Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...at BA; more is shown in the biennial New American Talent/Dance competition and work commissioned for apprentice company Ballet..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Foodie Is an Ethnocentric Word

Searching for diversity in culinary Austin

"...a definite identity, but a few faces are missing. African-Americans are conspicuously absent...."

April 17, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

L.M. Kit Carson: Film Frontiersman

The 2015 Texas Film Awards induct L.M. Kit Carson posthumously into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...along the way, he helped change the face of American filmmaking...."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...that thing finished up properly. That’s one thing about working alone: I don’t have to worry that, you know,..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Iraqis Come Home to Austin

Refugees, fleeing violence in Iraq, struggle to get used to life in Texas

"..."enemy" by all sides because he worked at the American embassy in Baghdad...."

Dec. 5, 2014 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

SXSW Interview: Vintage Trouble

Explosive rock & soul band wants to get to know you

"...still a band trying to put our footprint on America. It’s been helping us a lot. We’re a band..."

March 11, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

ZZ Top

Tracking the beards

"...pointed out to her, 'See the band there? They're working. This is what working musicians do. Don't go into..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Point Austin: The Meanings of 'Affordability'

The new year signals changes in the life of Austin

"...across the country, as summarized recently by Robert Reich: "America is now more unequal than it's been for eighty..."

Dec. 27, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Cruz's Shutdown Backfires

Support plummets as shutdown continues

"...His press office – arguably staffed by the hardest working people in politics – is infamous for sending out..."

Oct. 18, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

In the Name of Ann Richards

AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?

"...worked with Title 1 [at-risk] kids, and I love working with that age group. It was a perfect fit."..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Windmill State of Mind

A Q&A with the authors of a new book on the story behind Texas wind power

"...move to California) and Asher Price (of the Austin American-Statesman) discovered when writing their new book, The Great Texas..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Playback: In a New York State of Mind

Mother Falcon hits Gotham, Not in the Face sears Vancouver, and Black Joe Lewis comes home

"...apartment in New York City: a two-story brownstone in the working-class neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens...."

June 21, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Unicorn Booty Bounces

From popular gayfotainment blog to bustling NOLA cafe, here's Booty's

"...being in the building we're now. It's open, it's working, it's making money, and it's making people happy. We're..."

March 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Making History, Part One

Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...genesis as a commission from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions cycle of history plays, what makes Lyndon Johnson..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

sxswm: Steady Bangling

The Bangles are back

"...Geezerville: I understand you’re in the studio working on a new record...."

March 15, 2011 SXSW Post by Jim Caligiuri

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...Hendler, Federico Luppi, Jazmin Stuart, Jose "Yayo" Guridi (North American Premiere)..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The War on Talking About the Drug War

Border Patrol agent loses job after stating the obvious

"...native and rookie Border Patrol Agent Bryan Gonzalez was working a stretch of the Mexican border near Deming, N.M...."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Column by Jordan Smith

Grim History

Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery

"...historian Robert Perkinson published Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (Henry Holt and Company, 496 pp., $35),..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Feet on the Ground

If May Day has a meaning, it's one we build together

"...be rounded up and sent back through the border. Americans want reality-based policies that allow our communities to be..."

May 7, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...string of dead-end jobs – digging ditches, tarring roofs, working the door at a nightclub, toiling in a mobile-home..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Point Austin: They Died in Your City

Austin is built by workers subject to institutionalized injustice

"...were once the most prominent faces of mass Central American economic migration. Now in U.S. cities, they are perhaps..."

June 19, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?

This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear

"...billions more over the next decade. The program is working...."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

South by So Real 09

Rapping with Matt Sonzala about SXSW hip-hop

"...every single local act. Rap-wise, if I see them working and they’re doing some things, yeah, I do feel..."

March 10, 2009 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Listening to the Bones

Bones tell a story at world's largest body farm

"...State University-San Marcos have helped law-enforcement officers across North America solve dozens of cases. By examining bones and other..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature by R.U. Steinberg

Fishing for Change

Hightower's latest is a collection of inspirational tales

"...social change, or, as Hightower likes to put it, working against the "powers-that-be" (corporate and political elites) and in..."

March 14, 2008 News Feature by Michael King

'Chronicle' Endorsements

March 4 primary election

"...opportunity to elect the first woman or the first African-American president. Moreover, the prospect of what now looks to..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by The 'Chronicle' News staff

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...or simply jooks arose in both rural and urban African-American neighborhoods and centers of commerce. Venues ranged from someone's..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Letters at 3AM

Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

"...direction in their lives.'" A pause. "OK, this is American Literature."..."

May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

"...package in the parking lot. The APD Bomb Squad, working with an FBI bomb technician, used a robot to..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...We have been Dreaming the Americas...."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

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