Triumph of the Yellow Kid

Comics are art, Spiegelman notes in his panel-busting history lesson

"...From the beginning, comics knew the pain of the late Rodney Dangerfield: They didn't get no respect...."

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Science of Injustice

Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence

"...Jan. 2, 1999, Daniel Raglind was searching a section of the Sam Houston National Forest with his son Todd..."

Aug. 19, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one day during..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

12 New TV Shows to Watch in January

Plus another dozen returning shows to reacquaint yourself with

"...warming the couch, holding your remote like the hand of a loved one, and binging so much TV the..."

Dec. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...On the night of May 17, 1979, Sterling Morrison and John Cale stood..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Austin's Political Ecosystem

Swearingen's Environmental City tells the inner history of city politics

"...the greenbelts that would eventually be a defining feature of Austin's landscape...."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Yesterday When I Was Younger Than Yesterday

Surveying the local scene then and now

"...as it shed its Texas Showdown skin for that of Little Woodrow’s and the rats mural came out the..."

Dec. 15, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Alive and Kicking

Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.

"...Pulling up to the Austin airport at the crack of dawn to leave for the Sundance Film Festival, I..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seven Years in Tibet

"...trailers: Seven Years in Tibet is emphatically not another of those sprawling, inert, beached-whale travelogue movies à la Out..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Loyal Lieutenants

Bush Applies Litmus Test of Allegiance in Choosing Inner Circle

"..."reformer with results." Education, taxes, welfare reform -- none of those things really matter. For George W. Bush, one..."

March 17, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

We Have an Issue: From the Ground Up

How we accidentally ended up with an Earth Day issue

"...I've never liked the performative aspect of Earth Day themed issues or special sections; after all,..."

April 17, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: Pineapple Pizza

A big ol' meaty, cheesy, greasy gastronomical death trap

"...I just found out my boyfriend of six months likes pineapple on his pizza. I don't..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Page Two: Critical Grasp

Civil disobedience and free speech are cut from the same unalienable cloth

"...One of the ongoing mysteries of the Chronicle for me is..."

July 18, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Capitol Beat on Books

Texas Book Festival Wrap

"...weekend's Texas Book Festival didn't have the political superstars of years past – no Obama or Bill on the..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

People Get Ready

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

"...by Kevin Phinney. Published by Billboard Books, an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of VNU Business Media Inc...."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Kevin Phinney

Kane Disabled

How long had Mikel Kane's beef been brewing?

"...weeks now, following a 15-day suspension for a series of administrative violations stemming from actions he took to degrade..."

Nov. 2, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...I interview a person older than 65. As an out-of-state student in my first semester, I only knew one..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Perpetuating Preservation

Austin's Historic Victory Grill

"...noise coming from within the club -- the sound of an old R&B recording being rewound and restarted as..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...Fastball wound up generating a platinum album, a year of solid touring (Everclear, HORDE), a pair of Grammy nominations,..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

WorkSpace: Paul Ramirez Jonas

This installation leaves us to question our own notions of patriotism and our sense of American-ness

"...Blanton Museum of Art, through Feb. 3..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Sxsw

"...person to do? Read the Chronicle's "Picks & Sleepers," of course, because herein are clues to nearly 300 bands..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...Our raft there – you'd swear it was an ordinary mattress – usually arrived like..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

I am not my thoughts; I am not my feelings

"...It's doomed to be untidy, what with its piles of books; three laptops on wood TV trays; two printers;..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Taboo Topics, True Subjects

Reflections on Race in the NBA

"...season a few weeks ago, is a photo negative of American race relations: strong young black men have some..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Books Feature by David Shields

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...so clearly used a song title as an announcement of intent. Starting off as a hard-bop sideman, Hancock has..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 30 - May 6

"...Halina Poświatowska wrote, "I am dazed by the beauty of my body." I applaud her brazen admiration and love..."

April 30, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

TCB

Austin's weeklong goodbye to Clifford Antone, while the club he left behind ponders its own future

"...Antone, the best friend the blues ever had, dead of a heart attack at 56. By the third or..."

June 2, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 5-11

"...the coming weeks, I hope you'll adopt that way of thinking and apply it to every aspect of your..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Doubling Down

In The Great Society, playwright Robert Schenkkan and his subject, LBJ, both gamble big

"...You've just come off a winning hand that by all rights shouldn't have..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Things Like That

Under Obama, we have been subjected to a Patriot Act on steroids

"...Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Stewart lobbed him a softball when he noted that, in the 2008 election, many..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

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