Monsoon

Henry Golding proves you can go home again in this expat character piece

"...But with both parents now dead, Kit has finally made the trip back to his..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think • Julia Alvarez,..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin at Large: And Still, We Rise

Austin has liberated itself from exhausted narratives before. It's time to do it again.

"...goal of a struggle for liberation from an old, dead power structure, and when that struggle was joined in..."

June 12, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

An Intermediate's Guide to Marijuana Edibles

Now is the time to bake and get baked, in the comfort of home

"...forth between our tree and the neighbor’s pile of dead grass, cheerfully singing as it carried, blade by blade,..."

April 20, 2020 Food Post by Alice B. Toker

Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Harleen makes her own way without Mr. J.

"...a bridge between the goofy and the grotesque. In Birds of Prey, we see what happens when the character..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Unpacks Longest Lineup List

Soccer Mommy, Caroline Rose, Alyona Alyona, and 351 more

"...Deadbeat Beat (Detroit, MI.)..."

Jan. 14, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Multimedia Exhibit Captures East Austin Then and Now

Bear Lopez collaborates to celebrate his disappearing neighborhood

"...delivering papers through its ever-changing back streets in the dead of night with the help of his 20-year-old chihuahua..."

Oct. 16, 2019 Arts Post by Saskia Henn

Luv Doc: Being Circumspect

A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person

"...George W. Bush is by all definitions an actual..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

"Kate Breakey: Ornithology" at Stephen L. Clark Gallery

Where late the sweet birds sang, where now resides the egg and eye

"...artist has become renowned for her – photographs of dead things: delicate, wee creatures of feather or fur, killed..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...Marie Arana SILVER, SWORD, AND STONE Kristen Arnett MOSTLY DEAD THINGS Rick Atkinson THE BRITISH ARE COMING Jami Attenberg..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Phonography Austin's The Invisible Suburb

This World Listening day installation used recorded sounds of domestic life to create a ghostly neighborhood on a street now empty of life

"...clangs and bangs and cacophony of the recordings. While birds chirped intermittently, bugs buzzed so consistently that they formed..."

July 26, 2019 Arts Review by Taylor Prewitt

Doom Rockers Duel Conjure a Masterwork of Otherworldly Omnipresence

Locals work their black magic on new album Valley of Shadows

"...Well-received predecessors Fears of the Dead (2016) and Witch­banger (2017) oscillate between short-circuiting guitar sorcery..."

May 17, 2019 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...Tree, André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, Kevin Puts' The Manchurian Candidate and Pulitzer..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: 15 SXSW Buzz Bands to Cure Millennial Burnout

By legs, Lyft, or Lime scooter, get to the following 15 acts

"...Having experienced it myself, I can attest to how deadly it can be...."

March 8, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Coexisting With the Coyotes of Travis County

Austin’s wildlife management program goes countywide

"...possums, injured squirrels, porcupines, foxes, skunks, and many injured birds, as well as encounters with snakes and bats...."

Feb. 22, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Worldbuilding With Science-Fiction Author Charlie Jane Anders

Signing for The City in the Middle of the Night at BookPeople

"...changed the literary landscape. Her debut novel, All the Birds in the Sky, won the Nebula Award for Best..."

Feb. 19, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Amy Seimetz against things that are better off left dead. The 1989 version is beloved by horror fans, but..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: Seasons Beatings

Our top picks for holiday movies with a twist

"...little weird – the kid is mouthy and into dead birds and ballet, and she keeps trying to push..."

Dec. 6, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

The Found Footage Festival Comes to Austin

Traveling showcase of video hilarity screens at the North Door

"...wacky, right? But most of it's wacky because it's dead-on serious and yet as absurd as Normal American Life..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Second SXSW 2019 Band List

Black Midi, Jealous of the Birds, Deerhunter, and 247 others

"...siren Naomi Hamilton, who performs as Jealous of the Birds, and the Comet Is Coming, a London trio whose..."

Nov. 28, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...were made from the rendered gunk of the Egyptian dead. In addition to being used as paint, ingested mummy..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Playback: Everyone Keeps Asking Me for ACL Fest Passes

Here's why ...

"...delivery, who puts every cell into performance. The group's Dead Oceans-issued Songs of Praise, a platter of engaging post-punk..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Not going to Float Fest? Stay dry with these show picks.

"...year’s powerhouse The Dusk in Us, while French trio Birds in Row explores similar sounds on We Already Lost..."

July 19, 2018 Chron Events Post by The Music Staff

Heartland Theatre Collective’s Little Bird

The vulnerability of small things is at the heart of Nicole Oglesby’s drama of girls and ghosts in East Texas bayou country

"...tiny body. The girl had never heard that mama birds reject babies that had been touched by a human...."

June 15, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW’s Eighth Artist List

Nathaniel Rateliff, Bun B, Rob Stone, and 141 more

"......And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Ghostland Observatory, Bright Light Social Hour, and recent Austin..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fear & Loathing

Travis County says goodbye to a coyote-killing machine

"...and on. The majority of animals killed were red-winged blackbirds and invasive European starlings. WS also disperses millions of..."

Dec. 22, 2017 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...the rules of the game to make it increasingly deadly in order to get rid of Jonathan. It doesn’t..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

“Pio Pulido: The Last Exhibit of the 20th Century” at the MACC

This retrospective is like visiting an artist’s crowded studio and yet provides just a glimpse of this visionary’s output

"...a barren plain, surrounded by rotting corn and a dead fish, look collaged. A bright pink worm writhes in..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, Song to Song

As heard in the movies

"...It's as regular as dead moms and wiseacre sidekicks in the Disney film canon..."

May 19, 2017 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: Buy the Snake

They say it's a sin to kill a mockingbird

"...children. I am going to kill that bird so dead that birds themselves will become extinct." Then I stopped..."

April 14, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

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