Ida

Concisely but with great depth, this Polish film explores questions of individual and national identity.

"...to Anna up until that moment. A naive and cloistered young woman, Anna has grown up in the nunnery,..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Sagebrush, Friday 11..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Live Reopens With Fourth of July Festival

Brownout, Jackie Venson, and Walker Lukens headline

"...3ten ACL Live and the W Austin hotel, the Red, White & Willie Nelson Blvd. festival bills performances by..."

June 15, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Texas Titles in Toto

"..."Laredo," Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...Yet, at this point, the crowd couldn't even be bothered to put down their beers and put their hands..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Feature

The Hot Club of Cowtown

Country Mile

"...of Cowtown returns with a hit comp courtesy of formidable vault imprint Shout Factory. Bookended by stomping live cuts..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Hot Club of Cowtown

"...Ellington, while Fremerman exudes pure countrified fiddle goodness on "Ida Red." Revisiting their debut, the electrifying "Chinatown" showcases Erwin's..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Music Review by David Lynch

Texas Platters

"...1/2 Souvenirs album. Souvonica, the locally grown yet Continentally flavored band's second release, which takes its name from the..."

July 11, 1997 Music Review

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...10pm, Central Presbyterian Church Former New York University roommates Fred Nicolaus and Daniel Rossen craft richly orchestrated chamber-pop antiquities..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Kortedala Syndrome

Night falls over Scandinavia

"...contributions from fellow Swedes El Perro Del Mar and Frida Hyvönen, samples local electronic duo the Tough Alliance, and..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Lebanon Calling

The Lebanese connection: ACL booker Charles Attal's bond with Zilker Park

"...It wasn't until a few months later that he discovered his family's deeper connection to Austin's jewel. Attal's great..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...Placement in the hallowed hall of Central Pres and Friday's Aquarium Drunkard curation can't be wrong.  – Rachel Rascoe..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...a few days), and came up with what we considered the most exceptional achievements in dance, classical music, visual..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Capital Idea!

On the phone, on the Web, on the farm, or in the store: giving a little Austin to the foodies on your gift list

"...Joy Smith's incredible bread & butter jalapeño slices have been racking up..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Food Feature

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"..."We had volunteered to go first, and the Marsh Mongrels fell for..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Chronicle Recommends: Satanic Films

Catch up with the Dark One's cinematic antics

"...Phibes” Fuest. A paycheck-slumming all-star cast – William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Keenan Wynn, Tom Skerritt, John Travolta(!) – and..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Best in Show

The 2012-13 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Olivia Chacón, "The Red Shoes"..."

June 7, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

December's House of Songs

A partnership between Texas and Danish songwriters yields great music

"...Nathan Felix, plus fellow Danish artists Anna Bell and Ida Wenoe Bach, Lara Runarsdottir and Johan Kristinsson from Iceland,..."

Dec. 8, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM: Who's That Girl?

Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is an inimitable genius

"...Sahara Smith. If Mae West in I'm No Angel, Ida Lupino in High Sierra, and Joanne Woodward in The..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Gay Place

Where the queers at on Saturday? SXSW!

"...SIGN IT, PEREZ Buy a copy of Red Carpet Suicide, and the Queen of all Bleedia just..."

March 20, 2009 Features Feature by Ash Bell

Off the Record

It has begun: Breaking down the full South by Southwest band list and learning the secret handshake at the Austin Moose Lodge No. 1735

"...real truth is that I yelled at or rather implored people to listen to more acts and to do..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings on

"...swelled with the intensity of a NASA launch on Friday afternoon, and appropriately so. UK songstress Duffy, whose first..."

March 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...– that were just not that well known. I'd figured most people had to be aware of them, but..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...and happily, it was no different for the Cubans. Credit producer Nick Gold, the World Circuit label, and the..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

7 and 7 Is

"...last year while riding his bicycle on Lamar. "Aunt Ida Like Chickens" features Johanna Taylor phone-sexing it to good..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature