Chapter 4: The Nineties!
March 1991 -- December 2000
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Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Chapter 1: Before the Beginning
The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.
"...lie. Nick is the leader, Nick is the moral center. In the earliest days of the Chronicle, Nick believed..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Will Pay Cash for Film
Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund underwrites independent film and video
"...cheap, or simple, or easy, about the craft of independent filmmaking, and the people at the Texas Filmmakers' Production..."
Aug. 3, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Short Cuts
Landmark's Paul Richardson talks strategy for saving the ailing theatre chain.
"..."Landmark has always been a boot-strap company, dedicated to independent film, and after the Silver Cinemas acquisition it seems..."
June 15, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
The Hightower Lowdown
CEO hogs, the Bush / Cheney energy hypocrisy & science for sale
"...The most hoggish CEOs of the year are America's media moguls, who fought against a pay raise sought by..."
June 8, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
Short Cuts
St. Stephen's kids make movie, Northcross 6 set to close.
"...XL-1, with the digital dailies then dumped into a Media 100 desktop editing system to be cut and assembled..."
May 11, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...be used to pay off bonds for the convention center expansion, which shares its revenue source with the tunnel…..."
May 4, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
Soda Jerks
The AISD Vending Machine Scandal and the World of Snacks and Sodas
"...article in the Austin American-Statesman that said the Austin Independent School District was changing the way it handled its..."
April 27, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
The Top 10 Censored Stories of 2000
The news stories that didn't make the mainstream press in 2000
"...others like them -- weren't reported in the mainstream media. Instead, they were among this year's "Top Ten Censored..."
April 20, 2001 News Feature by Karynn M. Fish
Dancing About Architecture
Joey Ramone is dead
"...the LBJ-S radio station family plus a few print media types, Perkins announced, "I intend to hijack 101X for..."
April 20, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Capitol Chronicle
Surveying the George W. Bush Legacy in Texas
"...36 has much chance of passage -- there were immediate grumbles from the GOP leadership -- but it's worth..."
March 16, 2001 News Column by Michael King
The Slow Biz of Show Biz
A conversation between filmmakers Richard Linklater and Rachel Tsangari
"...authoring our everyday reality by transforming it to popular media that I was mostly interested in tackling. You know,..."
March 2, 2001 Screens Feature
Slacker, the Map
It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.
"...when, in 1992, Linklater's film was suddenly meriting major media attention from CNN, The New York Times, and a..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Culinary Studies
Cooking Schools in Austin
"...and the consequent development of chefs (chefs!) as new media stars. It inevitably follows that these attitudinal sea changes..."
Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack
Dancing About Architecture
A New Year and those who didn't and almost didn't make it
"...and as entertainers, musicians often find themselves at the center of it. Whether due to missteps brought on by..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Looking for Tony
Democrats are settling on Tony Sanchez as their next gubernatorial candidate before anyone has an idea who he is.
"...I want you to spend four million on the media," Bush told San Antonio political consultant Lionel Sosa...."
Dec. 8, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith
This is What Democracy Looks Like
"...Directed by: Seattle Independent Media Center and Big Noise Films. Starring: Michael Franti..."
Nov. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Postmarks
Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone,
approximately.
"...for use as our offices and a community resource center. Naturally, we are talking to Vignette in hopes that..."
Nov. 17, 2000 Column
American Nightmare
A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.
"...the Austin Film Festival, American Nightmare premiered on the Independent Film Channel, the network that produced this focused documentary..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Hottest Race in Texas
The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House
"...seven (count 'em, seven!) reporters from the also-sponsoring local media on the stage. Indeed, for a few early minutes..."
Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King
49th-Inning Stretch
Both the players and the announcer have the same dreams of going to the major leagues. The difference between the players and announcer Mike Capps is that none of the young men on the roster of the Round Rock Express earned an Emmy nomination, covered the Persian Gulf War for CNN, or did a 10-hour marathon broadcast of the end of the 51-day Branch Davidian siege in Waco.
"...visit, Express players take their daily batting-practice swings. Above center field, the Dell Diamond's giant video screen shows a..."
Sept. 1, 2000 Sports Feature by Mike Butts
Postmarks
Theatre reviews! Film reviews! The Summer Smut Issue! Get your snipes here!
"...Of course if you read the reviews, you would immediately sense that Sunshine is a cut above the other..."
Aug. 25, 2000 Column
Public Notice
After watching two national political conventions in a row, you are probably ready to get real and back to real life, where people help each other and work for the greater good -- without corporate backing! Public Notice offers many options for this mid-August week.
"...ago, we passed along info we received about the Independent Media Center's alternative to the national snooze coverage of..."
Aug. 18, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer
Pubic Notice
Public Notice gets all hot under the collar for the Chronicle sex issue.
"...454-9841. Last week we told you about the sexy Independent Media Center and their lip-smacking coverage of the Republican..."
Aug. 11, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer
Gagging the Right
Republicans muzzled the Religious Right during the GOP convention
"...his four days there trolling for interviews in the media pavilions outside the convention hall.)..."
Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose
Public Notice
Public Notice notes a few great ways to celebrate the
Fourth of July holiday weekend by helping a good
cause.
"...their soundbite grapes peeled and hand-fed into their eager, media-franchised lips by porky pundits and suck-up spinmeisters...."
Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer
Everyone's a Critic
The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.
"...perception Mr. Faires places himself in an unethical situation, independent of how ethically he may act."..."
July 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun
The Life of the Party
Marc Savlov talks with San Francisco-based director Greg Harrison about his new film, Groove and the burgeoning rave movement it depicts.
"...recently -- with a massive (and massively negative) mainstream media blitz -- that they've become the center of attention..."
June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Dancing About Architecture
The Gourds weren't Phishing for trouble when they covered "Gin and Juice"; the Meat Puppets have (probably) found a new home.
"...in the States, Doolittle Records, has merged with another independent called New West. Although they've cordially invited me to..."
June 16, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
"...All for the Nike Dept.: The Austin Community Access Center (that's community television to you couch surfers) may be..."
