Flesh and Bone

"...Steve Kloves. Starring: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan and Gwyneth Paltrow. Roy Sweeney (Caan) is bad to the..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

David Zirin Has a Large Head, and Other Matters He Shouldn’ t Apologize For

In town to screen new doc

"...way connected to his ego, but rather the large flesh and bone based sphere attached to his shoulders...."

June 2, 2011 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...a 6-foot-5-inch man wearing a wrestler's mask, black leather, and a strap-on sex toy that rhymes with "Bilbo" but..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...I want to tell you about the men and women with the live fireworks exploding off the tops..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

First, Free Comic Book Day, and Then – Ka-Baam!!

Comic books and comedy improv go hand in hand, sometimes with repulsor rays

"...shit about superheroes these days. We left those hyperbolic spandex-stretchers and their banal melodrama behind with the Crunchberries and..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point and Shoot

Without looking Matt knows the deer is dead.

"...the woods, the heavy thud on the ground. He stands without moving, then a self-conscious moment makes him clear..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Bonnie West

Lean, Mean, and Smoking!

Kris McKay

"...Maybe we'll just run over and backdoor it at 101X," says Kris McKay, literally moments..."

July 12, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Fourplay

These four stories of unabashed sexual intimacy are often funny, sometimes poignant, always unconventional and playfully erotic.

"...Rene, Atticus Rowe, Jose Villarreal, Paul Soileau, Gary Chason and Cyndi Williams...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frailty

"...Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter and Luke Askew. What is it about Texas and gothic..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Emma

"...McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker, Sophie Thompson and James Cosmo. I must confess that the only writing..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

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

Pretend That We're Dead

"...… and gone to Heaven. This monkey’s gone to heaven. Musically,..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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

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

The Turkey Chronicles: Roasted

How to roast a perfect turkey

"...is the most conventional of the turkey cooking methods and probably the easiest to screw up; I’ve eaten some..."

Nov. 20, 2012 Food Post by Mick Vann

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II is the most splendidly imaginative and creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinema since his Pan's Labyrinth netted an Oscar trifecta in 2007.

"...Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss, John Alexander, James Dodd and Anna Walton. It's not perfect –..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Call to Color: Cult of Color

The ballet based on Trenton Doyle Hancock's art may be problematic thematically, but it's still an enthralling experience

"...most anything, it seems you can either think, write, and talk about it, or you can experience it. Certainly,..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

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

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...good industry, filmmaking, because it's clean. They come in and hire a lot of people, they throw a lot..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Live Shots

"...St. James concert series -- produced by Harold McMillan and River City Bluez -- the Southwest Texas State University..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Music Feature

Would Like to See List of Nations Next in Line to Have Sovereignty Revoked By Gerig

"...I think all can agree to be most embarrassing and shameful: to hawk the war as necessary to protect..."

June 29, 2004 Postmarks

Texas Platters Finale

EPs from Junior Brown, Mice & Rifles, Ben Livingston, and MaryAnn & the Revival Band

"...bemoaning modern technology on the Roger Miller-esque "Hang Up and Drive" and "Apathy Waltz." Hometown ode "I'm Headed Back..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Goya

Robert Hughes' description of Goya is tinged, unconsciously, with the image he himself presents to the public: the art critic as macho, for whom the acuteness of response to the occasions of sensibility becomes one of the fine tests of masculinity.

"...one of my favorite myths -- that Goya, deaf and misanthropic, dined with his mistress nightly under the painting..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Books Review by Roger Gathman

War Drums

The war is over, but all these people keep dying anyway …

"...war in Iraq is over? Ever since the laughable handover of "sovereignty" to a hand-picked Iraqi regime led by..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Giant Country

"...Press, $22.50 hard) is as welcome as a couple thousand extra BTU's and a tray of margaritas in the..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Books Feature

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

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

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

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