Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...has been borrowed, co-opted, stolen, and mutated by a startlingly varied array of directors, studios, cinematic movements and, yes,..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...while eagerly-anticipated horror sequel Evil Dead Rise is also part of this year's headliners...."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

B-Boy City Freestylin'

Roméo Navarro's freewheeling philosophy of dance has inspired a vibrant freestyle dance community in Austin for the past decade, and now his B-Boy City events, gathering 350-400 dancers from all over the South and Southwest and points beyond, are realizing a dream of freestylin' dancers on an even grander scale.

"...hit that. You get all the hate outta your heart and accept things for what they are. Some people..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Feature by Deborah Hay

Alchemies of Anatomy

Choreographer-performer Rosalyn Nasky has a penchant for details

"...tall. In her solo piece "Found It," performed as part of Co-Lab's Solo Show last July, she wore 5-inch..."

June 22, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...13-18. South by Southwest Music 2023 invites over 1,400 artists to play on more than 75 stages throughout the..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Keeping Life Queer in 2020

A Guide to Gifting Queerly for the coming decade

"...into 2020, be that with beautiful leather goods, affirming art, or even a little self-gifting self-care. We hope this..."

Dec. 5, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 16th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics have joined to recognize the year's most exceptional..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sxsw

"...The rest is up to you. On second thought, start panicking.... -- Raoul Hernandez THURSDAY PICKS..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...especially native and honorary Austinites - plays a big part in the list. Sandra Bullock brings her big-screen comedy..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...– a strikingly new and vibrant building in a part of town that is not so much either of..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...vibrate or rock or turn a person, mimicking natural movements that keep the body's blood and oxygen flowing. The..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

For His Dance (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson Keeps Moving

Through the pandemic and other obstacles, the choreographer and UT teacher continues to adapt

"...film and stream it in the University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance's 2020-21 season when one of..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Canción del Cuerpo

The UT-Colombian dance collaboration proved more about process than product

"...In some artistic endeavors, the result is a final product, somehow more..."

March 12, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...The Chronicle invited a dozen local artists to tell us about their first time, that initial..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...dark bars in an abstract painting. Her head and body are tilted as if she's listening to something, and..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...beard, flecked with feathers and vomit, with small bird parts dripping from the hairy nest. Penny Moran Van Horn's..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...Now, there's a term to conjure dread in the heart of a poor theatregoer. It suggests self-proclaimed artistes in..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Wolfwalkers

Gorgeous Irish animation speaks to the power of finding your pack

"...Directed by: Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart...."

Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Start your SXSW Film Festival planning now: the annual celebration..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Results

Indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski enlists Guy Pearce and others for his new movie

"...trainer. The gym owner – Trevor (Pearce, a stealthy heart-bruiser), who’s ripped and religious about his whole-body holistic mission..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lake of Fire

Meat Puppets, Chapter 3: Curt and Cris Kirkwood, reunited, and it feels so good

"...legs immobile. Dope sickness, heroin withdrawal, has caused his body to rebel against him. His muscles cramp, bones ache...."

July 20, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Waves Coming to Shore

No artist in the last 50 years has combined dance, theatre, music, scenery, and costume into epic spectacles like Pina Bausch, and as this German visionary returns to Austin Dawn Davis explores her work and her impact on the city's Johnson / Long Dance Company.

"...into the underworld, at every portal another mantle of artifice fell away. Many artists believed that only by paring..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

The Thing Unspoken

"...A feeling stirs in the deepest chambers of your heart. You recognize it by the absence it describes: It..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Megachurch Miracle

Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches

"...animals she kept. Church had not played a big part in her upbringing, Ferk says, and she had been..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy

Black & White

Two Arts Groups Cross the Color Line Creatively

"...macaroni dishes. The gathering is composed mostly of white artists, although some black neighbors drift in from 13th Street...."

June 21, 1996 Arts Feature

Polishing Elephants

On Finishing a Dance

"...When is a work of art finished? When the words "The End" are typed? When..."

April 28, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ailey

The lasting legacy of revolutionary choreographer Alvin Ailey

"...his pen. But for the dancer, the instrument of artistic expression is not something external but rather the human..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Heads in the Sky; Feet on the Ground

Interview with artist Leah DeVun

"...so much right now. I mean, people are really compartmentalized. People ask me: "What are you? Are you a..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

The Earth Moves

For choreographer Ellen Bartel, dance does make the world go 'round

"...well, that is a kind of dance, yes. The Earth spinning on its wobbly axis, circling its partner the..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...Carlos Fuentes tend not to exist anymore. His vast body of work not only reflects the historical events and..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

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