Your Guide to Austin Museum Day

Discover Austin-area museums Sunday, Sept. 22, for free!

"...Since 1998, the Austin Museum Partnership has coordinated Austin Museum Day, a free..."

Sept. 18, 2019 Chron Events Post

Celebrity, South Austin Style

The Mayor of South Austin

"...When Danny Young talks about his arrival in South Austin from Kingsville 23 years ago, he doesn't simply..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

Austin Monuments to Pop Culture

Fiji mermaids, vintage toys, and a Cathedral of Junk

"...See for yourself how Austin's famed weirdness manifests itself at these off-the-beaten-path shops, galleries,..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Faster Than Sound: Demons & Delights – The Art of Billie Buck

Local illustrator makes “Hot Soup” at the relocated Austin Museum of Popular Culture

"...King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard LP. He complains of "grass" in the packaging, which turns out to just..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Pop Goes the Culture

The SAMOPC hosts a night of music and a movie

"...Whether there's a North Austin Museum of Popular Culture in the works, or a..."

June 6, 2008 Screens Feature by John Davidson

A Lot of Cojones and a Little Faith

The art of Micael Priest

"...On Thursday afternoon, two days before the opening of Micael Priest's exhibit at the South Austin Museum of..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Playback: Austin Musician Union Overthrown

Local 433 hangs in the balance, a new hit for Fastball, and End of an Ear begins its new lease on life

"...Austin's oldest organized music entity suddenly hangs in the balance...."

Oct. 21, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

"Shoot Like a Grrrl" Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin

Photographer Martha Grenon's exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties

"...all that's visible are guitar straps and a sliver of one guitar – but you can see they are..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

West Austin Studio Tour: The Second Weekend

Our recommendations among WEST's artist studios and galleries

"...The first weekend of the West Austin Studio Tour, starting off with a..."

May 18, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Culture Flash!

The influential artwork of Micael Priest blesses the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, and ACT wants State Theatre patrons to come to the cabaret – for free

"...Priest, an artist whose work helped shape an era of Austin history, gets his due this week with a..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Austin Museum Day turns 10, and TCA names a new director

"...•Austin Museum Day is here again this Sunday, Sept. 23,..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Deadline for the Texas State Auditions, Armadillo artist Danny Garrett gets his own day, proposals for the Mueller public art project are presented, and Ann Adams' 'Big Chiller Blues' gets hot press

"...Sunday, July 9 (or, to put in more fittingly Austintatious terms, 7/09). The honor coincides with "Visual Flights of..."

July 7, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Playback: Biggest Austin Music Stories of 2016

Looking back on the biggest Music news headlines of the year

"...Death of Fun Fun Fun, Birth of Margin Walker..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

2014-15 Austin Music Awards

"...Rose Reyes inducts Conjunto Los Pinkys into the Austin Music Hall of Fame...."

March 19, 2015 Photo Gallery

Field of Dreamers

Two dems, five gop candidates vie for district 48 race, but the seat is expected to remain Democratic.

"...a successful 10-year stint, the news awoke a herd of snoozing political hopefuls, particularly a pack of Republicans who..."

Feb. 4, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...just touched down and the pilot said, “Welcome to Austin: the Live Music Capital of the World.” Now you..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend

Theatre, graphic glory, steamrollering, coffee, and the ol' brown box

"...the city. Experience something more than the familiar cushions of that couch and the pressure gravity imparts upon your..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin’s Record Store Day Picks

Local releases and where to get 'em

"...Saturday – April 18 – anticipating the eighth iteration of Record Store Day, a consumer holiday spotlighting the unique..."

April 15, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Big Circus of Life

Books Editor Clay Smith and Litera columnist Ric Williams handicap which of the 200-plus international poets attending this year's Austin International Poetry Festival will be best bets.

"...Poetry has always been considered the finest of arts. The best of music, art, drama, literature is..."

April 19, 2002 Books Feature by Ric Williams

Letters at 3AM: The 'Austin Sun' Gets Hung

Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum

"...happened "back in the day" reaches into the present, often secretly, like a half-remembered dream that exerts its subtle..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

The Heart of the Community

SXSWedu gathers voices on schools in communities, communities in schools

"...raise a child. Yet between No Child Left Behind's culture of high-stakes standardized testing, the reform movement's bullish attitude..."

Feb. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music: First Band List of 2016

Initial names for (154) and days remaining until (146) March madness

"...goblins, that means it’s time to start thinking about South by Southwest. The music arm of the local mega-conference,..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Tubes of Art

"...Antonio. We're going to hear the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's senior curator of film and media arts, John G...."

Sept. 11, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Culture Flash!

Honors for a Blanton exhibition, Blue Lapis Light, and a Round Rock tuba player, plus a bundle of joy for a local choreographer

"...The Blanton Museum of Art's 2007 exhibition "The Geometry of Hope: Latin..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...The kingdom of Morocco achieved independence from French and Spanish rule in..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...film. Now Wes Anderson's new star-studded canine animation Isle of Dogs will be the top to its tail as..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Fellowship of the Tortilla

Peña Unites Central-American Folk

"...Even for Austin's super- charged music scene it's an unlikely time for..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Music Feature

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...It was one of those days when Dagoberto Gilb was about to start..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Black Rat Swing

"...The twentysomething, punky girl hesitated at the corner of 27th and Guadalupe, waiting for the light to change...."

Sept. 22, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Saw It on the X

ZZ Top's one-man iconography machine, Bill Narum, shares his wares

"...To hear Bill Narum tell it, Austin was founded as an arts colony, so as a..."

April 1, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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