Benzene Questions at Crestview Station

Benzene discovered in groundwater under portion of former Huntsman chemical-testing facility property, potential snag for Crestview Station developers

"...former Huntsman chemical-testing facility in North Austin into Crestview Station, a mixed-use development adjacent to the planned Capital Metro..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Digital Audio From the Cyber-Underground

Boot Up the Volume

"...some pretty cool games, but a $200 Sony Play Station or Nintendo 64 easily blows away your $2,000 desktop..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Screens Feature by John Avignone

Faster Than Sound: Shared Frequencies Radio Connects Austin DJs with the World

Online electronic station celebrates third birthday Saturday at Coconut Club

"...City, on a work trip of sorts for her underground internet radio station...."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Simple Men

"...a famous baseball player turned political radical who went underground after allegedly bombing the Pentagon in 1969. Their journey..."

Feb. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Road to Rail

Can light rail in Austin work well with Smart Growth?

"...To list all the projects around all the DART stations that -- according to the agency, its member cities,..."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rock Opera

Locally filmed micro-budget feature tells a picaresque story about a punk guitarist who is trying to sell enough pot to finance a low-rent tour for his band. His journey instead takes him on a tour through the college-town underground.

"...Rock Opera bubbles up from the same primordial college-town underground ooze as the starving bands/bad drugs/chronic penury lifestyle it..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Phil Music

"...to Monroe's earliest days at KUT. In 1981, the station still carried the Austin City Council meetings live. When..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Council and Cap Metro Prepare to Hand Transit Plan to Voters

City's big plan is nearing the station

"...steer the Project Connect transit system plan toward Election Station. At a joint meeting Monday, the two bodies voted..."

July 31, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...and raping women. Phoenix Radio is a black women's underground station with roots in soul, reggae, and gospel, operated..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Light It Up

Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."

"...and raping women. Phoenix Radio is a black women's underground station with roots in soul, reggae, and gospel, operated..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trains! Tunnels! Billions! Austin Gets First Look at Proposed Transit Plan

Next steps: public input, May Council vote, November election

"...Congress corridor and along East Riverside to the airport, underground Downtown stations, bus rapid transit to serve UT and..."

March 6, 2020 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Hey Freshman: IG Follows to Fast-Track Your Immersion in Austin Music

Under-21 and underground rave resources on Instagram

"...Follow if You’re an Aspiring Raver of the Artsy Underground Variety ......"

Aug. 19, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Bend It, Stretch It

Unseen Worlds re-discovers Carl Stone's 1983 classic

"...a century. It turns out that it has an underground status among DJs. I wasn’t so much surprised as..."

March 3, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

A Candid Conversation With a Weed Plug

A black-market business owner talks pricing and how underground cannabis retail has evolved in Austin

"...bought it at the store ... or the gas station...."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

What Kind of Rail Bridge Will Austin Build Across Lady Bird Lake?

Project Connect offers options for the transit expansion

"...crossing Lady Bird Lake, before hitting the proposed Waterfront station near the old Statesman building...."

April 26, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

Rant, Revisited

A new doc explores the life and times of underground comic Bill Hicks

"...political philosophers." Three years later, Britain's Channel 4 TV station polled 150,000 viewers to find the 100 greatest comedians..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Psychographical Communities

Internet Radio: Sounds Heard 'Round the World

"...It's a streaming audio resource/listing of far-flung pirate radio stations broadcasting live over the Internet via RealAudio technology. Listening,..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Taking a Look at the Neighborhoods That Will Be Changed the Most by Project Connect

Diving into the iterations of the public transit redesign

"..."I can't view one station or one area over another without understanding the whole..."

June 3, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Great Roots-Rock Scare of '96

The Americana Chart, Alternative Country, and Austin

"...says Grimson about the chart. "The number of radio stations that report to the chart has basically doubled from..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature

Young, Loud, and Cheap

The Skunks were a band. A loud one.

"...time," says Turner. "I always loved the Skunks' Buzzcocks/Brownsville Station angle of attack -- I thought they were tough..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Zelary

Life during wartime is always difficult, but never more so than when you're in love as this Czech movie demonstrates.

"...using it as a harbinger of doom, the train station seen here is a metaphorical riff on the possibilities..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...Guitarist Sterling Morrison of New York's Velvet Underground spent most of the Seventies in UT's medieval literature..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

"...UndergroundThe Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Review by Lindsey Simon

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Flashback, Cash Back

The Trickle Down Economics of Eighties Music

"...test well with audiences, but also fit into his station's modern playlist. In fact, it could be argued that..."

July 18, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Big, Bold, and Costly: Austin’s Makes a Third Try at Rail Transit

The train is here

"...Riverside to the airport (the Blue Line), both serving underground Downtown stations within a new transit tunnel and with..."

March 13, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Here We Go Again

The Riddlin' Kids -- DIY with a bullet.

"...target audience more well versed in Harry Potter and PlayStation than R.E.M.'s Document and a Patrick Dempsey pay channel..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Postmarks

"...When the staff were hired, the station sought out skilled journalists, and hired the best available...."

Oct. 23, 1998 Column

Living on the Air in Austin

Live Music Flourishes in the Studio

"...the business office of University of Texas student radio station KVRX bears a striking resemblance to the "Bullpen" on..."

April 10, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

TCB

A rock out, a rock opera, and a rock show. Must be Rocktober.

"...last week, its appeal is largely confined to the underground. And when the dust settled, after North Carolina's show-stealing..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

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