Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up some dust in Waterloo Park while Carlos Santana sets up shop in the Warehouse District

"...a bit of Depression-era authenticity to the civic protests howled by Against Me!'s Tom Gabel. Aside from the ground..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Peering through the walls of Austin history to pay tribute to an original member of the 13th Floor Elevators and preserve Raul's rats

"...can be heard on such landmark psychedelic recordings as "You're Gonna Miss Me" and "She Lives (in a Time..."

June 27, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Picks & Sleepers

South by Southwest '97

"...Lullaby for the Working Class You always hear the rumble just before the avalanche, and..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...Craft beer has begun its redemption arc. Out are the big bourbon barrel-aged confectionary stouts, the biting quintuple..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Making Movies on Cyber-Location

Doug Block's Film, Home Page, and How It Grew

"...his life in three-dimensional hypertext. Hall's friends and lovers are alternately fascinated, embarrassed, and horrified by the revelations about..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Fashion Camp

Jen DM & Rick Gradone of Hi Fashion tell all

"...to Austin this Friday for a party that’ll hype you higher than cold-brew and tequila. But what makes Jen..."

June 26, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Tarzan and Arab Come to Austin

The Gaza film makers see their first film in the perfect cinema

"...– now known internationally as Tarzan and Arab – are deep in interviews. In the kitchen, Alamo Drafthouse supremo..."

Oct. 30, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tori Amos at 50

Milestone opened her eyes, ears, and ambition

"...want to vomit rainbows all day long. Preceding Wednesday’s show at the Long Center, the two of us talked..."

July 24, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...after giving away five blocks of downtown to a software company. The Convention Center opens, becomes home to SXSW,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Keeping Cesar Alive

Actor Ed Begley Jr. explains how he was inspired to write a musical honoring his friend Cesar Chavez

"...If all you know of Ed Begley Jr. is his work on..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Record Reviews

"...You Coulda Walked Around the World (Rainlight)..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Music Review

Luv Doc: A Few Thousand Words

Even a few thousand words from a fake doctor are not enough to fix years and years of dysfunction

"...I'm writing to you in hope that you will tell me what I..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Space Cowboy Steve Miller's Not Joking

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist details the pompitous of musical education

"...Steve Miller's diamond career arcs from the postwar blues of the Fifties to..."

July 22, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bruised Egos

Fourth Place

"...We were reading Shakespeare's Macbeth, and he had assigned us each a part...."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Jackie Dana

Checking in With Area Musicians Yielded 80,000 Words of Pandemic Realness

Stay TF home

"...On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 10:10am – all area schools having shut down suddenly March 13 due to..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Leon Russell & the Bob Dylan Rumor

Outlaw era deejay Woody Roberts helped produce Willie Nelson's first Fourth of July picnic in this excerpt from his new memoir Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll

"..."How many in Austin?" Willie said...."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Woody Roberts

The Future of Tegan & Sara

Digital age Intervention

"...would have found collaborating on eighth studio album Love You to Death far more difficult without the internet. The..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Music Post by Sarah Marloff

Chicago Remixes Chicago

Founding keyboardist Robert Lamm’s gym kismet

"...precision pop and ambitious jazz-rock to gloriously arranged funk, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better value than this..."

July 16, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets

Hard Proof Afrobeat: Honoring Its Moniker

Local horns rile the Continental Club Thursdays in August

"...You’d think that the music of Hard Proof Afrobeat, a..."

Aug. 7, 2013 Music Post by Andy Bianculli

Fantastic Arcade Interview: Robin Hunicke

Designing games for the heart instead of the adrenal gland

"...reveals its secrets slowly, but the beautifully rendered landscapes are open to the player from the onset...."

Sept. 24, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Lear Jaunt

Matthew Radford explains how a professional British actor wound up playing Lear in a Central Texas barn

"...The Bard is back at the barn. Shakespeare at Winedale, the UT English department program that has..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

Crackpot Crackdown

Joining a long East Texas tradition, Jackson County DA Bobby Bell has convicted 28 black people on drug charges via manufactured evidence and railroaded trials. One small-town exile, her family, and a few neighbors are finally fighting back.

"...The segregated restrooms are gone. But the town remains an East Texas –..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

My Slammer Vacation

How I Spent...

"...order to impress and inspire each other: This is how we spent our summer vacation. And we wouldn't have..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Heard It on the X

Gibby Haynes on the Airwaves

"..."You're listening to 101-X, Austin's new rock alternative! I am..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Music Feature

Checking In: Matthew Logan Vasquez Lives In Parallel Universes

Delta Spirit frontman experiences ‘other 2020’ at home and virtually

"...Austin Chronicle: Where are you sheltering and under what circumstances? Who else is..."

Oct. 27, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Studio Visits: Bobby Scheidemann

Stuck in Traffic? Say 'Hi.'

"...traffic. Most of the drivers that Scheidemann's camera captures are blithely unaware of the fact that they are sitting..."

March 21, 2014 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

For the Benefit of Mr. Kite

A wave of benefits rides through town

"...benefits. In a town where most bands and musicians are struggling with outside jobs and their art to make..."

May 19, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Great Scott!

"Why Not?"

"...When you look back over your life to date, and arrive..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Feature

Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...The Jinx The blues is you're 43 and dead. The blues is when you live..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

The Luv Doc: Getting Stoned and Doing Crochet Graffitti

Sometimes you say 'yes' when you really mean 'maybe.'

"...push the issue, since now I'm unsure that we are compatible. Please help, Lazyluvbug..."

July 6, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

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