Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...After their Christian conscience finally kicked in and slavery was outlawed, European nations set their sights on extracting..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

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Our readers talk back.

"...I am talking about Texas slavery, the economic engine of most of 19th-century Texas, and..."

June 30, 2000 Column

The Life and Times of Gus Garcia

City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service

"...diversity to Cinco de Mayo, noting that Mexico opposed slavery and that the Mexican defeat of Napoleon II helped..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Letters at 3AM

Why a sizable number of heterosexuals feel threatened by the concept of gay marriage

"...England, it was among the earliest governments to abolish slavery and grant universal male suffrage. (Giving the vote to..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Naturally Nader

Consumer Advocate Mounts Green Party Presidential Campaign

"...years, the GOP won the White House with the anti-slavery platform carried by Abraham Lincoln. Nader knows his history...."

April 7, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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

"...Most Southerners that I have been acquainted with find slavery as repellent as any sane human would. There are..."

March 10, 2000 Column

There's Something About Mary

Mary arnold gets down to brass tacks on bradley deal

"...essentially a divisive cause that embraced the continuation of slavery ... Our fear is that the Bradley settlement as..."

March 10, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (Rhino WordBeat)

National Records

"...its consciousness, the album then traces the injustice of slavery and Jim Crow through poems less than 100 years..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

Dancing About Architecture

Austin versus Islam, Freedom and Justice (Records) for all, and that damn Ray Benson again.

"...Freedom Is Slavery..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Back to the Garden

The musical Candide has had as tumultuous a life as its wandering hero. Robert Faires catalogs its journey and explains what has kept it alive and why it's always a pleasure to revisit.

"...odyssey across the globe -- war, murder, earthquake, torture, slavery, shipwrecks, prostitution, and a host of other ills that..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

The paradox of possiblities exhibited by the 20th century -- from Auschwitz to Ginger & Fred.

"...than a daily occurrence?) -- a year in which slavery, on a mass scale, is practiced openly in the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Mandingo

"...shock value is the centerpiece, so the theme of slavery is just a vehicle for horrific gore and interracial..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Review by Mike Emery

The Uncooling of America

"...When you think Civil War, you think slavery, right? You don't think "birthplace of the corporation in..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Books Review by Tom Grimes

New singles from Spoon, Knife in the Water, the Put Downs, the Beach Birds, and Roar! Lion

"...a pair of blue-vinyl sleepy treats on "Redbird" b/w "Slavery" (Western Vinyl). Neither are songs that'll leave you cursing..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

What does this so-called "boom" mean to most Americans?

"...This used to be called "wage slavery."..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Prime Cut

"...cattle innards. One of Mary Ann's sidelines is white slavery, with drugged-up girls lying nude in cattle pens waiting..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Antonia Logue's Shadow-Box

"...Hollywood proportions. After being convicted of violating the white slavery act, a law that made it illegal to transport..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Books Review by Annine Miscoe

Bad Boy From Rosebud: The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff

Cedar Park author Gary M. Lavergne has written the indispensable book on mass murderer Kenneth Allen McDuff, but he doesn't take full advantage of his subject, Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman says.

"...rate, the highest in the developed world, back to slavery, which was premised on treating a sector of the..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Books Review by Roger Gathman

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Still Pissed

"...both pitch- and volume-wise. On a purely factual note, slavery in Brazil was abolished in May 1888, not in..."

July 9, 1999 Column

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Don't Shelve Smart Growth

"...shops, sex for money, and any form of economic slavery violate norms of humane economic activity...."

July 2, 1999 Column

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

"...Despite the fact that slavery wasn't abolished in Brazil until 1889, reports are that..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Exhibitionism

(Re)Flex: Opposing Dance Camps

"...The same rules apply: Taste is out the window, slavery to the hippest cultural icon is way in, baby!..."

June 18, 1999 Arts Review

And Thy Right Hand Shall Teach Thee

"...in the stinking holds of slave ships, and defended slavery as an institution until their Confederate armies were beaten..."

May 28, 1999 Column

That's Not All She Wrote

"...(whose films explored such topics as abortion and white slavery). Guy-Blaché even had her own production company, as did..."

April 2, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

Coming up this weekend ...

"...Exhibit on Slavery in the South continues at the Texarkana Historical Museum,..."

March 26, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Biblical Feast:

Foods From the Holy Land

"...the community like Passover, which commemorates the deliverance from slavery in Egypt with a feast. In the same spirit,..."

March 26, 1999 Food Feature

Homage to a Road

"...cross the Mississippi into Natchez. You can still smell slavery in the air in this country. Sites of old..."

March 19, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

"...came to a head over the mascot's negative connotations: slavery and racism. For years, parents, students, and minority groups..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature

Is the Constitution Just a Screenplay?

"...admitted to holding 50,000 in forced labor -- i.e., slavery; while India's Hindu government is doing nothing to stop..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

In Memory

"...in America, a multi-part series on the history of slavery in America. Louie Massiah made his fine W.E.B. DuBois:..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

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