Day Trips: Buffalo Bayou Cistern, Houston

Cistern Illuminated sends a tsunami of light through the former underground drinking water reservoir

"...The Buffalo Bayou Cistern in Houston has done it again,..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Steve Stockman Enters Senate Race

Says Cornyn is too soft on Obamacare

"...Despite the particularly Texan compulsion to spin a good yarn, the..."

Dec. 10, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Space Odyssey

Planet U2 touches down in Houston

"...The towering, extraterrestrial space station that landed in the middle..."

Oct. 15, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Will Courtney: Simple Man

Brothers and Sisters' Will Courtney talks California dreaming.

"...Will Courtney was born into the music business, literally. His mother, Grammy award-winning gospel singer..."

July 5, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Pre-Eminent Local Producer Danny Reisch Moves South to Lockhart

The challenge as he moves is to maintain the same creative space and energy

"...Danny Reisch spins his chair away from the production console in his living room and leans back..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Hell on Wheels ... and Weed

Bob Ray takes the show on the road

"...Berkeley, Calif., and Bob Ray, fresh and rested after the previous night's four-hour drive down from Chico, is admiring..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wasted Days, Wasted Nights

The night in 1974 when Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender to Soap Creek to play

"...And then there was the night Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Silver Lining

The Octopus Project's Avalanche instrumentalism

"...Stepping into the Octopus Project's rehearsal space at the Echo Lab in..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

New Data Shows Slightly Fewer Unhoused Austinites

Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) releases new report

"...Responding to calls for updated data, the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) released a report today..."

May 21, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

A Grant to End Youth Homelessness

HUD will provide $5.2 million to the city

"...The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Counting Austin's Homeless

Austin nonprofit will contribute to nationwide count

"...most specifically those who will be sleeping outside in the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 24...."

Dec. 30, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Homeless Count Scheduled for Jan. 23

Count will be used to help understand the nature and extent of homelessness

"...To determine the total number and the characteristics of Austin's homeless population,..."

Jan. 15, 2016 News Feature by Makeda Easter

David Crosby: Remember My Name

The most hated man in folk rock on his career in bridge-burning

"...There’s something about people who announce to you at the..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Front Steps Slips and Falls

As the nonprofit that runs the ARCH falls apart, the city's rush to replace it frustrates providers

"...The staff members employed by Front Steps – the nonprofit..."

July 29, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Ann Howard Kicks Off Commissioner Campaign

ECHO director hosts first event in Precinct 3

"...The 2020 party primaries may be a year away, but..."

March 25, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Quinceañera

Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.

"...furniture, and a bungalow in Los Angeles' rapidly gentrifying Echo Park neighborhood. Carlos (Garcia) is the pothead cholo –..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Council OK's Motel Purchase to Help Homeless

Also on the dais: parks, trains, trails, diapers

"...approved unanimously on Thursday, Nov. 14, $8 million for the purchase and renovation of the Rodeway Inn at Oltorf..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Naked City

City rolls out its ambitious 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness

"...On a brisk, wind-bitten Dec. 10 in downtown Austin, the Community Action Network's Homeless Task Force, in conjunction with..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Austin Looks for Routes Out of Its Homelessness Crisis

Under pressure, the city experiments with fast and sustainable strategies

"...For more than a year, the city of Austin, its social service partners, and primary..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Terror Fest Album Reviews

Seven platters spanning the spectrum of extremity

"...Pact throws bolts, rolls thunder, and growls menacingly as they drive stream-of-consciousness riffs toward undeviating devastation. On occasion, after..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

People Experiencing Homelessness Are More Visible Than Ever. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Being Counted.

What it was like on the ground for this year’s Point in Time Count

"...When I talked to the experts who help people exit homelessness in advance of..."

Jan. 31, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Time and Tide

"...and Tide marks a return to form for Tsui, “the Roger Corman of Hong Kong filmmaking,” who spent the..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City Ends Contract With Operator of Austin's Downtown Homeless Shelter

Front Steps has run the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless since 2004

"...The city of Austin is cutting ties with Front Steps,..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

ProLodges Saves and Changes Some of Austin's Most Vulnerable Lives

Can the city keep them open?

"...When Alejandro Hernandez moved into the motel room provided for him this summer, he was..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

A Dem Sweep in Travis County Commissioners Court?

Four vie for a shot at Commissioners Court's last red seat

"...Four Democrats are hoping for the chance to flip the lone GOP-held seat on the..."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Patriots Day

The hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers

"...Yang, Michael Beach, Christopher O’Shea, Rachel Brosnahan, Jake Picking, Themo Melikidze, Alex Wolff, Melissa Benoist and Khandi Alexander...."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reign Over Me

This Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle film is often disjointed and needlessly sentimental, though the film's whole often compensates for its sketchy parts.

"...Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Robert Klein and Melinda Dillon. “Only love can bring..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heaven up Here

27 reason to further investigate the UK roster of bands at SXSW 2006

"...Despite frequent appearances to the contrary, the United Kingdom remains a monarchy, and nowhere..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Catch Me If You Can

The film is based on the autobiography by Frank Abagnale Jr., who at the tender age of 17 led the FBI and various other law enforcement agencies on a giddy global romp while he kited, forged, and manufactured checks over a four-year period.

"...Brolin. From its opening, Saul Bass-inspired title sequence to the final bouncy rhythms of John Williams' kicky Sixties score,..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scratch

"...Pray's previous music doc -- 1996's Hype! -- chronicled the rise and fall of the Seattle grunge scene; by..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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