Now Streaming in Austin: The Bob Zula Returns

Coming-of-age comedy-drama comes to Amazon

"...Welcome to Now Streaming in Austin, highlighting locally made titles to watch while..."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Broadway in Austin Announces 2024-25 Season

Corn, kindness, and the boy who never grew up come to the Bass

"...The best of Broadway keeps making its way to Austin, with Texas Performing Arts announcing..."

March 5, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: Fireflies in the Garden

Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts, and Willem Dafoe get weepy

"...Welcome to Now Streaming in Austin, highlighting locally-made titles to watch while self-quarantining...."

March 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...$1,500 was a lot of money in 1990. When the city of Austin required liability insurance..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Highs and lows from Austin’s stages in their first real post-pandemic year

"...After theatres shuttered in 2020 due to the pandemic and attempts at reopening..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Heavy Lifting: The Hammond Organ Has a Special Place in Austin ... I Should Know

Austin's an epicenter for an instrument that stopped being manufactured 47 years ago

"...sound, the versatility, the power, the dynamics. I've been inspired by the players that have played and still play..."

April 1, 2022 Music Feature by Red Young

The Past, Present, and FuturX of Latinx Performance in Austin

The current surge of Latinx theatre and dance in Austin speaks to both tradition and pioneering new directions

"...This past Friday, I was talking with a fellow theatregoer at the Mexican American Cultural..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Arts Feature by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

Review: Broadway in Austin's Hamilton

This national touring production doesn't throw away its shot

"...Seriously, y’all. It’s finally here. The Hamilton tour has come to Austin...."

May 30, 2019 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

Eight Places in Austin to Drink With Your Dog

Happy hour is more fun with Rover

"...Punxsutawney Phil may have said we’ll be seeing six more weeks of winter, but he obviously hasn’t..."

Feb. 13, 2017 Food Post by Sierra Diaz

Now Streaming in Austin: 'An Uncomfortable Woman

New short film makes perpetual unease the villain

"...There's an old saying: just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out..."

Feb. 3, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bob Dylan Puts an End to “Rough and Rowdy Ways” With Two Nights in Austin

Triumphant world tour concludes at ACL Live at the Moody

"...On March 1 in Fort Lauderdale, Bob Dylan was a few songs into..."

April 8, 2024 Music Post by Shawn Badgley

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Pretty Woman: The Musical

Imitation isn't always the sincerest form of flattery

"...on your lips, but “why?” will be the question in your head while sitting through the mediocre, musical makeover..."

Jan. 18, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Scratch Acid Makes Rare Appearance in Austin on Saturday… to Recount Escapades Past

Bradford, Sims, and Washam pop up at David Yow’s interview show

"...For the first time in ten years, all four members of Scratch Acid were..."

July 10, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Productions and performances, from the fantastic to the unfortunate

"...on a live theatre production, it's often one brief shining moment that we recall – an instant when a..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Penfold Theatre Gives Live Readings of Radio Plays in the Ransom Center Archives

The company has dusted off radio adaptations of Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, and Thackeray for the 21st century to hear – live

"...we last heard from Penfold Theatre Company, it was bringing the future into the present, having a scientist 100..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...off your trench coat, and get wise. Noir City Austin is blowing into town, and is set to put..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Elliott Smith Doc Debuts in Austin

Heaven Adores You scores a limited run

"...Last week, the world glimpsed insight into the life and death of Kurt Cobain, thanks..."

May 13, 2015 Screens Post by Neph Basedow

Tyler, the Creator Returns to Austin

Odd Futurist on his Austin arrest, a new app, and ice cream

"...The last time Tyler, the Creator performed in Austin, during a day show at the Scoot Inn..."

June 3, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...It was a haunting image: a woman in an enormous white bed, in..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

On the Stage, On the Screen: Austin's Theatres Embrace a Virtual Future

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

"...thousands of years, audiences have craved the immediacy, the intimacy, the very there-ness of the stage. It's survived the..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Playhouse's Holmes and Watson

The joy in this staging of Jeffrey Hatcher's play is seeing the good doctor deduce which of three Sherlocks is the real deal

"...There's no killing Sherlock Holmes...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Playback: Austin Musician Union Overthrown

Local 433 hangs in the balance, a new hit for Fastball, and End of an Ear begins its new lease on life

"...Austin's oldest organized music entity suddenly hangs in the balance...."

Oct. 21, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Cinemaker Space Reopens For the Community

Collaborative studio/workspace charts a post-pandemic future

"...There’s an obvious sign that Austin Cinemaker Space, the creative collaborative space in East Austin,..."

June 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

History in the Emulsion

The physical history of Austin can be traced through the movies that have been filmed in the city over the decades

"...caveat that has always been a part of life in Austin – no matter when you first showed up..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Hard Luck in Heritage Heights

Renters in Eastside housing project feel misled, misused by the city.

"...Deborah Thompson moved into East Austin's Heritage Heights subdivision in March 1994 with..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Jessica Chapman

Deep in the Art

How In the West Became Deep in the Heart (of Texas)

"...In the summer of 1985, troupe members of Austin's avant-garde..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...Psst, hey. You hear the latest Austin Chronicle Power Rankings dropped? You’re looking right at ’em,..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It

House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form

"...Door hosted house music history. A more electronic and minimalist offshoot of the disco revolution preceding it, the genre..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Watch This: The Lonesome Heroes Vamp Out in “Cloak and Dagger”

Local Americana Trippers Go Full “Thriller” in Halloween Treat

"...upon us this weekend, and to help get us in the mood, The Lonesome Heroes delve into the dark..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Big Gay Musical Brings Queer Comedy to Austin

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll leave dusted in glitter.

"...Looking for a comedy to spice up your Saturday? Something..."

July 11, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

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