Day Trips: Reunion Tower, Dallas

Get a bird's-eye view of Big D from the tower's observation deck

"...Reunion Tower lets you see why they call Dallas "Big..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Giving Thanks

Features Editor Kate Messer offers thanks for Dallas' peaceful Thanks-Giving Square

"...graces one wall. The park also features the Bell Tower, four monoliths, and the gold-leafed 14-foot Ring of Thanks...."

Nov. 10, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...written and edited in the shadow of the UT Tower (the site of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree only..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Should You Choose to Go ...

"...www.amtrak.com Reunion Tower of Dallas300 Reunion..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Day Trips & Beyond: New Year’s Eve 2017 Around Texas

Ringing in the new year across the Lone Star State

"...Streaming Lights at Reunion Tower Dec. 31, Dallas, www.reuniontower.com/nye..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Beer Bust!

The lowdown on the Dazed and Confused 10-year reunion party.

"...keg party on Saturday, May 31, at the Moon Tower (at Lake Walter E. Long), the site of the..."

May 30, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Is This UTopia?

A Long-Overdue University Master Plan is Unveiled

"...as you move away from RLM and toward the Tower, Gleeson delivers a running disquisition on how the university's..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Brody, Keith Maitland's follow-up to his SXSW 2015 award-sweeping Tower, makes its local premiere after debuting at the Tribeca..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Storm the Tower

Live shots

"...Storm the TowerSound on Sound, Aug. 19..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Summer of Solo Shows: The Second Wave

In Austin theatre, solo shows sometimes come in waves, as in the second half of August, which has four one-person theatrical vehicles opening the same weekend

"...and insanity. Runs with Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower. Aug. 17-26, Thursday-Saturday, 8pm, at the Vortex, 2307 Manor..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Our Murals, Ourselves

"...In 1990, when the Tower Records chain moved into the former moviehouse, it made..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Dancing About Architecture

The Mighty Four

"..."I don't know if you'd call it a reunion, but they were all there," says Susan Antone, of..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Leon Russell & the Bob Dylan Rumor

Outlaw era deejay Woody Roberts helped produce Willie Nelson's first Fourth of July picnic in this excerpt from his new memoir Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll

"...By the time I arrived at Tower Drive in the quiet Tarrytown neighborhood of Austin, several..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Woody Roberts

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...Keith Maitland has two films making their world premiere. TOWER delves into mass murderer Charles Whitman's UT Tower shooting,..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"..."Tower to Tower: The 1 Man Show" by SaulPaul. A..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...was like in the Sixties – when the UT tower and the Capitol dome were the tallest buildings in..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Dancing About Architecture

"...Next Thursday, not quite a year after the Raul's reunion show at Liberty Lunch, that club will be host..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Austin Funk

Steam Heat fogs it up again

"...The band is tuning up for a reunion show Thursday at Threadgill’s World HQ, celebrating the reissue..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

After a Fashion

Keg party at the lake! We get starstruck at the 10th anniversary party for Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater's classic ode to bud and tube socks.

"...of a chore -- it was the 10th anniversary reunion for the legendary film Dazed and Confused, and I..."

June 6, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Day Trips

Fredericksburg-area residents are working to preserve the area's one-room rural schoolhouses.

"...Country Schools will sponsor an open house and school reunion at the 12 schoolhouses. "We want everybody to see..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Growth Spurt

Nine Shows That Transported Me

"...smallest town, this farce about a Fourth of July reunion gone literally sour was entertaining and superbly crafted enough..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

We Control the Horizontal, We Control the Southwest:

"...in their final four performances (least-ways until the inevitable reunion show), at Dessau Hall this Friday, Antone's on Saturday..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Hatfield Takes a Rest

"...could always join the Juliana Hatfield band. Friction at Tower Records As interactive technology continues to grow in leaps..."

May 5, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Faster Than Sound's Musical Top 10s of 2020

Eleven lists of Austin's best releases, theme songs, livestreams, creative pivots and more.

"...4) Katherine de Rosset, The Tower..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

AFCA Announces Local Film Short List

Five Austin films in contention for the annual award

"...but hangs like a cloud over this tragic family reunion drama (read our interiew with director Yen Tan here)...."

Dec. 11, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX TV Fest: How Roku Is Changing How We Watch TV

Will the streaming box disappear, only to be more ubiquitous?

"...the Space Needle just down the street from Avengers Tower and the offices of the Daily Planet...."

June 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Re-HAAMing

HAAM needs you to re-up, Ian McLagan's been gone a year, and Hotel Van Zandt playroom Geraldine's restores our faith in hotels co-existing with live local music

"...Hall of Fame, and recently witnessed a bittersweet Faces-sans-McLagan reunion in England. "The best place for some of it..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Glorious Renewal

The Contemporary Austin gives new life to the place where it all began, Laguna Gloria

"...However, the union – or reunion, considering their status before the 1961 split – was..."

March 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014 Friday Listings

FFF Friday by the blurb

"...2012's Sorrow and Extinction, and that grew into a tower of awe on this year's follow-up Foundations of Burden...."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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