Squirrels, Girls, and Other Pearls in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Acro-Cats, Earth Day, and all manner of arts and culture happenings

"...yet heartfelt play provides queer joy in our own long-suffering conservative state.   – James Scott 10 Year Zilker..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Album Review: Gen Z Cowboy Yahtzee Brown Sings His Heartbreak With a Twang

Debut LP You Got This offers a contemporary take on coming-of-age

"...us to Brown in the aftermath of a relationship gone sour. A slight homegrown twang occasionally juts within his..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Music Feature by Miranda Garza

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Saturday

Ukraine's KAZKA, Fuck Money, Shawn Mendes, Beck, and more

"...Alongside performances by the Azerbaijani Qarabagh Ensemble and Austin’s Chief..."

March 20, 2022 SXSW Post by Rachel Rascoe

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...I've long suspected there must be some contaminant in the North..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

La Condesa’s Lucky 13; Graeme Little Goes Big; Lucy’s Loses a Leg; Pasta | Bar Opens on East Sixth; Indie Chefs Community Is On Its Way to Town; and the Hajimaleki Bros Step Up Like Champions

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Buffet for the second week of March, as the years-long pandemic situation continues to unharshen, more or less, here..."

March 9, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Save the Date: Texas Film Awards Returns in 2022

Celebration of Lone Star filmmakers heads downtown

"...for its 2022 return it heads downtown to the Long Center’s Terrace, right by Ladybird Lake, on March 10..."

Dec. 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sonny Carl Davis Faces the Death of Old Austin in Buck Alamo

Checking in with the lonesome cosmic cowboy

"...the Austin Film Festival this weekend. Buck has a long history of screwing everything up, a last vestige of..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup

The latest on Texas festivals, swimming holes, and terrifying worms

"...worms that can grow to more than a foot long have been found primarily from Orange to Uvalde, along..."

July 2, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Prom Threat, a crash course in punk rock disorder. Along with bassist MJ Domingos and drummer Ran Wilson, the..."

July 2, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Award winner began shooting portraits of artist friends not long after South by Southwest's cancellation. The series soon progressed..."

April 9, 2021 Music Feature by Annie Lyons

Teas for Drinking, Teas for Thinking

Sometimes even a java fiend needs a vacation from coffee

"...from those exemplary local companies are a treasure you’ll long cherish...."

Nov. 27, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...proper follow-up to 2018 lock, stock, and barrel breakout Lonesome as a Shadow...."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...under a trademark Lash Stetson, beard trimmed, starched white long sleeve shirt under his leather vest, clear-eyed and unsmiling,..."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

In Memoriam: Bill Wittliff

Legendary writer/photographer/collector/benefactor dead at 79

"...to preserving its culture as writing about it, is gone. One day after celebrating his 56th wedding anniversary with..."

June 12, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...Flood­gates of grief, regret, and longing opened, and in getting reacquainted with Blaze Foley, I..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Get Out of the City. The shift allowed the decadelong Austin scene veteran to fully embrace brooding indie rock,..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Greezy Wheels Take a Last Bow

Still Greezy after all these years

"...doing it in 1970, there were still people with long hair and without long hair, and they were very..."

June 23, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...Alongside Summer Film Series constants like the ongoing family festival..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scott H. Biram

"...follows a formula. Rural as hell, urban in attitude, lonesome/orn'ry/mean, The Bad Testament is a primer in sin and..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Retro-Futurists Reshape Austin Music

Half-a-dozen rising stars of local electro

"...Primitives sits in the crux of being alone, being lonesome, and confusion determining the difference. Heavy on analog phrasing..."

July 1, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Austin Opera's Of Mice and Men

Artistic Director Richard Buckley on returning to the Carlisle Floyd opera that launched his conducting career

"...Austin Opera production that runs Jan. 23-31 at the Long Center. Between 1976 and 1982, the maestro conducted Carlisle..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: ACL Fest's First Weeknd Moves Mountains

ACL Fest 2015 weekend one wrap

"...stage last Saturday afternoon. "All of society's taboos have gone out the window for this pure Dionysian affair."..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

"Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West"

The wide open spaces that define the Texas stereotype are explored in rich detail in this artist's work

"...The Texas stereotype is built on images of lonesome cowboys and vast, open space. For the Harry Ransom..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...his instructional material and serves as connective tissue between bygone legends and young upstarts. Before his genre-bustin' quintet storms..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

Telling Stories

Bill Wittliff seeks the "yes" in his debut novel, The Devil's Backbone

"...former teacher J. Frank Dobie. Its yard sale purchase, along with 30 or so boxes of Dobie papers, led..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...was here. Bill Wittliff [Encino Press publisher and screenwriter, Lonesome Dove]was here. We actually edited part of Chain Saw..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway

Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?

"...American literature. (Canadian writers get left all by their lonesome.) But my attitude will one day be a historical..."

July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Book Review: 'The Last Kind Words Saloon'

Jes' Wyatt and Doc and the setting sun in McMurtry's latest

"...The novel’s momentum clocks a speed reflective of long, hot, dusty days wasted away in a saloon, and..."

May 22, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW blurbs

"...stateside attention in the Eighties. His original bandmates are long gone, but the current Alarm includes members of Sisters..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

The Cult of Neutral Milk Hotel

Suddenly, there they were, first show of a sold-out Moody stand

"...there’s the singer who’s remained reclusive for about as long as he’s been famous. Put all that together and..."

Feb. 18, 2014 Music Post by Luke Winkie

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