All the Way With LBJ's Play

Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'

"...a couple of opportunities to talk to the playwright about his sense of that journey from Ashland to Cambridge..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place

The Gay Place goes back to her roots, just south of the Wild Side and a hair shy of a Moonage Daydream

"...NEXT ROOM' WILDE PARTY Hear what the buzz is about for the production subtitled "Or the Vibrator Play" at..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

DVD Watch: 'Freaked'

Alex Winter talks cult classics and the Butthole Surfers

"...actor turned adult asshole Ricky Coogan, who becomes the spokesman for an evil chemical corporation. His path to endorsement..."

Aug. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...been with us; how brief an instant, indeed, the human presence has been here in any guise to contemplate..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

How the Aggies Won and Won My Heart

Falling in love … with winning

"...wilt. The Aggies protected the ball, scored in the fourth quarter, and slowed Alabama's passing and running attacks. Meanwhile,..."

Nov. 12, 2012 Sports Post by Emily Bevan

Emily Hagins Wants to Kickstart 'Tony Phillips'

Mondo, 'Red Vs Blue' and more offering incentives

"...story (is that a new genre?) My Sucky Teen Romance, Hagins is plunging straight into her fourth film Grow..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Power Play

In Robert Schenkkan's new play, LBJ roars back to life to make civil rights history

"...The man speaking should know. He's spent his life chasing power,..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tubular Tradition

Sausage stuffed the good ol' fashioned way

"...heritage here in Central Texas is decidedly Czech and German, with a little Polish thrown in. Those settlers from..."

July 27, 2012 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Learning the Game

Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"...crisp air of Zilker Park. Still a thrill sliding out disc one from the Rolling Stones' The Biggest Bang..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

The good, the bad, and the ugly: a look back at the year in Austin music

"...years now, airwaves have been dominated by automated programming manufactured in an Orwellian fashion to meet general approval, formats..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

'Speechless'

Third-Place Winner

"...damp with slick, making day fade into night almost without notice. Footsteps knock across a hardwood floor. Your wife..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Books Feature by Benjamin Reed

'Chronicle' Mock NFL Draft

"...cats for this top slot and will snag the man who signs on the dotted line first. Most are..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

New Year's Eve Dining & Lodging

It's time to start making reservations, party people

"...full buffet meal, beer, wine, and Champagne. Plus, Laughing Out-Loud Productions will provide celebrity impersonators (mature content – adults..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Food Feature by Sara Robberson

Amber Current Flowing From My Mind

Drowning Johnny Bush's spasmodic dysphonia in a "Whiskey River"

"...are photos of Texas legends Hank Thompson and Floyd Tillman; his uncle Jerry Jericho; and of course there's plenty..."

April 6, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Wednesday Picks

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts now

"...9pm, Hideout Taking cues from Cue and ripping a few pages..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

D-League Dreams

All roads lead to Toros training camp

"...watchful eye of professional coaches and play for NBA scouts, all with the aim of one day making it..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Sports Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Christian Peacemakers

Texan activists worry about their abducted colleagues in Iraq

"...in Iraq or mourn the deaths of Tom Fox, Norman Kember, James Loney, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, four members..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Badass

The Meat Purveyors' whip-cracking guitarist Bill Anderson: Austin punk veteran, AMA Hall of Famer, and yes, total badass

"...You say you've never heard of Bill Anderson? What about Poison 13, the Meat Purveyors, Hand of Glory, Horsies,..."

July 30, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Athens, Ga.-based singer-songwriter Randall Bramblett concocts a stew of Southern rock and R&B with lyrics that provide a cinematic..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

TV Eye

How to resolve conflict? Japanese import Iron Chef has the right idea.

"...... parents pimping out their marginally talented children in the kiddie (not to..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...a sleek car of the future imagined by designer Norman Bel Geddes; a Depression-era woman of constant sorrow, photographed..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

People and organizations on the move: KMFA and the Austin Circle of Theatres look for new homes, and Austin Theatre Alliance CEO Dan Fallon and KMFA Director of Broadcast Operations Randy Harriman leave their respective companies.

"...organizations wanted a chief executive officer in place to manage the union and establish an infrastructure for two theatres..."

June 28, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Comics Worth Spending Money on

Three Chronicle writers recommend 14 current comics, from standard superhero fare to funny-animal satire to slice-of-life drama.

"...Amazing Spider-Man..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Austin - bands, bikes, billboards, ballots, Bradley, and beyond - under scrutiny.

"...James that erecting billboards creates jobs, but so does manufacturing land mines and producing child pornography...."

April 27, 2001 Column

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright..."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...worships her -- plus 6,000 music-hungry tourists who aren't about to miss this sight. This is South Park Meadows..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Naked City

Bartenders who worked at private tents during A2K say they were bilked out of thousands of dollars by the tents' promoter, who is nowhere to be found.

"...track down a promoter who they say bilked them out of at least $250 apiece...."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Whenever We're Opened

Mortician-for-a-night, Wayne Alan Brenner ponders life as he faces death.

"...flaps of skin, eviscerate the corpus of a once-living human being...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Exhibitionism

Latino Comedy Festival: Ripeness Is All

"...are playing across the country to packed houses, and many of the cable networks are focusing on a large..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Review

Two Bios of Barbara

"...awareness that any life story of so stoic a woman, whose ability to cohesively school the nation, and yet..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Books Review

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