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Our readers talk back.

"...on the current outcry among LCRA's electric customers tired of subsidizing LCRA's unprofitable water and wastewater division ["Who's Paying..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...home school. I like what you put for the Best Billboard -- Please Pick up my Poop ["Best of..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

Collegia Musikum

How music from the Medieval and Baroque eras impacts us today

"...date back to the 1100s, moving forward through centuries of wars, plagues, royal and plebian marriages, religious ritual and..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Robi Polgar

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A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.

"...column that she was talking about -- the column of Sept. 21 -- Belinda Acosta actually referred to the..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Natural Appeal

"...Reckless Kelly..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

"...The World of Hunt Slonem..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

What'cha Watchin'?

Account Executive Marisa Mirabal celebrates our First Plates issue with a menu of movies

"...To celebrate our annual First Plates issue, a menu of iconic restaurant scenes. From crime to comedy, these films..."

July 30, 2021 Screens Column by Marisa Mirabal

Texas Book Festival 2019: Truth Worth Telling: A Conversation With Journalist Scott Pelley

Newsman Scott Pelley had words of advice about media in the modern age

"...Texas Book Festival on Sunday. "When others call journalists enemies of the American people, we need to push back..."

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Joe O'Connell

Other Worlds Austin: Embers

Award-winner examines the terror and liberation of forgetting

"...poses one question: What if you can remember none of that?..."

Dec. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

News Ticker: June 12

All the news that's fit to blog

"...FEMA makes new enemies, Rick Perry poisons the Big Apple, and Joe Biden..."

June 12, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Saturday Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...For his SXSW debut, he plays with the likes of Bill Callahan and Gary Lucas. Added bonus: This is..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Page Two

Welcome to the "Best of Austin," in what in some ways feels like the worst of times.

"...Welcome to our annual "Best of Austin" issue. We'd like to thank the thousands..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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Righteous readers respond to recent rape reportage, and our Best of Austin issue garners a kudo or two.

"...Jordan Smith), which questioned why the Travis County Attorneys Office had filed DWI charges against Ms. Virginia Glore. I..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Titles That Can't Myth

"...Few legends of the West so neatly capture a specific time and..."

May 28, 1999 Books Feature

Rock This Way

The Semi-Annual, Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Rock & Roll Books Section

"...be in the Louvre; if she had been one of Matisse's paintings or a white marble sculpture by Michaelangelo,..."

March 20, 1998 Books Feature

Point Austin: “Austin Will Still Be Austin”

Adler’s “state of the city” imagines a bulwark against “a giant honking mess”

"...Mayor Steve Adler's "State of the City" speech Tuesday night was a fairly subdued..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Column by Michael King

SXSW Panel: Covering POTUS: A Conversation With the Failing NYT

Editor Dean Baquet defends NYT's “honorable pursuit of the truth”

"...Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet defend his paper’s coverage of Donald Trump and define responsible journalism as “the honorable..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Michael King

I Like to Watch

On families and finales

"...Coming off a big Captain America weekend, heading into a protracted run of..."

May 13, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

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When they label war protesters' speech as traitorous, right-wing war supporters reveal themselves as truly anti-American.

"...7. The Austin Music Awards (Wednesday, March 12) kick off the SXSW Music Festival (with music at 38 other..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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

"...Alfred Stanley to be an aide nor any kind of staff person for me. He wasn't asked to do..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column

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Bruce Hughes

"...Bruce Hughes may play in two ofAustin's most popular bands, the Ugly Americans and the Scabs,..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Page Two

"...some insight, by which to begin to make sense of the 12 months ahead. Instead, I think I'll talk..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Film Review: Luv Ya, Bum!

How Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips led with kindness

"...in an article that was filled with a torrent of stats but didn't make sense as a story, I'd..."

March 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Multifarious Mike Wiebe

Music, comedy, faux-Christianity: the many faces of the Drakulas/Riverboat Gamblers frontman

"...Last time the Chronicle profiled Mike Wiebe, 14 years ago, the reporter paid for..."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Q&A Hole: Considering All the Different Gods Available to Humanity, How Do You Choose Which One to Believe In?

With Russell Glasser, Cristine H. Legare, David Wheeler, and more.

"...huge,” as Michael Palin intoned in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. “Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here, I..."

Oct. 25, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The 24th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

The lowdown on the 2015 submissions, judges, 10 finalists, and the prize-winning stories

"...heard them, right? The voices you can't get out of your head. Relatives, bosses, teachers, friends, enemies, yourself, voicing..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...up recently with Tim O’Brien, an Austin-based author perhaps best known for The Things They Carried, a 1990 collection..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

Ted Cruz: You, Sir, Are No Jesse Helms

Texas senator praises the grand obstructionist and bigot

"...to moral authority, namechecking Jesse Helms – arguably one of the US Senate's most racially-divisive figures – may not..."

Sept. 12, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Scum'

What's scarier than Ray Winstone? A young Ray Winstone.

"...Welcome to the hideous, brutalizing world of British borstals. The UK's version of juvie, they were..."

June 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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