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Deaf Austinites say police can't seem to listen to reason
"...officer is "unable to convey the nature of the infraction." In that case, the officer can decide whether to..."
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Dec. 3, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Sharecropping on Wheels
While the city juggles taxicab franchises, drivers demand 'a fair shake'
"...taxi system. The drivers are dearly hoping that council action can and will speed that change along. Money Flows..."
June 11, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Election News
"...to retain her seat. Dunbar also was a key figure in the fundamentalist fight against evolution that made Texas..."
Dec. 18, 2009 News Feature
Page Two: Not Rocket Science
Public discourse has abandoned reasoned debate in favor of irrationality and insult
"...liberals, Luddites, globalists, conspiracy theorists, capitalists, anti-capitalists, media pundits, reactionaries, radicals, anarchists, unacknowledged fascists, extreme environmentalists, and extreme anti-environmentalists,..."
Dec. 4, 2009 Column by Louis Black
Melanie Sobel's Letter
Former Williamson Co. animal shelter director Melanie Sobel's open letter defending her record and recounting her experiences with Williamson Co. government
"...This action, it turns out, was not done properly because the..."
July 6, 2007 News Feature
How Cool Is Austin?
With a deep, collective breath, the city rolls out a world-class – but as yet unproven – climate-protection plan
"...mandate the specifics. It's not yet a course of action ... but he really did his homework. Over the..."
March 9, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Coal Hard Reality
Still cloudy over TXU
"...Climate Protection Plan – which would certainly boost that figure significantly – but it would have an uphill battle..."
March 9, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Strategy and Strategery
Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel on Darkon and the real-world implications of role players at war
"...get called geeks. Call them instead LARPers – live action role-players – and the subject of Darkon, an overwhelming..."
Jan. 26, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Naked City
"...Wal-Mart coming to Northcross Mall, neighbors are trying to figure out how to skin it – a group named..."
Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature
No Family Is an Island
The Piersons on 'Reel Paradise'
"...director of Stevie. "And they want broad comedy and action and slapstick. ... You could look at it like..."
Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons
Naked City
Guv's '65 Percent' mandate called arbitrary and a distraction
"...or filing lawsuits against the state. "I'm taking this action today because improving classroom performance is simply too important..."
Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
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Our readers talk back.
"...that could even knock him off is the religious figure Jesus Christ...."
Aug. 6, 2004 Column
Page Two
Liberals' core beliefs are as vital as ever, but they've forgotten how to communicate
"...based on a sense of shared responsibility, with government action viewed as a legitimate way to deal with social..."
June 11, 2004 Column by Louis Black
(Re)learning Japanese
One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature. The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman-in-training who stumbled into acting after his grizzled mug and gruff mien won a talent search. Together, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune created some of the Japanese cinema's most enduring treasures.
"...bay with his quick wit and military might. The action scenes are epic, the landscape sweeping, and the tension..."
Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman
The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002
The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election
"...campaign, in the face of snide and often dishonest reaction. There is much to praise in Doggett; we're happy..."
Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature
The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002
The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election
"...campaign, in the face of snide and often dishonest reaction. There is much to praise in Doggett; we're happy..."
Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature
The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002
The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election
"...campaign, in the face of snide and often dishonest reaction. There is much to praise in Doggett; we're happy..."
Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature
Unconsuming
The Whirl-Mart concept comes to Austin
"...the standard picket-sign-and-rally protest. "We want to let people figure things out for themselves," he says. But a Wal-Mart..."
July 5, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Six (Not So) Easy Pieces
Eight local filmmakers team up to shoot DV shorts in and about Austin.
"...color, (c) each short would have to be a live-action narrative, set in Austin with a time frame within..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus
TV Eye
No Emmy nominations for Buffy
"...dead on the couch, she launches into the expected reactions -- shock, disbelief, fear, horror. But instead of gilding..."
July 20, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Who Owns Sixth Street
Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?
"...shop on Sixth, if there were any daytime retail action...."
May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town
Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.
"...later regret, it gave him the license. Cooney would figure prominently in the courts for years to come, and..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley
Defying Gravity
With Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee took one of the most maligned of cinematic genres -- the kung fu film -- and created an epic many critics (this one included) are calling the year's best movie. We spoke with him about the film's grueling shoot, the refinement it makes to the martial arts genre, and more.
"...women tell them. In my later films, the father figures are even more clueless. Like Kevin Kline in The..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
Faith Healers
A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.
"...Island is the kind of older, boarded-up neighborhood that figures in the ghost stories every town tells about itself...."
Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle
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Our readers talk back.
"...Your "Chain Reaction" of civic superlatives (Dec. 24) resembled the chamber of..."
Dec. 31, 1999 Column
Postmarks
The beefs this week: Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce on CNN, genetically engineered foods, Steamboat, John Aielli, Paul Minor, and more.
"...Jay Trachtenberg)? The whole country is talking about affirmative action, but turn on our "public" radio station at any..."
Sept. 3, 1999 Column
Media Clips
"Media Clips" weighs in on Web site parody of George Bush, Statesman reporter Ben Wear moved off of the city hall beat, and Travis County District Judge Jeanne Meurer declines to issue ruling in KOOP case.
"...same type of political speech carried out by political action committees and candidate campaigns, and that Exley may have..."
Sept. 3, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols
Exhibitionism
Waiting for Godot: Man's Sad Lot Made Funny
"...tedious, as you might expect in any play whose action is the absolute absence of action. But it is..."
April 16, 1999 Arts Review
Picks to Snicker
Rich Man, Poor Man, Funny Man, Stephen Root
"...playing the browbeaten cubicle hermit Milton in Mike Judge's live-action feature debut Office Space, and a bit of cable..."
April 2, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Buried in Scandal
SCI and the Money Trail
"...campaign finance records show that since 1996, SCI's political action committee has given Gov. Bush $35,000, Lt. Gov Rick..."
