Film News Top 10 of 2006

The top Texas stories of 2006

"...neighbors in New Mexico and Louisiana. A ragtag band of film pros, the Texas Motion Picture Alliance sprang from..."

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

"Austin City Limits" Festival Picks & Sleepers

"...SATURDAY PICKSLI'L CAP'N TRAVIS: This rangy tribe of Plainsmen from the Llano Estacado (aka Amarillo) are everything..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Austin Stories

"...select city staff have traveled to Saltillo, Mexico, one of Austin's sister cities. -- L.A...."

July 26, 2002 News Feature

King of the Swing Fiddle

Honoring country music's second most famous fiddle player, Johnny Gimble

"...his brothers on radio station KGBK in their hometown of Tyler, Texas. In the intervening decades, Gimble has lived..."

April 5, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW 2002 Web Awards

This year's Earl Award winners

"...On Deep Fried Live, an accident-prone animated octopus offers excellent cookie-baking tips while trying to sell you kitchen..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

SXSW 2002 Web Awards

This year's Earl Award winners

"...On Deep Fried Live, an accident-prone animated octopus offers excellent cookie-baking tips while trying to sell you kitchen..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

At the Top of His Game

Longtime Texas Monthly editor Gregory Curtis calls it quits; deputy editor Evan Smith will succeed him. Louis Dubose, editor of the Texas Observer for 13 years, announces he will retire.

"...As any great athlete will tell you, the best way to finish your career is on top --..."

June 9, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Cactus Lee, Nemegata, Font, Grace Sorensen Set for the Chronicle’s Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Party

Freebie springtime standby returns to Hotel Vegas March 15

"...Southwest is predictable. Right as rain, however, comes Hair of the 3-Legged Dog, the Chronicle’s annual March day party...."

Feb. 29, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Election Day, STEM Day, Amplify Austin Day, and More Days to Remember This Week

Our guide to community events for the week

"...all the fun without turning anyone away for lack of funds. Catch trans and Latine drag royalty performances by..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...In 2017, Sarah Jarosz became the second recipient of the FreshGrass Composition Commission, a grant to compose "a..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

"Shoot Like a Grrrl" Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin

Photographer Martha Grenon's exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties

"...all that's visible are guitar straps and a sliver of one guitar – but you can see they are..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tony Gilroy to Receive Austin Film Festival Honor

Rogue One, Bourne writer to be awarded

"...action films and edgy political dramas. As the producer of House of Cards, writer of the Bourne trilogy, and..."

May 8, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Another Epic Austin City Limits HOF

Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash, Neville Brothers, and LBJ honored

"...enough opera, country, and fonk to fill three separate Austin City Limits tapings, the most important induction at Wednesday..."

Oct. 26, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...Providing some of the financial fuel to the flames of Texas filmmakers'..."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Mayor's Roundtable Benefits Austin History Center

Luncheon named for Angelina Eberly

"...Why is there a statue of Molly Pitcher downtown? It’s not. That's a statue of..."

Jan. 31, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Flow of Energy

Beili Liu makes an art of channeling the forces within objects and us

"...A cloud of scissors – 1,500 pairs – is suspended in air..."

March 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

An Order of Horror, Hold the Monsters

Fantastic Fest vet Simon Rumley brings his brand of scary movie to Austin

"...In 2006, British director Simon Rumley won the hearts of Fantastic Fest fans with shockingly little stage blood and..."

June 26, 2009 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Austin Heart and Chicano Soul

"...Ruben Molina, the Los Angeles-based author of Chicano Soul, will be at Antone's Records for a..."

June 4, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

A Celebration of Black Women, a Benefit for Palestine, and Other Crucial Concerts

Hans Zimmer, Superfónicos, Lola Tried, and more recommended shows

"...Burton’s powerful, gritty vocals take center stage in this Austin-based quartet, though guitarist Ray Garza, drummer Jeff Stringer, and..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Austin Film Festival Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Allegorical film was shot in secret in Iran

"...Before The Seed of the Sacred Fig starts, a message appears on screen,..."

Oct. 29, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Austin Photojournalist Awarded for Images After Uvalde Shooting

Tamir Kalifa receives American Mosaic Journalism Prize

"...Until recently, Austin’s Tamir Kalifa was known as a leader of the..."

Feb. 7, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Eighties Punks Meat Joy Reminisce After Landing in Austin for Reunion Dates

Triple homecoming shows around their 1984 LP reissue kick off tomorrow

"...The nearly four-decade story of Meat Joy, the genre-bending early Eighties quintet returning to..."

Oct. 17, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

The Most Memorable Moments of Friday’s ACL Fest

Cassandra Jenkins, Billy Strings, and SZA on a lighthouse

"...An ideally-overcast Friday opened Weekend One of ACL Fest. Here are the Chronicle music writers’ highlights..."

Oct. 8, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Back to the Scene of the Crime With Heat 2

Austin author Meg Gardiner and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Mann team up for a literary sequel to the classic heist flick

"...Meg Gardiner has done it all. The Austin-based novelist has practiced law and taught writing; lived in..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Heavy Lifting: The Hammond Organ Has a Special Place in Austin ... I Should Know

Austin's an epicenter for an instrument that stopped being manufactured 47 years ago

"...lifelong van owner if you play one, and I've often said, "If your back doesn't hurt – it doesn't..."

April 1, 2022 Music Feature by Red Young

A World Tour of Hot Sauces in Just One Box

Does Clark + Hopkins pack a powerful international punch?

"...Hell, for 29 years the Austin Chronicle has held an annual Hot Sauce Festival that..."

Feb. 10, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...didn't want to see our faces as Black men," scoffs the 86-year-old singer. "I'm about the only guy who..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Video Festival Reaches 5

Local DIY videos mingle with the big leagues, Austin Music Commission forecasts 2020, and Federico Pacheco leads KOOP into its next quarter-century

"...decade ago, Anthony Erickson and Jeremy Roye launched the Austin Music Video Festival as a multi-day gathering to highlight..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Tickets on Sale Now for Austin Oyster Fest, Austin Women in Culinary Dinner, and Austin Food & Wine Festival

These are three foodie events you should definitely not miss

"...the month we all resolve not to enjoy any of life’s pleasures – is almost over, and just in..."

Jan. 24, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Austin Film Festival Snags Chappaquiddick as Closing Night Film

Full lineup includes Call Me by Your Name, Three Billboards

"...Film Festival may be the first stop for many of the fall film calendar’s biggest, most award-baity releases, but..."

Sept. 26, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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