We Give Two Thumbs Up to These Weekend Events

Arty and culture-y things to get up to

"...The Traitors Watch Party..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Police Contract (Maybe) Blocked: By the time you read this, there will be new developments...."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

It’s time for chili cook-offs, festivals, and all sorts of November fun

"...Saturdays at the Revolver Brewery in Granbury are a combination country fair..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Hannah Hart Brings Her Newest Book to Austin

The My Drunk Kitchen star wants to help you celebrate daily

"...Mix together one part cookbook, one part self-help, and a whopping..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Charlie Mangan

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...dies, those of us left behind reassure ourselves that the departed's spirit persists through the work of others that..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Swamp Dogg Lotions Up

After midnight at the Continental Club Friday & Saturday

"...became an accomplished songwriter and mid-tier R&B balladeer in the Sixties, though it wasn’t until he morphed into Swamp..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...Texas Book Festival authors, friends, and coordinators gathered at The Contemporary Austin tonight to share some exciting..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

From Source to Sea

Three Austinites kayak South America

"...It was the first day of their 3,600-mile kayaking journey and Jeff..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Sports Post by Carly Yansak

Reheated

The 18th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

"...Any Yankee heading south across the Mason-Dixon Line for the first time finds that they..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Food Feature by Louis Black

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond.

"...Quote of the Week"'Stay the course' is not a policy. … I..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Candy Hell

Or, it takes a lot of patience to play Mrs. Santa Claus.

"...Over the years, we've published holiday memoirs that were at times..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

For Your Consideration ...

Austin Film Festival Preview

"...W: James Howard and Arliss Howard/D: Arliss Howard; with Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette,..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...I walk the dog at twilight so I can glance in strangers'..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...Strange legislative bedfellows are lying in the path of the Longhorn Pipeline. A Monday press conference..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

They Lost My Grandmother's Brain

One lover of the grape interviews another - one who writes songs and plays music.

"...Charlie Ribble likes to to tell stories. He also likes drinking and hanging out, and he..."

July 21, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Drug Warriors

Hays County drug war is costing lives and money.

"...modest duplex in a subdivision a few miles outside the sleepy Hill Country community of Wimberley. Windle's house was..."

Nov. 5, 1999 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

October Previews

"...THE ACID HOUSE..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...on a two-acre spread he had inherited from his mother in neighboring Milam County. With pockets of rich black..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...It was a hot Sunday afternoon late in the summer of 1978. Having arrived in town only two..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Further Reflections

"...Elizabeth Hurley at the EDtv premiere at the Paramount Theatre. photograph by John..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Lies, All Lies

The Silver Castle

"...In the past few months, several journalists have been busted for..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Books Review

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...five nights, divided by you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...One of the nice things about freelancing as opposed to being on..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Con Safos

Keith Ferguson's Legacy

"...Keith Ferguson died with a monkey on his back. I'm not speaking figuratively;..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Dan Forte

Mission: Mariachi

Testing Tacos, Trajes, and Tequila

"...illustration by Tom King In the doldrums of Texas summer, margaritas are a ritualistic celebration..."

May 2, 1997 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Postmarks

Run, Max, Run

"...respond to your editorial calling for Max Nofziger to withdraw from the mayor race, for fear of him "splitting..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Column

States of Mind

Off the Bookshelf

"...The Source of Trouble; $10 paperback A Wild, Cold State..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature

Location, Location, Location

Detective Fiction

"...On the television, the sound turned off, the Oklahoma bombing was..."

May 5, 1995 Books Feature by Louis Black