Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Into the Unwired Place

Take a deep breath and unplug

"...I've always been fascinated by the left-field ascent of a trend, a movement,..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Playhouse's Tiny Beautiful Things

There's excellent work in Austin Playhouse's production about Cheryl Strayed writing an advice column, but where's the humility?

"...Most grief experiences involve a period of terrible isolation. Then, after a time..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Pot Reform Takes the Main Stage

Lawmakers and advocates introduce measures in multiple states

"...month for medical marijuana supporters with lawmakers and activists in at least five states pushing forward with new medi-mari..."

Jan. 26, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

ARTS = RATS

Lamenting the closing of an Austin landmark and its secret rats

"...subsided, though not the way I’d gaze at it in passing, the years melting away like a Trey Parker..."

April 28, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Tribeca Film Festival Review: No Man of God

Latest Bundy biopic is a portrait of the investigator

"...There's a famous photo. Two guys in a corner table in some rustbelt city in the..."

June 15, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Endorsements: Austin ISD and Austin Community College Boards

School’s in session

"...Austin ISD Board District 1: Ted Gordon..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

July Is Crime Month: 'Texas Servant Girl Murders'

PBS's 'History Detectives' tackle Austin's biggest mystery: the unsolved string of killings in 1885

"...So was Austin terrorized by its own Jack the Ripper in 1885?..."

July 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Snowden Defends Fourth Amendment

'Would I do it again? The answer is yes.'

"...In an hourlong conversation live-streamed to SXSW Interactive from an..."

March 10, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Public School Bible Classes Run Afoul of Law

Classes violate state and federal provisions

"...In the Permian High School class on Bible History and..."

Jan. 17, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

DVD Watch

'Kati With an i' is a transfixing documentary portrait

"...In 2010, Kati With an i won a Gotham Independent..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Some Parts of the World Pt. 6

BettySoo wraps it up on the road from the Netherlands to Germany

"...My last stop in the Netherlands was the ancient city of Nijmegen. I’ve..."

June 13, 2011 Music Post by BettySoo

Evan Smith on the Secret of Texas Tribune’s Success

Founder and CEO on the present and future of nonprofit journalism

"...A pitch meeting with Evan Smith resides somewhere between a very best..."

March 13, 2019 News Post by Michael King

The Bo-Keys’ Memphis Soul

“The collision of gospel, blues, jazz, country”

"...Bo-Keys have carried the torch for Memphis soul music since the late Nineties. Bassist/bandleader Scott Bomar waxed rhapsodic about..."

April 28, 2016 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Pressley Ups the Ante

Defeated Council candidate now claims “thousands” of uncertain votes

"...In her latest filing contesting the election of City Council..."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Holding Prosecutors Accountable

Anthony Graves seeking justice for wrongful conviction

"...It's been nearly 20 years since Anthony Graves was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to die..."

Jan. 21, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

For the Kids

The UIL and school districts can do better work curtailing concussions

"...Michelle Trenum’s voice is rising, and it has everything do with her oldest son...."

Dec. 24, 2013 Sports Post by Joseph Baucum

Bob Byington Sees the World, Writes Home About It

Harmony and Me's adventures in Australia

"...When Bob Byington took his comedy Harmony and Me to Australia, we..."

March 8, 2011 Screens Post by Bob Byington

It's a Good Economy, Stupid

Austin Plays Weak Catch-Up in Boom Times

"...on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops."..."

Aug. 23, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Sex, Lies, and Katie Folger

The Austin artist on her new show, Getting in Bed With the Pizza Man

"...In the grand history of dating and hookups, there's going..."

May 11, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Taps ConsenSys Founder Joseph Lubin for 2019 Keynote

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency track programming comes into focus

"...SXSW is advancing fast, and not just according to the calendar. The..."

Oct. 9, 2018 SXSW Post by Bonny Chu

Learning One's Letters

Why was Oscar Wilde's 'Letter to Momma' lurking undiscovered in Texas?

"...Paper conservators have a tendency to get so absorbed in the minute details of their task, so lost in..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

Fuller Versus IDEA

Charter school group attacks academic's work, he rebuts

"...If you've been following the fight over Superintendent Meria Carstarphen's plans to turn..."

Dec. 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

RIP Gus Garcia, Austin’s First Elected Hispanic Mayor

Civic and education leader dies at 84

"...Tributes are accumulating upon the passing Gustavo “Gus” Garcia, who fought for..."

Dec. 17, 2018 News Post by Michael King

Elegies and Celebrations

Thanks from Resistencia Bookstore and a poem by Raúl Salinas.

"...Red Salmon Arts and Resistencia Bookstore, on the recent passing of Chicaco poet and activist Raúl Salinas: On behalf..."

Feb. 28, 2008 News Post by Belinda Acosta

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Obtaining a back-alley abortion in Romania proves to be rivetingly tense in this visually spare but assuredly virtuosic film.

"...Directed by: Cristian Mungiu. Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean, Ion..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Hills Have Eyes

This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.

"...Directed by: Alexandre Aja. Starring: Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Ted Levine, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kidnap

Don't mess with Halle Berry

"...Directed by: Luis Prieto. Starring: Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Chris McGinn, Lew Temple and..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Choice Is Yours

Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

"..."Most of the women were bleeding from their anuses after two days, for some unexplained..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Outlaws Shutout North Texas Fury

"...The Outlaws wasted no time setting the tone for their game last Saturday against the..."

May 2, 2008 Sports Post by Ashley Moreno

Naked City

Avid rider Ellis wants drivers to give a wider berth

"...Hoping to address one of the most common causes of..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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