Pressure Rising at the Water Utility

One manager forced out, another accused of harassment ... who's watching the valves?

"...On April 6, Perwez Moheet, deputy director of the Austin Water Utility, announced his retirement. It wasn't exactly..."

May 7, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: Whistling for the Train

City says latest bond delay just another stop on the line

"...Well there's two trains running..."

March 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King

The Joseph Stack Manifesto

Reprint of pilot's suicide note

"...The pilot who crashed into the building in North Austin..."

Feb. 18, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Gifts of the Magi

A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts

"...As Dave Steakley works in theatre, Stephen Mills in dance, and Craig Hella Johnson in..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...– a baffled Hank Hill to son, Bobby, in the series finale of King of the Hill..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Twisting in the Wind

Austin Energy is trying to find the right price for renewable energy – but that's much easier said than done

"...troubles selling its latest batch of GreenChoice wind power, the utility announced plans to significantly lower the price, a..."

Aug. 21, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Outside the Bachs

Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing

"...The Killer Bs must be proud of A-Town. The shades..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Turn the Other Cheek

Q&A with guitar virtuoso Kaki King

"...convert, all that charisma and virtuosity endearing audiences around the planet. Kaki King for Undersecretary of State...."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Owls, Hooters & the Devil: Graveyard Part II

Graveyard Part II

"...8pm: That’s what time Graveyard lifts off at Stubb’s on Saturday. The Sword..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

I Served the King of England

The new film from Czech New Wave hero Jirí Menzel presents a whimsical version of 20th century European history.

"...and Harpo Marx but with a self-absorbed indifference to the suffering of others to which none of those old-time..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tony Visconti Part 2 (The Encores)

"...top out at 45 minutes, an hour. Anything going longer demands either a recess or a follow-up, or else..."

June 23, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Mentality of Politics as War

Scott McClellan on his time in the Bush Administration

"...Chronicle: I imagine it's been a bit crazed for the last week...."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Webberville Conundrum

Austin's plans for an eastern landfill hit a little obstacle – the people who live there

"...Back in the early Eighties, Dave and Joann Gunlock bought themselves a..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Posted after the jump is the entire transcript of CNN's Democratic presidential..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Ending Was Only the Beginning

Harry Knowles and others dissect No Country for Old Men's ending.

"...Slate's spirited yearly throwdown, Slate's Movie Club, devotes some time to No Country's last act here and here (Dana..."

Jan. 8, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...The Year 2008 in Film, Culture, Uprising: Speculation This week,..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...The first music piece I ever wrote was on the..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...The night Austin state Sen. Kirk Watson urged the community..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

The Big Squeeze

The writers' strike hits close to home

"...During the 1988 writers' strike, Tim McCanlies got a pilot's license..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Grape Beyond

From Burgundy to Tuscany, the basics on wines one might soon find in Austin

"...Earlier this month, I had the chance to visit a number of French and Italian..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The Master Builder

The impeccable craft and enduring genius of Arthur Miller, as explained by Tony Kushner

"..."Arthur Miller's was a great voice, one of the principal voices, raised in opposition, calling for resistance, offering..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Across the Universe

Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.

"...Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy and T.V. Carpio. If you aren’t fed up..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Advance's Retreat

Is this the end for Cinematexas?

"...fewer star in this year's constellation of fall events. The Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, the experimental festival lauded..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

The New APD Execs (or, Art and Debbie, Sitting in a Tree)

Art Acevdeo unveils his executive team; will the ACLU be on board?

"...A press release from the Austin Police Department Public Information Office announces new APD..."

Aug. 2, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The New Rage

Voxtrot finally conquers the LP

"...Ramesh Srivastava introduces a brand-new song in progress to the rest of the band...."

May 18, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Page Two: All in the Family

Debunking the hippie Mafia theory, and starting to say goodbye to Rollo Banks

"...Sometimes, when you are driving long distances, when time has..."

April 20, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Kingdom of Heaven

Psychedelic pioneer Powell St. John, on the Right Track Now

"...The band's been playing at least an hour, but it..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

When the Bough Breaks

In 1993, the Hyde Park Baptist Child Development Center hired a teacher who proved to be a little 'rough' with the children. Now the church is being sued for ignoring alleged child abuse.

"...a place nearby so she could spend as much time as possible with her son, Parker. The Hyde Park..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Emily Pyle

'The Sporting Life': … or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving to Lose

"...and man of leisure. I am a gentleman.    All the same, I must destroy Happy Jack.    The game is..."

Oct. 25, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

On the Line, Two Shots

The Texas Documentary Tour revisits Steve James' 'Hoop Dreams'

"...Halfway through the seven-year making of Hoop Dreams, director Steve James, as..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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