Faster Than Sound – The Music Relief Magic Number: $20 Million

Music Makes Austin budget proposal warns full-capacity touring won't return until 2022

"...Despite lengthy discussion last year, Austin City Council did not allocate exclusive funding from the first..."

April 30, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Shortchanged

A lot of belt tightening and creative thinking make getting by with low dollars possible for AISD

"...The Austin Independent School District's coffers have never been fuller. That's what you'd..."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: First, Do No Harm

Council dives in

"...The new 10-1 City Council this week continues its ambitious Policy Workshop program:..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Imagining Austin

Public forums begin on comprehensive and mobility planning

"...It's 2040 in Austin: Where should the city have absorbed new population growth over the last 30..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The 1821 Club

Tuning in to the future of Austin's music scene today

"...teen bands not affiliated with rock camps or music schools but formed because of similar tastes – or maybe..."

July 10, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Neighborly Planning

The city, businesses, and residents all seem pleased with the results of the East Martin Luther King Neighborhood Planning Workshop.

"...neighborhood leaders gathered in the "cafetorium" of Norman Elementary School on Feb. 2 for the East Martin Luther King..."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Who You Gonna Call?

Small Texas towns look to Austin and Washington to jump-start economic development

"...creating $5 million worth of new business inside its city limits over the past seven years...."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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Share the Smart Growth

"...certain other fees. Our suggestions were not supported by City Staff (and they told the council so) because, to..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Column

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Don't Dissolve District

"...entire recharge zone of the Barton Springs Aquifer. The City of Austin's rules, including the S.O.S. ordinance, apply in..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Flatbed Press founders Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith, choreographer Kate Warren and theatre / spoken word artist Zell Miller III join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...the arts and culture to take root in a city, to develop and flourish there, and then to make..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Spring Train-ing

Rob Spillar and transit advocates work toward a 2014 rail vote

"...to compete on this team," the director of the city's transportation department says. "This town has a lot going..."

Feb. 22, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Found in the Ground

Mother Falcon takes flight – past Paganini

"...the ambitious orchestral pop collective tagged in Austin's high school orchestras and released into colleges and universities across the..."

July 30, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Hothouse Wildflowers

Through the looking glass with Eisley

"...This is a habitat where adults nurture their offspring's creative impulses, allowing children to fully inhabit their imaginations free..."

July 11, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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Our readers talk back.

"...Creative Commons Correction..."

March 7, 2003 Column

New Head at Austin Studios as the Facility Enters a New Era

Martin Jones leads the Austin Film Society-run facility into the next decade

"...Columbus, Ohio – like Austin, he said, "a state capital and a big college town" – and that's where..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Next Austin Bust

Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?

"...can seem grating as well as distorting, but the city of Austin proper makes up only 43% of the..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Trumpet Constant Ephraim Owens Won’t Be Rushed

New Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee substitutes kindness and ubiquity for a back catalog

"...support, there were concerns about his matriculation into high school. His father, John Henry Owens, had plans for his..."

April 7, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Believe

Moving Panoramas flicker to life in the aftermath of a home invasion

"...After high school, I moved to Denton to study music at UNT,..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

First Night Austin

This New Year's Eve, why not join the throngs at this free arty party on the streets?

"...Year's Rockin' Eve, right?). This year, some 850 local creatives will be contributing their talents to the celebration over..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...decades later, I remember painstakingly constructing intricate Lincoln Logs cityscapes only to have them toppled via Giant Monsters' All-Out..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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Our readers talk back.

"...the sway of a radical and dangerous enviro-agenda, the city squandered its resources by protecting the salamander and ignoring..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column

Governing Post-Boom Austin

Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.

"...Judging from the City Council campaign so far, you'd think that the most..."

April 12, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...She told of her young daughter coming home from school on the day of the attacks, scared, and asking..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Articulations

Getting Online With Art

"...service from ALAA. Just be at the UT Law School Auditorium at 1pm Saturday. For more info, call 476-4458...."

Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Column

Is This UTopia?

A Long-Overdue University Master Plan is Unveiled

"..."nerd corner" and on the short list of the city's ugliest buildings, especially on its lemon-yellow inside. The rationale,..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived

The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism

"...Moreover, the city of Austin has become increasingly committed to reducing its..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Public Notice: Government by Committee

Tonight's Town Hall: First step in a "New Way Forward"

"...So, I presume you're heading down to City Hall this evening (Thursday, Jan. 22), to the "special-called..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Res Publica

Citizens calendar, July 23-30

"...SUPPORT PEARCE MIDDLE SCHOOL: POSTPONED This event, in support of the proposal to..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...– son of crooner Aaron – and his Crescent City quintet shake the rafters and your ass. Compendia released..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...for his inestimable contribution to our culture and our city? Likewise, the brilliant Paul Ray, host and source of..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column

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