Hockenyos Gets Creative ... Again

Austin should embrace its identity as a cultural mecca

"...in his 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class, the possibility of making both a quantifiable boon and..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

'At the Snap of a Finger'

Anti-IDEA activists keep up due diligence for AISD

"...Reutter said she had talked to a family member, who asked her whether she would consider working at..."

Feb. 1, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Headlines

"...action to preserve a May 2012 election, and the single-member district petition under way. See "City Hall Hustle."..."

Oct. 28, 2011 News Feature

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...Members of QueerBomb, Austin's renegade counter-Pride, and members of the..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Page Two: An Injury to All

The universal perils of union busting

"...time, I came to realize that practically every staff member felt he or she was not only underpaid but,..."

April 8, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Black Star Co-op Pub & Brewery

Co-operation makes noms happen

"...Black Star Co-op Pub & Brewery 7020 Easy Wind..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Food Review by Lee Nichols

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...urban cowboys, hikers, bikers, college students, ... casual techies, world-class academics, the old guard, dot-com money, and just enough..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...followup feature Take Shelter, which Sundance describes thusly: "A working-class husband and father questions whether his terrifying dreams of..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SBOE Candidates Get 'A' for Attendance

SBOE debate clarifies candidates' differences in one race, similarities in another

"...about political ideology," said Mercer, a former Texas House member from San Antonio. "We seem to find people who..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Watson to Take Cap Metro Wheel

Public sector experience clinched the deal for transit board

"...spending time there and getting to know the board members, I see their commitment to building a world-class transit..."

June 25, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

AISD Run-off Running Downhill Fast

A nonpartisan race turns partisan

"...schools, PTSA president at Anderson High, and as a member of several districtwide committees. Both candidates have publicly supported..."

June 11, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Off the Cuff and in Your City

A roundup of Austin improv schools

"...with performance noobs of all kinds. These schools offer classes and workshops in a variety of styles, schedules, and..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Nathaniel and Li'l Nate

The two lives and untimely death of Nathaniel Sanders II

"...support each other, and where students take high school classes but also learn life skills and job skills. AYW..."

May 29, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Developing Stories: Protecting the Waterfront (Part 2)

Council vote to determine future of waterfront

"...realize the potential of the City's waterfront." Significantly, its members are being asked do far more than "just say..."

May 1, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Saturday Picks

"...McLagan emerged from the UK skiffle scene as a member of the Faces, backed the Stones and Dylan, and..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Shape of Things to Come

What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.

"...civic conversation has had all the earmarks of the classic long-range plan – identification of stakeholders, vision statements, task..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Green Grows My County?

'Greenprints' aim to protect our most precious natural lands

"...of deciding where to build," explains TPL advisory board member Sinclair Black...."

Dec. 14, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

AI by Any Other Name

Austin Interfaith is moving toward a broader, Central Texas future

"...it's reinventing itself. The idea, says AI executive committee member Minerva Camarena Skeith, is for the organization to transform..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Last Last Sunday?

Austin organizing project contemplating its future

"...offer? What is the connection between the U.S. middle class' consumption and the ecological crisis?..."

June 22, 2007 News Feature by Robert Jensen

Child Fatality Report: Reasons for attention

County releases 11th annual report documenting causes and trends of children's deaths in Austin area.

"...fatalities. Regular Chronicle contributor Jay Trachtenberg is a former member of the Travis Co. Child Fatality Review Team...."

May 18, 2007 News Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Point Austin: Cops Cost Money

We've been plugging the dike with overtime, and the cracks are showing

"...rose, although the expectation has been that new cadet classes would steadily lessen the necessity, and the city cut..."

March 23, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Warrior Voices

With a Spanish-language production of The Vagina Monologues, Austin Latinas are making themselves heard

"...interesting task, considering the range of places the cast members are from and the linguistic distinctions they bring with..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Page Two: Red-State Specials

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

"...prejudices or passing fancies of the greater electorate. House members with two-year terms were more subject to the will..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...he has a shot at a majority in the 150-member House...."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature

Famous Long Ago

Legendary "Humanzee" Oliver, his friends, and the bitter fight over animal welfare at a Texas refuge

"...letter to OSU officials, veterinarian Thomas Butler (also a member of the Chimp Haven board of directors) wrote that..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Beside The Point

Council members vote to give themselves near 30% raise, but not everyone accepts it

"...but it still played pretty sensationally: Yesterday, City Council's members had voted to give themselves a near 30% raise..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Life Is a Rhythm

Ground zero for Austin hip-hop: University Hills' 2-3

"...Manor Road, an SUV settles at the stoplight, three members of the Public Offenders rap group sitting in back...."

Nov. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Vaudeville Vanya

Some of Austin's finest young actors have banded together as a creative family called St. Idiot Collective and are out to make solemn Anton Chekhov fun with 'Vaudeville Vanya'

"...J. Ed Araiza, a member of the Saratoga International Theatre Institute, aka SITI Company,..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Energy Abounding

Few words better encompass what the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Company is all about

"...that, greets me in a hushed tone. "There's a class going on in there," she says, pointing to a..."

July 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

But You Can Win Her Yet

TexARTS revives a classic musical and a big musical theatre dream

"...Rotten Scoundrels, and Tadej Brdnik, a Martha Graham company member for a decade. So far, 20 such professionals have..."

June 23, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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