Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?

This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear

"...technical, and energy landscape. But why – after two years – hasn't the communitywide program been launched? Why hasn't..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Last Five Years

The new year is prime time to discover this musical anatomy of one couple's relationship

"...New Year's Eve is a bittersweet holiday, a time to..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Page Two: Years, Dreams, and Ghosts

How we succeeded in business without really trying

"...the first week of September, it will mark 27 years of our publishing the Chronicle. This column has let..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The New M.O. at City Hall

City Manager Marc Ott opens up on his new job, his new city, and his philosophy of governance

"...What makes Marc Ott tick? How might the new city manager's leadership change the direction of Austin? That's..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Pearce Gets a New Principal

High test scores at what cost?

"...when Troutman decided to leave Houston to accept the new job in Austin, some of his former staff greeted..."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Personnel Department: New Hires at Conspirare and the Mary Moody Northen Theatre

Personnel changes at local arts organizations continue, with the arrivals of a new executive director at Conspirare and a new business manager at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre

"...he's served as executive director since 2004. Vollmer's 20 years in the performing-arts industry also included a three-year stint..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Your Beautiful New Home

Welcome to the City Hall you thought would never come

"...the first completed chunk of Rheims Cathedral took 22 years to build, which is less time than Austin has..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Meet the New Boss

Slaid Cleaves, road warrior, conqueror

"...40-year-old singer-songwriter hit the road for a solid three years, performing more than 600 shows internationally. In the process,..."

July 16, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

New Rules for Old Buildings: The Historic Task Force

As the task force on historic preservation concludes its work, the outcome remains uncertain

"...simmering on City Hall's back burner for nearly five years. Many preservationists and neighborhood leaders have been pushing throughout..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Balance the Budget (In Three Years) in Five (Not-so-Easy) Steps

It will take both unpleasant tax hikes and spending cuts to balance the city budget -- and not until 2006

"...just for this year, but for the next three years:..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature

A Hundred Years of Shadows

One hundred years after "The Great Train Robbery," motion pictures have transformed consciousness into a Kingdom of Shadows.

"...you. But no one disagrees that it premiered 100 years ago in 1903; was a Western, filmed in the..."

March 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Twenty Years Ago Today

The 2001/2002 Austin Music Awards

"...into the history books, then a trip back 20 years to the first ever Austin Music Awards, despite the..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Brave New Web

In the wake of Sept. 11 and the hard-line USA Act, the Internet has become a very unfriendly place for hackers.

"...prices reeling, ruin your personal credit, and distribute false news stories, sending us all into the streets in a..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

New Fest

Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria this year.

"...done about the 2001 Texas Book Festival in the New Normalcy. The Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

New Kid on the Block

ASTI is the perfect addition to Hyde Park's busiest corner

"...changes in shopping trends and tastes, but for many years there was a grocery store, a pharmacy, a coin..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Years of the Dead

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

"...The Years With Laura Díazby Carlos Fuentes translated by Alfred MacAdam..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Evil New Yorkers and Bit-Whoredom

They're horrible! They're evil, mean, and terrible! They're New Yorkers! They're the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre, and they're giving laid-back Austin a shot of scrappy, sophisticated, lowbrow, smart-ass theatre.

"...take off, but FART has, and after a few years of shows running the gamut from Clive Barker's Frankenstein..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Still Hazy After All These Years

The Seventies may be long gone, but counterculture comedian Tommy Chong is still here and still doing what he loves: smoking dope, playing music, and making people laugh.

"...himself. He's been working the comedy-club circuit for eight years, still doing what he loves: smoking dope, playing music,..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature

A New Social Order

Whither Equinomics?

"...Originally, Griffith proposed a "New Start" program where, at one site, people could receive..."

Aug. 13, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

New World Pioneer

"...happened?": Why, after directing six terrific pictures in six years, did he disappear? Why, after coming up in a..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Wisdom of Years

Whatever Way the Wind Blows

"...it, the only thing more personally traumatic than her years as a square peg in Nashville's round hole came..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

New Director on the Block

Rebecca Campbell and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...Society managing director Rebecca Campbell's move to Austin six years ago was a fortuitous collision of circumstance and fate...."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

New Old Hands at Smbr

"...entire effort, Warren is personally in charge of certifying new small and minority businesses and recertifying old ones...."

Sept. 19, 1997 News Feature

New Territories

Austin Lyric Opera Ventures Into the Frontier Once More

"...loves a frontier. Chalk it up to all those years in which our forebears had a mighty expanse of..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Whole New Scene Grain Gourmet

"...Quiz: 1. The develop- ment of civilization began ____ years ago in the Middle East, when people discovered it..."

June 2, 1995 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Faces of "New" Country Buck and Hag Revisted by Lee Nichols

"...setting and grabbed world by the ear with a new sound. It was a guitar-heavy, edgy sound that rebelled..."

May 26, 1995 Music Feature

Sixteen Austin Schools Drop From B to F Ratings Under New State Measure

A state takeover of the district’s school board becomes likelier

"...our students – who had already demonstrated that they knew the concepts – but now they had to add..."

May 2, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin Chronic: Oat Willie’s Closes Shop After 56 Years

Austin’s first head shop will no longer go “Onward, through the fog!”

"...“Well, we’ve been closing for a few years,” he explains. “It was time.”..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Funk Band Extreme Heat Celebrates 50 Years With Anniversary Show

The longstanding groove-makers won't cool down

"...changed to Extreme Heat in 1977). Still burning 50 years later, the multiple Austin Music Award-winners now gear up..."

Nov. 2, 2024 Music Post by Amber Williams

How Staple! Is Turning the Page Toward a New Future

Austin’s indie media expo returns and it’s all because of one email

"...graphic arts has been absent for the last five years doesn’t mean it wasn’t just waiting for the right..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

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