Home Not So Sweet Home

"...the other 999 residents who access our homes via Toomey Road, Sterzing, and Jessie Street, must walk 2-3 blocks..."

Oct. 5, 2023 Postmarks

How to Get to and From ACL Festival

Free shuttles, pricey rideshares, and more

"...All roads surrounding Zilker Park, including portions of Barton Springs Road,..."

Oct. 4, 2023 Music Post by Oscar Rodriguez

A Bit of History About the Chronicle Building

Little has changed with our building, which lies in the path of an expanded I-35

"...need to fit the mainlanes, managed lanes, and frontage roads below where the to-be-demolished upper deck now stands. While..."

Jan. 27, 2023 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

How To Get To and From ACL Music Festival

Shuttles, bikes, rideshares, scooters, and sometimes just your feet

"...east or west, approach Zilker Park on Barton Springs Road to reach either the east or west festival entrance...."

Sept. 30, 2022 Music Post by Leena Alali

Council Backs Parkland Preservation in Vote for New Dougherty Arts Center Site

Austin's oldest community arts venue would relocate to new facility in Butler Shores' southeast corner

"...moving out of its beleaguered facility on Barton Springs Road, now more than a decade after a 2010 conditions..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Dougherty Arts Center Relocation OK'd and Affordable Housing Program Gets Pushed Through at Council

And more notes from the May 9 City Council meeting

"...the DAC from its current location on Barton Springs Road, near Auditorium Shores, to a potential site at Butler..."

May 10, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Austin's Artspace Crisis and Microvenues

Are home art galleries and mini-performance venues the answer to the space crunch?

"...only the third program in its home venue on Toomey Road south of Lady Bird Lake. At most, 20..."

June 22, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

ACL Festival Transportation Guide

Minimize the hassle of getting to and from the fest

"...Find them parked near the corner of Barton Springs Road and Robert E. Lee where the street gets barricaded...."

Oct. 3, 2017 Music Post by James Renovitch

ACL Fest Transportation Guide

Minimize the hassle of getting to and from the fest

"...Find them parked near the corner of Barton Springs Road and Robert E. Lee where the street gets barricaded...."

Sept. 21, 2016 Music Post by James Renovitch

Underbelly's Alice in Wonderland

This new adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic sends its audience down the rabbit hole – and all over the Zach Theatre campus

"...ferocious White Rabbit ever (Urick again, but with serious road rage). How can they dwell on the show's clockwork..."

April 8, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

AC Date Night: Casa de Luz and Imagine Tea Leaf

Who says brunch has to be unhealthy?

"...to the community center's eatery tucked behind Barton Springs Road. The $12 all-inclusive menu changes daily and includes soup..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Food Column by Adrienne White

SXSW Film Pro Tips

What to see, where to be, and how to relax

"...Topfer Theatre at Zach (1510 Toomey) One of our city’s great performance art venues moonlights..."

March 4, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Food Events

July 17-23

"...fees may apply. Sat., July 19, 10am-6pm. Fredericksburg Wine Road 290, Gillespie County. www.wineroad290.com...."

July 18, 2014 Food Column

Council: Work Done and Happy Holidays!

After 2013 arose such a clatter, Council is settling their brains for a long winter's nap

"...parking meters at the Butler Field ball parks on Toomey Road; 2) the proposed Auditorium Shores Improve­ment Project. The..."

Dec. 20, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Catching Up with City Council

Council enters holiday break bearing a handful of presents

"...parking meters at the Butler Field ball parks on Toomey Road; (2) the proposed Auditorium Shores Improvement Project. The..."

Dec. 17, 2013 News Post by Michael King

Council: Dem Ol' Railroad Blues

City takes on Project Connect but punts on Auditorium Shores

"...discussion, the whole can will be kicked down the road until Janu­ary – while the Parks and Rec Depart­ment..."

Dec. 13, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Council Preview: Only Reconnect

Agenda weighed down with zoning

"...to install parking meters at the softball fields on Toomey Road, partly in hopes of discouraging squatters and poaching..."

Dec. 6, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Keeping the Lights on at Casa de Luz

The iconic Austin eating-and-meeting place dearly wants to continue pursuing its macrobiotic mission – but can't quite seem to comply with public safety codes

"...about land grabs; but the case files for 1701 Toomey Road tell a different story, with multiple chance after..."

June 14, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

City of Austin vs. Casa de Luz

"...Luz "school cafeteria"/restaurant/"experiential, educational community center" facility at 1701 Toomey Road...."

June 14, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Open City Parks for Business Parking?

A proposal to save one restaurant's parking woes is not drawing many supporters

"...an attempt to resolve the parking situation at the Toomey Road business. For years the macrobiotic restaurant has used..."

May 24, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Gay Place: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GLENN!

Spank Glenn Eaddy one time for us!

"...over for eternity. Through Oct. 7. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey, 476-0541. www.zachtheatre.org...."

Sept. 7, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: Ai, Mami

Bidi bidi bom your bum down to Bernadette's

"...are pretty posh: putting a kid through college, taking road trips here and there, being able to budget for..."

March 30, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

The Book of Grace

Tension runs through this lean domestic drama like a taut steel cord

"...Zach Theatre Whisenhunt Arena Stage, 1510 Toomey, 476-0541..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Second Life

For her new play's sophomore production, Suzan-Lori Parks turns director

"...time, it's good to try new things. The middle road, I think, is the better road. [Saying] "I'll never..."

June 17, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Have Customers, Need Macrobiotic Parking

Code enforcers crack down on Casa de Luz

"...Compliance Department for having inadequate parking facilities at its Toomey Road location. For 20 years, Casa de Luz –..."

March 11, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Dramatic Turn

Actress Meredith McCall is about much more than musicals

"...plant victim Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Suzy Homemaker-gone-Broadway-bitch Judy in Ruthless!: The Musical) to the sublime (Salvation..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

By Any Means Necessary

Suzan-Lori Parks works it – and helps you work it, too

"...Nowlin Rehearsal Studio (east of the Whisenhunt Stage on Toomey Road), Zach created a small stage for Parks, inspired..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zach Theatre

The theatre is giving away a free wedding to some homegrown George and Emily

"...on the production's set in the Nowlin Studio on Toomey Road and be held during the run of the..."

March 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zach Theatre

Zach selects an architect for its third theatre and starts renovating a fourth space

"...to buy the former Bicycle Sports Shop building on Toomey Road that it's been renting as a third theatre/rehearsal..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zach Theatre

Just in time for Zach's diamond anniversary, a pair of million-dollar donations

"...plans, Zach wants to remake its administrative building on Toomey Road (the one that houses the Whisenhunt Arena Stage)..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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