Central Market’s Well-Bladed Cindy Haenel: Cutting Herself Free

The popular chef-instructor will be moving on by year’s end

"...with knives, you’re gonna get cut. And no one wants to get – unintentionally – cut...."

June 11, 2018 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...[release of the second draft], which is fine. But something that I thought was useful for me in trying..."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

Trumpet Constant Ephraim Owens Won’t Be Rushed

New Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee substitutes kindness and ubiquity for a back catalog

"...post-bop hero Roy Hargrove, adding dashes of flair. He sometimes plays on his toes, lifting himself forward off the..."

April 7, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Retro-Futurists Reshape Austin Music

Half-a-dozen rising stars of local electro

"...No one wants the perception that electronic music means ......"

July 1, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Who Did the Animation for Keith Maitland’s Documentary Tower?

Minnow Mountain’s Craig Staggs talks art & drama & Austin & Earp

"...animators. And from that, it kind of clicked and blossomed, as those things do. And after that, Keith approached..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Gilded Eternity: The Return of Loop

Seminal UK outfit returns to U.S. expressly for Psych Fest

"...So it’s okay. I’m really enjoying it. It’s not something I’m going to spend the rest of my life..."

May 1, 2014 Music Post by Michael Toland

Cracks in the Ceiling

An extended Q&A with Ann Richards biographer Jan Reid

"...Austin Chronicle: You were writing about someone whom you knew fairly well and admired – did..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Arts Post by Michael King

The Re-education of Historic Tax Breaks

AISD looks for reforms to next year's historic property program

"...not support this program as it is implemented." He wants to stop it from being a home-improvement subsidy for..."

Sept. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lucie 'splains It All

Austin Cabaret presents Lucie Arnaz, and here we have a lovely convo.

"...the family, either your grandmother or the mother or something. Maybe he was afraid he'd never get a Desi,..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Arts Post by Kate X Messer

The Thousand-String Guitar

Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar

"...summer break in the time-honored ways: minimum-wage-slaving it in some mall retail outlet, catching rays at Barton Springs, sleeping..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Can't Get There From Here

While suburban rail spends and stumbles, Cap Metro's transit-dependent riders wait at the end of the line

"...There's something to be said for having a captive customer base...."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...McKay told Darby that he and Crowder had made some Molotov cocktails (i.e., bottled gasoline bombs) and that he..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

Hill Country Militia

Grassroots homesteaders tighten ranks to fight urban encroachment

"...after CPS Energy proposed several alternative routes that in some cases turned communities against one another...."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Greg Harman

The Present Beware! The Future Beware!

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

"...Am Baby Cakes), a camouflage-pantsed, freestyle-rapping man-child who just wants to show "what the inside of a poem looks..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

South by So Real

Hustling SXSW hip-hop with Matt Sonzala.

"...Mex Connect. I’m focusing on the next generation and some new shit. If Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, or Paul Wall..."

Feb. 12, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Starting Over

For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm

"...though the third comedy was intended to give them something fresh to play with – and possibly allow them..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...delivers horror thrills and spills. It's also brimming with some really perverted shit. And the main character, wow. One..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Congress' War

The Texas congressmen look for a way out

"...conundrum: a huge majority disapprove of the war and wants to withdraw, or at least wants timetables set for..."

June 8, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Slam as It Ever Was

The nationals come to Austin amid the polarizing medium's 20th anniversary

"...athleticize, rap, stand up, and deliver poetry ... or something...."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Monkey Time

How communing with the apes inspired the artists of the Texas Monkey Project

"...Photographer, video director, and sometime Chronicle contributor Traci Goudie agrees. "Artists are the perfect..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Arts Feature by Cindy Widner

Inside the Actor's Superego

How Michael Baldwin got here (hint: It involves a showbiz upbringing, Oreo cookies, and shrieking armadas of flying, brain-sucking spheres)

"...opened and closed with barely a box-office ripple, but some 5,000 miles to the West, a pint-sized superstar flared..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Round One at Round Rock

Is the noisy suburban school battle an omen of things to come?

"...exchange his legal services for the chance to see some girl-on-girl action between a client and her friend...."

April 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Six Mexicans Named Gonzalez

In Six Mexicans Named Gonzalez, writer-performer Adrian Villegas is not afraid to confront American racism and spit in its ghoulish eye – and he's pretty damned funny as he does it

"...Racism. Everybody knows what it is, but nobody really wants to..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

How Safe Is Your E-Vote?

Proponents of electronic voting promise no repeat of Florida in 2000, but critics say it could be even worse

"...In some eyes, computers seemed the obvious answer. No chads. No..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...Formaldehyde. Dissection tools. The parts of a cell. Kingdom, something, something, family, genus, species...."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Up South

Austin MC Bavu Blakes takes it to the streets.

"...below somebody, slower than somebody."..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Music Feature by Chale Nafus

Imagine

The music business in a post-911 world

"..."The name was so hokey and catchy, but everybody remembered it. That's the thing: To me, it was..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...Oct. 5] is nothing but a whine contest by someone who would complain no matter what Bush did that..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...most of the country has been shocked back into some semblance of a community by the attack, it seems..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...for the reader to know the real agenda of someone whose objective it is to change the current world..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

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