Bad Kids Go to Hell

This Texas-made high school comedy that's based on a comic book mixes elements of The Breakfast Club with Scoobie Doo with uneven results.

"...Browder, Augie Duke, Amanda Alch, Cameron Deane Stewart, Marc Donato, Roger Edwards and Jeffrey Schmidt...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Making 'Bad Kids' Even Badder

Local-shot horror makes jump from comic to indie screens

"...Two years ago, writers Barry Wernick and Matthew Spradlin told me with..."

Dec. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Trailers From Hell

Local horror stars start building their buzz

"...Marc Savlov's bloodflecked dismantling of the Austin horror scene, Full-Gore Press, then start chopping. Most of those films are..."

Dec. 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Affronts to Gracious Living

Your Style Avatar ticks through the 10 worst fashion and style trends of the Year 2000.

"...Compile a list of Top Tens relating to popular culture? Good and bad? Where..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Hell's Belle

'Hellion' marks Kat Candler's long road to overnight success

"...Step one to becoming an overnight success: Schedule a decade of prep...."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Pick Your Team: The Hell Marys

Veteran coaches Dagger Deb and Punk Rock Phil say hell yeah!

"...When the Hell Marys announced their surprise recruit for the 2011 Texas..."

Feb. 17, 2011 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: To Sit on a Park Bench

The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up

"...will be no survivors. One by one, you're all going down...."

April 4, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...chiller Us will be this year's opening night movie, today the festival confirmed it will close with the new..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...It's so muddled, because things are so bad – it's so off-kilter now. When I worked at..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...the almost imperceptible ambient babble from the shop's other customers is the voice of the young man seated across..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Is Here To Bash Your Brains In

Shock, schlock, and awe at America's premier genre fest

"...CEO finally obliterates enough of the cheap pressed wood to stick his face in, à la Jack Nicholson in..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...annual Fantastic Fest, which opens at the Alamo South today, sounds relatively calm on the phone at T-minus seven..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Here We Go Again

The Riddlin' Kids -- DIY with a bullet.

"...a music video. In the case of Austin's Riddlin' Kids and their clip for "I Feel Fine," it's damn..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...so I called up my subject and split off to Napa for the interview and a tour of his..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

From Austin to Neptune

Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the rise of his career-making cult favorite

"...After a visit to writer/producer Rob Thomas' Web site, SlaveRats.com, there are several..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"......"

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Nothing to Lose

"...Starring: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston, Michael McKean and Irma P. Hall. There's..."

July 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Booze, Bad Guys, and Bamboozlement

Analyzing the Stereotype of Detectives and the Bottle

"...illustration by Roy Tompkins The beauty of the detective genre is that you..."

April 25, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

AISD’s Special Education System Struggles to Keep Up

School system tries to keep up with its workload and comply with legal mandates

"...When her son was in prekindergarten, she felt her toddler was even more hyperactive than toddlers typically are, and..."

Feb. 26, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...Mick Jones is suffering from a serious combover, trying to deal with his vanishing hair. Paul Simonon has lines..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Behind the Scenes at the Centre Pompidou's Tribute to Richard Linklater

An American in Paris

"...There's a moonlight tower in Paris...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bad Dog

When we see a dog running free, why are we frightened? Longtime Austinite Paula James meditates on the effect that fear of the natural world has had on us.

"...and swing open the back door, releasing my mutt to race across the vacant lot and into the woods..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Paula James

Preaching to the Choir

Quiet Company high priest Taylor Muse still has faith all right. It's called trust.

"...how you alienate the meager fan base you've managed to develop as an independent rock band struggling to make..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

Back to School

Carstarphen and Austin ISD trustees wrestle over priorities, budget, and power

"...for his successor one piece of advice. "What you gotta be careful of in Austin," he said, "you gotta..."

March 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...a legend silk-screened on a trucker cap. I walk into a packed Chelsea gallery and before I can untangle..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Stoops Ready to Helmet Tackle Longhorns

A VM from OU coach

"...My mysterious voice-mail message from Bob Stoops*: Joe! How’s my favorite cranky scribbler? Coach Stoops here,..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Excuse Me, Sir, We'd Just Like to Ask You a Few Questions...

"...of year again, and the Chronicle's Music Poll kicks into full swing this week with the ballot you'll find..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Column

Guide to Austin Improv

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

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

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...Beat was mixed, mastered, and finished. All of the Go-Go's assembled for a listening session at the IRS [Records]..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

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