OUTsider Fest's Wild Roots

The third annual international queer arts festival returns this week

"...The woods can be terrifying – full of mysterious creatures, eerie sounds, and cell service dead zones...."

Feb. 14, 2017 Arts Post by Rachel Van Middlesworth

Bending the Rules

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

"...Nothing is more grueling than the final stage of a Monopoly game. Long hours have been logged watching..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

It's a Dirty Job ...

New arts tsar Vincent Kitch rolls up his sleeves to give Austin arts funding a clean start

"...Greek hero was cleaning out those filthy old stables of King Augeas, he may have had to contend with..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Paint By Numbers

Racial Divides in Austin's Public Arts Funding

"...The City of Austin hands out money to a broad range..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

"...Summer in Austin traditionally means a painfully long run of broiling, 100-degree..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Bad Year Gets Worse

The Austin Arts Commission has found itself stewing in a bubbling gumbo of controversies this year, and lately that gumbo has been getting hotter and hotter, with resignations from the Commission, an investigation by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and a call for reforms by a City Council member.

"...While you're never likely to hear anyone on the Austin Arts Commission warbling "It Was a Very Good Year"..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...sympathy these days, bound as it is to images of whiny twentysomethings debating the finer points of existentialism as..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

To Expand the Convention Center or Not?

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

"...In March, City Council voted unanimously to move forward on a plan..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

TDH: 8/22/11

City Council commemorates the Live Music Capital

"...No sooner than last week’s City Council meeting ended, another one’s on tap Thursday. While..."

Aug. 22, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Creative Capital?

In the City of Ideas, the people with ideas are dancing with day jobs.

"...day, in a bathroom down the hall from her office. It was 1983. After two years of graduate work..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael Erard

Tracking the MACC

A Brief History of Austin's Latino Cultural Center

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June 12, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Art Transplant

The Move Toward a Cultural Center in Downtown

"...You would think that the simple fact of having lasted..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

More Galleries Going, Going, …

Pump Project, HOPE, Co-Lab DEMO forced to move in 2018

"...The East Austin Studio Tour is intended to be a celebration of..."

Nov. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Articulations

Renowned composer and educator Kent Kennan has died, longtime Paramount Theatre manager Paul Beutel calls it quits, and Vincent Kitch signs on as the city of Austin's cultural arts program manager.

"...Austin's master of counterpoint and composer of renown has died...."

Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Rancho Alegre Fundraises to Save Their Conjunto Festival During AmplifyATX

Cut from city arts funding, Alegre aims to raise 35k this week

"...Musicians in Austin’s conjunto community are among the groups feeling the effects..."

Feb. 28, 2023 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

Faster Than Sound: Cheer Up Charlies Booker Trish Connelly’s Thoughtful Curation

Community outpours support for booker’s multiple sclerosis treatment, city opens first for-profit venue assistance program, and Las Cruxes’ storefront shutters

"...arrives, the buzz begins. Outside Cheer Up Charlies ahead of its second annual DreamGaze event last weekend, chatters admired..."

March 29, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

MACC Mommy

Managing the busy new Mexican American Cultural Center is inspiring work for Amparo Garcia-Crow

"...Although it isn't officially open, there has been no shortage of activity at..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...In the early Nineties, in the throes of one of my serial midlife crises, I conceived the..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

New Funding, New Era, New Stages for the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex

East Austin fixture will be an arts hub via Cultural Trust investment

"...When the new millennium came to Austin it brought with it the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex..."

March 28, 2023 Arts Post by Joelle DiPaolo

Art Aid

In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help

"...Even as Austinites have made astounding efforts to meet the critical needs..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Dawn in the EAST

Big Medium's Shea Little recalls the East Austin Studio Tour's beginning

"...into a courtyard. Artists casually walk in and out of the converted warehouse nestled off Bolm Road, chatting amongst..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

Culture Flash!

A second life for 'Death of a Cat,' a new arts commissioner from the tourism bureau, and a West Coast trip for Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance

"...• C. Denby Swanson's spooky Gothic drama Death of a Cat got its second life in Providence, R.I.,..."

March 25, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Squirrel Fest, a Bidi Bidi Birthday, and More Community Events

Plan your week with some of our recommended happenings around town

"...City of Austin Career Expo..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Power to Change

A quick sound check with the Austin mayoral candidates

"...As the ongoing hullabaloo over the Austin sound ordinance in regards to live outdoor music at..."

April 30, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

AFS Announces Short Film Grant Recipients

Society breaks $2 million in assistance to filmmakers

"...and so it is with short films, which are often the seed of great careers. That's why the Austin..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gael Force

Austin's Celtic tributaries feed into Austin Celtic Festival -- and the larger whole.

"...Mayhem On the morning of Nov. 16, 2001, Lanora Davidson drove to work fearing..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

AFS Announces 2021 Feature Grant Recipients

Ten projects reflect talent and diversity in Texas film

"...Austin Film Society has awarded 10 feature projects made by..."

Sept. 7, 2021 Screens Post by Kat McNevins

AFS Opens 2021 Short Film Grant Applications

Society will run webinars to help you apply

"...Austin Film Society has announced that applications are now being..."

Aug. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

10 Can’t-Miss Art Museums and Galleries

Old Masters and new whiz kids all have a home here

"...A city of murals and outdoor sculptures and inspired graffiti, art..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Public Notice: Lyft Up; Uber Under

The city sorts out airport ride-booking, and Uber resists

"...(Ed. note: Late Friday evening, the City Aviation Dept. announced that they had come to an..."

March 13, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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