Off the Record

Fanning the flames of the ACL Music Festival 2007

"...Just the opposite was true, in fact. From the performances and aftershows to the general hospitality of the park..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

'The Bob Schneider Show'

Whatever your ears think of Bob Schneider's music, your eyes will widen in appreciation at his intaglio etchings on view in his new Flatbed Press solo show

"...and often multiplied in numbers far beyond the normal. This is not, though it could be, a scene from..."

March 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Porco Rosso

Am I really saying it's better than Casablanca? You read right, and I say bring it.

"...from dreams of cinema, or maybe he doesn't, and this is his dream, conjured under the influence of lavishly..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Coach's Corner

"...and read The New York Times book reviews. If this echoes your sentiments, let me explain a few things,..."

June 6, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

New Jersey Noir: How Gazer Portrays a Forgotten Town

Ryan J. Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni on the other side of the NJT tracks

"...tiny Newark suburb. The Kearny native called it “a forgotten industrial town that’s being gentrified like everywhere else around..."

April 8, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Visual Arts Review: MASS Gallery Dives Into the Work of a Pioneering Pornographer

A life told through ephemera in “Toxic Masculinity: The Old Reliable World of David Hurles”

"...of a man with a wisp of a mustache. This is true...."

Jan. 24, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Austin Chronic: Oh No! My High Ass Just Emailed a Dead Person

Finding the humor in my stoned missteps

"...I bleed a lot of ink in this column contemplating the..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Alex Ring Isn’t Austin FC’s Captain Anymore, and That’s Just Fine With Him

The steely Finn is staying in the now

"...coach Josh Wolff opted to name Sebastián Driussi captain for the club’s third season in Major League Soccer. In..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Features Feature by Eric Goodman

Sound Unseen is Blowing Up Your Stream

The hybrid music and movie fest unifies the ATX and the Twin Cities

"...60 degrees in Oxford. 33 in Minneapolis. 80 in Austin. Wherever Jim Brunzell..."

Nov. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Party Never Stops with the Uncaged New Year's Eve Bash

Meet the Cheddar Goblin in an 8-Bit Alamo as South Lamar goes virtual

"...he credited Rachel Walker, Head of Programming and Creative for Alamo Drafthouse LA, and Executive Coordinator Ahbra Perry for..."

Dec. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

White Lung’s Mish Barber-Way

“You gotta scream to be heard”

"...Austin Chronicle: White Lung recorded this album separately, you, Kenneth, and Anne-Marie working more on..."

July 6, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

Archer Five Is Alive

Recapping the live tour stop and looking ahead to tonight's premiere

"...sign “danger zone.” All of which came in handy for the debauchery that followed...."

Jan. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...release Life Is Good, his 10th studio LP, later this year. – Thomas Fawcett Dee-1..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Austin Psych Fest 4

"..."We're doing this for the city of Austin," proclaimed Black Angels frontman..."

May 6, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...won't deal you a bad hand. He'll simply wait for you to tire and overplay the odds. The man's..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

What Would Owen Do?

Or, more to the point, what can't comic, screenwriter, and now-novelist Owen Egerton do?

"...He's like a walking full-color illustration for the term "hirsutorufous," and he might be the red-haired..."

April 30, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Record

The Parlor family serves pizza by the slice at the Monarch, Zeale gets down with Grooveline Horns, and crunching numbers for South by Southwest

"...from Opeth, High on Fire, and Baroness that October before acquiring the building earlier this month. "It's a nice..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

ACL Fest Sunday Picks

"...to launch an indie-pop parade on tour with Voxtrot this fall, L.A. quintet the Little Ones live up to..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature

The Few

A former Marine's unfiltered photography leads an American documentary crew into Darfur

"...over by a truck. Men castrated and left to bleed to death. Charred corpses of people whose ears had..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Diana Welch

Nordic Noise

Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland – 26 inches of SXSW over four days and nights

"...would be impossible to define an overriding theme in this diverse armada of Nordic noise...."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Punky Tonk Blues

Wayne "the Train" Hancock

"...I know it's not nice to slam Nashville, but forgive me. I'm gonna slam 'em any-fuckin'-way, 'cuz they need..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Music Feature

10 Bands Under 25 That Make Me Feel Alive

A quintessential coming-of-age soundtrack to score the next spiral

"...expressions of these 10 acts, whose array of styles bleed the vitality and boundless energy of youth, when playing..."

June 10, 2022 Music Feature by Mars Salazar

Decay, Preserve, Observe: The Experimental Memories of Bill Morrison

The cinematic pioneer discusses his career and filmography before his Austin retrospective

"...used as an allegory (with varying degrees of accuracy) for everything from the last word in objective truth to..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

It's Gonna Get Pitch Black at Other Worlds

David Twohy named this year's Defender of the Universe

"...Friday, Dec. 6, as confirmed in the newly-announced schedule for the 2020 online version of the SF fest with..."

Nov. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...Blame the Big Boys, whose scathing punk for a classed-up Austin Music Awards show audience visited the..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Playback: Red River

Hit-and-run leaves two dead

"...I was watching a Brazilian psych band perform in a backyard on Rainey Street when a succession..."

March 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Point Austin: News Not Fit To Print

Trying to find a silver lining ... anywhere

"...going to hell in a handbasket, but even allowing for that professional bias, it ain't a great moment for..."

Jan. 28, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Off the Record

Firsthand accounts of the Warped Tour and Delaney & Bonnie from the Riverboat Gamblers' Mike Wiebe and Bobby Whitlock, respectively

"...of the Attorney General in regard to booking policies for Lollapalooza. C3 Presents and its Lolla partner, the Beverly..."

July 2, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: You Go Where You Have to Go

Welcome to the new year ... same as the old year?

"...with work – my work and the work required for business – others with family, friends, interests, and small..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Gender Studies

Kino goes back to the classroom with How to Be a Man and How to Be a Woman

"...make a sandwich, but not any sandwich you've seen before or wish to ever see again: boiled tuna, milk,..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

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