Off the Record

Announcing the 2007-08 Austin Music Awards lineup; Charlie Sexton brings sexy back; and KOOP Radio returns to the airwaves

"...self-promotion: OTR is now the host of The Next Big Thing on 101X, spinning four hours of new and..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...the summer and fall of 2006, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was on fire. Death squads, the pistoleros..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

Page Two: Brain Wash

Coming to terms with conspiracy theorists, with some help from Loudon Wainwright III

"...for granted. As often as I drove around the state, I was determined never to let it slip into..."

June 29, 2007 Column by Louis Black

On Leaving Paradise for an Oasis

An Austin foodie falls in love with Marathon and West Texas' other boutique towns

"...visited that part of Texas. Texans talk about the Big Bend, Terlingua, Study Butte, Lajitas, Marfa. They seemed like..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...be described as the scene in that suddenly hip Big Bend town. So I figure, okay, this kid's been..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

It's Alive!

The founders on Fantastic Fest I

"...lamenting the fact that Austin, home to more film festivals per capita than any other town in the South..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

True Today

Randy 'Biscuit' Turner's final interview

"...rock heyday. I'd caught the last five or so Big Boys shows after arriving in town to attend the..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

More From 'Iconoclast' Country

W. Leon Smith on freedom of speech, peace, and Crawford

"...through the years have always endorsed candidates, national candidates, state candidates, frequently. We very seldom miss endorsing, when it..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Buggin' out at IMAX

Celebratory habits of the Austin arthropodophile: a Saturday at the Bullock

"...gathered around the Insect Delicacies table outside the Texas State History Museum. "And they're loaded with protein!"..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...find this interesting, because three paragraphs later Mr. Blodgett states, "More than 3,600 Austinites applied this spring for just..."

May 14, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...makes you want to embrace those developers with a bigger outpouring of love, respect, and appreciation. Keep your "weird"..."

May 7, 2004 Column

Naked City

The Austin Area Heritage Council's annual celebration

"...The Martin Luther King Jr. Citywide March and Cultural Festival will honor the slain civil rights leader's life on..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature

Short Cuts

There's so much going on in Austin film this fall that it almost feels like a real city.

"...in September that October, with the upcoming Austin Film Festival and the usual spooky trappings of the Halloween season..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...more. We also had the first Andy Warhol Film Festival. And later we petitioned to have a film department..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Food-o-File

Just because it's the biggest and busiest week on the Texas culinary calendar doesn't mean that there isn't plenty o' news to report on, in this week's "Food-o-File."

"...Big Culinary Weekend..."

April 4, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Right Where They Belong

Raoul Hernandez goes on tour with the Flatlanders

"...and don'ts under the hawkish gaze of Mr. Really Big Shoe's chalk caricature in the lobby ("no woo-hooing"), the..."

July 26, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dr Pepper, Texas

What makes the Dr Pepper in Dublin, Texas, so much better than that made anywhere else?

"...Dr Pepper has mirrored Texas, and the Lone Star State has in turn reflected Dr Pepper. Hell, Dr Pepper..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Features Feature by David Lynch

A Name for a Ghost to Mutter

In her new script A Name for a Ghost to Mutter, playwright Cyndi Williams uses the fuel for great drama: colorful writing, focus on relationships, big climax, tidy resolution. But while all the hard parts are accounted for, all the right moves taken, the play stops just short of smoking.

"...State Theater,..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Day Trips

Baseball, bats, obits, no buts, and environmental action figure into this year-end wrap-up.

"...The village of Lajitas just west of Big Bend National Park sold to telecommunications executive Steve Smith..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Survival of the Fittest?

The unlikely story behind the Austin-based black comedy, Natural Selection.

"...1996 Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Film Festival, a pair of fledgling screenwriters with slightly less than..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

"...Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, presented by the Institute of Texan..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Stompy Jones

"...underwater. Santa Cruz, Calif., an integral link in the state's university system -- two hours south of San Francisco..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Why We Listen to What They Say

"...the most influential nonacademic media theorist in the United States. Through his books, especially Media Virus and the upcoming..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Further Reflections

"...the films that played during the SXSW '99 Film Festival. Other reviews were included in last week's Chronicle; additional..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Why I Read ...

"...Southwest Texas State professor and writer Tom Grimes: One of my favorite..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

1998 Austin Theatrical Movie Openings

"...3.5 (M.B.) 9/11/98 THE BEYOND 2.5 (M.S.) 6/12/98 THE BIG CHILL Revival (M.B.) 11/6/98(11/11/83) THE BIG HIT 0 (M.S.)..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...and the longhairs rolled into the Spoke, all the big rocks in the parking lot had been picked up..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Bombs Not Bullets

Austin Hip-Hop Mushrooms

"...hangers-on. Almost everyone agrees that it's been a sorry state of affairs, or lack thereof...."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Postscripts

"...Expo America recently took place, and where Texas Book Festival director Cyndi Hughes took it upon herself to assemble..."

June 12, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Postmarks

VanScoy on Wrong Track

"...in financial reward or personal glory. He has some big shoes to fill replacing Sam Biscoe, but I believe..."

April 10, 1998 Column

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