Late on Monday, Aug. 24, Ellis announced that the city clerk’s office informed her that her petition was short by 62 signatures, despite submitting more than the 3,044 required. Her tenure ...

Dave Cortez of the Sierra Club and Robin Schneider of the Texas Campaign for the Environment protested Big Bend border construction at the Texas Parks and Wildlife headquarters on Wednesday, Aug. 19 ...

In June, the city clerk certified Save Austin Now’s petition for the November ballot. The following month, Council approved the selection of an outside firm, Pennsylvania-based Public Works LLC, to ...

Council members Mike Siegel, Ryan Alter, Vanessa Fuentes, Zo Qadri, and José Velásquez at a press conference at City Hall on Tuesday Credit: Brant Bingamon It’s the perfect moment for an easy vote.

Selections from Cristina Velásquez’s “Somos Animales Poéticos” Credit: Dougherty Arts Center With the deft fingers of a skilled weaver, photographer Cristina Velásquez spins stories from captured ...

Frank Beard, legendary longtime drummer of ZZ Top, died on Monday,. Born in Frankston, Texas, the famously beardless backbone of the Southern boogie rock group spent time living in Austin and Houston, ...

Resistance is the root of nonprofit Red Salmon Arts and their Casa de Resistencia Books store – it’s right there in the name. This year’s Austin Latinx Micro-Book Festival is a celebration of ...

He called Austin Energy and San Antonio’s CPS Energy “monopolies that drive up costs for Texas families and small businesses,” and argued that customers could “save more than 10%” if they could shop ...

Divine Feminine is a nifty term. I’m picturing a little fairy fluttering through a brightly lit forest; then I blink, and a burlap-clad tradwife appears in my mental viewfinder. The biblical dog ...

I know about the Front Market, but I didn’t know Future Front did that.” Unprompted variations of this phrase filled my ears again and again while reporting this column. In ...

Dominic Sessa has what can only be called a punchable face. “That’s high praise,” the actor laughed.

A nearly 20-year culinary veteran, Christian currently hosts First We Feast’s Hot Kitchen, turning the internet’s most famous hot sauces into dishes you might actually want to eat. He also competed on ...