Fun Fun Fun Fest Returns to Auditorium Shores

Festival moving slightly for ninth year downtown, Nov. 7-9

"...proceedings from the soon-to-be revamped main lawn at Auditorium Shores all the way... across the street...."

Jan. 14, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

No Rush to Rename Auditorium Shores

Council delays name change to "Vic Mathias Shores"

"...to put the brakes on renaming part of Auditorium Shores after civic leader Vic Mathias may have created one..."

May 27, 2014 News Post by Amy Smith

SXSW Free Butler Park Concert Series

Schedule for Music fest’s all-star weekend extravanganzas

"...Expo, and South by Southwest’s free concert series in Butler Park, the music festival that’s A Million Music Festivals..."

March 6, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Name Game Visits Auditorium Shores

City delays renaming in honor of Vic Mathias

"...to put the brakes on renaming part of Auditorium Shores after civic leader Vic Mathias may have created one..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature by Amy Smith

Beyond the Fatal Shores

SXSW's Aussie and Kiwi invasion

"...allow its residents to break out beyond its fatal shores. But for every inexplicable escapee (Kylie Minogue), there's at..."

March 5, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Council Backs Parkland Preservation in Vote for New Dougherty Arts Center Site

Austin's oldest community arts venue would relocate to new facility in Butler Shores' southeast corner

"...new pad is one step closer to its long-awaited Butler Shores Park homecoming, following City Council's unanimous approval of..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

A Tale of Two Soccer Stadiums

Will Austin get both, one, or none?

"...Precourt Sports Ventures' statement on Monday that it considers Butler Shores, the parkland behind Zach Theatre, as a "virtually..."

Dec. 8, 2017 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Dougherty Arts Center Relocation OK'd and Affordable Housing Program Gets Pushed Through at Council

And more notes from the May 9 City Council meeting

"...its current location on Barton Springs Road, near Auditorium Shores, to a potential site at Butler Shores along Toomey..."

May 10, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Austin Reggae Fest’s Easter Sunday

Everton Blender closes down displaced event

"...addressed the crowd. “Remember as we’re gathered here in Butler Park, it’s only temporary. Next year we’ll be back..."

April 21, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Public Notice – CodeNEXT: The Halftime Score?

If you view the code rewrite simply as a struggle between the urbanists and the preservationists, it's fair to ask, who's winning?

"...Remember Butler Shores? There was going to be a soccer stadium..."

July 6, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council: Dem Ol' Railroad Blues

City takes on Project Connect but punts on Auditorium Shores

"...for Item 33, proposed final approval of the Auditorium Shores improvement project. Since there's been plenty of public woofing..."

Dec. 13, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: If You Build It, They Will Come

Arguments over infrastructure reflect community visions

"...also had its sights on city parkland – specifically, Butler Shores, where Lady Bird Lake meets Barton Creek –..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Judas Priest Pounds Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014

Some heads are gonna roll

"...Fun Fun Fest’s ninth annual edition, set for Auditorium Shores and Butler Park Nov. 7-9. Get yer Orange, Black,..."

May 19, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Keeping the Lights on at Casa de Luz

The iconic Austin eating-and-meeting place dearly wants to continue pursuing its macrobiotic mission – but can't quite seem to comply with public safety codes

"...to have staff consider installing parking meters in the Butler Shores Park parking lot as a way of ensuring..."

June 14, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Parking Solution: Meter the Millionaires

"...couldn't care less who uses the parking spaces at Butler Shores Park (or Auditorium Shores, Zilker, Deep Eddy, etc.)..."

May 27, 2013 Postmarks

Spotlight: Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk

Ivan Neville's New Orleans Social Club

"...Leo Nocentelli, drummer Raymond Webber, and Neville and Henry Butler on keys...."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Andy Langer

A Bit of History About the Chronicle Building

Little has changed with our building, which lies in the path of an expanded I-35

"...was built in 1957 as the headquarters of the Elgin-Butler Brick Co. Like Austin White Lime (the Robinson family),..."

Jan. 27, 2023 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Ann Kitchen 1, Precourt Sports Ventures Nil

Updating the score in the quest for the Columbus Crew

"...site their privately funded 20,000-person, $200 million stadium in Butler Shores – the ownership group's first choice for a..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Headlines

"...Bye, Bye Butler? The contemplated professional soccer venue for would-be Ohio transplant..."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Feature

SXSW Music Adds the Residents and a Free Latin Concert

Experimental legends plus Intocable, Bomba Estereo, and Compass

"...the Residents, and a free outdoor concert at Auditorium Shores featuring Latin luminaries Intocable, Bomba Estereo, and Compass...."

Feb. 24, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fun Fun Fun Live Shot: Radkey

Fierce as 1982 Bad Brains attacking the Misfits’ songbook

"...Fun Fun Fun Fest crowd that had waltzed into Butler Park/Auditorium Shores once gates finally opened...."

Nov. 8, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

First SXSW Free Concert Announced: Foster the People

Pumped up kicks at Butler park

"...comes news of the first free festival concerts at Butler Park on Barton Springs Rd. near Auditorium Shores...."

Feb. 18, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...multiple projects, including the Rainey Street Trailhead, Holly Project, Butler Shores, and others. The nonprofit will begin the search..."

Nov. 10, 2023 News Feature

A Soccer Stadium Built in Line With Austin's Love of the Outdoors

How Gensler architecture's home for the Verde keeps it green

"...sites around town, including a highly unpopular one on Butler Shores by Barton Creek. Suffice to say that once..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Robert Faires

False Narratives

"...with its own peculiar denial of recent history: “The Butler Shores subdistrict and overall Waterfront Overlay were created in..."

March 3, 2020 Postmarks

Austin City Council v. Climate Change

City Hall backs resilience, electric vehicles

"...to redevelop and relocate the Dougherty Arts Center to Butler Shores, leaving behind the DAC's current aging and flood-prone..."

May 17, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Previews Fall's Main Event: A Land Development Code Revision

A code, foretold

"...redevelop the Dougherty Arts Center at a site on Butler Shores is set to be discussed as well. The..."

May 10, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Is a New Austin Land Development Code Done Yet?

Council: Stick a pin in that!

"...next regularly scheduled Council meeting, May 9: approving the Butler Shores site of a new Dougherty Arts Center, new..."

May 3, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

New to Town? Here Are Nine of the Biggest News Stories Affecting Locals.

A primer on Austin politics

"...After having his first two desired sites (Butler Shores and Roy G. Guerrero Park) rejected, Precourt settled..."

Aug. 30, 2018 News Post by News Staff

McKalla Place Eyed for Soccer Stadium

North Austin location identified as Precourt Sports Ventures' third first choice

"...parkland in the city's urban core – first at Butler Shores and then at Roy G. Guerrero Park. Now,..."

March 16, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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