City Tells Firefighters Volunteering Not Allowed

Union chief sees double standard on charity projects

"...Question: When is volunteering a bad idea? Answer: When the city says so, that's when...."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Gates of the Alamo Reviewed

Mark Busby reviews Stephen Harrigan's The Gates of the Alamo.

"...of William Barrett Travis, David Crockett, Jim Bowie, and Santa Anna through a narrative that revolves around several vividly..."

March 24, 2000 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Club Cafe

The Open Road

"...been taking turns driving all night to get to Santa Fe for Christmas. The sun was up over the..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...wear the lack of a class perspective as a badge of honor. Rarely is credence given to the concept..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column

Postscripts

Carl Anderson's unique perspective on Christmas; local authors with reissued books in the works; and upcoming literary events.

"...All I Want for Christmas Is ... Letters From Santa's Mailbag, I contribute to that awful trend of Christmas,..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Record Reviews

"...and while Festival of Light is generally not a bad listen, it's also eight days short of permanently filling..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Music Review

Christmas Bloody Christmas

Joe Begos delivers more than coal in this Santasploitation gorefest

"...stopping off at their friend’s toy shop where the RoboSanta+ is on display and hitting their local bar for..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Pretty in Pink: A Gabriela Bucio Story

The millennial Midas brings reggaeton and Mexican regional to Sixth Street and beyond

"...Group in her stories. If you didn't want a Bad Bunny cookie, a CBD cocktail, or a night out..."

July 8, 2022 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Taquero Mucho Owner Launches Newest Project, Gabriela's South

Gabriela Bucio thinks pink

"...Coffee this year, and a second Mexican nightclub, Mala Santa...."

April 23, 2021 Food Feature by Madi Margulies

Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived

The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism

"...be coated with these black particles. It was so bad, that we were having alewives die in Lake Michigan,..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

The Alamo

In this round of historical revisionism there's not much to remember except, maybe, Davy Crockett becoming a fiddler on the roof.

"...siege and Gen. Sam Houston’s (Quaid) post-Alamo routing of Santa Anna’s (Echevarría) army, the film lacks the emotional, doomed..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What It Is to Be Human

Actor Martin Burke, now in the midst of his fifth sell-out run as David Sedaris' Little Elf in The Santaland Diaries, talks about that show's success and his career as an actor.

"...including the one he's currently performing, David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries. As he is in the midst of his..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Sxsw

"...is selling five-song demos via the Internet. It's too bad, because Extra Fancy is one of Silver Lake's only..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Miracle on E. 7th St.

After 25 Years, Ruperto Reyes Brings Magic Back Home

"...audiences in Austin. They've mounted a production in the Santa Cruz Center for Culture, a 120-seat performance space on..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Arts Feature by James E. Garcia

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...and two great supporting performances. Stallone, fresh from the not-as-bad-as-you've-heard, box-office flop Judge Dredd, takes on a much quieter..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...you can download the track. – Michael Toland Crawford Smith, "Santa Got Furloughed"..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Homage to a Road

"...Zandt's songs, an undercurrent of wonder no matter how bad things are...."

March 19, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Screamlines

"...of rock & roll, with Lance Henriksen as the badass coven leader, Bill Paxton as a gleefully sadistic throat-ripper,..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Screens Feature

God's Own Clothesline

In Search of Far Flung Adventures With Butch Hancock

"...that Talley is a good distance downriver from the Santa Elena Canyon (about half the distance of the park),..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Record Reviews: Christmas

"...On the soul material, excluding the brilliant and cliché-free "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto," Brown falls back..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Review

Dale Watson Christmas Time in Texas (CSC)

Christmas Records

"...Ball's ticklish upright piano, Watson and his elves (big, bad Billy Dee Donahue on bass, smilin' Ricky Davis on..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

"...like San Antonio and that they were creating more bad will than good with this move. They restored the..."

July 21, 2000 Column

BS3 Improv & Sketch Comedy Fest Schedule

"...Big, Bad, and Beautiful (San Antonio, TX)..."

April 17, 1998 Arts Feature

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...BAD MOON A photojournalist, played by Michael Pare, returns from..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gladys Knight, Nick Shoulders, and More Crucial Concerts

Get out and get live this week

"...a specific suburban nostalgia.   – Kahron Spearman La Santa Cecilia..."

Oct. 25, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Adventures abound all the way up to Albuquerque

"...It’s hard to tell if the Breaking Bad Store in Albuquerque, N.M., is a gift shop for..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...nature in its own right. Taking cues from early Santana, War, and the Meters, Brownout's 2012 release Oozy secretes..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The Envision Central Texas project is an opportunity for the citizens to plan our own destiny.

"...in Round Rock (which needs it a lot more badly than does most of Central Austin).Flowers or Weeds But..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Austin Chronic: A Holiday Shopping List for the Weed Lover in Your Life

From CBD sleep gummies to a gold gilded grinder: a cannabis gift guide

"...more presents for my kids and say they’re from Santa...."

Dec. 13, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Holiday happenings, news, and more

"...Santa Claus Postmark..."

Dec. 2, 2015 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

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