SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"...enough for Adrian Quesada. The latest project from the Austin guitarist and composer is a stunning set of sun-drenched..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

The Single-Member Situation

Movement afoot – once again – to ask voters to endorse City Council districts

"...Six times previously, the city has put before Austin voters the question of single-member districts – a change..."

Feb. 25, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Zach Theatre

Construction is starting on Zach's third performance space, its biggest yet

"...in fall 2012. And after remarks by Mort Topfer, Austin Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez, Managing Director Elisbeth Challener,..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Neighborhoods, Schools, and Budgets

Austin ISD's looming financial crisis is a statewide story

"...a time there were three documents. There was the Austin Independent School District's Facility Master Plan, being developed by..."

Feb. 11, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Solid Waste Rocks!

Solid Waste Services goes national with its name campaign

"...Fostering Energy Conser­vation and Ecological Sanitation, or FECES, and Austin Sustainability Services, or ASS, are a representative sampling of..."

Feb. 11, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...Gary, Tom – Encore knows metallurgy (2008 "Best of Austin"). One store-brand upside-down bat T-shirt to rule them all:..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Home for the holidays with Ray Wylie Hubbard, Schmillion, and Dax Riggs

"...lot" or "an awesome all-girl punk rock band from Austin, Texas." Stick with the latter. Since forming in summer..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Swampadelic

Grateful Dead + Papa Mali = 7 Walkers

"...Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and Austin's godfather of funk Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne share the..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

All Down the Line

Forget the Exile on Main St. reissue. Here's the 1972 Stones in all their cinematic glory, plus a 1981 bonus to make it a double feature.

"...Stones returned to numerous big screens up and down Austin's I-35 corridor. Groupies were in surprisingly short supply, but..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM: Beginnings

How I learned that writing for publication wasn't just about me

"...and from New York City was to be an Austin Sun cover story. Dan Hubig created terrific illustrations. I'd..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

You Coulda Walked Around the World

The LBJ of Lone Star songwriters lays siege to the Cactus Cafe

"...Escovedo, beginning in 1992-93, with his solo debut, Gravity. Austin's best song practitioners grab that inner sanctum by the..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

When Bad Movies Attack

James Nguyen's underground oddity Birdemic cries fowl

"...lake, or even just sitting outside on her South Austin apartment's stoop, she'd always eye the sky warily, peering..."

July 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Crossroads 3

I went up to the Crossroads – and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – fell down on my knees

"...rock & roll be enshrined? They did it to Austin City Limits...."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Eco-Currents

A green (and blue and brown) grab bag of enviro tids and bits

"...through e-mails, it's not too late to join the chorus – see www.tllrwdcc.org...."

May 14, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...snow this winter – and it did snow in Austin last month – for these lupine locals, busy snapping..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Long Center/Texas Performing Arts

Austin's biggest concert halls team up to present touring Broadway musicals

"...Across America. Of the five subscription productions on the BAA-Austin 2010-2011 season, four will show at Bass and one..."

March 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City Hall Hustle: Is There a Deeper Wave Than This?

Jobs come in one door, out the other

"..."Jobs, jobs, jobs," runs the recessionary chorus, from the televised millionaire pundits broadcasting from the nation's..."

March 5, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Anita Baker

Austin Music Hall, Feb. 12

"...Anita BakerAustin Music Hall, Feb. 12..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Learning the Game

Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"..."Good evening, Austin," says Keith Richards like the King of England himself,..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

L'Étoile (The Star)

You can thank your lucky stars for this opera of big, colorful, bouncy fun

"...time: 2 hr, 20 min, 701 W. Riverside, 472-5992, www.austinlyricopera.org..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Slanted & Enchanted

Matador Records magnate Gerard Cosloy turns the 'live music capital' into a Casual Victim Pile

"...Do Not Cross. What's left in the barren South Austin lot resembles an archaeological dig site after a flood...."

Jan. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Alas, Lord Is Upon Me

Adam 'Nergal' Darski, frontman for Polish metal titans Behemoth, talks English, Polish, and Slayer

"...Austin Chronicle: In the spirit of the new album I..."

Jan. 7, 2010 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Family Planning Contracts Approved

Opponents decry board's contracts with abortion providers

"...planning and reproductive health services that the city of Austin has provided for low-income women since the 1970s. When..."

Dec. 18, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...Head spinning in civilization's storehouse of original psychedelia, an Austinite privy to the resurrection of rock & roll's pioneering..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Mothers of Reinvention

White Denim's Fits of maximum R&B

"...Central Texas Hill Country, nearly an hour removed from Austin. Every inch of the group's 45-foot, broken-down palace of..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Into the Wild

Balmorhea might not be one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, but it scored the movement

"...and blacksmith from Kentucky and one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, wrote Letters From an Early Settler..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Rise Above

SST Records' Greg Ginn jams econo in Taylor, Texas

"...littered throughout. A VHS tape labeled "Meat Puppets in Austin" sits near the entrance, resting beside a row of..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Luv Doc Recommends: Rude Mechanicals' Sci-fEye Ball

The Off Center, Saturday, August 22, 2009

"...fill up a seven band bill, but here in Austin we pack in bands like slaves on the Amistad..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Ten Seconds to Death

What we know – so far – about the police shooting of Nathaniel Sanders II

"...any criminal charge in connection with Sanders' death. To Austin Police Depart­ment Chief Art Acevedo, the grand jury's decision..."

Aug. 14, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The More You Learn About God, the Further Away from Him You Move

mewithoutYou frontman Aaron Weiss likes a good question, but finds some answers easier than others

"...Austin Chronicle: What’s your religious background?..."

June 15, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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