The Last Border Crossing

Iliana Sosa's trips with her grandfather become touching documentary What We Leave Behind

"...thought my family was very typical. ... I’m Mexican American, and that’s always been our way of life, going..."

March 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Think Globally, Act Locally

Planning for mobility, hoping for democracy

"...States itself – moving to change the arc of history back in its favor, to turn the clock back..."

March 18, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

SXSW Film Review: The Unknown Country

Reality proves more compelling in this mixt of journalism and fiction

"...Tana’s story serves as the vehicle through which The Unknown Country..."

March 14, 2022 SXSW Post by Dina Barrish

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate family its frequently recurring characters) has..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...• Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author Ruha Benjamin, activist..."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A Lively Crowd Seeks the Open House District 51 Seat

The Southeast Seven

"...school she took a job with the first Mexican American woman elected to the Texas House of Representatives, Irma..."

Feb. 11, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

An unmissable lesson in this county's tortured history

"...in America. Considering the reactionary backlash against the 1619 Project and critical race theory, that’s likely to be a..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Michael King

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater's Austin-produced and -animated story of growing up in the shadow of NASA...."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From Stage to Page to Screen: Inside the Script of West Side Story

Tony Kushner explains the process of adapting a classic

"...and it's useless in America. There was no good American-English version of Mother Courage, and I really wanted Meryl..."

Jan. 31, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sound & Color: Four Visual Depictions of Austin's Musical Identity

A whole palette of music-related art happenings of late, from a new Daniel Johnston mural to Bob Dylan's depiction of the Hole in the Wall

"...he meant for it to go on. The continued story, he would call it."..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Friends and Family of the Original Owner of the Armadillo Sign Being Auctioned at Sotheby's Say Sign Was Purchased, Not Stolen, Despite Claims of Armadillo Associates 

Bidding underway for piece of Dillo history

"...The 16-foot long wooden sign, reading “Armadillo World Headquarters..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...Editor’s Note: You often don’t know you’re witnessing history in the moment you’re seeing it, but there’s an..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Jay Trachtenberg’s Top Books of 2021

In a lost year, retrospectives and reprints with new context were comfort reads

"...a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family (New York Review Books,..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Council Slows Staff's Roll on South Central Tax District

Hold back the TIRZ (Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone)

"...district intended to spur redevelopment at the old Austin American-Statesman site and surrounding parcels...."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Opinion: Be Kind With Refugees

Immigrants should be celebrated for the contributions they bring to society, not feared or despised

"...all measures, our family is a great immigration success story. However, this could not have been possible if Venezuela,..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Column by Derrick Bonyuet

Southeast of Austin, an Unarmed Immigrant's Killing Galvanizes a Quest for Justice

Why did Adil Dghoughi die?

"...a hospital in Kyle. One crucial detail from Turner's story proved untrue – Dghoughi had no gun, not on..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Sound Unseen is Blowing Up Your Stream

The hybrid music and movie fest unifies the ATX and the Twin Cities

"...So say you’re a fan of Eighties and Nineties American alt music: You may stream the Texas premiere of..."

Nov. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Field Guide Festival Finalizes Saturday Symposium Programming

Inaugural fest to explore local food systems

"...someone’s identity, and you better believe there’s a whole story there. Of course, issues of sustainability and food access..."

Oct. 20, 2021 Food Post by Kimberley Jones

Q&A: Aharon Keshales Enters Texas Darkness in South of Heaven

Noir, cowboys ... and Ted Lasso?

"...you to making a Texas noir for your first American movie?..."

Oct. 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Spirit Adrift, Luvencie, Jonathan Terrell, American Friend, TSO Jrag with Quin NFN, and Rod Gator

"...ambition and flair ready for big stages. – Doug Freeman American Friend Finds Sound Under Rock..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

AFS Announces 2021 Feature Grant Recipients

Ten projects reflect talent and diversity in Texas film

"...Austin Film Society has awarded 10 feature projects made by 14 directors an AFS Grant for Feature..."

Sept. 7, 2021 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins

LBJ Library at 50: An Interview With Mark A. Lawrence

The Library's current director takes a historian's view

"...authored the award-winning Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War:..."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

aGLIFF Opening Night Film Blitzed! Dances the Night Away

Nightclubbing with Britain's answer to Studio 54

"...a dozen documentaries, but Blitzed! The 80s Blitz Kids Story puts him as part of a scene that changed..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: Ain’t No Highway Wide Enough

TxDOT abandons any pretense of new thinking about I-35. It's time to stop them.

"...Austin: what the agency calls the Capital Express Central project. And sure enough, there we are, under layers of..."

Aug. 20, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Bigger Than Me: The Musical Journey of BLK ODYSSY

A child of funk who lost his brother to police brutality soundtracks a revolution on BLK VINTAGE

"...making, the self-produced debut album shelves overt rock and Americana elements for a sound that lives squarely on the..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

We Have an Issue: Two Questions Inspired by BLK ODYSSY

"...Studios for a listening party, previewing his BLK ODYSSY project's new album BLK VINTAGE. I accepted, but on the..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Column by Kevin Curtin

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...The headliner? Titane, Julia Ducournau's Cannes Palme D'Or award-winning story of sex and cars, will be this year's opening..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...debut, Hycha Wy, a scorched-earth platter of folkloric South American poetry en español set to sulfuric indie rock. "Like..."

July 9, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

With Equity in Mind, Austin Embarks on Bringing Its History Up to Date

So many more stories to tell

"...building on the National Register has a much different story. The Historic Victory Grill – that's its formal name..."

July 2, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

21 Austin Rappers to Know in ’21

A hard-cut list of MCs proving the local hip-hop scene’s legitimacy

"...the heart of a lion on his first two projects. The second of those tapes, Product of 1992, contains..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

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