Fierce, Fierce Beauty

The title for Keith Carter's exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art, "A Poet of the Ordinary" describes the photographer to a tee, a man who takes subjects from the everyday world and takes pictures of them that tell their story with the distilled purity of expression that characterizes great poetry.

"...and the passage of time, and yet we cannot puzzle out every detail of it: Why the mask, why..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Over Easy

The Chronicle Guide to Breakfast Dining

"...name basis with the best breakfast waitress in every downtown hotel coffee shop in his territory. They saw to..."

March 13, 1998 Food Feature

Relays, Rides, and Rasslin' Headline This Week's Community Events

Recommended happenings around town

"...Fareground, Downtown’s upscale food hall situation, is making the most of..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Faster Than Sound: You Might Find Your New Favorite Artist at Hot Summer Nights – Here Are 10 Contenders

Picks to reset quarantine listening habits, free today through Sunday

"...by day and 5,000-capacity venue by night, the well-designed puzzle pieces of Waterloo Park fell together impressively for last..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Bands Are Practicing Again, but Does Austin Have Enough Rehearsal Space for Them?

A love letter and state-of-affairs on the practice space scene

"...space manager Sonny Bishop counts plenty of rentals to puzzle out between the building's 31 rooms...."

June 18, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips: Coming in 2020 Across Texas

What Capt. Day Trips is looking forward to in the new year

"...where a bandstand now stands. Visitors can expect several downtown street closures as part of the redevelopment project...."

Jan. 10, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

What Happens to Rape Victims?

Sixteen months and nothing

"...change in an instant. She'd spent the night out Downtown and followed a man she'd just met into a..."

Dec. 2, 2016 News Feature by Kathryn Lundstrom

Council: Save the Coyotes!

A morning on wild, wild life, an afternoon on workers’ rights

"...for contracts $50,000 or less, so it was a puzzle that this one even landed on Council’s agenda. It..."

Oct. 10, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Allen Toussaint: Yes He Did Did

New Orleans’ house pianist called us to the stars and back

"...There was an unsolvable puzzle in the structure of these hits. Everything fit together..."

Nov. 12, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Playback

Last chance to vote in the Austin Music Poll!

"...to get music that's not yet represented in the Downtown circuit and expose people to artists they haven't heard..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Park Benched

The Cost of Art, Part II: Without enough buyers for art, local galleries like Tiny Park can't make the rent

"...the right ingredients, all the right pieces to the puzzle, but these factors have not yet gelled into a..."

March 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

8 Mile

An Austin octet of SXSW Picks 2 Click™

"...This year, TB&WY head into the eye of the Downtown storm with a mission: finding a booking agent to..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Council Districts: Best-Laid Plan Gets Bumpy

Map-drawing plans leave many dismayed

"...Working from the edges in is a rational jigsaw puzzle strategy, and makes sense in basic demographic cartography. But..."

Oct. 18, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Get Down Brother

San Antonio soul vein yields a goldmine

"...bar on a haphazard entertainment strip just north of Downtown San Antonio, a meeting of the Alamo City Soul..."

April 5, 2013 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

It's Nice To Car Share

The more hands on the wheel, the merrier

"...on some level to track population movement and trends Downtown," says Cole. Austin's condo culture, currently mushrooming across the..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Big Dogs, Young Rebels, and Aging Giants

The Austin promoters who bring the music come in all shapes and sizes

"...Moody said, "we're more and more fitting into the puzzle." Maintaining the Ecosystem..."

Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Live Shots

The Montreal Jazz Festival skronks Zornumental

"...Montreal. As a small, lone poster in the city's downtown jazz quadrangle exclaimed among the mad festival bustle, Zornumental!..."

July 9, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Learning Curve

Lessons from the Long Center's first six months

"...of the grand terrace with its expansive view of Downtown have paid off – but as often happens in..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Artists as Developers

A symposium gives creative types a new role in rebuilding neighborhoods

"...emphasizes. While both neighborhoods were severed from their respective Downtown areas when major highways were built atop the rubble..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Streetcar Dreams Deferred

Now what?

"...for when the transit data (part of a broader Downtown Austin Plan mobility study) would be presented to City..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: Budget Puzzles

Before your eyes glaze over, a few matters for consideration

"...("Beside the Point: Set Forecast to Stun") the biggest puzzle in these numbers is the curious relation of the..."

May 18, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Endorsements

"...debate; and 3) somehow balance the economic push for downtown residential development with the growing need for affordable housing...."

May 12, 2006 News Feature

Endorsements

"...debate; and 3) somehow balance the economic push for downtown residential development with the growing need for affordable housing...."

May 5, 2006 News Feature

Endorsements

"...debate; and 3) somehow balance the economic push for downtown residential development with the growing need for affordable housing...."

April 28, 2006 News Feature

Day Trips

Government Canyon State Natural Area helps protect the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone while giving visitors a beautiful new area to explore

"...an important piece of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone puzzle as well as giving hikers, mountain bikers, horseback riders,..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Council Candidates Take Their Places

Many scramble to replace Slusher and Goodman; only Gale takes on Dunkerley

"...following the abrupt withdrawal of Jeff Trigger of the Downtown Austin Alliance. Gregg Knaupe (pronounced "nap"), who had not..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

What's in a Face?

A lot, Mike Woolf discovered while making his short doc 'Growin' a Beard' -- and especially If the face Has got whiskers on the chin and Jowls

"...was a custom-made cultural piece for Woolf's idiosyncratic professional puzzle. He studied communications at Boston University, where he recalls..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by James McWilliams

Short, but Not Necessarily Sweet

It's a bit of a stretch to call the short films of Jay Rosenblatt documentaries. Let's call them experimental docs -- or shorts -- and leave it at that. Just prepare to be amazed by the reel of eight short films the genre-bending San Francisco filmmaker is bringing to the Alamo next week.

"...his persistent flatulence. We, in turn, are left to puzzle over how this information affects the way we think..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

Blacks & whites & various Blues

"...lots and more affordable housing" ["Postmarks: Low-Cost Housing No Puzzle," Aug. 24]...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...himself. In contrast, there are moderates who might otherwise puzzle people if their views had not been more consistent..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Column

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