Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America

Cookbooks and cultural conversation starters top our summer reading list

"...Devastated by water pollution, land mismanagement, and urban sprawl, the salmon ground had collapsed. A distinct microcosm and..."

May 23, 2014 Food Feature by Anna Toon

Millions Spent Just to Circumvent Environmental Impact Studies

"...money locally rather than on new roads for suburban sprawl. It's high time we fought back against this ongoing..."

March 25, 2014 Postmarks

Brown and Eckhardt Face Off in Circle C

Circle C Area Dems host Travis County Judge candidates

"...on “sustainable population centers and transit-oriented development,” to avoid sprawl development. Brown noted that particularly on water issues, the..."

Jan. 14, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Mo' Music: 20 Top Tracks of 2013, Part 2

Part 2 of Rob's year-end countdown

"...a Blondie beat like their last album's best track "Sprawl II."..."

Jan. 5, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Top 10 City Council Stories

Redistricting, affordable housing, and more

"...all the simmering controversies of Downtown development: densification vs. sprawl, height vs. lake views, traditional neighborhoods vs. condo­s, planned..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Ann Conner: Symphony Suite

These colorful prints of graphic shapes over wood grains are playful and celebratory of hue and texture

"...it happened at my grandparents' home back when I'd sprawl on the floor with a coloring book and while..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Get Booked

Big names and newcomers delight in this collection of recent releases

"...his deadbeat dad to the desolate, eerily empty suburban sprawl of Las Vegas...."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Josh Kupecki

Then There's This: The Road of Many Sagas

As SH 45 revs up (again), group sues for commissioner's emails

"...the Edwards Aquifer and its potential to spawn additional sprawl, made possible by a subsidized tollway...."

Nov. 29, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Council: Imagine Comprehensively

Zoning and proclaimations crowd next week's agenda

"...a change that may slowly have an impact on sprawl as well as city coffers...."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Fiction Favorites

From postapocalyptic islands to mining camps in Nevada, these novels will rock your world

"...Island, the San Antonio author posits a world where sprawl and overpopulation have created an endless city that covers..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Books Feature

Prop. 6: Strange Bedfellows on Both Sides

Boondoggle or necessary step? Odd alliances form on both sides of state water proposal.

"...arch Tea Partier Debra Medina. Familiar local names include anti-sprawl developer Brian Rodgers and perennial small-l libertarian "independent" gadfly..."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

No Prayer for the Dying

Iron Maiden returns to Austin after 25 years

"...Cooling the concrete sprawl that is the Circuit of the Americas Amphitheater some..."

Sept. 11, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Best of Austin: No Pasture Greener

"Best of Austin" 2013 is coming. Let's look back at some previous bests.

"...relaxation with ample tree shade, gigantic rock formations to sprawl out on, ducks and turtles to observe, and an..."

Sept. 11, 2013 Chronolog Post by Nina Hernandez

Exiled From Main Street

Can Austin's stock of affordable housing keep pace with high-speed growth?

"...to revitalize underutilized Down-town real estate to mass transit, anti-sprawl, and environmental advocates who argue that residential and commercial..."

June 28, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

2nd Annual Blue Hole Concerts for the Park

Best of both summer solar systems – live music and coolant

"...a canopy of trees, lush, green banks, the golf-course-like sprawl of a drying lawn......"

June 7, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Point Austin: The Reading Railroad

Mayor's search for rail funding earns cheap shot from 'Statesman'

"...light rail. The alternative is increasing automobile gridlock, suburban sprawl, and a declining central city...."

May 10, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Neighborhood Watch

Sustainable Neighborhoods group advocates 'family-friendly' north side development

"...more families did so, the result would be less sprawl and less pollution from commuting...."

March 22, 2013 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Angst Is Their Co-Pilot

'Only the Young' charts the agony and ecstasy of a certain age

"...Valencia, Santa Clarita's fellow northwestern neighbor in the bedroom-community sprawl of Greater Los Angeles. Mims grew up in Central..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Who the Hell Is This Kaci Beeler, Anyway?

Fact: Much more than just some woman on a pole.

"...Angeles. It's just another part of the SoCal megalopolis sprawl. When I was five years old my parents moved..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Then There's This: Highway to Heaven or Hell?

Precinct 3 voters have two distinct choices for the future

"...wisdom of financing a road that would promote more sprawl and traffic over the aquifer (while perhaps not ending..."

Oct. 26, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

So Much Specialness

David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today

"...State, the Sesquicentennial was a convenient hook for a sprawling think-piece about urban planning, natural history, technology, psychology, and..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Willis Earl Beal

"...us at arm's length. They're interesting in their Jandek-ian sprawl, but annoyingly absent of intimacy. Once Willis Earl Beal..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Short-Term Rentals: Can't We All Live Together?

Publisher Nick Barbaro on the CSTR debate

"...phenomenon does indeed gut a neighborhood, decrease density, encourage sprawl, raise prices, kill schools, and all that...."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Battle for Barton Springs: A Brief Timeline

Twenty years of progress

"...City continues to revise the comprehensive plan, emphasizing less sprawl and more compact growth patterns. The drought resumes, with..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Not Valuing Natural Resources

"...the height of an earthen dam because of urban sprawl and more runoff. In my eyes this is the..."

Aug. 1, 2012 Postmarks

Mo' Music July 30

Three bands I am so over…

"...so much. Besides the joyful "Heart of Glass" cousin, "Sprawl 2," the music lost much of it's texture, and..."

July 30, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Who Says You Can't Do These Things If You Want To?

Not us, chief; contrariwise, this weekend.

"...gonna be provided by some of the gloriously thrashing sprawl of Chaos in Tejas … but maybe you've come..."

May 31, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Zoltars

New Wax

"...debut deals chapped, barren, smokestack-spiked post-punk, lifeless in its sprawl. Honesty or middle school poetry? "I will give you..."

May 25, 2012 Music Review by Luke Winkie

May 12 Municipal Election: The 'Chronicle' Endorsements

"...greater central city density – which defends against urban sprawl and the accompanying environmental degradation and without which long-range..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature

Music Mo'nday: April 23

A glance at some artists deep in the hearts of homos

"...The Diamonds "Tapes and Money (MJ Cole Remix)" T.E.E.D. "Sprawl II (Soulwax Remix)" Arcade Fire..."

April 23, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

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