Because the Sky Is Blue

"...very interesting question to politicians, former politicians, etc. – the question being "why do they lie?” Seeking serious responses..."

May 4, 2007 Postmarks

Explosions in the Sky Debuts in Bangkok

Thailand’s capital is not a cold dead place

"...a city enhanced, possibly, by a few ccs of the neurotoxin from the Gulf of Thailand’s deadliest resident, the..."

May 6, 2014 Music Post by Marc Savlov

Cover Up: The Fun Fun Fun Fest Files

Front page stars of the 'Chronicle,' from Black Angels to Ume

"...Now we know the full lineup, it seems pretty clear that Fun Fun..."

July 14, 2012 Music Post

The Q&A Hole: What Color Would You Change the Sky To?

With Mical Trejo, Nate Southard, Katherine Catmull, Mark Love & more

"...We threw the question at a few people for this latest in..."

April 15, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Heads in the Sky; Feet on the Ground

Interview with artist Leah DeVun

"...Austin Chronicle: Where does the title of your show, "Our Hands on Each Other,"..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

Page Two: Personalizing the Mythic

How a former president's understated decency and the hectic birth of rock & roll electrified Toronto screens

"...The Toronto International Film Festival is simply a fantastic event,..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Blue Lapis Light's In Light

In this aerial dance production, the performers move through the sky with such grace, joy, and harmony, they might as well be angels

"...a metal folding chair, its hardness matching that of the concrete beneath your feet. Skyscrapers hem in your view..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Born on the Fourth of July

Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)

"...A surge of lightning flickers as thunder cracks above the rumble of molten..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...I want to tell you about the men and women with the live fireworks exploding off..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Record

"...• Saturday ACL headliners the White Stripes have canceled their performances this weekend, along..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Column

Catastrophe and the Cure

Explosions at the Hogg.

"...live to worry. It’s innate. Last year, Feb. 26, they worried that Sigur Rós at Bass Concert Hall would..."

March 5, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Wen Ren’s End-of-the-World Drama Last Sunrise Found Its Spark in China

Light in the dark

"...There can be no more definitive end of the world..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...is made by its people, objects, and places. Combined, they form our city's personality, its genius and fragility, its..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The 'It' Perspective

Photographer Fritz Henle seen through the lens of Austin image-maker Matthew Fuller

"...In "Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty," the Harry Ransom Center has shone a spotlight on a..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Reverse Crossover of La Mafia

The Empire Builders

"...Until Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez was slain last spring, few people..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Music Feature

The Whole Love

Reviewing Wilco's new ‘The Whole Love’

"...Wilco’s discography opens an unexpected third chapter today with The Whole Love, released through the beloved Chicago sextet’s new..."

Sept. 27, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Up, Up, and Away

Do Obama's sky-high approval ratings and unprecedented support indicate unrealistic expectations?

"...Once again, the electoral system as described in the U.S. Constitution has..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Moving Toward the Edge of Grace

The new and the familiar at Blue Lapis Light's new home

"...Maybe this story began in the early Eighties in Spain, when Sally Jacques attended Christmas..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Let the Right One In

This multi-award-winning Swedish film might be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gem. A discussion of the adaptation follows the film.

"...Ah, young love. Whatever would we do without it? The multi-award-winning Swedish film Let the Right One In could..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Making a Front Porch for the City

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

"...Just over two years ago, the Austin Museum of Art selected an architect to design..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lit in the Time of Coronavirus

From emerging writer to potential vector at AWP in San Antonio

"...ends. It starts in August 1972, my dad sealing the deal on a used two-tone cobalt/sky blue Cutlass while..."

March 12, 2020 Arts Post by Mark Gozonsky

The Descent

Urban professionals go spelunking in an attempt to wipe away old horrors, only to find some new ones to call their own.

"...Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Oliver Milburn and Molly Kayll. Is The Descent the horror film to beat for the foreseeable..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...In Monterey Pop, renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 pre-Woodstock rock festival oozing good vibrations and California..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Monday night, the Austin Film Society screened 1980’s Roadie at the Alamo..."

March 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Blue Lapis Light's Belonging, Part One

The work's dancers, whether on the ground or sailing through the air, were beacons of human hope and empathy

"...Like a fish that grows in proportion to the size of its tank, a dancer's expression expands to..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

"Keith Carter: Notes on the Universe" at Stephen L. Clark Gallery

This solo exhibition shows the photographer in pursuit of whatever unseen cosmic force animates us

"...The hound's head is tilted toward the sky and, judging..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Blue Starlite Lights Up in Buda

Mini urban drive-in adding overnight camping at new location

"...Time to take the urban out of the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In...."

Dec. 20, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...There’s a famous and brilliantly subversive British-Irish comedy called Father..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Fun: Into the Mystic of High Road Pool

Plunging back in time with my iPod

"...In the winter when I miss swimming at High Road Pool,..."

May 13, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Ellsworth Kelly's Austin Opens at the Blanton Museum of Art

By building this structure, the Blanton enabled a major modern artist to realize his masterwork

"...Ellsworth Kelly made plans for a building. And at the time he made them – that would be 1986..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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