Festival Picks

Cine las Americas previews

"...Abner under his wing waves him off as a nuisance. Abner finally gets to train with a professional boxer,..."

April 16, 2010 Screens Feature

Permit Unsustained: A Bad Day at Red Bluff

Sustainable Waves pulls the plug on Austin

"...that bleated on until 5am – constituted a neighborhood nuisance. But lost in the confusion has been the fact..."

March 12, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Technology, Take Us Away

Are our gadgets and gizmos troubleshooters or troublemakers?

"...Admittedly, I find technological progress daunting – a nuisance, even. I'm more enamored of my new garbage disposal..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

State of the City

Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his state of the city address at a Real Estate Council of Austin luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 2

"...it. And unfortunately, it's way more than just a nuisance. In all sorts of ways – economic, environmental, and..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature

State of the City Address

As delivered by Mayor Lee Leffingwell today

"...it. And unfortunately, it’s way more than just a nuisance. In all sorts of ways – economic, environmental, and..."

Feb. 2, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Faces of Homelessness

Another Downtown attempt to find answers

"...are being arrested for are class C misdemeanors – nuisance crimes."..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature by Marc Savlov

Landfill Will Top Mount Bonnell in Height

TCEQ OKs landfill's march toward Austin's highest point

"...1982. The new arrangement, which includes measures to restrict nuisance and pollution, is a big improvement over the old..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cast Away

Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood

"...Act," he explained, but it's better known as the nuisance protocol. It bans any airborne pollution that can "adversely..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Brokers Peace Accord With Budget Lodge

City settles lawsuit filed against the crime-magnet motel

"...have agreed to terms that would end the city's nuisance lawsuit against the motel, filed late last year in..."

July 31, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Off the Record

Spiros closes and now Room 710, too? Meanwhile, the Bizarros' long, strange trip returns them to the Hole in the Wall.

"...of operation and effectively defused the Austin Police Department's nuisance-abatement investigation. "We're reacting the same way the neighbors are,..."

June 12, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Surveying the aftermath from the Red River shootout outside Spiros

"...that he's reviewing the case and preparing a formal nuisance-abatement investigation...."

June 5, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Genius of the Crowd ... Source

Austin programmers look to create a public redesign of the city's website

"...in fact knew were hosted on the site (a nuisance all too familiar to City Hall reporters)...."

June 5, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

House Passes Budget

Reps unanimously approve $178 billion proposal for 2010-11 a bit before dawn

"...around consensus, and both sides agreed to keep contentious, nuisance, and poison pill amendments off the floor (so the..."

April 18, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Cofer Exits City Council Race

"This is not the right time or right race for me"

"...treats citizen participation as a necessity instead of a nuisance, for cleaner, greener policies that recognize the urgency of..."

Jan. 28, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Common Law

My 'Eccentric' Neighbor Is Driving Me Crazy

"...his property as he sees fit (without causing a nuisance) as long as the fence is on his property...."

Nov. 14, 2008 Column by Luke Ellis

The Sad Case of the Cactus Planter

Judge Sam Sparks ruled against Planet K in its attempts to save its beloved junked car (aka Ralph)

"...also echoed the city's concern that it's "an attractive nuisance" – which was not meant as a compliment: The..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Urban Coyotes: Meet the neighbors

Keeping coyotes at bay without messing with the ecosystem

"...misconception, Lindsey says, that cats control mice and other nuisance animals. "If you get a mouse or rat infestation,..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature by Melissa Gaskill

Tort Versus Thought

Is the tide of medical malpractice suits really a desert?

"...fule no, the American medical system is drowning in nuisance malpractice cases...."

April 30, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Dispersal of Wastewater a Major Problem

"...need to stop treating “waste” water like it’s a nuisance to be gotten rid of and start addressing it..."

April 1, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

"...up the landscaping, and engineering a way to prevent nuisance algae and flooding, which in 2007 forced the pool..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Documentaries and the Cult of Personality

How documentarians pick a winner

"...bursts of self-deprecating madness and generally making a vaudevillian nuisance of himself. And I couldn’t look away. The man’s..."

March 12, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Gene Kelly: The Democratic Party's Version of Herpes

No, not THAT ONE!

"...The nuisance who just won't go away, Gene Kelly, is back..."

Dec. 24, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Bryce a Stooge for Oil and Coal?

"...are either too difficult to comprehend or a mere nuisance to be overlooked...."

Dec. 9, 2007 Postmarks

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...Front Line, the Mourning Reign, the Immediate Family, Public Nuisance, the Savage Resurrection, and so on...."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

Thief Delivers Mailbox Blues

Some thief stole this family's cool mailbox

"...Normally, if someone steals a mailbox, it's a nuisance. But when the mailbox in question is a unique..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Making Waves

Barton Springs Pool in line for a fixer-upper

"...up the landscaping, and engineering a way to prevent nuisance algae and flooding, which so far this year has..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

APD Shooting: What went down

Officer shoots and kills 25-year-old after scuffle early Sunday in East Austin, Department of Justice to investigate APD's use-of-force tactics

"...the directed patrol in an attempt to rein in nuisance complaints, largely about noise and excessive cruising. Olsen was..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Home Cooking for Pets

"...federal monitoring of their products down to a minor nuisance. When I gave a reading at Texas A&M University,..."

May 14, 2007 Postmarks

Hickenlooper vs. Chickenlooper

"...in part, directing efforts at enforcement of more minor, nuisance and/or quality-of-life crimes, under the theory that this leads..."

April 13, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

We Have Met the Future, and It Is Us

Film on the Web, part II: the movies

"...something similar is a great resource and a much-appreciated nuisance to the mainstream media...."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

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