Here Comes the Train

Can city staff, citizens, and neighborhoods realize – and build – a more livable city?

"...Standing at the end of Rutledge Spur Road at the far northern..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Long Incubation of the Incubus

Playwright David Hancock and director Vicky Boone reveal how they developed the play The Incubus Archives over six years, through 11 sometimes radically different versions.

"...A play ain't Athena. It doesn't spring full-grown from the brow of its..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Making a Front Porch for the City

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

"...Just over two years ago, the Austin Museum of Art selected an architect to design..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cum On Feel the Noize

The New Dessau Music Hall

"...George Devore photograph by John Carrico The Dessau Music Hall used to stand in the middle..."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Flinging the R-Word

Angry Crowd Calls Council and Enviros Racists

"...at least one thing: Last week's council meeting was the most inflammatory display of community venom in recent memory...."

May 16, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

A Man of the Theatre

Memories of Capitol City Playhouse's Michel Jaroschy

"...Michel Jaroschy touched the lives of just about everyone in the Austin theatre..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Arts Feature

What the Drafthouse Has Been Up To, From A to Z

Tim League breaks down what's happening with everything Drafthouse-related that's not a cinema

"...Alamo on Demand: The VOD platform launched solely as a response to the..."

July 2, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...What do the creator of the 10,000 hour rule, a Supreme Court..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Into the Woods With Fede Alvarez

Director talks rebuilding Lisbeth Salander as a fairy tale

"...No one would ever confuse Lisbeth Salander, the eponymous girl with the dragon tattoo of the successful..."

Nov. 8, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Friday ACL Fest Face-Off: The xx vs. Jay-Z

Compare the headliners!

"...Photo by Gary Miller..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...readers, your wait to learn who will be attending the literary banquet of the year is over. The Texas..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Page Two: It's the Time of the Season for Absolute Moral Certainty

The "Anybody but Hillary" movement makes strange bedfellows of the progressive left and the hard right

"...more a given that Bernie Sanders will not receive the nomination, though many of his followers still believe it..."

July 22, 2016 Column by Louis Black

The Winter Soldier Is Coming

Wizard World bringing Captain America star to Austin

"...Sebastian Stan is most famous as Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, the brooding, formerly brainwashed superspy from the..."

April 5, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zak Starkey Ignites the Who

Frank Erwin Center career overview transcends

"...son of Richard Starkey, Jr. – has now powered the Who even longer than Keith Moon, his godfather. (That’s..."

April 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Next New Neighborhood

City and residents plan a sustainable Colony Park

"...yellow T-shirts and carrying clipboards, three UT students approached the house on Colony Loop Drive and knocked. A woman..."

April 4, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Perry the Executioner

Texas leads the country in executions, and Rick Perry holds the record tally

"...Keith Hampton still had not heard a word from the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Time was of the..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Road Against Hate

The Hurtado murders measure the distance Austin and Texas must travel

"...The doorbell rang just before 7pm on April 18...."

May 6, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Seasons in the Abyss

Pixies, Rush, Megadeth, and Slayer: the return of the album.

"...Like the novel, the album’s not dead. It simply hails from..."

Sept. 29, 2010 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Over Their Dead Bodies

The Texas Rangers want to expand – the dead will just have to move

"...In Texas, property and development rights trump even the dead. Sure, state Health and Safety Code says you..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Comedy Is Not the Enemy of Seriousness

Author-activist Robert Newman at the Drafthouse

"...more than most: political activist, comedian, and writer of the new The Fountain at the Center of the World..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

When the Long Night Comes

"..."When the longnight comes, return to the end of the beginning."..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

One of the Great Ones

"...The tall pine bookcases take up the entire west wall..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...Like God and the Devil, - - writer Donald E. Westlake has many..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Blessed Are the Buttholes

Austin's 1996 in Review

"...January: It sounds funny to say that the first great show of the year was a funeral..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

"...Home Alone meets Bill and Ted`s Excellent Adventure and then visits Working Girl – none of it works. The..."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Vel Nine, Sam Dimov Quintet, Rococo Disco, and more recommended shows

"...Austin's Ben Buck first invited Southern California's Vel Nine for a Texas Two-Step tour in..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Disko Cowboy Discusses the Cross-Cultural Vision of Vinyl Ranch

"It's kind of like a pop culture blender of analog culture and postmodern memes."

"...If you’re standing dead center in Zilker Park during Friday night’s ACL Fest,..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

"Sylvia Benitez: Recalling Memory / The Interior Lay"

The paintings in this solo exhibition depict a place where landscapes are, more than anything, a Texas state of mind

"...It all happens in our heads anyway, the scientists tell us. Which means that even the most..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pair of Deaths at the County Jail

TCSO believes both men died "of natural causes"

"...The Travis County Sheriff’s Office, Medical Examiner, and the Texas..."

April 2, 2018 News Post by Nina Hernandez

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