Four Decades of Austin Chronicle Halloween Mask Covers

"...2017: Armed White Male Coming off a spate of mass..."

Oct. 24, 2022 Photo Gallery

SXSW Music: Mega Third List

L7, the Cult, Loretta Lynn and 556 more added to the Fest

"...Other points of intrigue for the spring convergence, scheduled..."

Jan. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

30 Rock

Thirty recordings for 30 years of music Chronicling

"...Day of the Dead debut, opening in "Paradise" at a public hanging with..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...a dense, disaffected ambience that recalls a more gothic Dead Can Dance. Real Estate, likewise, notched two sleepier hits..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...when drafted. Like Hap, he worked a string of dead-end jobs – digging ditches, tarring roofs, working the door..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

After a Fashion

Your tricky riffin' Style Avatar gets all pre-Halloween grim and invites you to his birthday party, which was not supposed to happen

"...DAMN I'm not dead yet. They said I'd be dead by now. If..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...depressed loner in all of us. – Darcie Stevens DEAD WHALE TIDE10pm, Velvet Spade After a brief hiatus from..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM

Most of the American soldiers who have died in Iraq came from little places that the 21st century has left behind

"...have been stripped of factories. I'm speaking of our dead in Iraq. (And did you know more Americans were..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...story about Walter Alvarez to the ghost of his dead grandson; and M-Dogg, the Malaria Bitch, a hip-hop protozoan..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Point and Shoot

Without looking Matt knows the deer is dead.

"...Without looking Matt knows the deer is dead. The involuntary jerking muscles, the settling down of the..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Bonnie West

Further Reflections

"...and those instances are compensated by intelligent characterizations and dead-on direction. It's a rare film that can take such..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth photograph by Michael Crawford..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...expert and information thief whom Stallone's mysterious employer wants dead. Of course, Stallone decides to rebel against his backstabbing..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Bird

Danger, nature, and coming of age in Andrea Arnold's latest

"...feature film since 2016 – well, the title’s a dead giveaway, even if we don’t meet the titular character..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Record Store Day, Formula 1, Dyke March, and More Event Recommendations

Your weekend is spoken for

"...Thursday 17-Saturday 19, the Ballroom..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

1992

The L.A. riots are the backdrop for this forgettable heist picture

"...There’s nothing simple about raising boys, especially among the dead lawns and razor wire of Crenshaw, and especially on..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cuckoo

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer stars in this thriller set at a resort in rural Bavaria

"...Gretchen is a stereotypical resentful teen, mourning for her dead mother and resentful of everyone, including her younger stepsister..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

It Ends With Us

Mostly sensitive look at domestic abuse, based on Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel

"...title, intimating a cycle to be broken, is a dead giveaway, but still, consider yourself warned: plot details ahead.)..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Instigators

Shaggy dog crime flick starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck plays like knockoff Tarantino

"...definitely no Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead...."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Founders Day

Slasher political satire should fall on its own blade

"...The classic era of teens and killers was actually dead by 1986, when it was all either being spoofed..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Elevator Game

Goofy horror-comedy transitions to ghoulish chiller at the flick of a switch

"...one particular hotel and summon the spirit of a dead college student from the Red Zone...."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Gap Band at Juneteenth, Feels So Gay, and more recommended shows

"...So Gay w/ Sudie, Middle SattreFeels So Good, Saturday 17..."

June 16, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A few fests, Nineties Brits, AfroTech, and more shows worth seeing

"...211 E. Alpine Ste. 700-A. D.C. psych rock act Dead Meadow bears electric fuzz and dreamy vocals, while local..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Column by Kriss Conklin

Amsterdam

David O. Russell's madcap murder-mystery is a misfire

"...their former commanding officer. (Taylor Swift briefly plays the dead guy’s daughter, to distracting effect.) In flashback, we meet..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Confess, Fletch

Jon Hamm's laconic detective is too laid-back for his own good

"...its own pleasures; his Fletch seems untroubled by the dead body that jump-starts the plot, or the cop (Wood..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Offseason

Coastal cosmic horror in the eerie latest from Mickey Keating

"...Park found more meat on the bones of The Deadliest Game. Now he embraces the mist-shrouded chills of that..."

March 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Uppercase Print

Subversive documentary pits a graffiti artist against autocracy

"...for his “hostile inscriptions.” Four years later he was dead; whether by illness or poison remains unclear, although it..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Space and Distance: A Joint Interview With Balmorhea and Explosions in the Sky

How Austin’s landmark instrumental outfits soundtrack the state of Texas

"...wrote 2003 landmark The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place hunkered down in Midland – where all but..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The next generation of spook-scarers makes this resurrection fun

"...the late Harold Ramis’ beloved braniac ’buster, but a dead cert look-alike for his daughter, Violet Ramis Stiel, when..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

No Time to Die

Daniel Craig's last Bond adventure is a misfire

"...already convoluted timeline and inherently conflating two of Bond's dead exes...."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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