The 'Chronicle' Endorsements

Our picks for the Nov. 7 election

"...government by any one group. The long-time pattern in American politics has been that midterm elections serve to center..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

Hatching a Plan

Austin's emerging culinary creative class is sharing talent and resources to find the right recipe for success

"...their space in a small strip center at West Mary and South First opened up. At that point, all..."

June 18, 2004 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Secret History of Tuna

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

"...less roots. Now they were in the Mecca of American Theatre, they had a hit, they were being seen..."

April 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hollywood Boulevard

"If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle!"

"...Joe Dante, Allan Arkush; with Jonathan Kaplan, Dick Miller, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Candice Rialson...."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Calling the Shots: Women Behind the Camera

"...AMERICAN PSYCHO..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos: Stories

"...by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Books Review by Marion Winik

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...New Texas Festival: Celebration of American Song Solo recital of American music new and old,..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...tradition, and violence in Texas fiction. There's a Hail Mary, long-touchdown pass of a chapter on football in Texas..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Roll 'Em

March

"...superstar Chow Yun-Fat (still looking to make a big American crossover splash). (Mar. 12)..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unheard Voices

Diverse Stories Break Through

"...in a grossly oversimplified form, an image of the American theatre. It is an institution which has traditionally devoted..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Candyman

Cabrini Green’s monster returns to manifest abiding Black fears

"...to remember that Candyman, arguably the first great Black American horror monster, was originally neither Black nor American. Clive..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Irresistible

"Can't we all just get along?"-style political comedy from The Daily Show veterans

"...Money is a problem in American politics...."

June 26, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Earning the most attention from the group was Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, which..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

Giving a lot of sweet bouquets (and taking their sweet time doing it)

"...2011, to April 30, 2012 – were the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Cate Blouke (theatre), Claire Canavan (theatre),..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sisters of the Skin

A heartfelt community theatre production that aims to rescue a lost tale of Civil War courage

"...the unlikely but true Civil War-era story of slave Mary Bowser, whose owner, Elizabeth "Crazy Bette" Van Lew, is..."

May 18, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

War Stories

From Austin to the Upper Peninsula to Afghanistan and back: Heather Courtney's long journey to arrive at Where Soldiers Come From

"...moment fairly early in Where Soldiers Come From, when Mary Smith, the mother of one of the soldiers, mentions..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Culture Class

The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...3, 2009, to May 2, 2010, were the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Claire Canavan (theatre), Clare Croft (dance),..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fun With Fluoride, Continued

Enviro Board wants answers

"...– hydrofluorosilicic acid – as a hazardous waste, the American Dental Associa­tion's warning against giving fluoride to infants, and..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Karen Kuykendall: In Memoriam

When this performer and friend of the arts died on Oct. 31, the city lost the grandest of its grande dames

"...to know as the restaurant Green Pastures. But when Mary Karen Koock arrived Nov. 19, 1937, it was still..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

She's Her Own Grandma

Carole Keeton Strayhorn – what a long strange trip it's been

"...Commission in 1992 against Barry Williamson in the Republican primary. Williamson went on to beat Democratic rising star Lena..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two

Libby indictment evokes more scapegoating and hypocrisy from the right

"...not just abide but actively delight in hating fellow Americans and blaming half the population directly for all and..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Cesar and Ruben

Ed Begley Jr.'s 'Cesar and Ruben,' a play with music, is a respectful and warm tribute to the life and work of United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez

"...Mary Moody Northen Theatre, through Oct. 9..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Review by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...– the "blue-ribbon committee" to study quality-of-life issues for African-American Austinites, but the community discussion goes on. See "Point..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...reporting: I am not a "former chair" of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. I served as ASNE president..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column

Sunshine State

"...Alexander, Alan King, Richard Edson, Gordon Clapp, Bill Cobbs, Mary Steenburgen, James McDaniel, Timothy Hutton, Mary Alice, Ralph Waite,..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

An Artificial Wilderness

Philip Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles is getting a serious and heartening push from its publisher, Knopf, writes Roger Gathman. Does he seriously think there's an audience for a book that, among other things, explains the strategic deliberations of Napoleon III? "I always conceived a large audience for this book," Bobbitt claims. "I'd be crushed if scholars didn't attend to this book, but I meant it for anybody who wants to keep seriously informed about world affairs."

"...and the Brightest, describing the high point of the American foreign policy hubris, circa 1961, he coined an ironic..."

June 21, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Love's Fire: Flaming Hearts of Youth

Inspired by the sonnets of Shakespeare, the seven plays in Love's Fire are the confession of a love affair with language, and this Mary Moody Northen Theatre production passionately voices that confession with the help of a vigorous young cast of St. Edward's University students.

"...Mary Moody Northen Theatre,..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Add arrangements that cover the entire mini-gamut of the Americana sub-genre. (Cactus Cafe, 8pm) -- Michael Bertin..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

TV Eye

Phil Alden Robinson's Freedom Song, premiering on TNTthis Sunday, is a touching depiction of a small town's grassroots Civil Rights movement; also, cheers to Frasier and jeers for Fox's Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire.

"...and urban areas buffets the small, highly segregated town. African-American teenager Owen Walker (Vicellous Reon Shannon, who currently appears..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Outside Providence

"...films as Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary. Peter Farrelly wrote the novel on which Outside Providence..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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