All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...it a lineup drop for a reason: South by Southwest Film and Television Festival has just added gaming and..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

Fall events and news from all over Texas

"...In 1956, Jeff McKissack was issued a building permit for a beauty..."

Nov. 2, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...you that a prince were coming to South by Southwest, you’d probably guess Harry. More exciting, the conference rolls..."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Leave No Stones Unturned

Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf on vinyl, hip-hop's roots, and record labels

"...Weighs a Ton (This Is Stones Throw Records), director Jeff Broadway (Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story) chronicles..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

Then There's This: Out on a Limb

Bill would take an axe to local tree ordinances

"...and officials from Austin, San Anton­io, Fort Worth, and West Lake Hills have registered their opposition to the legislation,..."

April 5, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...uncle's funeral a few years back my cousin Cindy West told me a man named Jackson from Austin had..."

June 23, 2006 Column

Love Is All Around

Tracking Sonny Curtis and his tall, West Texas tales

"...Curtis, 67, the embodiment of West Texas congeniality, beams...."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Winds of Change

As electric industry restructuring opens utilities up to competition, some, including Austin's municipally-owned utility, are looking to renewable energy sources to win customers and meet the requirements of a 1999 law.

"...says Larry Jones, spokesman for Dallas-based Central and South West Corporation, the largest utility company in Texas. "It offers..."

April 21, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Bruton, Jon Dee Graham, and Billy Joe Shaver (New West), a new album produced by onetime local/forever Silo Walter..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Grow and Prosper

With neighbors still reeling from 1990 expansion, Hyde Park Baptist plans another growth project.

"...of unspecified "land acquisition," focusing on the residential neighborhoods west and south of the church, where the much-vilified 1990..."

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Lyle Lovett

"...Ramsey's song "Sleepwalking," the irony in Michael Murphey's song "West Texas Highway."..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Postmarks

"...Linda Jefferson..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Column

La Vista at the Hyatt

"...best time of the day to luxuriate on the west-facing decks of the Hula Hut), there was still a..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Food Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...hanging open, they're the very definition of South by Southwest: discovering the undiscovered. Of course, local director Robert Rodriguez,..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Chair Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott appointed oil executive Jeff Hildebrand to chair the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission...."

Sept. 1, 2023 News Feature

Maneater

Trace Adkins versus sharks is a soggy mess

"...Directed by: Justin Lee. Starring: Nicky Whelan, Shane West, Trace Adkins, Branscombe Richmond and Jeff Fahey...."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Chronicle Critics Choose Their Top 10 Local Albums

10 lists by 10 of our music writers

"...5) Los Coast, Samsara (New West)..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Nonprofits and the City's Quest for Affordable Housing

Helping usher Austin out of a quagmire of inequality

"...begin leasing as the first affordable rental complex in North­west Austin. Foundation is also working on adding 20 units..."

July 14, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

For Your Consideration

What to see at the 21st annual Austin Film Festival

"...The Homesman. This Western from native son Tommy Lee Jones was cowritten by..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get Your Shovels Out

How a local crew of diggers built the baddest Downtown dirt jumps in the country at the Ninth Street BMX Trails

"...Lein, because of the Miller family's Trend Bike Source on West 12th Street. Owned and operated since 1985 by Jane..."

June 6, 2014 Sports Feature by Chase Hoffberger

We Were From Texas

Texas Triangle: Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt

"...The workshop in the basement of Clark's west Nashville home collects such memories. His father's Randall knife..."

July 19, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...Key (IDW): Speaking of splash pages, Gabriel Rodrigeuz evokes Jeff Darrow at his finest. This sliver of volume three..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

Enjoy a tour through the best weird places around Texas

"...of 10 automobiles poking out of the High Plains west of Amarillo along I-40 are the ultimate in head-scratching..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Lonesome West, Hyde Park Theatre..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

To Opt, or Not?

How one neighborhood-planning team carefully weighed VMU's power to change its surroundings

"...VMU as appropriate for our community," observed ZNA President Jeff Jack, a longtime neighborhood activist who is often critical..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Mighty Fine

Dixiecrat Jesse Dayton ain't banging his head against a wall

"...Distortion and X, and fostered devoted followings on the West Coast and in the Midwest. Even the roots-phobic Eastern..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin and beyond.

"...of this writing, Lee Leffingwell, Margot Clarke, Mandy Dealey, Jeff Trigger, Gregg Knaupe, Jennifer Kim, and Steven Adams are..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Capitol Chronicle

The Texas 11 Minus One return, and the gallery goes wild.

"...we could not do on our own," said Royce West, D-Dallas. "They united this party and these people as..."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Column by Michael King

The Hills Are Alive

The Hill Country is teaming with Austin songwriters.

"...James, it turns out, once owned the no-frills honky-tonk west of Austin. A few years ago, Poodie Locke, better..."

May 9, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...live in Austin anymore. He hangs his boa in West Lake and has for about a year now. Not..."

March 21, 2003 Column

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