UPDATED: The Iron Bear Moves to Sixth Street
Austin’s only bear bar gets a new address, kitchen
Top 10 Most-Read Screens Stories of 2019
Rooster Teeth, Rooster Teeth, and more Rooster Teeth
Hustling Uncut Gems With the Safdie Brothers
How their family history glistens in their New York story
The One-Man Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Park Conspiracy
“Do you see it? Cuz if you don’t, then I’m crazy.”
Life as a Camgirl
Cam creator Isa Mazzei on her new autobiography
This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: Climate Emergency, and a Calamitous Conclusion to Star Wars
Texas Impact talks COP 25, plus our review of The Rise of Skywalker
Top 10 Most Read Reviews of 2019
Superheroes, the supernatural, and some Texas faves
Grandma Steven: Austin’s Very Own Golden Girl
This bearded queen is not your average nana
Bombshell
Finding sympathy in Fox’s #MeToo moment by ignoring everything else about Fox
Spies in Disguise
This kid-friendly animated spy romp is for the birds
Cats
You can’t teach old Cats new tricks
Black Christmas
Redo of horror classic rejects subtext for political message
Uncut Gems
Sandler and the Safdies take a roller-coaster through the NYC Diamond District
Little Women
Relish the contemporary touches in this new version of Alcott’s classic
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The saga ends … in fan service
A Hidden Life
Malick’s Nazi-era drama sees the heart and soul overriding the State
AFS Announces Short Film Grant Recipients
Society breaks $2 million in assistance to filmmakers
Chronicle Critics Choose Their Top 10 Local Albums
10 lists by 10 of our music writers
Qmmunity: The Queer Stories That Made 2019
Looking back, enjoying gelato, and the return of Middle School Dance Party
Kimberley Jones’ Top 10 Films of 2019
1) Parasite Heist thriller. Pratfall comedy. Primal yell. Multitudes, y’all. 2) Marriage Story Gutting, yes, but also the kind of generous and melancholy comedy Mazursky was master of. 3) Portrait of a Lady on Fire A sumptuous, slow-burn romance anchors a larger portrait of women bound together as second-class citizens. 4) I Lost My Body…
Austin’s Best Live Music Performances of 2019
The bands and venues that kept our critics on their feet
Food Editor Jessi Cape’s Top 10 Austin Bites
Conscious craving has always been
Josh Kupecki’s Top 10 Films of 2019
1) Monos Imagine watching the most compelling fireworks exploding right in front of you. Now sustain that feeling for two hours. 2) Parasite A delicious and delightful dissection of greed, interdependence, and pizza boxes. It’s also nice to have a good house with a coffee table to hide under. 3) Portrait of a Lady on…
2019’s Big Stories Shaping Austin’s Path Into a New Decade
Never a slow news day
Top 10 Austin Veggie Burgers
All the taste, none of the meat
Matthew Monagle’s Top 10 Films of 2019
1) Uncut Gems Enter the Sandman (into awards season). 2) Portrait of a Lady on Fire Uncontrived, unconventional, unforgettable. 3) One Cut of the Dead “Seriously, don’t turn it off yet, I promise.” 4) Honeyland Almost too perfect in its narrative structure. 5) The Nightingale Arguably the year’s toughest watch (in a good way). 6)…
All Lit Up
The books we marked in 2019
The Top 10 Overlooked Central Texas Breweries of 2019
Grab a beer off the beaten path
Marc Savlov’s Top 10 Films of 2019
1) Monos ¡Silencio! Niños peligrosos jugando! 2) Parasite Class warfare, South Korean style. Bong (Joon-ho) hits all around! 3) Tigers Are Not Afraid “We are princes. We are warriors. We are tigers.” (They are children.) 4) Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood He’s Rick fucking Dalton, she’s Sharon Tate. They’re in movies. 5) Raise…
Rosalind Faires’ Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019
Here’s to a year of rollicking adventures, laughing, weeping, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end
Top 10 Ways to Eat Corn in Austin
We’re thinking outside the cob
Richard Whittaker’s Top 10 Films of 2019
1) The Souvenir A quiet, autobiographical tale of the trauma of lost love, and the unspoken tragedies that define us. 2) Waves Trey Edward Shults’ story of a family in collapse isn’t a film: It’s a roaring beast. 3) Avengers: Endgame C’mon, you know you love it 3,000. 4) Once Upon a Time … in…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of December 19, 2019
Jay Trachtenberg’s Top Books of 2019
From the social upheaval of the Sixties to the double life of an intelligence agent to the secular past of an Orthodox rabbi, splits resolved into memorable books
Austin’s Top 10 Lunch Buffets
We’ll decide when to say “when”
Headlines
Missing: Heidi Broussard and her infant Margot Carey disappeared a week ago. The two were last seen dropping Broussard’s son off at school on Dec. 12; police believe she then returned to her South Austin apartment, where her car and belongings – including the baby’s car seat – remained when her fiancé returned home that…
Robert Faires’ Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019
History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year’s most memorable shows
Zach Theatre’s A Christmas Carol
Zach Theatre’s musical version abounds in great voices, but it may drown out Dickens with songs
Top 10 Quotes From Austin Politics in 2019
The smart, dumb, courageous, and cowardly words from the local and state political arena.
Your Guide to Charitable Giving
How to donate to local nonprofits
Robert Faires’ Top 10 Joys in Dance and Classical in 2019
It was a year in which the bold and the beautiful made strong impressions in dance and music
Ventana Ballet’s The Watchmaker’s Song
Ventana Ballet’s playful take on The Nutcracker lets audiences in on the action and brings a new magic to the familiar ballet
Local Police Train Up on Hate Crime
Matthew Shepard Foundation helps create intra-agency network
Wayne Alan Brenner’s 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019
Kinetic performances and galleries mounting great show after great show kept the year exciting
“Sylvia Benitez: Recalling Memory / The Interior Lay” at Butridge Gallery
The paintings in this solo exhibition depict a place where landscapes are, more than anything, a Texas state of mind
Supreme Court Decision Validates Local Strategies to Decriminalize Homelessness
SCOTUS passes on camping bans
Barbara Purcell’s Top 10 Only-in-Austin Arts Highlights of 2019
The year seen through a lens of the city, upending the expected and lifting up the unusual
Soccer Watch
For the third year in a row, the top two local stories are Austin’s two pro soccer teams, but boy, have things changed. Austin FC, set to become the city’s first major league sports team, went from nonexistence to breaking ground on their sold-out stadium, while Austin Bold FC fulfilled their promise to bring pro…
City Sued Over Land Use Code Revision
Homeowners, neighbors want to protest rezoning
Trey Gutierrez’s Top 10 Moments That Left Audiences Speechless in 2019
The year celebrated through moments when performers stunned their audiences into silence
Day Trips: Top 10s
A look back at 2019
2019 Sees Decline in Texas Executions
Still, concerns of the fairness and accuracy of the state’s death penalty system remain
Photo Finish
Our staff photographers choose their favorite photos of 2019
Elizabeth Cobbe’s Top 10 Arts Entrances of 2019
It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive
Top 10 Gas Station Taquerias in Austin
Fuel up with the unofficial food of Central Texas
Election Ticker: Marching Toward 2020
The latest from the local campaign trails
Top 10 Hits of the 86th Texas Legislature
What antics did those state senators and representatives get up to this year?
The Austin Chronicle Top 10 Films of 2019
Parasite takes the top slot in our critics’ year-end review
The Luv Doc: Top 10 Things in Austin That Will Ruin Your Relationship
Or, how to find out if your love is double-donkey strong.
Top 10 Local Video Games
From battlegrounds to the bathroom, here are our favorite Austin games
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Detectives were sometimes called “gumshoes” because they purposefully wore soft-soled shoes made from gum rubber to make less noise when approaching suspects. They’re making concrete with hemp and calling it “hempcrete.” Longyearbyen, a town on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, has the world’s northernmost graveyard, but burials there were banned…
Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2019
1) Marriage Story This perfect meld of story, direction, and performance skips fluidly between anguish and delight. 2) Pain and Glory Almodóvar’s most personal film is also his most profound. 3) Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood This time, Tarantino’s fractured-history fable is a story of love rather than retribution. 4) Jojo Rabbit Irreverent…
Top 100 Austin Records of 2019
Kevin Curtin unveils his third annual list of local releases
Faster Than Sound – Beerland & Beyond: The Year in Music News
Squeezing out the decade’s end in local music headlines
Steve Davis’ Top 10 Films of 2019
1) Parasite The class struggle cast as both comedy and tragedy. All hail Bong Joon-ho! 2) Long Day’s Journey Into Night Audacious puzzle with an hourlong dream sequence shot in a single take. Mulholland Drive times 10. 3) Marriage Story Hilarious one minute, devastating the next. Love ultimately rules in Noah Baumbach’s scenes from a…
