Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Can a super-sized Long Center fit in Austin's Happy Meal box of civic dreams?

"...writing a chin-pulling think piece on the decline of Austin's dot-com dreams, supersized as they were back in 2000,..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

20 Years of Austin Gifts

... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries

"...In case you hadn't heard, The Austin Chronicle is celebrating 20 years in Austin. We've seen..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

A CelebrASIA, Taste of Mexico, and Lesbian Wedding Highlight Our Community Events

Fests, gatherings, classes, and more

"...you, for free, how to repair your broken items? Community really is a beautiful thing. Electronics, appliances, clothing, jewelry,..."

May 17, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

A Reimagined Waterloo Park Invites the Public to It on CommUNITY Day

It was 10 years in the remaking, but finally the Waterloo redo is ready for you

"...UPDATED: Due to rising COVID cases and Austin’s re-entry into Stage 5, all CommUNITY Day events and..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seafood Restaurant Guild Launches a Community-Focused Club

Become a member to get swanky perks and help your neighbors

"...Named the Community Club Membership, this inclusive neighborhood clubhouse aims to enable..."

Aug. 30, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

DIY Queer Community

Can’t relate to what Austin’s gay scene has to offer? Make one of your own!

"...ago, before Kitty became one of the godmothers of Austin's lesbian community, before she made a viable scene out..."

June 2, 2006 Features Feature by Kate Getty

How Austin's Performing Artists Are Reopening Their Spaces

After months behind screens, the folks who run the city's theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside

"...and widespread vaccination among the populace – more of Austin's performing artists began to welcome audiences back indoors to..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Ten Ways of Looking at an 'Austin Chronicle'

In celebration of our 25th anniversary

"...mostly it would be a more avant-garde piece: a ballet of the dysfunctional, a performance piece by the truly..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Austin Libraries Prepare for a Barrage of Book-Banning Bills

Rating books, jailing librarians, and more

"...Library Association told library staff at the meeting, the Austin Monitor reported...."

Dec. 2, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...a patron in Robert Plant on the Zeppelin crier's Austin-kissed 2010 album Band of Joy...."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...What keeps Austin's cultural scene among the liveliest in the nation is..."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend

FronteraFest, Refigured, Ellsworth Kelly, Ballet Austin, ColdTowne

"...Arts Center, tell you what, because that perennially taken-for-granted community bastion of culture and craft is hosting an artshow..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Revamping the Austin Music Poll

Here's how Playback's voting

"...Chronicle staffers are poring over 20 years of online Austin Music Poll results for evidence of Russian interference. Meanwhile,..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Theatre Alliance

From TV and the LPGA comes the man who will run the Paramount and State

"...to succeed Ken Stein as executive director of the Austin Theatre Alliance, which jointly operates the Paramount and State..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The Austin Critics Table has honored seven more pioneers in the Austin arts community

"...The Austin Critics Table has named the eighth group of individuals..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Range Austin Dance Festival

Choreographer Ellen Bartel is stirring up the local dance scene again with a bigger, more sophisticated dance fest

"...Three years after pulling Austin's contemporary-dance scene out of the gutter with the Hot..."

June 6, 2008 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Austin Visual Arts Association: Thrilled to be hitting the big 3-0

The Austin Visual Arts Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary in high style, with a pair of exhibitions and a big reunion party for local artists

"...Austin has its share of venerable arts organizations. The Austin..."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Austin's Cultural Makeover

Which arts facilities from the boom years were built, which weren't built, and why

"...Now, most of the time when arts groups in Austin talk about buildings, they mean old storefronts and warehouses..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Winners 2000-01

"...On Sunday, June 10, the Austin Critics Table presented its annual awards for outstanding achievements..."

June 15, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Magdalena Jarkowiec's Us Kids Are Alone in the House

The Austin-based choreographer is home alone with her soft-sculpture mutants

"...House. For Us Kids, a trio for members of Austin Community Ballet – just one of Jarkowiec's affiliations as..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...the artists to be on the move. And in Austin, they certainly are, pirouetting, lunging, stomping, leaping in scores..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Dance of the Prodigal Son

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

"...on Guadalupe Street, the building housing the studios of Ballet Austin, and over the next nine years, did a..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Connectors

The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...On any given date, Austin's cultural calendar offers so many options that it's almost..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...That Austin's creative scene is among the liveliest and most watched..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memoriam: Greg Easley

Remembering the beloved choreographer, dancer, and teacher

"...The dance scene in Austin didn’t begin in the Seventies, but you could say..."

June 4, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

ISHIDA Dance Makes Its Debut

A world-class contemporary dance troupe for Austin makes its first moves

"...I felt this was a way to contribute to community – to bring poetic stories through movement that connect..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dance Fever

With Hot September Flurries, a corps of Austin choreographers burn up the Blue all month long

"...tally up the total number of choreographers working in Austin today, you'd need at least another couple appendages with..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Our Shostakovich Year

On the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth, Austin arts groups join forces to throw the Russian composer a yearlong party

"...least. In a cultural collaboration that's unprecedented locally, 15 Austin arts organizations have joined forces to commemorate Shostakovich's 100th..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...Top Ten Dance Events of 19991. DANCEfest (Chris Valentine) Austin's first annual local dance festival featured the work of..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Articulations

Another Ballet Switch

"...It seems Austin's arts institutions rarely undergo big personnel changes in isolation...."

June 13, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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