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Austin Monitor Radio: The City of Austin and its music policies
Austin Monitor freelancer Chad Swiatecki chats with guests Amy Lombardi and Rick Carney about the City of Austin’s live music policies. Post is embedded below:
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 30, 2017
New Rodeo Austin chief calls Expo Center expansion 'a no-brainer'
With a deep banking and private investment background as well as an extensive business network throughout Texas, new Rodeo Austin CEO Rob Golding could be an important dealmaker in the long-brewing effort to conduct a grand revamp of the Travis…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 18, 2017
Council expected to take up agent of change and entertainment licenses in March
Regulations for live music venues throughout Austin appear to be changing both very quickly and remarkably slowly. At Monday’s meeting of the city’s Music Commission, the dominant topic was the long-proposed “agent of change” principle that is intended to reduce…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 10, 2017
Hopes for music industry growth fuel first omnibus resolution
For all the focus Mayor Steve Adler and others in city government have put on the health of Austin’s music economy in recent years, it’s easy to lose sight of what it means to be a “working musician” in Austin…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 9, 2017
With $90 million up for grabs, Visitor Impact Task Force faces hefty charge
The city’s new Visitor Impact Task Force hopes to accomplish several goals in the next four months, all of them having to do with how the city can best grapple with the growing number of tourists coming to Austin each…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 20, 2016
Liquor tax cut a top priority for music venue lobbying group
Music venues in Austin are lining up to try to get their state liquor tax rates reduced in a bid that’s being presented as a needed step to preserve clubs and bars that heavily promote live music. The effort is…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 15, 2016
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Armed with cash, group looks to encourage arts spaces among developers
The Austin Creative Alliance will step up its efforts to encourage developers to carve out arts spaces in Austin thanks to a gift that is expected to fuel a five-year push at City Hall and throughout the city. The group…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Nov 17, 2016
Creative summit spurs talk of arts bond
With growth and development touching every corner of Austin, and rents and property values increasing as a result, boosters in the local arts community want business and political leaders to think big about how to preserve creative spaces for years…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 17, 2016
Curfew relief in sight for Red River music venues
A handful of music venues along Red River Street between Sixth and 10th streets could soon have a later sound curfew for outdoor music. On Monday, the Music Commission unanimously passed an item that venue owners and other music boosters…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 7, 2016
City lands $10 million "minibond" agreement to save endangered music venues
The city of Austin will team up with private investors to save some of the city’s most iconic — and increasingly economically distressed — music venues through a new program announced prior to Thursday’s City Council meeting. Mayor Steve Adler announced…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Sep 23, 2016
Austin's 'big three' parks to see fewer events
The number of festivals and large events at Austin’s highest-profile public parks could decrease in the coming years if City Council follows through on recommendations expected from the Parklands Events Task Force. Shifting usage away from the city’s “big three”…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Sep 20, 2016
Saving Austin music with words, if not dollars
Of the many long looks, panel discussions and reports that have examined the fragile state of Austin’s music economy and culture over the past 18 months, few were as fortunately timed as last week’s guest lecture/panel event “The Crisis in…
