DVDanger: Building The Iron Giant
Tim McCanlies talks behind-the-scenes of the animated classic
Fantastic Fest Wave Three
Multiple monsters, sequels, and regulars (and RZA)
Nisi Shawl Is Crossing the Streams of Fantastical Fiction
The Tiptree-winning author brings her new alt-history to the ATX
Misfits and Ween Incite Riot Fest
Austin’s ones that got away headline in Denver
SXSW Announces Lee Daniels as Film Keynote
Featured speakers, a panel, and some music acts drop
The Q&A Hole Returns!
Because everyone’s got one, right? An opinion, we mean.
New on DVD: Equals
Kristen Stewart sci-fi romance is long on mood and light on plot
Council: No Zombies Before Midnight
City Council hears budget pleas, aids workers, tenants … & zombies
Chronicle Recommends: Films from 1981
Experience cinema from the Chronicle’s founding year
South by Southwest Goes to Washington
South by South Lawn brings music, film, and more to the White House
Rick Perry, Lord of the Dance?
Why would a former Texas governor go on reality TV? Why not?
Chasca Oinks Like Gods
Local crazies’ superstentialistic origin story
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Werner Herzog goes down the internet rabbit hole
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
A doctor unravels the mystery of a child in a coma
Uncle Kent 2
Meta-sequel to the Joe Swanberg film
Nuts!
Stranger-than-fiction doc about an eccentric doctor
Mechanic: Resurrection
Jason Statham returns as the beleaguered assassin
The Light Between Oceans
Gorgeous period melodrama fails to connect
Morgan
An AI experiment goes wrong in this forgettable genre exercise
Little Men
Friendships are tested in this bittersweet coming-of-age tale
Klown Forever
Danish comedy duo head to Hollywood
Game of Aces
World War I thriller gets lost in the desert
Yoga Hosers
Two teenagers battle an army of small sausages
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Natalie Portman adapts Amos Oz’s acclaimed memoir
Soccer Watch
The UT Longhorns posted a pair of 3-1 wins last weekend, over the College of Charleston and Detroit. This weekend they face Sam Houston State, who are 0-4 and lost to both Charleston and Detroit last weekend, at 5pm Friday, and then the 19th-ranked California Bears at 11am on Sunday, Sept. 4. That will be…
Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts
35 years of “keeping it weird”
Casting Director Toni Brock on 30-Plus Years of Putting Texans Onscreen
The role of a lifetime
Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away
The Chronicle at 35
I Like to Watch: Roadies
Softly and quietly, one misstep at a time, by inches and references to things I don’t understand but almost certainly know I wouldn’t like, Showtime’s Roadies became my favorite show of the summer. If you’d told me there was a TV show by the writer/director of Almost Famous in which a wispy, beautiful girl regularly sighed into space about…
Quote of the Week
“This is not conservatism as we have known it. This is not Republicanism as we have known it. These are race-baiting ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas, anti-woman – all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.'” – Hillary Clinton on the rise of extreme right-wing nationalism in the Republican Party
Austin Energy: Rate Cuts Solve Everybody’s Problems
Council votes to approve utility rate reduction
Headlines
The Never-Ending Agenda: City Council meets today (Sept. 1), running at full-tilt budget season speed, with a second public hearing on the budget and property tax rates, discussion of a proposed tenant relocation program, and a showdown over a proposed expedited development permit program – will they be made subject to “Better Builder” worker protection…
Council Preview: Wildhorses, Salamanders, Elephants
Only 51 items on today’s agenda – but plenty of potential land mines
Point Austin: Return on Investment
Austin Energy rate cuts are both a financial and political dividend
Preserving the Food and Beverage Industry With Fermentation
Jason White turns his science chops to gastronomy
Patrick: Cut Costs for Rich Kids
Lt. gov. targets tuition credits, waivers
Public Notice: Good City, Bad City
City staff does some things right, some things wrong
Dear Glutton: Where to Eat on a Rainy Austin Day
Stay dry and have a good meal
EMS Restructures Work Week for Medics
Shifting shifts
Review: L’oca d’oro
Italian concept brings luxury without the pomp
ACC Board Place 9 Race: Not a Snoozefest
Four candidates emerge from extended filing deadline
Gay Place
Post-Pride Week parties aplenty
Court Recognizes Legal Union of Planet K, Ron Paul Sign
Head shop wins five-year battle to display campaign sign on Bee Cave property
The Spirit of the City and the Letter of the Law Collide at Sekrit Theater
Beau Reichert struggles with the city over his backyard arts complex
AISD Sees Uptick in Homeless Youth
Lack of affordability jeopardizes housing stability for Austin families
Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers
We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician
APD’s Lone Female Assistant Chief Retires
Jessica Robledo was the only woman at the executive level during her tenure
Hand to God at Hyde Park Theatre
Capital T Theatre delivers a fast-paced, funny take on this tale of a demonic hand puppet in a church basement
Cop Suspended for Pepper Spraying Handcuffed Arrestee
APD patrol officer Caldwell benched for 45 days
“Goya: Mad Reason” at the Blanton Museum
The images of war in Goya’s prints are brutal and immediate, and it is for this reason that we must look at them
The Hightower Report
When is daylight robbery not a crime?
The Common Law
Eminent domain – the government made a low offer – what next?
The Luv Doc: Every Few Minutes
Far-fetched, hopelessly sad, and embarrassingly pathetic
Seeing Life’s Brevity in the Art Poles of South First
Street art goes vertical in South Austin
Day Trips: Taxidermy
Stuffed and mounted animals may have their place in museums, but they’re kind of creepy
10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music
Local passion projects with singular visions
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Mr. Smarty PantsJoe McDonald of Country Joe & the Fish was named by his parents for Josef Stalin. “Boonta” (pronounced with the oo like “book”) is a South Australian term to describe someone going crazy, getting excited, angry, etc., as in, “I told her what I did and she just went boonta at me!” In…
Defining Terms
Why the Chronicle‘s 35th anniversary is focused on That Word
