In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs

The Death of Indie Labels: Reports Have Been Exaggerated

"...illustration by John Keen It's everybody's favorite number these days -- 28,000 -- which is the staggeringly absurd..."

May 2, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Page Two: How Your South-by High Can Last Through the Rest of the Year

A veteran festival-goer weighs in

"...Again and again and again and again during South by Southwest..."

March 21, 2008 Column by Kevin Smokler

A Portrait of the Artist as a Grad Student

Chronicle reviewer David Garza uses Tom Grimes' new history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop to question whether creative writing can be taught.

"...If Emily Dickinson had learned to wrap her hands around a wooden bat and take a few clumsy..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

You Know Nothing of Their Work

Don Graham and the many minds of Texas

"...Starbucks, Don Graham sends me an e-mail that contains the following quotation from The New York Times: "'When they..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

UT Professor on the Making of Texas Film Epic Giant

Don Graham's Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film

"...that Edna Ferber's novel Giant ever made it to the big screen, according to Don Graham...."

April 13, 2018 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

A Sense of Place

For two decades, Stephen L. Clark's gallery has made a home for photographers of the region

"...Pictures at an exhibition: the grizzled actor on the movie set, perched on the..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"......"

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

The 'West' Shall Rise Again

A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre

"...One by one, these individuals take the stage of the Austin Community College..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...To explore Waller Creek and environs is to live intensively in the modern world..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

The Secret History

That a man from San Antonio named Richard Santos has as much to add to the world of Jewish intellectual pursuits as an attorney named Rosen is as fascinating as it should be obvious, David Garza writes after he attended the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual gathering. For the first time, perhaps, an entirely constructive revision may be taking place in the history of those we call the "people of the Book."

"...Richard Santos is wondering how old you can get and still call yourself an "angry young man." The San..."

May 11, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

The Quest for Aztlan

Roen Salinas Searches for -- and Finds -- Life in Folklórico

"..."Just dance. Dance, dance, dance." -- El Maestro Andres Segura Granados..."

April 24, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...1995. It wasn't the best year in book publishing: Martin Amis - genius..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

Sci-fi Writer and Austin Literary Institution Howard Waldrop Dead at 77

Author leaves incalculable legacy of work and mentorship

"...Howard Waldrop – a mainstay of Austin's literary scene, a leviathan of sci-fi short stories,..."

Jan. 22, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...Think of the word "biology."..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

The ancient art of foraging for food is aged to perfection

"...to describe an activity humans have participated in since the beginning of their existence as a trend, but here..."

April 4, 2014 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The Road to Ruin

US290: We Built It, and Dammit, They're Coming

"...by Nelson England..."

Jan. 19, 1996 News Feature

Southwest Texas State University

"...The 10-year-old creative writing program at Southwest Texas State University..."

April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

"...Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Books Review by R.U. Steinberg

A Sense of Place

The focus on regional studies at Southwest Texas State University pays off with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"...Two years ago, Mark Busby was looking forward to the day his Center for the Study of the Southwest..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...Mitch Cullin The dusty, empty places Mitch Cullin keeps returning to in..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...It was one of those days when Dagoberto Gilb was about to start..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Grow and Prosper

With neighbors still reeling from 1990 expansion, Hyde Park Baptist plans another growth project.

"...Hyde Park seems an unlikely outpost for a contingent of religious pioneers. The neighborhood, built in 1889 in what..."

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...When he allowed me to program a series for the Austin Film Society in 2004, he couldn't suspect it..."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Grand Schemes and Enthralling Documents

Film, conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories on film coalesce as SXSW looms

"...weeks from today, on Friday, March 13, South by Southwest kicks off, with SXSW Film's opening movie screening that..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The Joys of Meanness

Scott Blackwood's initiation into the writing life

"...rides that turned you inside out, making you think life was supposed to deliver a thrill around each bend...."

Aug. 10, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...even if he is an aficionado, one for whom the beat and the noise and fury was All, punk..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

The 25th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

The lowdown on the 2017 submissions, judges, 10 finalists, and the prize-winning stories

"...Death, we know, is a part of life. It turns out to have been a big..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Devil in the Details

Why Is 'Talented Amateur Historian' Leon Day Obsessed With the Death of Ambrose Bierce?

"...Death is not the end; there remains the litigation of the estate. --..."

May 17, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

Here Comes the Judge

Beavis and Butt-head's Hollywood Score

"...that Austinite Mike Judge's stuttering, onanistically inclined whackmasters Beavis and Butt-head ended up on the air at all. This..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk

Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place

"...The intro to vanguard music scribe Vivien Goldman's new book,..."

April 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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