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Proof of Nothingnew
When you were busted for public intoxication, were you drunk? Or did you just piss off a cop?
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
06-24-2011 |
Civil Liberties
The Color of Firenew
The Austin Fire Department is making yet another attempt at staff diversity – will it do any better this time?
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
05-18-2011 |
Race & Class
Tags: Diversity, Austin Fire Department
Safety Net or Dead End?new
The politics of animal welfare in Austin.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
02-18-2011 |
Animal Issues
Tags: Dogs, Animal Welfare
A Parliament of Expertsnew
Did 'expert testimony' convict an innocent woman of murder?
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
02-08-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Rosa Jimenez, Victoria Gutierrez
Beware of Kids With Headphonesnew
Digital dosing the new gateway drug?
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
07-19-2010 |
Drugs
Stairway to Cleveland: My Dinner with Harvey Pekarnew
My dinner with Harvey Pekar -- three weeks ago
Austin Chronicle |
Raoul Hernandez |
07-19-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harvey Pekar
Medi-Pot Patient Sues Wal-Martnew
How does Wal-Mart prove that it doesn't mistreat its workers? By firing a model employee with an inoperable brain tumor after finding out he uses medi-pot, that's how.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
07-12-2010 |
Drugs
Tags: Wal-Mart, Medical Marijuana
Our Bodies, Our Carsnew
The links between urban design and public health.
Austin Chronicle |
Katherine Gregor |
06-14-2010 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation, New Urbanism
Women Writers 'Between the Sheets'new
In her exploration of the private lives of nine 20th-century female writers, Lesley McDowell sets out to prove "that none of the women artists mentioned here were victims at all, but that they chose their own fates knowingly and without the taint of victimization."
Austin Chronicle |
Audra Schroeder |
05-11-2010 |
Nonfiction
Home Field Advantage: Inside 'Friday Night Lights'new
A look at the first-string cast, crew, and city that have made Friday Night Lights a television playmaker season after season.
Austin Chronicle |
Belinda Acosta |
04-29-2010 |
TV
Tags: NBC, Friday Night Lights
Just Ask John Keats: Love Happensnew
Jane Campion's Bright Star, about the love affair between the tubercular poet John Keats and girl-next-door Fanny Brawne, recasts the old stanza in chaste but voluptuous terms.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-26-2009 |
Reviews
'Taking Woodstock': A Garden of Earthly Delightsnew
The director of Brokeback Mountain looks for peace and love in another decade and finds it at the legendary festival with the story of one key participant.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-28-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee
Sleuth Goof 'Mystery Team' is a Chuckler With the Occasional Full-Throated Laughnew
The twentysomething talents behind Mystery Team are still in the comedy minors, but this nerdy, nutty, perfectly pitched first swing suggests there are major things to come.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-28-2009 |
Reviews
'Departures': Between Life and Deathnew
This Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a gentle and comedically nuanced exercise in mourning from Japan.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-28-2009 |
Reviews
Quentin Tarantino Talks About Rewriting the Spaghetti Western With a Side of Sour Krautsnew
Here's the thing about interviewing Quentin Tarantino: His need to talk about movies is irrepressible. His insatiable hunger dominates the conversation, and his knowledge of and fascination with the work of other filmmakers are as intense and intimate as his reflections on his own career.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-20-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
