SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...kept us on our toes while also embodying the gonzo energy of a Midnight screening.”..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Saint Teresa: Richard Linklater and John Pierson on the Icon of Slacker

The director of Slacker and the film's sales agent discuss the creative importance of actor and musician Teresa Taylor

"...had all kinds of crazy shit showing behind their gonzo shows – stuff like car crash and penile surgery..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Screens Feature

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Never mind the plot: Tom Cruise is back in life-risking action

"...Two finale that is sure to escalate itself to gonzo heights, this one feels satisfied to effortlessly deliver on..."

July 14, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

What Chronicle Music Writers Are Reading This Summer

Recent musical reads on Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O'Connor, and more

"...22-year-old former teen music scribe proved every bit as gonzo. Director Amy Heckerling's Library of Congress bow, with screenplay..."

June 30, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Catch up on Texas travel news and plan some spring sightseeing

"...The Gonzo Compadres in Concert April 2, Buda, www.meridianbuda.com/events..."

April 2, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Film Review: Evil Dead Rise

The possessed cabin franchise takes a gruesome trip to the city

"...series' trademark. Maybe if there was a Bruce Campbell-style gonzo comic actor in the mix, this sequence would work..."

March 17, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW TV Review: Mrs. Davis

Mad nuns, mad AIs, and mad energy from the new Peacock show

"...then…and then” visual and thematic energy of the most gonzo genre comics. (Personal to Lindelof: we should discuss Steve..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Joe Gross

Crimes of Passion and Desperation in Love & Death

In HBO Max's Love & Death, director Lesli Linka Glatter and star Patrick Fugit revisit one of Texas' most infamous murders

"...writer-at-large Jim Atkinson and John Bloom (better known as gonzo cinema historian Joe Bob Briggs), upon which Love &..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lady Bird Johnson Documentary Reveals the Legendary First Lady's Wonk Side

SXSW's The Lady Bird Diaries goes beyond beautification

"...source material for all three was a work of gonzo journalism by the first lady herself, in the form..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Lina Fisher

Live Music Illustrator Amitai Plasse Captures the Energy Onstage

The artist behind the grackle-packed 2022/23 Austin Music Awards poster

"...2017 he decided to pursue his art full time. Gonzo Viz, his company named after Ralph Steadman's "gonzo" journalistic..."

March 3, 2023 Music Feature by Katie Karp

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...into the band’s breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same gonzo impulses derailed his rock star dream. (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds Cheech Marin, Titane Director Julia Ducournau For 2023

Plus the Metaverse and student athlete NIL deals part of the program

"...of Royal and DJ Justin Blau, aka 3LAU • Gonzo journalist and creator of Channel 5 Andrew Callaghan •..."

Nov. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Austin Filming Locations to Make You Feel Like a Star

Get your cameras out for the most memorable Austin movie moments

"...Danny Trejo a leading man with Machete, his full gonzo Mexploitation classic about the most dangerous federale in Tejas...."

Aug. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How to Escape the Field With Shane West

The Gotham star heads to the cornfields for new thriller

"...there. Because we'd just run out there. It was gonzo filmmaking sometimes. It would be, "Shane, you're going to..."

May 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Aline

Bizarre not-quite-a-biopic of Céline Dion

"...that the rest of Aline will be just as gonzo...."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Willie Nelson's Luck Reunion 2022

"...here: Bob Livingston and Gary P. Nunn of Lost Gonzo Band..."

March 18, 2022 Photo Gallery

Family Gathering: With an Altar to “Sister Bobbie,” Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion Returns

Jason Isbell, Adia Victoria, Nelson & sons commune

"...Michael Martin Murphey joined the Lost Gonzo Band to dig out terrific takes on classics “Wildfire,”..."

March 18, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band orbits in the same hyper-prolific, gonzo-psych universe as Thee Oh Sees, King Gizzard & the..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Mojo Nixon Documentary Diagnoses America's Unfettered Id

Matt Eskey brings The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon to SXSW

"..."It's unbelievable!" said gonzo roots punk musician and cultural iconoclast Mojo Nixon of..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Abhi the Nomad, Marina, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Nick Cave + Warren Ellis, Sam Pankey, the Austin Music Awards, and more

"...here in Central Texas. With local legends the Lost Gonzo Band serving as anchor for the evening, the gala..."

March 4, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Luck Reunion Announces Lineup for 10th Anniversary Return

Daylong fest to feature Willie, Chuck Prophet, Lucero, Weyes Blood

"...Crockett, Jonathan Terrell, and cosmic cowboy pioneers The Lost Gonzo Band with Michael Martin Murphey...."

Feb. 17, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

The Bulgarian Chainsaw Massacre

David Blue Garcia proves you can take Leatherface out of Texas in the new Netflix horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"...Worth seeing? Yes: Hooper goes full gonzo comedy...."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sorcery and Special K: The Neuroplastic Visions of Zoë Shulman

How ketamine therapy helped the Austin artist transmute her psychedelic insights into gallery gold

"...artist's creations as "something a more skilled and less gonzo John Dee might've come up with between bouts of..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Koko's Bavarian Spreads the Germans, Tèo Gelato Gets Boozy, Curry Pizza House Opens Soon, and More

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...on it instanter. Things are just a teeny bit gonzo in the dining scene right now, n’est-ce pas?..."

Dec. 1, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Mélat, Ramsay Midwood, Quinn XCII, Tomás Ramírez, Hotmom, and Dawa's 2 Year Anniversary

"...Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P. Nunn, and the Lost Gonzo Band, Ramirez was also the first artist to take..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Column by Clara Wang

We Need to Do Something

The terror is coming from inside and outside the house

"...King O’Grady’s We Need to Do Something the most gonzo cosmi-comic, quasi-Lovecraftian, close-quarter, feel-bad, dysfunctional family comedy of the..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Work Matters

A look back at some of our most impactful reporting

"...governor and as a presidential candidate, filed a great gonzo writeup of what that was like above ground in..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Suicide Squad

James Gunn's bad guys doing good prove DC needs to get silly

"...into something like an R-rated version of a Seventies gonzo ensemble comedy. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Summer Season Has a Giant Ending Lined Up

Wizards, restoration, and l'amour round out the classics

"..."We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" became the gonzo Total Recall (Sat., Aug. 28, 4:20pm). Harry Potter Turns..."

July 21, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...released on revived weirdo rock label Shimmy-Disc. Setting aside gonzo psychedelia for demented Americana, Leary immediately unfurls the freak..."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

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