The Roosevelt Room Stands Its Ground in a New Downtown

How the right lease negotiations kept the Fifth Street bar in business

"...Everybody knew it was coming, but no one knew when. As Downtown Austin was..."

July 12, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Raging and Reflecting With Glassing’s Ambient Metal

Letting just a little light in on new album Spotted Horse

"...In a modern musical landscape where subgenres collide into uneasy..."

May 17, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Zeroing in on No Tolerance

Texas Schools Target Drugs and Violence

"...One day in 1993, a 17-year-old El Paso high school student broke..."

May 12, 1995 News Feature by Andrea Barnett

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...For better or worse, there's no getting away from the juggernaut called Star Wars: Episode 1..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Attention to Sound

John Cage's approach to music has shaped how Michelle Schumann listens to and plays it

"...disparaged for his music of nonmusical sounds composed by using astronomical atlases and the I Ching, but three years..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...mesquite and cedar trees, native grasses, cacti, and lizards. In all, it is a fairly typical West Texas town..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Decade of Aggression at the House of Torment

Austin's top-rated Halloween haunt looks back on 10 years of scares

"...The guard at the door bangs on the metal. "Fresh meat!" Wham. The ingress slams shut at the..."

Oct. 31, 2012 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: The Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells

There’s something in the water: The Baker Hotel rises again

"...The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells was once one of the most opulent..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Playback: Fun Fun Fun Fest 8

Fun Fun Fun Fest finally arrives

"...book what we like, book what everyone else isn't booking, though these days we get bigger acts because we're..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

East Austin Studio De-Tour

Homesteading artists face city code challenges – and raise old fears – in changing neighborhoods

"...Gullett is the last address on a dead-end street in East Austin. From the road, you can see the..."

July 15, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

The Daily Hustle: 8/23/10

Council previews are our Domain

"...City Council's compact schedule of meetings continues this week, with a Thursday meeting packed with..."

Aug. 23, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...Think of the Puritan settlers, eking out a new life..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...8pm, Buffalo Billiards Scotland's Simon Raymonde knows the music business. His iconic Cocteau Twins went through the ringer in..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Under the Canopy

New creative complex on Springdale Road close to opening

"...a Goodwill Blue Hanger Store – on the same Springdale Road lot as its sapphire-themed neighbors, Blue Genie Art..."

Jan. 16, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bright Lights, Little City

It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

"...It's Friday night, and the audience is trickling in, mostly families with young daughters eager to see..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Concrete Vigil

In transforming buildings into altars, Sally Jacques offers a place to keep watch

"...When Sally Jacques was a teenage free spirit hitching around the Catalan region of Spain, she was overwhelmed..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Meghan Shogan Carves a Career Path Through Solid Rock

With hammer, chisels, and steel brushes in hand, the Austin artist is on a trajectory in stone

"...Shogan is a stonecutter. Hammers, chisels, calipers, steel brushes against rough raw rock: Shogan carves stone for her art..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Getting to Zero

Will Austin's green seif-image be realized with its "zero waste" goals?

"...the Capitol to the Texas Disposal Systems landfill, where Austin's city-collected residential trash goes to be forever entombed. From..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...Grindhouse, as you probably know, is a celebration of a..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...A. Sinclair..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Curatorial Reportage

The Blanton Museum's ever-shifting WorkSpace offers up- to-the-minute views of what's happening in contemporary art

"...In the visual arts, we talk a lot about the..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the Week "This was a deadly force encounter that, in my opinion, was avoidable. Not only ... did Schroeder..."

Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature

Fun Fun Fun Fest Returns to Auditorium Shores

Festival moving slightly for ninth year downtown, Nov. 7-9

"...Nov. 7-9 – will move a portion of its proceedings from the soon-to-be revamped main lawn at Auditorium Shores..."

Jan. 14, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Daily Hustle:1/11/11

City Council agenda highlights for Thursday

"...is back on their grizzy this Thursday, with their inaugural meeting of 2011...."

Jan. 11, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Playback: This Is Not Traditional

Tim Kerr and Jerry Hagins remain unconventional in Up Around the Sun, plus an update on World Class Capital Group

"..."Once, we played at a string band festival and this guy came up and asked,..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Arms on Brazos

As it nears completion of an extended 'Great Streets' rehab project, has Austin learned any lessons?

"...residents and regulars. After more than two years of ongoing construction, Brazos Street is scheduled to reopen in September...."

Aug. 5, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Downtown Developments

"...by Kayte VanScoy, with contributions by Mike Clark-Madison, Kevin Fullerton, and Jenny Staff Residential:..."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...In your Aug. 9 issue, within the article entitled "Did..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...August of 1982, Sarah Whistler had moved out of Austin, Joe Dishner had left to go into film production,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I'm writing because I wish there were an organization for Austin..."

May 28, 2004 Column

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