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March 18, 2005 News Column by Michael King
Austin @ Large: The End of the Roads
The toll plan takes us down the right path, but
there's still a long way to go
"...readers who felt my column last week went over the top – that it was mean and personal and..."
July 30, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Picking Up the CHIPs
Clarendon scandal opens a window on the joys of privatization
"...Last week state Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Keller, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the higher premiums mandated by..."
July 16, 2004 News Column by Michael King
Get in the Ring
Scott Weiland calls Andy Langer out
"...According to Google, the colorful phrase "kiss-ass pussy sycophant bitch" appears on the..."
June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Andy Langer
The Earth Moves
For choreographer Ellen Bartel, dance does make the world go 'round
"...Let's get one thing straight: Dance doesn't make the world go 'round. Although the world itself, the terrestrial..."
Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Producer
Austinite Robert Rodriguez has, of course, been a maverick from the get-go, but it's wife and producer Elizabeth Avellán who often seems the cogent heart and soul behind her husband's outrageously entertaining productions.
"...Sergio Leone's epic masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West and Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in..."
Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Taste of Summer
The perfect meal, searching for seafood tamales, eating wild strawberries stoned, and more memories of heat and hunger
"...I feast on what has always been for me the definitive summer meal. This particular meal hearkens back to..."
Aug. 8, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
The Cult of Ray
Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.
"...Everybody knows Ray Benson: the big guy with the big hat, booming baritone, and..."
July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski
Do the Tighten Up
'Texas Funk' Spreads the Little-known Gospel
"...something good in your own back yard. Such is the case with Texas Funk, released last fall on London-based..."
May 16, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets
Austin @ Large: Before the Flood
The Waller Creek Tunnel could have been a boon to Downtown; now its just another failed proposal in the City of Ideas.
"...Well, the streets of Prague and Dresden are filled with sludge,..."
Aug. 23, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
More Places at the Table
The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.
"...liked an awful lot of it. That essentially describes the reaction of the Austin Critics Table to the last..."
May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Who Owns the Ancestors?
Excavations near Victoria promise a scientific gold mine, but possible objections from Native American leaders leave the project's fate uncertain.
"...discoveries at a site near Victoria, about 100 miles southeast of Austin, could make the small coastal plains town..."
Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Lee Nichols
The Innovators
Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar
"...During the debate that took place regarding the merits of Ken..."
June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
The first of Austin's premier photographers shares some music history through his photos.
"...At the age of 82, you'd think people would give him..."
May 18, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck
The Austin Avalanche of Rock & Roll!
When IRS Records' 'The Cutting Edge' Came to Town and Made Me Want to, Too
"..."They say that 90 people a day move to Austin...."
March 16, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer
Wild Ride
Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt made "405" with a digital camera, off-the-desktop software, and a desktop computer. The action / comedy has now become the most popular short film on the Web.
"...flier syndrome." A lot of people do. Cottonmouth, anxiety, the twitchies. Every time I take a commercial airliner flight,..."
March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
A Walk on the Dark Side
An interview with Karen Bernstein, producer of Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Heart (playing at the Alamo Drafthouse on Wednesday, Jan. 10), a breathless, soundtrack-shaped romp through Reed's career so far
"..."American Masters" producer Karen Bernstein thinks the sweetest moment in the adventure that was the making..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
On the Bus
In the process of writing her new play con flama, Austin poet / writer Sharon Bridgforth discovered that the piece was not complete without her own voice in it. In the process of observing con flama's development, writer Belinda Acosta discovered something about her own voice, too.
"...Bridgforth thought she was writing a play about riding the bus. The celebrated Austin poet/playwright initially approached con flama,..."
Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta
The Return of Wayne Douglas
A flood of posthumous Doug Sahm CDs, both old and
new, hits record stores
"...Sahm raved to all his friends about Ed Burleson. The young, Dallas-area singer's country chops struck a nerve with..."
June 23, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw
Eating Between the Lines
Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking
"...Nathaniel's Nutmeg, or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who..."
June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit
The Sound of One Psycho Cracking
John Cale talks abut composing the original soundtrack for American Psycho
"...dog this highly charged movie. However, one aspect of the film that is indisputable is the importance of the..."
April 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Polytheism in the Raw
"...eyes to subjugate that worn-thin god whose expression on the cross hadn't changed for 2,000 years...."
Nov. 13, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura
In With the Old, In With the New
"...The latest pile of poetry to hit the Chronicle reflects..."
Oct. 23, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West
The Road to Publication
The University of Texas Press
"...UT Press Executive Editor and Assistant Director Theresa May and Press Director Joanna Hitchcock stand at the..."
Aug. 29, 1997 Books Feature by Clay Smith
Ripping the Shrew
The Rude Mechanicals Tear Into Shakespeare
"...Faires Press Release: Rude Mechanicals is proud to present their 97/98 season premiere, curst & Shrewd: The Taming of..."
Aug. 15, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini
The Pope of Avant Garde
Remembering William S. Burroughs
"...Just got the word that Burroughs died. A fine fellow, despite his..."
Aug. 15, 1997 Books Feature
WNBA: The "We Got Next" Generation
The Revolution Is Being Televised... and Sponsored by Nike
"...The point guard hurls a 3/4-court missile. Play becomes frantic..."
Aug. 15, 1997 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer
Weird Scenes Inside the Joke Mine
Austin Comics at the Montreal Comedy Fest
"...hundred comics walk into a bar.... It sounds like the opening line to a joke (and it probably is..."
Sept. 29, 1995 Arts Feature
Heard It on the X
Gibby Haynes on the Airwaves
"...am a flake of dandruff that has fallen into the cleavage of a very beautiful, very old motion picture..."
Sept. 8, 1995 Music Feature
The Solution to Pollution
On the Lege
"...The "Trust Me" Law: Signed into law on May 23,..."
