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

DIY, and So Can I

KLRU's 'Arts in Context' mirrors the the collaboration and can-do of the artists it profiles

"...painting sets in rushed preparation, and warming up to start dangling from the ceiling. For Troncoso, producer and director..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Austin Cider Houses Rule

Is hard cider ready to make a historic comeback?

"...make alcohol, and they'll generally use what's handy. If there's lots of wheat and barley and hops, then beer..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Where the Beards Are

Meet the Austin Facial Hair Club, reality TV's unlikeliest new stars

"..."There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'Fruit'

Short Story Contest: Second place

"...The nurse, your colleague, the nurse, how many are there, all talking at once. This is routine, but not..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Lydia Melby

This Is My Life

LZ Love's reveal: dance music!

"...new album coming out and wants to promote it. There are stories to be told about making it, recording..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Devil's in the LGBTtails

Part 2 of our interview with the Austin History Center on gaying up the archives

"...Daniel Alonzo: Well there's two sides: There's the physical stuff that comes in,..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

South by So Real 2010

Checking in with SXSW's hip-hop head

"...to the third edition of South by So Real, where Bump & Hustle raps with Matt Sonzala, whose AustinSurreal..."

March 15, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Elaine: The Extended Cut

The incomparable Ms. Stritch on humor, happiness, Tennessee, Beckett, and bad directors

"...of that chat appeared in "Elaine Everlasting," Aug. 28. Here's more, in which Stritch talks about getting away with..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...shadow of a doubt some years back. But while there are plenty of places a young person can explore..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Developing Stories

Thinking big on transportation and land-use planning

"...for greater coordination on regional issues. "Across the board, there was a strong sense that linking economic, land use..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Myth Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock's mythic creatures rise from the canvas, with help from Stephen Mills and Graham Reynolds

"...Austin Chronicle: Trenton, you first started drawing this epic of good and evil as a..."

April 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?

Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream

"...with its siblings, it will shake its head and start to get on with its kittenish business. Then it..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...it "The Y": the congested intersection in Oak Hill where Highway 71 branches off from 290 West and heads..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Page Two

Advice for artists, inspired during the whirlwind of SXSW 2005

"...the time to begin, or how they're thinking of starting a band. (I tend not to attract dancers, visual..."

March 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

"...6-foot curb extensions, adorned with crape myrtles. Crews will start work at the northern end of the project near..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I'm writing because I wish there were an organization for Austin like MoveOn.org – something..."

May 28, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...It's good to see that there is at least one publication in Austin that doesn't..."

May 16, 2003 Column

Renaissance (and Baroque) Man

As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.

"...This is a man whose passion is art, and here he is in the midst of a glorious bounty..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dot-bombers

Despite the clouds of layoffs, a virtual silver lining shines for some caught in Austin's online bust.

"...the end, Garden.com laid off staff in stages: 100 here, 50 there, but it wasn't enough to save the..."

March 2, 2001 Features Feature by Carol Brorsen

Flies on the Wall With Attitude

Cinéma vérité pioneer Robert Drew, coming to town this Wednesday for the Texas Documentary Tour, speaks about the films he has made and the film style he helped create.

"...colleagues D.A. Pennebaker and Al Maysles, who were both here last year...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

Readers' last gasps on light rail.

"...would diminish as well. Isn't it time that Austin started constructing a light rail system?..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column

The Road to Rail

Can light rail in Austin work well with Smart Growth?

"...of transportation system will, more than anything else, determine where and how those 2.5 million people breathe, eat, and..."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Out Front

Profile of newly minted solo artist Gurf Morlix

"...hadn't been stood up for the scheduled interview -- there was Morlix, right there in the middle, steadily laying..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

HPBC is on the minds of many this week; Gotham lingers in the shadows.

"...to persuade the Baptist Church to pursue its mission where its current disruptiveness will not intensify to breaking point..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...was getting at with reconciling yourself unto punk rock, where you had that punk rock experience. That's sort of..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hissing Fits

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

"...41st annual Rattlesnake Roundup and Cook-off, Hunter has been here since Tuesday night. The neighbors weren't bothered by the..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer

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Sweep Them Out

"...does take a village -- but it has to start at home! Stop listening to pop psychology and political..."

June 4, 1999 Column

Postmarks

"...on tourism in Austin does not justify businesses to start up just for the fluctuating traffic of conventioneers. Austin..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Column

Weird Bands From Texas

"...drummer King Coffey made his New Year's resolution to start a record label at the cusp of this decade,..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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