The Ties That Bind in Things Will Be Different

Michael Felker’s temporal noir is all about friends and family

"...connection. He pulls up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo, the Triforce symbol from The Legend of Zelda: He..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Emerald Fennell and the Hideous Allure of Saltburn

Director’s aristocratic follow-up to Promising Young Woman opens Austin Film Festival

"...no matter how sexy you were, a 'Carpe Diem' tattoo and a bad St. Tropez tan, it's humanizing." [inset-1-left]..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Kendrick Lamar, Ethel Cain, and More Highlights From Friday at ACL Fest

Homegrown acts Font, We Don’t Ride Llamas debut on big stages

"...eating up lead vocalist Thom Waddill’s san serif arm tattoo and furrowed brow. Auxiliary percussionist Logan Wagner perched next..."

Oct. 14, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 7-13

"...I'm tempted to advise every Scorpio to get a tattoo of that motto. That way, you will forever keep..."

April 7, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Tuesday

Bartees Strange, Coco & Clair Clair, plus a PinkPantheress misfire

"...earsplitting bass volume that occasionally drowned out the part-time tattoo artist’s voice, the multi-instrumentalist impressed with a riveting guitar..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Nayeli Portillo

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 10-16

"...(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It's not the best time to tattoo a lover's likeness on your abdomen. Maybe in May,..."

March 10, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...wreaked havoc on two wheels – ascending to breakneck, Bad Brains-level speed midsong, as Pearl’s vocals quavered alongside thrashing..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Faster Than Sound: Former Spider House Cafe Has Reopened as Tweedy's

Run by the patio experts behind Kinda Tropical and Hotel Vegas

"...large outdoor patio. Zucchini Kill Bakery and Hello Friend Tattoo already opened in the renovated back building...."

Nov. 18, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Most Memorable Moments of Sunday’s ACL Fest Weekend Two

Urban Heat, Faye Webster, and BIA getting sturdy

"...coda: a live SpongeBob SquarePants illustration fulfilling a fan’s tattoo art request. (The front-row signs asking for custom ink..."

Oct. 17, 2022 Music Post by Laiken Neumann

Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One

Some of our favorite performances that you can revisit this weekend

"...Musgraves reviews at austinchronicle.com/acl. The Chicks Take On Their "Bad Reputation"..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Nebraska haunt ("Life tasted sweet when I was the bad twin"). Graves' accompanying description fleshes out the song, especially..."

April 30, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Grapples With Reopening & Protests

Civil unrest erupts nationwide as Austin clubs begin reopening

"...impacting my body," adds Barton. "It didn't hurt as bad as the swelling and the sleepless nights though. The..."

June 5, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Exit Interview: So Long, Jeff Pinkus

BH Surfers/Honky/Melvins bassist off to Asheville, banjo on his knee

"...parade for a Honky: Jeff Pinkus and his wife, tattoo artist Camille Muskrat, made off in a U-Haul the..."

May 1, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Into the Woods With Gretel & Hansel Director Osgood Perkins

How the retelling of the classic fairytale remained true to its roots

"...(when Little Red Riding Hood flees from the Big Bad Wolf, it's not simply a metaphor – these were..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Room Full of Nothing Is a Farewell Note to Austin's Art Scene

Breaking up in the apocalypse at the Austin Film Festival

"..."I think Barry and Phyllis have their no-good-very-bad days," she added. "They get their bad reviews, and..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...of shit ... and that was Chad Holt." Total Badass..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Scream, Queen! and the Legacy of the “Gay” Nightmare on Elm Street

Fantastic Fest's monster in the closet

"...Jensen – the two bonded over a Freddy Krueger tattoo, and with Patton joined forces with one goal in..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Rob Zombie Resurrects the Firefly Family for 3 From Hell

Here to do the devil's work: Director talks how being cool is no excuse

"...day I'd see another T-shirt, action figure, Halloween costume, tattoo. So they were always in my life, constantly." After..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc: She Talks Too Much

Conversation is how we flush stupidity into the open so we can kill it

"...She talked all the way through getting her first tattoo and she is always talking about her feelings. I..."

April 26, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

When the Bulleit Hits the Bon Appetit

The whiskey company brings three dimensions of win to a new frontier

"...The best stuff is only the tip, and the bad stuff is the rest of the iceberg that you’ll..."

April 2, 2019 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Unplugged: Lowering the Volume of the Live Music Capital

Ley Line, Aaron Stephens, Team Goodtimes, Uncle Pie Hole, and more grounded sounds

"...the blues: You're never too young to know how bad it is to love and not have it come..."

May 18, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...and drummer David Fore, the quintet's 2017 LP Certified Badass scorches remakes of BP classics and chestnuts by their..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

You Be the Judge

Sex, lies, and politics in the 331st District Court

"...officer was assigned to desk duty. "I don't feel bad about that," she said in January. "I feel like..."

March 2, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Making of Austin

Curator Carter Foster on Ellsworth Kelly's art building

"...skin? That would be Carter E. Foster, whose forearm tattoo of four colored squares was actually designed by the..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Den of Thieves

Bank heist rips off Heat for little gain

"...only surface-mines the depths of its good guys and bad guys, despite aspirations to be something more than a..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Cult of Nick Curran Remembers His Guitar Genius

From rhythm & blues to rockabilly and punk, the late Austin shredder lived to subvert genres

"...and rippin' hot-wired solos worthy of T-Bone Walker, the tattooed greaser with Joe Strummer's Combat Rock-era ducktail/mohawk wailed the..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Gimme Shelter: A Song for Margaret Moser

A stoned soul picnic of Rolling Stones for Wattser

"...Six years later, the bad boys returned to Ft. Worth on the Some Girls..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Review: Native Bar & Kitchen

Cool isn't enough for hostel diner

"...enough to subtly capture the top of the feather tattoo got after last summer's bad breakup – not necessarily..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour's psychedelic Western

"...down on the former in her new film, The Bad Batch, there is an inscrutability and willful listlessness that..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Top 10 Austin Breweries

Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer

"...It's not a deliberate choice, but Texas is a bad state for craft beer. We don't mean that in..."

June 23, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

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