Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...and Butt-head Do America, One Fine Day, My Fellow Americans, Scream, The Crucible, Sling Blade, Joseph Conrad's The Secret..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...of color in more active roles in our country's history. A few highlights:..."

Nov. 15, 1996 News Feature

Home, Sweet Home

(Or Slum, Slum, Slum?)

"...today's overheated real estate market. The company developing the project, Global Southwest Development, Inc., can keep prices low because..."

Feb. 16, 1996 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Standing Rock Pipeline Protests Bring New Life to Old Struggles

“It’s about all of us”

"...if they are expecting costumed entertainment similar to the history lessons two musketed men in period Western garb are..."

Sept. 30, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Critics Table award process this year were the Austin American-Statesman's Andrew J. Friedenthal (theatre), Claire Canavan (theatre), Luke Quinton..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

New Austin Show Celebrates the Lighter Side of Ethnic Assimilation

Lucky Chaos Theatre’s Leng Wong tells us about Living on the Hyphen

"...ah, let’s begin at the beginning. Who started this project?..."

March 28, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...In the short doc category, Amy Grappell will screen..."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Truth Seeker

Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white

"...international magazines as a photojournalist. Wanting to tell a story with greater complexity than an immediate editorial deadline would..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"..."The district attorney is a woman – how cool..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature

Happenings

March 27-April 3

"...ROBIN HAHNEL The American University economics professor gives two talks questioning the assumption..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Jazzin' Up Catfish Row

After 70 years, Zach creates a Porgy and Bess for Austin

"...both accessible and sophisticated, satisfying but enigmatic. A love story set in a fictional tenement on the waterfront in..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

Developing Stories: Northcross Neighbors to Wal-Mart: You don't want us as enemies

"Responsible" development sought for flagging mall

"...input. RG4N members feel an urgency to halt the project quickly; demolition at Northcross is scheduled to begin Jan...."

Dec. 8, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Understanding Islam

Steve Moore's latest play makes a pilgrimage to the truth of a misunderstood faith

"...the same soil as the faiths embraced by most Americans, its roots inextricably entwined with Judaism and Christianity, but..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All 'Round Republic Square

A new context of major civic buildings may yet make a people place of our historic downtown park

"...the new federal courthouse to the west. The courthouse project includes a large public plaza that will flow into..."

Sept. 1, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Maybe She's Born With It

Texas Documentary Tour: Liz Mermin's 'The Beauty Academy of Kabul'

"...New York Times about the upcoming Beauty Without Borders project and wondered whether anyone was making a film about..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...because they were so pleased in how quickly the project in front of them was finished. I am a..."

June 25, 2004 Column

As Theatre for Children Matures

In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too

"...found their own companies. In Austin, companies such as Project InterAct, Pollyanna Theatre Company, and Second Youth Family Theatre..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Even if a current criminal probe turns up no fire, Austin's minority contracting program has never lacked for smoke and heat.

"...never been met, despite the wave of new city projects spawned of the boom and the billion-dollar 1998 bond..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The MACC: Back on Track, or Under Attack?

The city approves a new board for the Mexican-American Cultural Center -- and the center's previous shepherds cry foul.

"...Twenty years in the making, Austin's multimillion dollar Mexican-American Cultural Center is nearly under way; groundbreaking at the..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

"...from you and the Chronicle after last week's cover story, "The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King" [Aug. 2]...."

Aug. 9, 2002 Column

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...Houston-based magazine ArtLies, Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator of Latin American Art at UT's Blanton Museum of Art, reacted to..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...a people, far beyond the music, and telling the story of the music helps us understand ourselves in a..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Down Came the Rainey

With downtown redevelopment encroaching and property values the highest they've ever been, Rainey Street residents are getting ready to cash in their chips and leave.

"...proceed with plans for a very, very big redevelopment project along Rainey. How big? Several hotels, office buildings, a..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Down & Out in Atlanta

The Official Crock of the '96 Summer Olympics

"...nowhere, the network brass pulled the plug on the project. I'd been counting on six months of steady work,..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Features Feature by Jonathan Hennessey

Classical Revival at the Blanton

The Art of the Deal

"...on the short list, and there may be no American architect who outdoes McKinnell at satisfying university regents and..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Readers hash over the war on drugs in response to an AISD principal's being busted for marijuana possession.

"...by Carroll O'Connor on Politically Incorrect several days ago: Americans love to punish. To paraphrase again: We are a..."

April 21, 2000 Column

Council Watch

Council moves out of City Hall annex, addresses the needs of poor, examines csc's record on hiring minority contractors, approves neighborhood proposal for the chamption tract, names a designer of the Mexican American Culture Center.

"...the locals in recent months. From CSC to the Mexican-American Cultural Center to social equity to the much-belabored Champion..."

Jan. 21, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Reflections

"...AMERICAN HOLLOW Dir/prod: Rory Kennedy; DP: Nick Doob; Ed: Adam..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

The Primary Source

"...History is subjective. It's the perception of events that can't..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...much-heralded residential developers, Post/West Properties, pulled out of the project. Word of the Post departure spread like wildfire Tuesday,..."

Dec. 18, 1998 News Feature

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