July Is Crime Month: Fade to Black

Screen noir this week at AFS, the Paramount, and BookPeople

"...So far, the Chronicle's July crime spree has focused..."

July 21, 2014 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Boys From Houston

Before ZZ Top, their precursors the Moving Sidewalks defined the Houston scene

"...Amidst the documentaries and books on assorted Texas music scenes of the Sixties comes..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Jazz Sides

Yardbird blows his alto hard, fast, and revolutionary

"...parallels punk in the Seventies – and these two books explore that extraordinary life. Chuck Haddix, a sound archivist,..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

If You Like the Ramones ...

Two hundred add-ons to your Ramones collection

"...If You Like the Ramones ...by Peter Aaron Backbeat Books, 278 pp., $16.99..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Moonwalk

Three print rushes, but only the picture book tells the real story

"...Moonwalkby Michael Jackson Harmony Books, 320 pp., $25 The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Books Gift Guide

Florida art books

"...of Florida Press has released a number of coffeetable books that train and home that lens – intentionally or..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Books Gift Guide

Betsy and Me

"...Betsy and Meby Jack Cole Fantagraphics Books, 104 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Books Feature by Rick Klaw

Free Comic Book Day: Hey kids! Free books with words and pictures!

Free Comic Book Day, which began with the opening of the first Spider-Man film, has been so successful for the comics industry that it's still here for Spidey's second sequel

"...Spider-Man, Hulk, and Iron Man appear in two Marvel books, while DC's Legion of Super-Heroes stars in a comic..."

May 4, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Best Books of 2006

"...character closer to his own life is a mystery. Black Swan Green (Random House) may not span centuries or..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Jess Sauer

Big Books

"...Sterling Books, 384 pp., $24.95..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Rock & Roll Books

Gift guide

"...Pantheon Books, 523 pp., $24.95..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Black to Africa

African Literature Conference at UT

"...Keynote speaker Maryse Conde. Why should you care about..."

March 13, 1998 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner

In the sequel to UNSUB, Gardiner pits Caitlin Hendrix against a killer based on Ted Bundy and shows again what a great storyteller she is

"...the Zodiac Killer, while the new installment, Into the Black Nowhere, homes in on an unsub (aka UNidentified SUBject)..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Review by Jessi Cape

Black Belt of the Rodeo

Paula Nelson will kick your ass

"...it. I had no clue my dad wrote it." Black Belts and Outlaw Blues..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

New Roky Erickson Tribute Books A Waterloo Records Release Party

Black Angels, Eve Monsees, Charlie Sexton, and more sign vinyl July 18

"...Gary Clark Jr. & Eve Monsees, Margo Price, the Black Angels, and Brogan Bentley. Needless to say, it is..."

June 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Seduced by Sound: Austin

Seduced by Sound: Austin – 100 Musicians on Why They Make Music

"...off all the covers, [and] put a pot of black coffee and a tin cup on the bedside table...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Spoilers Are the New Black

Are we too squeamish about our right to be shocked?

"...restrictions on Game of Thrones. "You do know there's books, right?" he asked. "It's a pre-spoiled show."..."

June 9, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Everything Went Black: Hello, I Must Be Going ...

Black sabbatical!

"...Thank you to AusChron editor Louis Black, and publisher Nick Barbaro, for taking a chance on..."

Nov. 7, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

Musical activist as dictator? Close enough.

"...she was Eunice Waymon, while also struggling to stay black and proud among the musical elite, where her extraordinary..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...blues singer raised in South Dakota, with Maxwell, a black tenor saxophonist from Houston. Crouch says that he particularly..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Tim Walker

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...as the AACM's Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Black Arts Group-bred World Saxophone Quartet are covered along with..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Verde Report: Opening the Books on Austin FC’s Salary Figures

A closer look at who’s bringing the best and worst value to the club

"...The Verde and Black currently sit second overall in the Supporters' Shield standings,..."

May 27, 2022 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Bob Dylan

"...North Country," a full disc of unreleased Zimmy/Man in Black duets in Tennessee promises a jackpot. Sadly, familiar streams..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Review by Scott Jordan

Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

"...woe and redemption howls. The South Englander of bleak, black-bricked Crawley recounts meeting natural born poet Robert Smith at..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Marc Savlov

On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

The highway of American music culture and beyond

"...Highway 61, Dylan personifies the Anglo outsider who embraces black music only to then re-invent it. His iconoclastic mystique..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Replacements: Waxed Up Hair & Painted Shoes

Long hair, flannel, torn jeans – who influenced who?

"...doesn't look joyless. It wasn't fun being a blue-eyed black-hearted son of an auto mechanic, and that quality extends..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion

At the crossroads of Memphis and Civil Rights stood Stax Records

"...triumphant and tragic story of Memphis' Stax Records, where black and white musicians created a massive body of brilliant..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Scott Schinder

The Essential 'New York Times' Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

A fascinating look, in recipe form, at the last 150 years of cooking

"...Unlike most compendium-style cookbooks, The Essential 'New York Times' Cookbook does not set..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

What to Cook & How To Cook It

A near foolproof cookbook for the reluctant chef

Nov. 26, 2010 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Good Eats 2: The Middle Years

The oversized graphic novel for the chemist chef in your life

Nov. 26, 2010 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

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