Overlooked, Overheard Lets Us Hear the Sound of the City's Money Being Spent

Composer and audio artist Douglas Laustsen geo-tagged sites in the Govalle and Highland neighborhoods where local government's been at work

"...Your tax dollars at work: What do they sound like? All the myriad tasks of maintenance and..."

June 11, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Some Kind of Troll Inside Domy Books

Yes, some kind of hideous, godforsaken troll

"...Don't even get us started on the ridiculous amount of graphic brilliance in that store, or..."

July 6, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Q&A Hole: What’s the Worst Thing About Austin, Texas?

With Jen Cash, Sam Eidson, Shannon McCormick, Matt Oztalay, and more.

"...Yes, we did say, at the start of the question, besides the traffic...."

Oct. 11, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Whiplash Rulings Leave Us in Suspense Over SB 4: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gave Texas permission to..."

March 22, 2024 News Feature

Beside the Point: Planning What's Affordable

The Downtown Austin Plan comes lumbering toward its official adoption

"...Sitting in for City Hall Hustle (currently enjoying his no doubt idyllic honeymoon)..."

Nov. 11, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Public Notice: Troll Wars

A social media bullying story

"...Steven Crowder came to Austin recently, and went behind the counter at a local eatery to physically confront a..."

July 27, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Magdalena Jarkowiec's Us Kids Are Alone in the House

The Austin-based choreographer is home alone with her soft-sculpture mutants

"...humanlike figures, body parts, and a television. Resting in the middle of one table, next to the iron, is..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Fantastic Fest Review: We Are the Flesh

Visceral horror probes the necessity of morals

"...Few terms are so ill-interchanged as immoral and amoral. The former takes glee in transgression, the latter refutes the..."

Sept. 24, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Interview: The Chicks’ Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer Talk Social Media, Hometown Feelings, and Plans for a Multigenerational Zilker Debut

“It’s always fun, but nerve-racking, to be back in Texas”

"...The mystery of the missing Texas dates on the Chicks'..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Send a Card for Girlfriend's Day

Director talks Bob Odenkirk's Netflix crime comedy

"...corporate intrigue, furniture sales, reformed Nazis, new holidays, and the perfect greeting card...."

Feb. 21, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

"...and everybody else's. Broomfield, who three years ago directed the startling documentary Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...Are Texas state troopers damaging the economy of a small town near the border? Eloy..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Who Owns Sixth Street

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

"...midnight on any given weekend, Sixth Street swarms with the seemingly random activity of an anthill. Bouncers barking on..."

May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Rock en Tijuana

The border city of Tijuana gives birth to the bastard genre of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec.

"...Mogt and Ramon Bostich peer through a hole in the high metal wall that divides their city, Tijuana, from..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

SXSW Music: Second List

243 + 171 = as many acts as the last two ATX fests combined

"...now stands less than 120 days away, so expect the announcements to roll out on a regular basis from..."

Nov. 18, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Austin @ Large: Austin At Large: Backseat Driver

Karen Rae resigns from Cap Metro

"...three weeks' notice when moving on. Any less, and the organization will still be in shock when you leave...."

Feb. 1, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Hugo Rising

The nominees for science fiction's best novel of 2013 find a new guard challenging the old

"...This week, the future is in San Antonio...."

Aug. 30, 2013 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Council on Cargill: Not Today

Dais rejects Houston nominee for Bond Election Advisory Task Force

"...of a colleague’s nominee for an appointed commission seat, City Council nixed District 1 Council Member Ora Houston’s nomination..."

June 9, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Bedside Manner: Sharing Shelf Space

My parents' Kindle library and me

"...a lot of resistance (read: self-righteous, swoony monologues about the tactile superiority of bound books), I’ve become a convert..."

June 22, 2016 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Qmmunity: Scorpio Season

For the Qmmunity editor's birthday, have an extra helping of queer events with yer slice of b-day cake

"...my family. Last week was my dad's and his mother's birthdays, and two weeks before that were my mom's..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Column by James Scott

More Than You Bargained For

Would you want to earn $13 an hour -- less than your peer?

"...on my column today about bargaining rights for rank-and-file city employees, there's a pretty funny comment buried in the..."

March 1, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...We had a little bit of the Christmas morning feeling when the complete lineup for the..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Enchanted

Romance, dry satire, and musical comedy blend in this new Disney film, which stars a delightful Amy Adams.

"...Rachel Covey and Idina Menzel. It’s difficult to describe the mixture of romance, dry satire, and musical comedy that..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Whatever

"...rich narrative subject matter at least as old as the movies. It's hard to add much that's new to..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Desolation Angel

Ana Lily Amirpour on the cult of cinema

"...There's a timeless, otherworldly image in director Ana Lily Amirpour's..."

June 26, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Saturday SXSW Showcases

"...year, and paces a representative roots-rock lineup to mark the occasion. A. Sinclair begins, the Austinites stepping out from..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Election News

Does this campaign chest make me look fat?

"...to see just how flush – or flat – their campaigns are as they head into the final stretch...."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

More Summer Fireworks at ACTV

A half-year after a city-led investigation began into missing money at ACTV, no answers are forthcoming. In the manner of many of the colorful programs and personalities that populate the public access airwaves, conspiracy theories abound – and not solely over the missing funds.

"...10, 11, or 16 – not that you'll hear the answers, but nobody else is talking...."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

A slow summer news week means we get to take some well-deserved potshots.

"...Summer's here, and the time is right for ... slapping some of the..."

July 11, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Council Member Lyda maintains his vivid imagination accusing The Austin Chronicle of being one-sided in their coverage of..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column

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