Austin Playwrights

The playwrights of Austin Script Works are continuing to gain ground in their takeover of the American theatre

"...The playwrights of Austin Script Works are continuing to gain..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Feature

Texas Performing Arts Crosses Media for 2024-25 Season

Works by David Byrne, Conspirare, Twyla Tharp, and more

"...The Bass Concert Hall will ring with music, resonate with..."

May 14, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Kirk Watson Resigns From Texas Senate

Former Austin mayor jumps ship for academia, effective April 30

"...Kirk Watson, Austin's well-liked former mayor and its District 14 rep in the Texas Senate since..."

Feb. 18, 2020 News Post by Kimberley Jones

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Fri. 16, Hotel Vegas Annex, 8:55pm Frank Smith and Grape St. alum Aaron Sinclair moved under his own..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

How Do You Formulate a Grand Prix?

The race to nail down an F1 deal involves multiple entities

"...Five months ago, Austinites heard the surprising announcement that Formula One motor racing is coming..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Very High Speed

The who, what, where, when, and why of Formula One racing

"...The sound of a Formula One car is like hornets..."

July 9, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

It's a great time to get out and explore

"...to Big Bend, a popular swimming hole opens for the season, and there are lots of fun things to..."

May 5, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Clear As 'Mud'

Writer/director Jeff Nichols dishes the dirt on his third feature

"...Jeff Nichols makes films that are very personal and precise yet universally identifiable. These films have furrows that..."

April 26, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...– say, an unlikely place for a crowd to gather, like a broccoli farm or the bottom of the..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

"...When it comes to getting Texas the respect it deserves in the world of literature, there's..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Books Review by R.U. Steinberg

Indie Meme Review: Last Film Show

Astounding paen to movies, childhood, and change

"...The Lumiere Brothers. Eadweard Muybridge. David Lean. Stanley Kubrick. Andrei..."

April 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Do Go On, Mr. Gunn

An extended transcript of our chat with Tim Gunn

"...The Chronicle recently chatted up Project Runway fixture Tim Gunn..."

April 12, 2012 Screens Post by Andy Campbell

Working-Class Hero

Is Michael Fracasso's Austin's best kept musical secret?

"...SXSW 04 showcase took place 1am Friday morning at the Lounge, West Fourth Street, which is not really a..."

April 23, 2004 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Fiddling While Texas Burns

The fight over "tort-reform" is masking a bigger battle over state priorities.

"...My favorite moment thus far in the unending Texas House "tort-reform" debate occurred Tuesday afternoon, when..."

March 28, 2003 News Column by Michael King

You Can Leave Your Hat On

The ballad of Mambo John Treanor

"...Rarely does a musician have the privilege of attending his own Antone's tribute, which, particularly..."

July 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Top 15 Austin Breweries

Our semiannual power ranking of local brewhouses

"...Here at the Chronicle we'd love to just make every brewery in..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...Bar 96, 11pm Nearly 15 years on, Austin's Ortiz brothers continue to stoke the fires of hard rock and..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...top 10 lists. Some are relatively easy: Who has the best cheese sandwich, who wrote the best law? It's..."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fighting City Hall

What began as a play for Austin by a Ukrainian playwright has become a dispatch from the front lines of a war

"...with neighborhood associations, local long-range planning initiatives, city commissions, and the like, plus just generally working to keep our..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...The first time Kristin Peterson's husband hit her, she was..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Top 10 Festival Films of 2023 You Haven’t Seen Yet

From the Toxic Avenger to school shootings, the best of the fests

"...This year's festival selections are next year's award winners and blockbusters. So let's look at some of the movies..."

Dec. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Somebody Up There Likes Bob Byington

The writer-director talks about his fifth feature

"...If the release of Somebody Up There Likes Me represents a..."

April 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Final Disposition

The beleaguered Texas Funeral Service Commission once again finds itself mired in controversy

"...state agency has had a more troubled history than the Texas Funeral Service Commission, whose mission is to regulate..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Wharton Dancer

The flourishing legacy of the late Lone Star dramatist Horton Foote

"...And he would have done so during one of the..."

March 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"..."My father told me that birth is real, death is real,..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Wednesday Picks

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts now

"...Tacks, the Boy Disaster..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"..."Starving artists" isn't a term that generates much sympathy these days, bound as it is to images of whiny..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...Suzan Zeder has a dog named Ozma. The dog is 20 years old. "We got her with..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The Rumor Is True..."

May 16, 2003 Column

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 19-25

"...(Feb. 19-March 20): No one had ever proven that there was such a thing as electromagnetic waves until Piscean..."

March 19, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

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