Protect and Preserve

How can we keep Austin's cultural heritage authentic?

"...an area that the city had declared an official "cultural district." A fair amount of hoopla surrounded the designation..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Cindy Widner

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On love, culture, renewal, timelessness, and SXSW

"...SXSW is about: 1) the vitality of culture, 2) Austin, and 3) education – the..."

March 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Culture Connectors

The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...On any given date, Austin's cultural calendar offers so many options that it's almost overwhelming...."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Mario Rendon Lozano: Art of the People

"...is based on the concept of the spiritual and cultural fortitude of the Mexican people, who have not succumbed..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Review

Land Rush

The Early Days

"...Cooksey and Co. argued, not varied or integrated enough). Vitality comes not from a mix of uses but from..."

Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

It's a Dirty Job ...

New arts tsar Vincent Kitch rolls up his sleeves to give Austin arts funding a clean start

"...mortal, Kitch has undertaken the cleaning up of the Cultural Contracts Program, spending the past five months – his..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Museum Comes of Age

"...many art institutions through bond money, technical assistance, or cultural contracts." says Orozco. "We're at a point in time..."

July 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Then There's This: MACC Attack Averted?

Council to settle whether to sell or keep Rainey Street tract

"...signifying a major victory for the neighboring Mexican American Cultural Center...."

Oct. 12, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Can the Bands Play On?

The Live Music Task Force tunes up to protect Austin's claim to fame

"...Could the famed Austin music scene be losing its vitality?..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Culture Flash!

A national economist discusses the role of the arts in regional vitality, the LBJ celebrates the NEA at 40, Miami City Ballet cancels a show, and the Blanton Museum delays its grand opening

"...free community forum, co-sponsored by the city of Austin's Cultural Arts Division and UT's Community and Regional Planning Program,..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

The city is hot to find "a creative, energetic, and innovative leader" to head its revamped Cultural Arts Program, now located in the city's Economic Growth and Redevelopment Office, where it will coordinate support and advocacy for Austin's performing arts, visual arts, music, film, and interactive communities.

"...creative, energetic, and innovative leader" to head its revamped Cultural Arts Program, now located in the city's Economic Growth..."

July 4, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

'Austin: East of I-35': Love Notes to a Community

Photographer Rama Tiru's book brings the Eastside alive in a riot of vibrant colors

"...of Breakthrough Austin and Meals on Wheels, and the cultural legacies of the Carver Museum & Cultural Center, Harold..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...me the opportunity to experience a part of my cultural and literary heritage of which I was not even..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Column

Polishing His ACT

L.A.-Ex Gary Goldstein Brings Real News to Kids

"...small stipend last spring from the City of Austin's Cultural Contracts Office, an entity which contracts artists to provide..."

July 5, 1996 Screens Feature

Council Recap: So Many Decisions Still Unmade

Homelessness, East 11th and 12th development, and Statesman PUD in focus

"...But people like cultural entrepreneur Harold McMillan who've lived and worked in the..."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

SXSW Film Review: A Tuba to Cuba

Preservation Jazz Hall Band doc is filled with life and joy

"...an endless PBS fundraiser could drain it of its vitality. Prior to the screening, SXSW Director of Film Janet..."

March 15, 2018 Screens Post by Michael King

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...the evolution of SXSW alumni as well as the vitality of fresh voices.”..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.

"...the tale, not the teller, and any kind of cultural speculation is at best just thinking. There is no..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

The great days of the United States of America are over: Our country is now important economically only because of its citizens' consumption

"...France declined just as badly, yet still had the cultural power to produce influential art and philosophy. Europe as..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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An exhilarating account of how the Zephyr Skating team changed skateboarding forever, Dogtown and Z-Boys finally opens at Dobie on Friday; in a summer of some truly great movies, it's a ripping piece of street storytelling not to be missed, even if you don't care about the sport.

"...to see the footage of it. The moment of cultural transformation is so often the stuff of verbal myth..."

May 31, 2002 Column by Louis Black

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...least we have a popular myth. Somewhere in the cultural consciousness exists an urban world that's equal parts 1930s..."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

Postmarks

Turner Is Worthy

"...not a "genuine Eastsider" and cares nothing about Austin's cultural history. More trash. You cannot find a more authentic..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Column

Wreckless Recs?

Garza's Affordability Strategy Slides Into Uselessness

"..."public safety, sustainable community," and "youth, family and neighborhood vitality."..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 5-11

"...opt for unruly beauty over tidy regimentation. Choose lush vitality over pruned efficiency. Blend your fate with influences that..."

April 5, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Austin at Large: Battle Lines Being (Re)drawn

The imperfect ways we try to describe what’s at stake when neighborhoods change

"...to tell you this is not really how the cultural and socioeconomic signifiers of these battles line up in..."

Sept. 23, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 14-20

"...model. (Kimmerer's book is Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.)..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

From the Archives: Linklater on Linklater

Our 1991 self-interview by the Slacker filmmaker

"...is that our society still has a strong individual vitality at heart, intellectual and otherwise. Habitual energy can equal..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Linklater

SXSW Announces Film Award Winners

Shithouse takes top narrative honors

"...know that it’s no substitute for the actual festival’s vitality, enthusiasm, and potential for surprising outcomes — and that..."

March 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Think Global

Act local: Flooding and more

"...buildings in Austin relate to housing affordability and economic vitality as our city grows." It's free to the public:..."

Sept. 20, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Stephen Harrigan on A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

The Austin writer reveals the vision behind his portrait of the 16th president as a young man in his new novel

"...know, very compelling guy, very full of life and vitality and ambition, but also deeply full of doubt and..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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