Site Unseen

"America Starts Here" shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible

"...public art projects and for artworks that addressed the site of their installation formally as well as socially...."

March 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Alamo Drafthouse Touts Post-Bankruptcy Expansion Plans

With sale complete, chain announces five new locations

"...Group, with Drafthouse founder Tim League as a minority stakeholder...."

June 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Developing Stories

Traffic, bullshit, Suttle, and Town Lake

"...traffic. Just across Anderson Lane, the owners of the old post office site (now used to park luxury cars)..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?

The latest on this year's big digs

"...ROMA had not yet studied the Downtown Sites & Development Potential map prepared by the Downtown Commission...."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Day Trips

'The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People' bridges the gap between coffeetable art book and travel guide

"...Post office murals offer a statewide art collection that is..."

July 9, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin @ Large: A Bad Precedent

The courthouse deal is another chapter in Austin's same old sad Downtown saga

"...the Intel building into a new federal courthouse. (The site cleared mandated environmental review, allowing consummation of the purchase,..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Craft Brewers vs. COVID-19: Hi Sign and St. Elmo Brewing

How local breweries are responding to the pandemic (Part 5)

"...that platform the other night, micro-authored by St. Louis Post-Dispatch restaurant critic Ian Froeb, who predicted: “The cocktails-to-go genie..."

April 20, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

Day Trips

"...the stone masonry of an abandoned general store, an old bridge left to an occasional pedestrian, and a few..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Boerne Brews

Four places to sample craft beer in Boerne

"...Dodging Duck Brewhaus, 402 River Rd. (TX-46), is the oldest brewpub in town and was named for the waterfowl..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...by Otis Dozier, in the lobby of the Fredericksburg post office photograph by Gerald E. McLeod..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Downtown Dominoes

The headlines are about Block 21 and Seaholm, but the long-term questions are about what the city of Austin should be

"...bought from the state a piece of land (the site of the new City Hall) in what then really..."

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Studios Takes Flight

The past year has been witness to an amazingly cooperative tag-team project between the Austin Film Society, the Austin City Council, and the Mueller Neighborhood Coalition that -- as of now -- has resulted in a superstar studio setup that could well change the very fabric of filmmaking in Austin.

"...with 700 acres of prime real estate when an old airport closes and a new one opens on the..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...or Governor's Mansion, there's a more mysterious, usually creepier, old building or site with an equally compelling story to..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

Naked City

"...Metz, Mills Oak Hill, Odom, Pickle, Rodriguez, Walnut Creek, Wooldridge, and Wooten elementaries. Three other elementaries – Casis, Hill,..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature

Take Shelter

Is Curtis LaForche slowly going mad or is something apocalyptic about to happen? Michael Shannon stars in this truly unsettling movie.

"...He has a good job as some kind of site foreman in a sand-mining operation; his wife, Samantha (Chastain),..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

They Got Nothing on Lacresha

"...all about this case. I'm very upset that an 11-year-old girl would end up behind bars for two years..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Column

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...I am typing now in the young writer's stereotypical cold New York apartment and struggling mightily to keep this..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Postmarks

Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...5. Hamzeh was afraid of armed soldiers while in Bethlehem. How many in Israel are afraid..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

To Build a Courthouse

Current civil courthouse leaves a lot to be desired

"...designated in the city's original "Waller Plan" as the site of a courthouse, and used for that purpose from..."

Sept. 18, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Concrete Vigil

In transforming buildings into altars, Sally Jacques offers a place to keep watch

"...it in Austin. Since the 2005 launch of her site-specific aerial dance company Blue Lapis Light, she's drawn them..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

With Postcards for Democracy, Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe Deliver Priority Mail Art

If you like it, then you better put a stamp on it

"...Beatie Wolfe and Mark Mothersbaugh with saving the U.S. Postal Service, but it's no stretch to say these two..."

March 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UPDATED: Austin Aquarium Gets the Fisheye

Owners’ checkered past raises red flags; city says no animals on site

"...city says a permit request to "stock" animals on site has been rejected, and a follow-up visit by Code..."

Aug. 26, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Celebrity, South Austin Style

The Mayor of South Austin

"...first meeting. Young fell hard. Kind of a chance-meeting, love-at-first-site, across-a-crowded-city thing. "About three days in, I said, 'I..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...There's an election Nov. 3, with state and county offices and a $672 million city bond package up for..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...original. So that $895 diamond purchased in 2004 will hold its value, and the entire amount can be applied..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

Information Wants to Be Worthless

Money was never the most interesting thing about the Internet. Which is a good thing, since now it's gone.

"...me just yet. You see, everybody at Davos was scolding, not the computer-crazy Americans, but the Japanese. They expect..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

Day Trips

The back roads of northeastern Travis County snake around enough to make a Sunday drive seem like a journey.

"...had cropped up anywhere a store could convince the post office to deliver the mail. In the next few..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...still king in Milam County. Little more than a post office, a cotton gin, and a few family farms..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

What's In Store

The city's self-storage business is changing as corporate giants push mom and pop operations aside.

"...sword in her hand and her breasts cupped in golden armor plate. Her scaly abdomen and tail fin protruded..."

Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the proposed historic zoning of the Castleman-Bull House ["This Old House," Dec. 24] told only part of the story...."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column

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