Playback: Everyone Keeps Asking Me for ACL Fest Passes

Here's why ...

"...all ask: "Hey man, any chance you can score me a pass to ACL Fest?"..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Get Your Kicks With 'American Daredevils'

New History Channel show stars local thrill-seeker Dr. Danger

"...it “as though it was a grain silo or something,” Danger instead plummeted downward, crashing his ambulance and mangling..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Chase Hoffberger

Discovering the American Brunch in Austin

A Monterrey Transplant Takes on Austin's Bustling Brunch Experience

"...about Austin's brunch scene in a magazine that I became curious about what I was missing...."

Aug. 2, 2012 Events Post by Bere Belmares

After a Fashion: American Idle?

Let Your Style Avatar's personal plight be a warning to you about the dangers of ... reality TV

"...watch reality shows as penance. My mom's addicted to American Idol, so I watch it with her regularly. Idol,..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Help Me Help You

Career advice and self-help evangelism at SXSW

"...financial concern, not just clerical workers, waitresses, and factory men but CEOs as well. And don't forget film critics...."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

American Ho

An old friend from work turns up in a very different occupation

"...A woman knows where her breasts are at all times. If her nipples were rubbing against my arm –..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Guys Like Me

Was America Really Made for Dick Price?

"...and No Place to Go," Dick Price claims that America was made for guys like him:..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Meet Me in the Bathroom

NYC millennial music doc is as rambling as the city

"...After watching Disintegration Loops, David Wexler's documentary about avant-garde composer William Basinski's sonic response to 9/11,..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

I Carry You With Me

Biographical romance picks apart loving someone from loving a memory of them

"...to get lost in. In I Carry You With Me, director Heidi Ewing’s first foray into narrative filmmaking replicates..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

American Dream Turning Into Nightmare

"...war in Iraq has signaled the low point in American history and culture. The neo-con warlords (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld,..."

April 19, 2004 Postmarks

Five Essential Films at the Austin Asian American Film Festival

Across nations and diasporas, AAAFF explores the most intriguing, experimental, and entertaining movies from Asian filmmakers

"...“When You Left Me on That Boulevard”..."

June 23, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: The American Disparagement

Of what to us is the Fourth of July? Reading the room and rethinking democracy.

"...an important election year, here in the season of American independence, and around my ears talk has turned to..."

July 8, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Jennifer Higdon, American Voice

One of this nation's most acclaimed and active composers, on our rich melting pot of music

"...nation's concert halls have been ruled over by one American composer: Leonard Bernstein. (That's what happens when you hit..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Austin: American Horror Story

What can you say when you can't say "It's Only a Movie"?

"...A close friend called me Tuesday morning and asked plaintively, "Why can't I stop..."

Oct. 14, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Gay Marriage American Catholic Style

American Catholic church celebrates marriage equality

"...has dawned here in the United States," says Father Jayme Mathias during a special Saturday mass greeting at Southeast..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Humana Festival of New American Plays

A report from Louisville, where Austin theatre artists stood tall

"...The Rude Mechanicals are glad to be home, but man, leaving Kentucky..."

April 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Watch This: Indoor Creature Follows Ben Franklin in “American Dream”

New music video tracks a breezy, satirical cash grab

"...brainstorming visual concepts to accompany Indoor Creature’s forthcoming video, drummer Travis Kitchen brought up L'Argent...."

April 1, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It

House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form

"...are predominantly white and the sound reflects that in mechanical tech house, Burning Man-style hippie EDM bangers, and dungeon..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Take Two Aspirin and Ping Me in the Morning

Heath care: an oral future

"...Translating a message that might save mankind, John Nosta sounds like one..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Don't You Start Me Talking

Michael Corcoran sounds off on his recent retirement

"...Twitter changed Michael Corcoran. The sharp immediacy of the micro-blogging platform seemed to spark a renewed..."

June 30, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Bad American

Bill Maher comes out on drink, drugs, and God

"...The author, bachelor icon, and host of HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher recently spoke with the Chronicle in..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

The Hidden Cost of Labor Calculated in Building the American Dream

In the rubble of the NOLA hotel collapse, Chelsea Hernandez's documentary remains relevant

"...issues that Austin filmmaker Chelsea Hernandez chronicled in her documentary Building the American Dream, which debuted at SXSW. By..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

"...are several extraordinary opportunities in this year's Cine Las Americas International Film Festival of the Americas to experience those..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Five Fantastic Fest Flicks From the American Genre Film Archive

AGFA Creative Director Joseph A. Ziemba goes bugnuts with this year’s restorations

"...The American Genre Film Archive – AGFA to its friends –..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Uyghur Skewers Meet the American Dream at Camino Alamo BBQ

Smoke on the West Campus sidewalk

"...[Editor's update: Diego Duan reports that Environmental Health and Safety visited the first week of September,..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Inbetween Girl Comes Home for the Austin Asian American Film Festival

Austin-Made dramedy brings teenage dreams and Sorkin rhythms to the drive-in

"...Inbetween Girl director Mei Makino watched through a long list of warm and..."

June 4, 2021 Screens Feature by Selome Hailu

On the Ground at Austin’s First-Ever African American Genealogy Conference

A community considers its roots

"...In visiting Growing Your Roots 2020: The Inaugural African American Genealogy Conference – the first event of its kind..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Luv Doc: The Hot, Fiery Furnace of American Stupidity

You should never trust the kind of woman who would go on a date with you

"...Been asking some ladies out lately. To my surprise, before said date..."

May 12, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

AFF2012: 'Vampira and Me'

Love bites

"...Woe to the unsuspecting audience member who confuses the subject of R.H. Greene's devastating documentary..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

African-American Book Festival Spotlights Women Writers

Pulitzer Prize-winner Annette Gordon-Reed headlines this year's fest at the Carver Museum and Cultural Center

"...Presidential scholar Annette Gordon-Reed first came to acclaim with Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An..."

June 25, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

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