City Budget: First Forecast

Budget forecast shows rising city income, costs

"...It's still very early in the city's budget process, but last Wednesday, April 22, city budget..."

May 1, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Adler's First "State of the City"

Mayor Steve Adler calls for "inclusion, innovation, improvisation"

"...to join him in making Austin "a truly great city for all of us." He was preceded by slam..."

April 13, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Sparks Flares Over City's SOI Ordinance

Court hearing on anti-discrimination ordinance goes poorly for city

"...A city ordinance that would protect low-income renters from housing discrimination..."

Jan. 30, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Broad City Limits

Glazer and Jacobson take their Comedy Central series on tour

"...Broad City, on Comedy Central, has caught on for a reason..."

Nov. 19, 2014 Arts Post by Elijah Watson

City to Review SXSW

Council directs staff to perform a 'post-event review'

"...After a brief discussion at last Thursday’s City Council meeting, Council passed unanimously a resolution directing City..."

March 31, 2014 News Post by Michael King

City Looks to Outside Counsel

Repeal of land code 'not a black and white legal issue'

"...Outside legal counsel has been retained to help the City Council wade through a highly controversial staff proposal that..."

March 25, 2013 News Post by Amy Smith

City Hall Hustle: A Movable Feast

City data, apps, and more turkey talk

"...Austin's latest steps in the long-awaited redesign of the city's website. (What, you thought I was talking about something..."

Nov. 25, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: Budget, Bonds, and Big Plans

Hard times and planned projects to collide at city forums

"...opportunities this week on major financial decisions facing the city: the city budget and the proposed November bond election...."

June 18, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

City Gets Into the News Biz

'CityView' debuts on Channel 6

"...Channel 6, your one-stop cable destination for City Council meetings, boards and commissions ephemera, and the best..."

Jan. 11, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: And So the Money Goes

Final City Budget Adoption Not Quite So Final

"...shouldn't be surprised a decision as big as the city's 2010 budget – which, despite its eyelid-drooping, number-crunching wonktitude,..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Pete Collins, City's IT Chief, Resigns

Departure ends strange personnel question lingering all summer

"...Minutes ago, the City of Austin issued a press release stating that Pete..."

Aug. 13, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

City Budget: Minimal Slippage

Sparse cuts, few surprises in proposed fiscal document

"...Ott to become more open – traditionally called the City Manager's budget, Ott was quick to note "we've all..."

July 23, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

City of Men

This Brazilian followup to the award-winning City of God tells a new story but continues its look at gangster life and the cycle of poverty in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

"...Dos Santos, Camila Monteiro, Naíma Silva and Luciano Vidigal. City of Men is a followup to City of God,..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ott Names Own Assistant City Manager

Ott names Robert Goode new ACM.

"...the action is taking place on the dais this City Council meeting morning. A press release from the City..."

Feb. 28, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: Living Just Enough for the City

City sound limits and national anti-immigration movements share absolutism and intransigence

"...opposed to it, since it seemed a title a city should earn and not one that it should assume..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Animal Shelter Lawsuit: City Has Alpo on Its Face

On Monday, the fifth citizen-group lawsuit this year was filed against the City of Austin, this time alleging a “conspiratorial strategy” to keep the controversial animal shelter relocation decision away from the public scrutiny of an open council vote.

"...fifth citizen-group lawsuit this year was filed against the City of Austin, this time alleging a “conspiratorial strategy” to..."

Oct. 2, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Five Good Reasons Las Manitas Deserves a City Loan

Exploding some of the myths regarding the city's loan to the Downtown restaurant.

"...council approaches its Thursday vote on the proposed $750,000 city loan to the owners of Las Manitas. The loan,..."

June 6, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

The Lost City

Andy Garcia’s film is a Cuban exile’s lament – more a dirge for what has vanished than a celebration of the past.

"...stars, is an obvious labor of love. The Lost City honors the filmmaker’s memory of the look and the..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Silver City

John Sayles adds his cinematic two cents to this election year’s plethora of politically minded movies.

"...Tim Roth, Daryl Hannah and Kris Kristofferson. With Silver City, John Sayles becomes the latest filmmaker to contribute his..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

City Hall makes its position perfectly clear: Sell the Mueller acres

"...Let it not be said that City Hall is being coy about what it wants to..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Hyde Park garage project set to go to court for the fifth time

"...Setting up their fifth courtroom challenge since 2001, the city of Austin is once again taking on Hyde Park..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Against all odds, the design for the new City Hall does everything its architects promised it would do, from providing public spaces, to integrating natural elements, to simply looking good.

"...-- as we have said -- that Austin's new City Hall is an afterthought to the downtown waterfront's annexation..."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The City (La Ciudad)

"...heartbreaking plight of recent Latino immigrants in New York City. The bleak prospects and realities of these impoverished souls..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Babe: Pig in the City

"...scope considerably by transplanting the action to the metaphorical City (with its skyline sporting not only the Statue of..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark City

Stunning visuals highlight this story in which a city's inhabitants are the victims of some cosmic experiment being conducted by a race of aliens.

"...for sordid detail (his only real contemporary rival is City of Lost Children's Jean-Pierre Jeunet). And Dark City, like..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mad City

"...It's easy to imagine the pitch meeting for Mad City: Oh, it's a cross between Dog Day Afternoon and..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

City Unplugged

"...Gulbe and Juri Jarvet. A co-produced Finnish/Estonian/American heist film, City Unplugged may owe a passing tip of the hat..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The City Tries to Fix Its Website – Again

City is looking for a new team to rebuild austintexas.gov

"...of 2021, the Chronicle reported on a decision by city officials to stop work on a new website to..."

March 1, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Council to Propose Resolution for City Co-Sponsorship of Free Live Music Events

Natasha Harper-Madison will suggest an initiative at Feb. 15 meeting

"...Harper-Madison will propose a resolution at the Feb. 15 City Council meeting to suggest city co-sponsorship of the concert..."

Feb. 14, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Interim City Manager Announces Standalone Homeless Strategy Office

It will manage nonprofit contracts, clearing out camps

"...continues to use his time while temporarily occupying the city manager’s office to make big, perhaps lasting, changes to..."

Nov. 22, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

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