Austin Municipal Bonds: The 'CliffsNotes' version

It's real simple:'yes' seven times

"...gleam in the collective eye of the citizens bond advisory committee...."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature

Council Notes

What's ahead for this week's City Council meeting

"..."backroom dealmaking." That particular fight continues, with an Environmental Board hearing scheduled Wed., April 26. Council's forks meet socket..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

In Memoriam

Alfred King, one of Austin's greatest cultural benefactors and advocates, has died at age 89

"...One of the city's greatest cultural benefactors and advocates has died. Alfred King, of the..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• As the citizens' Bond Election Advisory Committee continued meeting to try to balance its current..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

News and happenings around Austin and beyond

"...Austin Community Access Television: following the executive director, a board member resigned, while the city auditor's office continued investigating..."

Jan. 14, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Cultural Shifts

The basic mechanism for funding artists will look the same, but the city of Austin's cultural contracts program will undergo some significant changes in structure

"...overall mechanism by which the city funds artists and cultural organizations will look much like it has in the..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...They are Austin's cultural heroes. They are individuals who have founded local arts..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Does MACC put Town Lake Residents at Risk?

The proposed Mexican-American Cultural Center may block fire access to the adjacent Villas on Town Lake.

"...quiet: The groundbreaking for the city's $45 million Mexican-American Cultural Center, an educational and arts facility proposed just yards..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Only Natural

The Texas Memorial Museum decides to focus on its natural history roots.

"...in 1939 and now tucked away behind the Performing Arts Center on the north end of the UT campus,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

The MACC: Back on Track, or Under Attack?

The city approves a new board for the Mexican-American Cultural Center -- and the center's previous shepherds cry foul.

"...Twenty years in the making, Austin's multimillion dollar Mexican-American Cultural Center is nearly under way; groundbreaking at the MACC's..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom. The..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

KAOS at KOOP

Austin's "community-owned" radio station is once again fractured into factions.

"...call "the May 21 incident." On that date, KOOP board member Gilka Cespedes invited several newly elected colleagues to..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Budget Blitz

The City Council on Tuesday approved its $1.8 billion budget for fiscal 2003, but not before mollifying some angry citizens and mopping up some of the blood on the floor.

"...Arts Funding..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...we all are to live in such a beautiful, cultural city deep in the heart of Texas...."

May 10, 2002 Column

Naked City

"...Supt. Pat Forgione recommended Feb. 25 that the district's board of trustees reject a proposal by private school management..."

March 1, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Forest for the Trees

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

"...So it was when the Austin Arts Commission convened on Tuesday, May 30. The purpose of..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...tilted; that world has changed in all its aspects. Cultural observers debate why it is so, but it is..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

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.

"...alive and keep players from flipping over the game board in utter frustration. As the City of Austin arts..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Community Chest and Chance Rolled Into One

The Applicants

"...they make their way around the city funding game board. Regarding this second phase, applicants were asked about how..."

May 28, 1999 Arts Feature

The Cultural Contracts Timeline

"...All interested artists and organizations descend upon the Dougherty Arts Center for a briefing by Cultural Contracts staff about..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Feature

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect ...

Part One: The Artists' Application Process

"...guerrilla theatre presented by one of the city's many arts companies; this is guerrilla arts administration and the final..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Feature

A Long Time Coming

Why Now?

"...Plan, and the vision for the area as a cultural park was born. All parties agree that today's plans..."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Articulations

"...Wanted: Cultural Czar..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Making Lists

"...20th century in English; suddenly, the fin de siècle cultural sweepstakes were on...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Postmarks

"...a billion dollars' worth of proposals from city departments, boards and commissions, citizens, and council members. Many worthwhile projects..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column

Articulations

A Hand for Jess

"...present operas, develop artists, and generally further the operatic arts in this city for more years than just about..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Don't Dissolve District

"...as the election of two members of the District's board and the vote on a city bond proposition (Proposition..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Postmarks

Mixed Up Signals

"...and verify some information you published on the AISD Board races ["Shifting Gears," Vol.17, No.32]. Specifically, outgoing boardmember Geoff..."

April 24, 1998 Column

Tiffing Over the TIF

Waller Creek Rages On

"...halt on Tuesday when the council's appointed Downtown Development Advisory Group (DDAG) raised questions about the effect the TIF..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Articulations

Getting Online With Art

"...continues to be a vital presence in the Austin arts scene. The evidence may be seen this week, when..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Column

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