Plays Well With Others

Why Michelle Schumann is meant to be running the Austin Chamber Music Center

"...purpose flowing straight from the core of her being. Where ACMC is concerned, she just gets it...."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...Just to prove the world was here...."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...in this highest of high tech cinema savvy cities, where virtually every other person you pass on Congress Avenue..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Meet the New Bosses

Long Center director Cliff Redd and ALO director Richard Buckley compare notes on leading an arts institution, the challenges they face, and being new to Austin

"...an institution in a city that's new to you, where you don't know the lay of the land (or..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

North Central Blues

APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods

"...once. Two rows of apartments surround a concrete courtyard, where a small boy is playing with a twisted and..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Sen. Wentworth does not specify the "slander" he describes, here is the passage he apparently objects to:..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...4) The commissioners established Truancy Courts, where the parents of children who miss too many days..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...glass door into the living room. Inside, a shutter somewhere, loosened to the elements, sounds insistently against the chalet...."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...Jody Denberg: The Chronicle had these annual parties where they'd rent these houses out by that lake, and..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...most monumental theatrical projects of the year. And yet, here they are. In the shadow of the Rocky Mountains,..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Getting the Joke

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

"...places objective value on a highly subjective performance. Is there any way to fairly and accurately assess the intangible..."

June 30, 2000 Arts Feature

All the World SA Stage

The Debut of the International Theater Festival at San Antonio

"...provocative interactive theatre. Is it? What's going on down there?..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Whenever We're Opened

Mortician-for-a-night, Wayne Alan Brenner ponders life as he faces death.

"...to browse the paperbacks while waiting for movies to start at the mall's theatre. And we got into a..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Living in a Dream

Too Many Ways to Fall

"...Layton: After we signed to Geffen, we immediately started putting together material and playing as often as we..."

May 14, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

How the West Was Sung

The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History

"...help us out?" The contact was made and I started making some tapes...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Sculpting a School

David Deming on the Art of Being a Dean

"...smoothing a paper atop his desk. They're never just there; they're always engaged -- doing something, touching something. They..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sitting Down With Your Senator

Sarah Eckhardt goes deep on democracy, womanhood, and our era

"...you’ll find the office of state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, where people dress more casually and colorfully...."

April 11, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

The Ethics of Playing God in Meanwhile on Earth

Director Jérémy Clapin explores the bleak choices society makes

"...mission went wrong. However, that's when an alien voice starts speaking to her and offering her a deal: provide..."

Nov. 8, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Having a Plan for When Shit Hits the Fan: A Journey in Prepping

What disaster preparedness experts have to say about best-laid plans for worst-case scenarios

"...Texas alert system. I also received a free preparedness starter kit, containing an LED flashlight, emergency blanket, glow stick,..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Beyond the Picket Lines: SAG, WGA, and the Austin Industry

Local film professionals explain how they're navigating the strike

"...of everyone working in film, TV, and commercials. First there was March 13, 2020, when all productions shut down..."

Aug. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hundreds Die-In at Texas Capitol to Demand Movement on Overdose Crisis

Legalizing fentanyl test strips is only step one, advocates say

"...I don't have access to health care, so I start self-medicating, then I get addicted. Then I do things..."

Feb. 20, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Taste of Ethiopia’s Owner Woinee Mariam Shares Her Story

And her recipe for red lentil stew

"...takeout and delivery, says in June sales were finally starting to pick back up after the first wave of..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Interview with JNL Barbecue Pitmaster: “A Lot of Fire and A Lot of Meat”

Former Franklin BBQ cook opens his own trailer at Buzz Mill Shady

"...come. We sat down to chat about continuing traditions, starting new ones, and what it takes to open a..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Food Post by Rod Machen

Central Texas Lawmakers Speak Out About the 86th Legislative Session

Interviews with the team representing 2.1 million Austin metro residents

"...KW: If you start looking at something like the compression of the tax..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

The Definitive Guide to Faking It as a Tech Entrepreneur at SXSW

How to win food and influence barmen

"...it. At SXSW music functions, you'll be lucky if there are even any Frito pies or Keystone Light left..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Johnny Holden

A New Generation Opens Up to Global Cuisine

Local tastemakers think outside America's borders

"...much of that journey, but he does vividly remember starting life in Austin as a third grader once his..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Playback: Austin's Music Tech Movement

Can techies solve the problems facing Austin music?

"...As a child, I remember envisioning a future where humans traveled in driverless cars. I was certain then..."

June 10, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Manufacturing Innovation

Will the next big thing be a product of inspiration, perspiration, or just dumb luck?

"...Among the panels at this year's SXSW Interactive, there are roughly 40 with some iteration of the word..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Cold Sweat

Where have all our black clubs gone?

"...the Airport Club & Grill. He remembers the scene there, a predominantly black crowd gathering for the watering hole's..."

June 13, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...University downtown. Man, was it cool, because everything was there. We were down the street and around the corner..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

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