A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics

The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene

"...The original Funniest Person in Austin (as in the contest's..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: Losing Control ... of Your Bladder

The Lege knows what's best for you and your privates

"...basically squared away until 2017, it's time to start worrying about the 85th Legislature. As my colleague Mary Tuma..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Officers in King Arrest Now on Desk Duty

Footage leads to multiple APD investigations

"...The video, first made public by the Austin American-Statesman, documents..."

July 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Public Notice: Bikes, Toll Roads, TNCs

A miscellany of mostly transportation

"...is National Bike Month, and to kick it off, the bicycling education and awareness organization Please BE KIND to..."

May 1, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Eels = E = Mark Oliver Everett

Naked ‘Cautionary Tales’ Friday at the Paramount

"...Call him Mark or call him E. With his 11th album, The Cautionary..."

May 15, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Where Did All Those Kids Go?

From summer 1968 to ‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ in 2013

"...Summer 1968, Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother & the Holding Company arrived in my hometown of..."

July 31, 2013 Music Post by Charles Beard

Full Hearts Can't Lose

The 21st annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...But sometimes things just don't go the way we plan...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Monica Riese

Anarchy in S.A.

The Sex Pistols return to San Antonio!

"...For nearly 35 years, I’ve obsessed over the Sex Pistols’..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Lubitsch's Last Hurrah

New AFS Essential Cinema series covers the 'Touch' from pre-war to 'Cluny Brown'

"...Lubitsch's best and most loyal acolyte once recalled, in the closing scenes of his own storied life, his onetime..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Our Bloody Valentine

Movie makeup artist Matt Valentine reps Austin on SyFy's reality competition show Face Off

"...Elysium, and a monstrous, decaying hand tapped me on the shoulder. That ghoulish pallor, that fetid skin, the demonic..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye: Go LoCo

Awards, and a word about what's on the horizon for 'TV Eye'

"...Combing through the "TV Eye" inbox, I ran across a few things..."

July 1, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

City Hall Hustle: Solid Waste Rocks!

Solid Waste Services goes national with its name campaign

"...There's a scandal under way at City Hall that's rocked..."

Feb. 11, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Defense Cries Foul on Yogurt Shop DNA

Prosecutors' yogurt shop murder case appears to be in trouble

"...In a new motion filed Tuesday, July 15, lawyers for the two defendants in the yogurt shop murder case..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

NoDak Farmers Continue Fight for Hemp in Federal Appeals Court

"...North Dakota federal District Judge Daniel Hovland on Nov. 28..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

Albert

"...Bleached by the sun And scorched by the moon If I make..."

Feb. 19, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

There is someone I would like to thank this holiday season, as she won't be sitting at my Thanksgiving Day table. She is the unnamed senior producer for CBS's overnight broadcast who dared to do something very, very brave – or very, very stupid, depending on your point of view.

"...This is the time of year we take time to count our..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Money Changes Everything

Greg Pak's 'Robot Stories' is ap-pealing to just about everyone, seven years after his appeal to the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund launched his career.

"...Director Greg Pak's Robot Stories is the most entertainingly humanistic..."

May 7, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Firefighters Want to Bargain

Austin Firefighters bring collective bargaining to the May 15 ballot

"...On March 8, the Austin Association of Professional Firefighters submitted more than 15,000..."

April 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

All Bodies Dance

The latest production from Johnson / Long Dance Company, I Stuck My Head in the Garden is a 65-minute topsy-turvy of boys and girls in all their confusing combinations and shows the troupe once again smashing the notion that dance belongs to the tall, the thin, and the flat-chested.

"...They stand there wearing girdles, those strapping devices designed to..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Capitol Chronicle

Cheney's call to war is as illegitimate as ever.

"...These fought in any case,..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

CAMPO backs SH 130 but doesn't vote on an alignment, the most contentious issue surrounding the proposed I-35 bypass.

"...And what about SH 130? Well, the do-or-die CAMPO vote on that longtime conversation starter got..."

June 16, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Just Say No

"...llustration by Doug Potter..."

Nov. 13, 1998 News Column

Shortcuts

"...hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, August 8, 7pm-midnight, at the East 13th Street Heritage House (one block east of..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

Whither Austin or: Funny, It Looks Bigger on TV

"...caught a few minutes of MTV's all-day airing of the Sports and Music Fest on Saturday, and missed Austin..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Short Cuts

"...week with Louis Black's heartfelt "Page 2" reminiscence about the all-too-brief life of D. Montgomery and her enduring influence..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shortcuts

"...Outdoor Shorts: Our town's premiere support system for the art..."

July 25, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

"...by Marjorie Baumgarten..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Column

Consultants Given Lucrative City Contracts Without Council Approval

City paid friends of City Hall top brass $300,000 through subcontracting scheme

"...pays roughly $30,000 a month and requires no documented work output?..."

Sept. 15, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, the annual Austin celebration of movies from across the Spanish-..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

APD’s Secret Informants Eyeing Neighbors for “Suspicious” Activity, Leaked Documents Reveal

APD intel center puts spies among us

"...In early June, an intelligence center operated by the Austin Police Department was hacked, along with many others..."

July 24, 2020 News Feature by John Anderson

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