The Year It All Went Wrong

Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.

"...For proof, look no further than the corner of Guadalupe and Second streets. What's there? Nothing. Well,..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Playback: KINGs and Queens

Kids in a New Groove, Bull McCabe’s bows out, and underground heroes of Austin music

"...14-year-old expressing talent and confidence kids at haughty fine arts schools would kill for. Still, her weekly lessons with..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Hip-Hop on the Verge

Austin finally cemented a scene, but who will break out nationally?

"...Festival – 2008 – Bavu Blakes tucked into a corner booth at Magnolia Cafe on South Congress to discuss..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Sterling Lands' New Mission

Sterling Lands II and the Eastside Social Action Coalition fight for equity in Austin's public schools.

"...Calvary's chapel all the way over to West Sixth Street, where, as the official spokesman for a fledgling Eastside..."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

One Man Talking

In these days of HDTV, IMAX theatres with SurroundSound, and interactive software in 3-D hyper-realism, who wants to listen to one man talking for 90 minutes on a stage? A lot of people, when the man is Steven Tomlinson, award-winning economics lecturer, lay preacher, and Austin's premier monologist, as Wayne Alan Brenner explains.

"...effective; yeah, he has some ready-made crowds among the arts community, the business-school community, even the religious community; but..."

March 31, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Libertarians Say No to Doggett

"...and fumes that could send an adult at the corner to the doctor in a few hours is rational?..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column

Dancing About Architecture

South By Every Which Way

"...`No way, that's gonna be too small for them.'" Street Sounds..."

March 6, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Council Blocks Bloch

Council Rejects Cancer Park to Preserve Greenbelt

"...the eyes of downtown promotion groups like the Downtown Arts Alliance and the Downtown Commission, the proposed one-acre plaza..."

Nov. 15, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

The Desegregation of Austin's Movie Theatres

A history of the stand-in movement

"...Specializing in fine arts and foreign films, the Texas Theatre – now a..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Jordan Buckley

Moving Pictures

Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition

"...Austin continually reinvented itself in the intervening years – artsy tech hub, urban living exemplar, official "live music capital..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sons of Austin

Murph and Ben Willcott develop a new paradigm for the next generation of a beloved family business

"...except for the 1939-vintage neighborhood grocery building at the corner of 29th and Rio Grande that had achieved Seventies..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Making of an Endorsement

"...doesn't just protect small, locally owned businesses, but existing Wal-Marts too...."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Off the Record

It's the end of the world as we know it: South by Southwest 22 officially begins

"...streaming continuous coverage from the parking lot on the corner of Seventh Street and Red River...."

March 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...of Cali duo Giant Drag saturates on latest LP Hearts and Unicorns, from the dronetastic pomp of "Kevin Is..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Family Flight

Will AISD abandon its shrinking schools?

"...When school lets out at Becker Elementary, West Milton Street fills with parents who collect youngsters, exchange greetings, and..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...St. James Episcopal Church, 3707 E. MLK. See our Arts section.Austin Stories• It's official: Johnston High School is one..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

TCB

Welcome to Deadwood: Sorting SXSW's cocksuckers from the hoopleheads

"...occasionally even lucrative as the medical, judicial, or mercantile arts, Austin basks in a vigorous creative spirit fueled by..."

March 18, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...the drums. If you missed their appearance on Conan's corner, this one's a must-see. (La Zona Rosa, 8pm) --..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

TV Eye

The TNT action-adventure show Witchblade strikes out with its Groundhog Day-like season premiere, while HBO hits another one out of the park with cop drama The Wire.

"...I've never been much of a fan since Hill Street Blues, but HBO's The Wire may bring me back..."

June 14, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Automat

Mediterranean/Middle Eastern

"...2901-B Medical Arts, 495-9228 Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm; Sat, 11am-5pm 906 Congress, 476-7735 Mon-Fri,..."

July 23, 1999 Food Feature

Into the Pink

Interview With Filmmaker and Novelist Gus Van Sant

"...as a cast of characters with thinly veiled real-life counterparts...."

Feb. 20, 1998 Screens Feature by Sid Moody

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...on display here occasionally parallel those in Hark's martial arts films. The casting of his regular kung-fu actors only..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Snapshot: Haircuts for Homeless

How barber Roger Lopez and a small group of dedicated volunteers pay it forward

"...brought his barber kit and a chair to the corner of E. Seventh Street and N. I-35, underneath the..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

Half Price Books: Where Rare Is Well Done

Does the rare books room at Austin’s North Lamar location owe its success to alchemy?

"...of true-crime novels, the bins of vintage vinyl, the carts of final-bargain merch. And surely there's some kind of..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

MondoCon Heads Downtown

Pop culture print gathering to occupy Statesman space

"...Entering its fourth year, MondoCon is part of the..."

April 6, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

Wolfmueller's Books in Kerrville carries a large selection of first editions and hard-to-find regional titles

"...years ago in the historic Pampell building at the corner of TX 16 and Water Street. For years the..."

June 22, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Tomorrow, the World

Craig Hella Johnson's company of voices has long been world-class; now the world is hearing it

"...the country chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts to host a choral festival as part of its..."

June 20, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Object Lesson

In Sherry Kramer's new play, things that are ordinary become magical: flowers, Barbies, even the writer herself

"...childhood memories, and she's bringing flowers to a particular corner in the cemetery, where her mother is buried and..."

May 16, 2008 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

That Was Then; This Is Now

The latest version of 'New Art in Austin' shows how much has changed in three years

"...pigeons in the park, it is pitiable. The Sesame Street-style of the work is strengthened by the resemblance of..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Salvador Castillo

The Game Is All

We catch up with some major players in Austin's gaming universe

"...a new office, then a small place on 12th Street, a house off Rio Grande, and finally a Congress..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Screens Feature by N. Evan Van Zelfden

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