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"...poppin’ over to austinchronicle.com/support. See ya at the Chron campus!   – James Scott One Man’s Trash: Demolition Man..."

Nov. 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Police Pepper Spray Protesters After Dispersing Impromptu Encampment for Palestine

UT, DPS double down on use of force, students push them “off our campus”

"...“divest from genocide.” At first, only about 10 UT cops were at the scene, but by 1pm, hundreds of..."

April 29, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

Teezo Touchdown, Arny Margret, and More Reviews From Tuesday of SXSW

Standout sets to kick off the big music week

"...Reuniting audiences on the second official day of SXSW Music certainly had plenty to chat..."

March 13, 2024 Music Post by Derek Udensi

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...still big news as the pan-media festival will kick off with the world premiere of new series 3 Body..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Thinking Outside the Litter Box

A less than purrfect solution to police staffing?

"..."Anyone know why there's a million cops in front of my house on Xxxx St. right..."

May 12, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin at Large: Reading the Palm District

A new plan-of-plans puts the spotlight on Downtown’s hard, rough eastern edges

"...school, and the adjacent park, and a current AISD campus near McKinney Falls, refers not to a tree but..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...Vietnam-trained security, and a corps of Port Authority police officers hustled the second English punk band to play America..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Austin at Large: Life Beyond the Cop Shop?

ULI-Austin members craft hypothetical – but plausible – visions for APD’s unloved HQ

"...he must have thought it. Instead, he briskly ticked off every possible reason why this was not, in his..."

Dec. 24, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

"Cops Off Campus" Activists Keep Pressure on UT

Student org continues call to remove UTPD following West Campus shooting

"...At UT-Austin, the student organization Cops Off Campus has made a name for itself with..."

Nov. 12, 2021 News Feature by Skye Seipp

Initiation

Updated campus slasher flick gets the tech right, but not much else

"...belly of a frat house to the university president's office, Initiation paints its campus with sticky pools of student..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Shane Pfender

Painful Splits Along the Way to Stopping Sexual Assault in and Around Austin

Different approaches to accountability lead to rifts throughout the county

"...led efforts to open Eloise House on the SAFE campus (the city's primary shelter and service center for survivors..."

March 15, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

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

A primer on Austin politics

"...can help you get up to speed. – Chase Hoffberger We Are Austin: Your Vote Needed..."

Aug. 30, 2018 News Post by News Staff

The San Marcos Music Scene Runs Deep

ACL Fest hip-hop headliners Brockhampton might just be the tip of the iceberg from our neighbors south on I-35

"...North Texas, the first institution in the country to offer a jazz degree. UNT remains the top choice for..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Music Feature by Jeremy Steinberger

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"..."Come and Take It," about the "cocks not Glocks" campus carry protest; Grow Up Tony Phillips creator Emily Hagins..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Half-Century Psych of Shiva's Headband

13th Floor Elevators weren't the only local psych act exploring Austin's outer limits – and still doing so

"...memories feel like fevered dreams now, but they blasted off onto a trajectory integrating me into the greater musical..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

College Confessions From the Dorm's Snitch

Accidentally hot-boxed, barfed on, a 24/7 buzz kill – RA life ain't easy

"...18-year-olds, it’s a Sisyphean task. Every Friday and every off-campus party offered another way to get new students stoned,..."

Aug. 23, 2017 Chronolog Post by Katarina Brown

What Will It Take to Get More Police Oversight?

If Greg Casar wants more accountability for cops, the city’s gonna need to give the police union some more money

"...into an 87-minute discussion that left interim labor relations officer and longtime contract wonk Tom Stribling, there to present..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Red River Clubs Grapple With Downtown Homelessness

Beggars, hustlers, and dealers make you wonder how Downtown music keeps from going under

"...brother," he prods. "Can you spare a dollar?" I offer a pair of old jeans that might fit him...."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin and the 7-10 Split

Candidates in west and west-central districts find common cause

"...not hard to see it either. It's regularly written off as "suburban sprawl" (with a subtext of being "not..."

July 22, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Council Preview: What Can We Afford?

The Council budget preview kicks off months of presentations and hearings

"...the initial staff budget preview to City Council, kicking off several months of departmental presentations and public hearings. We'll..."

April 19, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

Death and drugs dominated the year for Austin police

"...inside her rented cottage just north of the UT campus in the wee hours of Jan. 1, cast a..."

Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

McMillan 'Traumatized' by Houston Cops

DiverseArts Culture Works founder / director travels to Houston due to a death in the family, and gets roughed up by police and arrested

"...The security supervisor called Houston Police Department officers instead. When they tried to move him to a..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Cindy Widner

Page Two: Lost Horizon

A journey both medical and existential

"...in that song, but I lack the vocabulary to offer a much better self-description. It would be foolish to..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Column by Louis Black

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...of QueerBomb, Austin's renegade counter-Pride, and members of the official Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation board agreed to..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Bill of the Week

Special gun privileges for lawmakers?

"...on San Antonio Republican Sen. Jeff Wentworth's "guns on campus" bill after hearing opposition from a plurality of senior..."

April 15, 2011 News Column by Richard Whittaker

A Walk in Austin's Shoes

Curious tidbits and Austin arcana

"...after being caught isn't automatic. Instead, the law allows cops to issue citations for low-level possession (though it does..."

March 19, 2010 News Feature by the News Staff

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...Downstairs in his corner office, amidst rapid-fire Saint Cecilia scholarship, he pauses...."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Uncontrollable Urge

Devo's 21st century 'de-evolution' hopefully won't get anyone arrested

"...after the infamous National Guard shootings on their college campus in 1970...."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Cole's Posthumous Exoneration Is First for Texas

In clearing Timothy Cole's name, Travis Co. judge does what Lubbock officials refused to do

"...similar rapes committed over a four-month period near the campus of Texas Tech University. Although Mallin gave detailed information..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Cyclist's Own Words

Pedal-pushers share tales of their run-ins with the law

"...bikers on the Eastside, as well as Downtown and campus, that the police have been harassing bikers over minor..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature

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