Austin Film Festival Snags Chappaquiddick as Closing Night Film

Full lineup includes Call Me by Your Name, Three Billboards

"...• The regional premiere of Call Me by Your..."

Sept. 26, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

We Learned It by Watching Movies

A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment

"...Otto Preminger's doozy of a dope fiend melodrama. Skeleton-thin Frank Sinatra jitters his way through this triple Oscar-nominated masterpiece..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers

We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician

"...Junior Franklin (7/22/83)..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Nina on Netflix

Simone leads a chorus of music docs streaming online

"...ilk. Like Georgian Ray Charles (1930-2004) and New Orleans’ James Booker (1939-1983), whose doc Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius..."

July 29, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene, Franny..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

Attendees include Junot Díaz, Cheryl Strayed, and... Tony Danza?

"...Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy) James Donovan (The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

TCB

Remembering Clifford Antone, who gave Austin a home of the blues

"...Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Taylor, Walter "Shakey" Horton, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Calvin Jones, and Willie "Big Eye" Smith. He..."

May 26, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...James Taylor arm wrestling Neil Young; the Band living on..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.

"...Etta James is wailing. From a scratchy vinyl 45 comes her..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Politics & music & the politics of music.

"...The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands, and supplemented it with recommendations of..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column

Saint Jackie

It was with high expectations of low class that Stephen MacMillan Moser embarked upon the latest crop of books about Jackie O. But shortly into it, he found himself thinking, "Where's the dirt?"

"...his usual milieu of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Frank Sinatra, but he also exhibits a sensitivity and depth..."

June 9, 2000 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

From Script to Screen

"...Roy E. Disney, Stuart Gordon; with Joe Mantegna, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales...."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Art

Art Openings

"...of works by Liz Conces Alen, Hugh Daly, and James Fitzgerald...."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

An Art, a Craft, a Movie, and More Events for the Weekdays

Don't let the workweek get you down

"...the mean streets of NYC, the debut feature from Frank Henenlotter (Frankenhooker, Brain Damage) follows a set of conjoined..."

July 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Indigo de Souza, Estrella Acosta, and More Crucial Concerts

A little hair of the dog for your post-SXSW listening pleasure

"...for generous and expansive forgiveness through music.   – James Scott Estrella Acosta & Esquina 25..."

March 22, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music Adds New Order, Killer Mike, Protomartyr, and Isabella Lovestory

Along with over 300 more artists headed to the Austin festival

"...CO) Fionn (White Rock CANADA) Flamingosis (New York NY) Frankie Rose (Brooklyn NY) Frank "Scooby" Sirius (Washington DC) Friko..."

Jan. 25, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...Chris Bailey, the latter's drummer brother Ian, singer Larry James, bassist Jimmy Pettit, and "tenor" bassist Kyle Brock entered..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

12 New TV Shows to Watch in January

Plus another dozen returning shows to reacquaint yourself with

"...for this new season show confirm incoming bachelor Matt James shares the same proclivity for turtlenecks – but this..."

Dec. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap

After a decade and a half, the legendary manga's battle dreams are made real

"...don't get to direct a script originally written by James Cameron. And you don't get to make a film..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Fri. 16, Hotel Vegas Annex, 8:55pm Frank Smith and Grape St. alum Aaron Sinclair moved under..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback – SXSW Recap: Love, Hate, Garth & Trump

Final love / hate SXSW listicles

"...addition since another thorn in Trump's side, top G-man James Comey, had to cancel his SXSW appearance...."

March 24, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...what will ultimately tally over 2,000. SXSW General Manager James Minor confirmed that this is the last large list..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Cares Ups the Ante

Nine-day citywide fundraising effort to run April 12-20

"...James Taylor, Holy Mountain’s general manager, told the Chronicle Wednesday..."

April 2, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Top 10 Sports Retirements 2010

From 'The Big Unit' to 'The Big Hurt'

"...mindless “tweets” – Cincinnati Bengal wide receivers and Lebron James, for example – and the criminal element who wreak..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...Bewley, Alex Kingston. Little Birds (Director and screenwriter: Elgin James) — Amidst the stark landscape of the Salton Sea,..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW 2010

"...of soul and loads of charisma. – Margaret Moser James Husband..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Energy Forward

Sofia Resnick gets her kee-op! on at Master Yi Martial Arts Academy

"...from working on the film Sin City with Mr. Frank Miller, Mr. Robert Rodriguez, and Ms. Devon Aoki," Yi..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

Off the Record

Pinetop Perkins leads local Grammy nominations; The Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom relocates to Austin; the Invincible Czars re-envision Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite

"...in Dallas, recorded October 2004 with the late Henry James Townsend, Robert Lockwood Jr., and recent Cactus Cafe visitor..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...The couple christened their new offspring James "Jimmy" Hughes, and the family, also including Jimmy's sister,..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

Bidding farewell to dandy Don Walser, remembering Jerry Lightfoot, helping Chris Tominaga, and shopping for HAAM

"...he came to the attention of Broken Spoke owner James White...."

Sept. 29, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

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