Rate Case = Full Calendar for Council

Giving Austin Energy's numbers the old scrub-a-dub-dub

"...City Council today (Thursday, March 1) could adopt a pedal-to-the-metal..."

March 2, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith

Off the Record

The Hamburg Sound: OTR retreats to Germany's Reeperbahn Festival as Frank Hendrix sells Emo's

"...at the Top Ten Club. Last weekend, the harbor city hosted the sixth annual Reeperbahn Festival, a music conference..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The lineup for ACL drops just in time for Pachanga and the Midgetmen's nine-year anniversary bash

"...everyone is enjoying what's going on there." In a city saturated with fests of every stripe, Pachanga has carved..."

May 20, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Food and a Movie

Strategic local restaurant suggestions to enhance your SXSW Film Festival schedule

"...and tight budgets, you can't go wrong with Little City (916 Congress), a favorite caffeine shop serving fresh, tasty..."

March 11, 2011 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Off the Record

Learning the ones and twos with the Dub Academy and Phranchyze

"...Last Thursday, Jim Robertson of the city's Planning and Development Review Department briefed City Council on..."

June 18, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Know When to Say When

"..."It's the perfect city with the perfect combination of things," says Circle's Benjamin..."

June 18, 2010 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

The Urban Experience

Dâm-Funk's intergalactic jam

"...DF: What I spin and am known for collecting is the boogie genre...."

March 16, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

'Bacchae' to the Future

How in (a Greek) god's name can the Rude Mechs re-create Dionysus in 69 in '09?

"...when they followed Dionysus to the mountain outside the city and joined in his frenzied rites of worship. That..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Room 710 prepares to shut its doors, Amy Cook goes under the lens, and introducing The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology

"...Garber agrees, "but I'm more concerned with how the city values the property. I don't see how the building..."

July 31, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Sometimes the Bride

Greezy Wheels vocal point Lissa Hattersley steps out

"...for bands from the hinterlands going to the Big City. It did feature a crowd-pleasing collection of their popular..."

June 12, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

One last night of band blurbs!

"...of touring in support of Carnavas at 2008's Austin City Limits Music Festival and promises the new album contains..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Off the Record

Diving into Club 1808, the Real Heroes' Chinese democracy, and Ray Benson on Willie, Wexler, and the Wheel

"...Carl's Corner (Feb. 24), and a taping for Austin City Limits. For more of Benson's reflections on Wexler, see..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

See. Hear. Speak.

The other performance festival in January lines up primo comedians

"...(See "Risk Immersion.") But those creative sneaks in the city's improv community, who seem to be able to infiltrate..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

The Last Waltz: Looking back on the legacy of the Backyard and a tribute to Danny Roy Young

"...on the Bend, slowly transforming the venue into a 5,000-capacity Hill Country oasis, followed two years later by its..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Calling All Musicians & Music Biz Types

City wants your input for the Live Music Task Force

"...“We’re here from the City of Austin, and we’re here to help.”..."

June 26, 2008 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Two-Wheeled Texas

Bikers' best bets on the highways and byways

"...280-4732. www.giddyups.com. Knot in the Loop Saloon The Willow City Loop is arguably the most lovely drive in this..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Angela Armstrong

A Browner Shade of Black

Blazing trails of Chicano soul

"...disc jockey named Joe Anthony, a white guy who'd spin records, then we'd play. In San Antonio, they didn't..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Profitable, but Clean

AE's Duncan pushes for new power paradigm

"...The purported spoils of this revolution are clean, reliable electricity; diminished pollution; less dependence on foreign oil; and a..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Beside the Point

Funky day care the latest gentrification victim

"...it be hoarily said: In its godlike omnipotence, the city doesn't close a door without opening a window –..."

May 18, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Wednesday Picks

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts now

"...Tammany Hall Machine doesn't hold as much sway at City Hall as its namesake, but the quartet's piano-driven pop..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

Heaven up Here

27 reason to further investigate the UK roster of bands at SXSW 2006

"...turn at both South by Southwest and the Austin City Limits Music Festival last year, they managed mammoth inroads..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Hustle and Snow

At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery

"...breathing in the same heady 7,000-foot-high atmosphere of Park City, Utah, the resort town that becomes home every January..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Bless Kanye West's heart

"...Network was beside himself, as he fired back at spin-master Bill O'Reilly that "the haves of this city, the..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Pro-Kim/Anti-Clarke Crowd Celebrates

Place 3 run-off candidate Jennifer Kim soaks up victory with supporters

"...staffer Margot Clarke for Place 3 on the Austin City Council. Having rabid right-winger and Republican Party loyalist Levin..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Dorothy T. Goes Home

Fiery, feisty queen of Austin civil rights activists is recognized, remembered

"...Indeed, city officials often found themselves on the receiving end of..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...World of Him. Taking the No Depression route, Timms spins songs by men (Mark Eitzel, Ryan Adams, and Mekon..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

The Insatiable Taste for Tunes

In Austin, the self-proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World, seeing great music doesn't always have to mean fighting the crowds at a smoky nightclub

"...there are still ways to take advantage of the city's insatiable taste for tunes. On any given night, live..."

March 19, 2004 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...either grandfathered or just outside the jurisdiction of the city of Austin that will soon be developed at intensities..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...to make it interesting. That they've toured with Albuquerque citymates the Shins, as well as Pedro the Lion, is..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

City Water Tunnel #3

If the Department of Environmental Protection hired someone to explain New York's City Water Tunnel #3, the largest non-defense public works project in the Western Hemisphere, that someone couldn't do a better job than performer Marty Pottenger, who delivers the truth of the project, as plain and raw as the earth that's being tunneled, as bright and ragged as the people tunneling.

"...City Water Tunnel #3: Groundbreaking PerformanceThe Off Center,..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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