City Hall Gets Better at the Basic Business of Budgeting

Early indicators are good, but difficult fiscal conversations linger

"...That clearly makes FY 2020 a bad time to kick off a bunch of recurring spending..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Alice D: Josephine Mackerras (France) She did everything right until it all went wrong. Cast: Emilie Piponnier,..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A Broken Trust at the Alamo Drafthouse

After executive mismanagement of sexual harassment accusations, the movie chain reconsiders what it means to do the right thing

"...such as they were. I was in charge of everything to do with lawyers, everything to do with the..."

March 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Swingle All the Way!

Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland

"...Austin a taste of her exquisite Ethel Merman tribute, Everything the Traffic Will Allow. More recently, Stritch and Blackhurst..."

Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sun Ra Commander Marshall Allen

Intergalactic RAS Day headliners tap universal vibrations

"...a vast repertoire of different music – blues and everything. He had the musicians singing and dancing with their..."

Aug. 24, 2016 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...each: Ballet Austin's Belle Redux; Zach Theatre's Cenicienta; Half & Half Productions' Chicago; Hyde Park Theatre's The Christians; Theatre..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Royal Thunder Q&A

Mlny Parsonz wails

"...of crowds they have. Not to say that’s a bad thing, but they’re playing these huge amphitheaters, and people..."

May 28, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland

Full Circle

Ali to his friends, Shakey Graves to the world

"...times. The way my brain works is to tie everything together. The more people I connect to, the plot..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Interview: Margaret Brown

We're all connected through the Great Invisible

"...and one of them is that you work out everything you're going to do that day, because your head..."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

ZZ Top

Tracking the beards

"...of the Ernest Tubb Record Shop. Here, the Texas Troubadour hosted his Midnight Jamboree over the airwaves on WSM,..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Doug Dorst puts the S. in 'Ship of Theseus' with this JJ Abrams Collaboration

The author presents his new literary creation at BookPeople tonight

"...Bucher: Yeah, the Internet is bad at reproducing physical objects. There's probably not a great..."

Dec. 9, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...to DePaul University downtown. Man, was it cool, because everything was there. We were down the street and around..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Five Things Baymageddon Taught Me

No pain, some gain from last weekend's Michael Bay marathon

"...central macguffin, I found myself agreeing with MacLennan. Across Bad Boys II, Armageddon and Bay's latest, the subversive anti-action..."

April 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'An Independent Person'

A Conversation With Randi Shade

"...is about the middle-ground, balanced approach. She doesn't do everything that any side really wants – because I'm always..."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Nik Wallenda: Life on the Wire

In which we send an aerialist to talk to a stuntman. Whoa.

"...been fairly successful at it. I don’t agree with everything that he does, but he probably doesn’t agree with..."

May 19, 2011 Arts Post by Raven Hinojosa

Slanted & Enchanted

Matador Records magnate Gerard Cosloy turns the 'live music capital' into a Casual Victim Pile

"...debris. Scraps of countless vinyl records – irreplaceable rock & roll relics – are littered like shrapnel, the warped..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

There Can Be Only One

Fronting and posting at B-Boy City 16

"...Zeshen Wu:The trick is to wear everything in the color burgundy. It doesn't really matter what..."

April 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Letters From the Women of SAFPF

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

"...Everything Jodi Stodder-Caldwell alleges is true. I do not know..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...seen their plants shipped overseas as a consequence of bad trade deals like NAFTA, literally seeing equipment unbolted from..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Next Next

Jasper Fforde reveals the secrets behind the new Thursday Next adventure, narrative gymnastics, and the job of writing

"...for First Among Sequels -- he'll appear at Barnes & Noble Arboretum on Friday, Aug. 3, 7:30pm -- he..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Secrets Shared

The documentary photos of Donna DeCesare

"...Or they see them as an inconvenient reminder that everything isn't all right in the world." The combined portraits..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Letters at 3AM

Stanley Crawford's 1966 novel 'GASCOYNE' has been out of print for 35 years, a literary crime redressed this month by the Overlook Press

"...climb it. ... All I can say it's a bad day for somebody." A little later: "Suddenly I have..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...worst movies I have ever seen; it was unbelievably bad. The only possible explanation is that you Americans really..."

July 15, 2005 Column

The Usual Suspects

The first year of the Will Wynn era closes to very mixed reviews, as Austinites wonder whether the city leadership is floundering.

"...and the reviews are definitely mixed. Many people feel bad about saying so out loud, of course; this is..."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Our readers talk back.

"...who have created a cutthroat market where price means everything and quality means nothing. Are the pair of 501s..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...find room for the freakin' star? Was she good, bad, witty, dull, apathetic, or energetic? A review should review..."

June 27, 2003 Column

Rediscovered Roots

Wild Ginger, the reincarnation of Formosa, takes another chance at Chinese

"...soup. The lunch menu is similarly arranged, except that everything is $5.95, with soup included (with an extra 70..."

July 26, 2002 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Chapter 3: Crazy Weekly

September 1988-August 1991

"...so much more editorial and losing so many veterans. Everything, though, is defined by going weekly.Jerald Corder Some people..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Postmarks

Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.

"...a community that has a lot of input in everything, and because of that we have become one of..."

May 4, 2001 Column

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...cast: It won't heal you, but it will keep everything in one place until it comes together."..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

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