Faster Than Sound's Musical Top 10s of 2020

Eleven lists of Austin's best releases, theme songs, livestreams, creative pivots and more.

"...1) (Tie) Fine Southern Gentlemen's Austin Will Survive & Raw Paw's Drop Ship..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Murder in the Suburbs

Good Luck Penny

"...their father's many wholesaling ventures. Her parents were also Southern Baptists and the family attended church together three times..."

Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Of Family Heirlooms and Industrial Films

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image preserves the state's cinematic roads less traveled

"...The Texas Film Commission is turning 40 this week...."

May 27, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

City Manager Finalists Named: All Outsiders (Updated)

Jelynne Burley, Marc Ott named

"...and City Council Select Finalists for City Manager AUSTIN, Texas. (January 10, 2008) - Mayor Will Wynn announced today..."

Jan. 10, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Call and Answer

It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.

"...illusion that the world begins and ends in Austin, Texas. Finally, there is yet another explicit literary and political..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Upcoming ...

We survey the landscape of upcoming literary events and author appearances.

"...If you're waiting like a saint for the Texas Book Festival -- with the likes of Michael Lind,..."

July 19, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Top Ten Art

The Best Art Shows in 1997 That I Never Reviewed

"...video components but also the opportunity afforded by the university to meet most of the artists during the course..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Arts Feature

The Voice of the Writer

Readings From the Texas Book Festival

"...Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana opened the 1997 Texas Book Festival with a session in the Capitol's House..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Books Feature

Total Honesty

Fred Sanders

"...Though he had offers from Northwestern University and Berklee School of Music in Boston, Sanders decided..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Longhorns and Bobcats Dream of Coaching Knights in Shining Armor

Greg Davis out as UT offensive coordinator

"...to know the future of the new and improved University of Texas football program? Look to Texas State...."

Dec. 8, 2010 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Environmental Cage Match

After a history of pulling its punches, is EPA finally forcing TCEQ to clean up the Texas air?

"...to move here last year for an unusual reason: Texas' horrendous air pollution problem. A nationally respected Sierra Club..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Price of Innocence

Law school innocence projects survive budget cuts – for now

"...According to the House draft budget, the schools – University of Texas, Texas Tech, Texas Southern, and the University..."

Jan. 26, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Guneez Ibrahim Discusses Diversity, Leadership at Saturday’s TEDxUTAustin

"Diversity is often used as a checkmark, a quota"

"...(April 6), the TEDxUTAustin team sought speakers at the University of Texas to address sustainability and innovation, including senior..."

April 4, 2019 News Post by Alex Puente

Panel Finds 'Serious Flaws' in SBOE-Backed Social Studies Textbooks

Independent reviewers find more than a dozen factual distortions

"...An independent review of Texas social studies textbooks reveals distortions of history on topics..."

Sept. 10, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...O'Brien has served on the faculty of Texas State University in San Marcos' master of fine arts..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

Aggies Get Back on the Horse

Texas A&M resets with easy win over SMU

"...after their high scoring and memorable loss to Alabama, Texas A&M looked forward to a comfortable victory while hoping..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Sports Post by Rod Machen

Back to School

How to choose a college

"...The University of Texas was the only school I applied to...."

Aug. 24, 2012 Music Post by Luke Winkie

The Road Is Long

Michael Ventura's many winding turns

"...were originally published in The Austin Chronicle. Released by Texas Tech University Press, the book is punctuated with photographs..."

April 22, 2011 Books Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Secret History

That a man from San Antonio named Richard Santos has as much to add to the world of Jewish intellectual pursuits as an attorney named Rosen is as fascinating as it should be obvious, David Garza writes after he attended the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual gathering. For the first time, perhaps, an entirely constructive revision may be taking place in the history of those we call the "people of the Book."

"...ribald with the history of Catholic clerics at the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual conference may not be..."

May 11, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

Threadgill’s Old No. 1 Closes Permanently

Pandemic closes a part of Austin history

"...Threadgill’s, the Southern-fried eatery that’s long existed as a paragon of old..."

April 20, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Think the Ghost of George Wallace Is Long Gone? Think Again

Revisiting Paul Stekler's 'Settin' the Woods on Fire'

"...In an op-ed published in today's Statesman, filmmaker and University of Texas professor Paul Stekler explains the influence of..."

Oct. 7, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Steplings: A Novel

Kids prove better at adapting than parents when they run away from home

"...Steplingsby C.W. Smith Texas Christian University Press, 272 pp., $32.95..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Books Review by James Renovitch

Day Trips

The American Wind Power Center has one of the largest collections of windmills in the world

"...By the mid-Sixties, Billie Wolfe, a faculty member of Texas Tech University began noticing the decline of the windmills..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

News/Print

Talk amongst yourselves.

"...we profiled recently upon his February visit to Southwest Texas State University (see "Southern Destroyer"), has accepted the school's..."

March 7, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

The Hottest Commodity

Once green with envy, Texas now joins New Mexico in championing the chile … just in time for the 12th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival!

"...20,000 acres from Hatch to Las Cruces in the southern counties of Luna and Doña Ana, said David Lucero..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Food Feature by Sandy Szwarc

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...dryopid beetle, and Peck's cave amphipod. Scientists at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos have studied the species..."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Feature

'Undergrads: South' Debuts at Digital Domain

James Franco web series to chronicle life on UT campus

"...new media maven is fixing his attentions on the University of Texas...."

March 10, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters @ 3AM

Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"

"...Let us consider Lubbock, Texas...."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

New Fest

Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria this year.

"...the September 11 attacks, the executive committee of the Texas Book Festival had to decide what should be done..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Workers of the World, United in Time

UT Lecturer Anne Lewis on her new doc, A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas)

"...her new film A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas) is the first to explore labor in the Lone..."

May 4, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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