Faster Than Sound: Cheer Up Charlies Principal Maggie Lea Takes on Breast Cancer

Cheer Up Charlies co-owner reflects on business and mental health evolution following diagnosis. Meanwhile, the Convention Center expansion gets approval by Music Commission, and Project ATX6 announces a new lineup.

"...this totally self-sufficient, lonely island of functioning everyday robotically," shares the business owner. "I neglected to handle some of..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Honky-Tonk Soul Man Charley Crockett Makes His Move

The singer’s long road to Austin

"...time in his life, the tides are turning his way...."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Lobster Rolls and Business Rules at Garbo’s

Heidi Garbo is strong as hell

"...they are the largest retail supplier of lobster in Texas, indicating that Austinites have a huge newfound craving for..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Public Notice: Ted Gordon Believes

Is it too late to fix the AISD bond package?

"...Arts and Sciences Academy off of the campus it shares with low-income students at LBJ High, and to drop..."

June 23, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Celis Brewery Returns

The revitalization of Austin’s first big-time brewery

"...Long before craft brewing in Central Texas slanted toward German and Czech, 67-year-old Belgian Pierre Celis..."

April 14, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Are City Employee Pensions at Risk?

Pension systems in Dallas and Houston have been beat up by bad spending.

"...divisions over how to preserve the fund in a way that's fair yet keeps public safety staffing stable, even..."

Feb. 24, 2017 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Outside of Society

Does Austin have enough room for two queer film festivals?

"...and arts scene is an understatement as big as Texas...."

May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at DVDanger towers, we're fully aware that..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thinking App

Locally developed brain game Qrank gets competitive

"...worth more points, so, for truly impressive scores, stay away from the easy ones. They're beneath you anyway. Each..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...while Berkeley's Truthlive spits optimistic realism and Brooklyn by way of Connecticut MC/graf artist Bisco Smith waxes Def Jux..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Back to School

Carstarphen and Austin ISD trustees wrestle over priorities, budget, and power

"...make a difference to kids," she said, and "that's another $8.6 million." In total, that means the district is..."

March 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Just Add Students

The new Eastside high school takes issue

"...Under the state's Accountability Rating System, administered by the Texas Education Agency, it was classified as "academically unacceptable" for..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Immigrant Detention Blues

Unknown number of immigrants languish in private detention center in Taylor; a small but growing group is working to make their situation public knowledge

"...separated from his family in a prison in Haskell, Texas. Hanan, his pregnant wife, shares a cell at the..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Diana Welch

They Hear America Singing!

Grammy-nominated Conspirare brings together 600 voices in search of our national sound

"...who we are as a nation, about the unique ways in which we express ourselves and how that has..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and Jim McDermitt claims, "The formation of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, as a new toll road authority..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Column

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...for a quarter, and she chooses Freddie King's "Hide Away," Angela & Lewis' "My Back Scratcher," and Storm's "The..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Cheese Stands Alone

Cheese, in all of its artisanal, aromatic glory, takes its rightful place at Austin's tables.

"...certainly not runny, stinky cheese in the bargain. No way. In retrospect, the cheeses on that Ptarmigan Room menu..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

"...throwback (six years?), besides, and it falls by the wayside once Tim Lott starts singing because, well, he's not..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

Standing Next to a Mountain

Examining the 3-CD Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble box set.

"..."But I think he's become a myth in a way. I don't think he'd be real happy with that..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...directs Kinesis Dance Theatre Projects, "which gives me four ways to view the world. I have gone to India..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Council Watch

Several prospective candidates are expressing an interest in running for the council seat Gus Garcia is vacating

"...for voters, for would-be candidates -- the serious ones, anyway, proceedings start long before the announcement.Who'll Be the One?..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Why Wall Street Is Betting on Austin's Multimedia That Magic Touch

"...Mostly, though, what's hot is money ... Isn't that always the case? Adventure Capital..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Two Bios of Barbara

"...she lonely, this big black woman about whom one Texas lobbyist remarked, "she looks like she might be God,..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Books Review

Reissues

"...few of the well-known extrapolating entities. Though popular success always eluded Gang of Four, 100 Flowers Bloom adds a..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Postmarks

"...the planning stages. If the Chron decides to do another story on the MACC, at least get a writer..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Column

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...cultures, technology, secret histories, conspiracy theories, and sex. Webb shares his life over the Internet through his "Letters to..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...to be so trashy. Or maybe it's the other way around...."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

What's Left of the Dial?

Virtual Deejays, Pay-to-Play, Celine Dion

"...Eric Raines photograph by John Anderson Victoria, Texas is not the kind of place where you might..."

May 22, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Corridor Conundrum

The Truth Is Out There on the Highway

"..."Austintonio" region (a term reviled by folks down Alamo way) is likely not mythical. But if we intend to..."

May 8, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Ride This Rocket

Damon Bramblett

"...well, might as well get it out of the way early. Yes, Damon Bramblett's voice does bear a certain..."

March 6, 1998 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

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