Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...It just wasn't working out for Sims Ellison. Not Pariah's album, which had not..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Wrong Side of the Tracks?

Light Rail May Be a Heavy Burden for East Austin

"...While light rail is being touted in some circles as the best solution to relieve..."

April 4, 1997 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...VP’s VP: Have you seen the picture of him holding a pig and smiling ear to ear?..."

Aug. 9, 2024 News Feature

Getting Creative With Constraints

AFS Documentary Tour presents the 10 Under 10 shorts program

"...annual documentary shorts compilation organized by Ellen Spiro, University of Texas professor, filmmaker (Body of War, Troop 1500), and..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Genial General

ABA President Barbara Thomas Steps Down

"...photograph by John Anderson The two worlds of Barbara Bonds Thomas, by her own acknowledgment, would dizzy..."

May 29, 1998 Books Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Human Resources

"...and workers, and father and son. At the heart of the story is Franck (Lespert), a young man just..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cooking in Heels

Trailblazing Women in Austin's Food Business

"...time began. But when cooking turned into a respectable "profession," hot stoves became the province of men. As recently..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Food Feature by Ronna N. Welsh

Deconstructing Downtown

The Economy Sneezes -- and Austin's Central Business District Catches a Cold

"...On a drizzly afternoon in late March, a handful of Intel officials arrived at an old car dealership on..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Year It All Went Wrong

Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.

"...words are being put to page, another vital piece of Austin is in danger of being taken away. Who..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Dancing About Architecture

Life and death on the live music club scene; Dale Watson escapes, Huey Meaux doesn't; and more tantalizing tidbits of Terpsichore...

"...There's always a lot of black clothing inside and outside the Atomic Cafe, but..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Lights Are On: Is Anybody Home?

Downtown's boom has busted, yet developers still build.

"...Craig Jones took the company credit card and set off on a walking tour of Downtown. They threw back..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Ruta Java

Where to Go for a Cup of Joe

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March 14, 1997 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Burn in Hell

String sorcerer went to my college?

"...certainly discovered common ground. As it was, the guitarist squeezed in a 30-minute call from the airport between flights...."

Sept. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Cars the Issue, Not Parking

"...in the 1950s. He notes "more students are getting squeezed out of valuable parking spaces" and that there is..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Column

Letters at 3am: Flash Mob Dance Revolution: Part 2

You cannot arrest a population

"...answer only through experiment in action. The Velvet Revolution of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing Arab Spring, and the..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Killing the AMN Softly

"...visibly the channel's lackluster programming. Then, just a couple of days after that report was given, the Financial and..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Michael Bertin

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...The Texas Book Festival has released the full list of authors for its 2018 event, and you can look..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...Revisionism In December 1992, culture critic Ann Powers wrote about Pamela Des Barres and the groupie phenomenon in The..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Food Trailer on Airport Nails Salvadoran Tex-Mex

SalvaTex’s pupusas, my dudes, are nothing short of incredible

"...Vine in Los Angeles and pick up a stack of bean and cheese pupusas with slaw and crema. The..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Food Column by Emily Beyda

Budget, Contracts, and APD

Activists press City Council on police accountability

"...at a merciful 8:30pm. But the week carried plenty of business, with CodeNEXT on Tuesday, budget preview on Wednesday,..."

April 24, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: The Tree in the Way

Commission decision could lead to changes in tree ordinance

"...All because of an old pecan tree on Bowie Street. The tree..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

The Hightower Lowdown

Dubya will save us from pollution -- with gas masks; polluters get "greenwashing" awards; the Cardinals pitch St. Louis a screwball.

"...America's health, safety, and environmental protections at the behest of such mass polluters as the oil, chemical, coal, nuclear,..."

April 12, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Dancing About Architecture

"...Lunch is dead! Long live the Lunch! Such an outcry wouldn't have been unexpected following last Thursday's City Council..."

April 9, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Parquet Court’ing Catastrophe

Brooklyn Indie stalwarts bring divisive, funky new album to Austin

"...time Parquet Courts filled Stubb’s Amphitheater with their brand of shouty, shuffle-punk pantomime – call it “human performance,” to..."

Nov. 20, 2021 Music Post by Julian Towers

Where Did All Those Kids Go?

From summer 1968 to ‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ in 2013

"...Brother & the Holding Company arrived in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. This was a genuine Haight-Ashbury hippie..."

July 31, 2013 Music Post by Charles Beard

Who Killed Porter Middle School?

The evidence points to George W. Bush. But he wasn't alone.

"...culprit difficult to confirm, and a conviction most difficult of all. It was the AISD board of trustees that..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Westward Ho!

In-progress or proposed developments for near-western Hill Country rise overnight like so many toxic mushrooms

"...Enjoy the wide-open spaces west of Austin while you can – before the creeks turn..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...In January of 1999, when the Senate was gearing up to try..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Luv Doc: Critical, Urgent Texts

Confession: The Luv Doc hates texting

"...I have been dating a woman since June of last year. She is a self-employed Realtor, and I..."

March 1, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Headlines

"...Adler and District 3 Council Member Pio Renteria are out of town on city business. Mayor Pro Tem Kathie..."

Aug. 11, 2017 News Feature

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