The Eyes of Evil MoPac Are Upon You

Austin’s favorite anonymous Twitter account is the city’s newest podcast phenom

"...Twitter/X account run by either a sentient piece of Austin's most annoying road not named I-35 or a guy..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

SXSW Interview: Leah Purcell Writes and Rights History in The Drover's Wife

Australian filmmaker takes a classic and gives it three lives

"...Austin Chronicle: For non-Australians, where does Lawson, and his story,..."

March 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ten Key Moments in a Year of Endless Texas Election Drama

Vote Early and Often

"...1) Jan. 13: Red Guards Ambush Heidi Sloan The Democratic Socialists of America..."

Dec. 18, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

ARIC Informants Have Watched Local Leftists for Years

Secret police intelligence “Antifa affinity groups”

"...Chronicle has described the Marxist-aligned direct-action groups working in Austin as part of "a hard-left activist ecosystem." Longtime community..."

Oct. 23, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police

"Whose streets? Our streets."

"...life. She wanted to ask why Christopher Taylor, the Austin police officer who shot Mike Ramos in late April,..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A Tidal Wave of People Batter the Foundations of Austin’s Structural Racism

Thousands took to Downtown and Eastside streets to say, emphatically, that Black Lives Matter

"...week prior by protest violence – mostly waged by Austin police – the Austin Justice Coalition's Black Austin Rally..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Congressional Candidate Attacked by “Revolutionary” Bullies

Heidi Sloan assaulted following weekend campaigning

"...In the latest eruption of Austin’s paltry contribution to the national ranks of wannabe revolutionaries,..."

Jan. 13, 2020 News Post by Michael King

Nightmare Scenarios for Austin's Possible End

Some of the ways that our beloved town could become no more

"...Austin has flash floods, which are a near-constant but to..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election Ticker: Last Chance for Controversy

E-Day is tomorrow! Here's the latest news before it's too late.

"...The Revolution Will Not Be Voting: Austin Red Guards left the pig heads at home but..."

Nov. 5, 2018 News Post by News Staff

Beto O'Rourke and Ethan Hawke in Conversation

Two Texans discuss politics, fear, and the power of Willie Nelson to bring us back together

"...My dad and I drove from Fort Worth to Austin in a Plymouth Barra­cuda. I was 6 years old...."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Ethan Hawke

Best WTFs of ACL Fest Weekend One

The good, the bad, and the myriad Tom Petty covers

"...Even Austin's most reliable music event has its unpredictable moments. After..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SwimATX Tackles Lifeguard Shortage

Learn-to-swim program educates Eastside kids on water safety

"...way to hit their numbers – by targeting younger lifeguards. Together with the Austin Independent School District and YMCA,..."

May 19, 2017 News Feature by Katarina Brown

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...– right up top, behind the jaw – that fractured in Jared Roark's neck during an arrest near the..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Red River Clubs Grapple With Downtown Homelessness

Beggars, hustlers, and dealers make you wonder how Downtown music keeps from going under

"...after midnight on a cold Wednesday in early January. Red River Street looms as a gauntlet of lost hope...."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Most Dangerous Man in Austin?

Cody Wilson's day-to-day life is pretty routine. But the product he's selling threatens to make gun control laws obsolete.

"...it. From his office off Cross Park in Northeast Austin, the man reviled and revered for manufacturing the first..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Waller Creek Comes to Life

Conservancy seeks radical makeover east of Downtown

"...coats, hats, and the fingertips of seldom-used gloves. It reddened cheeks and numbed noses. But it didn't stop the..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Playback

Late SXSW Creative Director Brent Grulke memorialized, and other Thursday SXSW tips

"...on it. Even so, he made his mark in Austin long ago...."

March 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

EAST Eats: Sa-Tén

Coffee done artfully

"...being let in on a secret. With the East Austin Studio Tour heading into the second weekend, it's one..."

Nov. 20, 2014 Food Post by Andrew Thomas

Event Horizon

As festivals, crowds, and expenses proliferate – is Austin approaching major event overload?

"...Washington Post. For the past four springs, his gig ushered him south into the warm civic embrace Austin offers..."

July 12, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Playback: ACL Mania

The ACL zeitgeist in review

"...she'd fallen off one of the flagpoles by which Austin City Limits Music Festival attendees locate one another in..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Ain't Messin 'Round

Gary Clark Jr. kisses the sky

"...As an 18-year-old recent graduate of Austin High, blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. played the very..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Playback: Heart Transplant

The future of Ray Hennig's Heart of Texas Music, Austin Vintage Guitars, and the HighBall called into question.

"...If you've ever hung out at Ray Hennig's Heart..."

July 6, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro

Club turnover has come due – embrace it

"...siren, and I don't mean the ones zooming down Red River on a Saturday night...."

Jan. 20, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Come and Take It

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' lightning strike sophomore disc, Scandalous, stops in for a G&T at the Mustang Ranch

"...airplane-hangar warren of music business offices that comprise Soundcheck Austin, four heads huddle together, talking that secret musician language...."

April 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday night blurbage of SXSW

"...Poole Ball & the Cosmic Americans are the latest Austin supergroup. Their weekly Friday happy-hour gigs at the Saxon..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Electric Skaterland

Austin births a Roller Derby renaissance

"...on the floor and not moving. Her teammates from Austin's Texas Rollergirls league and their rivals, the Oly Rollers..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Sports Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hard Times in the Land of Plenty

Service nonprofits and their funders face the economic gale

"...and load them on trucks. Soon those meals and ingredients will be delivered to more than 350 partner agencies,..."

Oct. 23, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

Surveying the aftermath from the Red River shootout outside Spiros

"...Red River Shoot-Up..."

June 5, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

If a Downtown venue closes down for the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, does it make a sound?

"...public disapproval from City Manager Marc Ott and the Austin chapter of the NAACP, among others. A media feeding..."

April 10, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Letters From the Women of SAFPF

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

"...the Ellen Halbert SAFPF unit in Burnet County, contacted Austin attorney Derek Howard to explore the prospect of filing..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

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