Thursday Picks

"...duo, whose alarmingly breathless raps veer wildly from the dead-serious ("Angles") to the deadly danceable ("The Beat That My..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Black as Your Lungs, Black as Pitch

First-Place Winner

"...No. They want you to be dead. They're lonely. So they tell you to walk down..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Greg Koehler

Sea Wolf

"...Into a year of Horses (Band of), Birds (Andrew), and Bears (Panda) dog-paddles Sea Wolf. Baring fangs,..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Reviewing the three-ring circus of Fun Fun Fun Fest and flashing back to the Armadillo World Headquarters with Dweezil Zappa

"...complete." Thus far the bill includes locals Trail of Dead and Iron & Wine, along with Dinosaur Jr., Broken..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Graham Williams of Transmission Entertainment breaks down this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, while Ian McLagan and the Chronicle music staff sound off on the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot

"...Boomerang's, Daily Juice, the Parlor, Brave New Books, and Birds Barbershop...."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Japanese guitarist Michio Kurihara drops Sunset Notes at Mohawk, Trail of Dead severe ties with Interscope, and Lamberts cooks up new residencies

"...renovations only sweetens the deal this time around. Early birds can shop on Friday beginning at 10am for $25...."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Resident Evil: Extinction

Milla Jovovich continues to fight zombies and the apocalypse.

"...of George A. Romero's zombie mythology (Diary of the Dead, his latest ghoul's night out, played at Fantastic Fest),..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

NFL Preview

"...… ah, forget it. This team will stink like dead fish. That is all that needs to be said...."

Sept. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

love conjure/blues

Sharon Bridgforth's love/conjure blues is a ritual steeped in the magic of the Southern black oral tradition and West African spirituality but encircling all of us

"...existence, often as if by magic; "she conjured wild birds in the air"; "he conjured spirits from the mountain"..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Review by Abe Louise Young

Naked City

"...continued into his June 3 death. Brown was shot dead by Austin Police Department Sgt. Michael Olsen near Chester's..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature

Kick the Can and Bag the Bag

A guide to preparing homemade pet food

"...foods for the past 35 years for dogs, cats, birds, and cattle...."

May 11, 2007 Food Feature by Fran Moody

EMS Bargaining Power – At Budget Time

Austin EMS employees likely to receive bargaining power – while the city looks to cut public safety spending.

"...waning days of the Lege, where bills drop like dead birds along Congress, some Austin-centric legislation has wound its..."

May 2, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Le Draft 2007

"...still boo their man. Buffalo In honor of the dead and injured in the VT killings, former No. 1..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

'NFL Analysis 101': Fiendish Fish, Frolicking Amphibians, and the Fancy Lads of Fitzgerald

"...pleasurable. Prognosis: McNabb needs a weapon, but the Green Birds need to stop the opposition. Defensive end Charles Johnson..."

March 19, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

"...4) Get some rest. Yes, you'll sleep when you're dead, but if you skip your beauty sleep too often,..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Tuber

First place

"...in a forest, but we hear nothing of the birds or streams. The characters are boys, young enough to..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Mark Grayson Mayer

15th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

The winners, the judges, and the reasons why

"...generally helpful people, fur trappers, Satanists, track stars, free birds, experts in fields, collectors of Precious Moments figurines in..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...– not some 63 pigeons, sparrows, and grackles dropping dead out of the sky. That's what occurred Jan. 8,..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature

What Do You Call 60 Dead Pigeons? A Start.

Any press conference titled "Congress Avenue Dead Bird Test Results" OK by us.

"...So birds of a feather do flock together. Adolfo Valadez, medical..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Possession Arrow: Badgley->Razook

"...Lawrence, where the über-talented yet strangely always-underachieving Jayhawks – birds of prey if ever there were – lie in..."

Jan. 9, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

Nothing Worth Crapping On

"...Dear Editor, The recent occurrence of dead birds near the state Capitol is of no surprise..."

Jan. 9, 2007 Postmarks

Breaking: Congress Avenue Closed

Expected until noon

"...Cesar Chavez to 11th street, due to finding several dead birds -- several dozen -- by the Capitol building...."

Jan. 8, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Twelve Drummers Drumming

Caroling casualties: The 12 nays of Christmas

"...it simple. Ask for what you really need.Four Calling Birds: Publicity..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

TCB

Halloween tricks and treats from the Rolling Stones, Pet Shop Boys, White Ghost Shivers, and Palm School Choir, while yet another Austin outdoor festival is born

"...whatever disbelief they may have harbored, and a band dead-set on making a favorable impression for its first time..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...understand that the detective is in love with the dead girl, her painting. On one of two Laura DVD..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Below the Surface: A Different Order

In both halves of the Marjorie Moore and Jeffrey Dell joint show, "Below the Surface: A Different Order," a sense of loss is communicated, sometimes in terms of artistic technique, sometimes in terms of life

"...to be transitional work, it is surely not a dead end...."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

Buried Alive in the Blues

The night Austin's Godfather of the blues granted Ed Ward a favor he'll never forget

"...frequent visitors and the house band was the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Actually, when I moved to Austin in October, 1979,..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...leader, drink his blood, believe he rose from the dead, and will do so again any day now ......"

April 21, 2006 Column

Two Into War

Different Stages' pairing of Naomi Wallace's 'The Retreating World' and Fraser Grace's 'Gifts of War' offers solo portraits of two victims of war, staged with sensitive simplicity

"...let's say that 5% of the American population dropped dead due to the fact that they didn't have enough..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Dreaming of Buffalo

Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin's eyes – and energies – eastward

"...tallgrass prairie is so alive you can hear it: birds chattering, cottontails bounding out of the scrub, hawks soaring..."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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