Opinion: If We’re Outlawing Drag, Can We Please Burn Down Hooters Next?

"...Bills like House Bill 1266, HB 3240, HB 4378, and HB 643 insisted that drag perpetuates misogyny and "exposing..."

June 9, 2023 Column by Mae Joldersma

In Austin, Which Peking Duck Reigns Supreme?

We list some of the mightiest ducks in town

"...Prepared through long, laborious processes to exacting standards, the classic banquet dish is emblematic of traditional palace..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Food Feature by Clara Wang

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 25 - December 1

"...SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z has stellar advice for his fellow Sagittarians..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Hays County Inmate Is Left to Rot in Jail

It’s not just a figure of speech for Ranulfo Benitez-Morales

"...they took him into custody for assaulting an officer and evading arrest. The round penetrated his calf six inches..."

Aug. 19, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...Fantastic Fest is nearly upon us, and the cinematic celebration of all film bizarre, strange, and..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Local Arts Events Using the Human Form as Inspiration

Fascinations of the flesh, from portrait to burlesque

"...Meat puppets, flesh hotels, corpuses delectable: all these frangible and time-fraught bags..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Paris, 13th District

Love and sex in this Paris-set adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s comics

"...Samba, Noémie Merlant, Geneviève Doang, Jehnny Beth, Line Phé and Stephen Manas...."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...all-Black bill for Blues on the Screen in July and followed that up last month by making her international..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Clarksville Brewery Has a Firm Grip on Beer Fans’ Attention

After a 17-month delay Hold Out Brewery has arrived

"...on the shortlist of Austin's best overall breweries – and not about what it isn't: coming soon...."

June 5, 2020 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Dolemite Is My Name

Eddie Murphy pays homage to the comedy genius of Rudy Ray Moore

"...Starring: Eddie Murphy, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Wesley Snipes, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Rock, Snoop Dogg, Craig Robinson, Mike..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chronicle Recommends: A History of SXSW Headliners

From time travel to baseball, some of our favorite first night films

"...It’s SXSW 2019, and if you’re already in line at the Paramount for..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Terror Fest Record Reviews

Tomb Mold, Come to Grief/Fistula, Chrch, Wayfarer, and Gnaw

"...well is running dry, Toronto's Tomb Mold keeps grunting and rumbling its merry way to hell on LP No...."

June 15, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

DVDanger: Brawl in Cell Block 99

Vince Vaughn and Udo Kier on being the heavy

"...least profitable) again with crude-but-harmless fun like Unfinished Business and The Wedding Crashers, or fun but really harmless fodder..."

Oct. 15, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Q&A Hole: How Much Money to Break Your Arm?

Because everything, they say, has a price

"...person is supposed to be in charge of – and to set the rules for – their own meat..."

June 5, 2017 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity

Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes

"...capital's homegrown psych pioneer liked gathering his neighbor's mail and taping it to his wall, almost like a security..."

April 21, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

DVDanger: House on Willow Street

Kidnapping meets possession, plus more home releases

"...she's possessed by a demon that gloms onto grief, and everyone in this gang of two-time losers has more..."

March 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Mosaic Sound Collective Comes Into Focus

Mosaic Sound Collective's music hub and ancient atmospheric Adam Torres point to the future

"...The Mosaic Sound Collective, a DIY music co-op and creative space conceived by Residual Kid parent Dan Redman,..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: What to Watch This Halloween

Part I: Slugs, zombies, and one-night stands

"...Halloween is upon us. and even if the Austin weather refuses to concede that..."

Oct. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Space Cowboy Steve Miller's Not Joking

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist details the pompitous of musical education

"...the spring set off a firestorm of headlines – and an equally extensive oral history of collaborating with album..."

July 22, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Glimmer Twins

Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen instigate A Giant Dog Pile

"..."I would be a totally different artist without Andrew," states A Giant Dog frontwoman Sabrina Ellis...."

May 6, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

DVDanger: Kill or Be Killed

Western revenge, Texas style

"...art forms (except for when the Italians took it and did it crazier), adventures on the dusty plains have..."

March 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

To Have and to Eat

A Chronicle food writer says goodbye to Austin

"...tartare. I’d pierce the egg yolk with my tongue and rip up the rye. Maybe we’d hunt down wild..."

Dec. 31, 2015 Food Post by Anna Toon

Dust and Bones

Cannibal Western Bone Tomahawk finds true gristle

"...When S. Craig Zahler started writing Bone Tomahawk, he wasn't creating a revisionist Western just for..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: The Past Is a Foreign Country

The Chronicle's first office was above Half Price Books and a Jack Brown Cleaners on 16th and Lavaca ...

"...The Chronicle's first office was above Half Price Books and a Jack Brown Cleaners on 16th and Lavaca. It..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Good Kill

Ethan Hawke pilots drones over Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert

"...Directed by: Andrew Niccol. Starring: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Film 2015 Rundown

Reviews, interviews, photo galleries, and more

"...of SXSW Film, we churned out so many reviews and interviews and photo galleries, it’s hard to keep track...."

March 22, 2015 SXSW Post

The Great Gig in the Sky

The best albums of our lives – and the afterlife

"...Fame keyboardist in both UK smashes the Small Faces and Faces had suffered a stroke at home two days..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

National Top 10s

Eight critics, 80 lines by genre

"...7) Lucinda Williams, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Music Feature

Austin Top 10s

Best in local albums 2014

"...1) Brian Beattie, Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase (Earmovie Music)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Music Feature

Critics Poll

"...Caligiuri: Trombone Shorty, Emo's..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Music Feature

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