Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...Lady, Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, Debbie Reynolds in Albert Brooks' Mother, Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet, Jack Lemmon and..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...Hope Olaidé Wilson, Souléymane Sy Savané, Craig muMs Grant, Bill Sage (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Epiphanies for the Blind

Who's Teaching Who at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired?

"...handicapped children were, frighteningly enough, those bong-sucking, acid-swilling, money-borrowing, no-bill-paying musicians I've grown to love. Worse still, they all..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Naked City

"...a "frivolous" lawsuit against him. SOS leaders and developer Bill Gunn, who's building a large subdivision in an ecologically..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature

Capitol Chronicle

A right-wing mailout stirs up a firestorm among Texas' Republican legislators.

"...Last week acting Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff (running for re-election to his East Texas state..."

March 15, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...John H. Reagan, and generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston. After building a model, Coppini realized that..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...estimates her proposal would cost the state about $1.7 billion, but that the state's high school dropout rate –..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature

Blue Monday

Antone's Blue Mondays continues, 25 years later.

"...the stage with blues royalty like Sunnyland Slim and Albert Collins...."

Dec. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Naked City

Cheney and Bush interview prospective hires. Which Texans go to Washington as Bush takes office and the economy cools down?

"...elder Bush believes was responsible for his loss to Bill Clinton. After the 1992 election, the ex-president complained that..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Coach's Corner

"...for a fast-moving sport like basketball. NBC's A-Team of Bill Walton, Steve "The Snapper" Smith, and Greg Gumble, the..."

May 30, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

To the Lighthouse

After 20 years, WTP4 returns to a still unanswered question: Do we need it?

"...10, or even less," says Save Our Springs director Bill Bunch, an opponent of building in the BCP, and..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...David Dewhurst and the Senate tried to salvage a bill, some bill, any bill at all. See "On the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...John Hammond, the celebrated talent scout/producer credited with discovering Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Bob Dylan, and Stevie Ray Vaughan,..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Antone's Home of the Blues

DVDnds

"...are Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Luther Tucker, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Doug Sahm, vintage footage..."

June 9, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends

"...the past, especially when it comes to music. Novelist Billy Lee Brammer's book review of The Improbable Rise of..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

It Takes a Village

Christine Albert & Chris Gage experience another Austin musical rite of passage: the benefit

"...At the end of 2003, local performer Christine Albert approached the Chronicle about publishing a farewell she'd written..."

April 8, 2005 Music Feature by Christine Albert

Picking Up the CHIPs

Clarendon scandal opens a window on the joys of privatization

"...money, but maybe the Lege can send them a bill...."

July 16, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Free as They Want to Be

"...of New Orleans tailgate stylists and Woody Herman star Bill Harris. There's a lot of impassioned yet controlled collective..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The Hanging Garden, Hav Plenty, (Pi), High Art, and Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss...."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

The Church, yeule, Codeine, and More Highlights From Levitation’s Thursday and Friday

Standout sets from the multi-venue Austin festival’s opening dates

"...at the tail end of a monthlong tour with bill-sharer yeule. The former Cherry Glazerr band member clearly understands..."

Oct. 28, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...(1997, 195min/color, DCP) Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, and Bill..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Getting to Zero

Will Austin's green seif-image be realized with its "zero waste" goals?

"...$90 to process recyclables, but in September its net bill for recycling processing was only about 30% of those..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Playback: FREE WEEK!

2014, you're up

"...James, There Will Be Nights When I'm Lonely (Hillgrass Bluebilly)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

Touring Austin's new clubs and digging into Heavy Light Records

"...Bill Baird nabbed the television wall in the Sound Team..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Public Benefits, Privatization Problems

Texas Integrated Eligibility Redesign System still fraught with challenges as privately run call centers struggle to handle thousands of needy clients.

"...the snags in the software. Three years after the bill was passed, it's still unclear how much of the..."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Your "Page Two," Delbert McClinton's letter, and Bill Bentley's magnificent eulogy were simply heartbreaking. I couldn't stop..."

June 2, 2006 Column

Okie Dokie Stomp

Clifford Antone didn't invent the blues, he immortalized them

"...Vaughan, while boosting the reps of underappreciated characters like Bill Campbell. The night Stevie Ray Vaughan sat in with..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Roll Bounce

Hot-wiring a penchant for sports film truisms to some seriously spot-on Seventies nostalgia, this Bow Wow vehicle is an easygoing portrayal of teenage camaraderie and its attendant difficulties.

"...the bottom half of a Car Wash drive-in double bill. Never mind the immediately obvious comparisons to Fat Albert..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

On the Lege

This week at the circus, er, Lege.

"...one that didn't happen. Health and Human Services Commissioner Albert Hawkins -- onetime budget director for Gov. Bush, newly..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Coach's Corner

Coach rates the announcers on the NBA playoff broadcasts.

"...is: The play-by-play guy should be a personality. Marv Albert, the Peacock's lead announcer (and one of several guys..."

May 25, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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