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City Counseling: How Many Librarians Equal One Firefighter?
Fire Department budget cuts
"...Council is set to approve the path of the boardwalk over Lady Bird Lake; the project has been met..."

March 6, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Hall Monitoring
Lake boardwalk, solar farm, and fire department staffing snafus at City Hall
"...to set the path of the Lady Bird Lake boardwalk completing the LBL trail. It ultimately passed, over objections..."

March 5, 2009 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Headlines
"...zoning requests on controversial items: the Lady Bird Lake boardwalk, upzoning for Wildflower Commons, potential action on a $250..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature

City Counseling
Have we got plans for you
"...however.) Additionally, there's a 2pm briefing on the controversial boardwalk trail over Lady Bird Lake, and along the same..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

ANC: Do More With Less
ANC members see breath of fresh air in new Parks director
"...Treatment Plant No. 4 (don't build it), the Riverside Boardwalk (don't build it), parks and libraries (fund them anyway)...."

Feb. 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Bouncing Souls
Sunday
"...Mining hopeless romantic frontman Greg Attonito's tried-and-true tales of boardwalk breakups and makeups going back to 1994's The Good,..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Beside the Point
Spring fever: Council members' minds adrift
"...$1.4 million for engineering and oversight of the long-bandied boardwalk over Lady Bird Lake, destined to close the hike-and-bike..."

April 4, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Day Trips
Texas coastal fishing piers provide the means to walk on water
"...flounder, and drum. The city manages the pier, beach, boardwalk, observation tower, and a recreational-vehicle park at Lighthouse Beach..."

March 7, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Top 10 Developing Stories
Lessons Learned
"...for protection, plus trail improvements and completion (with a boardwalk?). New nonprofit SaveTownLake.org led a populist rally against developers..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Top 10 Developing Stories
Lessons Learned
"...for protection, plus trail improvements and completion (with a boardwalk?). New nonprofit SaveTownLake.org led a populist rally against developers..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Day Trips
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas coast near Brazoria is a very peaceful place
"...wildlife-viewing areas. The Bobcat Woods Trail has a handicapped-accessible boardwalk that goes to a scenic overlook on Cocklebur Slough...."

Oct. 5, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Beside the Point
The budget passes, and the feathers fly
"...Trail extension: $1.7 million. This allocation will create a boardwalk on the south side of Lady Bird Lake...."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Live-Blogging the City Budget Adoption
Continuously updated blog of the budget adoption.
"...changing facilities, $1.7 million for the Lady Bird Lake boardwalk. Now zeroing out the one-time funds … The best..."

Sept. 10, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Greenbacks for Green Space
City moves to make development pay more for parks
"...years or, as in the case of a Riverside Boardwalk to close the 1-mile gap in the Town Lake..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Investing in Downtown Parks
"...million Complete continuous trail: Acquire waterfront easements and/or construct boardwalk..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature

On the Waterfront
As development accelerates along Town Lake, Austin faces urgent choices
"...Foundation also are pursuing the idea of an over-the-water boardwalk, to close the Riverside gap. Having this alternative in..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Day Trips
The San Jacinto Monument has reopened its observation deck to the public, offering a beautiful view of the Houston skyline and the battlefield where Texas won its independence
"...has added nature trails around the park. A 510-foot boardwalk that crosses much of the restored marshland was added..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Latin Beat
Latin beat
"...and Eddie & the Cruisers rock: earnest, Eighties, Jersey boardwalk. Make that Long Island, per Billy Joel hoister "Qué..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Richard Swift / Pink Mountaintops
SXSW live shot
"...off carney working the Ferris wheel atop some random boardwalk: "Tonight is gonna be a lovely night, with everybody..."

March 24, 2006 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Bruce Springsteen
Gift guide
"...wall of sound and a revamped songwriting approach more boardwalk Hemingway than carny Shakespeare. Born to Run revved up..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Scott Jordan

4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land / Runaway American Dream
"...Wolfe pushes the reader to care, making the summer boardwalk a joyous carnival and depicting the city's deterioration in..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Almost Famous
Adventures in young bandom: Zykos on the road
"...we decide to go for a stroll. The fabled Boardwalk is deserted, a chilly Atlantic gust chapping our faces..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Marah
Record review
"...movie by its second cut, "Freedom Park," with its boardwalk wallop ("shimmy shimmy koko-pop"). It's rousing, piano-fed chandelier rock,..."

June 25, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

John Frusciante
Record review
"...Object" and "23 Go in to End," only the boardwalk pop of "Song to Sing When I'm Lonely" cries..."

April 2, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Così Fan Tutte
The lack of passion in Austin Lyric Opera's Così Fan Tutte transforms Mozart's curious opera into a prime-time sitcom with a spectacular orchestra.
"...backdrop of the sea. The atmosphere is reminiscent of boardwalk towns, with everything evoking seashore activities, from a lounging..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Big Mischief
Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."
"...often far more real than the boards on the boardwalk."..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Stories from the Midway
Coney Island Creepout
"...After quickly curbing our car on the Boardwalk, my three companions and I plunged headlong into the..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Michael Chamy

Stories from the Midway
She's With Us
"...years my senior. One evening we walked down the boardwalk to the amusement park that resided on a pier..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Time to Bounce
Rapping with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the funkiest Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur's Court
"...a playful typewriter-accompanied ditty, plus a reworked "Under the Boardwalk," likewise became big singles. Bigger, in fact, than anything..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by John G. La Briola

Day Trips
"..."drop" gardens in the mesquite forest and extend the boardwalk farther into the wetlands...."

April 14, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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