No Time Like the Present

As usual, dancemaker Deborah Hay is making every moment count

"...in Wisdom, Voilà, The Other Side of O, Fire, Boom Boom Boom) – but they earned relatively little in..."

April 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Friday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...11pm, Karma Lounge Boom-boom-clap, ticky-ticky-boom-clap. To quote Kurtis Blow, these are the breaks,..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Small Town, Big Find

The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville

"...as an Austin American-Statesman technology reporter as the tech boom was blossoming in the late Nineties and later jumped..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

After a Fashion

A postcard from prison? Wish you were here!

"...sounded like a battering ram slamming against my door. Boom! Boom! Boom! I was frozen with fear, and after..."

April 3, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Top 10 Developing Stories

"...1) Boom and Bust The Downtown skyline was transformed by rising..."

Jan. 2, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Here Comes Mr. Achewood

Chris Onstad tours with his Great Outdoor Fight book

"...newspapers invented the comics, seven days a week, regular, boom-boom-boom, to create habit. And I want to create habit,..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Next Fun Fearless Female Rock Star

Austin's now generation comes of age in Suzanna Choffel

"...things for me. The last two years have been boom boom boom, build up, come up the ladder," concludes..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Widespread Panic

"...being recorded. Of the 11 Free tracks, feisty opener "Boom Boom Boom," the cinematic "Her Dance Needs No Body,"..."

March 28, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

"...shot is filmed lightning quick: Only three takes – boom! boom! boom! – and they're done. There will be..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Vance Joins Porky in Wackyland: Bogus Economic Analysis Offered With Authority

"...to boost overall economic expansion and jump-start the dot-com boom. The minimum wage unfortunately stayed in place, but its..."

June 18, 2007 Postmarks

Like Out of a Movie

The legend of Alejandro Gomez Monteverde

"...100,000 people already," he says. "We're screening everywhere – boom, boom, boom. It's the only way independent films can..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Surviving the Blacklist: Joseph Losey in Europe

Sept. 5-Oct. 10

"...out in particular for the Oct. 3 screening of Boom!, Tennessee Williams' adaptation of his own stage play The..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Shake Yo Rump-ah!

Photographer Will Van Overbeek goes back to school for prom and finds a whole lotta shakin' goin' on.

"...Boom, Boom, Boom...."

June 10, 2005 News Feature

In the Moment

Ann Hampton Callaway takes things 'Slow,' but she's more alive live than ever

"...have very sophisticated make-out album tastes. Some people like boom-shaka-laka-laka, boom-boom. That's not my taste...."

Dec. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Future Is Now

Local fiscal policy enters its Cold War era

"...– in other words, that we'll have another steroidal boom – is probably nil. It will probably take at..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...Motor City quartet's theatric garage rock attack to Sonic Boom proportions. – Greg Beets..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Austin @ Large: Welcome Back, Kirk

Kirk Watson's new job at the chamber stands at odds with his "message" as mayor.

"...(in the chamber's words) "presided over Austin's biggest economic boom." He left office to run for state attorney general...."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Another Austin boom is pointless unless it improves the quality of life.

"...turns the clock back to the peak of the boom?Doing What Works Actually, Topic A is the city's collapsing..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Diverse Portfolio

The boom in Austin may be busting, but the 183 / MoPac tech force will always be hungry around noon, Pableaux Johnson writes in his review of Sushi Sake.

"...case of nigiri/NASDAQ connection. The peak of Austin's tech boom also signaled a boom in Central Texas sushi joints...."

June 8, 2001 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

360 Degrees of Separation

The Austin 360 Summit returns sadder, and wiser, this year than it was in its two previous incarnations.

"...have still not declined to the level of Austin's pre-boom standard of living...."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Food-o-File

Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood on the year that was in Austin's culinary life.

"...the number of local restaurants. There was the Italian/Mediterranean boom, a flurry of regional chain/franchise activity that brought everything..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...to fuel an ongoing movement like the country's Ecstasy boom, though the majority of users spoken to for this..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Articulations

An extraordinary new project for Deborah Hay and his week in Louisville that was all about Austin.

"...next weekend, when she'll be premiering her new work BooM BooM BooM: A Dance Trilogy at The Off Center...."

April 7, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A Home Loan of Our Own

Homeowning may be the American Dream, but seems so far out of reach for so many. Bernadette Noll's story of finding and buying a house offers hope for the hapless.

"...the years passed, the bust slowly faded and the boom crawled back neighborhood by neighborhood. The buildings downtown filled..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bernadette Noll

So What's Funny?

"...Ba-da-boom! Ba-da-bing!..."

March 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Our Little Town

Travis Heights Arrives

"...In 1891, after the new bridge had spurred a boom along South Congress, the "Village of South Austin" was..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Austin's DJ Culture

"...representation the genre had forecasts a future Technics SL-1000 boom for the U.S.: "It's really hard to say if..."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Final Frontier

Space Is the Place

"...Melodica also hosted Tortoise and Spacemen 3 founder Sonic Boom...."

Dec. 6, 1996 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Love Nest

First Comes Love...

"...the time I left in 1981, a real estate boom was transforming the center of the city and stretching..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature by Marion Winik

The Taming of the Shrew

"...like watching a bottle rocket stand go up -- ka-boom, ka-boom, ka-boom -- for three hours. That or a..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Arts Feature

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