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"...2018-19, one iteration of debut LP Night Glitter from Austin imprint Nine Mile Records spins smoky blue vinyl, a..."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin-Based Choreographer Hopes to Make a "Social Justice Summer"

With some crowdfunding support, Charles O. Anderson will be able to make dances for this time

"...ending: beginning work on two dance projects that the Austin-based dancer/choreographer had received important commissions for, and ending work..."

June 12, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

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"...Jackpot/American Girls pulls on the two main threads of Austin's Braun Brothers and their songwriting over the past quarter..."

May 22, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Austin Music Poll Innovates in 2020

Write-in, wrong. The Music Poll goes multiple choice.

"...and greatness amongst those it's able to recognize, the Austin Music Poll now undergoes a restructuring. This year's voting..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Playback: The 2016/17 Austin Music Awards Reveal

"...strategizing, scheming, and dreaming up performances for the 2016/17 Austin Music Awards. All the generals were there: Charlie Sexton..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Point Austin: Welcome to Media World!

"Alternative" invasion conjures thoughts of contemporary journalism

"...stories that the dailies (and certainly the TV and radio stations) neglected, and from angles disdained in official journalism..."

July 8, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Playback: Austin Scared Stupid

Once again, everything hits at once

"...days are packed. As it happens so often in Austin, everything hits at once...."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Mic Exchange

Tuesdays are hip-hop open mic night at Spider House

"...these things are reflected in a new weekly event: Austin Mic Exchange...."

Nov. 23, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

Point Austin: Out of Balance

As we sit down to balance the books, we might consider our largest deficits

"...Budget Reductions," a daunting $45 million list of things Austin probably shouldn't do without, but will likely learn to..."

June 12, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Austin Kiddie Limits

For the young'uns

"...and temporary tattoos. These are the constants for the Austin Kiddie Limits stage. Each year, though, brings a new..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin Needs to Be Especially Interested in 9/11 Cover-Up

"...be ignored by the American press, especially here in Austin. The growing 9/11 truth movement has strong roots in..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Proudly "successful" businessman Brad Meltzer aims to cut to the chase in the mayor's race.

"...cheerful as he lays out what he sees as Austin's dismal state. "I love Austin, I've been raising my..."

April 4, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

From Bethlehem to Austin

A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference.

"...It was the open space in Austin that initially overwhelmed me. I couldn't adjust to it...."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Muna Hamzeh

Kick Me, I'm From Austin

Visiting the Lege, City Council, and Bergstrom

"...continue. Our own state senator amended one of the anti-Austin bills so that it officially encourges a development agreement..."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Media Clips

Microradio wins FCC approval, but advocates of the low-wattage stations say the rules for winning a license will prohibit most stations and silence the microradio community's radical voice.

"...which legalize a new class of noncommercial, low-power FM radio stations. On the surface, this would appear to be..."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Free Radio Austin, the East Austin microradio station, shuts down for good.

"...For several months, The Austin Chronicle has covered the ongoing turmoil at Free Radio..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Feature

50 Watts of Freedom

"...Radio activist Pete Tridish of Philadelphia's Prometheus Radio Project has..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Feature by Chris Womack

Postmarks

Our Free Radio coverage generates some audio radiance, and more.

"...Pyle and the Chronicle for an excellent article on Free Radio ["The Death and Life of Free Radio," June..."

June 29, 2001 Column

Naked City

Free Radio Austin gets shut down again; this time, possibly, for good.

"...Austin citizens can breathe a little easier this week, thanks..."

Nov. 24, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Expanding on neighborhood expansion, taking C. Robison to task, and much more.

"...Erica Barnett's "Austin Stories" article on the proposed redevelopment of 11 tracts..."

July 13, 2001 Column

Preachers and Pirates

The FCC proposes LPFM stations as an alternative to microradio, but that political process also generates static.

"...After Free Radio Berkeley was shut down in 1994, the FCC..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The Year That Wasn't

"...2. Damage Control at the Austin American-Statesman. Statesman editor Rich Oppel tried to make a..."

Jan. 5, 2001 News Feature

Postmarks

Readers weigh in on the criminality of musicians, the integrity of neighborhoods, and more.

"...transform Marathon Boulevard into a Buttercup Creek subdivision clone ["Austin Stories," June 29]...."

July 6, 2001 Column

Page Two

The FCC legalizes microradio, then regulates it out of existence. The forced demise of public access radio.

"...new set of regs drastically slashing the number of radio frequencies available for Low Power FM stations, the closest..."

June 22, 2001 Column by Nick Barbaro

Dancing About Architecture

Election 2000 gets rained out.

"...a lot of guessing as to why the ironically-titled Free Radio Austin was shut down a second time in..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

FCC raids shuts down the third and last local microradio station.

"...With three stations taken down in two months, micro-radio is off the air in the Austin area. The..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Panelist Screening #2 2002

"...Brothers" (1993); "Urine Man" (2000); and "The Magic of Radio" (2001), which explores the worlds of pirate and amateur..."

Aug. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

More Light Rail hubbub and a few Naderite cries in the wilderness.

"...as unwieldy monorail. But as the Chronicle has reported, Austin's been studying light rail for 16 years, and it's..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Column

Naked City

Microradio station Free Radio Austin gets shut down again.

"...97.1 FM -- the frequency that is home to Free Radio Austin. The East Austin microradio station was shut..."

Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature by Shannon Young

Getting a Read on the State of Anti-State Bookstores

Brave New Books and Monkeywrench Books keep thinking outside the mainstream

"...Around the turn of the century, Slacker-era Austin was on its way out. The city saw "yuppies..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Feature by Taylor Prewitt

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