Daughters of the Dust

"...Bruce, Tommy Hicks and Kai-Lynn Warren. I'd wager that the portrait of turn of the century African-American women you..."

Feb. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Closer Look at the Paramount Lineup

Spike Lee, Amy Heckerling to present films

"...May we direct your attention to the newly released slate for the Paramount's annual Summer Classic..."

May 15, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Diary of an African Nun

"...seen Julie Dash’s magnificent and thoroughly unique feature film Daughters of the Dust doesn’t need me to tell them..."

April 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mapping the Future

Seven longtime Austinites talk about Smart Growth, neighborhood planning, and the future of Central Austin in an October roundtable discussion.

"..."The whole point of this conversation is to have fun,"..."

Dec. 3, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

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

"...In Miles Davis' autobiography, one of the mightiest forces in music, let alone jazz, recounts..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Page Two: The Best of Austin

A concept in search of an author; characters in search of a form; memory in search of meaning

"...TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN:..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Column by Louis Black

'Another Long Stretch of Continuous Soft Rock'

The third-place story

"...The machine maintains a relentless cadence, disseminating paper over paper,..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Josh Justice

Outlaw Band: The Boland Discography

"...Bukka Allen and Terri Hendrix behind Lloyd Maines' production. The title track, "Drinkin' Song," and "If I Ever Get..."

April 10, 2009 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Good Eye: Passion Play

Don't call them action figures

"...started when my mom gave my sister and me the Madame Alexander dolls of her girlhood: Meg and Beth..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Off the Record

A walk on the wild side of SXSW 2008

"...Walk on the Wild Side..."

March 21, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Legacies of Dust

The Carver Museum exhibition "Legacies of Dust" is a vital exploration, through the lens of daughterhood, of how memory functions and how selves are defined out of time, place, history, politics, sexuality, and community

"..."Legacies of Dust"..."

June 23, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Pride & Prejudice

This fresh adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece starring Keira Knightley presents a witty and lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.

"...Directed by: Joe Wright. Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone,..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Collective Projections

Women Make Movies

"...to say about women," says Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies. Her statement sums up the guiding..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature

Illusions

"...seen Julie Dash’s magnificent and thoroughly unique feature film Daughters of the Dust doesn’t need me to tell them..."

April 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Four Women

"...seen Julie Dash’s magnificent and thoroughly unique feature film Daughters of the Dust doesn’t need me to tell them..."

April 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

San Andreas

This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a guffaw

"...As future fodder for Austin’s snarky Master Pancake Theater, this newest entry in the perennial "California Gets It"..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sittin' on a Red Hot Stove

A Q&A with Charles Sanders, Jr. of Kool & Together

"...From the unlikely Texas town of Victoria, Kool & Together –..."

Oct. 6, 2011 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Far from Hollywood

"...Ice Cube (l) and Michael Boatman in The Glass Shield..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Nafus

Osama

The first feature to come out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, Osama tells the story of a girl who masquerades as a boy.

"...begins in fear and ends in terror. In between there’s all manner of hopelessness, deprivation, and death, which is..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Swamp Dogg Lotions Up

After midnight at the Continental Club Friday & Saturday

"...became an accomplished songwriter and mid-tier R&B balladeer in the Sixties, though it wasn’t until he morphed into Swamp..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

DVD Watch: ‘Life Is Sweet’

What a gorgeous ensemble of oddballs and misfits

"...At least Mike Leigh waits until the end of his director’s commentary to confide that Life..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Get ready for the raunch. SXSW has established itself as the Spring festival..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters @ 3AM

Family life in the Bible mirrors the worst in anyone's family

"...There are actually two creation myths in Genesis, but the..."

April 13, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...Included here is The Austin Chronicle's second round of reviews of various films..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

TCB

Hair metal sneaks into ACL 2005, under a blanket of dust

"...Crazy from the Heat When all was said and sung, TCB caught..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...South by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Day Trippin'

More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at

"...Here's a small sample of recommended day party revelry. Check out the print edition..."

March 11, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

The Mercy Seat

With Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, the dirigo group takes us back to 9 / 11 and shows a couple laying bare their relationship against that day's monstrous tragedy

"...The Mercy SeatThe Blue Theater, through March 27..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Sad, Bad Santa

Wild Bill's 'Honky Tonk Holidaze' – 'Bad Santa' gone Cheech & Chong

"...an elf," he said. "Wear this. I'll feed you the lines."..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

TCB

Finally, nobody died this week, heralding several new beginnings: Trail of Dead hopes its career is reborn on 'So Divided,' ex-Domino Bobby Whitlock relocates to Austin, Stretford comes back on the scene, and even the boy-band craze is revived

"...for a new ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead album. And so it is: The..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

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