Dawson: Birth of a Neighborhood

Lightsey Road, Between Congress and First

"...all through the Dawson neighborhood. Although the last big flood was in 1981 (about a month after the famed..."

July 14, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Theatre in Motion in Overheard on a Train

All aboard Austin's Red Line for Cheerful Secrets' interactive play

"...to contact the ghosts of the dearly departed in Flood of Spirits. This time, parties of four will board..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Origin

Ava DuVernay's plainly spoken look at the underpinnings of bigotry

"...(depicted in the film, one of many instances to flood the viewer with dread) and further unmoored by loss..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Review: Zach Theatre's The Thin Place

Horror makes a rare and successful excursion to the stage

"...in point, Rebecca Maag's excellent immersive historical séance drama Flood of Spirits, which played across the haunting season after..."

Nov. 15, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

How Much of the Colorado Should We Leave Up to Elon Musk’s Discretion?

Tesla uses a massive amount of water while the Boring Co. attempts to dump its wastewater into the river

"...for a community park; and enhance measures to mitigate flood risk for downstream communities. So far, they haven't seen..."

Aug. 11, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

River

Astonishing nature documentary forces us to reconsider our connection to our waterways

"...redundant. But it is rather another drop in the flood of documentaries, and without all those drops, especially one..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shoal Creek Saloon’s Deck Burns, Arsonist Captured on Video

But crawfish season waits for no one

"...stride. The notorious rushing waters of Austin’s Memorial Day flood hit the restaurant’s deck hard in 1981, and then..."

Jan. 19, 2023 Food Post by A. Richmond

FronteraFest Is Back to Push New Boundaries

The theatrical fringe festival proves there's still space to experiment in a crowded Austin

"...a pair of shows away from HPT. Rebecca Maag's Flood of Spirits features a séance in the year 1900,..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Birdman director seems painfully aware of his own pretensions

"...mother, swimming underwater on a bus that appears to flood out of nowhere, experiencing vivid daydreams of anxieties stemming..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund's newest Cannes' award-winning social satire falls flat

"...fro, along with the passengers’ stomachs. Vomit and excrement flood the cabins and decks, while the drunk captain (an..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Federal Funds Flow Into Waterloo’s “Confluence”

A creek runs through it, still

"...in the minds of later Austinites. The $25 million flood control tunnel that Austin voters approved in May 1998..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Don't Call Roland Emmerich the Master of Disaster

The director talks sneaking his epic sci fi past the studio

"..."I remember we had an idea of a global flood, and I said to (cowriter Harald Kloser) 'I'm not..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: We’re Not Making More Land

Showdown at the Batcave Part 3: What’s the return on this $277 million investment?

"...matter of policy wants the affordable housing, open space, flood control, and multimodal mobility the TIF would help pay..."

Jan. 14, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips: Public Art in Galveston

A variety of pieces complement the city’s architecture and Southern charm

"...Coppini created plaster study The Victims of the Galveston Flood and presented it to the city. Galveston leaders declined..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

House of Gucci

Ridley Scott is a bad fit for the tale of the fashion house's fall

"...Or something like them. Like the bootleg Guccis that flood New York while the company crumbles like their ancestral..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

BLK ODYSSY Caught in Ida’s Severe New Jersey Flooding

Austin band launch fundraiser for lost instruments and gear

"...celebrating new album BLK VINTAGE, encountered the terrifying flash flooding from Hurricane Ida last night...."

Sept. 2, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Downtown Austin's Waterloo Park Reopens

"...Intake for the Waller Creek Flood Control Tunnel..."

Aug. 17, 2021 Photo Gallery

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Wednesday directed the city manager to report on Austin's flood mitigation efforts to date; new Council Member Vanessa Fuentes,..."

Jan. 29, 2021 News Feature

Historic Baker School Site Among Items on Final 2020 Council Agenda

School, pond, no house

"...the 1-acre field to build stormwater detention for the flood-prone neighborhood. [inset-1-right]..."

Dec. 11, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Walking Waller Creek Is a Tour Through Wildlife, Wild Flora, and Wild History

Take this self-guided tour from UT's Office of Sustainability, and learn how much wildness this waterway is home to

"...your consciousness as something needing to be fixed: a flood-prone danger zone getting a $160 million underground tunnel (Waller..."

July 31, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Budget Forged in Crisis Looks Toward Long-Term Opportunities

Resilience, rethinking, recovery

"...outcome; the latter also includes spending on utility infrastructure, flood control, and technology. It doesn't include – yet –..."

July 24, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...workers) experiencing short-term life crises. – Kahron Spearman Quentin Arispe's Flood of Babylon..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Jay Trachtenberg's Top Books of 2019

From the social upheaval of the Sixties to the double life of an intelligence agent to the secular past of an Orthodox rabbi, splits resolved into memorable books

"...CAPITAL OF TEXAS (Texas A&M University Press) and TEXAS FLOOD: THE INSIDE STORY OF STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN (St. Martin's..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Come and Move It

"...Blanco River crested at 44 feet in the 2015 flood and took out multiple bridges, houses, and 500-year-old cypress..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Postmarks

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...Einat Admony SHUK Andy Aledort TEXAS FLOOD Kwame Alexander UNDEFEATED Lauren Alleyne HONEYFISH Laurie Halse Anderson..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Top 10 Austin News Milestones of 2018

Days like these

"...decided to ask for Austin's forgiveness rather than permission, flooding the streets with dockless electric scooters and incurring the..."

Dec. 28, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Back Roads

Dark family drama works, but was better as a book

"...until his sexual encounters with her bring back a flood of unwanted memories about his own abusive childhood...."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Point Austin: A More Urgent Warning

National Climate Assessment amplifies the alarm

"...the earth ...." The Bible's symbolic apocalypse of fire, flood, and famine increasingly sounds like our news of the..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Election Ticker: Don’t Listen to Us!

Midterm coverage, from the folks you love to hate

"...Prop D would approve $184 million in funding for flood mitigation, open space, and water quality protection. Prop J..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Chronicle Endorsements: City Propositions

Up or down, yes or no

"...& Rec funding (C). The more functional Props – Flood Mitigation/Open Space (D), Public Safety (F), and Trans­por­ta­tion Infrastructure..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

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