Cats With Purrrpose

From the Eastside to South Austin, these feline employees are the cat’s meow

"...Vogt. Little intimidates this cat, who is known to sprawl out on any table right next to folks enjoying..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Opinion: More Transit and Housing Options in More Locations Are Critical for Austin’s Future

The executive director of Transit Forward on the positive environmental impacts of greater density

"...greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2040. Urban sprawl has caused a dramatic increase in driving habits and..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Column by Bill McCamley

With HOME, Council Cuts Lot Size Requirements for First Time in 80 Years

Smaller lots, more apartments, towers near transit

"...growth, the city has expanded outward. Known as urban sprawl, this phenomenon causes environmental harm due to increased reliance..."

May 24, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Rosé Gosé Brings Continental Flair to Austin

Belarus meets Austin in this new North Loop restaurant

"...Tucked away along the concrete sprawl of Airport Boulevard on the east side of North..."

July 14, 2023 Food Feature by Haris Qureshi

It Takes a Village: Memories of Kerrville Folk Festival 2023

Dispatches from the 51st campout, from Ray Prim to Flamy Grant

"...if you will, a village. Dirt roads and camps sprawl out in all directions, creatively named and decorated. People..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Hank Erwin

Local Pastures Brings the Farm to the City

Two farms, one trailer, seven days a week

"...As Austin's urban sprawl widens the physical divide between Austinites and the farms..."

June 2, 2023 Food Feature by Deven Wilson

How Much of Your Rent Is Paying for Spots in a Parking Lot?

Council's ready to jettison parking minimums for future Austin developments

"...developers to put more units on those corridors, decreasing sprawl, decreasing traffic, decreasing carbon emissions...."

May 5, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Blues, Funk, and La Bamba: Antone’s Austin Blues Festival Returns to Waterloo Park

Home of the Blues revives its genre mosh nearly a quarter-century later

"...big stage, roof, but no walls and lawns to sprawl...."

April 30, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

How a Small Town Has Fared as a Microchip Factory Brings in Billions

Has Taylor, TX, become Boomtown, TX?

"...tax base but remain affordable, to grow but not sprawl. It's also a bet that Samsung, a corporation worth..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

What We’re Listening to This Week

Adrian Quesada, Old Fire, Norman Ba$e, and more local releases

"...a snowblower – the gathering frost of Lapham's sonic sprawl is bitterly enveloping. Bill Callahan, the album's primary vocal..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

The Most Memorable Moments of Levitation’s Thursday and Friday

King Gizzard, Godspeed You!, and more lengthy band names

"...lysergic-colored Live at Levitation KG&TLW vinyl at the merch sprawl documents past 2014 and 2016 fest face-melts. Friday's 90-minute..."

Oct. 29, 2022 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Nation’s Real Estate Pros Say Austin’s Still Pretty Hot

Nashville, Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Atlanta come out on top

"...such as those in Imagine Austin, than about raw sprawl...."

Oct. 28, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Amsterdam

David O. Russell's madcap murder-mystery is a misfire

"...unsuccessful adaptation of a better book, perhaps a Chabonesque sprawl of indelible characters darting between actual history and narrative..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Black Food Week’s Begun, Austin Restaurant Weeks Are On Their Way, There’s Canine Noms at Blue Lacy, Dollar Sales at Twin Liquors, a New Bar Boss at Watertrade, Local Pastures in South Austin, and Water, Water, Everywhere …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...out there in the beautiful landscapes where the urban sprawl isn’t. Get yourself a wine passport ($85, single; $120,..."

Aug. 24, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Indoor Queers Club

Stay home and cool off with Qmmunity’s movie, book, and TV recs

"...modern queer movies. Pour yourself an iced tea and sprawl out in the A/C with this country/Western love story..."

July 13, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Q&A: Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan

Long-awaited Existential Reckoning tour hits Austin next week

"...imagine if I were to explore more of the sprawl, it might seem different. I know that there’s better..."

June 9, 2022 Music Post by Maya Wray

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Blues on the Green, Puscifer, Brennen Leigh, Ghost Wolves, and more recommended shows

"...imagine if I were to explore more of the sprawl, it might seem different," he acknowledges. "I know that..."

June 10, 2022 Music Column by Maya Wray

Council Recap: Once-Sacred Neighborhood Protections Battered by Austin's Affordability Crisis

Are taller buildings with less parking the answer?

"...laying out plain and simple that research has shown sprawl negatively affects the environment on almost every metric (mainly..."

May 21, 2022 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

Deep-Pocket Donors Fund Right-Wing School Board Candidates in the Austin Suburbs

Drama outside of town

"...– MUDs – with greedy developers and wasteful edge-city sprawl, but Texas has now raised generations of kids in..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Gabriela’s Expands to Houston

The irrepressible Bucio siblings make a bold southern move

"...the midst of that city’s maddening (or, perhaps, endearing) sprawl, comes Gabriela’s Midtown – featuring the by-now familiar menu..."

Feb. 21, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Chris Conde and Third Root, Bully, Robert Ellis, Lil Baby and Lil Durk, Molly Burch, and Pulkingham Layne

"...the Texas Piano Man, 2019's delightfully recontouring and wry sprawl of Seventies-infused piano-pop and country rock – Harry Nilsson..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Music Column by Clara Wang

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

El Combo Oscuro, KVN, and Mike & the Moonpies are some of our favorite local sounds this week

"...recruits the Quaker City Night Hawks for a guitar sprawl, closing the cycle with a head-spinning jam and trying..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Austin at Large: Location, Location, Dislocation

Decent housing for all Austinites "where it's needed." Where might that be?

"...have come to regret. It brought us truly mindless sprawl on random pastures throughout the hinterlands, which then forced..."

July 23, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...a flare of regional impact from the Southwestern Gothic sprawl of Albuquerque's Handsome Family. Benedeadly works repetition to her..."

March 19, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 1-7

"...inhabit their own private realms, isolated from the invasive sprawl of our manic, frantic influence. Among these enclaves, many..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

News of the World

Tom Hanks evokes one of his most celebrated roles in this tragic Western

"...pre-metroplex North Texas and the Hill Country before urban sprawl, it would be easy to imagine the Captain and..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Share Some Truth, Justice, and Sustainability With These Civic-Minded Gifts

Keep the holidays real

"...owners and renters, or landlords and tenants; and suburban sprawl that incentivizes working-class people to move away from their..."

Dec. 4, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

City Council District 2: Young Progressives Square Off for Open Seat

Candidates pledge to protect Austin’s working class families in Southeast Austin

"..."What we have seen under [the existing LDC] is sprawl, flooding, displacement, gentrification, and other kinds of environmental degradation,..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

City Council District 7: Land-Use Politics Take Center Stage

"...housing options or we're never going to stop the sprawl outside of our city limits," she said. In order..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Will the Third Time Be a Charm for an Austin Rail System?

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...Central Texas for decades, will still result in more sprawl. As it does, residents pay an increasing premium to..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

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