More Dam Facts

Even if the rain stops soon, river levels could stay high for weeks.

"...they'll have to keep opening floodgates across the Colorado dam system well into July. The river is still below..."

June 29, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Nightmare Scenarios for Austin's Possible End

Some of the ways that our beloved town could become no more

"...Austin has flash floods, which are a near-constant but to..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Oil Exec Wants to Redirect Austin’s Drinking Water For His Private Lake

Pending permit would disrupt flows amid severe drought

"...A multimillionaire oil executive, Greg Garland, is trying to dam the South Llano River – a major tributary into..."

Aug. 17, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Austin Shorts at Sundance

David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance

"...Sundance sure is sweet on Austin's Zellner Bros. Don't get us wrong – we're sweet..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

As other cities catch up, 'Solar Austin' advocates look to prime the green-power pump

"...Austin Energy likes to call itself the greenest utility in..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

A Dam Shame

Trout fishing group and recreational users oppose Guadalupe Blanco River Authority's plan to sell water to growing communities.

"...the southernmost trout fishery in the nation. As countless Austin fun seekers know, the stretch of water below the..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Dan Oko

Lake Austin Boating Ban Still in Effect

Boaters warned to stay off portions of lake all week.

"...Press release from city of Austin: Boating ban in effect again for portion of Lake..."

June 26, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Point Austin: Under Water

James Galbraith on the prospects of an economic bailout

"...you need to give them $700 billion tomorrow." Still Dammed..."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Austin Film Society Documentary Tour

Jennifer Baichwal's Manufactured Landscapes

"...Bowles and The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia) has made a film about the celebrated Canadian..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Austin at Large: The Showdown at the Batcave

Part I: What's all this we hear about a $277 million developer handout?

"...Notice." In tandem with their friendly media outlet The Austin Bulldog, BB&F laid out how the creation of a..."

Dec. 31, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Anthony Orum on Austin

"In Austin, a city of changes, a book like Anthony Orum's Power, Money & the People: The Making of Modern Austin, is always relevant," writes Michael Erard. "It's the only urban history of Austin, tracing the early decisions that fixed the city's economy, politics, and sense of itself. Unfortunately, the book's availability has been spotty -- until late 2002, when an Oregon press, Wipf and Stock, reissued it."

"...In Austin, a city of changes, a book like Anthony Orum's..."

May 23, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Erard

1995 Austin Critics' Table Nominations

"...publications has produced their list of outstanding achievements in Austin theatre from May 1994-April 1995. Members of the table..."

May 12, 1995 Arts Feature

Five Austin Arts Events That Celebrate Nature

Because you know we’re all just a bunch of animals

"...Never mind the differences between a beaver's dam and a human's residential subdivision, yes, but also disregard..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: It's Accountability Time

Lloyd Doggett on the need for swift action on impeachment

"...U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, began advocating impeachment in the spring, before a majority..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Column by Michael King

PWR BTTM Will Not Play Austin

Queer punk duo faces erasure in light of sexual assault allegations

"...singer Ben Hopkins of sexual assault went viral. The dam was broken and from it poured allegation after allegation...."

May 19, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Point Austin: Journalism and Memory

What we fail to remember, we will tragically repeat

"...two of the events during his week's stay in Austin and have excerpted in this issue and online as..."

March 30, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Austin Visions

"...Dear Editor, My vision for Austin: We need multiuse buildings: retail/restaurants on first/second floor, offices..."

June 2, 2010 Postmarks

Dam Break at AWU?

An assistant director is placed on leave amid allegations of discrimination

"...four female employees against an assistant director at the Austin Water Utility. Gopal Guthikonda, a city employee since 1987..."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...young travelers to an empty chair in the corner. "Dam si, kavu a Beckerofku, prosim," he asked a young..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

Austin’s Exclusionary Housing Policies Are Getting Revolutionary Rewrites

After decades of resistance doors open for less-wealthy Austinites

"...Austin's land use rules may have more influence over who..."

July 28, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin at Large: Storms Along the Waterfront

How much should the city invest in the Statesman PUD? Zero, or $400 million?

"...at 305 S. Congress, the former home of the Austin American-Statesman, the place we used to call the Batcave...."

July 29, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Review: Gilbert & Sullivan Austin’s The McAdo

Spry rewrite of the classic operetta swaps kimonos for kilts

"...in the room to be reviewing Gilbert & Sullivan Austin's current production of The McAdo...."

June 17, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

So You Want to Redistrict Austin?

The process – and what’s at stake – with redrawing our City Council districts

"...to be a member of the commission that drew Austin's first single-­member Council districts. "I said, 'No, I don't..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Feature by Lilli Hime

The Problem With K2, Downtown Austin’s Most Dangerous Drug

APD cannot depend on big busts alone to solve the problem

"...to as many as 10 related calls per day. Austin Police arrested street dealer after street dealer, and yet..."

March 16, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Point Austin: It's Rainin' Down in Texas

Marking Texas time and history by rising floodwaters

"...of lives directly lost is nearing 20. Here in Austin, our neighbors are drying out as best they can,..."

May 29, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Best of Austin – Friday

BOA all day, erryday

"...enjoy local spots featured in our annual "Best of Austin" issue – voted best by our readers or recommended..."

March 20, 2015 Features Feature

Booking Austin's Library Future

City hopes new Central Library will be global trailblazer

"...On May 9, the physical foundations were laid for Austin Public Library's future, a seven-story, riverfront Central Library that..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Needs a Spay/Neuter Ordinance

"...Dear Editor, I am so glad Austin is primed to move forward on these no-kill issues,..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Postmarks

Page Two: The Best of Austin

A concept in search of an author; characters in search of a form; memory in search of meaning

"...months here at the Chronicle, breeding the "Best of Austin" out of an already sapped staff, with nothing left..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Column by Louis Black

'A Proprietary Love'

High-strung, hot-tempered Tom Miller made self-interest -- and his feuds with LBJ -- into Austin history.

"...After its perfumed beginnings as "Guy Town," Austin's original red-light zone, today's Warehouse District was suffused in..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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