The Man With the Perfect Swing

"...a college baseball star who briefly played professionally. Usually broke and out of a job, he survives on the..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Patrick Taggart

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...G. (drums). We traveled up the Midwest to Minnesota, down to Miami, and then back up the Northeast into..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

Now Serving ... Time

Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation

"..."To them I'm just another inmate," he says, sitting down at a small table...."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Justice or Vengeance?

A tale of tragedy and punishment in Williamson County

"...to pester Threet, acting "loud" and refusing to settle down. "Terence had definitely been drinking," said Threet's friend, Blake..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

The franchise is back in business, though this time the project has a more calculated feel.

"...of these likable characters, but the story gets bogged down in some pace-stopping scenes about community gentrification, some mildly..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...Lunch amply in an early, 9pm time slot (just down the street and just after Sonic Youth's festival headlining..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Tom Cruise risks life and limb in one of the best missions yet

"...favored by Tom Cruise and co., having honed it down to a dizzying science over the course of 20..."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Behind 'Broussard's Lament'

"...Katrina in 2005 that caught national attention when he broke down describing the death of a colleague's mother, drowned..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Invocation of the Duke

daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra's chamber music

"...He made time for a run-down with Check Yo’ Self as the 63-person ensemble gets..."

May 27, 2009 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

A Festival in Transition

Twenty-one years on, aGLIFF reinvents itself

"...Parade. There were about 45,000 spectators lined up on Downtown streets as the parade lumbered past, as parades –..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...rotting, dangling out of their tanks. Once, Peterson's truck broke down and he was surrounded by a group of..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Goodnight, Austin, Texas -- Wherever You Are

The 2000-01 Austin Music Awards

"...from Eric Johnson to Stephen Bruton, then lay it down smooth and subtle with what's arguably the best jazz..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Justice Denied?

Advocates Still Fighting for Lacresha Murray's Freedom

"...(suggesting she had been thrown against a wall); four broken ribs, and a completely severed liver. Bayardo ruled that..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Berkshire Hounds Talk Breakup and Reunion

“We’ve definitely matured/been beaten down over the last five years”

"...Immensely talented, dysfunctional, and under-appreciated, Berkshire Hounds broke up in 2015 without even saying goodbye. On Thursday,..."

Oct. 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"..."[Dorham] knew what had gone down – even if people in the audience didn't," wrote..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

God, Guns & Guitars: Willie’s Picnic

Midwest farmer’s daughters, dirt road anthems, and a whiskey river

"...As such, when the grizzled gentleman sporting a sequined button-down shirt and shoulder-length hair in front of me set..."

July 5, 2016 Music Post by Bryan Rolli

'The NFL Beat': Saints and Patriots Camps

Lots of win, from North to South

"...hard to imagine a defense being able to shut down all those offensive weapons, and instead will have to..."

Aug. 4, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Scanlines

The Big Combo

"...with his partner Jerry (Weeks), is assigned to track down a pimp named Gator. After a lengthy car chase..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction

"...towards a house and comments that he “must have broke in there I don't know how many times, back..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The House of Yes

"...Marty managed to sever the ties that bind and broke free from a smothering home life that included madness,..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions

"...and finally, the ultimate sin, excruciatingly boring. When Barker broke on the cinematic scene back in 1987 with the..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where The Devil Roams

Diabolical art horror rides into a Great Depression carnie hell

"...and underexposed color. The audience is trapped inside their broke-down 1931 coupe as it rattles across backroads, witnessing their..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

The life, passions, and shattering death of the traveler

"...connect that it was Bourdain’s addictive personality that ultimately broke down his mental health. His work here is akin..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Bloody Hell

Australian horror-comedy is deliciously twisted riff on the eurotrip

"...dialogue, and layer it with Brian Cacha's twisted merry-go-round broke down for a nasty little treat that's smart about..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Odd Future

"..."Sandwitches," a line that'd wrapped clear around Fourth Street broke down the doors and bum-rushed damn near everything except..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

And the Loser Is ...

The biggest winner in the Chronicle's Bacheloser contest

"...Chris McMinn lives with his retired parents, has a broken-down Lumina, and hasn't been "touched in a romantic fashion"..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Features Feature by Audra Schroeder

Country Mile

Country mile

"...is right on the Manchaca money. Or lack thereof. Broke and broke down, by life, women, the president, and..."

April 29, 2005 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Slaid Cleaves

"...CleavesWishbones (Philo) Four years have passed since Slaid Cleaves' Broke Down, a breakthrough album that brought the Austinite a..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

25 Minutes and Nothing to Lose

Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is often curbed by Practical Concerns, but FronteraFest is a performance jamboree that gives artists the freedom to go for broke.

"...personnel to put up the sets and take them down and to run lights and sound for the shows...."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

By the Book

Recent Fiction and Nonfiction Reviewed

"...to visit Mexico. "South of Tecate, California, the van broke down. Then, five minutes later, north of Tecate, Mexico,..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

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