The Industry of Light and Magic

Fx guru and key 'Star Wars' figure Tom Smith to HRC

"...With the acquisition of former Industrial Light and Magic boss Tom Smith's personal..."

April 15, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Saturday blurbs rally!

"...8pm, Auditorium Shores By the time the Cult stalked off the Austin Music Hall stage in 1995 and broke..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Bedside Manner

Strip mall apocalypse

"...stores and occasionally the semi-annual Austin Record Convention, shopping of any sort is not high on my list of..."

March 5, 2012 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

Gay Place: Boys vs. Girls

Feeling left out? The unicorn can guide you on your LGBTQuest

"...While on my way out the door of Nest with Rebecca Havemeyer and awesome Chronicle intern Ayeesha..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Metal Matinee

"...big-bearded rock to the inside stage, a sound full of British heavy metal and thrash leanings set to the..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Review by Adam Schragin

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...hub for gore? Consider the evidence: At the time of this writing, there are just under a dozen horror..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Galaxy Not So Far Away

Austin's BioWare unleashes Star Wars: The Old Republic

"...Who wants to wield a lightsaber? BioWare Austin's Dallas Dickinson, producer of Star Wars: The..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chewies and Spikes And Jaynes, Oh My

Wizard World Austin Comic Con returns

"...Even at that scale, there is still a sense of condescension in some media quarters about such events. After..."

Nov. 13, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Good 2 Go – Clemons Delivers Another Winner

Highbrow takeout? Take that, Domino's!

"...It looks like Reed Clemons is rebuilding his empire all in one location along Bee Caves Road. He's..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Food Review by Wes Marshall

One Way or Another

Live review of Blondie at the Moody

"...Blondie bandmembers Clem Burke and Chris Stein, the latter of whom Harry was partnered with for decades, the current..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Seasoning's Greetings

A look at the savory and the tweet of Hilah Cooking

"...sad, lonely person," says Chris Sharpe, the directing half of the operation. "So I'd email her stuff and be..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...reveals a drift away from bluegrass and into a slightly more electrified direction, but that baby Billie Holiday voice..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

Oh, What a Stylish Pussy She Has!

Cats in 'jamas – no kidding.

"...you have it: My looking-over-the-shoulder rationalization for this review of Takako Iwasa's Fashion Cats. *clears throat, begins* Of course..."

Aug. 22, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'One-Man Star Wars Trilogy'

How a Canadian actor's low-tech love song to Star Wars conquered the cosmos

"...Don't let Charlie Ross' four-day stand at our grand, state-of-the-art Long Center fool you into thinking that his One-Man..."

June 3, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

SXSW news and carryings on

"...by a stomp squad. Built-in punch lines were passed off as college music awards (Best Performing Woodie: Matt &..."

March 18, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Is That a Wrap for Incentives?

Amid economic woes and a race-baiting controversy, the future of TV, video game, and film funding in Texas looks shaky

"...why the state wouldn't fund Machete, plus a change of leadership at the Texas Film Commission, could make it..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

What's Old Is New Again

Historical novelist Steven Saylor journeys back to ancient Rome

"...Steven Saylor’s bread and butter is the since-fallen Roman empire – but we suspect some common ground will be..."

Aug. 25, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

As the Years Go Passing By

Inner Sanctum Records and the Armadillo – rock & roll, Austin-historical-style

"...World Headquarters had announced its closing at the end of the year, and Austin's punk emporium Raul's had already..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Nature of Existence

This documentary treks the globe posing life’s big questions to one and all.

"...a puritanical street preacher. Scientists, director Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back), and performer Julia Sweeney (It’s Pat). These..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The HighBall

If this is diner food, then it's from the best diner in the universe

"...newest venture by Tim and Karrie League, the owners of the three original Alamo Drafthouses. Located in the same..."

April 23, 2010 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

Point Austin: Taking Fire

Did you happen to vote for dictatorial rule?

"...conservatives to support the argument that the U.S. system of government is not a "democracy." But in light of..."

April 9, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Small Town, Big Find

The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville

"...field, hungrily eyeing a dilapidated former school and dreaming of the possibilities, when a Haynesville producer climbed over a..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Media Watch: The Rag in the Modern World

Olde Austin Ragsters revive in a digital age

"...For most of us, the underground press movement of the Sixties exists..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Point Austin: Twilight of the Empire

Obama's expansion of the war leads nowhere

"...Whatever else we might think of it, President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Off the Cuff and in Your City

A roundup of Austin improv schools

"...and otherwise. What it takes to make something out of nothing is what improvisers have in abundance. What it..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cast Away

Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood

"...has steadily become anathema. Under current circumstances, the discussion of the foundry's future is raising larger questions about the..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

We did not fall from the Garden; we journeyed away

"...recorded after Woodstock, the concert – expressed the longings of that summer of 1969: "We've got to get ourselves..."

July 31, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Coma in Algiers hand-delivers its goods, while Tia Carrera and Ignitor pay their last respects to Room 710

"...to get up close and personal in the promotion of its sophomore LP, Your Heart Your Body (see "Texas..."

July 24, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Letters at 3AM

At the crest of Beatlemania, 18 and hungry for life was some kind of way to be

"...as lust, or maybe more basic: contact; the acknowledgement of one for another, two together, the beginning of everything..."

July 3, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Wine of the Week

This region's wines are pure, delicate, and elegant

"...Collio is in the northeast part of Italy and, like France's Alsace, is one of those..."

April 10, 2009 Food Column by Wes Marshall

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