Survey Says: Arts Rule!

According to a new study, three out of four Austinites agree that the arts are where it's at

"...to attendance by the people of the city, the arts in Austin have both beat. That's the word from..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Leave No Child Behind

In a an excerpt from their new book, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose expose Bush's No Child Left Behind policy as an educational Enron.

"...OK, so we're not real partial to public education in Texas...."

Oct. 3, 2003 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Downtown advocates, Austin arts groups, and U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett are all hopping..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Whole Schmear

The First Annual Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...events for the general public. They have a performing arts series, art classes, a camp, and a school of..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Maya Churi

Day Trips

"...Cookbook (Chronicle Books, $18.95) by Robb Walsh is only partially a cookbook. It is also part travel log and..."

June 7, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

"...If the Texas Transportation Commission agrees, contract talks will start next month...."

April 12, 2002 News Feature

TV Eye

Another day, another blah awards show

"...Saturday, I tuned into the First Annual American Film Institute (AFI) Awards broadcast live on CBS. Just what we..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...Suzy Banks started writing for the Chronicle in 1991 and sent in..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...dancing a secret drama that for a moment I'm part of. Laura Furman's stories, with their sharp detail, sense..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Public Notice

Hey! It's beginning to look a lot like over-glitzed, commercialized spending spree time of year, and oh, yeah, good will to all man and woman, man, so why don't you get on the public service tip whilst getting yer yule on to help your brotherman, or whoever …? Okay?

"...Fishing for Wishes Adrian Moore from the Institute for Weapon-Free Youth was the first to get a..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

All Together Now

City makes some headway on synchronizing traffic lights

"...says Keith, who is headed to her job at Barton Creek Square mall, just as most drivers are inching..."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...emotionally and physically stable, successful in a Austin-based dot-com startup company making God knows what...."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Articulations

The passing of Austin dancer Tamara Barrington Yaryan and opera star Irra Petina Bussey.

"...of the city's most gifted and giving young dance artists, one who was intimately involved in communicating the value..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Silent Partner

You don't hear much about Wayne Bell when the Long Center for the Performing Arts is discussed. That may be because this honored Austin architect is low-key, modest, the consummate team player. But he's the point man on this $60 million project and arts writer Robi Polgar reveals how integral he is in getting it built in a calm, orderly, informed, and successful way.

"...Winedale historical site, where he led the Winedale Preservation Institute; founder of the Historic Sites and Restoration branch of..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Italia With & Without

Week One: The Tour

"...arrived, and the translating staff of the Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners (the school that organized the tour and..."

May 28, 1999 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Making Lists

"..."Every man has a village in his heart, whether he comes from abounding Manhattan or the prairies..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Lies, All Lies

The Silver Castle

"...months, several journalists have been busted for fabricating news articles. Clive James is a popular journalist and TV personality..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Books Review

Austin Murals - A Partial List

"...and the constant creation of new works of wall art, it might just take a lifetime to find and..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Arts Feature

Food-O-File

Far-Flung Foodie Fun

"...a dessert cookbook she's planning with illustrations by local artist Sarah Higdon. A more complete report on the convention..."

May 1, 1998 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

"...Austin. It may be the only town in Texas started by a woman. In 1847, Mary Haller bought the..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Unrepentant Truths

Talking with Tammy Gomez

"...words. Others have called her an activist and multimedia artist, and to that I'll add punk rocker. Many of..."

June 27, 1997 Books Feature

The Celling of Sundance

Sundance Film Festival Report

"...Sundance Film Festival has also played a very large part in that development. This growing sophistication is also seen..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces More Speakers for 2024 Digging Deeper Into AI and the Future of Work

Dylan Mulvaney, Chuck D, and Uber CEO all added as speakers

"...Life: Clarity in an Age of Uncertainty, Bonnie Wan, partner and head of brand strategy at Goodby, Silverstein &..."

Oct. 24, 2023 SXSW Post

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Flatbed Press founders Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith, choreographer Kate Warren and theatre / spoken word artist Zell Miller III join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...For the arts and culture to take root in a city, to..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gay Place

Summer is the best time to get outside and play like a kid

"...channel your inner Sabrina for Sunday's witchy swim at Barton Springs. Of course, you can always dance to your..."

July 29, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

West Austin Studio Tour

Another weekend in which to go WEST, young man

"...and Food Festival, Austin Psych Fest, Blanton Museum of Art's Fifty Fest, and Eeyore's Birthday, you missed getting in..."

May 3, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Slack to the Future

Slacker at 20

"...have witnessed a positively tectonic shift in culture, commerce, art, and identity that has left the once-drowsy Hill Country..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Culture Flash!

A museum show for three shutterbugs, a prize for a canny sculptor, and calling all Young Masters

"...gal. After three years of entering the Red Bull Art of Can national competition, in which entrants create works..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Column by Robert Faires

General Jackson

Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well

"...Sixties and Seventies, the irreverent twisting of the classic art form to reflect the changing values of the generations...."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...South by Southwest invasion, I read your "Page Two" article in the March 4 Chronicle. You state that "[t]he..."

March 18, 2005 Column

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