This Job Will Change Your Life

Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle

"...magic and malfunctioning of the place. Whether you're a lifer or just passing through, the Chronicle has left its..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Jesse Sublett

Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins

The legend of Texas journalism gets the coverage she deserves

"...late, legendary Ivins, but maybe the best is that after watching Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life in Prison for Hemp

José Peña brought some roadside weeds home from Kansas. Cops decided it was reefer, and a Texas court sentenced him to life in prison – without the evidence. It took a decade for Peña to get back some of the pieces of his life.

"...I was trying to get home," the 50-year-old recently recalled. "My wife was mad at me for doing favors..."

March 16, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Unhappily Ever After

Three of the newest books about the Princess of Wales, Margaret Moser writes, are by people who played roles of varying degrees of intimacy in her life; they paint a more accurate, more vibrant picture of her life than the spate of cockeyed conspiracy theories, endless photo collections, and soggy coattail remembrances that traditionally make their appearance around the summer anniversary of her death.

"...Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led by Anne Edwards..."

July 14, 2000 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

The Life and Times of Gus Garcia

City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service

"...impact seems understated and underappreciated. Yet, as he retires after nine years on the council and more than three..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Wilde Life

"..."I'd like to welcome all the Walk-on-the-Wilde-Siders!" announced State Theater Company artistic director Don..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Lies, All Lies

The Silver Castle

"...the label "fiction" to stay out of trouble. So, after filming a documentary in Bombay, James did just that,..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Books Review

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...Titanic What's a family to do in between all the holiday meals and the wrapping and unwrapping of..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life With Mikey

"...More dreadful than you might expect from the trailers, Life with Mikey flounders at the beginning and then slowly..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Life Stinks

"...business in Network? Well, something like that happens in Life Stinks. The premise has super-billionaire (perhaps the richest man..."

Aug. 2, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

One Woman’s Battle for Justice After a Cop’s Reckless Driving Killed Her Partner

One moment destroyed Pam Watts' life and created an activist

"...words slowing, her Texas drawl softening. "But you don't really know whether you have the memory or somebody told..."

Sept. 16, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

ATX TV Festival 2022: Bill Lawrence on Life, Death, and Scrubs

A rewind of our 2020 interview with the series creator

"...woke up early for a Zoom chat, and Zoom life was starting to wear on us all. "It's like..."

June 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Ugly End to Jason Dusterhoft's Police Career Was Only the Beginning for APD

Three chiefs gone in Austin

"...2017, Brian Manley escorted Jason Duster­hoft into a City Hall meeting room. Manley had become Austin's interim chief of..."

May 7, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Keeping Life Queer in 2020

A Guide to Gifting Queerly for the coming decade

"...We do all this mulling, of course, to uncover what would make..."

Dec. 5, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

All or Nothing

Ian McLagan: Small Face, Face, auxiliary Rolling Stone, A-list sideman, Austinite

"...He's going to a special place. He's doing something really important, and he wants to look his best.'..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Peter Hook: Life in a Northern Town

Joy Division/New Order bassist resurrects two classic LPs

"...in Austin. In 1983, New Order played the now-shuttered Nightlife, one of their first gigs as a fourpiece and..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Nik Wallenda: Life on the Wire

In which we send an aerialist to talk to a stuntman. Whoa.

"...spoke with tight-rope aerial stuntman and seventh-generation performer Nik Wallenda – (yes, of those Wallendas) about his daredevil life..."

May 19, 2011 Arts Post by Raven Hinojosa

Larger Than Life

The late Luis Jiménez created art on a grand scale – and lived life that way, too

"..."Small" is not a word typically associated with Luis Jiménez...."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Slipping-Down Life

Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce star in this adaptation of an Anne Tyler story that was filmed in Austin several summers ago.

"...Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Irma P. Hall, Tom Bower, Shawnee Smith and Veronica Cartwright. Although just..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Life Without Me

Unusual film about dying young avoids sentimentality.

"...bathos, and doomed youth ends up playing more like life’s grace note, with characters who are suddenly wise beyond..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Laying It All Out

Novelist Shelby Hearon has made an art of the little white lie.

"...town to attend a high-pressure family reunion just months after my supposedly picture-perfect sister died on her way to..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...Centered within two columns of text, because it's an article about auto accidents, there's a full-color photo..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year It All Went Wrong

Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.

"...It's almost dead. Thankfully. And 1999 deserves to die before..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Train of Life

"...in the peculiar tradition of such Holocaust dramedys as Life Is Beautiful and, to a lesser degree, Mel Brooks'..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It's All in the Game

"...Of course, with the headlines punched out this season, it's no wonder. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal left a stink on..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

A Life of Destinations

"...by Jason Stout For years I thought he was taller than I. He's not, actually. Not so much. Maybe..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

The Fight of His Life

Are Ronney Reynolds' Mayoral Hopes on the Ropes?

"...Watsonphotograph by John Anderson It was a blustery October afternoon when Kirk Watson announced his mayoral candidacy on the..."

Dec. 6, 1996 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Liberation and Justice for All

Black Panther William Lee Brent's Exile

"...Admittedly, I find much fault with democracy as it's practiced in this country, but I must concede that..."

June 14, 1996 Books Feature

The Double Life of Veronique

Kieslowski's movie is told not so much in customary narrative structures, but in glimpses, hints, and intimations. On the same day in 1968, two women are born, one in Poland, the other in France. Though the two share many characteristics, they live worlds apart. Yet each senses the other and has intuitive knowledge of the other's presence.

"...a rare grace: it tells a story that could only exist in the form of a movie (or, perhaps,..."

March 6, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

AISD Copes With Post-COVID Life

With falling enrollment, budget woes, and “behavioral events” maybe the kids aren’t alright

"...time not as a battlefield in transphobic culture wars. After administrators at Travis Early College High School removed the..."

Nov. 26, 2021 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

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