Absolutely Confabulous

Austin Public Library's New Fiction Confab focuses on buzz over brawn

"...The New Fiction Confab has a knack for picking winners. Shortly after the first Confab brought five emerging..."

April 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Expressing Himself

How David Bologna made the leap to Broadway and a Tony nomination in Billy Elliot the Musical

"...14, David Bologna had logged a lot of time in a skirt, and he doesn't care who knows it...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Co-Lab Oration

Talking with community arts instigator Sean Gaulager

"...I'm sitting at a wooden picnic table in the well-tended side..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

White Cane Day

Austin to host nation's largest White Cane Day parade

"...As the home to the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Austin should already appreciate the independence..."

Oct. 12, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Object Lesson

In Sherry Kramer's new play, things that are ordinary become magical: flowers, Barbies, even the writer herself

"...We were at Cafe Mundi, having just participated in Etiquette, by the British group Rotozaza..."

May 16, 2008 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

My Favorite Year

In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy

"...department with an alumnus who has a Pulitzer Prize in drama, it's only natural that you'd want to produce..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Just read your terrific article "Fostering Family Values" [May 2]. You wrote: "Unconfirmed hallway rumors..."

May 16, 2003 Column

Cream of the Tech-Top

The Year in Multimedia

"...Top Ten Multimedia Happenings of 1995 Dave Evans, Vice President of Digital Voodoo,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Screens Feature

Austin Gets Compared to a Lot of Cities. But Is Life Better There?

Shopping for home

"...There are plenty of reasons to love Austin and the enormous, unique state it’s part of...."

Feb. 21, 2025 News Feature by Abe Asher

Open Edition

PrintAustin enters its second year with startling growth in scale and scope

"...PrintAustin founders Elvia Perrin and Cathy Savage have transmuted the..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

"...down with David Bologna to talk about his time in the original Broadway cast of Billy Elliot the Musical,..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

On Fifth Street, Mexic-Arte Pushes for Cultural District Designation, Funding

Designation would bring in a $250,000 per year

"...5th Street Mexican American Heritage Corridor plans have been in the works since 2010, aiming to celebrate and preserve..."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

Meghan Shogan Carves a Career Path Through Solid Rock

With hammer, chisels, and steel brushes in hand, the Austin artist is on a trajectory in stone

"...Shogan is a stonecutter. Hammers, chisels, calipers, steel brushes against rough raw rock: Shogan carves stone for her art..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mug Life

Austin isn't a world-class beer destination, but it's close

"...It's difficult to overstate how hungry the Austin beer economy is at the moment. With nearly 50..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Food Feature by Eric Puga

The Texas School Solution: More Guns, Less Money

Post-Sandy Hook bill would put teachers in firing line

"...Last session, Texas cut $5.4 billion out of public school funding. And now the gun lobby not only..."

Dec. 26, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Designed To Fail

As Pearce may face another repurposing, AISD gets excited about single-sex schools

"...afternoon at the James E. Pearce College Preparatory Academy. In the main office, a grandfather is worrying about his..."

Nov. 18, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: SXSW and 2011 Chicago International Movies & Music Festival

Part One: My Beginnings and Chicago

"...It's been an odd time of late. My main jobs at the Chronicle and South by Southwest involve..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The Cool Keeps On

Fourteen years after AICN woke up the Web, three Austin film sites carry on the tradition

"...In the beginning, the Geek God rolled an errant dolly..."

June 18, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Revolution of Spirit

Ritual jazz theatre pioneer Sharon Bridgforth premieres a new work, her last in Austin

"...Deltas are those places where rivers pour into the ocean. Light blurs, birds..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Abe Louise Young

Day Trips

The exhibit of flags in Houston reminds us of what it took to come this far.

"...The Texas flags exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston is an unusual and thought-provoking presentation..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...Quick: Which Texas writer or writers merited inclusion on the cover of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Women Dive into WATERTechnology Gainer

"...to Electronic Resources (WATER), it serves also as a fitting acronym...."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Ken Hunt

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

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

"...Mark A. Lawrence barely had a moment to enjoy being the new director of the LBJ Presidential Library before..."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup

The latest on Texas festivals, swimming holes, and terrifying worms

"...Fun events are really heating up around the state in July...."

July 2, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Today Is Giving Tuesday (With Pizza!)

Support your fellow humans and have a blast doing it

"...It’s way past time to begin a season of charitable giving and community engagement after..."

Nov. 27, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Celebrate MLK Day With P.I.E.

“Peace Includes Everyone” and everyone could use a treat right now

"...Whether savory or sweet, there’s something inherently communal about making and sharing pies. One homegrown..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...Lou Dobbs is not going to like this: The kids over at the Austin..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin @ Large: A Bad Precedent

The courthouse deal is another chapter in Austin's same old sad Downtown saga

"...Where hope and optimism are concerned, nobody's going to mistake me for John Edwards. But I do..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Liz Lochhead's award-winning dramatization of the bonnie queen's reign, is an ambitious first production for Renaissance Austin Theatre Company, but producer Lorella Loftus prevails by enticing some of Austin's finest actors from the Shakespearean courts to the realm of the experimental.

"...Running Time: 2 hrs, 15 min..."

April 19, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

West Side Story: Brave, New, Whirled

According to Chronicle writer Wayne Alan Brenner, West Side Story survives just fine in a "post-apocalyptic future," thanks to an amazing production at Zilker Hillside Theatre.

"...Running time: 3 hrs..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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