Playback: Come & Take It

On Austin as a metal town, and a leaked shortlist for the next Austin Music Office boss

"...Epically debated amongst those in black T-shirts bearing illegible logos is whether..."

July 7, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Place 1: Who's on first ... and who's paying for it?

Think Austin politics is weird? Here's the genuine article

"...With friends like Rick Culleton, Place 1 City Council candidate..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Heard It on the X

Gibby Haynes on the Airwaves

"...into the cleavage of a very beautiful, very old motion picture star. And this would be the Beatles song..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Music Feature

Los Coast Doubles Down on Its Psych-Soul for Label Debut

Local fivepiece embraces the spirit of wandering

"...ordinary circumstances, an album reflects where an artist stood emotionally before and during creation. Los Coast's debut for New..."

June 14, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

2017 Texas Biennial: Putting It Together

Leslie Moody Castro on reviving the show after four years

"...art for another round of this statewide survey of contemporary art. She was also agreeing to help jump-start the..."

Sept. 27, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Notes on a Long, Long Journey

Artists are but translators of that which flows through them

"...The Dragon is a novel almost five years in the works...."

Jan. 11, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

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

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...While for many on our tireless (okay actually very, very tired) music team,..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

What Is Going On With Ken Paxton and Nate Paul?

What we know – and don't know – about the strange connection between the embattled Austin real estate magnate and the Texas attorney general

"...The two of us asked each other this question back in the summer of 2019, when Nate Paul's..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Women on Fire: Six of one, Ivey's dozen of the other

Tony Award winner and Lone Star native Judith Ivey discusses the challenges of portraying a dozen characters in the one-woman monologue show 'Women on Fire'

"...Although Judith Ivey hasn't lived in Texas for many years, the..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Get Your Rees On

Comic artist David Rees and the theatre of 'War'

"...Mechanicals, the innovative theatre troupe who brought us stage versions of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces and James Kelman's How..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

It Takes a Village

Christine Albert & Chris Gage experience another Austin musical rite of passage: the benefit

"...end of 2003, local performer Christine Albert approached the Chronicle about publishing a farewell she'd written to the five-year..."

April 8, 2005 Music Feature by Christine Albert

Graffiti on the Superhighway

The digital age has ushered a new era in visual art, with the Internet offering artists a new medium for the creation of art, an infinite space to display their work, and a marketing tool. But with this expansion of creative opportunities come sticky questions of ownership and the communal experience of art.

"...The Red Fez on Fifth Street fizzed like an underground rave venue. Half..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Why Wall Street Is Betting on Austin's Multimedia That Magic Touch

"...illustration by Jason Stout The rush is on -- you..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

On the 12th Day of Christmas

"...It was a day so big, the music industry gave..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

It's a Good Economy, Stupid

Austin Plays Weak Catch-Up in Boom Times

"..."I tell thee," said madame, "that although it is a long time on the road, it is..."

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

Musicians on How Best to Employ City Funds Earmarked for the Local Scene

$3 million in HOT funds are coming. Now what?

"...After a lot of thought and consulting with musicians and people in the business, $3 million..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Feature

Rep. John Bucy III on the 86th Texas Legislature

“We’ve got to do everything we can to keep attention on Medicaid expansion”

"...of the 2014 race, John Bucy defeated three-term incumbent Tony Dale, R-Cedar Park, in House District 136, representing a..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

It Was a Very Good Year

Jason Phelps on 12 Months of Exceptional Stage Projects

"...from the rest. They may be distinguished by some monumental change that alters one's path in life: a shift..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Reason I Jump

Poetic insight into autism, based on Naoki Higashida memoir

"...In 2007, Naoki Higashida, a nonspeaking 13-year-old Japanese boy on the autism spectrum, published The..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jump, Jive, and More

SXSW Film announces its feature lineup

"...The South by Southwest Film Festival announced Wednesday its 130-film feature lineup for the 2012 festival, including Centerpiece..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Shrewd Productions' Jump

In Charly Evon Simpson's drama, characters caught in the dark currents of grief and depression seek a way through

"...She leans on the railing of the bridge, taking a halfhearted pull..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...Peter Tscherkassky Austrian avant-gardeist Peter Tscherkassky began his work with "found footage" in the early Eighties, co-opting film from..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Is It Any Wonder?

Bowie inspired Clinton

"...An interesting historical tidbit from the wildly entertaining and frequently off-color hip-hop blog..."

Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Ecstasy: The Perfect Word for It

Getty luvs dem Lezzies on X.

"...I love them. I love the Lesbians on Ecstasy. (And I'm not the only one.) I will..."

March 18, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

Big Jump in Early Voting Numbers

"...of early voting in Travis County saw a sharp jump in the number of ballots cast. Today, 9,592 of..."

Nov. 1, 2006 News Post by Lee Nichols

Luv Doc Recommends: The Jump at the Capitol

Congress Avenue, Friday, June 12, 2009

"...coming to town to take a big ol' trailer-trash shit on the Austin aesthetic. Chain Drive notwithstanding, sweaty leather,..."

June 12, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Luv Doc Recommends: Freestyle Jump Contest for Barton Springs

Barton Springs Pool, Saturday, July 7, 2007

"...Barton Springs is without a doubt one of Austin’s most..."

July 6, 2007 Column by The Luv Doc

Eddie Rodriguez and Sarah Eckhardt Jump Into State Senate Fray

State rep. and county judge enter race to succeed Watson

"...State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin, Travis County's longest-serving member of the Texas Legislature, made it official on..."

March 13, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

It Lives Inside

Familiar horror tropes make scary use of Hindu mythology

"...The Blumhouse-ification of horror movies has slithered its way into the..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

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