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Nov. 13, 2006 Sports Post by Robert Gabriel
The Hightower Report
Bush's Homeland Hokum; and Ralph and Mary's Park
"...the bloody flag of 9/11 and posing as America's valiant defender. For example, he scooted over to the National..."
Sept. 15, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower
Wassup Rockers
Larry Clark, the director of Kids, is back 10 years later with this look at a group of teenage male Latinos in Los Angeles who have more than the usual difficulties finding somewhere to fit in.
"...audience. One who’s nicknamed Spermball (Milton Velasquez) makes a valiant attempt to get his friends to call him by..."
July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Council Notes
What's ahead for this week's City Council meeting
"...in certain zoning districts." We can only hope this valiant Taco Stand Amendment means gyros and burritos will clog..."
April 21, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
SXSW Film
Interviews and reviews
"...the visual patterns flashing in front of them. Despite valiant effort, there was little sense to be gleaned from..."
March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar
Gift Guide
"...sad spectacle of some actor trying to look convincingly valiant in Spandex long johns. And yet some part of..."
Dec. 23, 2005 Books Feature by Robert Faires
Point Austin: Beside the Point
Bowing to public pressure, city declines to change management of Zilker's canoe rental service from longtime concessionaire Zilker Park Boat Rentals
"...outside? Nope, most of that passed too. So what valiant stand, you may ask, for representative government, did Council..."
Dec. 23, 2005 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...• Remember Pat Tillman, the NFL star who valiantly gave up his lucrative career, joined the military after..."
Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature
Valiant
Valiant, an animated adventure about heroic homing pigeons in England during World War II, flies in on a wing and a prayer.
"...Directed by: Gary Chapman. Valiant, an animated adventure about heroic homing pigeons in Great..."
Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Day the Music Died
Austin Music Network's on-air life winds down, as another network AMPs up
"...AMN should continue, if its online proposal is a valiant but doomed gesture or a desperate attachment to what's..."
Aug. 19, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Lege Notes
Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th
"...• Weed Watch: Despite the valiant efforts of Texans for Medical Marijuana and the group's..."
May 6, 2005 News Column
Girls Can Tell
"...than Beatle Bob himself, with that old reliable Prince Valiant haircut! I'd been wondering if he'd made it to..."
March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt
Country Mile
Country mile
"...establish himself as an elder-respecting hellraiser, Jennings makes a valiant run at living up to his dad's outlaw legacy,..."
March 11, 2005 Music Review by Christopher Gray
Point Austin: High Tuition
As the centex toll plan moves forward, Austin
becomes a reluctant stepchild
"...taken often in vain at last Thursday's meeting, while valiant Michael Aulick of CAMPO was left to defend the..."
March 11, 2005 News Column by Michael King
Index to Idioms
Deb Margolin's Index to Idioms played with our assumptions about familiar expressions and used episodes from her life to give them new meanings
"...Throws Like a Girl series, Margolin was aflame and valiant. The playwright, performer, and founding member of the New..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole
Endorsements
The Chronicle's picks in the Nov. 2 election
"...court's worst decisions, to little avail. The opponents are valiant mavericks, hoping to make a statement about the court's..."
Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature
The Challenge of Judge Dietz
School finance decision puts responsibility where it's always been - on all of us
"...There remains, of course, one valiant holdout against that consensus: Gov. Rick Perry, who argued..."
Sept. 24, 2004 News Column by Michael King
The Put-Downs
Texas platters
"...Mecca. With their second full-length, the Put-Downs continue a valiant struggle to put the "Wrong Side of Texas" on..."
July 16, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Doesn't Austin deserve to celebrate Austin's son in a valiant trendsetting way? It would be cooler if it was..."
June 18, 2004 Column
It's Easy, Just Cut Lamar Boulevard in Half
"...Doesn't Austin deserve to celebrate Austin's son in a valiant trendsetting way? It would be cooler if it was..."
June 11, 2004 Postmarks
Rhythm of Black Lines
Texas platters
"...of melody, energy, or a coherent artistic statement. Too valiant to dismiss, too difficult to love...."
May 14, 2004 Music Review by Michael Chamy
Passing the Buck
With the special session nearly gone, the goal continues to recede
"...It was a valiant effort, and Grusendorf repeated himself at such length that..."
May 14, 2004 News Column by Michael King
Sharpstown vs. Tomstown
Will "Tomstown" be as big as Sharpstown?
"...an "unindicted co-conspirator," found himself tossed out (after a valiant run by Houston liberal Frances "Sissy" Farenthold) in favor..."
March 5, 2004 News Column by Michael King
Food-o-File
Events, closings, and condolences: Virginia B. Wood
reports
"...report that family matriarch Marge Kinsella lost her long, valiant battle with cancer last week. The family is busy..."
Jan. 23, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
'The Austin Chronicle' and Richard Linklater
The beginning of a beautiful friendship
"...credit). At this time Rick's standard look was Prince Valiant haircut, shorts, T-shirt -- again, not a confidence inspirer..."
Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black
Grind
"...Indies on rampwood. That said, Grind is a marginally valiant effort nonetheless, leavened by a scene-stealing performance from Vince..."
Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Halley
Live Shot
"...together as one majestic tidal wave. Together with other valiant Austin cosmonauts like Winslow and Experimental Aircraft, these bands..."
July 25, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy
TCB
Willie's July 4th picnic showers Spicewood with more than just fireworks.
"...do their business alongside Highway 71, including three especially valiant squatters. The westbound lanes were solid pickups, SUVs, and..."
July 11, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray
King Henry V
With only 11 players, two musicians, and the sparest of stage trappings, the Austin Shakespeare Festival's production of King Henry V provides a sweeping panorama of life during wartime, one that has much to say to a nation at war today.
"...commoners, clergymen and cutpurses, the young, the old, the valiant, and the vain, on both sides of the battle...."
May 9, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...being locked in the trunk of a 1975 Plymouth Valiant during a high-speed chase through south San Antonio. (Room..."
