Fake Fast Food Restaurateur (and Filmmaker) Kevin Smith Welcomes Austin to Mooby's

Silent Bob talks fan connection, veganism, and Mooby's origins

"...latter a Mooby’s design with cow horns extruding out, cutting a ceremonial ribbon with giant scissors and taking photos..."

May 11, 2021 Food Post by Kevin Curtin

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...the city, and I made a life history of cutting school. We would cut school with our backpacks and..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...psych twists through fuzz-laden riffs and jangly reverb oscillations. Cutting through the six-string screeches, spaced-out jams, and bass prods,..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback: Starf**king SXSW

SXSW’s bubble burst? Sure, okay – if you say so. Leave the starfucking to us, then.

"...entities – Hype Hotel, Fader Fort, Spotify House – cutting back (revisit "Playback: Collateral Events During SXSW Scale Back,"..."

March 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...Recently filmed here in A-town cutting a new disc, the onetime Schertz shitkicker brought a..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Wes Craven, Philosopher of Terror

Remembering the horror innovator

"...Swanberg and Richard Linklater. He had literally a few moments before he had to jet off, but tried to..."

Sept. 5, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Heart and Soul

Lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...can hear. Unfortunately, you never seem to enjoy those moments as much as you should...."

Oct. 25, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Medicine Men

The Band of Heathens' collective mojo

"...gray that spray his short-cropped beard, obscuring a scar cutting down his left cheek...."

May 6, 2011 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Arthouse Reopening Celebration Schedule

"...the public with eight hours of activities, including a ribbon-cutting with the mayor, a talk with the renovation project..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Inner Sanctums, Outer Orbits

The intertwined legacies of indie music and the alternative press

"...Sanctum was important to several significantly different generations of cutting-edge musical taste, from country and progressive country to punk..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: SXSW 09: An Intelligence-Impaired Introduction

In which six wise men give up on the elephant and go down themselves

"...I retreat to montage and mosaic: telling stories, recalling moments, searching for clarity, and celebrating community. 3) Any Number..."

March 27, 2009 Column by Louis Black

She's Her Own Grandma

Carole Keeton Strayhorn – what a long strange trip it's been

"...To witness those few hyperkinetic moments in the life of Strayhorn that day – defying..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Luv Doc Recommends: Fronterafest Short Fringe Best of the Week

Hyde Park Theatre, Saturday, January 28, 2006

"...gaffes, bloopers, and outtakes. There will be quiet, awkward moments when the dramatic ball is dropped, when you feel..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Lounge Patio Is there any greater indie cachet than cutting your debut in a funeral home? Thus is the..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?

"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.

"...asked whether his Stanford class represented an early Seventies cutting edge in creative writing: "Don't forget that 10 years..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Naked City

Breaking ground on the Austin Convention Center expansion project.

"...with one of those things," he said. A few moments earlier, city honchos, downtown developers, Chamber boosters, and old-school..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature by Amy Smith

Exhibitionism

"...verbal stabs, and Robertson, her voice whittled to a cutting edge, dexterously declaims them so that they slice, slice,..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Arts Review

The ACM Machine

Assistant City Managers Outlive Rumors of Their Demise

"...more important in May of 1999 than to be cutting a ribbon out there," says Garza. Although he admits..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Pushing Priorities

Councilmembers Lay Down Their Cards

"...Sure, there are some tense moments during every councilmember's career, but this week probably topped..."

Sept. 6, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

What Chronicle Music Writers Are Reading This Summer

Recent musical reads on Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O'Connor, and more

"...the singer's ex Clyde Woodward during his "long last moments," listening to his favorite songs. (Revisit "Going Back to..."

June 30, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...the understated beauty arising from earnest observation of quiet moments and lives. The native Virginian, two years deep into..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Closing Schools, Shrinking Enrollment Make for Tense Times at AISD

Sour apples at AISD

"...budget. The meeting was bookended by two comparatively celebratory moments: Arati Singh's swearing-in as At-Large Place 9 trustee, and..."

Jan. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

"...on my laptop in the middle of a field, cutting pages while the sun came up and the crew..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Chronicle Critics on Oscars' Best Picture Nominees

Revisit the nominees and get prepared for the pomp this weekend

"...closing chapters, the director relies on too many laudatory moments and heroic shots that elevate these characters over the..."

March 2, 2018 Events Post by Josh Kupecki

Dear Glutton: The Cure for an Existential Hangover

The best dish to wake up the senses and shake off the gloom

"...hard, or not hard enough. Who knows? Something is cutting you off from quotidian joys. The question is, what..."

May 26, 2017 Food Column by Emily Beyda

SXSW Tuesday Showcase Picks

"...with a gilded-pop veneer, jangly melodies of distorted guitars cutting cleanly through casual and soft tones in their EP..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature

Under the Skin

Psychological thriller Felt slices into rape culture

"...of us dies? The montage of all the happy moments right before the tragedy?'"..."

July 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Every Day Is Halloween

See No Evil 2, The Houses October Built, and LFO

"...hole in his head. See No Evil 2 opens moments after the first film, with Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) flatlined..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: A Small Hurricane of Emotions

Jonathan Demme's Bob Marley Stay With the Rhythm pushes beyond the boundaries of the screen

"...at a screening, I am certain that these are moments when he is connecting the earth to the music,..."

July 17, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...more lighthearted, a poppier vision of Public Image Limited's cross-cutting guitar scrape. New LP Fake Surfers crests in April...."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

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