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July 21, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Crucial Issue Is Affordable Housing
"...the much more crucial issue of affordable housing. In Austin it is getting more and more difficult to put..."
May 17, 2006 Postmarks
At the Table
Our panel of service experts
"...Johnny Guffey, Jeffrey's server: Undoubtedly Austin's most famous waiter, Guffey is a career practitioner of..."
March 31, 2006 Food Feature
Page Two
The debate over the smoking ban is about rights, and saying it isn't is just silly
"...city pays lip service to the live music scene. Keep Austin Weird has become a successful grassroots marketing campaign...."
April 22, 2005 Column by Louis Black
TCB
A bumper crop of indie-rockers move to town, right before Audioslave burns it down
"...Howdy, Y'all After the onslaught of the past decade, Austinites are understandably prickly about new arrivals. Not so of..."
April 22, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray
News/Print
Qbp6++
"...foil during the past few years, and it's to Austin's great relief that not only will he be staying..."
July 9, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley
Luv Doc Recommends: Eeyore’s 41st annual Birthday Party
Pease Park, Saturday, April 24, 2004
"...If you moved to Austin so you could hang out in places like Cool..."
April 23, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc
Will Walgreens Save Taco X-Press – or Vice Versa?
Neighbors torn over union of chain store and Southside icon
"...dream of a deal has a make-or-break catch: South Austin neighbors, and ultimately the City Council, would need to..."
Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith
TCB
Willie's July 4th picnic showers Spicewood with more than just fireworks.
"...20,000 strong ringed by vendors offering beer, Willie merchandise, "Keep Austin Weird" T-shirts, and $4 slices of pizza (the..."
July 11, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray
Naked City
Happenings
"...join author/columnist/radio commentator Jim Hightower at 5pm for a "Keep Austin Weird" rally in front of Waterloo, at Sixth..."
May 16, 2003 News Feature
Seven of Five
Brewster McCracken, Margot Clarke lead the pack in a crowded open-seat City Council race
"...This is not the kind of campaign rhetoric Austinites are used to hearing, after years of councils that..."
April 18, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith
Page Two
SXSW looms, Seton's dubious deal, the war moves closer, the city silences the music, and the new GOP loves deficits.
"...Over the next weeks we'll gush SXSW information. The Austin Music Awards, the official kickoff of the SXSW Music..."
Feb. 14, 2003 Column by Louis Black
By Any Other Name
The history of Austin's cherished landmarks reveals the extent to which chance plays a part in who among their namesakes we remember and which fade with time.
"...So who's the more important figure in Austin history: Tom Miller or Robert Mueller?..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Razzle-Dazzle 'Em
David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'
"...original Broadway cast of Billy Elliot the Musical, the Austin song-and-dance phenom had a lot to say – more..."
Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Results
Indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski enlists Guy Pearce and others for his new movie
"...A schlubby guy named Danny (Corrigan) wanders into an Austin gym, looking for a trainer. The gym owner –..."
May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Two Turntables and a Microphone
Austin's DJ Culture
"...More importantly, perhaps, the showcase brought together Austin's long nascent electronica scene in a throng that included..."
May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Girls Gone Geek
Weird Girls is an Austin-based website and YouTube channel dedicated to all things geeky, but from a female perspective
"...Call Danni Danger a weird girl, and she'll probably take it as a compliment...."
May 23, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Austin With a Conscience..."
May 7, 2004 Column
Five Graphic Gift Books For Your Creative Favorites
Or even for your own holiday-besieged self, right? Potentially?
"...screenshots on paper. That book becomes a thing worth keeping, a cultural artifact that pretty much defines the parameters..."
Dec. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Turnt Up
The Weird City Hip-Hop Festival returns as a single-day rap off
"...Less than three weeks before the second Weird City Hip-Hop Festival, one of its organizers, local rapper..."
Oct. 23, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman
Space and Distance: A Joint Interview With Balmorhea and Explosions in the Sky
How Austin’s landmark instrumental outfits soundtrack the state of Texas
"...with Rob Lowe, co-founder of Balmorhea, another serenely dramatic Austin-based instrumental band whose deep catalog is imbued with Texas'..."
Dec. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Farewell to the King of Grindhouse
Mike Vraney, founder of Something Weird Video, dead at 56
"...cult cinema. Mike Vraney, founder of the era-defining Something Weird Video, died Jan. 2 at the age of 56...."
Jan. 3, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The Luv Doc: Oral
He's not that into it
"...been dating for a few months, would it be weird to ask him to go to a sex therapist..."
July 7, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc
Shouting Across the Void
Jeff Tweedy in mono
"...next Thursday, Wilco christens the hockey arena for the Austin indie intelligentsia. Jeff Tweedy laughed often from the road..."
Oct. 1, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
How Can Wynn Lose?
The mayoral odds are with Wynn, but could a run-off be a race?
"...Scenario 1: As is now typical in Austin, fewer than one in eight eligible citizens vote on..."
April 25, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...protection accomplishments. When I took office, the city of Austin had sewage treatment plants that were dumping raw sewage..."
Sept. 20, 2002 Column
Keeping Life Queer in 2020
A Guide to Gifting Queerly for the coming decade
"...the past 11 months. The good, the bad, the weird...."
Dec. 5, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff
Donya Stockton Isn’t Going Anywhere Near Hell in That Handbasket
The Austin clubland mover-and-shaker weaves much to the imagination
"...Donya Stockton, co-owner of Austin’s Beerland and Rio Rita and King Bee and the..."
April 4, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
LoneStarCon 3: The Jo Walton Interview
The Hugo-winning author of 'Among Others' really loves books
"...Morwenna "Mori" Phelps, the 15-year-old protagonist of Jo Walton’s weird, wonderful, genre-bending book that won last year’s Hugo Award..."
Aug. 30, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry
Japan Nite
SXSW showcase reviews
"...Detroit-worthy "M Song," "Insane Man," and "Run Run Run." Keep an eye on these kids. Our meter was up..."
