The Reader's Field Guide to Michael Noll

The Austin writer behind The Writer's Field Guide

"...The night of Michael Noll’s BookPeople reading, the seating ran out quickly. Then..."

April 4, 2018 Arts Post by Katarina Brown

The Rude Mechs' Field Guide

There's much to ponder in the second draft of the Rude Mechs' mash-up of Dostoyevsky, stand-up comedy, and spiritual belief

"...Let's get this out there first: Attending Field Guide is not like attending a play. It..."

April 15, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Turning Lipstick Traces Into a Graphic Novel

Lana Lesley adapts the Rude Mechs' punk spectacle to the printed page

"...When Austin’s Rude Mechs debuted their stage adaptation of Greil Marcus’..."

May 29, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Politics Gift Guide 2021: Ain't That Good News

Some gift ideas for the politically and civically minded

"...Just as Die Hard is a Christmas movie, the hardcases of..."

Dec. 3, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...Tinkering With Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in Americaby Kim Todd..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...Fall just got a little closer, readers, not in a..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...What do the creator of the 10,000 hour rule, a..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...Bella Union..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Getting Schooled by Jake Busey on 'From Dusk Till Dawn'

The show's own Basil Exposition delves into the snake cult myths

"...If knowledge is power, then in From Dusk Till Dawn, that would make Professor Tanner, played by Jake Busey,..."

April 15, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Readers are baffled by the Chronicle's "no endorsement" for the mayoral race.

"...LCRA Supports Wind Use..."

April 28, 2000 Column

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer, and Jessica Reisman..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Making Lists

"..."Yeeee-hooo!" Bruno yelled back. "I'm a Texan!" -- Strangers on a Train, by..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...illustration by Jason Stout You know you're in for a..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...I didn't read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); I inhaled..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...The end of the year, with its holiday season emphasizing leisure time, disposable dollars,..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

The total absence of popular backlash to the paganism of The Mists of Avalon shows that the American fundamentalist influeunce has begun to ebb.

"...Consider the following address, to none other than God, delivered in a cathedral..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics fame has a new book out from First..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year in Books

What New Book Did You Most Enjoy in 1998 and Why?

"...Stuart Wade: Kurt Vonnegut's intentionally unfinished farewell Timequake. Nowhere close..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Feature

Austin Film Festival Revs Up With Ford v Ferrari

Honey Boy, Motherless Brooklyn in feature lineup

"...It seems like yesterday that Austin Film Festival announced the local debut for..."

Sept. 26, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: SXSW Gets Queer’d

Whether or not you’re carrying a badge, we’ve got the q’d events for you

"...It's here. South by Southwest is once again upon us, and for the next 10 days Austin..."

March 8, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

This ingenious debut novel is set in a time-skipping future

"...How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novelby Charles Yu..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Books Review by Audra Schroeder

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

It's Gonna Get Pitch Black at Other Worlds

David Twohy named this year's Defender of the Universe

"...Battlestar Galactica director Alan J. Levi. Wrath of Khan mastermind..."

Nov. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 17-23

"...ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries artist Vincent van Gogh got..."

April 17, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Playback: Austin Record Convention's United Nations

Forget Record Store Day, the Austin Record Convention remains the biggest vinyl swap in the USA

"...Calling all vinyl nerds, audiophiles, hipsters, hoarders, wheelers, dealers, and..."

June 17, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...Read Cynthia Leitich Smith's Tantalize series, and you may never..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Screamlines

"...The notion of extend-ing "Scanlines" for Halloween seemed like a good one before it..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Screens Feature

Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...The Fifty Year Swordby Mark Z. Danielewski Pantheon, 288 pp., $26..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

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