Day Trips: MSU-Burns Fantasy of Lights, Wichita Falls

Holiday wonderland carries on a family’s Christmas tradition begun in the 1920s

"...to Archer City. The small town, famous for being Larry McMurtry's hometown, didn't have the resources to maintain the..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life) Tracy Daugherty (Larry McMurtry: A Life) Jennifer De Leon (Borderless) Rodrigo Dorfman..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Hot Summer Questions for JaRon Marshall + the Collective, Felt Out, and Jane Leo

The free, Chron-curated lineup pops up Saturday at the 13th Floor

"...days with: Focaccia bread and coffee ice cream. Reading Larry McMurtry, Maya Angelou, Michelle Zauner, and John McEnroe. Attempting..."

July 21, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 7-13

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Larry McMurtry's novel Duane's Depressed, the life of the main..."

July 7, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

News and events from Corpus Christi to Fort Davis

"...Larry’s garage sale. Items from the personal estate of Texas..."

May 4, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Joe Bell

Earnest true story of a father's guilt and contrition over his gay son's death

"...by Diana Ossana and the late and much lamented Larry McMurtry (both of whom scripted 2005’s multi-Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain),..."

July 23, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...the house where Georgia O'Keeffe once lived in Canyon, Larry McMurtry's bookstore in Archer City, the storied electric chair..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Music Awards Gallery, 1988-2007

"...Hancock and the Sunspots: Jesse Taylor, Butch, Frosty, and Larry Lange, 1989..."

Nov. 27, 2019 Photo Gallery

In Memoriam: Bill Wittliff

Legendary writer/photographer/collector/benefactor dead at 79

"...go to the screenplays, especially his epic adaptation of Larry McMurtry's epic Lonesome Dove. In that, he did as..."

June 12, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Iron Orchard Gets Its Day on Screen

Austin Film Festival shows the film adaptation of the classic Texas novel

"...Texas Institute of Letters award with another screen-bound work, Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show, it's been a tough..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...down maybe Austin's best residency – he and James McMurtry Wednesdays at this venue. Nights of raw life bundled..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Start 2018 with some Texas travel

"...the filming of the Lonesome Dove miniseries. Based on Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two aging Texas Rangers..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

2017 Music Critics Poll

Best roadshow, best new local acts, R.I.P.s, etc.

"...Freeman: James McMurtry, Continental Club..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 25-27

Your auditory agenda for the next three days

"...Unlikely Eastside techno hub Kinda Tropical stacks a gritty..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

On-set in The Iron Orchard

New film tackles Texas' oil history

"...another novel: You may have heard of it – Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show). However, unlike McMurtry's novel,..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Leaving It Up to Her

On Margaret Moser: Happy together, then, now, and forever

"...with Ernie Durawa and Margaret talking about Doug with Larry Monroe at KUT. New Orleans on the river boat..."

June 30, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Austin Music Awards' Industry Accolades Announced

Best radio station, record store, club, and many more

"...Hood, ABGB 4) The Resentments, Saxon Pub 5) James McMurtry, Continental Club 6) Austin Mic Exchange, Spider House Ballroom..."

March 6, 2017 Music Post by James Renovitch

Austin Music Awards Gallery, 1986-2000

"...Larry Seaman (l) and the Big Boys’ late Randy “Biscuit..."

March 2, 2017 Photo Gallery

Austin Music Awards Show Performers 1983-2016

Every AMA performance lineup of the past 34 years

"...1990: Townes Van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, James McMurtry, Poi Dog Pondering, Daniel Johnston; An Austin Hoot featuring..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Shirley MacLaine and Sarah Green to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

Texas Film Awards announces more honorees

"...groundbreaking performances in seven different decades. Her embodiment of Larry McMurtry’s Aurora Greenway in both Terms of Endearment and..."

Feb. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers

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

"...Paul Ray, Larry Monroe, John Aielli, Jay Trachtenberg (11/6/98)..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Friday SXSW Sleepers

"...Curtis McMurtry1am, Stephen F's Bar Curtis McMurtry comes by his talent..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

Happenings from around the state

"...It has been 30 years since Larry McMurtry’s novel, Lonesome Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for..."

Feb. 1, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Hill Country Property

Passion, compromise, and human frailty figure large in this touching and funny Texas novel

"...failed attachments? Roger's father-in-law Henry evokes Homer Bannon of Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By (and its film version Hud)..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Snakes on a Plate

Reconsidering the reptile

"...In Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae's camp cook serves up..."

July 10, 2015 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night blurbs – hip-hop Picks and slept-on Sleepers

"...Curtis McMurtry12mid, Stephen F's Bar Son of James, grandson of Larry,..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

These Things I've Come to Know

What times are we living in? South Austin's James McMurtry spells it out.

"...James McMurtry makes up stories and sets them to music. New..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Critics Poll

"...Trachtenberg: James McMurtry & Jon Dee Graham, Continental Club Best New Local..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Music Feature

Respectable Enemy: Curtis McMurtry

Lone star scion on Nashville, mom/dad/granddad, and Otto von Bismarck

"...Last January, we sat down with Curtis McMurtry on the eve of his graduation from Sarah Lawrence..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Book Review: 'The Last Kind Words Saloon'

Jes' Wyatt and Doc and the setting sun in McMurtry's latest

"...Native Texan Larry McMurtry, author of more than 50 books, has a..."

May 22, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

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