Shanghai Noon

"...Starring: Walt Groggins, Adrien Dorval, Jason Connery, Eric Chen, Xander Berkeley, Curtis Armstrong, Rafael Báez, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu..."

May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Yet Another Reason to Oppose Police Violence: It's Costing Us Millions of Dollars

Money for victims, perpetrators, and alternatives all comes from the same place

"...$8 million in settlements to victims of police violence, and another $800,000 to private law firms brought in to..."

April 23, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

SongwritingWith:Soldiers Helps Write the War After the War

Darden Smith, Mary Gauthier, and other songwriters combat PTSD one song at a time

"...Tenn., the Austin songwriter leans back in his chair and kicks out his long legs...."

Nov. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

DPS Troopers Push Undocumented Immigrants Into a Deportation Pipeline

Spike in traffic stops raises concerns about racial profiling, faulty record keeping, and the damage done to families

"...are rounding up undocumented immigrants on the state's highways and roads and pushing them into a pipeline for deportation..."

June 2, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Standing Witness

On living through the history of AIDS, and seeing a rising rate of infection

"...years after the destruction had already begun in California and New York. Like most trends, the virus took a..."

July 22, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Charles Attal Discusses C3/Live Nation Deal

“We needed each other”

"...Nation acquiring “a controlling stake” in C3 Presents. Myself and two of the three Charlies – Attal and Charlie..."

Feb. 26, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

On Leaving Dove Springs

A meditation on neighborhood, fear, family, and change

"...it wouldn't be found. After carefully securing the laptop and making sure a light was on to give the..."

Aug. 22, 2014 News Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

A Declaration of Independence

Zavala Elementary and Principal Sean Fox are succeeding at going their own way

"...Principal Sean Fox was faced with an emotional quandary. The previous week, a student stole a book from..."

May 9, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...as the Eighties’ first true pop star. Catch him and his crew tonight at the Belmont...."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...And then the word came: The feds had raided a..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Where He Got That Pony

Steven Wright on his inspirations and stand-up origins

"...If stand-up legend Steven Wright didn't exist, I'm not sure anyone..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kicking the Tires at Fleet

City whistle-blower confirms that the trouble at Fleet Services has been much worse than scrap tires and bad record-keeping. And nobody in charge wanted to hear it.

"...show that officials within the city's Fleet Services Division, and many others in City Hall – including former City..."

July 2, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Imaginary Television

A conversation with Graham Parker

"...men" of British rock, often pigeonholed with Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson, songwriters with distinctive, passionate songwriting styles who..."

May 5, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Page Two: Same As It Ever Was

South by Southwest and other lifetime labors of love

"...the single hippest guy in my high school class (then at least a decade behind me), longtime lead singer..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...week after a battle with cancer, was celebrated locally and nationally for his fiction and nonfiction. He also wrote..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Graveyard: Ungrateful Are We the Dead

Graveyard

"...of which guitarists Jonatan Ramm (lead), Joakim Nilsson (rhythm/vox), and Rikard Edlund (bass) spark a firestorm of doomy roar..."

Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Re-Re-Re-Re-Reopening Night

The Ritz: Talkie theatre, cowboy hangout, playhouse, comedy and punk club, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

"...It's 7am, seven days before Día de los Muertos, and 320 E. Sixth is full of ghosts. It's chilly..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

She's Her Own Grandma

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

"...her confirmation on the November ballot as an independent candidate for governor. After waiting more than two months for..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

The New Texas Family Planning

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

"...East Seventh Street clinic, which has offered family planning and reproductive health services to low-income and uninsured women since..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...Austin, News Editor Michael King interviewed writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz and his collaborator, producer Elizabeth Avellán, about the background of..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Finding Their Tuva

The Texas Documentary Tour screens 'Genghis Blues,' the Belic Brothers' next step in living a 'kickass, adventurous life and meeting cool people.'

"...two truly swell stories: the one in the film, and the one about the film told by filmmaker Adrian..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I've been working on a photo project in Kosova and Macedonia. Just before I left the U.S. in mid-September..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Slack Where We Started

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

"...During the summer of 1989, Richard Linklater and a merry band of Austin filmmakers shot the movie..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...of the highest balcony, mainly with the forty-, fifty-, and sixtysomething fans forgotten by contemporary country radio...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

What's In Store

The city's self-storage business is changing as corporate giants push mom and pop operations aside.

"...She rose dramatically, with a fiery sword in her hand and her breasts cupped in golden armor plate. Her..."

Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Sphere of Influence

The creators of Phantasm talk about the amazing success of their work over the years and why on Earth it's been so successful in the first place.

"...it is -- though 1988's Phantasm II was head and shoulders above the original in terms of budget, effects..."

March 31, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Miracle Man

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

"...good stories. After all, that's quite a load of firsthand experience of the genius and madness, the egos and..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Family Drama

Filmmaker Jennifer Fox discusses the seven months she spent with Bill and Karen, an interracial couple at the center of her intimate 10-hour documentary.

"...10-hour documentary is a long documentary to watch. But then think about what went into it: seven months living..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Bending the Rules

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

"...game. Long hours have been logged watching fortunes rise and fall on the roll of the dice, and, finally,..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

A New Social Order

Whither Equinomics?

"...be vetted at a few public hearings, tweaked accordingly, and approved. But nobody except the mayor's office seemed to..."

Aug. 13, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

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