Off the Record

Chaos and creation at South by Southwest and the Monday realization that blues landmark Pinetop Perkin is gone

"...by Southwest last week looked like the brink of some hipster apocalypse. To an extent, it was...."

March 25, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

After A Fashion

Your Style Avatar repents for earlier anti-Renée Zellwegging, peanut butter, chocolate, and pee-pee

"...Film Conference, the 11th annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards. AFS Executive Director Rebecca Campbell, looking tiny and..."

March 18, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Anton Nel, Piano, With Martin Burke, Actor

A tremendously memorable day of music that showed the breadth of Nel's skills

"...applause of a packed house, settled for a brief moment, and tore into Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 12 Variations..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Mo' Music

The first in a series of random hot music round-ups

"...episode, but look for more contributors beginning next week. Forgive our delay (due to the UT news), and look..."

Sept. 28, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Outfest 2010: Like the Corners of My Mind

The GLBT film festival with the wide stance

"...I hope you'll be kind enough to forgive my recent silence on the subject of Outfest. I've..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Post by Cindy Widner

Luv Doc Recommends: Jon Blondell CD Release

Elephant Room, Friday, July 9, 2010

"...you can dance to jazz, sort of in the same sense you can milk anything with nipples. At some..."

July 9, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Love Stories In This Town

Ward has a heart for women, and these stories underscore that fact

"...(2003), How to Be Lost: A Novel (2004), and Forgive Me (2007), return to her original milieu, the short..."

April 10, 2009 Books Review by Melanie Haupt

Actually Does Appreciate the 'Chronicle'

"...Louis Black, I know I have sent you some pretty severe hate mail in the past, some halfway..."

June 29, 2008 Postmarks

Judges

"...film The Slaughter Rule. He recently sold an hourlong crime drama to the F/X Network and has been hired..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature

The Scope of Evil

"...consider Tom Brady the best quarterback in the NFL (forgive me, Peyton) and the man showed up and proved..."

Sept. 10, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Juiced: Wayward Astros Still Hold Fans' Attention

"..."There's a lot of games left – don't give up on us" – Astros..."

June 4, 2007 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

CoachWHOla? No ... NOLA, baby.

On the crawdad's trail...

"...Jazz & Heritage Festival. As in, you still have time to roulez your laissez bon ton on down to..."

May 4, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

American Graveyard

"...American Graveyard..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Reefer Madness

The election roundup

"...saw voters call for sweeping changes in Congress, drug-law reformers were handed a more mixed bag: Three statewide marijuana-law..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Column by Jordan Smith

Questions Engineer on 9/11

"...the WTC buildings are the only skyscrapers in modern times to collapse due to fire, a studious individual will..."

Aug. 31, 2006 Postmarks

What Is a 'Boutique' School?

"...school, and why does AISD have eight of them? Forgive me, but this sounds like eight beauty schools to..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Postmarks

A Disguised Attack on the Church – Clever, Clever

"...thing on this planet. Or is that politically incorrect? Forgive me father, for I have sinned...."

April 18, 2006 Postmarks

Time to Stop Believing the Propaganda Machine

"...of all the Democratic politicians (read: not movie makers, comedians, or pundits, etc.) who have made degrading remarks about..."

Nov. 29, 2004 Postmarks

Capitol Chronicle

The governor sells social service cuts as "enhancements."

"...Gov. Perry announced that he is "increasing" funding for mental health care and substance abuse programs under the Children's..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Ghost of a Smile: Stories

"...Kodansha America, 256 pp., $25..."

April 13, 2001 Books Review by Katherine Catmull

Introduction, Chronicle offices, present day

"...in 2001. As for the rest, most of them came and went before my time, so forgive me for..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

In the Austin premiere of Santos & Santos, a contemporary drama by El Paso native Octavio Solis, Nushank Theater Collective smoothly plays out a tale of Chicano brothers coming to terms, with culture, power, and the nightmare of pursuing the American Dream.

"...Santos & Santos: Crime Family Santa Cruz Center for Culture,..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Arts Review by Mary Jane Garza

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History

"...Men Like That: A Southern Queer Historyby John Howard..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Review by Martin Wilson

Haranguing the Hugos

"...What's in a name? A rose, if called a flurgelbutt, would still smell..."

July 30, 1999 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

'What Is Justice?'

A state program that enables offenders and their victims meet face-to-face has helped Andrew Papke take full responsibility for the drunken driving-related deaths of Beth Early and Daniel London.

"...binder bursting with colorful stationery and letters full of memories of Beth; she brought them to share with Andrew...."

Aug. 24, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Re: Resisting Evildoers

Defense against one's enemies presents a conflict for individuals who identify themselves as members of a Christian society instructed to turn the other cheek.

"...Ground Zero's firefighters and police officers for suggesting that Americans view September 11 with "love, compassion, and understanding." Both..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

My dictionary defines

"...knowing yet that it was "electrolyte imbalance" caused by extreme heat (104deg.F at midnight) that had jolted my heart......"

Feb. 16, 1996 Column

Only God Forgives

Drive's Nicolas Winding Refn reunites again with Ryan Gosling and adds Kristin Scott Thomas to the mix for this descent into heartlessness.

"...its performances bereft of emotion or compassion, and its demeanor altogether vile. Only God Forgives sparks more interest for..."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

'Practice,' in the modern sense, means to work at something persistently, trying to get it right – which also fits my meaning, my practice: the hour or so a day when I read my 'devotionals' (a Catholic usage), then to go to my altar to meditate and pray

"...it'll screw things up." Yet another (rather stuffy) self chimes in: "To act, or to fail to act, out..."

July 8, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Ebony Stewart's Hunger

Spoken-word artist Ebony Stewart enters a new stage with her solo show Hunger

"...words to life onstage. Much of that attention has come through the Austin slam poetry scene, which she joined..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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