Black Fret Wants to Pay You $500 to Play for Workers on Zoom

Nonprofit reimagines the corporate gig in the age of COVID-19

"...longer a realistic marker for American office culture as the COVID-19 health crisis ushers in a work-from-home paradigm shift...."

June 12, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Horror at the beginning, horror at the end: After SXSW Film (March..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Halloween Is Serious Business

Behind the gates at Scream Hollow and the House of Torment

"...year – but Austin's haunted house scene delivers twice the terrors, as the old evil of the House of..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Filmmaker Keith Maitland on Tackling Tower

Innovative doc animates the UT Tower Massacre

"...be shared and shown to truly heal. For decades, the 1966 UT Tower Shooting was a tragedy that Aus­tin..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Psychedelic Acid Trope

Exhibits at the Bullock, Briscoe, and LBJ explore our recall of the Sixties

"...Close your eyes and say it out loud: "The Sixties."..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Peter Hook: Life in a Northern Town

Joy Division/New Order bassist resurrects two classic LPs

"...Manchester to sun-baked Texas. For Peter Hook, source of the driving and defining bass lines of Joy Division and..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

This Old House

Sam Houston and the historic jigsaw puzzle of Boggy Creek Farm

"...Many of the people who shop at the biweekly Boggy Creek farm..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Iraq Comes Home

Wounded Warriors return to the Thin Blue Line

"...combat in a nearby neighborhood, two officers cautiously approached the scene. As they came in sight, one of the..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Gets Spirited Away

Taste-testing Texas liquors against the world

"...There's a new trend in the Texas adult-beverage business: liquor...."

Dec. 28, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

What's in a Face?

A lot, Mike Woolf discovered while making his short doc 'Growin' a Beard' -- and especially If the face Has got whiskers on the chin and Jowls

"...At the end of the Shamrockers' dirgelike track "Hangman Drums," Kevin..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by James McWilliams

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...not working, but that has never been true of the Texas Film Commission. It's such good industry, filmmaking, because..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Interactive Festival

As a keynote guest at SXSW Interactive 2001, Scott McCloud discussed his pioneering efforts to explode the form and expand the audience through online comics.

"...Scott McCloud: Bridging the Gap Between Art and Technology..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Corridor Conundrum

The Truth Is Out There on the Highway

"...really one? And if so, what region are we? These questions got asked, more than once, at the May..."

May 8, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin's Active Shelf Life

Can Our Public Library Keep Up the Pace?

"...need it, shrug when its funding gets deferred to the cops and tax breaks, and then castigate it when..."

Sept. 20, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Abracadabra

Steve Miller brings the magic at Texas Medal of Arts

"...to sing for his supper, so to speak, at the 2013 Texas Medal of Arts awards Tuesday night. The..."

March 6, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

From Penitentiaries to Picture Shows

Spiderwood Studios founder Tommy Warren follows the dream

"..."We're going to have a big sign up there." Tommy Warren points across a room smelling of fresh..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Beware: Bigfoot Ahead

The homegrown horror of The Wild Man of Navidad

"...The novice in search of enlightenment studies at the feet..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Sugar, Sugar

Smacking bubblegum to the beat

"...This American Beat series from last year languished under a stack of poorly sorted CDs..."

Aug. 11, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Women on Top

The risks and rewards of being a woman in Austin's high tech world

"...Few women would mistake the high tech industry, circa 2000, for the business world..."

Nov. 24, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Bad Dog

When we see a dog running free, why are we frightened? Longtime Austinite Paula James meditates on the effect that fear of the natural world has had on us.

"...I step out of my car and swing open the back door, releasing my mutt to race across the..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Paula James

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions (Blue Note)..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Day Trips

Get your kicks on -- that's right -- Route 66.

"...Route 66 turns 75 this year. Though the most famous highway in the world slipped from official..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...on a two-acre spread he had inherited from his mother in neighboring Milam County. With pockets of rich black..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Countdown, 2001

"..."How can we best assure in our efforts, that the 21st Century will be improved over the 20th?"..."

March 14, 1997 Column

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

What I Want to do With My Life

Mike Krusee on New Urbanism, Smart Growth, toll roads, and why Bobby Kennedy is his hero

"...The following is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Day Trips

Nichol's Landing Paddling Trail lends access to the many swimming, paddling, and water-related delights of the Upper Guadalupe River

"...Landing Paddling Trail opens access to a stretch of the Upper Guadalupe River lined with giant bald cypress trees..."

May 16, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...The back cover blurb from Entertainment Weekly enthuses: "Expect revelations..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Not Necessarily Stoned but Beautiful

Are you experienced? The answer lies in Sony Legacy's new Jimi Hendrix reissues.

"...First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1997)..."

May 14, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Pondering Downtown Condos

Frequently Asked Questions

"...Isn't the Austin condo market overbuilt?..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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