Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Venues Are Out of Money

Following last week’s Barracuda closure, a domino effect will continue without emergency city funding

"...coming, and we still don't have access to emergency disaster relief for venues," says Reynolds. "By not acting, Council..."

June 19, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound – Summer in the City: Concerts, Protests, Relief Controversy, Potentially Less HAAM

Clubs navigate show safety, local musicians soundtrack protests, and HAAM asks for city aid.

"...there, it felt like an Austin thing." Austin Music Disaster Relief Fund Opens Amid Criticism..."

June 12, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Could Austin Arts & Music Finally Get a Cultural Trust?

It's not here yet, but talks are intensifying. Also, bars and a few live music venues reopen.

"..."We're not just dealing with the economic disaster related to COVID, we're also dealing with the disaster..."

May 29, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Islands in the (Live)stream

Crossing over from 3D to the pixelated world of livestreams

"...COVID-19, totaling $2.5 million in relief. The Austin Music Disaster Relief Fund, carried over from the April 9 Council..."

May 1, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Music Industry Workers Face Uncertainty Around Unemployment Benefits

Indie contractors advised: “When in doubt, go ahead and register”

"...An independent contractor employed seasonally, she lost a crucial..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Austin Industry Bands Together for March Music Week

Why Austin venues and musicians need you to turn out the next 10 days, and where to do it

"...Director Rebecca Reynolds plans to pursue federal and local disaster relief resources...."

March 13, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Chronicle Endorsements for the November 5 Election

"...Prop 3: Against. This post-Harvey disaster relief measure sounds wholesome but is messier than need..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

House of Hummingbird Explores the Adolescence of a Woman and a Nation

South Korean drama screens at the Austin Asian American Film Festival

"...tragedy came as the nation was still commemorating another disaster occurring two decades earlier: the 1994 Seongsu Bridge disaster,..."

June 14, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Collaborative Approach to Affordable Housing at SXSW

Nonprofits consider "a better way to tackle a big problem”

"...estate developer at the time, and pointed out the disaster was exacerbated by the decades of disinvestment New Orleans..."

March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Nina Hernandez

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2017

"...The Post; The Big Sick; Kedi; The Disaster Artist; I, Tonya Most Overrated..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Common Law

Hurricane Harvey – common legal questions

"...is living through the effects of an unprecedented natural disaster — Hurricane Harvey. As the flood waters recede, folks..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Column by Luke Ellis

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...Elsewhere in the schedule, look for The Disaster Artist (James Franco’s retelling of the story behind cult..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

What caused the "Wreck of the Wells Fargo"?

"...This was written about a Virginia train disaster in 1903, but it could've been written this year..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

Shrewd Productions' Hold Me Well

Playwright Eva Suter's reworking of Othello in a world without men depicts love in many forms with power and beauty

"...with a dystopian Central Texas in which an undetailed disaster some 17 years prior killed every male on the..."

July 22, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Bastrop Fire Volunteer Opportunities

Learn how to aid victims of last week's blaze

"...reports. On Oct. 15, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a disaster declaration. By Tuesday, the blaze, which has consumed swathes..."

Oct. 20, 2015 News Post by Nina Hernandez

Katrina Survivors Reflect 10 Years Later

Jamar Jefferson and Donna Bonner are just two of many who relocated to Austin

"...area's recent Memorial Day weekend flooding. During the largest disaster-related population dispersal in U.S. history, Austin was among the..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Public Notice: Ora Houston's Nightmare

Night of the living acronyms

"...A State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Wim­ber­ley relocates this week for homeowners,..."

July 31, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

After the Flood

It's going to take time and hard work to rebuild what the Memorial Day flood destroyed

"...days after the floods, President Obama declared a natural disaster in three counties. FEMA descended to offer tangible aid..."

June 26, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

‘Hillsborough’ (Do Not Read This in the UK)

Controversial documentary kicks off ESPN “Soccer Stories” series

"...Hillsborough remains the worst stadium disaster in soccer history, and an iconic event in modern..."

April 15, 2014 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Seeing the Invisible

Margaret Brown dives headfirst into the BP Gulf oil tragedy

"...cameras home to grasp the impact of this man-made disaster...."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

From the Vaults: It’s All in the Family With David O. Russell

Family dysfunction looms large in the films of David O. Russell

"...the taboo-busting debut with the hilarious comedy, Flirting With Disaster in which a grown man immaturely puts his life..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Only Your Style Avatar could figure out a way to meld his new fall collection with a mention of Water Wings

"...you do with your settlement from the Costa Concordia disaster?": Frightened, and with their lives at stake, the Austin..."

June 29, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

City Hall Hustle: The Fires This Time

Austin's feverish summer a tinderbox for rumination

"...easy to lose sight of the magnitude of the disaster unfolding around us – or it was until a low-hanging..."

Sept. 9, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Ike and the 81st Lege

How did Galveston fare at the Capitol?

"...general revenue, thus setting a worrying precedent for the disaster fund. Ultimately, Galveston's University of Texas Medical Branch received..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

One Serious Illness Away; and The Union-Made Miracle

"...Indeed, America's deplorable connection between physical illness and fiscal disaster does not occur in other highly developed countries, because..."

June 26, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Local Agencies Still Responding to Ike

Red Cross tries to replenish coffers that were drained in 2008

"...commissions, are stationed there, supporting the more than 40 disaster recovery centers in the affected zone. The scale is..."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Money for Nothing

After the bailout, what then?

"...if Congress did not act immediately to avert economic disaster, the credit markets would freeze and the stock market..."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Bryce's Response Was an Overreaction

"...good evidence that global warming may be a multifaceted disaster for the world and possibly even more of a..."

Dec. 22, 2007 Postmarks

People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938

Seventy songs culled from 25 years of early American roots

"...People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938(Tompkins Square)..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Culture Flash!

Still time left to get some free theatre, laurels for historian Oscar Brockett and director Don Toner, and a new baby for the first couple of Salvage Vanguard Theater

"...the story of New Orleanians surviving last year's devastating disaster. The UT Department of Theatre & Dance production is..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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