Front Steps Slips and Falls

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

"...Front Steps – the nonprofit that has operated Austin's Downtown emergency shelter, the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless,..."

July 29, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Watch This: Indoor Creature Follows Ben Franklin in “American Dream”

New music video tracks a breezy, satirical cash grab

"...When brainstorming visual concepts to accompany Indoor Creature’s forthcoming video, drummer..."

April 1, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Greg Casar and Eddie Rodriguez Fight for the Progressive Mantle in TX-35

The two candidates race to the left

"...redistricting cycle, although the 2021 version has been kinder to Austin than the previous two cycles. The new TX-37,..."

Feb. 4, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Q&A: Aharon Keshales Enters Texas Darkness in South of Heaven

Noir, cowboys ... and Ted Lasso?

"...thought he was opening a new perspective on the actor. He didn't realize there was a catch. "Nobody wants..."

Oct. 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Getting Over Someone

We're programmed to dream up worst-case scenarios as a survival mechanism

"...I am currently going through a breakup after a six-year relationship. She has cheated on me..."

May 24, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...In Miles Davis' autobiography, one of the mightiest forces in music, let alone..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...adaptation, and documentaries on subjects from the Grateful Dead to Black Lives Matter...."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Television Festival: Denis Leary

Rescue Me, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, and blue collar blues

"...… Denis Leary. He said, “Unless there’s a funny story to be told, or something to be used as..."

June 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gets Arty

First titles, plus Nicolas Winding Refn on exploitation

"...Things are about to get weird: Fantastic Fest 2015 has announced its first..."

July 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tearjerker John Moreland

Okie songsmith breaks out with songs on Sons of Anarchy

"...every word a punch, every line bending the listener to an emotion, an ache, a memory. Catch him in..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Alejandro Escovedo’s Hurricane Honeymoon

Rocker’s Category 4 account: “I thought, We might not make this"

"...Austin on September 6. The following morning, they flew to Mexico’s Northern Baja California region to honeymoon with a..."

Sept. 23, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Moontower Comedy: Jen Kober

Hairy lesbian tales on the comedy trail from the Louisiana comic

"...Watch out, Austin, and lock up your daughters. Or your moms. Louisiana-bred comedian Jen Kober..."

April 23, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Orbiting SXSW

Return of the Secaucus 7? Try the arrival of a SXSW septet: Dana Falconberry, Shakey Graves, The Eastern Sea, My Jerusalem, Black Pistol Fire, The Preservation, and The Boxing Lesson.

"...appearing on the initial band lists from SXSW down to a lucky seven, acts already beloved by us but..."

March 1, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sex on Fire

Nakia’s epic first-hand account of 'The Voice' tour

"...Nakia notched the most memorably national introduction since Daniel Johnston stormed MTV’s The Cutting Edge. What was even more..."

Sept. 8, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Theatre in the Round (Rock)

Penfold Theatre makes its entrance up north – where it's always wanted to be

"...capital, most of them launching with the same dream: to produce plays in their own stage space somewhere in..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Marvelous Jew

Larry Harlow talks salsa consciousness

"...an unlikely hero of Latin music. Born in 1939 into a family of musicians, Harlow grew up in New..."

Oct. 7, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Page Two: Film Vault

With Hellboy II, Guillermo del Toro makes the leap from mere great director to cinematic superhero

"...In this column, I've always fessed up to my many and varied shortcomings, from a chunky..."

July 11, 2008 Column by Louis Black

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.

"...was looking for a day care center. A family-law attorney, she planned to work from her Hyde Park home..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The Memories of the Long-Distance Runner

After surviving a holocaust, Gilbert Tuhabonye runs through life to tell his tale

"...Gilbert Tuhabonye vowed that he would report the massacre "to the police, to the government, to their parents." He..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Livin' Lavaca Loca

In the early Eighties, back when Jay Leno was still funny, he and a number of now-big name comics told jokes at a little place on Lavaca called the Comedy Workshop. Being there changed the life of one person, who recalls what it was like.

"...Remember when Jay Leno used to be funny? Back during the early Eighties? David Letterman..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Angela Davis

Media Clips

Two Fox reporters, fired by a Tampa station for their report on the continued use of the controversial recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, are coming to Austin to tell their tale.

"...profitable. First, it involves a great deal of overhead to pay for research costs. And even though it may..."

Feb. 4, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Stop, Thief!

Austin Among 10 worst cities for bike thefts

"...crime. It's not like burglars made off with your toaster oven, or even your CD player. That stinks, sure...."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Conventional Wisdom

Is It Wise To Expand Austin's Convention Center?

"...Ric Luber, Executive Director of the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau, shares his..."

Jan. 30, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election Stampede

Candidates Line Up to Run for Commissioners Court

"...Sam Biscoe..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Amy Smith

Book Reviews

"...by Neal Barrett, Jr. Kensington, $21.95..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature

SXSW Film Review: Late Bloomers

The kindness of strangers creates beauty, growth, and laughs

"...heart-locked on the guy who dumped her – going to do but get runaway drunk and, awkwardly stalking, break..."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Janie Cowan’s Fascinating Musical Journey Finds Her Playing Alongside Bob Dylan in Shadow Kingdom

Checking in on the one-time Austin bass standout

"...exquisite, timeless smoking. Endless puffs of cigarette smoke wafts up from tables where folks in fedoras and curly bob..."

July 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Coronasomniac Explores the Link Between Stress and Insomnia

How to catch more restful ZZZs during a pandemic

"...front of my bathroom mirror after another night of never falling asleep, I prayed to the Zoom gods that..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Beth Sullivan

Meditate with Laraaji

Zither virtuoso gets transcendental with Dallas Acid

"...Larry Gordon (Laraaji) New Age, but he’s not new to music. Since the late Seventies, the Philly native has..."

Sept. 19, 2018 Music Post by Dan Gentile

Five Questions for Carson McHone

Old residency, old songs redone, and the old, Deep South

"...the homegrown singer, 25, still feels like the next up to break out of Austin’s Americana playground...."

Nov. 6, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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