SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...nine-day film festival and conference. Selections for the Midnights sidebar and the Shorts programs will be announced Feb. 8...."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Respectable Street

As Austin Pride revs up, will its soul get lost on the roadside?

"...the Stonewall Inn to be exact, a speakeasy gay bar. After the events of that fateful evening, Stonewall became..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Kate Getty

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Barbara Malteze..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Confounded Constable

County Judge Sam Biscoe Wins a Bureaucratic & Political Battle With Constable Bruce Elfant.

"...commissioners (Biscoe likened the campaign to a "political air raid" instigated by Elfant), and they appeared in Commissioners Court..."

Feb. 1, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...1992, culture critic Ann Powers wrote about Pamela Des Barres and the groupie phenomenon in The New York Times...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...is akin to flag burning. And covering the Brass Bard sans brass -- an arrogant lack of trumpet on..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

The Austin Chronicle Guide to the Mission: Impossible Movies

Your mission, if you choose to accept it ...

"...Tom's Big Stunt: Hunt's wire fu raid on a mainframe at CIA headquarters in Langley, which..."

July 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...sweeping chamber-pop arrangements left ample room to bloom. Rob Barbato on bass, Austin Vaughn on drums, and Charlotte Greve..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

AOC Brings the Texas Heat

Progressive star stumps for Casar, Cisneros campaigns

"...of the college-heavy neighborhoods along the N. St. Mary's bar strip, AOC made sure Casar and Cisneros got their..."

Feb. 18, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Vortex vs. Coronavirus: The Shows Really Do Go On

Melissa Vogt explains the how and the why

"...do a thing!” Austin Chronicle: So you decided to raid the video vault?..."

Sept. 24, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Happy Birthday, Daniel Johnston

Hi, How Are You Day commemorates the late, great Daniel Johnston, and SaulPaul's Alien Adventure beams down at Scottish Rite Theater

"...brother Daniel Shultz led opener Dan Luke & the Raid, and follow-up Katie Schecter dates Cage the Elephant lead..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Mondo Con Is Go!

Print and art show announces monstrous and hellish names

"...a theater, and another reason is that there's a bar."..."

June 2, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Naked Truth

For his first turn in the director's seat, JGL tackles pornography ... sort of

"...revolves around working out, getting his hair just so, barhopping, one-night stands, and his blue-collar upbringing. "Sex, his family,..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Where's Your Evidence?

Advances in forensic science have made physical evidence increasingly crucial in criminal justice – but the practice of preserving and maintaining that evidence is often underfunded, poorly managed, or just plain sloppy

"...marijuana grow-lights, plants, and cash seized in a narcotics raid; from a wallet found on the sidewalk to the..."

Feb. 15, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Playback: Don't Fence Me In

The Fun Fun Fun Fest schedule arrives, Flesh Lights return from touring with the Hives, and Tim O'Connor lives to fight another day

"...Swedish hosts were benevolent, allowing the Flesh Lights to raid their green room for food and booze, fixing Steen's..."

July 13, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...I have, or Ralph Nader, like I have, or Barry Commoner, like I have (remember that?) – I'm going..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

On the Road Again

Texas Monthly teams with Rolling Roadshow for summer series

"...story of a young girl’s kidnapping during a Comanche raid on Fort Parker in 1836, director John Ford’s iconic..."

May 16, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

32 Pages of Vindication

Results from the Forth Worth gay bar raid investigation are in. Guess who's to blame?

"...into the gross mishandling by government agencies on the raid of a Fort Worth gay bar, resulting in a..."

Aug. 11, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Headlines

"...• A raid on a gay bar in Fort Worth last weekend..."

July 3, 2009 News Feature

Remember Stonewall! Remember the Rainbow Lounge!

Remember the Rainbow Lounge! Write a letter, make a difference!

"...full investigation into what eyewitnesses are calling a "brutal" raid on Fort Worth gay bar, the Rainbow Lounge...."

June 30, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Princes of Punk

New Kinks “Picture Book”

"...McLagan’s supreme Faces comp, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar), and including a Ray-centric (but otherwise excellent) historical recounting,..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...use of coal-tar sealants across the country." – Wells Dunbar..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature

Art Aid

In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help

"...Austinite, credits Zotz, a New Orleans coffeehouse reminiscent of Cabaret Voltaire, the early 20th-century French cafe. Over the last..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Beatbox

Beatbox

"...known as Word Association furthers true school aesthetics with bare-boned beats matched with heartfelt verbiage. Adlib's Soul Proprietor (BreakFluid)..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Most Likely to Endure

With the exception of the era-specific music, what the kids like in Dazed and Confused is pretty much the same thing kids like now, which goes a long way in explaining why, 10 years later, the video's a staple in college dorms, owned by kids who weren't conceived yet in the Seventies and couldn't buy a ticket to the R-rated movie when it came out in the Nineties.

"...snide Parker Posey: "C'mon, you little freshman bitches! Air raid!"). They cruise around town, getting burgers at Top Notch..."

May 30, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

So What's Going on?

"...narco buster Tom Coleman. In a letter to American Bar Association President Robert Hirshorn, Lori Sharpe Day, an aide..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...In related news, we suppose, Rossiter's former boss, Carol Barrett -- who left Austin's neighborhood planning program for the..."

Feb. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.

"...Similarly, Clark-Madison's neighborhood planning article and his sidebar comments on SOS support for Smart Growth ["Would You,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column

M

Fritz Lang's 1931 film M is remarkable for its modern editing and storytelling as well as for Lorre's bug-eyed performance as a serial killer preying on children.

"...Lang's extraordinary cinematic sensibility ... just watch the police raid on the subterranean bar or the seamless long take..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Review by Charles Conn

SXSW News

"...marijuana smoke in the air at the show and barged into the crowd and started yanking out patrons left..."

March 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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