This Is Who We Are #10: Austin Lyric Opera's Candide

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...ability to experience art in person and with others is presently in lockdown, and we don't know when it..."

May 19, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

'This Is Where I Belong'

How smarts and gumption took Noël Wells from Esther's to 'SNL'

"...Four years ago, Noël Wells was winding up her undergraduate career at the University..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Is PiL

Sex Pistol and PiL frontman John Lydon, by God.

"...John Lydon was born on an island. That's what defines him. Not how he spat on..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

We Live in Public

The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.

"...Directed by: Ondi Timoner. In the early 1980s, Josh Harris, a young, smart, tech-savvy Nerd Yorker, developed an intense..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone' – This Is Not a Review

Celebrities and other people you don't know: Live and in-person.

"...Where else to begin an event recap other than standing..."

March 9, 2013 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Home Is Where the Heart Is

Gayborhood? What gayborhood?

"...with a question: "My clients would always ask me, 'Where is the Austin gayborhood?' and I never really had..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature by Ash Bell

Public Notice: Fun Is Where You Find It

Some things to look forward to(?) this summer

"...Okay, this is sad but, when they said "Sum­mer Fun issue"..."

May 19, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

This Is Your City Budget

More police, vanishing grants, rising costs, and ... Jazzercise?

"...Not too long ago, conventional wisdom held that once City Council received the city manager's..."

Sept. 2, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Letters at 3AM: Where We Actually Live

A nation that lets its infrastructure crumble will wake one fine day to find itself crippled

"...another but don't talk much about facts. One result is that, as a citizenry, we've lost sight of where..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Is Lockhart the Live Music Suburb of the World?

A growing wave of musical expats heads south

"...graduate student and local guitar player was working on his thesis in the anthropology department and had been tipped..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

This Is My Life

LZ Love's reveal: dance music!

"...lifts, and her light brown eyes shine. Her face displays the high, sculpted cheekbones of her mother's family –..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

This Is a Blogpost About Austin's Jennymarie Jemison

Partly because her movie's in the Seattle International Film Festival

"...This blogpost is about Jennymarie Jemison partly because The Quiet..."

May 20, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM: Where We Actually Live: Part II

The country the tea partiers want back no longer exists

"..."One 12-nation study found Americans the least likely to discuss politics with people of different views, and this was..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

This Is Pop?

Pondering the Beatles' Legacy

"...Rehearsal Complex and local Godfather, of sorts. "What's all this nonsense about a Stones vs. Beatles hoot night at..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Music Feature

This Is Your Wake-Up Call

Robert Bly and what's on the line

"...Mystical, political, irascible, brilliant, Robert Bly is one of those uniquely difficult American poets who rejects..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Books Feature by Ric Williams

We Have an Issue: This Is Austin, Sometimes Pretty Swell

A good issue for the reading, and a great Austin Music Awards on the horizon

"...Have you ever had that experience where after someone's been to your home, you walk the..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

This Is America: Part One

Zach's Notes From the Field cast on living black

"...Notes From the Field – an investigation into the school-to-prison pipeline by Anna Deavere Smith – Zach Theatre was..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Johnston High School Is Dead; Long Live ...?

Johnston High will get a new name and perhaps a new lease on life

"...much faster. "On Monday, August 25, when school starts, we will in effect be opening our newest school," said..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Slack Where We Started

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

"...inventive and culturally significant film whose stature and influence is still widely felt. During the summer of 1990, Linklater..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

This Is America: Part Two

More from the Notes From the Field cast on living black

"...Notes From the Field – an investigation into the school-to-prison pipeline by Anna Deavere Smith – Zach Theatre was..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

DVDanger: This Is Halloween

Unconventional horror for the haunting time

"...Everyone has their favorite Halloween movie. Personally, it's the rock 'em, shock 'em glory..."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The TAKS Is Dead! Long Live the TAKS!

Students continue to cram for slow-to-expire high-stakes tests

"...On Monday, June 11, dozens of kids trudged into Travis High School to begin a 21/2-week crash course in..."

June 29, 2007 News Feature by Michael May

This Is a Love Story

Back and forth with Tood Solondz on his new film, 'Palindromes'

"...released three studio films featuring a number of artier A-listers, piled up awards and nominations (particularly for Welcome to..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Gosh, This Is Embarassing

"...Dear Editor, I know there is a taboo against understanding basic economics (abortion is sooo..."

Dec. 21, 2005 Postmarks

That Was Then; This Is Now

The latest version of 'New Art in Austin' shows how much has changed in three years

"...to me that I like cold art. Work that is slick and uses plastic, ink, water, computers, or lights..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Salvador Castillo

Thanksgiving Is Coming, Gourdough’s Is Closed, Gourmand’s Is CTD, We’re Forking Cancer, Another Uchiba Is On Its Way, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...citizen, it’s your "Food News Buffet” for the second week of November in the madding metropolis that liked Twitter..."

Nov. 8, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mi Casa Es Su Teatro: Home is where the art is

Time again to get your theatre outside the theatre and inside someone's home, via FronteraFest's one-day, site-specific fiesta, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro

"...You know, in Austin, home theatre isn't just big-screen TVs and surround-sound speakers. Once a year,..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Is Electroclash

Eighties retro-synth bands like the Faint, Fischerspooner, and Austin's This Microwave World prove that the best way to move forward is to look back first.

"...It was an innocuous Wednesday night performance at Emo's by Chapel Hill's Crooked Fingers,..."

April 25, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

This Is What Mourning Looks Like

Beginners sits shivah, postmodern-style and with profound humor and heart

"...on life for the grieving, now-orphaned son. "There was this real compulsion to do like my dad did and..."

June 24, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Texas Food and Wine Alliance Announces All-Star Chefs Lineup for Live Fire!

And Rick Bayless at Nixta Taqueria even sooner

"...Wine Alliance has revealed their roster of chefs for this year’s Live Fire! shindig at Camp Mabry...."

Feb. 28, 2024 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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