Austin Musicians of Color Talk About the Pandemic's Outsized Impact on Their Communities

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

"...lens, the coronavirus epidemic extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality, from economic distress to broad health and..."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Austin Restaurants for Special Occasions

Want some ambience to go with your food? No problem.

"...1011 S. Congress, Bldg 2 #180 abarestaurants.com/austin..."

June 14, 2022 Food Post

The Austin Food & Wine Festival Returns!

Annual celebration of succulence and slaking will fête you this fall

"...Gourmands, rejoice! The Austin Food & Wine Festival will return for its 12th..."

Aug. 17, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Food + Wine Festival Tickets Go On Sale Today

More events, more celebrity chefs

"...watching for any sign of the return of the Austin Food + Wine Festival and all hundreds of bites..."

Jan. 20, 2016 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Austin Cop Who Killed Mike Ramos Denied Qualified Immunity

Judge’s order allows case against officer, city to proceed

"...The Austin police officer who killed Michael Ramos in 2020 will..."

Dec. 19, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of stage productions,..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop

Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America

"...too white for black kids and too black for Austin's vast majority, although you can be any color and..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Feature by Clara Wang

Austin Justice Coalition's "Breathe: The Fight Continues" Rally & Vigil at Huston-Tillotson University

"...Austinites gathered at Huston-Tillotson University on April 22, 2021 for..."

April 23, 2021 Photo Gallery

3rd Annual Taste of Black Austin: The Green Book Edition at Peached Social House

"...Austin foodies gathered at the Peached Social House on Thursday,..."

June 21, 2019 Photo Gallery

AAPI Heritage Month Brings Dining Adventures to Austin

Family Style Passport invites you to eat out and maybe get a free meal

"...can purchase a Family Style Passport, sponsored by the Austin Asian Community Health Initiative (AACHI), and visit up to..."

April 18, 2023 Food Post by A. Richmond

Portraits of Austin Musicians With Their Pets During Stay-at-Home

"...Austin Sears (Honey and Salt) with Walter..."

May 7, 2020 Photo Gallery

Austin Food and Wine Festival Talent Announced

Tickets for foodie fête go on sale today

"...Bates (Noble Sandwich Co.), Ji Peng Chen and Ling Qi Wu (Wu Chow), Shawn Cirkiel (Olive & June), Tyson..."

Jan. 21, 2015 Food Post by Brandon Watson

The Best New Year’s Eve Concerts Happening in Austin

Eleven live music options to ring in 2024, from Snail Mail to Gary Clark Jr.

"...a 1997 Chronicle feature, the "hoot night" is an Austin invention, conceived by Michael Hall in the Eighties and..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

DJ Chorizo Funk Looks to Spin 20,000 Austin FC Fans Into a Frenzy

Job No. 1? Getting butts out of seats.

"...Funk says of the collective community enthusiasm coalescing around Austin FC's historic first run of home matches...."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Free Lunch Creatives Feed Austin’s Unhoused

Musicians rally for emergency storm relief, and Spicewood's Katy Kirby debuts on Keeled Scales.

"...surprise Mills now oversees a program providing nourishment to Austinites without homes...."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Alongside Austin's Dicks and Big Boys, Houston's Really Red proved as..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

New Riders Against the Storm Remix Ponders Babylon’s Fall

Video revisits single off John Lennon Songwriting Award-winning LP

"...three-time winners of Band of the Year at the Austin Music Awards – don’t plan on slowing down. On..."

May 8, 2020 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Riders Against the Storm Goes “OverUnder”

Ahead of their fest, RAS dish new single

"...their fifth annual RAS DAY festival this Saturday, longtime Austin hip-hop standout duo and three-time Austin Music Awards Band..."

Aug. 20, 2018 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Riders Against the Storm Hit Their Stride With Flowers for the Living

Three-time winners of the Austin Music Awards' Band of the Year honors keep building community and creativity

"..."We are Austin music," repeats Jonathan "Chaka" Mahone...."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Faster Than Sound: Eimaral Sol’s Journey to RAS Day

Local neo-soul singer Eimaral Sol puts her spiritual spin on the all-women-led RAS Day lineup, City Council approves Red River improvements, Blakchyl leads her East Austin tour, and cult song funny man Dick Price passes

"...annual RAS Day, featuring rising rapper Leikeli47 and fest-organizing Austinites Riders Against the Storm, unites eight acts led by..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Riders Against the Storm Year

ATX hip-hop duo gets its science down

"...the Storm – husband and wife team Chaka and Qi Dada. This week also brought news of femcee Jean..."

June 24, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Texas Toast

Drinking up the Austin Food and Wine Festival

"...(or abandon all hope of starting). This weekend, the Austin Food and Wine Festival will deliciously unfold at various..."

April 24, 2015 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Through the Lens of Hou Hsiao-hsien

Six film series at AFS Cinema examines the Taiwanese pioneer

"...in the physical stateside release, the upcoming retrospective from Austin Film Society on Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien is the..."

Sept. 8, 2018 Screens Post by Julian DeBerry

A New Sound & Vision for RAS

Grassroots hip-hop twosome gets serious

"...Riders Against the Storm, one of Austin’s top acts in any genre and oft-cited Austin Music..."

April 26, 2017 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Remixing Against the Storm

Perennial Austin Band of the Year contenders keeps it RE:AL

"...More” the husband and wife duo of Chaka and Qi Dada decided to remix. Its opening guitar riff became..."

Jan. 4, 2016 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Wine & Swine Releases Talent List

Today's Austin food news.

"...Everyone shows up for the Austin Food & Wine Alliance, Walton's makes a burger, and..."

Sept. 29, 2015 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Terry Allen, ericdoa, and More Crucial Concerts

Essential Austin gigs in the coming week

"...Allen and Shakey Graves, opening the show with Eighties Austin group the Reivers’ “I Knew.” No surprise, given Johnson’s..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Body Rock Turns 10

Riders Against the Storm and Chorizo Funk’s decade-built dance institution endures, Monday City music meetings, and more

"...Mahone and Ghislaine Jean moved from Providence, R.I., to Austin and began hitting music at house parties and community..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Review: Wu Chow

Downtown christens a classic

"...doing them with uncommon finesse (dim sum chef Ling Qi Wu reportedly grows orchids; she obviously has the virtue..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...of late, great Texan song poet David Rodriguez, native Austinite Carrie Rodriguez engraved her name on the folk and..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

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