Last Days Here

The three-decade descent into full-time drug-taking by Bobby Liebling, the theatrical lead singer of the hard-rock group Pentagram, is revealed in this moving documentary.

"...are the crows picking the soft tissue from his bones...."

April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top Chef Texas, The Finale. Finally.

Whose cuisine will reign supreme?

"...is luscious. Sarah’s fiancé notices that there are pin bones in the salmon. Ugh, pin bones in salmon is..."

March 6, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

'The Butcher's Hands'

Short Story Contest second-place winner

"...until she was just a lump of buttons and bones. He didn't mind that Lorca was a homosexual. At..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Dana De Greff

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...An Evening With Sacred Bones Records Director: Jacqueline Castel Brooklyn-based record label Sacred Bones..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...The incandescent first chapter of Gabrielle Hamilton's memoir Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

J. Edgar

The man who played Dirty Harry directs Leonardo DiCaprio as America's top cop, J. Edgar Hoover.

"...than all the bank robbers the bureau made its bones catching in the Thirties and the mobsters that then-Attorney..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Elbow

"...its frontman Fish. That's Elbow: evolutionary pastoralism. "Lay my bones in the cobblestones," cries Garvey on "Neat Little Rows,"..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

7 & 7 Is

7 & 7 Is

"...strings, and fading harmonies. More please. Follow That Bird"Wooden Bones" b/w "Antlers" (Mt. Fuji)..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...debut Shed, while fellow Northeasterners Trap Them (7:45pm) pulverize bones. Inside, Dead End Path (11:15pm) matches them all riff..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

Last of the Delta Bluesmen

Pinetop Perkins goes home to Mississippi

"...gave him a McDonald's gift card. Meat on They Bones..."

April 22, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night of SX handicapping

"...for outsiders looking in. The quartet's third album, Breaking Bones, is due in May on Austin-based Chicken Ranch Records...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

I Am Number Four

This filmed adaptation of the first book in the proposed Lorien Legacies series follows the tribulations of an alien refugee on Earth.

"...particular fiction comes into clear focus. Humans have an in-the-bones hunger for fantasy, and the very best of the..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ray's Bar-B-Q

Eating at Ray's is experiencing Texas barbecue history

"...(chopped beef, $3.75; combination, $4.95; pork rib, $4.95, available bones in or bones removed). The daily combo special ($4.95)..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

Saturday Preview

"...abstractions of frontman Cody Ground. – Austin Powell Woven Bones..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Feature

Red

Over-the-hill crime-fighters band together to save their own in this smirky, goofy mashup of a rom-com and action picture.

"...she's kidnapped (sort of) by Frank. Urban (Star Trek's Bones) gives an intense, sympathetic performance as an ambassador of..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Giant Dog/Followed by Static

'The Grand' b/w 'Qy Jara' and 'Smiles' b/w 'Bones'

"...Grand" b/w "Qy Jara" (Sundae) Followed by Static"Smiles" b/w "Bones" (Sundae)..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Woven Bones

"...Woven Bones In and Out and Back Again (HoZac)..."

May 28, 2010 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Screens Top 10s

"...(Inglourious Basterds), Stanley Tucci (Julie & Julia, The Lovely Bones), Alfred Molina (An Education), Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) ACTING..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Evenhanded Piece on Fluoridation, Which Can Kill You

"...high tech diagnostic tool to distinguish human from animal bones – an instrument which detects fluoride buildup in the..."

Dec. 1, 2009 Postmarks

Off the Record

Can you hear me now? Local musicians and OTR get some much needed hearing aid while Jody Denberg signs off from KGSR.

"...Wiebe's Chronicle-sponsored trip to the chiropractor (see "Rattle Me Bones," April 21, 2006), OTR visited the Health Alliance for..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Enlighten Up!

The filmmaker, a yoga practitioner, documents a skeptic’s journey into the big om.

"...ways that would have likely made Mahatma Gandhi's aged bones splinter like raw spaghetti. As Churchill spirits her dubious..."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Star Trek

Star Trek is an immensely satisfying origin story that introduces the characters we know – before we knew them.

"...delightfully unexpected yet cleverly apropos: tippling, proto-curmudgeon medical student "Bones" McCoy (Urban, grimly comic); future helmsman and épée-wielder Hikaru..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Buying Time

The federal stimulus money rides to the state's rescue – until the next session

"...by mid-May, and the plan is to maintain the bare-bones spending of the last decade...."

May 8, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Jewels of Castle Hill

The Heritage Society of Austin's Spring 2009 historic home tour.

"...space, another advantage of making your own furniture. The Bones-Stokes House (c. 1909) on West Ninth, a Craftsman-influenced Transitional..."

May 3, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

Take That, Brachiosaur Sauropod, Pleurocoelus!

Texas gets new state dinosaur

"...as the official Lone Star State Dinosaur after it bones were found in the state. But in 2007, as..."

April 30, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...up this body." They made Christina carry all the bones that they dug up, he said...."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Geezerville Mixtape

More of the best of 2008

"...6) Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, "Rattlin’ Bones," Rattlin’ Bones (Sugar Hill)..."

Jan. 14, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Honey on the Track

Honey Homicide of the Lonestar Rollergirls talks tactics and ligaments

"...a long time to heal,” she said. “People think bones are the difficult one, but bones heal and heal..."

Nov. 20, 2008 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

The Edge of Heaven

This Turkish film is a transgenerational, transborder microcosm of modern cultural melding.

"...the Babel/Crash formula but also fails to rattle your bones the way those movies did. Pick your poison, I..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Take

Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

"...being forced into special-education classes and that Ana's already bare-bones economic survival mechanisms have been stretched beyond their limits...."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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