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Our 30th Year

The Austin Chronicle recently marked its 29th anniversary – we first published Sept. 4, 1981 – and so also the start of our 30th year. We're working on a few different 30th anniversary projects to take place throughout the year. Enjoy!

30 Things: The Highs, the Lows, the Lists

1) 30 Things People Say When They Visit the 'Chronicle' Offices

2) 30 Terms From 'Chron'-Style Volleyball

3) 30 Clooneys

4) 30 Crazy Carole Moments

5) 30 Pages of Back Page Art

6) 30 Personals / Messages / Shots in the Dark

7) 30 Essential Environmental Stories

8) 30 Ideas, Institutions, Musical Genres, etc., the ‘Chronicle’ Has Declared Dead

9) 30 Angry Letters

10) 30 Sites Around Austin That Were Transformed Into Stages

11) 30 Band Names

12) 30 Oopses: Errors We Regret

13) 30 'Chronicle' Covers of Note

14) 30 Things We Thought Were Important at the Time

15) 30 ‘Chronicle’ Halloween Mask Covers

16) 30 Plays Born in Austin That the Rest of the Country Got To See

17) 30 South by Southwest Moments

18) 30 Overused and Abused Words

19) 30 Margaret Moser Covers

20) 30 Mr. Smarty Pants Factoids

21) 30 Austin Culinary Milestones

22) 30 Telephone Calls

23) 30 Best New Bands

24) 30 Cool / Funky / Necessary Arts Spaces That Went the Way of All Things

25) 30 Examples of Cutting-Edge Technology at 'Austin Chronicle' HQ

26) 30 Worst Offenders

27) 30 Favorite Movie Bombs

28) 30 Alejandro Escovedo Hail Marys

29) 30 Overheard Quips

30) 30 Things To Love About Working at 'The Austin Chronicle'

Plus! Bonus 60:

31) 30 BRNNR Doodles

32) 30 So Gay

Find the Vintage Ad Contest

Ads and winners, every week

Week 50 Vintage Ad: Nickelodeon; Winner: Mary Snider
This ad ran in our eighteenth issue, dated Apr. 30, 1982.

See all vintage ads and the winners from each week »

Year One: Issues From our First Year

Vol. 1, No. 1
Sept. 4, 1981

Vol. 1, No. 2
Sept. 18, 1981

Vol. 1, No. 3
Oct. 2, 1981

Vol. 1, No. 4
Oct. 16, 1981

See all of the Volume 1 issues we've posted so far »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Sweet Pill, Zeta, Equipment

Parish

Friends Trivia
at Waterloo Ice House

Concert in the Dark: Full Moon edition w/ Will Taylor & Ryan Murphy (the Beatles tribute) at ATX Unplugged

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