The Best Music We’ve Seen So Far at SXSW 2023

An insightful Jeff Tweedy, sunshiney Armani White, and more

"...appeal. One of many song-starting shticks, he threw out fruit snacks before 2018’s “Onederful,” where audiences caught on to,..."

March 14, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...can be re-lived here. WITCH Bring Zamrock… and Fresh Fruit to Sahara Lounge..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

La Doña, Wet Leg, Wolf Eyes, and Chris Patrick Added to SXSW’s 2022 Music Ranks

… along with 302 other acts from around the world

"...Eyelid Kid (Austin TX) Fabiola Roudha (Guatemala City GUATEMALA) Fake Fruit (San Francisco CA) Fake Gentle (Chengdu CHINA) *..."

Jan. 26, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Unofficial Parties & Free Shows to See During South by Southwest

The Chronicle’s recommended concerts for the coming week

"...indie underdogs. Highlights include stalky, shouty San Fran post-punks Fake Fruit; crust-inflected, dungeon-synth-laced, Philly D-beat deathrockers Poison Ruïn; and..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The Lemon Twigs, Obongjayar, the Zombies, and Ambré Added in SXSW 2023’s Second Lineup Drop

With a whopping 301 musical artists

"...Esther Rose (New Orleans LA) Evan Bartels (Tobias NE) Fake Fruit (Oakland CA) Fergus McCreadie (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND) Floodlights (Melbourne..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 29 - February 4

"...told her. "If you can't do it naturally, then fake it." I'm going to suggest that you follow Hitchcock's..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Reality Queen!

Celebrity spoof is less fun than mocking tabloids

"...lexicon, dragged in by marketing executives. The phrase “low-hanging fruit” didn’t start out as a mildly derisive indication of..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Texas Craft Brewers Festival Unveils List of Brews

77 ways for you to capitalize on the celebration of suds

"...As fake stats go, this one has all the mathematical grit..."

Sept. 10, 2018 Food Post by Eric Puga

"Colby Bird: Hope Goes With Man to the Foot of the Gallows"

The fruits of the artist's labors are evident in this new solo show

"...wall to squeeze a carved wooden piece of unidentifiable fruit. The sixth work is the first and the last..."

June 19, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Syrian deli owner and two teen girls with a fake ID find common ground on one winter night in..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...nuances, cut checks, and even proposed setting up a fake cleaning company so they could filter payments through to..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Full-Gore Press

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

"...Death) that have begun to bear some seriously warped fruit...."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Don't Everybody Panic, but Online Sketch Troupe Backpack Picnic Has Definitely Gone What They Call 'Viral' and Is Also About to Contaminate the Alamo Drafthouse

Online sketch troupe Backpack Picnic has definitely gone viral

"...some band names. We were thinking of calling ourselves Fake Cake Cookbook, then it was Fake Cake Cookbook Backpack..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chlorine

First place

"...grass, eating soggy tater tots, while his Aunt Jill faked a seizure on the pool deck. He thought she..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Gail Miller

Producers of Piquant Pods of Perfection

"...the day. When the leaves droop, it exposes the fruit to the sun, and it just fries them. What..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Lies, All Lies

The Silver Castle

"...stories. That doesn't mean, however, that he can't write fake news and use the label "fiction" to stay out..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Books Review

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As the Guardians of the Galaxy gather once more, every MCU film reviewed

"...being the lantern-jawed, blue-eyed and blonde-haired Aryan stand-in that fake patriots think he is, you don't jump straight into..."

May 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Friday

A Margo Price keynote, Koffee's evolution, & Obongjayar's rising star

"...bringing a knife to the proverbial gun fight, the Fruit Bats leader’s solo acoustic set on Lucille’s patio was..."

March 18, 2023 SXSW Post by Abby Johnston

Chronicle Editorial Staffers Name Their Essential Dishes

We've all got our favorites

"...from a vegetarian, but dang I love that tasty, fake meat and its surrounding sandwich fixins in ThunderCloud Subs'..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Food Feature by Chronicle staff

“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

"...the thought of his children picking up instruments, even fake ones, had good reason to make him wary. Today..."

April 29, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Artist Calder Kamin Envisions "A World Without Waste"

With animals crafted from plastic bags, the Austin native turns our eyes to nature

"...to me and said, "If your work is about fake nature, your animals could be whatever colors you want."..."

July 2, 2021 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Playback: My Top 100 Austin Records of 2018

Kevin Curtin picks his favorite local sounds of the year

"...actually read, says we judge a tree by the fruit it bears. In that respect, 2018 has been another..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

'Downton Abbey' Slips Into Something More Comfortable

Let's talk about sex, darling

"...was in high school, there was a girl who faked a pregnancy in order to get her guy to..."

Jan. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

Point Austin: The Reading Railroad

Mayor's search for rail funding earns cheap shot from 'Statesman'

"...in the preliminary review stages and unlikely to bear fruit for a 2014 timeline (if at all). "The great..."

May 10, 2013 News Column by Michael King

FF2012: An Hour With the Gamemaking Frenzy

Fantastic Arcade incites a 48-hour creative explosion

"...from small laptops to desktops with mammoth screens. The fruit plate remains largely untouched, but a few beer and..."

Sept. 17, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...appearance I'm dreading, forced to sit next to a fake-ass gangster wearing a shirt that reads "Don't Be a..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar gets all Sunset Boulevard at the David Lynch premiere

"...did indeed flash a big smile beneath my gigantic, fake Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses, which I bought for $6..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Nuts to You

The Food writers reveal their favorite pecan recipes

"...1 1/2 tablespoons of vanilla ... REAL vanilla, not fake!..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Food Feature

'Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers'

Marrit Ingman's new memoir: an excerpt

"...with Harvey Korman. I want to grind all the fake, forced smiles into a thousand tiny pieces under the..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in Texas, even though he is probably viable ["The Fruit of the Pro-Lifers' Labors," News, Jan. 16]...."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column

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