Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...I Feel Love I'm sitting in one of the myriad coffee shops on Congress Avenue -- slouching,..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Gary Phillips at Adventures in Crime & Space

"...a train whistle and field holler somewhere in every end-of-the-millennium blues song. And if Walter Mosley (Devil in a..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Books Feature

Gay Place: Drag Central

Dressed down or up, this weekend in Austin is a drag, drag, drag

"...popping up like so many drag queen 5 o'clock shadows. Add to the StarGayzer, OUTsider files: The first ever..."

May 1, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

From the Vaults: When Shirley Clarke Met Roger Corman

Shirley Clarke was to direct "Crazy Mama"

"...primary influence by one SXSW filmmaker during the course of an interview; and Clarke has been mentioned twice in..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wicked

An election-year return to Oz finds the hit musical packing an extra punch

"...Oz was an adolescent fascination of mine. I begged for ruby slippers at age 4,..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Murnau

This set features six of the expressionist's most famous movies from his early years in Germany, each a masterpiece of symphonic chiaroscuro

"...Nearly 100 years after the release of his first movie, F.W. Murnau is due the biggest,..."

April 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Truth Serum

Pity the poor costumed heroes of our childhood

"...www.theuniversityofmyopia.com..."

May 12, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Night and the City' and 'Thieves Highway'

The artistic tragedy of Jules Dassin's being blacklisted in Hollywood after 1949's swiftly compelling 'Thieves' Highway' is leavened somewhat by the fact that the 94-year-old director is still around to partake in the contemporary celebration of his dashing noir oeuvre

"...The Criterion Collection, $39.95 The artistic tragedy of Jules Dassin's being blacklisted in Hollywood after 1949's swiftly..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Coffeetable Books

Dream On

"...Chronicle Books, 144 pp., $29.95..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

ICE Attacks!

Immigration took a beating this year from both the federal and state government

"...U.S. Immigration and Cus­toms Enforcement raided Austin as part of a nationwide strategy under the anti-immigrant Trump administration to..."

Dec. 29, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, Song to Song

As heard in the movies

"...protagonist expresses a deep yearning for something just out of reach, which will drive the narrative forward, as in..."

May 19, 2017 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Hausfrau

This first novel is about the desperation of a depressed expat housewife in Switzerland

"...Mad Men's Betty Draper embodied the twisted secrets of a housewife plagued by hellish sadness, sweltering isolation, and..."

May 1, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

PrintAustin: Big Medium, Art.Science.Gallery, and Immediatag

Three galleries at Canopy offer such resonant and vital prints that they're hard to tear your vision from

"...Now we're in the midst of PrintAustin, the citywide celebration of printmaking, with so many..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place: HER-SUiT-ISM

Steel Magnolias, Drag Kings: The Musical, S&M Music, Spanksgiving, Turkey Queer Ride, and so much more

"...N Things have been holding down the hairy fort of gender fuckery here in the ATX. (Did you know..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

This Is a Blogpost About Austin's Jennymarie Jemison

Partly because her movie's in the Seattle International Film Festival

"...This blogpost is about Jennymarie Jemison partly because The..."

May 20, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kiss Me Deadly

'Blood-red kisses,' 'white-hot thrills,' and a radioactive Pandora's box

"...stop for her, she flings herself into the path of the next oncoming car and forces it to stop...."

June 24, 2011 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas

Homeless drug- and gambling addicts, design flaws, crawfish, black widows, graffiti of inspiration and despair

"...Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegasby Matthew O'Brien Huntington Press, 282 pp., $19.95..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

A Writer's Life

Elucidating the fine art of hanging around

"...448 pp., $26 OK, so you're Gay Talese, one of the most influential journalists of the past half century..."

April 28, 2006 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Gift Guide

"...Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Swimming in Sky: A Novel

"...Inman Majors' Swimming in Sky is such a rich book that it's near impossible to figure out how to..."

March 23, 2001 Books Review by Adrienne Martini

Full Mental Jacket

While writer-performer Wayne Alan Brenner has a quirky style and indisputable stage presence, his new show Full Mental Jacket is so self-referential that, like an overanalyzed relationship, it talks itself to some semblance of death.

"...The Off Center,..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

An Outdoor Screening, Bluey Live, and More Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

Get out and art this week!

"...and the Movies in the Park series. They kick off by screening last year’s vibrant Pixar film Elemental, a..."

March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Best Music We’ve Seen So Far at SXSW 2023

An insightful Jeff Tweedy, sunshiney Armani White, and more

"...Though South by Southwest Music officially started yesterday, the Chronicle music team, as usual, spent..."

March 14, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 1-7

"...believes there's only one way to find a sense of meaning, and that is to fill your life to..."

July 1, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 8-14

"...wrote aphorist Daniel Liebert. I trust you're not one of them. But if you are, I beg you to..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

How Austin's Performing Artists Are Reopening Their Spaces

After months behind screens, the folks who run the city's theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside

"...Can you hear it? The sound of applause? Coming not from some ersatz arts space on..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The One-Man Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Park Conspiracy

“Do you see it? Cuz if you don’t, then I’m crazy.”

"...modeled after the three-legged pooch – and a grip of mail. From it, Barbaro handed me a letter and..."

Dec. 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Hunting Down the Clickbait Beast in The VICE Guide to Bigfoot

Zach Lamplugh and Brian Emond are on the case at the Austin Film Festival

"...this week, is less a cryptozoological romp and more of a media satire. Rather than hunting for 'squatch scat,..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...was my attempt at meeting – in the parlance of the black-and-white classics we screened – a better class..."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Spill Diaspora

Two websites devoted to film and popular culture have risen from the ashes of Spill.com

"...well aware that people are familiar with the roots of the organization. "Everybody's heard these origin stories," he admits...."

Nov. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Austin Heiberg

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