Public Notice: What Have They Done to Our Park?

What's left of Waterloo can't even be called a park

"...first visit this past weekend back to Downtown's Waterloo Park, recently reopened after a 10-year closure for construction that..."

Sept. 3, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Changes in Store for Duncan/BMX Park

BMX riders meet with Parks and Rec

"...Ninth Street just off Lamar – met with the Parks and Rec­reation Department's project management supervisor Marty Stump to..."

April 4, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

New 'Action' Park Rolls Closer to Reality

Skaters, BMXers collaborate on new digs

"...Creek Boulevard. On a section that's not used as parking for Austin Independent School District's House Park Athletics Facility..."

June 25, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Poison in the Park

Plants and trees in Stacy Park began to die after a Parks and Rec volunteer sprayed herbicide

"...If there's one thing that the neighbors of Stacy Park, in South Austin's Travis Heights, feel they know for..."

Sept. 2, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Hyde Park Theatre's Lungs

The company has gathered all the right people for this beautiful, painful, timely tale of a man and a woman in a dying world

"...that the substance of what they say in the Duncan Macmillan script is entirely original, either; most of the..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Short Fringe @ Hyde Park Theatre

"...As before, all Short Fringe performances are at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd, at 8pm. All tickets are..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

sxswf: Trailer Park Finds the Source

'LBF,' 'Taken by Storm,' and 'Source Code' screening tonight

"...gets for the year, Source Code meshes Moon director Duncan Jones and Donnie Darko himself, Jake Gyllenhaal...."

March 11, 2011 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Way, Way Back

In this indie comedy, a young teen finds confidence at a local water park after suffering emotional abuse from his insensitive, would-be stepfather.

"...The adolescent in The Way, Way Back is sad-sack Duncan (James), a 14-year-old child of divorce on extended vacation..."

July 12, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Get Your Shovels Out

How a local crew of diggers built the baddest Downtown dirt jumps in the country at the Ninth Street BMX Trails

"...he'd learned to dig growing up around the dirt-tracked parks of Houston. He did a stint in the Army,..."

June 6, 2014 Sports Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Public Notice: City Hall Shark Tank

Council might be no fun, but there's lots of cool stuff going on this weekend

"...stalemated 3-3 votes in a row – on abolishing parking requirements for microunits, and on overruling city staff and..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Run This Letter as Written or Not at All

"...the Sept. 2, 2011, Austin Chronicle, "Poison in the Park," and I wish to tell you that you and..."

Sept. 27, 2011 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...some neighbors by leveling an unofficial track in a park on Bouldin Creek (and arresting some of its builders),..."

March 12, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Duncan Offers Correction

"...Roger Duncan, Director..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Column

Exists

This found-footage horror film shot in Austin finds a Bigfoot chased from its home by the Bastrop fires.

"...Ruggero Deodato’s oft-cited goregasm Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Patrick Duncan’s excellent though little-seen Vietnam war flick 84 Charlie MoPic..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who's the Boss?

Deer Park Neighbors and Developer Vie for Control

"...These Deer Park residents are fighting further construction of what they claim..."

Sept. 26, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Greenbacks for Green Space

City moves to make development pay more for parks

"...Ah, a day in the park. When urban life hits red on the stress-o-meter, when..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

"You Can't Stay Here": Austin's Unhoused Population Faces an Uncertain Future

Council, police, and providers confront camp challenge

"...list" of 45 city-owned sites Tuesday – including some parkland, some other city facilities, and some properties designated for..."

May 21, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Investing in Downtown Parks

"...Turning underperforming parks into great outdoor people places requires both vision and..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature

Council Approves Workplace Nondiscrimination Measure

City manager to review current policies

"...approved an ordinance amending the naming or renaming of park features (like plaques etc.) in city code, granting more..."

March 25, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Point Austin: The Tree in the Way

Commission decision could lead to changes in tree ordinance

"...the tree. Downtown resident and urban planning consultant Jim Duncan, who supports keeping the tree, went a step further..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Public Notice: Life Goes On

Gotta keep believing that love trumps hate

"...There are a couple of Parks & Recreation Dept. public planning meetings this week that..."

Nov. 11, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: Can Uber and Lyft Play Nice?

"If a business acts like it is above the law, it will pay a heavy price."

"...much action on relocating the Cactus Rose mobile home park residents (seems it's harder to find subsistence-level housing than..."

April 15, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Houston Company Buys Texas Monthly

Enterprise Products LLC buys mag from equity firm Genesis Park

"...the owner has been Houston private equity firm Genesis Park...."

June 25, 2019 News Post by Michael King

'Play Me, I'm Yours'

Giving 'keys to the city' a whole new meaning

"...assorted public spaces around Birmingham, England – at skate parks, bus shelters, train stations, and laundries, outside pubs and..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...and a handful of Texans made the cut, including Park City regulars the Zellner Bros...."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Food-o-File

Amy's and Mangia Give it Away

"...network and plan the upcoming What's Cooking in the Park Tasting Event, to be sponsored by Whole Foods Market..."

April 28, 1995 Food Column

Austin Gets the X Games

The Olympics of extreme sports visits Circuit of the Americas

"...The city opened its first purpose-built Skate and BMX Park on Shoal Creek in 2011, and finally adopted the..."

July 17, 2013 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Family Matters

Downtown dining with young ones doesn't have to be daunting

"...Downtown Austin. (Yes, you'll have to pay $5-7 to park or get lucky on the street, but Downtown is..."

June 11, 2010 Food Feature by Katherine Gregor

Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal

Josh Hancock, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dead at 29

"...knee after a spirited Sunday of softball at Ramsey Park. I guess right around there is where we head..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

From 380 Angles

Karen Kocher's multimedia 'Austin Past and Present' tells hundreds of stories in almost as many ways.

"...and not worth recording -- someone sits on a park bench and daydreams, another sings at their local church,..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May

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