Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Sending Out an SOS: Can the Fractured Austin Polis Find a Common Future?

"...last week with the launch of the LiveableCity campaign/coalition/movement, Austinites think the environment is important to our quality of..."

July 5, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Construction of Austin FC Stadium Nears Completion

Q2 claims naming rights for the home of Austin's new Major League sports team

"...the Major League Soccer season, construction at the new Austin FC stadium, located just southeast of the Domain shopping..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Trace Sauveur

20 Years of Austin Studios

More than just soundstages: Looking back on the unique success of Austin Studios

"...for the reason you think. It's the moment when Austin Studios, the filmmaking facility run by Austin Film Society..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ambiguous Oracle: Company’s New Austin Campus Displaces Longtime Residents

Legal group calls Oracle plan "a slap in the face" to low-income renters

"...software megafirm Oracle announced a major expansion plan for Austin...."

Dec. 29, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: Activate This!

One insider's fight to make 'good old liberal Austin the city it thinks it is'

"...small-business owner currently under contract with the city of Austin, took the witness stand in federal court last week..."

Dec. 30, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Block Those Cyber-Boobs! – Flasher Sues Game Makers

Austin video game maker sued for child porn – by teen who lied to get filmed

"..."The Guy Game puts you in the world's wildest party spot for..."

Feb. 25, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin Workers Unionize at Game Studio Blizzard

Diablo team gain recognition in win for gaming workers

"...it was announced that 60 QA workers at the Austin office of the Microsoft-owned studio have joined the Communications..."

July 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Delay of Game

Seaholm, Block 21 challenge the Downtown Domino theory

"...This may cause grumbles in the tummies of city..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

As Austin Grows, So Does the Risk of Flood

Forget the 100-year storms. City flooding happens all the time, often right in your backyard.

"...Austinites remember the big floods – the expanding, treacherous storms..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Get Your Game Face On

SXSW Gaming Expo opens Palmer to the public this year

"...make the trek, it's an open-access fantasyland filled with games, parties, special events, and, well, more games. This year..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Inside Austin's Recent Gaming Shake-ups

Lots of layoffs, but a Nation of Indies rises from the ashes

"...It all started two weeks ago when Vigil Games closed. Employees there were already on edge following the..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Austin Charts New Territory With Project Connect Anti-Displacement Fund

Bringing transit home

"...When Austin voters approved financing for the Project Connect transit plan..."

May 21, 2021 News Feature by Benton Graham

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

On the Blizzard / Stratus scandal, the Statesman misses the real story -- as usual.

"...This is a story of struggle between two out-of-the-ordinary developers -- Stratus and Endeavor Real Estate Group -- each..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Rooster Teeth Launches Video Game Publishing Division

Battlesloths 2025 announced for release in spring of this year

"...their apparent ambition to conquer every aspect of video game and geek culture, it was only a matter of..."

Jan. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

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

"...in Boston as the interactive center to beat. Certainly, Austin has been a top dog this whole decade for..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

VR Austin Jam Makes Quick and Dirty Virtual Worlds

Local and national developers create VR environments in 24 hours

"...are expected to participate in the second annual VR Austin Jam, forming teams to create original software for virtual..."

Nov. 8, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

Point Austin: What to Do About CodeNEXT

Opponents offering plenty of fear but precious few solutions

"...about rapid urban growth: local housing prices are spiking; developers seek the highest available profits; overbuilding accelerates flooding; unregulated..."

Nov. 17, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Game On Austin

November 21, 2013. 15 photos.

"...Players came out to Game On Austin at the Empire Control Room to see..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Photo Gallery

Playing the Downtown Game

The score so far, and moves still to be made

"...Dominoes, poker, a jigsaw puzzle, a Rubik's Cube – Austin's ongoing Downtown saga lends itself to playful metaphors. (Actually,..."

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Gets Compared to a Lot of Cities. But Is Life Better There?

Shopping for home

"...There are plenty of reasons to love Austin and the enormous, unique state it’s part of...."

Feb. 21, 2025 News Feature by Abe Asher

Austin at Large: Be of Good Cheer, Be Not Afraid

When venomous fear becomes a weapon, we ourselves can become the antidote

"...down on the road to inevitable change, and that Austin and Texas would be much better off if we..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Game of Zones

Tweak in PUD rules preempts the Grove at Shoal Creek

"...in zoning is," said Speights. "It's the city of Austin who has decided that new land that is not..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Point Austin: Domain City Limits

City Charter amendment would end a deal gone sour

"...will be today. Those opposing the amendment (beyond the developers themselves, understandably glum at the prospect of disappearing baksheesh)..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Shell Game

It's not a party until something gets broken. The Intel shell, that is.

"...to save the unfinished monolith and sell it to developers. Granted, it doesn't make much sense to destroy an..."

Feb. 7, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: Beside the Point

Looking ahead to the City Council's agenda

"...be both a highly technical and massively emotional war game among developers, neighborhood associations, business people, environmental activists, and..."

July 8, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Schlotzsky's on the Block: End Game?

Schlotzsky's to auction, John Wooley says the company's reported losses happened after his watch

"...what may be the sandwich-maker's swan song as an Austin-based institution...."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Central Austin Plan: Love Is All Around!

Shocking scenes of consensus unfold right before the City Council's eyes

"...reached over two years to spawn the proposed Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan. But by that time, the City..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Council Gets Its Head in the Game

With only one first-term Trump-era vet and several rookies, Council squares up

"...him to reelection – how much appetite remains in Austin for progressive politics?..."

Jan. 31, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Joy of Bicycling in Austin

A one-person sociological study of springtime biking where every ride is his favorite

"...for state employees. It's a million-dollar view of Downtown Austin, free to innocent trespassers...."

April 21, 2023 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin at Large: Money Changes Everything

Or, scenes from the class struggle in Silicon Hills

"...that the owners of 400 waterfront parcels on Lake Austin – 218 of which are more valuable than Wally's..."

June 14, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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