Cassette Roulette, Some Bitchcraft, and More Arts Events

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"...most innovative dance companies ever to move through Austin’s performative spaces, BLiPSWiTCH joyously invades Austin’s historic Wolf House for..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Dean Fleischer-Camp Brought Marcel the Shell With Shoes On to Life

Inside the secret life of the stop-motion smash

"...by Slate). After his community mysteriously disappears, all save for his grandmother, Nana Connie (Isabella Rossellini), he befriends a..."

July 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 18-24

"...Maugham. Yes! I agree! And that's the perfect message for you to hear right now. If you choose to..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW Film Jury Awards Announced

The Fallout, Lily Topples the World take big wins

"...healing journey of a young girl whose life is forever changed in the wake of a school tragedy. Writer..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Musicians of Color Talk About the Pandemic's Outsized Impact on Their Communities

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

"...last generation to witness Black people being treated like animals, tortured and killed," says Chicago transplant DJ Shani Hebert,..."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

25 Restaurants to Help You Eat Your Way Around the Domain in Austin

Sips, bites, sweets, and other food options from around the globe

"...The explosion of options for sips, bites, and sweets at the Domain – separate..."

July 5, 2019 Food Feature by The Food Staff

News Roundup: Can't Stop the Rain

Or the Lege, for that matter

"...• Flooding continued yesterday, May 25, causing road closures, forcing some to leave their homes, and leading the Town..."

May 26, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...that Texas and Austin in particular are represented in force in this year's South by Southwest Film Festival lineup,..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Yes, You Could Totally Meet Grumpy Cat at SXSW

And here's an interview with the people behind the varmint

"...Austin this week to 1) star in some videos for Friskies, and 2) amplify her meme cred with a..."

March 8, 2013 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Music Deportment

The Live Music Task Force recommends a Music Department under Austin government. Time for the Austin music community to put its many heads together.

"...The venue has become a linchpin of Red River, transforming a continually failing club space into a local indie..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Wish List

Give 'til it helps: Part 1

"...Before the holiday beast devours us whole with its consumerist..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Features Feature

Naked City

"..."If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?" – Late-night..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...I used to be a regular at G/M Steakhouse for my morning paper, coffee, conversation, and cigar ["Food-o-File," Food,..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...trash can and turn them into droll, post-punk salves for the broken-hearted. Similar in sparseness, Scout Niblett's heartfelt missives..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

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"...However, we are lacking much evidence for evolution on a grand scale (or, macroevolution), for example,..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

Sergei's Big Score

Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.

"...that it be matched with a score that does for the ear what the picture itself does for the..."

May 23, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are women like? What is time like?..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Only Natural

The Texas Memorial Museum decides to focus on its natural history roots.

"...at the north end of the Capitol, was built for people comfortable with the noisy bustle of a shopping..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...contact e-mail, no respond-to address. He certainly has chutzpah. For those of you who are not from New York,..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Checking up on SIMS and their $216K, checking in on Lyle Lovett's broken leg, and Tyler Harwood checks out of the Zulu as Kono and the Peenbeets.

"...Being for the Benefit Of ......"

April 5, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naked City

"...Richardson Hall, LBJ School of Public Affairs). Speakers include former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, farmers Percy Schmeiser and..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...concerning the natural world could ultimately provide the impetus for its preservation. By contrast, he said, journalism and nonfiction..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Armchair Adventures

"Good adventure books do the same thing as a good adventure," Chronicle writer Dan Oko writes in this roundup of recently published adventure books.

"...and help you to appreciate a little more the comforts of home. Depending on the type of adventure and..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Dan Oko

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"...of the Chronicle, raises several questions about the FBI's actions during the 51 day siege of the Branch Davidian..."

July 14, 2000 Column

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Still Pissed

"...us with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a variety of fluorescent products. We encourage you to..."

July 9, 1999 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...For more than a decade, the proposed Austin Museum of..."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Feature

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

"...weirdness (which isn't really all that weird) laid bare for all the world to poke fun at. If Glen..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

News Boss

"...a painful experience. In a community that is known for being so well-read and politically involved, the local daily..."

July 11, 1997 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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Welfare Coverage Excellent

"...the Chronicle's excellent coverage of the fallout from welfare reform. More than 38,000 elderly and disabled legal resident immigrants..."

July 4, 1997 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Chasin' the Clouds Away

"...Fest, which raised a sizable stash of canned goods for the Capital Area Food Bank. (I should take this..."

April 18, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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