Off the Record

Counting down 2008 in lists and casting the first ballot for the annual Chronicle Music Poll

"...Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (Motown) Top 10 Austin..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Putting on the gloves for round three of Fun Fun Fun Fest, Dangerous Toys go platinum, and Okkervil River stands for a fire demon

"...million fests now and a lot going on in Austin, and with the economy and the like, people are..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Film News

Claire Danes eyes an Austin shoot

"...nine years, with frequent rumors it would shoot in Austin. Now an HBO film about Temple Grandin, who found..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Why Chamber Music?

For the folks who play it, it's the intimacy and democracy and unity and fun

"...From May through September, chamber-music festivals bloom all across the land, from the Grand Canyon..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"...Festival International de Jazz in a manner summer rock festivals couldn't possibly match. Bob Dylan – if you could..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Abandoning the Nest

Hurt by the state's inadequate incentives program, Texas film crews take flight

"...the few days that A Mighty Heart landed in Austin. Even independent films are veering from the Lone Star..."

May 23, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Merlin Works Institute and Gnap! Theater Season: Making the improv pie higher

Austin's strong improv scene is about to get even stronger, with a new training center and performance space

"...With two venues catering almost full-time to improv, three festivals on the calendar that spotlight improvisers, and three local..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Avimaan Syam

Off the Record

"...while local phenomenon Ghostland Observatory, booked for two other festivals this weekend, fills in for Jack and Meg at..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Column

A New Day

Life in Kat Candler's cinematic world

"...hand that's a good thing: It means the multi-award-winning Austin-based independent filmmaker has an extra hour a week to..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dueling Banjos

Is old-time music Austin's next big thing?

"...What is it about Austin, Texas, as far removed from Appalachia as NYC, that..."

March 30, 2007 Music Feature by Mark Rubin

Film News Top 10 of 2006

The top Texas stories of 2006

"...for its second season, while Friday Night Lights likes Austin. Despite lackluster ratings, NBC stuck with the critically acclaimed..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

All Eyes on First Night

Fireworks rule, parades with kids and bikes rule, giant art rules ...

"...our public spaces and actively express our shared values. Austin values include: Costumes rule, bikes rule, afterschool programs rule,..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Food-o-File

You're not leaving the site till you eat all of your news

"...October in Austin is everybody's favorite month for events and parties, so..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

"...Quote of the Week"This is a very strong Republican..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...BELAIRE7:30pm, Emo's IV Everyone loves to dance and smile. Austin fourpiece Belaire is a collaboration between twin sisters Cari..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Day Trips

Take the Texas music heritage tour and learn more about Texas' homegrown talent, such as Bob Wills, Buddy Holly, and more

"...wide range of talented musicians. No matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still king in his hometown of..."

March 10, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

There's a Light Beyond These Woods

An unrestrained celebration of Nanci Griffith

"...in November, I drove with a friend down to Austin, our first trip to Texas. She stayed in Boston...."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Page Two

SXSW 2005 looms on the horizon

"...of acts and films for the Music and Film festivals as well as the conferences' topics and speakers. Saturday..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

Can it be? Festival time already?

"...409 Colorado and future expansion venues. "We're staying in Austin to continue programming, promotion, and doing the preshow tapes"..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

In Memoriam: Danielle Martin

The music community mourns the loss of professor of piano Danielle Martin

"...was pronounced dead at the scene. Ngai came to Austin last year from the University of Hawaii and is..."

May 7, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

If L.A. fell into the ocean, Hollywood would move to Austin. If it doesn't anyway.

"...We're Gonna Need a Bigger Cake Dept.: Austin Studios is three years old this week and, not..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Marc Savlov courses through the Central Texas festival circuit.

"...Rules OK! Dept.: Never let it be said that Austin is a community lacking in film festivals. Besides the..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Leaving us no time to catch our breaths after the Austin City Limits, Pecan Street, and Cinematexas festivals, our little city is graced next with the Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Austin Film Festival, unofficially kicked off by a screening (co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society) of Jonathan Demme's new film, The Truth About Charlie.

"...a week it has been for our little city. Austin City Limits and Pecan Street festivals just finished, Cinematexas..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column by Louis Black

In Memoriam

Longtime friends and colleagues of Eagle Pennell remember the filmmaker.

"...visited the set of that most unsung of all Austin-made movies, None But the Brave, in 1961, while I..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature

Effendi

Talking jazz with piano great McCoy Tyner

"...performer, Tyner was the first musician to play at Austin's One World Theatre, a venue that complements his elegance..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Music Feature by David Lynch

Six (Not So) Easy Pieces

Eight local filmmakers team up to shoot DV shorts in and about Austin.

"...for a compilation film showcasing the work of young Austin filmmakers. But they didn't want to take pre-existing short..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

Short Cuts

Cinematexas marches on, while local movie theatre attendance takes a hit.

"...and the continuing state of nervous uncertainty virtually everywhere, Austin theatre attendance has experienced a sizable drop-off. Alamo Drafthouse..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Charting America

Filmmaker James Benning typifies the avant-garde tradition and will be on hand to present his film, Los, as part of the Austin Film Society's series, "Expanding Cinema: Fifty Years of Avant-Garde Cinema."

"...now one of its masters -- will conclude the Austin Film Society's new film series, "Structuralist, Collagist, and Surrealist..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Interactive Festival

With no startling new technical innovations around to distract, this year's SXSW Interactive Festival panels devoted to the visual creative process stressed that now is the time for designers to find their roots.

"...Producer?), and few have any education in the graphic arts or communications. "You learn HTML, and three months later,..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Rob D'Amico

Day Trips

The Varner-Hoogg Plantation State Historical Park, near Houston, has gone from a settler's cabin to a great sugar plantation to an oil wildcatter's weekend home.

"...in 1818. Six years later he joined Stephen F. Austin's original colony and was given a league of land..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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