Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Musk “could end up with more power over the human exchange of information than any previous person has ever..."

May 16, 2025 News Feature

Psych, Blues, and Conjunto Festivals Headline Our Crucial Concerts

This week's recommended live offerings

"...Hiss, then returned last year to touch off more human tsunamis, including this month’s “Outburst of Annoyance” live single..."

April 25, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Sitting Down With Your Senator

Sarah Eckhardt goes deep on democracy, womanhood, and our era

"...inner bowels of the Capitol have plenty of foot traffic. Lots of suits and black high heels moving briskly...."

April 11, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Valentine's and Beyond With This Weekend's Recommended Events

From dark stories to romantic dance

"...on falling in love with a book versus a human person? (Reader, don’t tell me you haven’t been paying..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...for most of the day, disrupting car and bus traffic...."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature

Opinion: Augmented Creativity – Why We Should Embrace AI in Content Creation

A video production professional makes the case for AI as a tool that complements, rather than replaces, human creativity

"...the stress of dealing with disruptive background noises like traffic or distant chatter. With tight deadlines, the ability to..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Column by Brian Kaleh

In Austin’s Most Conservative District, Will the City’s Sole Republican Council Member Keep Her Seat?

Dem challenger hopeful Kamala Harris momentum will turn tide

"...politicization of work she views as apolitical (public safety, traffic improvement, housing, etc.). On this point, Laine agrees. “When..."

Sept. 6, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Cinched, Toned, Depressed: A Trip to Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS Store in Austin

Domain Northside hosts shapewear brand’s first retail store

"...bags cover their arms. Cars inch along in bumper-to-bumper traffic. A Lamborghini idles on this street, revving its engine...."

Feb. 5, 2024 Design Post by Ali Montag

How Driving Somebody From One Texas City to Another Can Turn Into a Prison Sentence

Rides from hell, thanks to Texas’ immigration law

"...having anyone in his car, he was arrested for human smuggling and spent three months in the Briscoe Unit..."

Feb. 2, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

Tesla Recalls Nearly All Vehicles Due to Autopilot Failures

Tesla disagrees with feds' analysis of glitches

"...million – in response to a two-year National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into its partially self-driving Autopilot system...."

Dec. 13, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

The Luv Doc: Dark Days

A full glass of water? Who has time for that?

"...like you live in L.A., except, of course, the traffic is a lot worse, the cocktails and real estate..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Gobble Gobble Yada Yada

In this week’s issue: Evil MoPac speaks, holiday shopping begins

"...fam. But it's also, let's be honest, about fighting traffic. (That extends to air traffic, too: AUS is urging..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Cruise Recalls All Self-Driving Cars Due to Unsafe Software Glitch

Software update to address cause of San Francisco crash

"...In a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Cruise described how the software responds to..."

Nov. 9, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Feds Investigating Cruise’s Autonomous Vehicles Amid Safety Concerns

Meanwhile, entire fleet in San Francisco suspended

"...The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced last week that they are opening..."

Oct. 27, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Aviation Staffing Crisis Increasing Near-Collisions at Austin Airport

New York Times investigation finds close calls more likely

"...increasing over the last year nationally, due largely to human error, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. A NASA..."

Oct. 11, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...It is a natural human instinct to want to impulsively swerve through five lanes..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Uyghur Skewers Meet the American Dream at Camino Alamo BBQ

Smoke on the West Campus sidewalk

"...camps, forced labor and sterilization, and prison-style surveillance. Some human rights groups have labeled their treatment as cultural genocide...."

Sept. 1, 2023 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

The Luv Doc: America’s 40th-Best City

Because Ted Cruz is the Rat King

"...I know a lot of people complain about Austin traffic now, but they're forgetting that shortly before South by..."

July 28, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

The Joy of Bicycling in Austin

A one-person sociological study of springtime biking where every ride is his favorite

"...and faster – until I'm spit out into street traffic where drivers may wonder why I'm smiling ear to..."

April 21, 2023 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Scientists Focus on Helping AI Do Good

Weighing the pros, cons, and concerns of humanity's future overlords

"...I claim my article as entirely original? How do human biases impact the data fed into these AI machines?..."

March 10, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Autonomous Vehicles Seek Traction in Austin

Hands off the wheel

"...in the middle of roads. Also, a National High­way Traffic Safety Administration report found 367 crashes and five fatalities..."

Nov. 18, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Adrian Quesada and the Long Path to His First Official Solo Release

Austin's unassuming superstar is a travellin' man

"...same workaholic musician, the same exceedingly pleasant and thoughtful human. There are no "I'm top shit" airs wafting off..."

July 15, 2022 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...ceremony June 22. These intersections address congestion by rerouting traffic to the opposite side of the road, so people..."

July 1, 2022 News Feature

Traffic Fatalities Rise While Serious Injuries Fall in Austin

The long road to zero

"...to attaining its Vision Zero policy, aimed at eliminating traffic-related deaths and serious injuries, which was implemented in 2015...."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Council Considers Fuentes’ Call to Slow Down AUS Fuel Project

New tanks to be located directly opposite Southeast neighborhood

"...expansion and operations, but equally as important is the human impact."..."

April 8, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin at Large: People Can’t Live at the Bank

We should spend money to help people and build more homes. Is that so hard?

"...than the tragic coastal cities that will be the human-made disaster areas of our century. Nor are our current..."

March 18, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...in the constant grasping is a gorgeous struggle, deeply human and complex and ground in his reckoning with vivid..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Boiling Pots: A full review has begun to determine..."

Feb. 18, 2022 News Feature

The Top 10 Austin Food & Drink Stories of 2021

Another up-and-down year in Austin food

"...stranded by the weather and our failed power grid. Humanitarian restaurateur José Andres also brought his disaster-response culinary nonprofit..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Space and Distance: A Joint Interview With Balmorhea and Explosions in the Sky

How Austin’s landmark instrumental outfits soundtrack the state of Texas

"...to Yellowstone and there's gift shops everywhere and bad traffic. You go to Big Bend, it's the least-visited national..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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