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Out All Night
Chronicle Food writer MM Pack gives the lowdown on where to eat in Austin if you're out all night.
"...and oatmeal, Mojo's is located in a rambling 19th-century house a stone's throw away from UT. This is a..."

March 1, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

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Our readers talk back.
"...Myers responded to my call for pickup of a houseful of items quickly and professionally. If you are someone..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Column

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"...Austin area most workers could not afford a $200,000 house when the owner lives in an $8 million house...."

Dec. 28, 2001 Column

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"...doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise."..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column

The Agony of the Ecstasy
Will the federal and local crackdown on ecstasy put raves out of business?
"...the drug has already spread to everywhere else: rock concerts, Sixth Street, any and all places where people are..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning
The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.
"...the time, and the CT office was our longtime clubhouse. I was employed in various work-study jobs in the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Chapter 5: An Ongoing Odyssey
Twenty years of The Austin Chronicle: the final chapter and coda
"...Approx. 95 Wednesday lunches; House on Haunted Hill T-shirt; The Bone Collector T-shirt; The..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Where Are They Now?
The future of Music Televison
"...California was a reported early holdout, until the White House assured hundreds of medical marijuana growers their fields would..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...
"...our neighborhood friends Stubb's, Waterloo Park, and the new concerts at Seventh and Neches, may be at risk of..."

July 27, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood remembers Ninfa Laurenzo, the founder of the popular Ninfa's Tex-Mex chain, who passed away last week, and updates readers on the culinary news around Austin.
"...and West Austin neighborhood diners. The cozy 46-seat dinner house is located in the space originally occupied by Castle..."

June 29, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

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The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.
"...the show. But it was one of the best concerts ever played in this town. A lot of the..."

June 8, 2001 Column

Ruling the Roost
Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement
"...the Eighties, he owned and operated the Austin Opera House, while co-founding Star Tickets and staging hundreds of large-scale..."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Day Trips
Earl Abel's Coffee Shop in San Antonio has that vintage advantage.
"...Of all the menu items, fried chicken is the house specialty. Each piece is covered with a golden brown..."

April 27, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...
"...scheduled to include Dick Price's "Hillbillies in a Haunted House," and two cuts from Wammo's Faster Than the Speed..."

April 13, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Breaking Barriers With Christ and Rock
A reprint of an Austin Chronicle Q&A from 1982 with U2's Bono Hewson and Adam Clayton.
"...was chilly outside Saturday night, but inside the Opry House, the Irish band U2 had worked themselves and their..."

March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture
A flood of weather (and music) following SXSW
"...to announce acts throughout the spring. Tickets for upcoming concerts are available through Ticketmaster outlets or by visiting SFX's..."

March 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

In God's Country
Why U2 is the best band ever
"...broadcast live on CNN, the zenith-like rise of both house music in the UK and hip-hop in the U.S.,..."

March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture
SXSW wristbands go on sale with the news that Dr. Demento will be attending this year's festival. Also, the passing of the Victory Grill's Johnny Holmes, and the expansion of Emo's.
"...Revolver magazine party during the conference at an undisclosed warehouse. Because the recently reformed band is not part of..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Sister in the Spirit
Praising the Lord with one of Austin's most talented sisters
"...church, Greater Mount Zion Baptist. One evening at the house of prayer, Williams and friends were singing on their..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Make Your Mama Proud
The Gospel According to Bill "The Mailman" Martin and Chester Baldwin
"...spinning inspirational records old and new, he announces upcoming concerts and special events, reads prayer requests over the air,..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Gardens of Eden
Entertainment has always been a keystone of Austin's identity, Cuisines writer Rachel Feit observes. And among Austin's numerous diversions were German beer gardens.
"...croquet. Meanwhile, in the red light district, saloons, gambling houses, and brothels proliferated, providing entertainment evenhandedly to legislators and..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Putting It Together
The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music
"...Of course, no rock; I brought that into the house. So I heard music in the house all the..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Dancing About Architecture
Freddy Fender is diagnosed with Hepatitis C, as news comes in that Direct Events owner and longtime local live music promoter Tim O'Connor is getting ready to retire.
"...out at the Backyard, promotes shows with larger PACE Concerts (aka SFX), but is in no sense owned by..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Tying the Knot: A Drama
Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.
"...earnings and portfolio diversification; we think about plays and concerts, experiences that delight us, move us, feed our souls...."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lot of Livin' to Do
For 15 years, Paul Beutel has managed Austin's Paramount Theatre, programming its popular film series and live shows and bringing it back from financial ruin, and he still puts in six to seven days a week there. Where do his passion and devotion spring from? Would you believe Bye Bye Birdie?
"...The theatre was one of these huge old movie houses, a 3,000 seater, and watching a picture in it..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture
House of Blues breaks ground at Southpark Meadows where the old stage will be replaced, but not before Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.
"...Blues in the Big House..."

June 9, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture
Clifford Antone receives a sentence; Heinz Geissler takes over the Antone's Records label; Ed Hamell is hospitalized after a car accident.
"...crews were out in full force at the federal courthouse last Thursday, with not one but two major trials..."

June 2, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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Our readers talk back.
"...that 98.9% of the people who go to live concerts (Springsteen included) go for the "mere" entertainment value?? Only..."

May 12, 2000 Column

Dancing About Architecture
Austin leaves Ken Lieck homeless and fuming.
"...As I type this, I've got a house full of records, videos, comic books, and, of course,..."

April 28, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Afro-Cuban All Stars, Paramount Theatre, March 23
"...masses where it was ultimately passed around the entire house, balcony included, in a unique example of gourd crowd-surfing...."

April 7, 2000 Music Review by David Lynch

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