City:One Challenge Finalists Focus on Healthy Living

Corporatation-funded competition aims to improve East Austin mobility

"...existing startups, some local and others that have already gone to live elsewhere, aiming to enter our market with..."

Dec. 27, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

From the Fonz to Gene Cousineau: Henry Winkler's Career of Fearless Reinvention

The man who defined cool on the changing demands of acting, being an icon, and the joy of fly fishing

"...reinvented himself and taken huge career leaps time and again. His guide to taking on a role is simple...."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Long Story of East 11th and 12th Streets Takes a Turn

Austin’s historically black neighborhood continues to stand at the crossroads of growth

"...Urdy, at 86, can still remember the names of long-gone nightclubs along East 11th Street. He studied chemistry at..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Theatrical Provocateurs Rubber Repertory Return to Austin

Two of the best and oddest come back for their own good and ours

"...a place where we had a sense of community again. Which I know I felt like I was lacking...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Shoot Like a Grrrl" Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin

Photographer Martha Grenon's exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties

"...and Nineties, that split second of magic pops up again and again and again. That's because Grenon, a former..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Stock Austin's Haunted: A Ghost Story

This new musical by Allen Robertson and Damon Brown is darker than their usual fare, but there's light at the end

"...sunk in midnight gloom. Firelit faces speak of kids gone missing and never seen again. Spirits possess people attending..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Battle of Small Beer vs. Big Distributors Rages on With Texas Beer-To-Go Bill

Another chippy round of political beer pong

"...parade of wholesale distributors are, unsurprisingly, back at it again for another chippy round of political beer pong in..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Ellen Troxclair: Bye, Bye, Bye

Outgoing CM shows why she won't be missed

"...reminding us of what we'll be missing when they're gone. Two weeks ago, it was Ora Houston and her..."

Nov. 9, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Luv Doc: Mostly Happy

Not only is the glass half empty, it's got a hole in the bottom and it's leaking poison

"...married to a very attractive woman. I have even gone out to dinner a few times with him, his..."

June 22, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

A Good Time to Be Lawrence Wright

With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment

"..."There was a time when I might have gone into ministry. I liked the idea of standing in..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

Review: Phoebe's Diner

New daytime dining hot spot hits the '04

"...of the bowl reminded me of a big party gone wrong. It was loud and busy and full of..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Rooster Teeth Wants to Give a Million to Charity

24-hour streaming show to raise money for Dell Children's Hospital

"...know this, but you can actually pull the trigger again, after the initial one, and it'll send a second..."

Nov. 11, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Aftermath of the Big Headline: Stronger

David Gordon Green talks about the unlucky bystander to history

"...as Bauman, who was there to prove to his on-again, off-again girlfriend Erin Hurley (Tatiana Maslany) that he was..."

Oct. 3, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cult of Nick Curran Remembers His Guitar Genius

From rhythm & blues to rockabilly and punk, the late Austin shredder lived to subvert genres

"...mid-Aughts. "The other one would be Doug Sahm." Real Gone Racket..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...epic Giant), before wrapping up on September 2 with Gone With the Wind. Coincidentally, the Civil War mainstay is..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rundberg Rising

How do you keep improving a neighborhood after $1 million in grant money runs out?

"...Baker said, "it seems like, well, here comes APD again." But ironically, the grant came with one significant piece..."

Oct. 14, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Colvin & Earle Stand and Deliver

One-off songwriters' dream duet or something more?

"...in 2014, before kicking off the set-ending “You’re Still Gone,” a song the duo co-wrote with album producer Buddy..."

Sept. 26, 2016 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Playback: Gourds Co-Leader Jimmy Smith Heads to Montana

Jimmy Smith heads for higher ground, Pete Mitchell reaches a higher plane, and Izzy Cox would like to remain upright on terra firma

"...up, do you think the Gourds will ever play again?..."

July 29, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

In the Wake of Orlando

To the entire LGBTQ community: You do matter. So much.

"...hasn’t had a scary moment where something could have gone horribly bad, or horribly worse. I have friends who’ve..."

June 13, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Come What May

Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle duet

"...leave them in the dust and never do it again. It's just one of those things. I've done it..."

June 10, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"...but admits he wasn't there for his sons. He'd gone to jail twice for failing to pay child support...."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: Post Pop Depression: After SXSW

Still wearing your SXSW badge or wristband? We don't blame you.

"...Drake's drop-in, the stars of hip-hop distinguished SXSW once again, with the hottest rapper on the planet, Future, steering..."

March 25, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

GenEnCo's The Mikado: Reclaimed

In this newly devised work, Asian-American artists grapple with the complicated legacy of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera

"..."A lot of [the original text] is gone," says kt shorb, with a laugh. A graduate coordinator..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Put This in Your PUD and Smoke It!

While the mayor backs the Pilot Knob PUD, the rest of the dais express hesitation

"...originally reported, might eventually work out to $106 million (again, over the decades it would take to complete the..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Open Secret

The not-so-hidden pleasures of dine

"...appears to be that the hotel property is once again for sale, so promoting the in-house restaurant is not..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Desegregation of Austin's Movie Theatres

A history of the stand-in movement

"...large firecracker at the window, then someone who had gone outside said a bomb had gone off outside the..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Jordan Buckley

Fun Fun Fun Q&A: Babes in Toyland

“I’m so over the moon for Fun Fun Fun Fest”

"...we all realistically be under the same roof together again?..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Music Post by Neph Basedow

Page Two: Fictional Fiction According to John Irving

Louis Black interviews his former writing teacher about his latest novel, Avenue of Mysteries

"...my fiction have been utterly changed over and over again from what basis in reality they ever had...."

Nov. 6, 2015 Column by Louis Black

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 landlord's wife thought that unattractive. So they were gone and everyone sweated. Who knew if this happened. There..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Q&A: Mike Watt

Econo-jamming bass man headlines an alternate ACL

"...still a Stooges, Kevin. Both the Asheton brothers are gone now. Ig’s doing some Ig gigs, but I don’t..."

Oct. 1, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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