Knocks at My Door

"...Carlos Gene, Jose Antonio Rodriguez and Frank Spano. Two Catholic nuns, Sisters Ana and Ursula, find their faith put..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

People who might not want anything to do with me look at my car and know there's something about America we agree on – something embodied in a '69 Chevy Malibu

"...Some months ago, I was startled by hard knocks at my door. I knew by the knock that..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Opportunity Knocks – Not Once, but Twice

A boy’s chance meetings with the stars of 'Boyhood'

"...was a chaotic time of life for us as my wife and I traded off on time spent caring..."

July 16, 2014 Screens Post by Rob D'Amico

At Long Last Love

Love will get you when you least expect it. So it goes in Charles Mee's Big Love, a vigorous update of the ancient Greek drama The Suppliants, and so it went when the Rude Mechanicals theatre company saw the play. They fell unexpectedly and unabashedly head over heels for it and are staging it now in what they describe as "a huge love affair."

"...Then it catches you unawares and nails you with a sucker punch...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago

On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup

"...This issue of the Chronicle is dated Feb. 7, 2014. On Feb. 7, 1914, the world..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Playback: Waterloo Records at 33¹⁄₃

Waterloo Records turns 331⁄3; native poster artist Jason Austin battles MS with an Aug. 7 benefit

"...Meet John Kunz, Austin's preeminent recorded-music merchant. He owns Waterloo Records, an emporium of cultural paraphernalia that's both the..."

July 31, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

School of Hard Knocks

Number Discrepancies

"...and they cannot control the social breakdown and hardship that alienates poor kids from the education system. This year,..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Movie Titles for 1996

"...Movie Titles for 1996 [ Page 1 | Page..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Screens Feature

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...together SXSW's Midnighters schedule, "I program a lot with my gut," explained producer and senior programmer Jarod Neece. "I..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are women like? What is time like? Most people,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Magic Lantern Shines a Light on British Christmas Ghost Stories

Hang with the spirits of Christmas past

"...The British Christmas is filled with strangers and shadows. Knocks at the door and guttering candles, winds whispering around..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

If You Have Ghosts: The Haunting of The Little Stranger

Director Lenny Abrahamson talks post-war Gothic

"...There are the ghosts that haunt us, and there are the legacies of the..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Green Reading

Environs

"...a River by John Graves. There are others, buried beneath magazines, last Sunday's New York Times, newspaper clippings, and..."

May 5, 1995 Books Review by Robert Bryce

Environs

Books, Books, and More Books

"...a River by John Graves. There are others buried beneath magazines, last Sunday's New York Times, newspaper clippings and..."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Here Today, There Tomorrow

Austin ISD Schools grapple with high student turnover – and all its consequences

"...afternoon, a group of teachers from Ridgetop Elementary school, at 51st Street just off Airport, pile into principal Joaquin..."

March 11, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...annual parties where they'd rent these houses out by that lake, and we'd all go out there. There'd always..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

Shooting Star

"...The Meat Puppets: Derrick Bostrom, Curt Kirkwood, and Cris Kirkwood photograph..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by David Holthouse

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...South by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided by you...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Chris the Conqueror

Chris Roberson takes on Superman, Elric, Captain Kirk, and Cinderella – and wins

"...writing both. "It's ridiculous," says Roberson. "I'm half convinced that I'm hallucinating my entire life."..."

July 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

In Person

P.D. James at Barnes & Noble Arboretum

"..."The moment, I think, in a mystery when the body is discovered is one of huge..."

May 11, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Gross In

Is any writer in Austin as revolting and entertaining as Andrew Hilbert?

"...grandmother how to write a poem. She said: "Write whatever's inside of you." So Andrew wrote poems about bones,..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by François Pointeau

When Magic is a Real Darling

This popular Austin magician tells it like it appears to be

"...TV and concert producer Patrick Terry recently put together another spectacle of magic and..."

May 11, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fairness, Consistency, Safety

Rosemary Lehmberg defends her record

"...Austin Chronicle: What do you think are your biggest accomplishments?..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Old Settler's Music Festival Preview

Bluebonnets and bluegrass: the Old Settler's Music Festival, still picking, still grinning

"...four stages and a four-day weekend. Bluegrass and country Superlative Marty Stuart stings up with old-time pioneer Ralph Stanley,..."

April 18, 2008 Music Feature

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...The creativity has been unleashed...."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Write Place

The Austin Heart of Film Festival

"...Every writer knows what simple joy the graceful waltz of fingers across the..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

What Happens to Us

First Place winner

"...In my head I keep a list of things that Madeline..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessica Rutland

The Luv Doc: Family Friendly

Getting to know the neighbors

"...Dear Luv Doc, My next door neighbors have about five (maybe six? who..."

March 13, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Porn Busters!

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

"...9, 2004, Javier Perez's dream of becoming a college math professor came to an abrupt end. Just after 6am,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...of another old man named Roy Bedichek for a conversation and a little beer. To get there, he turns..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

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