The Really Big Picture: Commuter Rail From Space

"...is helpful. It shows that the Union Pacific rail line (dotted black line) runs directly through the centers of..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Rail-ly Expensive

"...Projected Cost for First Three Light Rail Lines:..."

April 4, 1997 News Feature

Naked City

Transit Transitions

"...presentation of the agency's staff-recommended transit alternative -- the "blueprint," in their words, for what Austinites will be asked..."

Oct. 15, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: We Have Seen the Future, and ...

Deconstructing Project Connect’s new vision for light rail

"...The Blue Line and Orange Line are gone; what we have..."

March 24, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Love and Cinema: Janet and John Pierson

Texas Film Awards honorees and indie cinema's fairy godparents Janet and John Pierson look back on 40 years at the movies

"...films of the era: Working Girls, Slacker, The Thin Blue Line, Clerks, Go Fish, and Michael Moore's Roger &..."

March 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Overcoming Fear With Deon Taylor

How covid and the George Floyd protests shaped his new film

"...of his filmography: heavy social dramas like Black and Blue and innovative home invasion thriller The Intruder. But then..."

Feb. 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: Storms Along the Waterfront

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

"...top of the market and with construction prices and timelines growing like weeds. Let's Ask the Consultants..."

July 29, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Who Will Guide Project Connect Into the Station?

As leaders leave the station we look at who will drive the public transit redesign

"...keep the system's biggest-lift components – the Orange and Blue lines and their bridges and tunnels and stations –..."

June 3, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Council Grants Early OK to Statesman Property Plan

Batcave begins

"...and on the site and a future Project Connect Blue Line station on the southeastern corner of the site...."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Moves Up Target Date for Net-Zero Emissions Goal

City emphasizes equity as it ramps up climate action

"...that the committee's Transportation and Land Use Advisory Group declined to offer any recommendations for reforming Austin's Land Development..."

Oct. 1, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The World of Wayfinding in Austin

How we get from here to there in our ever-changing city

"...As new places are continuously being made, the design discipline of wayfinding – providing the system of cues and..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

AISD Trustees Share First Thoughts on "School Changes"

So far, board's holding firm (more or less)

"...at the meeting and focused on three topics: scenarios, timeline, and equity. The information provided by the trustees will..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

"Shawn Camp: Equivocation" at Northern-Southern

In this three-part installation, the artist plays with light to creates work that is atmospheric and at times beautifully comtemplative

"...cordoned off, its white walls marked by a meandering blue line, like a river cutting through a glacier. This..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Unplugged: Lowering the Volume of the Live Music Capital

Ley Line, Aaron Stephens, Team Goodtimes, Uncle Pie Hole, and more grounded sounds

"...Brazil Unplugged: Ley Line..."

May 18, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Six Ways to Have a Nostalgic Austin Summer

Travel back to a simpler time

"...capital of the world, that it’s a pocket of blue in a sea of red, that it’s “weird.” But..."

May 23, 2017 Chronolog Post by Will McCarthy

Life and Death After Death Row

Few headlines marked the passing of Randall Dale Adams

"...News of Randall Dale Adams' death didn't hit national headlines until late last week, though he died eight months..."

July 1, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Pride and Glory

Edward Norton and Colin Farrell top this predictable police procedural about clean and dirty cops who are also brothers in a family of Irish cops.

"...however, lacks the right stuff to pierce the thin blue line...."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

One Day in September

Recipient of the 2000 Oscar for Best Documentary, this film unfolds the gripping drama that occurred on September 5, 1972, during the Munich Olympics, when eight armed Palestinian terrorists took 11 members of the Israeli delegation hostage.

"...all. Macdonald's documentary relates these events in a relentless timeline, a ticking clock adding to the story's suspense and..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bean

"...British comedy shows The Black Adder and The Thin Blue Line), Mr. Bean is a bumbling child-man, forever placing..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Music Recommended

Blue Outhouse Requiem

"...Austin Outhouse & Blue Flamingo, Saturday 30 Over the years, the ebb and..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Music Feature

Drunk on a Train

Four friends bar crawl their way down the Capital Metro Red Line

"...path of the Capital Metro train, aka the Red Line. Almost five hours later, we went home blitzed, but..."

July 13, 2018 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

Live Election Coverage

Is it over yet?

"...night? Will Texas inch a little closer to turning Travis-County-blue? Will D6 voters show CM Don Zimmerman the door?..."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

Which Way Do We Go?

Rae Takes the Wheel

"...Rae says, "as well as 162 miles of rail line itself (the Llano-Giddings corridor owned by the agency). But..."

April 9, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Transit Partnership Needs Your Input as Project Connect Enters Its Trade-Offs Era

Turn this train around

"...tantalizing but highly important vision for two new MetroRapid lines by the end of 2023. A little over two..."

April 7, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Election Coverage: A Glass Half-Full

Little f*cking drops of blue blood, sweat, and tears

"...ago. Beto O'Rourke went from sex god to punch line to 2020 hopeful in the span of six weeks,..."

Nov. 9, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

This Weekend's Can't-Miss Food Events

Daily Austin food news

"...Blue Bell returns to Brenham, Stinson's adds a second location,..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat

Cyril Neville returns to the blues

"...between funk and R&B, rock and reggae. Brand New Blues is Neville’s first album in eight years and, as..."

May 13, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

A Saucy, Seven-Course Musical at Boggy Creek Farm

Jade Fusco’s activist interactive recruited members of Ley Line, BluMoon, and more

"...(and formerly Calliope Musicals), and Emilie Basez of Ley Line – weaved between audience members as they sang a..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Dining del Lago 2010

What a difference some rain makes! The water is blue, the hills are green, and several new restaurants are cooking near area lakes.

"...is hopping during those hours; folks happily wait in line for good food at rock-bottom prices. After about 7pm,..."

July 2, 2010 Food Feature

Postmarks

Do the Right Thing

"...a properly closed and monitored disposal area under TNRCC guidelines, the company is not required to spend the estimated..."

March 27, 1998 Column

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