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The Ramblin' Soul of Songwriter Melissa Carper
Following the critically acclaimed Daddy's Country Gold, the spotlight-averse artist is primed for broader attention
"...Nebraska. The family would spend weekends driving to Elks Lodges and American Legion Halls all over western Nebraska, playing..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Data Shows Slightly Fewer Unhoused Austinites
Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) releases new report
"...temporary shelter, transitional housing, or one of the Protective Lodges (against COVID-19) set up by the city, bringing the..."

May 21, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Mayor Pro Tem Contest Kicks Off New Council Storylines
A leading role at City Hall?
"...will extend funding for two of the city's "protective lodges," which have been used to temporarily house unsheltered people..."

Jan. 22, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Feeling TEA Pressure, AISD Goes Back to Campus
District would risk losing state funding if it switched to all-virtual instruction
"...The district employee union Education Austin blasted the decision..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Inside the ProLodges Protecting Unhoused Austinites From COVID-19
"...The city's five Protective Lodges, or "ProLodges," help protect unhoused Austinites from COVID-19 by..."

Dec. 30, 2020 Photo Gallery

ProLodges Saves and Changes Some of Austin's Most Vulnerable Lives
Can the city keep them open?
"...important benefits of non-congregate transitional housing facilities, like the ProLodges, where guests have rooms of their own. A locked..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

COVID at AISD: Union Lodges Grievances as District Plays Hardball
Education Austin files over 100 grievances on behalf of teachers denied accommodations for spring semester

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Headlines / Quote of the Week
"...COVID at AISD: Education Austin has filed more than..."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature

Council Recap: Clearing the Decks for 2021 in a City That Never Stops Growing
Zoning, housing, and COVID relief dominate year's final meeting
"...the city prepares to begin shutting down its Protective Lodges, which since April have provided shelter, health care, and..."

Dec. 11, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Historic Baker School Site Among Items on Final 2020 Council Agenda
School, pond, no house
"...approximately 275 people currently staying at the city's protective lodges. Known as ProLodges, these housing facilities were quickly set..."

Dec. 11, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Q&A With City Manager Spencer Cronk
In his first sit-down interview with the Chronicle, Austin's CM discusses public safety, the budget, and next steps
"...stood up for people experiencing homelessness [the so-called Protective Lodges], there's a lease purchase option that potentially moves us..."

July 24, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Other Worlds Austin Warns You: It Came From the Desert!
Monster-sized insect movie gets its Texas premiere
"...filled with old prospectors, mad scientists, quirky small town lodges, and of course huge killer ants. It was such..."

May 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Suburbicon
The dark side of Fifties middle America
"...to help run the household and look after the Lodges’ son Nicky (Jupe, a real find). The Lodges’ backyard..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ATX TV Fest Quick Picks
Not sure what to do at ATX? We've got you covered.
"...RitzRemember this sweet-natured cousin to Twin Peaks? Fewer Black Lodges, more adorable moose. With Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, and..."

June 9, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: 7A Ranch Resort, Wimberley
Iconic family summer vacation cottages get a new lease on life after devastating flood
"...History wraps the cottages and lodges in a comforting blanket of traditional relaxation on the..."

May 5, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Under the Shadow
A mother and her son are stuck in a war zone in this Iranian horror film
"...building that becomes increasingly forbidding. When a dud missile lodges into the apartment’s ceiling – recalling a strikingly similar..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gay Place
The Gender Unbound Art Fest will spotlight the work of trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming artists and musicians
"...beer float, though that can happen too. Fri.-Sun. Heidelberg Lodges in New Braunfels...."

Sept. 23, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Whatcha Doing This Weekend, Austinite?
Here are at least five events you should definitely know about.
"...not talking about sports or popular music or sweat lodges or whatever, but specifically about things in the, as..."

Sept. 3, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Luv Doc: Thanks, SCOTUS
Americans should be highly suspicious of people walking around in robes
"...First of all, Americans should be highly suspicious of..."

July 4, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
Different Stages captures the small-town feel in Preston Jones' Texas drama, but the play's age is showing
"...as a playwright, but its target, like those old lodges, seems to belong to another era...."

April 11, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Assassins
Sondheim's black comic musical about presidential killers and would-be killers gets a fantastic staging by Soubrette
"...Robert Deike) and the symbolic nod to Nietzsche certainly lodges in the mind. As the rough-and-tumble proletarian activist from..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Liquid Black Licorice
Jägermeister and music go together like clubbing and hangovers
"...meant you could attend Nazi parties in various district lodges. Jäger's logo of a deer with full antlers gave..."

July 5, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Lords of Salem
With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.
"...ex-Marilyn Manson/current Rob Zombie guitarist John 5; appropriately, it lodges in your head and festers there for days afterward.)..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Review: 'The Lords of Salem'
A series of micro-nightmares bolstered by Rob Zombie's style
"...ex-Marilyn Manson/current Rob Zombie guitarist John 5; appropriately, it lodges in your head and festers there for days afterward.)..."

March 13, 2013 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Kendrick Lamar
"...Curating the next bass-laden party playlist lodges at the top of any short list for successful..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Music Review by Abby Johnston

Pictures of Superheroes Packs in the Austin Comedy Talent
Quirky comedy filled with familiar faces
"...One scene that lodges an indelible shard of laughter in your brain features..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Everything Went Black: Boo! Scary!
Whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist?
"...it's also what impacts our parental psyches quickest and lodges deepest. To quote Frank Herbert's visionary sic-fi novel Dune,..."

Oct. 4, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Killer Joe
Matthew McConaughey's Killer Joe is sociopathy incarnate; William Friedkin adds visual punch to the venality within Tracy Letts' screenplay.
"...but what little humor the film evinces almost immediately lodges in your windpipe like an errant bit of K-Fried-C..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ERMAHGERD! BURRRRG!
Yes, but look: It probably won't kill you.
"...your moist, halitositic, possibly alcohol-tainted maw. Where it promptly lodges throatwise and causes you to choke all the way..."

July 10, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Hellion' Gets Some Hot Lovin', Indiewire-Style
Kat Candler's Hellion named one of summer's hottest shorts
"...an emotional conflagration that, despite its brief running time, lodges in your head for days afterwards. Hot hot heat,..."

June 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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