Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...Ryan Blake, offering a rare recording of undigitized Eighties/Nineties Austin girl group Cooly Girls. Alongside taking over Manners' longtime..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Writers on Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez as He Leaves His Post

The retiring editor left deep imprints on all who wrote for him

"...the last 27 years, Raoul Hernandez has overseen The Austin Chronicle's music coverage. A conservative estimate would indicate that..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Homes Tour: The Art of the Craftsman Style

John Ruskin's ghost will be nearby, eating breakfast tacos and smiling

"...of residential simplicity and handworked elegance in this country’s history – and she’ll be glad to see as many..."

April 24, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...the Big Boys, whose scathing punk for a classed-up Austin Music Awards show audience visited the genre’s desired effect..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

An Austin Music Poll FAQ: Attempting Answers on the 43-Year Tradition

Winner announcements move to print; the party moves to Antone’s

"...Just a few months after the launch of The Austin Chronicle as a brand-new baby publication, the first Austin..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The 'Chronicle' Responds to TPCN

The TPCN complaints about Chronicle reporting are much ado about not very much.

"...by the Texas Pregnancy Care Network to the Houston Chronicle purports to respond to a Jan. 26 Chronicle News..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Michael King

Correct Name: Austin History Center

"...Mr. May, tsk-tsk. In your article on the interactive history project titled Austin Past & Present, you committed a..."

Aug. 18, 2003 Postmarks

Ed Ward Unleashes His Second Volume on The History of Rock & Roll

First-generation rock critic visits Teen Pan Alley

"...veteran rock journalist, on the publication eve to The History of Rock & Roll, the second installment of his..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Transcribing the Oral History of Dazed and Confused in New Book Alright, Alright, Alright

Melissa Maerz wrangles a class reunion

"...Dazed and Confused is not just a film about Austin and made in Austin; it's very definitely an Austin..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya

After a couple of decades … bidding farewell

"...This is my final “Point Austin” column, and it marks my formal step into retirement..."

March 27, 2020 News Column by Michael King

The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...Austin's next mayor will only serve two years before facing..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...Austin Chronicle: What's on your mind these days, sir?..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Grim History

Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery

"...Company, 496 pp., $35), in which he traces the history of American prisons through the prism of the "retributive..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

"...the ninth rotation around the sun for our annual Austin Chronicle Brewery Power Rankings, and this is the year..."

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

Making History, Part Two

Director Bill Rauch on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...contemporary playwrights would explore moments of change in American history, he knew he wanted Robert Schenkkan on board. In..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Brief History of Austin’s LGBTQIA Movement Through Design

From protest to punk flyers, how LGBTQIA design has evolved in Austin

"...Like the history of the LGBTQIA movement, the history of queer design..."

Jan. 30, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

The Babadook Director Sings a Song of History With The Nightingale

Jennifer Kent honors a commitment to the Aboriginal people of Australia

"...The colonial history of Australia is one of blood and horror. With..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Making History, Part One

Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions cycle of history plays, what makes Lyndon Johnson a Shakespearean figure to..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

History's Morgue

We choose whether to let our stories live or die

"...Dan is Daniel Alonzo, photo curator for the Austin History Center. Alonzo is taking me on a tour..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Interest in the Entire History of Club Culture

"...Dear Marc Savlov and The Austin Chronicle, Planet Funk may be meeting Planet Punk, but..."

Jan. 14, 2007 Postmarks

I Get to Decide the Rules of National Sovereignty and 'Chronicle' Editor Is Disgusting

"...Rules of National Sovereignty and I know the Personal History of Most Iraqi Casualties" ["Postmarks Online," June 24]. Hey,..."

June 28, 2004 Postmarks

The Natural History of the Chicken

"...did in his previous films Cane Toads: An Unnatural History and Rat. Here, he talks with many people who..."

April 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

hellsite.austin.gov

Everything needs to be online now. Austin is a world-renowned tech capital. Why can’t the city get it right?

"...15 to make appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine on Austin Public Health's webpage were kicked out of the sign-up..."

June 11, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The History and Historiography of MLK/FBI

Sam Pollard on the changing challenges of recording Black history

"...power control the narrative, and they can create the history the way they want it to be seen. My..."

Jan. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Hanging Up on AT&T

My boss is suing the phone company – bully for him

"...the legendary 94-year-old Chicago writer and the notorious fiftysomething Austin Chronicle editor are linked in legal and perhaps civil..."

June 2, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Indoor Queers Club: History’s No Mystery!

Qmmunity recommends readable & watchable media about queer history

"...Austin Public Library | The Little Gay Shop..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

SXSW Interview: Leah Purcell Writes and Rights History in The Drover's Wife

Australian filmmaker takes a classic and gives it three lives

"...Austin Chronicle: For non-Australians, where does Lawson, and his story,..."

March 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Asian American Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

The four-day festival drops 11 feature films and even more shorts

"...will continue to highlight Asian and Asian-American stories throughout history...."

Oct. 31, 2017 Screens Post by Reanna Zuniga

Photography, History & Accounting 101

Learning with Henry Rollins, us the shareholders.

"...Austin Chronicle: Listening to your earlier spoken word stuff, you’ve..."

Nov. 3, 2011 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

They're History

The Blue Genie boys -- those whimsical artists responsible for the armadillo-festooned entrance to Threadgill's World Headquarters, the guitar gal atop Fran's Hamburgers, and other mini-landmarks around Austin -- have been fun for the people who see them and fun for the people who made them. Making giant panels for the new Texas State History Museum, though, was a bit more than just that.

"...front face of the new Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr...."

April 27, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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