Looking for Solutions for Residents Feeling Extreme Heat

UT-Austin partners with city, community orgs to mitigate local "heat island" effect

"...For the past 20 years, heat waves have gradually worsened in Austin, with the number..."

Sept. 17, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

TDCJ Fails to Protect Prisoners From Extreme Heat

At least 14 have died since 2007

"...of Criminal Justice's Risk Management Division reminded employees in "heat awareness training" of the "common sense tips" that could..."

April 23, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Local Roller Derby Community in a Jam Over Extreme Heat

A shade covering could cost more than $100,000

"...pandemic but interest has been steadily rising. Also rising? Extreme heat in Austin. It's turned into a health risk..."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Hannah Uebele

Austin Symphony Orchestra Cancels Performance Due to Extreme Heat

Hartman Foundation Concerts in the Park hit thrice this season

"...Texas' heat wave strikes again. For the third time this year,..."

July 10, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Amid Texas Heat Wave ERCOT Asks Texans to Conserve Energy, With Possibility of Rolling Blackouts

Updated: Record demand and low wind generation strain grid

"...are two factors driving this strain on the grid: extreme heat leading to record high electric demand, and extremely..."

July 11, 2022 News Post by Lina Fisher

Aztex Cool Off First Place Heat

Aztex edge Laredo, 1-0; head out on the road

"...night at House Park, knocking off the first-place Laredo Heat, 1-0 on a goal by Kekuta Manneh, to break..."

June 25, 2012 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

X Games X-Factors: Heat, Booze, and Meth

EMS almost forced to activate disaster plan

"...The most extreme thing happening at last month's X Games didn't involve..."

July 4, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Heat Is on

'The Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival

"...the daunting task of tasting some of the most extreme concoctions in the land in order to crown the..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Has Austin Resource Recovery Found a Solution to Its Chronic A/C Problem?

Taking the heat off local garbage collection trucks

"...confined cab, directly above the truck's engine compartment. The heat and close quarters can feel suffocating even with A/C..."

Dec. 9, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

East Austin Doesn’t Get the Same Shade, and Consequences Ripple for Health and Equity

Beating the heat

"...and nighttime temps.) Streaks of triple-digit-degree days have spurred heat advisories, along with increased risk of wildfire and drought...."

Aug. 12, 2022 News Feature by Hannah Uebele

We Have an Issue: Ice Ice Baby

Beat the record-breaking heat with our cover story about Casey’s New Orleans Snowballs

"...has had to cancel an outdoor concert due to extreme heat...."

July 15, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

XXX

"...but it's the storyline's cartoonish take on the whole “extreme sportsman as government agent” genre (you know, that one)..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Boy

Chris Isaak's drummer Kenney Dale Johnson: From Soap Creek to Showtime

"...Steam Heat was a one-of-a-kind band, a funky fusion of jazz,..."

July 5, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Cap Metro Pitches in as Mobile Cooling Center

As temperatures rise, bus stops serve as shelter from the sun

"...a toll on his body, as he had two heat strokes in June. "I sat down. I ate a..."

July 8, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Point Austin: Climate Control

Will corporate interests finally see the light on climate change?

"...too little incentive to comply, too much incentive to cheat. Unequal Blame..."

Dec. 4, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Extreme Heat

"...Extreme HeatSoulstice..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Takers

This Los Angeles-set heist movie stars lots of well-muscled men.

"...seems to think he's assembled a sort of hip-hop Heat, even aping Michael Mann's fondness for cool color palettes...."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Papa's Brand-New Bag

Jazzers and jam bands alike just wanna funk, Austin style

"...on bass (Carolyn Wonderland, Larry), Neil Pederson on keyboards (Extreme Heat, Papa Mali), Michael Hale on drums (Patrice Pike,..."

July 27, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Meteor Man

"...it should be; the violence is cartoonish in the extreme, and Townsend's extremely heavy-handed message of “If we all..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clark Autopsy Released – APD and Tasers Exonerated?

Questions – and lawsuits – still linger over Taser use

"...cell sickling due to sickle cell disease] associated with extreme physical activity due to PCP and cocaine-induced excited delirium...."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Michael Clark Autopsy Update

Taser effects expert and former San Diego Co., Calif., EMS medical director concludes Clark was killed as a result of intravascular sickling caused by overexertion tied to drug use – a conclusion that closely mirrors that of Travis Co. Deputy Medical Examiner Elizabeth Peacock.

"...Peacock. Unlike Peacock, however, Vilke also noted that the extreme heat of the day, and perhaps the Taser strikes..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Microcosmos

"...is in our language: alpha male, drone, bitch in heat, queen bee. It's bugs in particular that are anthropomorphized..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Supporting Local Farmers and Ranchers Helps Everyone

Back to the soil

"...our farmers can't bring 500 chickens inside. They kept heaters and propane heaters going, and were able to insulate..."

March 5, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Power Surge

Local company finds flywheel generated electric power is a growing niche in the current market.

"...sophisticated bearings that reduce the amount of friction and heat in devices that rotate at high speeds. Steel ball..."

Feb. 9, 2001 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Letters at 3AM

Hot news about global warming.

"...weather in Lubbock?" I asked my friend Deborah. "White heat," was her answer. Deborah said it wasn't only that..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: A More Urgent Warning

National Climate Assessment amplifies the alarm

"...• "More frequent and intense extreme weather and climate-related events ... are expected to continue..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Opinion: Musk – Make Austin an Ecological Paradise

Time for Tesla to lead the green charge in Austin

"...emissions – mostly from burning fossil fuels – have heated up the planet by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit; we..."

July 29, 2022 Column by Jessica Edwards

Faster Than Sound: BabiBoi's Spitfire Soundtrack for the Club and Beyond

Ballroom rapper joins the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce's Pride in Local Music next Saturday, and more music news

"...Collective. At the time, San Antonio native BabiBoi studied theatre at UT-Austin...."

June 17, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

"...that my friend Jeremy Saulnier was directing. It was extremely low budget, financed by credit cards, a new mortgage..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW List No. 4

179 acts added to the spring music convergence

"...Aviateur, Beat Imprint, Chamothy the Great, The Eastern Sea, Extreme Heat, Eyelid Kid, Harvest Thieves, Hikes, Joel Laviolette &..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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