Postmarks
I'm New Here
Smog descends on Austin in the guise of Bill Callahan
"...the frat boys and artists and musicians, Callahan smiles knowingly, like a man who's cracked the code...."
July 1, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder
Page Two
The right's most troubling victory may be its brilliant subversion of the language of political debate
"...just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less" – look like grunting Neanderthals compared to the..."
Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black
Letters at 3AM
The numbers tell a different story than the pundits: The next election will again be the Democrats' to lose if party members don't learn to talk plainly and with respect to people who are different culturally, and are uneducated, left out, or left behind
"...numbers say, "Democrats were out-organized and didn't play hard enough to their base – yet still almost won."..."
Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Headlines..."
Nov. 26, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Headlines..."
May 7, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
In Person
The first book Jasper Fforde remembers reading, he told the smiling crowd at BookPeople, is Alice in Wonderland. Which explains an awful lot.
"...awful lot. Fforde's claim to fame, a series of novels starring literary detective Thursday Next, recalls Lewis Carroll's cockeyed..."
March 12, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires
Anatomy of a Shooting
The circumstances around Jessie Lee Owens' shooting were anything but clear-cut
"...turned off Airport Boulevard onto 14th Street and again, northbound, onto Tillery where he began slowing down, creeping up..."
March 12, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Austin @ Large: Music Minus Wynn
In front of screaming fans, the mayor smashes a guitar over his own head
"...valuable news-cycle time as the poster boy for this nonsense?..."
March 5, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
County Attorney's Office: Welcome Back, Mack?
A former assistant county attorney may soon be re-employed by the county, despite a DWI charge.
"...major role in that transition – once the pending misdemeanor DWI charge against him has been adjudicated...."
Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith
SBOE Approves an Evolution in Texas Textbooks
Over loud objections, the State Board of Education voted to approve high school biology textbooks discussing evolution.
"...to look at these books and study them. ... Now is the time to vote."..."
Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Michael King
'Discovery Institue' Interested in Neither Discovery Nor Science
"...school teachers determined to protect science education from pseudoscientific nonsense. Many of the scientists who testified use evolutionary theory..."
Sept. 29, 2003 Postmarks
Capitol Chronicle
Always count on the Texas Legislature to remember: The gold rules
"...staff Mike Toomey recently told Texas Monthly. "It is not to do everything. The core element of government is..."
May 9, 2003 News Column by Michael King
Capitol Chronicle
Living on the Dole
"...It's reassuring to know that welfare programs are alive and well at the..."
May 11, 2001 News Column by Michael King
Christina Aguilera My Kind of Christmas (RCA)
Christmas Records
"...Christina Aguilera is attempting to add to the Yuletide canon on "Xtina's Xmas"? No wonder people freak out during..."
Dec. 22, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray
Page Two
Focusing the urban growth spotlight on Stratus Properties.
"...this city's future are in development. The question is not growth vs. non-growth. It is: What is our city..."
Dec. 1, 2000 Column by Louis Black
Exhibitionism
"...to Esther's Follies or have been away too long, now is a great time to catch the manic bunch..."
Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Review
The Man Who Loved Little Girls
"...We live in paranoid times. Maybe it's the millennium, maybe it's political correctness,..."
Oct. 9, 1998 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun
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"...it in flyers that come in the mail. Vote No on the propositions. Let's rip control of this city..."
