In Memoriam: Frank Benge

Remembering the artist, critic, and man of the theatre

"...Theatre was oxygen to Frank Benge up to his last breath, which he took at 11:37am on Saturday. He..."

March 18, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mr. Holmes

Ian McKellen plays Sherlock Holmes at 93, as his memory begins to fail

"...and Monsters, which is a fictive account of the last days of James Whale, the director of Frankenstein, Mr...."

July 17, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bedside Manner: Before the Fall

Browsing the stacks

"...I had a pretty bad bookslide last night. Nothing as dramatic as the Alexander McCall Smith..."

March 28, 2011 Books Post by Nick Barbaro

Off the Record

Carolyn Wonderland ties the knot while Gary Clark Jr. gets pulled up to the majors and a sea of SXSW news

"...breakthrough appearance at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago last year (see "Crossroads 3," July 2, 2010). While there's..."

March 11, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Swimming Holes With Nearby Watering Holes

Embrace the endless summer with water therapy and post-swim drinks

"...beginning of the end of those long, hot summer days. Here in Austin, though? Not so much...."

Aug. 29, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

All Life's Cracked Up to Be

The last days of Tobias Pecans

"...older gent moseys over and asks, "You shell pecans here, right?" "I crack 'em. Forty cents a pound," answers..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Food Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...LAST DAYS HERE Directors: Don Argott & Demian Fenton The..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Awake in the Hurricane

Enduring the last few days of the Lege's biennial cataclysm

"...spent $10 million imposing a referendum on local voters last May – which they lost handily – they moved..."

May 26, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Jesus Christ Superstar 50 Years On

New North American tour of JCSS launches in Austin Oct. 9

"...Rice to create an audacious new retelling of the last days of Jesus Christ...."

Oct. 7, 2019 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Shut Up and See the LCD Soundsystem Movie Early

Concert doc's premiere bumped up with special screening

"...Play the Hits, the concert doc that chronicles the last days of LCD Soundsystem...."

March 10, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

"...than we could squeeze into the printed interview. So here's a fuller version. The national tour of the musical..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...Yet when compared with last summer's overabundant thrill ride, when each new weekend piled..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Love and Death in Saigon

"...Just how many Tony Leungs do we need, anyway? There are so many these days that they have to..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Election Coverage

Is it over yet?

"...answers tonight. Follow the Chronicle news team’s election coverage here and on Twitter: #ACvotes...."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...Click here to jump straight to the brewery rankings...."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Gay Place

The last traces of SXSW have been packed up and swept away, but we're not calling it quits.

"...The Last traces of SXSW have been packed up and swept..."

March 25, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin

An Interview with Convention co-chairs Nate Southard and Lee Thomas

"...As promised yesterday, here's that interview with Nate Southard and Lee Thomas, the..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...It's been lost to history, but here's a political side note to the 4:20 generation: During..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...In a Sept. 10 article ["Is There a Doctor in the House," News] regarding the possibility..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column

Further Reflections

"...at the Paramount Theatre. photograph by John Anderson Included here are reviews of some of the films that played..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Hated: G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies

"...by: Todd Phillips. The heroin-induced death of G.G. Allin last June was a decidedly anticlimactic end to the life..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...’em, pal. And this is the year, at long last, that brought us a true Top 25, just like..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...series Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil was confirmed last month as this year’s opening night title: Now Charli..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Biographer Tamara Saviano’s Guy Clark Revelations

The dean of Texas songwriters’ final days, the forthcoming documentary on him, and more

"...When Guy Clark died last May after a long battle with lymphoma, he had..."

March 31, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Party Girl, Interrupted

Sandra Bullock's 28 Days

"...I have to do is see what you have here that the other rooms don't." She pokes around the..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Postmarks

Sucking Us Dry

"...resources are finally allowed to establish groundwater conservation districts, there will be nothing left to regulate. Shame on you,..."

May 21, 1999 Column

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"..."Lester's Last Stand: Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

Guy Clark Biographer Tamara Saviano

“He shared things with me he didn’t share with other people”

"...Caught, Tamara Saviano’s biography of Guy Clark, who died last May, cemented the Texan’s legacy while exploring the intimate..."

March 30, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson's film is a marvelous spectacle: spry, sly, and rich with microdetailed production design and tickling tributes to cinematic forebearers.

"...the jackbooted invading force), Grand Budapest Hotel memorializes the last gasps of Old World luxe and gentility. The narration..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Interview: Margaret Brown

We're all connected through the Great Invisible

"...content to live on an addiction to petroleum. But here we are, four years later, still sucking on crude...."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

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