Point Austin: Doing the Right Thing

The city takes a small step toward racial reconciliation

"...debate concerning the quality of life for African-Americans in Austin has been last week's City Council meeting. A multicultural..."

June 3, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Austin's Chambermaid

"...excise Chamber member Gary Bradley's Circle C subdivision from Austin's extra-territorial jurisdiction, the Chamber of Commerce Executive Board voted..."

June 16, 1995 News Column by Alex de Marban

Lost Cinema Reopening in East Austin

Blue Starlite teams with Millennium for community initiative

"...a forgotten secret: the last single screen cinema in Austin. Right now, you’re also likely to find Josh Frank,..."

Dec. 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What the Screen Actors and Writers Strikes Mean for Austin

Hopes of a bumper production year fade as unions fight for a fairer future for their members

"...Angeles. But as a major and growing production hub, Austin is feeling the effects of this fight for sustainable..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin & Travis County 2019 Election Results

FINAL: Both city props fail; Expo Center wins

"...Wick, campaign manager for PHAM PAC (Palm School, Homelessness, Arts, Music), to the EV totals on City Prop B:..."

Nov. 5, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Austin Film News: From A(nimation) to Z(ombies)

Production updates from around town and just beyond city limits

"...end of May, the Texas Legislature didn't just continue funding the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program (aka the..."

June 21, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

"...sharing, in other words. Which is why we've got Austin-based filmmakers Macon Blair, Karen Skloss, Owen Egerton, and Emma..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Council: Visit Austin, But How?

Defining oversight for city tourism

"...Austin is on its way to having a Tourism Commission...."

June 22, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Point Austin: “Austin Will Still Be Austin”

Adler’s “state of the city” imagines a bulwark against “a giant honking mess”

"...its predecessors, one staged at the then-new AISD Performing Arts Center and another at Zachary Scott. A capacity crowd..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Column by Michael King

How Austin Handles Mental Health Emergencies

Police, EMS, and Integral Care work together to serve people in psychiatric crisis

"...someone experiencing delusions about crossing a highway to "save Austin from the apocalypse.") Once that decision is made, the..."

Dec. 15, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Is Austin’s Art.Science.Gallery. Evolving or Dying?

Crucial times for the city’s science-celebrating bastion of art

"...Listen: Austin’s Art.Science.Gallery. needs help to evolve...."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: The Future of Austin Recording Studios

Studio owners look at different solutions to surviving in an increasingly expensive city

"...breakout LPs by Spoon and Trail of Dead. Yes, Austin, Mike McCarthy's moved his operation to Nashville...."

Aug. 5, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Point Austin: Elections and Consequences

You never know what you're gonna get

"...begin, we should savor the two biggest victories for Austin: Barack Obama's re-election and the Central Health medical school/medical..."

Nov. 9, 2012 News Column by Michael King

First Night Austin

The organization behind the New Year's Eve arts celebration says the party's over

"...liked spending your New Year's Eve at First Night Austin, you have eight months to make other plans. On..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin! International! Poetry! Festival!

Writ in thought, spoke in words.

"...Dozens and dozens if not hundreds of poets flocking..."

April 6, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

First Night Austin

First Night's board cancels this year's party, but the city may host one instead

"...is concerned, it'll be something other than First Night Austin. On Thursday, Sept. 30, the board of the local..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Downtown Austin Plan: Why Do It?

At least three council members question cost

"...time of economic gloom and city budget-slashing, the Downtown Austin Plan was almost a casualty last week. When City..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

First Night Austin: Long day's journey into First Night

Pulling together the second First Night Austin has been a struggle and with New Year's less than four months away, Ann S. Graham has resigned as executive director

"...Remember how Austin's first First Night celebration came off so triumphantly on..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Austin: Thoughts After Celebration

Beneath the rockets' red glare, the costs of our Iraq misadventure mount

"...health care for wounded veterans. (Nor does it include funding for that largely forgotten war on Afghanistan, which was..."

July 8, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Arts Board Love Stories

That special thing that happens between artists and boards of directors can be a lot like a love relationship: Intimate. Fulfilling. Long-term. Working as one body. However, it can be and often is complicated.

"...Emily Ball Cicchini, who helped found Austin ScriptWorks, called me with a flattering offer: "We're doubling..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Everybody Loves Austin City Limits

"...Everybody -- all over the world -- loves Austin City Limits. The PBS broadcast show, now in its..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Music Feature

Austin's Classical Music Preview 'Tis the Season

I've written about the

"...Austin classical music scene for almost 10 years now, and..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Arts Feature

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom...."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

It's a Dirty Job ...

New arts tsar Vincent Kitch rolls up his sleeves to give Austin arts funding a clean start

"...Vincent Kitch, Austin's first official arts tsar, is tackling a task almost..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heavy Weather

An unseasonably mild year of city arts funding ends in a tempest

"...Whatever coolness and calm attended this year's city arts funding process as peer panels reviewed and scored applications..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Paint By Numbers

Racial Divides in Austin's Public Arts Funding

"...The City of Austin hands out money to a broad range of artists..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Forest for the Trees

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

"...So it was when the Austin Arts Commission convened on Tuesday, May 30. The purpose..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

"...Summer in Austin traditionally means a painfully long run of broiling, 100-degree..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Bad Year Gets Worse

The Austin Arts Commission has found itself stewing in a bubbling gumbo of controversies this year, and lately that gumbo has been getting hotter and hotter, with resignations from the Commission, an investigation by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and a call for reforms by a City Council member.

"...While you're never likely to hear anyone on the Austin Arts Commission warbling "It Was a Very Good Year"..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rancho Alegre Fundraises to Save Their Conjunto Festival During AmplifyATX

Cut from city arts funding, Alegre aims to raise 35k this week

"...Musicians in Austin’s conjunto community are among the groups feeling the effects..."

Feb. 28, 2023 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

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