Texas to End Execution Hiatus on World Day Against the Death Penalty

After execution-free summer, death scheduled Oct. 10

"...Death Penalty Action are urging people to send written letters to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to..."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A UTI Proposal

"...Therapists International, putting a positive spin on those three letters. Thanks in advance for your help; we need it...."

Sept. 27, 2023 Postmarks

Democrats Continue Urging Federal Investigation Into Medicaid Coverage Losses

More whistleblowers flag broken screening process

"...The whistleblower letters come from anonymous employees at HHSC who are appalled..."

Sept. 21, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

The Exquisite Torments of Ken Paxton

Why is everybody so mean to the Texas Attorney General?

"...Cammack finally received “cease and desist” letters from the OAG senior staff when they realized Paxton,..."

Sept. 18, 2023 News Post by Michael King

Five Live and Legendary Austin Performances This Month

Local stages shake with terror, delight, and motion this September

"...Based on letters collected by creator Odile Gakire Katese from survivors and..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...LETTERS TO THE POSTMAN D: Felix Dembinski UK, England, 2022,..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

South African Wine Shines at Cape Bottle Room

East Austin shop focuses on an under-the-radar wine region

"...bit that's painted white with a logo and some letters, and when you walk through the street entrance, you'll..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

Austin Author Elizabeth Crook Honored With Texas Writer Award

The Which Way Tree novelist heads to the Texas Book Festival

"...Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Monday, Monday (2014)...."

July 18, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Thanks for the Letter

"...Dear Chronicle, There were no Letters to the Editor last week and I like to..."

July 17, 2023 Postmarks

Owen Egerton, Austin's Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves

An increasingly unwelcoming Texas leads to a big goodbye

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Read Before Burning

Welcome to the Books Issue

"...on the scary rise in book banning, "man of letters" Owen Egerton bidding farewell, the history of Prohibition as..."

June 30, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Review: Ladyfang, Ladyfang

Austin quartet electrifies Eighties post-punk with buoyant pop sparkle

"...sparkle, hiding stashes of guitar solos like secret love letters ("Hotel"). Crystal clear, catchy, and dynamic, guitarist Brett Marcom..."

June 30, 2023 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...clemency. They were unaware they’d been sent hundreds of letters supporting clemency for Faulder, including Albright’s. Board members testified..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Opinion: Proposition A ... and A and A and A: The Case for Reforming How We Label Ballot Measures

Opinion: It's time for us to do something revolutionary – go through the whole alphabet before starting over again at A

"...amendments be numbered, while local measures be labeled with letters. The reasoning makes sense – it's so that voters..."

April 28, 2023 Column by Ed Espinoza

Review: Penfold Theatre's Vincent

Size matters when painting a portrait of Van Gogh

"...play – Theo finds those words here by sharing letters that were exchanged between the two...."

March 31, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...were times when Mozart resorted to bathroom humor in letters to his parents, sister Nannerl, and cousin Maria Anna..."

March 31, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Observer Journalists Won’t Go Down Without a Fight

They're rallying all the support they can get

"...staff writer Gus Bova won a Texas Institute of Letters award for reporting on Uvalde. Kit O'Connell, the digital..."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

Moving On

Misguided rape-revenge dramedy depends on Tomlin and Fonda's charm

"...Allie (Burns) confesses to Evelyn that she found love letters written by Evelyn to her mother, still kept after..."

March 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

“Mustard Man” Bijan Robinson Dishes on the Opportunities and Dangers of NIL in College Sports

One college athlete's unique path to getting paid

"...and Bijan Mustardson takes full advantage of all three letters of the acronym. Bijan’s name is right there in..."

March 13, 2023 SXSW Post by Eric Goodman

Short & Sweet: “When You Left Me on That Boulevard”

Austin filmmaker Kayla Abuda Galang brings her Sundance-winning short film home

"...just initially digging up the artifacts like yearbooks, love letters, old schoolwork, favorite songs, and the like, and feeling..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

SXSW Documentary Exhumes a Personal History Folk Icon and Activist Joan Baez

The Diamonds & Rust of Joan Baez I Am a Noise

"...March on Washington, or the Montgomery March, or the letters home, or they're talking about Bob Dylan, and then..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

City, County Join the I-35 Resistance

Council and commissioners ask for big changes to TxDOT plan

"...Council and the Travis County Commis­sion­ers Court to issue letters to the Texas Department of Transportation demanding changes to..."

March 3, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Cyrus Gray Hasn’t Been Convicted of a Crime, but He Spent Years in Jail

Now he is an advocate for the rights of the accused

"...jail. But he noticed problems with his mail – letters that arrived months after their postmarked dates...."

March 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

She Came From the Woods

Not another 1980s summer camp horror homage

"...glut of these kind of Eighties summer camp love letters to Friday the 13th. If you’re going to make..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Urban Heat's Darkwave Road Map for Uncertain Times

Spaceflight-deluxified Wellness pushes beyond post-punk pastiche

"...fashioned a tee reading "Protect Trans Kids" in iron-on letters for one of the band's South by Southwest 2022..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

The 50-year relationship between a legendary writer and his editor

"...Lizzie Gottlieb’s documentary portrait of two titanic men of letters. It smartly sets the tone for the film to..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Goodluckhavefun Gallery Gets a Visit From “Yours,” Truly

Qmmunity Editor James Scott checks out queer art at DIY garage gallery

"...Lee used an adhesive spray to place the stenciled letters, so the slow appearance of each letter was the..."

Jan. 14, 2023 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...Sublett and roadie Richard Luckett delivered letters to record stores disputing Gracey and Smith's rights to..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Ten Chronicle Music Writers on Their Favorite Austin Albums of 2022

Almost 100 albums we loved this year

"...Thriller II; Heavy Meddo, Great News; Homemade Bangs, Love Letters; Party Van, Large Water; Public Age, MINIMUM WAGE; Sad..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Fearless Texas Singer-Songwriter and Playwright Jo Carol Pierce Has Died

Known for honky-tonk manifesto Bad Girls Upset by the Truth

"...should be a legend,” wrote Michael Ventura in his “Letters @ 3AM” Chronicle column upon the 2008 release of..."

Dec. 5, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

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