SXSW Music Review: Yard Act, Do Nothing, Squid, and the Art of the British Post-Punk Soliloquy

SXSW Music’s bread-n-butter: cutting edge UK rebellion

"...recall standing in the rain outside the big open windows of Latitude 30, watching the young Dublin-based band Girl..."

March 19, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Review: A Lot of Nothing

The Black bourgeoisie contends with police shootings

"...feels the sting as they watch the news. What does one do in the face of injustice? Doesn't someone..."

March 16, 2022 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

I'll Do Anything

"...entertaining films, Brooks's next film was eagerly awaited. I'll Do Anything, though, hit the white water rapids on the..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...Is evil something that we do, or something that we allow to happen? In German..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nothing to Lose

"...the love of God. Robbins plays Nick Beam, a well-to-do advertising executive whose world collapses one afternoon when he..."

July 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'White Walls Say Nothing' Plans to Paint the Screens

Kickstarter for local doc about Buenos Aires street artists

"...according to the film makers behind White Walls Say Nothing, the street artists of Buenos Aries in Argentina have..."

Oct. 28, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What Would Martha Do?

If the ideas are there, design it yourself!

"...it reflect part of themselves. And like those early domestic artisans, many of us have the talent and means;..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Features Feature by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe

Nothing But the Truth

Alejandro Escovedo remembers his friend and collaborator Stephen Bruton.

"...Electric Lounge. Wayne Kramer backed by the Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs downstairs at Emo’s equaled the second coming of the MC5...."

May 15, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Q&A: Sealed Room Terror in We Need to Do Something

Max Booth III and Sean King O'Grady close the bathroom door

"...Whatever you do, if you watch We Need to Do Something, do..."

Sept. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: What We Do in the Shadows

Jemaine Clement lets the vampires talk

"...as posited by New Zealand vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows, is an eternity with those same..."

July 21, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: Do Not Resuscitate

The Texas Lege, back from the dead

"...joked that, if anti-choice groups were so pro-life, why don't they picket funerals? They may not have gone that..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dudley Do-Right

"...so far in this cinematic life, and sadly, Dudley Do-Right has precious little else to offer outside of Fraser's..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Aug. 24-26

Because you wouldn’t stop at just four things, would you?

"...Or are you gonna go ahead and do six things, because you’re just that badass? Hey, we’re..."

Aug. 24, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: What to Do About CodeNEXT

Opponents offering plenty of fear but precious few solutions

"...when (I guess it needs to be said) CodeNEXT does not exist. Implicit in all this foreboding is that..."

Nov. 17, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Will Texas Do Better?

Ongoing lawsuits are keeping everything in limbo, but after that …

"...split the House viciously. Republicans held their noses and adopted a public education budget that sliced $5.4 billion from..."

Dec. 7, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lawmakers Might Not Like Planned Parenthood, But Voters Do

The war on women's health continues at the Capitol

"...or funding family-planning health services – but Texas voters do...."

May 16, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Nothing Compares to Britney

Spears, shaved

"...Really, we don't have enough to deal with here at the Chronicle...."

Feb. 19, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

From Nothing to Bounty

Playwright Lisa D'Amour muses on the distance between Austin and 'Detroit'

"...the last few weeks. In May, she was in London for the National Theatre's staging of Detroit, and given..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Proof of Nothing

When you were busted for public intoxication, were you drunk? Or did you just piss off a cop?

"...most often including at least several hours in the Downtown lockup – is one of the state's most subjective..."

June 24, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...a much larger sense ... What we're trying to do is enlarge the jazz audience. These people in their..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

'Nothing Is Done Alone' Extended Interview

The TxCC and their role in Bastrop's recovery after the fires

"...already serving in previous disasters like Joplin, Missouri [multiple-vortex tornadoes, Sunday, May 22, 2011], and others before that. They..."

Dec. 2, 2013 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

Something Out of Nothing

Joe Swanberg, anti-director, on Hannah Takes the Stairs

"...and this guy is returning to New York to do some business after being apart for a while, and..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Nothing Here Has Any Real Value

Honorable mention

"...requests, I always knew that some action was required. Do you remember that yellow afghan your grandmother made for..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Sarah Elizabeth Eastep

All or Nothing

Local short-filmmaking / sketch group says hello and goodbye with Alamo show

"...Sunday afternoon at an all but slumbering Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, and Dax Martinez-Vargas isn't as sharp, not as solid,..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Money for Nothing

Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services

"..."They won't tell you this wherever they do these things, but it's a very big risk. You..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Page Two: President Know-Nothing

President Know-Nothing

"...I've always thought the George Santayana quote "Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

What the #$*! Do We Know!?

Quantum physics, intent and possibility, science and fantasy … goofy cult or educational primer?

"...Robert Bailey Jr., Armin Shimerman and Barry Newman. There’s nothing so annoying as a film that resolutely strives to..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Money for Nothing

Millions of Williamson County taxpayer dollars pour into a contractor's pocket, and no one seems to know why.

"...suffering from conveniently poor memories; about millions of taxpayer dollars expended with apparently lackadaisical oversight -- and about bubbling,..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

25 Minutes and Nothing to Lose

Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is often curbed by Practical Concerns, but FronteraFest is a performance jamboree that gives artists the freedom to go for broke.

"...by Practical Concerns. You're seized by an urge to do something creatively risky, perhaps even reckless -- say, create..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Which Way Do We Go?

Rae Takes the Wheel

"...process that found Rae in Buffalo and brought her down here. So far, her notices are good, and anyone..."

April 9, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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