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"...down 49th Street from Airport Boulevard sits a very uncommon house. Full-time studio, part-time gallery, and temporary home for..."
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Feb. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger
Q&A With Scott Crow
Anarchist and community organizer co-founded Common Ground Collective
"...along with Sharon Johnson and Malik Rahim, founded the Common Ground Collective with the goal to deliver basic aid..."
Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Waylon Cunningham
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...is going to New Orleans this weekend to help Common Ground Collective get its Radio Uprising project on the..."
March 3, 2006 News Feature
Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images
Friday-Sunday, as part of Cinematexas 11
"...cull film, photos, and audio recordings to document the collective punishment that killed more than 1,000 Lebanese while further..."
Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar
Civics 101
"...book, Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective, which takes on post-Katrina FEMA and radical..."
Feb. 10, 2012 News Column
Dreamland Via Cuba
Artists Virginia Fleck and Sandra Ceballos found dreams to be a recurring theme in both their work when Gallery 106 sent Austin-based Fleck to Ceballos' home in Cuba, and now they've collaborated on an exhibition titled "Dreaming My Dreams."
"...bags she uses in her sculpture as having "a collective voice; they are hawking the American dream, promising success..."
Feb. 21, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner
QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix
QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable
"...a way that we define our community; it's a collective of people. We disagree with each other constantly, and..."
June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer
The Informant
Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby
"...had been centrally involved in the work of the Common Ground Relief – a community effort focused on restoring..."
Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch
Lost Soulz
Gen-Z grabs the mic in this heartfelt rap road trip
"...course he’s going to get flattered when rising rap collective Lost Soulz ask him to get in the van...."
May 10, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Gentle Disturbances
Creating ripples in public space with large-scale public art
"...to borrow Christo's phrase, across the face of our community.Common Ground..."
March 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Quest for Aztlan
Roen Salinas Searches for -- and Finds -- Life in Folklórico
"...of this land," states Salinas. "That's why, with my background in all this dance, I feel justified to begin..."
April 24, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza
Postmarks
For the Record
"...The fact is, Mr. Jack's opponent had a stronger background, more related experience, and more knowledge about the schools...."
May 15, 1998 Column
One Big Gay Happy Family?
QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable
"...a way that we define our community; it's a collective. It's all opinions, all in. I love the collective...."
June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer
News/Print
Moving images and archbishops on death row
"...among the AHC, the AHC Association, and the ProArts Collective – are available at the library nearest you... Sticking..."
April 2, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley
Point Austin: Under Fire
Memo to Toby Futrell: it's called 'negotiation'
"...has effectively gotten what it wanted, why have negotiations ground to a halt?..."
Sept. 23, 2005 News Column by Michael King
Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud
September 1982-August 1988
"...came by the CinemaTexas office to watch a Velvet Underground film that we had shown as part of a..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Tribeca Film Review: Lost Soulz
Austinite Katherine Propper's rap road trip goes to heartfelt places
"...course he's going to get flattered when rising rap collective Lost Soulz ask him to get in the van...."
June 16, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Point Austin: Fixing What Ain't Broke
Does city want fair hiring, or to break the union?
"...the current hiring process has been stalled by a collective bargaining impasse between city management and the AFA...."
May 23, 2014 News Column by Michael King
Techno-Artistic
Katie Rose Pipkin and the new art
"...17 when she and Pepper met. They prepared the grounds for Wardenclyffe and its collaborative air through a project..."
Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Feature by Matthew Irwin
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...just Austin, and neighborhood and environmental interests are finding common ground all over Central Texas...."
March 3, 2000 Column
Playing Kissyface
Profile of eclecto-rockers Adult Rodeo
"...the music of Austin newcomers Adult Rodeo, there is common ground between the musical visions of Townes Van Zandt..."
Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess
Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film
Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced
"...film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety .(Canada, US)..."
Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
From Occupation to Co-operation
Co-op Think Tank organizes to expand member-owned movement
"...that open social system allows existing co-ops to find common ground that will be essential for expansion to occur...."
Jan. 25, 2013 News Feature by Robyn Ross
Ghost Discography
"...Chicago indie Drag City, Ghost's eponymous debut takes a collective approach, amounting to Tibetan drones ("Moungod Te Deum," "Moungod..."
May 15, 2009 Music Feature
Acevedo Chosen as New Police Chief: Let the sun shine in
City Manager picks Art Acevedo, a California Highway
Patrol division chief, to be Austin's next top cop
"...says he was similarly impressed. "He'd already hit the ground running, and he hadn't even gotten the job," Beck..."
June 22, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Rude Mechs' Fixing Timon of Athens
The theatre collective's latest repair job on a broken Shakespeare play is wildly accessible, welcoming, and enthralling
"...Shakespeare wildly accessible, and in ways differing from other common attempts. Most companies simply reframe classical work in a..."
Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver
Making Offers No One Can Refuse
The Five Families of Austin improv go Out of Bounds with the 13th annual comedy festival
"...being this big festival where we come together on common ground. And, after that, it's a working relationship –..."
Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers
S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs
"...for seminal bluesman Big Bill Broonzy, which brought about Common Ground: Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin Play and Sing..."
March 14, 2014 Music Feature
Upcoming Gaming Events
Not counting that SXSW thing
"...It's common knowledge: The SXSW Gaming Expo is going to be..."
March 5, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch
'Dream City' or Neighborhood Threat?
A proposed church development has some residents losing sleep
"...for a peaceful 53-acre tract in Southwest Austin, the collective antenna of Oak Hill neighborhoods has been on full..."
