SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Rumley (Red, White and Blue) gets dusty with Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word, which Neece called "a Texas crime..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 2012 Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

"...9pm, Frank..."

March 9, 2012 Music Feature

Naked City

"...Sarah Wheat of Austin Planned Parenthood, on GOP legislator Frank Corte's bill to define emergency contraception, see "Frank 'the..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature

Working Worked Out

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...to promote the shows. On top of that, Josh Frank, the Theaterless Theater Corps founder who masterminded the Austin..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Elizabeth Patterson, Franklin Pangborn...."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...D: Frank Capra; with Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey, Priscilla..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Figure in the Frame

The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait

"...portrait of Igor Stravinsky. The composer sits behind a black grand piano, face propped against his hand. The curving..."

March 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

After a Fashion

Stephen explores the similar trajectories of the lives of Martha Stewart, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela??!

"...BUT DAMN CLOSE Our esteemed Austin Chronicle editor, Louis Black, always knows more than he tells, and I can..."

July 23, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Jesse Sublett's Latest True-Crime Book Takes on the Last Gangster in Austin

The rise and fall of the Junkyard King

"...Though his most recent book, Last Gangster in Austin: Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...a ranch house and a storyteller with a long black box that contains what will certainly sever the calm..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

Changing Places

The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood

"...social services white Austin took for granted. For years, black activists fought for the city to pay attention to..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

ColdTowne Theater: Always in Motion

The comedy venue is home to diverse audiences and performers, but needs a permanent home of its own

"...FEMA hotel, their path intersected with another troupe: the Frank Mills, two pairs of married improvisers, relocated from Chicago..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

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

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...cultural shift in beauty standards towards embracing (or appropriating) Black aesthetics and features, deconstructing what we understand about race..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Gone Girl

Amy charts Amy Winehouse's tragic path

"...native had two LPs under her belt: 2003 debut Frank, detailing her illustrious romance with an older man, and..."

July 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Nina Hernandez

In the Mix

Consider this brick No. 1 in the fall of the house of Usher.

"...Mafia-princess-to-be, Chriqui’s Dolly – daughter of Palminteri’s mob boss Frank – and now a rising star on the New..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...his team of supporters – Lubbock criminal attorney Jeff Blackburn – Reyos may at last be on a road..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

State of Affairs

The current political season is reflected equally in an angry Iraq analysis and a soapy novel with a Sirkian sweep

"...Cheat and Charmerby Elizabeth Frank Random House, 560 pp., $25.95 Bush in Babylon: The..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Reflections

"...THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS Dir/prod: Stanley Nelson. Scr: Lou..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Exhibitionism

"...the play raises -- how hard it is being black in America -- were not lost on the audience...."

Feb. 26, 1999 Arts Review

The Ugly End to Jason Dusterhoft's Police Career Was Only the Beginning for APD

Three chiefs gone in Austin

"...injuries, at the end of May in response to Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the George..."

May 7, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...– Frank Zappa, interpreting Edgar Varèse, in the liner notes for..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...the screen. This is going to get strange… Cast: Frank Mosley, Will Blomker, Lily Baldwin, Tonya Pinkins, Daniel Ryan,..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Playback: Demolition at 1701 Red River

Another Red River venue going away? There goes the neighborhood.

"...longer musical history than those three put together: the Frank Erwin Center...."

May 17, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...Tracy Letts A garish, Southwestern tale - a violent black comedy about a desperate Texas debtor (Hirsch) who plots..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...words "Corporate Aspirin" leave a metallic taste behind. The Black Novas are what the Action Is wants to be:..."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

In Memoriam

Longtime friends and colleagues of Eagle Pennell remember the filmmaker.

"...Eagle Pennell, filmmaker. Here are their reminisces. -- Louis BlackBut the Pictures Got Made In 1974, just about the..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature

Everyone's a Critic

The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.

"...Josh Frank, founder of the Theatreless Theatre Corps, says "You have..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Further Reflections

"...A DAY IN BLACK AND WHITE..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Rock, They Wrote

Writing From Both Sides of the Musical Fence

"...the grooves of records by Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen, and Little Richard. Seven..."

June 21, 1996 Books Feature

Fantastic Fest Interview: Riding The Wave With Justin Long

The actor talks psychedelics, jobs, and ... rabbits?

"...at the other end. He's the polar opposite of Frank, his character in absurdist psychedelic time traveling workplace black..."

Oct. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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