All the World SA Stage

The Debut of the International Theater Festival at San Antonio

"...a new banquet of global performance organized by the Mexican Cultural Institute, the Alameda Theatre, and the city itself,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

News/Print

There is no Dana. Only Zoul.

"...the floor with the publishing world's tail at the Mexican Cultural Institute's Latino Book Awards in Los Angeles. Six..."

July 11, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Day Trips

The Tower of the Americas shoots 750 feet into the air and has helped to establish San Antone as a desired tourist destination

"...The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and the Texas Institute of Cultures were built specifically for the fair as..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Founders Day

The 2010 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...way always. But take any of the city's current cultural activities and trace it, like a river, to its..."

June 4, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

Finding community

"...celebrated on Sept. 16 with food wherever there are Mexican communities around the globe. Longtime Chronicle contributor Claudia Alarcón..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

More Things in 'Heaven and Earth'

Fidencio Duran opens a new solo exhibition at the MACC

"...enjoying an artist residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. But he's home again and ready to show some..."

Jan. 19, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Friday’s Latinx Mega-Stream Proclaims Rock the Border, Stop the Wall, and Vote!

Online rally stars G-Fantasma, B-Pumas, G-Chavez y mucho mas

"...For Beto Martinez, the cultural synthesis of growing up in Laredo near the Texas/Mexico..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

El Corazón de Santa Barraza

"...working with the maguey is brujeria because during the Mexican Revolution the men didn't always have women around them...."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Framing the Border

Photography of the Region Between Mexico and the U.S.

"...Snapshot of a moment in the cultural life of Central Texas. On a sunny Thursday morning..."

May 1, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

A Museum Comes of Age

"...The brainchild of Sylvia Orozco and her ex-husband, Mexican artist Pio Pulido, Mexic-Arte has survived divorces, economic busts,..."

July 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

La Historia

"...de los muertos, the Days of the Dead. However, Mexican celebrations of those days have their roots in pre-Colombian..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Food Feature

The Dialogue of Poets

Conjunto Aztlan's Movimiento Music

"...movement led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, this Mexican-American movement of empowerment reached from urban barrios to college..."

April 17, 1998 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Quest for Aztlan

Roen Salinas Searches for -- and Finds -- Life in Folklórico

"...the Salinases moved to Austin in the early Sixties, cultural activities in the Hispanic community were almost nonexistent. They,..."

April 24, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Eastward Expansion

Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside

"...not only predominantly Hispanic, but one of the most Mexican enclaves in the country, with 58.9% of residents with..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

June 18, 1996: Aguascalientes in La Realidad, Chiapas

"...by this "Enough!" of January 1994 is that the Mexican people suddenly remembered that they have a history, and..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

"Nathan 'Sloke One' Nordstrom: Another Side"

At its best, this solo exhibition captures the swagger of graffiti on the street and the introspection of the gallery

"...was an undergrad at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, students were sent into a frenzy over..."

March 10, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Who's Texas?

The story of Texas history says a lot -- about the storytellers

"...off a small bomb under the state's usually unruffled cultural establishment...."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

We're Still Here

Assessing the continuing black Austin experience

"..."Although there's rich history culture here, there's cultural legacy here, that core community of families and landowners..."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Pride of the Eastside

The movers and shakers behind El Gallo want you to rethink how movies get made

"...exhibition, and distribution, and, last but not least, global multiculturalism...."

Aug. 19, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Come Together

Latino poets building a community at CantoMundo

"...a Latino poets' collective that would embrace both their cultural underpinnings and their genre-specific needs. The result of that..."

July 1, 2011 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, July 29-Aug. 5

"...the word about nonprofits and other cause-related organizations. 7-10pm. Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River. $12-30. www.lightscamerahelp.com...."

July 30, 2010 News Feature

Viva la Vida

The 26th annual Día de los Muertos celebration has a new twist this year

"...the last 26 years, Austinites have fully embraced the Mexican view that the dead should be celebrated with food,..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Pachanga!

Cinco de Mayo month Part III – the hombres: from Jovita's Mayo Pardo to Ruben Ramos' Mexican Revolution, Del Castillo, Joel Guzman, y más

"...styles we grew up with – rock, blues, Spanish, Mexican – but we're not Tejano at all...."

May 29, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Films Without Borders

Cine Las Americas

"...of films are being produced every year. Cuban cinema, Mexican cinema, Brazilian, Argentinean, some real powerhouses. And yet they're..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

In Memoriam: Ishmael Soto

Groundbreaking Latino artist and teacher has passed

"...Latinos had no place of prominence in Austin's mainstream cultural scene, and so he had to forge his own..."

March 8, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Public Notice: Lyft Up; Uber Under

The city sorts out airport ride-booking, and Uber resists

"...The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center kicks off its annual Tribute to..."

March 13, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Spider Sculptures, Gore Feasts, and More Arts Events

Feed your art habit with these recommended events for the week

"...for his “studies,” and, according to the American Film Institute entry on it, had a print confiscated in 1967..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...drama that weaves together the lives of a multigenerational Mexican American family separated by countries, cultures, and consequences in..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...human terms, 3) the academic instinct to preserve the cultural record, 4) institutional continuity, i.e. letting the decisions of..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Been Around the World

Cine las Americas enters its fifth year as the premier festival of Latino filmmaking … only they're not calling it "Latino" anymore.

"...Palmier comes from a long line of Mexican-Americans. Her uncle and former Congressman Henry B. Gonzelez dedicated..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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