Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Bid the sun farewell and enjoy a fall fair this October

"...We’ve got news about the October annular eclipse and lots of fun events during the month...."

Oct. 5, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Recipe: Threadgill’s San Antonio Squash Casserole

Few restaurants had as large an impact on Austin's food and music scenes as Threadgill's

"...restaurants had as large an impact on Austin's food and music scenes as Threadgill's. It was part music hall,..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Food Feature by Joel Fried

Review: Alchemy Theatre’s Mack & Mabel

Intimate staging bests Broadway’s Hollywood tragedy

"...abruptly transported from a world where no one sings and dances without cause or provocation (except, perhaps, at 2am..."

May 26, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Day Trips: The Liberty Monument, Rowena

Celebrate your freedom to drink at this unique monument

"...The German and Czech farmers in the southern portion of the county..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Queen & Slim

Tragic romance with a Black Lives Matter message

"...Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny, Bertrand E. Boyd II, Sturgill Simpson and Jahi Di’Allo Winston...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Find fall foliage in Texas and stop and smell the roses

"...time for pumpkin-spiced October events all over the state and beyond...."

Oct. 3, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Villains

Delicious black comedy finds bad guys in a battle of the generations

"...Directed by: Dan Berk and Robert Olsen. Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan,..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Rob Zombie Resurrects the Firefly Family for 3 From Hell

Here to do the devil's work: Director talks how being cool is no excuse

"...And that was where the story seemed to stop. After..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Crime Month: A Chron "Crime" Playlist

Hit after hit, for your next hit

"...The first, “Crime,” is chock full of gangsters, killers, and thieves. Down, dirty, and underhanded, there’s a little bit..."

July 16, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

Drink You a Little Coupe of Crime, Oenophile

Some would say that the glass is half full … of blood

"...Yes, it’s Crime Month here at The Austin Chronicle, and the bodies are piling up...."

July 12, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What Happened to Bonnie and Clyde's Missing Gun?

In which we hear the report of a gun and a secret is revealed

"...Oakley penetrated the front of the skull of one Clyde Chestnut Barrow, notorious Texas-born bank robber and cop killer...."

July 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips: Texas Prison Museum

Slammer school in Huntsville

"...lays bare the inhuman restraints used in the past and the makeshift weapons fashioned by the inmates. If nothing..."

July 5, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Family

Outsider comedy has a lot less Insane Clown Posse than you might expect

"...Jessie Ennis, Fabrizio Zacharee Guido, Blair Beeken, Matt Walsh and Allison Tolman...."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Diane

Mortality has never seemed more pressing or vibrant than in this tale of small-town aging

"...Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Deirdre O’Connell, Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Phyllis Somerville, Charles Weldon and Glynnis O’Connor...."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Highwaymen

Costner and Harrelson face death and mortality on the hunt for Bonnie & Clyde

"...Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, Kim Dickens and John Carroll Lynch...."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review

Film Review: Villains

Relationships are hard (when you’re aging spree-killers)

"...Villains, the third feature from writer-director duo Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, might be slotted into a genial weekend..."

March 10, 2019 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Film Q&A: John Lee Hancock on The Highwaymen

Texas director retells the Bonnie and Clyde story from the cops’ view

"...with outlaws can invert morality. It’s easy to see Bonnie and Clyde as devil-may-care heroes careening through the South..."

March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Trump’s Twitter Library, a Ferris Wheel of Cheese, and More From the Wide, Weird World of SXSW

Festival-adjacent events abound!

"...badge doesn't just gain you entry to films, concerts, and conference panels. It also opens the door to a..."

March 8, 2019 Features Feature by Kimberley Jones

John Lee Hancock Heads to the Texas Film Hall of Fame

A writer, a director, and a writer/director

"...Writer/director and Texas City native John Lee Hancock has been to..."

March 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

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

"...Festival planning now: the annual celebration of screens large and small has announced its first wave of movies and..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Channeling Bonnie Parker

"...paper ballots." Yes, she does seem to be channeling Bonnie Parker, who with her partner in small-time robbery and..."

Sept. 10, 2018 Postmarks

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) do not yawn as they are conscious breathers...."

Aug. 3, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Your Weekend in Film

What major releases and one-off screenings are worth your theatre time

"...Demon dolls, bad dads, and Lethal Ladies are on the film forecast...."

Aug. 11, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

On-set in The Iron Orchard

New film tackles Texas' oil history

"...the Chateau Bellevue, actor Lane Garrison keeps his hat and tie on. Sticky as it is, he says, it's..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

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

"...The worst part about summer is everyone demanding that you go outside. Fortunately, here comes the Paramount..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bullock Museum Screens Bonnie and Clyde

Texas Focus series spotlights seminal Sixties film

"...The reaction to Bonnie and Clyde is almost as famous as the film..."

April 19, 2017 Screens Post by Dougie Gerrard

Bank Robbers and Texas Rangers Clash in Hell or High Water

West Texas noir

"...It's a long way from the sandstone edifices of Glasgow, Scotland, to the dusty plateaus of..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW List No. 9

Number nine (Wale), number nine (Miike Snow), number nine (Peaches)

"...Wale, porno diva Peaches, Atlanta R&B specialist Cody Chesnutt, and London’s Bonnie & Clyde, Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Wes Craven, Philosopher of Terror

Remembering the horror innovator

"...be scared, about what being scared means to us, and why we embrace it...."

Sept. 5, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: 700 Springs, Junction

There's a lot of water spouts at Texas' 11th-largest spring

"...the bottom of a cliff surrounded by the arid landscape between Junction and Rocksprings. Green ferns and moss grow..."

May 8, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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