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Local news this week in Austin

"...the tech-culture section's coverage onto the Web, along with patent information that had previously been printed in Tech Monday...."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

About AIDS

Price-gouging tactics revealed

"...profits from the medications to which they hold the patents...."

May 11, 2001 Column by Sandy Bartlett

About AIDS

Brazil Gives HIVers a Big Gift: Free Meds

"...authorized production of generic versions of 12 anti-HIV drugs patented before 1997 and is distributing them for free. The..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Mr. Smarty Pants

A few more pins for the happy hour bowling alley of your mind.

"...U.S. patent 5443036 concerns a device for encouraging a cat to..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...Sacred Bird of the Cloud Forest by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Books Column

Paying the Cost To Be the Boss

Q&A with the "King of the Blues"

"...wrote the book on playing the electric blues. The patent's in his name...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Five Steps to a Sluttier You

Online smut shopping: a fashion emergency of the sexy kind

"...are prevalent, along with such exotics as the crotch-grazing, patent leather nun's habit. Leather, and particularly black leather, is..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Closer: Within Fucking Distance

Local Arts Reviews

"...of Hustler runs through the dialogue like so many patent-pending PleasureBumps on a high-priced condom. If such a thing..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mr. Smarty Pants

Walk softly, and carry a still stick.

"..."Cardiac Pulse Rate Monitor," U.S. patent No. 3,473,526 (1969), was awarded to actor Zeppo Marx...."

July 21, 2000 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants

"...telephone if Alexander Graham Bell hadn't got to the patent office one hour before him...."

July 14, 2000 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...MDMA, the chemical abbreviation for Ecstasy, received patent number 274.350 one year later and then literally dropped..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Dynamite Hack goes prime-time; Atomic Cafe hangs in there; the Old Settler's Music Festival is upon us.

"...served those (and they should've taken my advice to patent them under the name "Red Eyed Cow-Flies" or some..."

April 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...ends against the middle since it also "owns the patent" on the Scream franchise. We don't know whether to..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

"...and James came sliding across the stage on one patent leather-shod foot, stopped dead at center stage, spun around,..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column

Sand Beach Battle

Sand Beach Reserve on the north shore of Town Lake is the subject of a land-use and legal dispute.

"...match that of a 1916 survey, or the 1848 patent of the land given to subdivision developer James H...."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Exhibitionism

Picasso at the Lapin Agile: Expecting the Best

"...world looks at everything. Einstein still works in the patent office but is gearing up for his "Special Theory..."

July 9, 1999 Arts Review

Postmarks

Still Pissed

"...a trademark registered by us with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a variety of fluorescent products...."

July 9, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Bush on Borderline

"...work, wearing shorts, a short sleeve button down, and patent leather boots. The rent-a-cop at the door looks me..."

June 11, 1999 Column

All Done Up

"...the mid-Sixties, when those wacky British designers held a patent on the kicky and kooky look of the day...."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Life and Nothing But

"...the camera lingers on a pair of street-smart black patent-leather loafers that couldn't be more perfectly emblematic of his..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Bauhaus

"...depression Frances, but thoroughly overcast in black crepe, mesh, patent leather, etc. Of all the American whistlestops on Bauhaus'..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature

Scanlines

Time Indefinite (1993)

"...many of his subjects look like the sort of patent fools that documentarians delight in exposing, and more than..."

April 3, 1998 Screens Feature

Live Shots

"...you could say about Gold was that Chester's white, patent-leather shoes matched his pants nicely. Sangre de Toro also..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Music Feature

Day Trips

"...soft drink at the Old Corner Drug Store. A patent was awarded in 1885...."

Jan. 24, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Run, Max, Run

"...But I can't stand by and let such a patent falsity go unchallenged. Mr. O'Neill, what are you quoting?..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Column

Record Reviews

"...glass to passing youth. Ex-Sham Amy Rigby plants a patent-leather bootprint right in the ass of aging with Mod..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Music Review

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...U.S. patent 4,610,039 relates to a waste container to be held..."

July 19, 1996 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...U.S. patent 4,610,039 relates to a waste container to be held..."

July 19, 1996 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Operation: Weather

"...finds himself neck-deep in intrigue when he tries to patent his incredible invention -- the titular "Water Engine." All..."

Feb. 9, 1996 Screens Feature

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