Austin Playwright-Performer Provides a New Kind of Documentation in (Un)Documents

In an award-winning solo show, Jesús I. Valles sits down, alone with family

"...Paper, what is it good for? Absolutely everything. And nothing at all...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Arts Feature by Beth Sullivan

The Personal Stories Behind Ben Is Back

Writer/director Peter Hedges on family, alcoholism, and going home

"..."I grew up in a family riddled with alcoholism. My mother was an active alcoholic, and left the family..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Affordable Housing & the Promised Land

Proposition A and Austin's affordability predicament

"...ago, "but nobody wants to die." I think of that line often when I hear Austinites talking about "affordable..."

Oct. 5, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Ngozi Ukazu Hip-Checks This Year’s Staple! Expo

Local artist brings a hockey team’s worth of wit & bro-centric warmth

"...the sports allusions up there, yeah – but it’s not to be helped, citizen...."

Sept. 5, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Titmouse That Roared

Chris Prynoski on Venture Bros., tech, and more

"...If you're ever looking for Chris Prynoski, he's not hard to spot. Just look for..."

Aug. 12, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Restaurant Review: Home Slice Pizza – North Loop

The classic local hot spot serves up its New York-style slices on North Loop

"...booby traps, if there's one solid takeaway from Kevin McCallister's experiences in Home Alone, it's his pizza preferences: "A..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Point Austin: Loaded Dice

If we can't pull together on climate change, we face an unlivable future

"...If you aren't too hot to read, this is probably a good moment to contemplate some research..."

July 27, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Purging the Commissioners

If you can't win the argument, blow up the process

"...When is an architect like a sexual predator?..."

May 18, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Public Notice: Austin Saves CodeNEXT Saves Austin

City forges "grand compromise" on land use regulations

"...going to write an April Fools' column about how this great breakthrough had occurred on CodeNEXT, and someone had..."

March 30, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

New PBS Documentary Uses Austin Photographer to Explore Death

What we (don’t) talk about when we (don’t) talk about death

"...was wrong. In 1789, he famously wrote to French physicist Jean-Baptiste Leroy, "in this world nothing can be said..."

March 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Problem With K2, Downtown Austin’s Most Dangerous Drug

APD cannot depend on big busts alone to solve the problem

"...by Southwest, the city's public safety entities began to notice a disconcerting surge in bad reactions to the drug..."

March 16, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Austin Free-Net to Be Replaced?

California company slated to replace local digital literacy org

"...of supporting the local community through digital literacy training that her organization, Austin Free-Net, would be losing its city..."

March 2, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend

Theatre, graphic glory, steamrollering, coffee, and the ol' brown box

"...city. Experience something more than the familiar cushions of that couch and the pressure gravity imparts upon your sitting..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: The Heroic Legacy of Martin Luther King

In a dark time, looking to King's example for inspiration

"...from the Trump White House was particularly shameful, in that it happened within a few days of our annual..."

Jan. 19, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Top 10 Austin Breweries

Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer

"...It's not a deliberate choice, but Texas is a bad state..."

June 23, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Getting to Oz Through Austin Arts

Area arts events make a Yellow Brick Road to The Wizard of Oz in Zilker Park

"...Summer is the season of travel, of leaving your humdrum, gray..."

May 19, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

John Hughes Film Series at Moviehouse This March

Round Rock theatre screens the maestro of teen movies' greatest hits

"...Boys. If the self-image of any band of teenage misfits was put onscreen, River's Edge would be the result...."

Feb. 27, 2017 Screens Post by Dougie Gerrard

Austin Chefs Share Their Holiday Traditions

Try something completely different this year

"...Christmas and Chanukah are right around the corner, and once..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Playback: Austin Week in Angers, France

Kevin Curtin runs into more than a handful of musical Austinites on the other side of the globe

"...gone. The dignitaries – a cavalcade of 50 musicians, artists, chefs, radio deejays, two-step instructors, yogis, mixologists, and journalists..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...Austin Film Society released the projects they are funding this year, as part of their AFS Grant program...."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Point Austin: Somebody Else's Job

Where does the school finance ruling leave 5 million Texas students?

"...It's difficult to be surprised by last week's decision by the Texas Supreme Court..."

May 20, 2016 News Column by Michael King

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016

These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example

"...That the vitality of Austin's cultural scene is owed to..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Education Is the Next Punk Rock

Hands-on learning for those interested in the music business

"...Education Is the Next Punk RockMonday, March 7, 5pm Austin Convention..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Moths to a Flame

If it's Friday, we have a budget

"...Wednesday – beyond which a newsweekly's print deadlines dare not tread – City Council had not approached the halfway..."

Sept. 11, 2015 News Feature

Point Austin: The Day That 10-1 Began

Pomp, circumstance, and possibility at the new City Hall

"...Council Tuesday evening, and the least we can do is echo the fanfare. A few former mayors were among..."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: From Frontage Road, Texas

Traffic jamming at the Urban Rail Town Hall

"...It was fitting that Tuesday night's public forum on urban rail occurred in..."

Aug. 29, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Orange Is the New Weird

ATX indie-rock guitar god alert! The Young frontman Hans Zimmerman.

"...in a constant stream of self-deprecating cracks from the singer/guitarist/bandleader...."

Aug. 22, 2014 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Point Austin: Questions for Candidates

The answers aren't easy

"...A couple of months ago, I was exchanging notes with another observer of Austin politics, and he asked..."

Aug. 1, 2014 News Column by Michael King

What the Hell Is that Tentacle Fence on Koenig Lane?

It's pastry chef and political gadfly Jen Cash's noodly masterpiece

"...There, along the part of East Koenig Lane that runs between Link Avenue and Avenue F: giant tentacles..."

July 25, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin's Improv Comedy Marathon 2014

Supposedly sane people, totally making shit up for 45 hours straight

"...and Girls Girls Girls and the Seventies cops of Cochise! and the courageous officers and doomed redshirts of Start..."

June 18, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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