City Hall Hustle: Bam! Pow! Crash! Holy Reactivated Permit, Batman!

Controversies real, invented, and in between

"...Every City Council agenda has its own issues. The question is..."

April 9, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Bat

ALO's hometown take on Die Fledermaus with wit, affection, enthusiasm, and style from all parties

"...The Bat..."

June 6, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Naked City

Off the Desk

"...slew of candidates running for Place 5 on the City Council: neighborhoods activist Clare Barry and environmentally friendly downtown..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

SXSW Film Review: Rat Film

Doc transforms unwelcome critters into metaphor of human inequality

"...for whites and African-Americans. It's a separation that continues unabated today. In this prose poem of a film, the..."

March 11, 2017 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

'Merrick Ales: Photography'

Ales has captured panoramic, full-color miracles with his cunning lenses

"...spinner rack? Imagine the best of those, capturing this bat-enhanced city, but beautifully reproduced on canvas at 20-inches-by-30-inches size..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Kia Neill: Terrain'

An eerie, shimmering otherscape somewhere between LAX and the land of faery

"...while simultaneously flying into LAX late at night, the City of Angels' sprawling grid disrupted by seismic and volcanic..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Whole Lotta Lit to Hit

Texas Book Festival's 2015 Lit Crawl is as huge as the state

"...been designed by TBF 2015 author Zachary Thomas Dodson (Bats of the Republic) and includes a Bat Scavenger Hunt,..."

Oct. 14, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Face to Face With Fiction

Five notable authors come to New Fiction Confab

"...literary publishers, including American Short Fiction, A Strange Object, Bat City Review, Foxing Quarterly, Unstuck, and Write Bloody. According..."

April 12, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

Why Portland Doesn't Look Like Austin

Rose (City)-Colored Glasses

"...anywhere, surely far from the center of the Rose City's public policy universe. But many eyes are directed here..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Get Lit

ND at 501 Studios hosts three days of (mostly) free readings

"...nine-hour free fair with tables from American Short Fiction, Bat City Review, BookWoman, Domy Books, Effing Press, and Monofonus,..."

Dec. 9, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

New COVID Safety Rules for Special Events

Negative COVID tests, other measures now required for city-permitted events

"...which coordinates the work of more than a dozen city departments – including Austin Public Health – released new..."

Sept. 3, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Wife Stories

Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito on life as a comedy couple

"...comedians Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito, currently on a 16-city tour that stops at the Stateside in Austin on..."

Sept. 27, 2017 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

The Daily Hustle: 4/6/10

Get yer council programs right here!

"...City Council meets this Thursday, and while, at 58 items..."

April 6, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Betty Baker Rules

Love her or fear her, Austin's land-use queen rules the city her own way

"...is Betty Baker still the most feared official in city government?..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Anatomy of a Drowning

A Flood of Bad Blood Deluges Onion Creek

"...hill. This is a good thing, since, according to city and federal authorities, everything below it is fixin' to..."

Sept. 6, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Blue Spectre

The 'Statesman' discovers a sinister plot to take control of city government. The culprits? Those union goons, of course

"...the Austin Police Association, and it's only haunting the Bat Cave on Town Lake, headquarters of the Austin American-Statesman...."

June 30, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Refineries and Suitcase Pimps: Riding the Red Rocket With Sean Baker

The filmmaker talks about poverty porn and real porn

"...movie in the decidedly unerotic fumes of the Texas City refineries...."

Dec. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Daily Hustle: 4/28/10

No 15% reduction to the Hustle's grind 

"...forecast, this round focusing on the state of the city's utilities...."

April 28, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Gay Place

Queer comedy returns to ColdTowne

"...Giddyup, ponies. Martini Ranch returns to town Saturday, with..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Austin Heightens COVID Guidelines for Special Event Permits

Attendee screening, distancing provisions take effect Monday

"...Friday ACE, which coordinates with more than a dozen city departments (including Austin Public Health) as it issues permits..."

Aug. 29, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Letters @ 3AM

The greatest sins of newspapers are sins of omission and emphasis. Historical context is usually ignored, and though facts are reported truly, a lack of context can make the facts lie.

"...architects, and engineers that would conduct openly a peer review of the theories and publish their findings. That's how..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Postmarks Scandal!

"...scandalous. One would expect the paper in the capital city of one of the largest and most populous states..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Column

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...There will be some familiar names in horror circles..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...Beat on the brat with a baseball bat..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I would like to personally congratulate the city of Austin for coming up with new and inventive..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Another Sixth Street club discontinues live original music, as Davíd Garza struggles to get his heard.

"...up. No, he says, the story with that particular batch of alt.country stars is that they've finally gotten out..."

June 15, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

A Quarrel With the Status Quo

Charlie Baird on criminal justice, equity, and the Travis County D.A.

"...in here was free. It started out with my review of the case, to determine if I personally thought,..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Headlines

"...• City Council is off this week, following a tumultuous meeting..."

June 4, 2010 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...19 issue regarding the Montopolis Land Use Plan ["Naked City"]. Contrary to statements of a used car sales rezoning..."

June 2, 2000 Column

Born to be Reviled

Interstate 35's worst stretch is also its most politically organized -- and that's a problem for TxDOT.

"...and sensitive security systems -- something akin to the Bat Cave. Instead, they're found in a squat Texas Dept...."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann

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