Can the Austin Airport Speed Up Its Sorely Needed Expansion?

Explosive growth and understaffing lead to long lines and near-misses

"...As airlines saw passenger demand spike in 2021, they rushed to..."

May 24, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Council Moves to Ensure People Actually Live Near Project Connect Stations

What’s the point of public transit if nobody can use it?

"...When Project Connect’s new light rail lines and expanded bus routes begin moving people throughout Austin,..."

March 10, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Portraying the kids from the Peanuts comic strips is trickier than you might think, but two of the performers in the Silver Star Theater Group production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown radiate the bold outline and broad humor -- the cartoon essence -- of the source material.

"...You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: Cartoon LinesSheffield Zilker Hillside Theatre,..."

April 26, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Lypsinka: The Boxed Set

Reeling frenetically from song to show-biz anecdote to soap dialogue and back, like Judy Garland on a speed jag, with its star channeling everyone from Bette Davis and Phyllis Diller to Ethel Merman and Joan Crawford, Lypsinka! The Boxed Set is a hoot, a joyride through a neighborhood of tacky mansions haunted by grande dames of outsized egos and overwrought emotions.

"...Lypsinka certainly doesn't spend her time baiting you with lines about your mother's recreational activities in the netherworld. (She's..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Sexual Perversity in Chicago: Skimming the Mucky Surface

With its revival of David Mamet's raunchy, cynical Sexual Perversity in Chicago, the new Flood Theatre Project tries to plunge audiences into skanky Seventies reality, but the fresh-faced troupe only succeeds in skimming its mucky surface.

"...a misogynist should notice how baseness here transcends gender lines.) Everyone is perpetually pissed -- as in pissed-off or..."

June 9, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

City, Cap Metro Commit to “Historic” Transit Expansion Plan

Plan includes new rail lines and enhancements to the current MetroRail Red Line, MetroRapid, and MetroBus service

"...Council unanimously adopted the Project Connect System Plan and Locally Preferred Alternatives, setting the stage for the two entities..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

“The People’s Gallery 2017” at Austin City Hall

This year's showing of work in Austin City Hall by a small army of local artists offers satisfaction on multiple levels

"...like a colorful geometric egg or galactic gem. Its lines and planes diverge and reconnect precariously. The sculpture is..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Bumble Offers an Alternative to Online Dating

Local dating app puts women first

"...says Alex Williamson, vice president of brand content for local app Bumble...."

Dec. 2, 2016 Screens Feature by felix morgan

Giving City Hall the (Small) Business

Small Business Group raises some serious concerns about the city's finacial forecast – in between all the hand-wringing.

"...Austin American Statesman. If you carefully read between the lines with one eye, and keep your other eye trained..."

May 9, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Revving Up for Slow Times

How local entrepreneurs plan to weather the recession

"...existing customers, for whom they can no longer renew lines of credit due to tightened lending requirements...."

Dec. 5, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Our Favorite Spots to Eat and Drink at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

ABIA serves up live music, craft cocktails, and beloved local restaurant fare

"...Austin-Bergstrom International Airport echoes the city's desire to champion local businesses by featuring homegrown restaurants in place of typical..."

March 8, 2019 Food Feature by Jessika Roth

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...Not just setting local temperature records for the month of June, this year’s..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Tuesday

Bartees Strange, Coco & Clair Clair, plus a PinkPantheress misfire

"...by Southwest Music fired on all cylinders, with long lines reappearing on Red River Street and beyond for booking..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Nayeli Portillo

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

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

"...sized South by Southwest. The streets are strollable, long lines are scarce – though hot shows did hit capacity..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

High School Sophomore Fundraises to Feed Hungry Students

Many students are especially food insecure during pandemic holidays

"...Setting a great example for us all is a local 10th grader who spends his free time raising money..."

Nov. 25, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

How Austin Musician Gina Chavez Became the Subject of the City's Latest Mural

The story of an L.A. muralist creating a 12-foot-tall portrait of a local musical star

"...murals that everyone can enjoy to blur the cultural lines that often divide us."..."

April 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chronicle Endorsements for the March 3 Primary Election

From local judges and representatives to the presidential candidate, here are our recommendations

"...and climate change, she's consistently been on the front lines as organizer, advocate, and activist. Each of these candidates..."

Feb. 14, 2020 News Feature

40 Songs to Make You Feel Better (or Worse) About Drinking

A sampling of drinking songs local, south of the border, and global

"...and libido exploits, this Monterrey, Mexico, hip-hop trio ping-pongs lines between Fermín "IV" Caballero Elizondo's gruff tone and Patricio..."

July 13, 2018 Music Feature by The Music Staff

High Fashion Goes Hyperreal at Diptych II

The local fashion collective’s second spectacle of new designs

"...Three fashion designers are debuting their newest lines of apparel at a runway show in Austin on..."

May 2, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

John Fogerty Won’t Back Down

From Pete Seeger and Tom Petty to the romance of the Sixties

"...few Sunday on Auditorium Shores when the Berkeley-born singer headlines the All ATX fundraiser titled “Back to the Armadillo,”..."

Oct. 25, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Behind the Bars Part II

We revisit Austin's LGBTQ bars of yesteryear

"...this week's queer spaces feature, we've reached out to local queers around town and asked them to share their..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Using Their Noodles

Two local eateries make an art out of hand-pulled pasta

"...When school is in session, food lines around campus are nothing out of the ordinary. While..."

July 24, 2015 Food Feature by Serena Yeh

Go Make Your Own Movie

Local filmmaker tackles the Big Boys

"...Salinas, whose forthcoming doc You Can Color Outside the Lines: The Big Boys is aiming for a Sundance 2016..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fighting City Hall

What began as a play for Austin by a Ukrainian playwright has become a dispatch from the front lines of a war

"...engaged politically – all that activity with neighborhood associations, local long-range planning initiatives, city commissions, and the like, plus..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Here Comes MetroRapid

Cap Metro rolls out its big bendy buses, the next mode in multimodal

"...increasing strain off Aus­tin's overburdened roads. As the first local example of bus rapid transit (BRT), Cap Metro president..."

Jan. 24, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Rough Trade Talk with Lucinda Williams

Onetime Austinite reflects on her milestone recording

"...with nostalgia. That’s even more relevant to the former local’s current tour, on which she performs her third release,..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Eyes of Texas

The night my alma mater finally made sense

"...“The Eyes of Texas” lyrics, prepping for quizzes. My local band obsessions developed over the years at UT, but..."

June 27, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

This Music Matters

Fête d'Lorenza pulls out the stops

"...at Mohawk tomorrow night, and hosting a rainbow of local guests, including......"

July 23, 2010 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Unsuspended Judgments

Battle lines drawn over the police shooting of Kevin Brown

"...the media (most importantly the Austin American-Statesman, but also local TV) – would not only welcome this approach (if..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Shall We Bike?

Local bike advocates pedal optimistically uphill

"...a likely moment to consider the thus far unimpressive local progress on improving biking facilities and opportunities, and what..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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