George Kinney, Who Helmed the Golden Dawn’s Early Psych Rock Treasure Power Plant, Has Died

Homegrown psychedelic trailblazer passes at 75

"...lyricist for the Austin-based psychedelic rock act the Golden Dawn, whose 1968 LP Power Plant became a late-realized genre..."

July 18, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The French Connection: ATX6

"Playback" follows Austin musical emissaries to Angers

"...revior” to Texas and begins a journey to the French city of Angers – pronounced “ahn-zhay.” Something like that...."

Sept. 9, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The French Connection

Golden moments at Austin Week in Angers, France

"...Angers, 200 miles southwest, is the laid-back French city you dream about, where you walk in the..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

George Kinney & The Golden Dawn

Fanning the flames of legend

"...graybeard who was there the last time the Golden Dawn graced the Austin scene 35 years ago, but the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

SXSW: Austin Dining From Yawn Till Dawn

Some late-night lifesavers to keep you well-fed in the wee hours of SXSW

"...A hipster's heaven with a great mixology bar and French food from the '50s. The Belmont..."

March 11, 2011 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Let Them Eat BBQ

Texans levitate the French

"...Once again, the morning escapes me. Six days into..."

Sept. 19, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

3 Hearts

A French love triangle loses its balance

"...The love triangle in the so-so French drama 3 Hearts is an obtuse one, geometrically and..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sleepless Night

Purloined cocaine, his kidnapped son, and a den of thieves who wish him ill cause one man to have a very desperate night in this taut French thriller.

"...of the floor, an exercise of trapped-space repetitiveness this French thriller cannily exploits for gasping tension. After a brief..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Night and Day

"...roams the streets of Paris, returning home only at dawn when Jack gets off work. These two never sleep,..."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everybody's Fine

"...are no more extraordinary than anyone else's begins to dawn on him as he stops in Naples, Rome, Florence,..."

June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Queen To Play

In this French drama, a placid, working-class woman discovers passions she never knew she possessed when she learns to play chess.

"...Superlative performances and a restrained directorial touch elevate this French drama from a schematic outline into a compelling story..."

July 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art Imitates Chef

British Actor Lenny Henry Cooks in Restaurant Sitcom

"...appeared in England, though, he did find out that French chef Albert Roux, who played himself in a cameo..."

April 11, 1997 Screens Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Review: A Discovery of Witches

Miniseries shakes Twilight's shadow for a more feminist fantasy

"...New miniseries A Discovery of Witches shares the same..."

Jan. 16, 2019 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Death on the Nile

Brannagh's back for another ride under the detective's moustache

"...Bening, Sophie Okonedo, Letitia Wright, Russell Brand, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Rose Leslie and Ali Fazal...."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Adam Carroll: Let It Choose You

San Marcos bard continues thriving on his eight LP

"...you when the rice birds flew/ When the false dawn came with the morning dew.” He sang it at..."

Aug. 26, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Greener Grass

Something weird in suburbia (again) but this is no Blue Velvet ripoff

"...Directed by: Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe. Starring: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennet, Mary..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.

"...Jacques Barzun's book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...the Living Dead than anything else I've done, even Dawn of the Dead."..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...on-the-job apprenticeship method (in kitchens originally based on 18th-century French military models, but that's another story). This instructional mode..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Macro Education

There's more to macrobiotic cooking than brown rice and tofu. Natural Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts founders Fran Moody and Dawn Black are showing Austinites why, Cuisines editor Virgina B. Wood writes.

"...When Fran Moody and Dawn Black met at a macrobiotic cooking class in the..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

All Quiet on the Western Front

Shocking, graphic, and mournful adaption of the World War I epic

"...been selected for them. “You will be dead by dawn,” a sergeant warns Paul. Although that’s not in the..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Austin Over Easy

The Chronicle Guide to Breakfast Dining

"...me coming back to HighLife, among them the generous French press pots of hand - ground coffee and unusual..."

March 13, 1998 Food Feature

Record Reviews

"...THIN LIZARD DAWN..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Pushing the Borderline

AFS Essential Cinema highlights filmmakers far from home

"...she's branded "white material" in the same-titled film. A French woman expatriated to Tuscany and a traveling British author..."

June 3, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

For Your Consideration

What to see at the 21st annual Austin Film Festival

"...the Chronicle's Louis Black, and many more. Full Circle: Dawn Patrol..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: Austin Week in Angers, France

Kevin Curtin runs into more than a handful of musical Austinites on the other side of the globe

"...Maurice Cathedral to Austin's Frost Bank Tower (revisit "The French Connection," Sept. 16). It's a contrast of ancient France..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Creates XR Austin for Online Festival

Digital environment will be virtually like being there

"...sprite on a moonlit journey through the night until dawn. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), in collaboration with Manchester..."

March 2, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Manson Family

Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmkaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.

"...existential brouhaha. Instead, Van Bebber’s films – Deadbeat at Dawn, My Sweet Satan, and now The Manson Family, have..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three for the Barre

With a serious amount of movement taking place on the Austin dance scene, the Chronicle asked three of its dance critics to review recent programs by Ballet Austin, Tapestry Dance Company, and the Latino dance festival Collectivos.

"...George Balanchine, a romantic and witty ballet with a French accent by local original Stephen Mills, and a balletic..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Exhibitionism

The Suida Manning Collection: the Renaissance Is Here

"...of Athens or the Italian Renaissance rather than the dawn of the 21st century. Why, we could even compare..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Review

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