Thursday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...slinking gracefully from the loungey vibe of his previous work toward a coarse-pop aesthetic that still embraces sunshine. L.A.'s..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

A Guy Thing

"...he supposedly loves. Lee is a gifted comic. His work in Smith's Mallrats and especially Chasing Amy is almost..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...mode with the slacker-soul of the brand new Souljacker (DreamWorks), chock-full of guest performances from folks like Koool G..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Postmarks

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

"...gets what it wants. That's just the way things work these days. Just you watch Florida; the Democrats won't..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Column

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...in VIP suites to pallets on the floor in dirty junkie pads. I went from hanging with rock stars,..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Dance With Me

"...L. Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson and Joan Plowright. Original working title: Shut Up and Dance. Given the already minimal..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Burgers, Burgers Everywhere

The Chronicle Guide to Hamburgers in Austin

"...photograph by Todd V. Wolfson Dirty Martin's Place..."

June 20, 1997 Food Feature

Caught 'em in Autumn

Earthpig & Fire

"...from one of Roald Dahl's children's stories - freaks, dirty bird little boys, and happy morons. "Who in the..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Music Feature

ATX TV Festival 2022: Patrick Somerville on Station Eleven

Showrunner talks adaptation and pandemic TV

"...multi-storyline plot make for a complex yet eminently satisfying work. Somerville, a novelist and writer for whom this was..."

June 5, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Playback: Being Christeene in 2018

“I’m a collection of all the shit that you’re throwing around in this stratosphere of online media conversation.”

"...Stopschinski for many years, but I never thought to work with him until I thought to work with him...."

May 25, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Public Notice: The End of Single-Family?

Possibly. And look who’s leading the charge.

"...There was a possible game-changer at Mon­day's joint work session of the Zoning & Platting and Planning commissions..."

Dec. 8, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Gay Place

The Contemporary Austin kicks off a QTPOC film series for the month of May

"...rooftop sculpture With Liberty and Justice for All (A Work in Progress), the four films were selected to "draw..."

May 5, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

The World Is Watching J. Quinton Johnson

The UT alumnus left Austin to be in "the room where it happens": in Hamilton on Broadway

"...Meyer and starring Pierce Brosnan; ABC's musical reinvention of Dirty Dancing; and Richard Linklater's ensemble comedy Everybody Wants Some!!,..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

72 Hours (or So) of Ridesharing

With Uber and Lyft still boycotting Austin, we take the competition for a drive

"...personal service – allowing our customers to build a network of 'preferred drivers' and receive 10 percent referral ride..."

June 24, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

After a Fashion: The Jewelry Vault

Stephen's got a brand new bag, and it has some local landmarks on it

"...time does not mean they haven't been producing stunning work. Our old friend and CFDA-winner Nak Armstrong, whose dazzling..."

June 21, 2013 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...spastic, Double Nickels on the Dime-style ambition. Last year's Dirty Fingernails hit the high-water mark, but smart money says..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...prices in R&B nerd circles, but it's his recent work with the Expressions that's put him with Sharon Jones..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...of Eagles, accentuating the finer points in Rossen's full-time work with Grizzly Bear. The duo's 4AD debut, In Ear..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Saturday Picks

"...has a high-top in both Atlanta and Houston movements, working closely with T.I., Killer Mike, Devin the Dude, and..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Naked City

"...emissions power is now less than that of building dirty, uneconomic, and unsustainable pulverized coal plants." – Daniel Mottola..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature

Culture Flash!

Council candidates talk the arts, the people's choice from City Hall's art exhibit, musical theatre training from Broadway pros, and local playwrights get read on both coasts

"...Hall had the opportunity to vote for their favorite work among the 79 pieces in the 2005 City Hall..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin @ Large: The Job Description

Why sane people don't run for City Council

"...Susan Moffat. And my friend Jim Walker, the hardest working man in show business. There are, of course, others;..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...as is exactly which excuse you use to skip work on the festival's Friday. But just as we did..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Up South

Austin MC Bavu Blakes takes it to the streets.

"..."Down" can be a dirty word. Which is the primary reason one of Austin's..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Music Feature by Chale Nafus

Love Thy Neighbor

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

"...Long the province of dirty old men and the raincoat brigade, adult videos and..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Texas Our Texas loves Texas; Neighbors for Neighbors hate strip-mining; Justin B. Andrews returns; and other delighted and dismayed letters from readers.

"...While Baker's work is, by his own admission, a working hypothesis about..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column

Living

Bill Nighy explores the inner desperation of a very proper Englishman

"...was an undeniable kinship between the British postwar office worker and the Japanese postwar salaryman: both defined by a..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Vikram

Star power and muscles power this gritty Tamil action thriller

"...is captured beautifully by cinematographer Girish Gangadharan, whose camera work on India’s 2020 Oscar submission, Jallikattu, was absolutely stunning,..."

June 10, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

Belfast

Kenneth Branagh's stunning if messy look back at his childhood in Northern Ireland

"...his early life as a Belfast-born lad from a working-class family growing up in a torn city...."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sex Sells: 40 Years of Forbidden Fruit

Terri Lynn Raridon gives Austin over to absolute pleasure

"...Places where men would go to see, you know, dirty movies or peepshows or whatever. But Forbidden Fruit was..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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