austin chronicle

Find out who, out of all 567 entries, stood out the most in this year's contest at the Winners’ Party tonight at BookPeople (losers also welcome).

Stay to hear first, second and third place read their winning pieces; afterwards, shmooze with local literati and enjoy free snacks.

Hayes Carll has won an Americana Song of the Year Award for a song that caused him a lot of grief.

The song’s title: “She left for me Jesus.” Silly American responses: That he is sacrilegious and quite possibly, the anti-christ.

But we know that’s not true…just look at that animated face.

The Austin Chronicle released it's "Best of Austin" awards with recognize a few downtown highlights: The "Best New Building in the Past Five Years" was a tie between the W and the Austonian.

The Chronicle wrote that, "Austin's Downtown skyline is ever-changing, but two new buildings have rightfully caught our readers' attention and imaginations this year.

The Austonian, the tallest residential building in Texas, cuts a sleek profile just north of Lady Bird Lake and boasts ground-level dining and drinking establishments that have attracted national attention.

According to the Austin Chronicle, Emo's on Red River has been sold to "Sixth Red River LC" for the price of "seven figures." [ more › ]

Thanks to The Austin Chronicle and my uncanny luck with online contests (I don't enter many, but I win a... (via HomeGirl)

Dog Almighty, voted "Best Dog" by Austin Chronicle readers not two years ago, has closed its doors. (via Snowed In)

With her story "The Girls of Summer Redux" on the cover of last week's Austin Chronicle, music writer Audra Schroeder bids farewell to five years of work for our city's premiere alt-weekly.

It's been an ongoing debate: when should downtown street parking be free and when should the City require payment?

For a long time, the City has operated meters from 8:30am - 5:30pm Monday - Friday. ... One of the reasons for the change was a theory that downtown service workers were taking all of the evening parking and thus displacing paying customers.

In reality, there is a ton of paid parking downtown so nobody is being turned away for a lack of a spot. even when an estimated 200,000 people were downtown for the peak day of SXSW, very few of the garages were full.

Bacon Takedown
w/ Bacon Takedown 3-5pm (3p)
Sunday, March 13 / Door: $10, Advance: $10