Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Stops, Huh? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's rap sheet of scandals knows not the limits of time (nor ethics)..."

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature

Manufacturing Innovation

Will the next big thing be a product of inspiration, perspiration, or just dumb luck?

"...SXSW Interactive, there are roughly 40 with some iteration of the word "innovation" in the title and no doubt..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

SXSW Interactive: Innovation vs. Regulation in Austin

Local officials weigh in on the Uber/Lyft debate

"...councilmember, Ann Kitchen requested a change to the title of the panel Innovation vs. Regulation in Austin. “It’s not..."

March 12, 2016 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

Faster Than Sound – Welcome to Red River World: The Future of Austin’s Music District

Forecasting the storm of developments between the state Capitol and I-35. Also, NPR warned and ACL Fest confirms: Austin’s pop soloists are stepping up.

"...and Symphony Square. Between them runs a sleepy stretch of office buildings and not much else. And yet, mirroring..."

May 24, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Doug Sahm for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

The Austin Music Hall gets slated for teardown, the Roost closes while looking for a cash infusion, Backyard owner Tim O'Connor gets back in the concert game, and a Kickstarter campaign to get Doug Sahm into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

"..."Sahm's among the most important players in the history of Texas music. He defined it as a musician, singer,..."

July 10, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Perils of Big Data

The up- and downsides of student information collection

"...There's a name that will be on a lot of tongues at SXSWedu. That name is inBloom – and..."

March 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Adler's First "State of the City"

Mayor Steve Adler calls for "inclusion, innovation, improvisation"

"...Performing Arts Center in the Mueller neighborhood, the Mayor of 100 Days asked his large, enthusiastic audience to join..."

April 13, 2015 News Post by Michael King

The Return of the Oops

Perry unclear on what charges his lawyers want dropped

"...morning, Perry's lawyers filed a 60 page pretrial writ of habeas corpus with 390th District Court Judge Julie Kocurek...."

Aug. 26, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Speaking of Dance

The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.

"...review when a phrase caught her eye: "multiple cuppings of dipped heads." Huh? She had seen the show, too,..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Austin’s Animal Shelters Struggle to Uphold No-Kill Reputation in the Face of Overcrowding

How overcrowding and mismanagement of Austin Animal Center and Austin Pets Alive! have them struggling to keep up

"...in Austin still prides itself at its save rate of over 95%. To achieve that level of performance, the..."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Race to Innovation

With $1,000 each and eight weeks, five teams compete to take theatre to a new level

"...a lighter. Or you can bang the right kinds of rocks together until they produce a spark. The first..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Austin-Based Brane Audio Is Changing the Laws of Physics in Speaker Tech

All about that bass

"...In the foyer, more or less, of a small, generic office in an even more generic..."

March 10, 2023 Features Feature by Joe Gross

Constables, Precincts 1, 3, 4: Nature of the Job

Spit flies in other constable races, but no lawsuits (yet)

"...Often lost in all the up-ballot headlines, county constable races..."

May 11, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

The End of the Free and Open Internet?

Austin's creative class worries what the FCC net neutrality ruling means for life online

"...was built by governments and academics, away from the profit-motived direction of any one business, so that all citizens..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lee & Carole & Brewster & All of Us ...

Five candidates for mayor jockey to be first among equals

"...Contrary to what many of us are raised to believe, the mayor isn't the..."

May 1, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Whurley, Physics, and the Strange Work of Quantum Computing in Austin

Is the world ready to take a quantum leap?

"...with the impressive "Strangeworks" sign is yet another trendy coffee shop. But you'd be wrong. It's actually a quantum..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

Downtown Puzzle: Dell Seton’s Innovation Station

Goodbye to Brackenridge, hello to ...?

"...sleek, 517,000-square-foot Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas, which opened in May across the street. While..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

A Celebration of Austin’s Black Cemeteries

Cemetery tour to help re-discover Austin’s lost black history

"...Cemetery, located along Springdale near 12th Street, in front of Sims Elementary School. The first observation upon making the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Bill of the Week: Down With Tests, Up With Standards?

Bipartisan starting point for school graduation reform

"...Putte, D-San Antonio, and Rep. Diane Patrick, R-Arlington, are offering him a first draft...."

Jan. 26, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Institutionalized Innovation

In its 11th year, the annual Austin theatre celebration FronteraFest is as edgy as ever.

"...to be among the most innovative, edgy, and accomplished of Austin theatre practitioners, and institutionalization smacks of tradition and..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The (Re-)Rise of Start-Up Culture

Are we closing in on a sustainable model?

"...would come rolling in, right? Ask Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, and he'll tell you straight: It..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Study Shows Growing Racial Disparities in APD Traffic Stops and Arrests

Black, Hispanic drivers overrepresented in police enforcement

"...Austin Police Department at rates greater than their share of the city’s population, while white and Asian drivers were..."

Jan. 30, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Impact Hub to Fund Work on Austin's Affordability Problem

City money would go to social innovators

"...brand as a tech hub that cares, the city's Office of Innovation is sweetening the pot offered by Impact..."

May 17, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Racial Disparities in Policing Persist, City Report Shows

Black, Latinx drivers overrepresented in APD traffic stops and searches

"...Depart­ment, according to the latest report issued by the Office of Police Oversight, the Office of Innovation, and the..."

Nov. 27, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

After DEI Cuts, This Sixth-Gen Austinite Is Losing Access to UT

“It feels like Jim Crow”

"...her family was enslaved just a few miles east of the city, in the cotton farming town of Webberville...."

April 5, 2024 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

Austin's Next Shot at Ending Homelessness

Thanks to an infusion of philanthropic cash, the city and its iTeam embark on a new effort

"...I was having fun and had guys taking care of me. My significant other at the time didn't think..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Designing a Smarter City

New weeklong event celebrates city's creative community

"...design? Is it a process? An art? A way of thinking? A type of communication? Ask any person on..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Racial Disparities Persist and Worsen in APD Traffic Stops

Going nowhere fast

"...Austin Police Department at rates greater than their share of the city's population, while white and Asian drivers were..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

How Do You Formulate a Grand Prix?

The race to nail down an F1 deal involves multiple entities

"...beginning to tackle the complicated and potentially daunting reality of turning a big dream into a concrete reality, starting..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Oops!

"...story last week on Impact Hub and the city's Office of Innovation ("Impact Hub to Fund Work on Austin's..."

May 24, 2019 Column

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