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"...Is SCIP I Vision Being Fulfilled?..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column

Here Comes the Neighborhood

Capital Metro, City Hall, and Eastside neighbors come together to share their hopes -- and fears -- for the Saltillo corridor.

"...other new projects spring up along the corridor. (The division of the barrio into two planning areas was both..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Anthony Orum on Austin

"In Austin, a city of changes, a book like Anthony Orum's Power, Money & the People: The Making of Modern Austin, is always relevant," writes Michael Erard. "It's the only urban history of Austin, tracing the early decisions that fixed the city's economy, politics, and sense of itself. Unfortunately, the book's availability has been spotty -- until late 2002, when an Oregon press, Wipf and Stock, reissued it."

"...made it worthwhile for urban entrepreneurs to shape their vision of the city, and for market entrepreneurs to get..."

May 23, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Erard

Day Trips

"...fiddle, the accordion, Gruene Hall, and other exhibits with regional relevance. The staff and volunteers produced its first Texas..."

May 2, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin @ Large: The Task Force Findings

"...their long-term potential, their ability to leverage Austin's specific regional assets, and their consistency with local values and economic..."

April 18, 2003 News Column

Cumbia Sobre El Rio

Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia

"...factories. Like Beck in L.A. with his tweaked suburban vision, Hernández, an archivist and musical fanatic, scratched the surface..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Articulations

A weekly rundown of the latest news in Austin's visual and performing arts scene

"...press and helped develop ALO's reputation as a strong regional opera company, some factions of the board are said..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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"...a region needs to handle its fair share of regional necessities, good or bad, so must neighborhoods understand and..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

Perry's Imperial Corridor

TxDOT details plans for the Trans Texas Corridor

"...Along with tolls, new federal funding, and TxDOT's still-in-limbo "regional mobility authorities" (which fob state highway debt off to..."

July 12, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Our readers talk back.

"...Boom?" [June 21]. Once again, the Chronicle has demonstrated vision and insight and positioned itself as far more than..."

June 28, 2002 Column

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: You Kids Play Nice!

The idea of combining Austin and Travis County's governments seems like a good one, but never seems to gain any momentum.

"...this question. "By its nature, county government is cooperative regional government," the Travis Co. commissioner for Precinct 2 says...."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Short Cuts

Red carpet reportage, and other filmic items

"...Film Society Director Rebecca Campbell about last Monday's packed regional premiere of Rick Linklater's new film Tape. I missed..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Got to Have Kaya Now ...

Restaurants, like people, have distinct personalities, MM Pack writes. The persona that Kaya Blue presents is that of a hip young traveler, back in town after multinational adventures -- exuberant and uninhibited, full of ideas and enthusiasm, well-grounded in the basics, but forever changed by the trip.

"...Vespaio. Somers cooks with verve, style, and most importantly, vision -- riffing knowledgeably on the intense flavors of pan-Asian,..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...Sixteen Deluxe (Vision Take Me Make Me Never Forsake Me), Grand Champeen..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Watson's Way

In Austin city politics, it's Mayor Kirk Watson's way or no way at all.

"...In the meantime, Watson is sprinting toward his vision for Austin. Earlier this year, he offered the Chronicle..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Managing the Media

As the Bush presidential campaign unravels after Labor Day, a press offices tries to keep the candidate on message and out of trouble.

"...Gov. Bush will continue to lay out his compelling vision for how to save Social Security and improve education..."

Sept. 22, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postscripts

What would happen if B&N.com let Chronicle Books editor Clay Smith green-light ideas for their BNTV programming?

"...This will be tough. We're going for the big vision here, none of this semiautobiographical first-novel bologna. In fact,..."

July 7, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Media Clips

Although he's catching heat in the national media, here in Texas, Bush has been given kid-glove treatment by the media.

"...parochial outlook of his Texas constituency for a broader vision."..."

May 12, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Readers are baffled by the Chronicle's "no endorsement" for the mayoral race.

"...Kirk Watson and silently gave thanks for his energy, vision, and dedication to this city...."

April 28, 2000 Column

Council Watch

Details of the Bradley Settlement are finally made public and opened up to debate; Bill Spelman announces that he will not run for re-election to Place 5.

"...to last week's SOS memo, which outlined the group's vision of an aggressive regional conservation plan. In addition to..."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

The Participants

"...teach in the UT School of Architecture's community and regional planning program. Focusing on land-use and environmental planning, Paterson..."

Dec. 3, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Superstar Search

Three decades after its debut, Jesus Christ Superstar may not seem a radical piece of musical theatre, but Austin Musical Theatre's new production just may return the rock opera to its revolutionary roots.

"...years these shows have been staples of not just regional and community theatres all across the country, but high..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wandering Preachers, Holy Fools

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.

"...to do with us -- our work or our vision or our audience. And the question that has to..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dreaming ART

This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.

"...to work with the resources of the country's top regional theatres, who wanted to be paid a professional wage..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Reflections

"...at http://www.auschron.com. The symbols (RP), (WP), and (USP) indicate regional premiere, world premiere, and U.S. premiere...."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Get It While You Can

"...Mama! is the missing link between the Boogie Kings regional albums of the mid-Sixties and Edgar Winter's fabulous 1975..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...handful of scripts each year and, through months of revisions and readings, tune the playwrights' dramatic visions until their..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Day Trips

"...that the user must fit into the facility's ecological vision. Ringed by trails, 1,100 acres of the property are..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Drafting a Career

"...are producers, Tasca Shadix says, who are looking for regional perspectives and the type of fresh ideas that aren't..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Feature

Preaching to the Converted

"Troubling Era"

"...explaining Texas truths: By the way, Kirk Watson, whose vision and message are nearly identical with Christie Whitman's, is..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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