A Drag Tribute, Eclipse Events Galore, and More Local Happenings

Get your glasses and find your totality

"...farmers’ market bounty.   – James Scott The Bloody Mary Festival..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Egg Hunts, Trans Visibility, and More Community Events

Meet your fellow Austinites as these goings-on

"...affair: a $500 scholarship prize egg. Meet at the Mary E. Branch Gymnasium at 10am, and in case of..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Black Keys and Bootsy Collins Top Latest SXSW Music Announcement

Plus Angélica Garcia, Dende, Snõõper

"...(New York NY) kudaranai1nichi (Tokyo JAPAN) K.Williams (Tacoma WA) Lady Apple Tree (Los Angeles CA) La Gallo 3:20 (Monterrey..."

Jan. 24, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Mr. Texas

Lawrence Wright’s newest novel isn’t just Mr. Smith Goes to Austin

"...I would have loved to see more of newscaster Mary Margaret McAllister, a likely stand-in for Molly Ivins, but..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Birdie’s Is Food & Wine’s Restaurant of the Year, Aviator Is Offering Free Pizza, El Alma’s Getting a Second Location, Radio Coffee & Beer Is Giving Away Topo Chico Mocktails, There’s Meewes News at Kitty Cohen’s, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...new cocktails: a Berry Cerealtini, Cinnamon Toastini, a Clear Mary, and – yes, this isn’t in heaven, it’s an..."

Sept. 20, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips: Our Lady of Loreto Chapel, Goliad

The little Loreto Chapel stands tall in history

"...Our Lady of Loreto Chapel at Presidio La Bahía in Goliad..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Qmmunity: Hot & Spicy Homoscopes

Pride Month predictions for what queer events you'll end up enjoying

"...Mary Jae Pride Party Light up your Pride Month with..."

June 23, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Stick Together

In light of frightening futures, the queer community must stand together

"...Lady Vengeance Austin Cinemaker Space's After Dark series returns with..."

May 12, 2023 Column by James Scott

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Catch up on Texas travel news and plan some spring sightseeing

"...months, the three-decades-old Rosario’s reopened at 722 S. St. Mary’s St. at the former location of El Mirador, another..."

April 2, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday

Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more

"...already relocated Luck Reunion to Friday and KUTX’s planned Lady Bird Lake showcase inside the Convention Center, Thursday shifts..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...Hail Mary Director: Rosemary Rodriguez, Producer: Karina Miller, Screenwriter: Knate Lee..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...titles. Expect a lot of Texas interest on The Lady Bird Diaries, focusing on the life and impact of..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Small-screen stately manor still can't fill the big screen

"...stood in for the grand estate all these years. Lady Mary (Dockery) stays home to monitor the production and..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Qmmunity: Spring Flings

As storms pass over ATX, spring brings new and returning queer events

"...Outsiders Hostess Mary Jane Styles brings Outsiders' main cast back (plus new..."

March 25, 2022 Column by James Scott

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

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

"...level, but because during the 40-minute set, the drunk lady next to me convinced herself and everyone around us..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...Dossey, Primo the Alien, and Lady Heartwing merge, creating an Austin electric-pop supergroup, blending girl..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Benedetta

Paul Verhoeven gets historical for his new take on nunsploitation

"...who also is painfully in love with our leading lady. Although Benedetta’s destiny is Jesus, on Earth she is..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Austin Film Festival Unleashes The Same Storm

The French Dispatch, C’Mon C'Mon headed to fest

"...Hedges' new film uses a star-studded cast (Noma Dumezweni, Mary-Louise Parker, Sandra Oh, Elaine May, Raúl Castillo, Ato Blankson-Wood,..."

Sept. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

LBJ Library at 50: "Lady Bird Johnson: Beyond the Willdflowers"

The LBJ Library exhibit shows sides of the First Lady you may not know

"...If all you know about Lady Bird Johnson is that she has a lake and..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Under the Hoof of the Merciless Kandisha

Julien Maury on a Moroccan myth, and what scares him

"...is a typical Moroccan story, the equivalent of Bloody Mary or the Lady in White. ... She looks like..."

Aug. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Adventures abound all the way up to Albuquerque

"...certainly taken advantage of the show’s notoriety. The Candy Lady sells a blue meth candy in her crowded confectionery..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Last Week in Live Music: Green Day, Weezer, Dolly Parton Tribute, and More

"...Mariclaire Glaeser aka Lady Heartwing performs during Hot Dolly! (Dolly Parton tribute and..."

Aug. 2, 2021 Photo Gallery

Austin Shift Meal's Job Fair, the Quesoff's Triumphant Return, Jester King's Pet-Adoption Rescheduling, and More

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...dedicated permanent home – at Mueller’s new Pavilion at Mary Elizabeth Branch Park. It’ll be bigger and better than..."

May 26, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Our Cemetery

"...Dear Mary Tuma, I recently found your article from 2018 on..."

April 29, 2021 Postmarks

SXSW Music Adds the Chats, Boyo, Babeheaven, and Bongeziwe Mabandla

Artists broadcasting from “unusual, as well as iconic, settings”

"...13th, Mama Duke, Sasha & the Valentines, and Van Mary. Meanwhile, our neighbors Mexico contribute Monterrey electro-funk staple Kinky,..."

Feb. 23, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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

"...mid-December, when Paxton was in D.C. filing his Hail Mary lawsuit at SCOTUS to reverse Trump's election defeat. Public..."

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

Federico Archuleta Has More Murals to Make

The artist who made “‘Til Death Do Us Part” isn’t letting the pandemic stop him from making art

"...essentials – but bold in color: the roses surrounding Mary almost lurid in their redness; the radiance shining from..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

30 Years of Hot Sauce Festival Creates Many Memories

Reminisce with event staff, judges, and fans during this year’s break from the heat

"...been in Austin since 1983, originally from El Paso. Mary Margaret Pack wrote a story in the Chronicle in..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Food Feature

Flannery

The first lady of Southern Gothic letters on the cusp of the modern era

"...system." Of course a documentary about the acerbic first lady of Southern literature cannot afford to soften her bristling..."

July 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Statues of Texas Women

A list of Texas women who stand tall

"...Mary Martin stands outside of the library in Weatherford, her..."

March 6, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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