The Artist Will See You Now

AFS Doc Night screens Marina Abramović portrait

"...or the re-performed piece that featured a naked couple standing face-to-face, only inches apart, in a narrow gallery doorway,..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Letters at 3AM: 'Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain?'

In the early part of the Sixties, television's "Route 66" offered a taste of the new American consciousness

"...in prosperous cities like St. Louis and Detroit. Jobs lasted a lifetime. Marriage was strictly between a woman and..."

June 15, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

2011-12 Austin Music Awards

"..."What Good Can Drinking Do?" and Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry," which Foster dedicated to politicians trying to..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Top Chef Texas, Week 8: Crack Kills

Top Chef Texas finally lands in Austin, where dreams come true.

"...be holding it and Lindsay just happened to be standing there, like, “meh. Here you go.”..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...AWOLNation scorched out of the gates with last year's debut EP, Back From Earth, presenting Aaron Bruno..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

Outtakes Get Their Day in Court

Pamela Yates returns to a haunted Guatemala in Granito: How To Nail a Dictator

"...after it had been made. The screening was packed, standing-room only. In the audience was one of the lawyers..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Supernatural

Santana live at the Moody Theater

"...Layton joining the Santana juggernaut not once but twice last night proved handsome tribute to one of the axe..."

Sept. 13, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

One More Detour on Holly Street

Power plant demolition delay reprises neighborhood history

"...in 1992, and three times in 1993, with the last incident igniting a fire...."

Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Amy Smith

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat

This provocative play about behavior in wartime is not for the faint of heart

"...but leave you alive so you can feel every last drop of pain...."

July 16, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Letters at 3AM: Auschwitz Up the Block

To retain our humanity, we remember the unthinkable

"...Jews, were ordered into a massive pit. The SS, standing on the rim, unleashed a thunderstorm of machine-gun fire...."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

The 1821 Club

Tuning in to the future of Austin's music scene today

"...broad-based teen music scene, Georgia is the only young woman actively pursuing traditional pop as played by Christina Aguilera..."

July 10, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

2008 B. Iden Payne Awards

A strong sense of community at possibly the funniest Payne Awards ceremony ever

"...Among the 35 awards given for outstanding theatrical work in the 2007-2008 season, three shows came..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

PUC Gathering the Western Wind

A new source for electricity is on the wind

"...major cities, including Austin. The decision will boost Texas' standing as the nation's No. 1 wind-producing state, while supplying..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar is still squinting from all that glare from all those rocks at the Long Center opening

"...like Cartier from the Duchess of Windsor's collection. The woman (whom I did not know) was wearing a white..."

April 4, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

King Tears

A decade after the ValuJet crash claimed Walter Hyatt's life, his posthumous archive celebrates his tender abilities once again

"...archives of studio work he had done in the last year and even some recordings he had that we..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...the drug trade: U.S. currency; drug paraphernalia, including scales, plastic bags, and vials; tally sheets or ledgers documenting drug..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two: Knocked Out, Loaded

On the limits of imagination, the brilliance of ACL Fest, and the purifying power of The Hottest State

"...Last week I wanted to write about my awe at..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Column by Louis Black

TCB

Here comes trouble with Attack Formation, Peel, Waterloo Records' silver anniversary, and a Brown Whörnet beat down

"...to his car when he stopped to assist a woman who was having trouble standing up. An unidentified man,..."

April 6, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Tori Amos

"...opener "Leather" sums up her early career: "Look I'm standing naked before you." Earthquakes was a line in the..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Letters at 3AM

Bob Dylan says he doesn't know how a guy like him came out of a place like Hibbing. He's been saying things like that for 40 years and I don't know a rock critic who doesn't take him at his word. But I also don't know a rock critic who's been to Hibbing. I wanted to see for myself.

"...Driving into Minnesota through Fargo last spring, the land was flat and moist and green...."

March 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Radar, On the Gaydar Shows

‘Gay Place Xtra’ reviews of Dreadful Sorry, Zoe Lewis, the Gossip, and the Eagles of Death Metal

"...makes her cello sound like an animal groaning, a woman..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature

Film News

Are the Coens coming back to Austin? Plus, Anne Rapp and 'Double Wide,' Jenn Garrison in Italy, and Jacob Vaughan kind of gets hit on by Dave Carradine.

"...vehicle shaped like a hot dog. Twentysomething Smith was last in Austin in 2000 for filming of American Outlaws...."

Nov. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Crackpot Crackdown

Joining a long East Texas tradition, Jackson County DA Bobby Bell has convicted 28 black people on drug charges via manufactured evidence and railroaded trials. One small-town exile, her family, and a few neighbors are finally fighting back.

"...home from his job as a supervisor at the Inteplast plastics plant in Lolita, in southern Jackson Co., when..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Zupan on Impact

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

"...by Southwest, when Murderball played the Paramount to a standing ovation. His parents were in from Connecticut, his coach..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

It Takes a Village

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

"...We have sung for a child with cancer, a woman in need of a liver, and victims of sexual..."

April 8, 2005 Music Feature by Christine Albert

Songs of Pain Was Not in Vain

The day a skinny young kid named Daniel Johnston came shuffling to the back door of the 'Chronicle'

"...two albums/tapes/diaries/epics are about his unrequited love for a woman. By the time I met him, this story was..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Page Two

South by Southwest 2005 is upon us. Please don't tell us to relax.

"...back to the city so he could ditch this woman. He went up to the cashier at the front..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...support are those who demonstrate the most depth of understanding of the obstacles to our greatness, and the broadest..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column

Austin @ Large: Triangle, Full Circle

Seven glorious years later, and did we learn anything?

"...Travis Heights. And look at the Walgreens, also approved last week, at South Lamar and Bluebonnet Lane. Certainly, all..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...In response to Michael King's response to my letter last week ["Postmarks," Aug. 6], where he takes the opportunity..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Column

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