Drunk on a Train

Four friends bar crawl their way down the Capital Metro Red Line

"...aka the Red Line. Almost five hours later, we went home blitzed, but a group text preserved our conversations..."

July 13, 2018 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

Alejandro Escovedo’s Hurricane Honeymoon

Rocker’s Category 4 account: “I thought, We might not make this"

"...Cabos. We got there at 9 or 10pm. We went to the car rental, got a car, and drove..."

Sept. 23, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...other 2010-11 titles (The Marriage of Figaro, Madama Butterfly) went on sale in July, but not Cyrano, centerpiece of..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Color of Fire

The Austin Fire Department is making another attempt at staff diversity – will it do any better this time?

"...has nearly as many station houses as it does black firefighters...."

May 13, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Film Prof's Drunk, and the Kids Are Not All Right

Zombie auteur George Romero delivers another state of the union

"...George Romero: I woulda used faster cuts! Everything was pretty much mandated by the form, having to..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Five hundred twenty-thousand compared to Hightower's deliberate lie of 7.3 million. A..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Column

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...girlfriend Leola Perez, a sultry, doe-eyed brunette with a black lace shawl draped over her copper shoulders. The guitarist..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Who Killed Stacey Stites?

A re-examination of a Bastrop murder case leaves many unanswered questions.

"...of the case -- that Rodney Reed was a black man and Stacey Stites a white woman, and that..."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...punk metal licks and glam attitude like it never went out of style. The quartet once covered side one..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Citizen McCall

Kinky Friedman once remarked that the line between fiction and reality is the one he snorted back in 1978. More than two decades later, he's still getting things mixed up. Chronicle writer Sidney Moody investigates why he puts his friend John McCall, the multimillionaire shampoo magnate and owner of the beauty supply firm Armstrong McCall, in his new detective novel Steppin' on a Rainbow without even bothering to change his name.

"...a walking spring of stories pouring forth just about everything he has ever witnessed, thought, dreamt, and experienced. The..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...release form. Seems that 10 long years after it went up in flames, Gilley's is very much alive. And..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Alternate Universes

"...solid reputation as showbiz writers in the 1930s and went on to script such classic productions as Casablanca and..."

March 12, 1999 Books Feature

Something to Live For

"..."Professor Nix" lead the convention congregation in an old black spiritual, "I Do, Don't You," and was struck by..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Literary Guisado

An Interview with Francisco Goldman

"...Woods is not -- or not only -- a black golfer, Goldman is not -- or not only --..."

June 6, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Mind the Bullock

"...Triangle Clarification Dear Louis Black,..."

March 28, 1997 Column

Sxsw

"...pure pop. (Driskill Hotel Crystal Ballroom, 10pm) -- Peter Blackstock..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...it began with Texas History Movies back in the Twenties, then the history comics of Classics Illustrated and E.C...."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...killed when my kids were pretty young and I went to work in tech. So I've kind of parlayed..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Kaitlin Armstrong Defense Team: Police "Concocted a Misogynistic and Fictitious Story"

Attorneys seek prompt hearing on motions to quash evidence

"...in Dallas a few days later), she and Strickland went on a secret swimming date. Police allege the evidence..."

Aug. 19, 2022 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

“It’s Like a Family Business, Except Rock Stars”: The Kindred Bond of We Don’t Ride Llamas

Afro rock sibling band is defiantly unconventional on new EP The Oracle

"..."We went to our parents and we were like, 'We want..."

April 29, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...serial version of Swimming With Sharks, the cult 1994 black comedy about the merciless nature of Hollywood life...."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Making of Austin

Curator Carter Foster on Ellsworth Kelly's art building

"...its remarkable stained-glass windows, 18-foot-tall redwood totem, and 14 black and white marble panels; and what Foster hopes people..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

'The Death Penalty Is About Us'

'Dead Man Walking' scribe Sister Helen Prejean speaks in town tonight

"...first story in The Death of Innocents. He’s a black man accused of killing a white woman in a..."

Dec. 3, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

True Believer

You're at SXSW today because of its late creative director, Brent Grulke.

"...in any excited stutter where the mouth can't handle everything being telegraphed from the brain. SXSW staffers will tell..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Niche Justice

Travis County specialty courts try to break the cycle of crime

"...the pill. "Within 15 minutes of taking that quaa­lude, everything changed," she recalled recently. "I stopped shaking; I could..."

March 26, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...Astro Boy; Captain Harlock, with his wind-whipped cape and black eye-patch marking him as cool as surely as the..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends

"...JA: In fall of '64 I went to UT and right away ran into Bob Arthur,..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Flowing Over

More with Craig Brewer

"...of becoming a rap star like local hero Skinny Black (Ludacris). Alongside the quiet desperation of his women Nola..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Calling Mom

An essay on the author's mother and her generation of African-American women

"...my race has been increasingly informal. If you're a black person living on this side of the Atlantic, at..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...1) The Thurman-Blackwell Justice Center is now estimated to have a final..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

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