ATX Television Fest: Dead of Summer Panel

Freeform's new series is a throwback to Eighties summer camp slashers

"...this year’s ATX TV Fest, Freeform screened a couple of its new pilots, including Dead of Summer – an..."

June 12, 2016 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Last Day of Summer

White Denim pours 'Corsicana Lemonade'

"...Honeybears. I wolfed down bland queso at a Maudie's knockoff called Lobo. Nothing helped. I was a stranger in..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down - officially kicking off..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Medieval Times: Being Dead in an Era of Cruelty and Despair

The story of a real band and a fake band in two acts

"...– booming and deliberate – comes from the back of the bar. There, at a cocktail table, a man..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

For Love of the Game

"...John C. Reilly, Kelly Preston and Jena Malone. Some of us thought that with the success of last year's..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...Yes, the era of chasing ultra-rare, saccharine-sweet candy beer all over town, brewed..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

The Cult of Pitchfork

How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

"...wear tiny gym shorts in public, even in blistering, dead-of-summer heat. But there they were: grown men dressed like..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Some Parts of the World Pt. 2

Every day is moving day

"...reaction is always, “Wow, need a [insert job description of your choice] with you on the road?” It is..."

June 2, 2011 Music Post by BettySoo

State of the City Address

As delivered by Mayor Lee Leffingwell today

"...Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his State of the City Address before the Real Estate Council of..."

Feb. 2, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

One in a Crowd: Among the Dead

Local zombie horror needs brains ... make that crowdfunding

"...aspect they all share is that they won't stay dead. And some times, a zombie film just won't stay..."

May 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: 10 Fresh Finds at Hot Summer Nights

Ten sunspots on Hot Summer Nights’ triple-digit lineup

"...If you're cataloging the current weekend warriors of Austin's Red River Cultural District, the glossary might look..."

July 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...film. Now Wes Anderson's new star-studded canine animation Isle of Dogs will be the top to its tail as..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Art of Dying

"...and Fele Martínez. Slick and intermittently creepy, The Art of Dying is a sort of I Know What You..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Know What You Did Last Summer

"...eviscera and all) from that much-beloved splatter movie boom of the early and mid Eighties. Taking its cue from..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Learn A New Skill in One Summer

Why summer is a great time for kids to learn coding

"...most parents, you are anxious to make good use of your child's time during summer. Every year, we get..."

May 28, 2020 Events Post

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The next installment of this franchise that no one asked for

"...by: Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin McNally,..."

May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House at the End of the Street

This scary-house movie starring Jennifer Lawrence is a strictly middling nonshocker.

"...the Cemetery, or any other addresses near the corner of Suspense Street and Rue Morgue, this is one property..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Memo From the HTX: Summer Fest Postmortem

Street shots from Houston's Summer Fest

"...The second annual wannabe-ACL, aka Houston's Free Press Summer Fest, had its moments, with the Flaming Lips, Slim..."

June 14, 2010 Design Post by Meghan Ruth Speakerman

Summer Fun: You Might Wanna Schlitt Down for This

Our Summer Fun extras begin with 'the hottest, coolest time in Texas'

"...really a thing in my family. Other clans took off for Canada posing like wet dogs in front of..."

May 13, 2013 Chronolog Post by Andy Campbell

Lords of Dogtown

This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.

"...Knoxville and William Mapother. Skaters everywhere owe a debt of gratitude to Stacy Peralta, and not just for the..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

Now is the Summer of our discontent after this flat jukebox

"...Martian, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is left for dead on the surface of Mars. While salvaging through the..."

May 7, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Snapshot: Hot Summer Nights Band Portraits

Favorites from the summer season’s Free Week

"...You've heard of Free Week, the annual seven-ish days in January shebang..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...space is small and austere: fluorescent bulbs and walls of bare brick, a window for observers in an adjoining..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Watch This: Kicking Americana Quintet Restos’ Debut Single “Ain’t Dead Yet”

Former Western Youth members aren’t hanging it up anytime soon

"...Last summer, the Chronicle premiered a new song from country rockers..."

April 5, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

KUTX Summer Jam

Inaugural showcase highlights the best of ATX hip-hop and beyond

"...Aaron “Fresh” Knight and Jared "Confucius Jones" Williams, hosts of KUTX’s hip-hop show The Breaks, last Friday’s Summer Jam..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Events Post by Savannah Opre

Garth Manor Brings Out the Dead

FX maestro Robert Kurtzman on the seminal Evil Dead 2

"...The elevator pitch for 1987's classic comedy-horror Evil Dead 2 would be simple: the same, but more. More..."

July 31, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Summer Fun: Find Yourself in a Swimsuit

Custom or retail: Do swimwear your own way this summer.

"...it, "a swimming suit." The place to be that summer might well have been under a rusty old train..."

May 16, 2014 Chronolog Post by Anne Harris

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Johnny Depp sails the seas once again.

"...Rob Marshall. Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin R. McNally, Sam Claflin, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Stephen..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Oh, Oh, Those Summer Bites

Camp Food

"...With the onset of summer, I feel oddly displaced. Disorienting heat aside, summer..."

July 9, 1999 Food Feature

Summer of Laugh

This Year, Austin Comics Got Really Hot

"...was the essay that struck fear into the heart of every young student. "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

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