Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Los Cogelones, PickleStock, Lady Dan, and more recommended Austin shows

"...Looking for ways to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in Austin? Find our concert..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Preserving the Future of the Texas Memorial Museum

After years of neglect and underfunding, Austin’s only natural history museum reconsiders its role

"...Tucked away on the University of Texas campus is an Art Deco building..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Claire Stevens

Public Notice: Working Hard for the Money

City offers temp jobs and green job training … and lifeguarding

"...In what might be seen as a complement to the guaranteed income pilot program Austin Sanders writes about in..."

May 13, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Sterling Morrison Birthday Tribute, Being Dead, Rod Wave, Shinyribs, Jason Eady, and Natalie Jane Hill with Julian Neel

"...not exactly a household name, but you could make the argument that guitarist Sterling Morrison was the most influential..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Greetings From Euphoria

Austin’s best spring festival – correction, “experience” – faces competition after idyllic sixth year

"..."Enjoy your flight," winks the man in a tie-dye top hat as..."

April 14, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Is Austin the Pilsner Capital of America?

Czech your privilege

"...my entire week drinking pilsners. And when not drinking them, I was writing about them, thinking about them in..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Food Feature by Eric Puga

The Austin Music Atlas

A primer for the musically inclined

"...professor, car repairperson, accountant, or barista to casually mention their band’s “sick show this weekend.” Everyone – and we..."

June 14, 2016 Columns Post by Emily Gibson

Public Notice: Break Out the Sharpies (or the Sharp Knives)

If CodeNEXT staff want community input, they need to be more transparent

"...I have a good feeling generally about CodeNEXT and the staff working on it, including lead consultants Opticos Design,..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin And the Wider World

State department visit puts global spotlight on tech center

"...Many Austinites already know that their city is one of the more truly international urban..."

May 19, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

The Hamburg Sound: OTR retreats to Germany's Reeperbahn Festival as Frank Hendrix sells Emo's

"...The Hamburg Sound..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival draws to a close, as does Emo's outside on Sixth Street

"...demanded during "Runaway" on Friday, have a toast for the douche bags...."

Sept. 23, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Recounting the first decade of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one year at a time

"...The Austin City Limits Music Festival always begins the same..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Exit Music: Nakia leaves The Voice, Corcoran retires, and Mike Wiebe walks the plank

"...Whaddaya Want From Me..."

July 1, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

A Capitol Idea? The Capitol Complex Meets the Downtown Austin Plan.

Texas Facilities Commission takes another look at Capitol redevelopment

"...Under a concept being explored by the Texas Facilities Commission, the dullest swath of Downtown Austin..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Off the Record

A flashback from Red River's seedy past, the Sour Notes hit a sweet spot, and Patty Griffin gets Grounded in Music

"...Music's new recording studio in South Austin on Tuesday. Their response? Trae and Lil Wayne. Nevertheless, Griffin and Jack..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

A Guide to the Works

"...are being performed in a variety of spaces around the Winship Drama Building, 23rd and San Jacinto, some of..."

March 27, 2009 Arts Feature

What's on the Slab

Texas roadhouses are far from middle-of-the-road

"...buxom gals are dancing atop a cedar picnic table. The mist from a giant cooling system washes over them...."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Down the Rabbit Hole

The weird, ever-evolving world of ARGs

"...Dan Hon used to start his day like any other law student at Cambridge University. While getting ready for..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Beside the Point: An Open Letter to Rich Oppel

Sometimes it's hard not to agree with Rich Oppel

"...last Friday (still waiting on that free subscription!), and the signs of my encroaching age and maturity started arriving..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...or baseball, find Alvin Crow. If you're looking for the best fiddle player in Austin, Alvin Crow's your man...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In Search of the Wild Art

'Cracks in the Pavement' leaves art objects in unexpected spaces throughout the city

"...of art somewhat like animals in a zoo, isolating them in an environment constructed for the explicit purpose of..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Case Against Kissinger

War criminal or elder statesman? Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki makes a case in The Trials of Henry Kissinger.

"...As with many children of the Seventies, my initial knowledge of Dr. Henry Kissinger --..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Eating the New Economy

22 is elegant in that minimalist, California sort of way, Barbara Chisholm writes. The walls are gently curved and unadorned except for their warm, soothing colors of ocher and gray. At least she thinks those are the colors; the lighting is kept very low and intimate, so it's hard to be certain.

"...The epicenter, if not the paradigm, of Austin has shifted...."

Feb. 9, 2001 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

After the Last Hurrah

Austin singer-songwriter-rocker Beaver Nelson returns with his second album.

"...Take a close look at the cover of Beaver Nelson's new compact disc, Little Brother...."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Man in the Middle

"Personally," says Council Member Daryl Slusher, "I think Austin is growing way too fast."

"...familiar with Slusher's history. As an activist who fought the South Texas Nuclear Project, as a force behind protecting..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The News Gets Better

Austin's 1997 in Review

"...Zandt is found dead of a heart attack at the age of 52. The news is better for Junior..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Entanglements, Switchblades, and Tons of TV in the Week’s Events

Treat your weekdays like a weekend with these arts and culture happenings

"...bevy of talented working artists grow and change over the years, exploring new material and thematic fixations. Valerie Fowler..."

May 23, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Understanding the Science Behind the Total Solar Eclipse

Front-row seat to a celestial show

"...explains that she’s going to see “a hole in the sky with fire shooting out of it.”..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by Robyn Ross

The Exquisite Torments of Ken Paxton

Why is everybody so mean to the Texas Attorney General?

"...That was the outlandish claim of Ken Paxton, newly restored Texas Attorney..."

Sept. 18, 2023 News Post by Michael King

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Arya’s Weyes Blood aftershow, celebrating SPOT, Urban Cultural Fest, and more

"...Arya's relationship with music mirrors the winding path she took from Belgrade to Austin, where..."

March 31, 2023 Music Column by Angela Lim

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