Showcase Showdown

The Austin Museum of Digital Art's programming challenges our notions of creativity

"...Last July at the Copa Bar & Grill on South Congress, a group..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Joined in Progress

Three local channels get Austin back with the program – but is anybody watching?

"...which has such an enormous capacity for greatness, remains the most timid medium in the communications universe." – Ted..."

June 23, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week "[J]urors clearly understood that companies with real assets..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Bill Bunch and the SOSAnistas' rationale for their latest mishmash of "reforms" is..."

April 7, 2006 Column

Divorce, Alamo Style

From a small north-side apartment – via toney Rob Roy, a Hays County ranch, and several sojourns in jail – Janet Kennedy keeps fighting a battle featuring all the latest in family bitterness

"...It's one of the most contentious land battles in the Hill Country –..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Wild Rides

UT students pack bigger, better New Works Festival with more thrills than a carnival midway

"...Okay, we can start with the play about the werewolf movie director having odd dream..."

April 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Full Dance Card

Back in Austin after eight days in the land of mountains and Mormons at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it's hard to distill the experience into any one verity. The combination of dozens of movies and the oxygen-poor altitude create memories that seem more impressionistic than precise.

"...Back in Austin after eight days in the land of mountains and Mormons at the 2005 Sundance..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Mercy

The case of James Allridge raises familiar questions about the Texas justice system

"...Texas is scheduled to execute James Allridge III for the 1985 murder of 21-year-old Brian Clendennen, who died from..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Mike Clark-Madison writes that the City Council's effort to protect local businesses and local..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Last week the city of Austin council looked at the proposed big..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Column

Shakespeare-ouette

Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills has a deft touch at getting the Bard to the barre.

"...Kate comes out swinging. She's not about to suffer the indignity of this smarmy lout Petruchio hitting on her..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dream of a New Circus

In the two decades it has taken for Cirque du Soleil to reach Austin for the first time, this Montreal-based troupe has not only reinvented circus as performance art but grown into one of the most unexpected and unlikely of entertainment empires.

"...street corner in Quebec and now it literally spans the planet, amazing audiences worldwide with its ability to transform..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Feature by Michael Point

Bright Lights, Little City

It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

"...It's Friday night, and the audience is trickling in, mostly families with young daughters..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...17, and "Something Stinks," Sept. 14], I must make the following comments:..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

Matter Over Mind

The proposed Cypress Realty Development in Dripping Springs

"...In the late Seventies, when Austin was still clinging to its..."

Sept. 21, 2001 News Feature by Rob Curran

Deconstructing Downtown

The Economy Sneezes -- and Austin's Central Business District Catches a Cold

"...of agendas for a meeting with downtown neighborhood representatives. They had hoped to put the best possible spin on..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Dancing About Architecture

South by Southwest draws closer -- lots of news from SXSW 2001

"...now a mere month away, things are coalescing for the music festival and overall conference: music, film, interactive. As..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Trouble Men

The post-SRV trials and tribulations of Texas' most famous rhythm section

"...black. That's how Double Trouble bassist Tommy Shannon remembers the months after Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Gardens of Eden

Entertainment has always been a keystone of Austin's identity, Cuisines writer Rachel Feit observes. And among Austin's numerous diversions were German beer gardens.

"...always been a keystone of Austin's identity. Even at the turn of the last century, when it was little..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Mystery Train

Light Rail's narrow defeat at the polls has probably spared Capital Metro an assault by legislators in January. But the agency is trying to figure out how to keep rail on track while satisfying Republican legislators who want sales tax returned.

"...Before the Nov. 7 election, conventional wisdom had the agency "assuming..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dark Days

Six years ago, Marc Singer wasn't homeless, and he wasn't a filmmaker. With Dark Days, he became both.

"...Marc Singer may be the man responsible for directing the year's most compassionate and..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...The ink is black, the page is white...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Child's Play

Writer Kevin Wood discovers that there's a lot to learn while teaching kids.

"...Children used to weird me out. Not the prospect of having my own kids so much --..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Features Feature by Kevin Wood

What It Is

Edie Brickell returns to tell the world what she is.

"...After the dramatic rise, fall, and eventual rebirth of Dallas' New..."

June 2, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Cars and Speed and Flight

Just prior to his appearance at SXSW Film for a retrospective of his work, Monte Hellman talks about a career in film.

"...Outside of film circles, the name Monte Hellman is more..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Walking Contradiction

Exploring the legacy of one of Austin's great, unsung singer-songwriters, Blaze Foley

"...using duct tape to hold most of his possessions together -- or fame -- being shot to death probably..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Dancing About Architecture

Final fareweall to the Texas Tornado; Frank Kozik Sells Out?; Sixteen Deluxe and Meat Purveyors shake up, but don't break up.

"...and is Texas music was lost last week with the death of Doug Sahm, but the attendance at his..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

George Jones comes to Austin and everyone gets arrested in the melee. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey gets naked and busted, and Austin's answer to Santana, Vallejo, signs with Gloria Estefan's Sony imprint. Maybe K-NACK, a local alt.rock station from earlier this decade, can play them online as the station returns -- on the Internet.

"...The Race Is On!..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...They came, they pedaled, they guzzled margaritas. It was all..."

May 28, 1999 News Feature

Live Shots

"...Blue Shirt" and Jerry Douglas for good measure to the Old Settler's Music Festival, April 10 photograph by John..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature

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