Day Trips & Beyond: Holiday Lights 2023

Add some sparkle to your holiday season

"...Starry Starry Nights Lighted Christmas Park Dec. 4-Dec. 31, Llano, www.llanostarrystarrynights.com..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Heightens COVID Guidelines for Special Event Permits

Attendee screening, distancing provisions take effect Monday

"...Americas, and the newly opened Moody Amphitheatre in Waterloo Park. Local bars and clubs that hold annual sound permits,..."

Aug. 29, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Ben Wheatley Goes Digging In The Earth

Of mushrooms, men, and subterranean superintelligences ..

"...of the woods. From a different perspective, it's a colony organism, or an emergent intelligence. Everyone has a theory,..."

April 15, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice – LDC Revision: Notes & Notices

"...D10 (CM Alter) Mon., Oct. 21, 7-9pm, Highland Park Baptist Church, 5206 Balcones Dr...."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Land Development Code Public Meeting Schedule

Got something to say about the proposals? These are your chances.

"...Dist. 10 Town Hall & Office Hours, 7-9pm, Highland Park Baptist Church, 5206 Balcones..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature

David Brendan Hall's Top 10 Photos of 2018

"...Austin’s colony of nearly one and a half million Mexican free-tailed..."

Dec. 27, 2018 Photo Gallery

Day Trips: San Felipe de Austin Historic Site

Original Texas capital returns through new museum

"...River, Stephen F. Austin established his headquarters for his colony. The settlement became the social, economic, and political capital..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

County Bonds Set for November

$93.4 million for transportation, $91.5 million for parks

"...largest transportation projects include: Harold Green/Texas 130 to Austin's Colony Boulevard, South Pleasant Valley Road from FM 1327 to..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Austin Bucket List

Dip your toe in local culture

"...novelty wanes, the quality soars. And though Austin’s food-truck parks find themselves dogged by this city’s insatiable appetite for..."

June 20, 2016 Columns Post by Molly Burke

ATX Television Festival: Shifting Landscapes: The Effect of 9/11 on Storytelling

How the World Trade Center attacks affected TV

"...something terrible was happening. He said, “They started to park up ambulances by Chelsea because they knew they were..."

June 11, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Too Tired to Be Grumpy

It's time to enjoy yourself – spring break (and SXSW) are nearly here!

"...takes flight on Sunday, March 6, 10am-5pm in Zilker Park, with an estimated 20,000 fans, and all proceeds benefiting..."

March 4, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...with Kauber and Davis in a development called Austin's Colony, east of U.S. 130. "That was what we were..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Change of Venue

This year, FronteraFest is takin' it to the streets – and a chapel, a bookstore, a home ...

"...January every year, FronteraFest fans begin flocking toward Hyde Park Theatre and Salvage Vanguard Theater with the instinctive surety..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Grim History

Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery

"...as any place. Secondly, it's just out of the park by every measure in present-day criminal justice severity: There's..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Day Trips

Where do alligators in Texas go during the winter?

"...Amos Cooper, head of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department's alligator program and assistant manager at..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

A guide to the Big Bend region of Texas

"...Marfa is an interesting artists colony with a major art foundation, galleries, and a film..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...graduate takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park and discovers the job is perfect preparation for the..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips

Fort Leaton State Historic Site stands as a stark reminder of the rugged life of the pioneers on the Texas frontier

"...the trade route between Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Spanish colony at Santa Fe, N.M., the site was settled by..."

June 20, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The nine li'l cabins of the Blanco Settlement offer rocking chairs, Frisbee golf, and a Jacuzzi among other amenities for your vacationing pleasure

"...a pioneer settlement. Instead, the modern version is a colony of temporary residents looking to discover the Hill Country..."

April 28, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...lived behind bars in a maximum-security prison in Tennessee Colony, the Jicarilla Apache Indian from Northern New Mexico steadfastly..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

One Holiday, Two Gifts, 100 Years

Dan Welcher's pair of Yuletide operas shows what a difference a century makes

"...to Dennis that he saw children playing in a park and they were all running around like little individual..."

April 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

The Criterion connection, Renoir-style

"...18th-century acting troupe matriarch wreaking havoc on a Spanish colony in Central America. Mostly it resembles a Bob Hope..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere.

"...Dukes, Morton was born in 1936 in St. John Colony, a small community in Caldwell Co. between Lockhart and..."

Dec. 12, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips

"...change explore the fishing village of Rockport. A struggling colony of artists works the galleries and shops in the..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...grow the same way animals do. Bacteria in a colony keep doubling in a fixed time -- say once..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Column

Day Trips

Fritsche's Farm near Giddings is one of several good area options for your Christmas tree shopping.

"...Farm at 21612 Cold Spring Dr. west of Cedar Park off FM 1431 is open weekends 10am-5pm. 267-3539...."

Dec. 7, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Summer Film Calendar

Your month-to-month guide to summer film

"...film (minus the singing and dancing) about the underwater colony of Atlantis...."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...it's easy to see why safety is an issue. Parking brake secured, I knock at the door. Greeting me,..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Deep Blues From Gatesville

Amy Smith thought a judge would give her two years max for possession of crack cocaine; why is she doing 20?

"...the Dallas County Jail, and had her baby at Parkland Hospital...."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Day Trips

"...south of Seguin off of TX 123 at Jakes Colony Road has some of the prettiest trees and best..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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