Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...common? Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, and John Hodgman will all be at the 2019 Texas Book Festival, along with..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Celebrate Community and Connection in Austin During Ramadan

Soujouk, samosas, and dinner with Rep. Ilhan Omar and Mayor Steve Adler

"...period as an opportunity to cleanse the soul, engaging empathetically with those less-privileged people for whom deprivation of food..."

May 3, 2019 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

The Witching Hour

Chorus Austin unearthed a vast repertoire of music – gorgeous, frightening, and comedic – that speaks to mortality and the dead

"...seems to have lasted longer than usual, stretching from Halloween to this month's Friday the 13th, an extension of..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Norman Lear to Receive AFF Award

Norman Lear will get AFF Outstanding Television Writer Award

"...just announced Norman Lear, producer of the groundbreaking show All in the Family, as the 2015 recipient of the..."

April 9, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sundance '13: Day Three

Texas brings the party

"...Sundance Film Festival for others when a journalist could practically spend all day just reading all the mail in..."

Jan. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: HAAM-er Time

Being a musician doesn't always come with a choice, and rarely includes health insurance, so HAAM Benefit Day remains paramount

"...makes day jobs somewhat onerous to say the least, especially since the troubadour's path rarely begins as a conscious..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dickens Does Dallas: A Christmastime Visit From the Ghosts of Henny Youngman, Rodney Dangerfield, and Andrew Dice Clay Teaches Me the True Meaning of Cowboys Football

"...I'll admit I'd gotten burned out on my Dallas Cowboys blog. It seemed like I've been making the..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

Sorry, I Wasn't Looking. Could You Kick That Again?

"...This Sunday didn't count, right? Don't tell me they're actually going to record the results of those games, like..."

Nov. 6, 2006 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

Writers on Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez as He Leaves His Post

The retiring editor left deep imprints on all who wrote for him

"...of musical cultures, and told the stories of stars, saints, sinners, martyrs, and underground geniuses. His community service, fulfilled...."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The G'Raj Is Closed, Micklethwait Does Tacos, Sazan Ramen Sizzles, and What's Cooking at 1417?

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds tingling

"...those briskety wraps of goodness were? Voice a big hallelujah, then, for the righteous return of Taco Bronco –..."

July 7, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Grapples With Reopening & Protests

Civil unrest erupts nationwide as Austin clubs begin reopening

"...Overshadowed by civil unrest locally and nationally, Austin bars and music venues continued to..."

June 5, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...director behind local orchestral rock ensemble Montopolis. "I had all these shows throughout Texas cancel, so it then became:..."

June 5, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

aGLIFF 2019 Announces Full Lineup, Including Trixie Mattel Documentary

Gay Chorus Deep South to open jampacked fest schedule

"...out your best red carpet attire! aGLIFF – the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival – has announced..."

July 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ice Pick’s Pies Are Warming Up This Cold Town

Artisanal baker delivers Austin the savory and the sweet

"...remarkably good, we wouldn’t be writing this post at all...."

March 6, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Announces Keynotes

Fest releases full schedule, plus convergence details

"...producer Gale Anne Hurd, and indie icon Joe Swanberg all delivering keynotes. The day also sees the full schedule..."

Feb. 16, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

'The Book of Mormon'

Welshman Mark Evans is on a mission to make you believe he's an all-American prophet

"...The missionaries are finally ringing our doorbells...."

Sept. 27, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: Mother Falcon vs. Scottish Rite Theater

Mother Falcon's open letter to the Scottish Rite, Frontier Bar's transformation into Lost Well, and soul man Bobby Patterson

"...children and eight counselors relocated on foot to the All Saints Episcopal Church, where they completed the remaining three..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...beautiful Latino traditions of misogyny and homophobia when a tall, white, industrialist stranger appears, challenging their place in the..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Notes of a Football Addict (Vol. II)

A roundup of pro and college football

"...The 2010 football season is already one full week old. That alone..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Sports Post by John Razook

NFL Midseason Report

"...few are talking of. The RCA Dome is a smallish stadium, with a lower roof than most of its..."

Oct. 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Halfway Home

The Los Angeles County of Art's exhibition "The Road to Aztlan, Art From a Mythic Homeland" includes a wondrous survey of pre-conquest Mesoamerican art, but when it comes to contemporary Chicano works, the "road" doesn't take us all the way home.

"...Nayarit as the ancestral Aztlan. Whatever its location -- geographically or imaginatively -- its influence on the cultural psyche..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...the school's 24 coaches would be reassigned before next fall, including Tony Castillo, the softball coach and 1961 Johnston..."

May 11, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Public Notice

Today's Menu: Road Kill, Street Pizza, Dillo Stew

"...Mr. Hightower will be Appearing on Tonight's Episode of Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher (KVUE-24), Thu, Oct 23, 11:05pm,..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

In God's Country

Why U2 is the best band ever

"..."Call to me and I will answer you and tell..."

March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

TV Eye

NBC's Boomtown might be bust, while Independent Lens' Foto-Novelas 2 saves the day.

"...Call me old-fashioned, but I love a good story. I'm..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Modern Taste

"There are these conundrums," Steven Watson said at lunch the day before he headed off to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT to try and unravel some of them. Clarifying the enigmas of modernism and avant-garde artists is something that Watson has become quite proficient at.

"...proficient at. In 1999, Random House published Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American..."

April 13, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Book Reviews

"...riddle the novel: van Eyck, Bosch, Fouquet, Wiertz, and especially Egon Schiele...."

April 2, 1999 Books Review

'The NFL Beat': Bye Week Bros

Fantasy fill-in friends

"...you turn to your boys, and if the fantasy football season were MarioKart, we'd be on the level with..."

Nov. 3, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Football Watch

Texans grab headlines, Cowboys lose a close one, and more

"...the face of Titans CB Cortland Finnegan after he literally went for Johnson's throat. No suspensions were handed down,..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan

A Super Bowl to Remember

Who Dat nation rejoices

"...I was born in 1968. The Saints were founded in 1967. Previous to yesterday we had..."

Feb. 8, 2010 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

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