Review: Unchained.Art’s “Favorite Pieces: An Intimate Look at Artistic Personalities”

Multi-artist exhibit dines out on variety

"...It’s tempting to call “Favorite Pieces: An Intimate Look at Artistic Personalities,” on display through Jan. 25..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

An Intimate Look at Guitar Virtuoso Bill Frisell

Film showcases an oeuvre of remarkable diversity

"...“The sound has to be in your imagination first and then you figure out a way to..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Aaron Frazer’s MCU of Soul

The Indications’ drummer and soul crooner introduces himself at ACL

"...Aaron Frazer is pulling a rare double-header at the 2021 Austin City Limits Music Festival...."

Oct. 7, 2021 Music Post by Austin Powell

Playback: My Top 100 Austin Records of 2018

Kevin Curtin picks his favorite local sounds of the year

"...judge a tree by the fruit it bears. In that respect, 2018 has been another bumper crop for Austin..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...glanced over his shoulder and gave me a piercing look. Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Country Soul Healer Charley Crockett Can Take This and Whatever’s Next

“I’ve made a career out of the most unlikely circumstances”

"...There’s a weightlessness to Charley Crockett’s country soul, a deeply Texan high lonesome made a lot less..."

July 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...Last October, for Huey Lewis & the News' concert at the Long Center, the frontman talked a mile a..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

My Architect: A Son's Journey

Compelling, luminous, and poignant, this documentary about legendary American architect Louis Kahn, made by his illegitimate son, is surprisingly revelatory.

"...Directed by: Nathaniel Kahn. Compelling, luminous, and poignant, this documentary about legendary..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The X Files' Mitch Pileggi at Zach Theatre

What conspiracy brought X-Files star Mitch Pileggi back to Austin, Zach, and Walter Skinner all at the same time?

"...more than 16 million viewers were getting their first look at Walter Skinner in more than seven years, the..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

No recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' shared the poem's spirit or its author's invitation to expand the very definition of 'human being'

"...What was all that wistful, reverent, carefully even-handed verbiage in..."

July 22, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Checking In: Trumpet Clarion Ephraim Owens Sits at the Piano

Tedeschi Trucks Band brass man always broadens our scope

"...Miles Davis – one jazz man, a trumpet icon, that everybody knows regardless of genre knowledge – it’s Ephraim..."

April 17, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

B.B. King Saved My Life

He played blues so we can find a way through ours

"...the man who showed me how to live. When my older brother Bob and I found out one fall..."

May 15, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

My Texicalli Chair

The treasures of the Danny Roy Young tribute

"...Texicalli Grille chairs I was probably sitting in one, eating a chicken fried steak and jawing with the late..."

Oct. 21, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Quin NFN, corook, ​​and More Highlights From Sunday at ACL Fest

From viral “If I Were a Fish” to M83’s essential “Midnight City”

"...The party’s over. Pleasant temperatures held for the final date of Austin City Limits..."

Oct. 16, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

ATX Conjunto Constant Chencho Flores Dies at 91

Accordionist bridged decades of music on Sixth Street

"...Chencho Flores, the charismatic accordionista, singer, and emcee who performed all over Austin..."

Jan. 13, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Virginia B. Wood's Cookbook Collection Will Live on at Cookbook Cafe

Home "On the Range" at the Central Library

"...Snuggling up with a book and a treat is a pastime of many, and one particularly enjoyed..."

June 22, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Heart and Soul

Lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...our interview. In the paper, it'd be a three-page feature...."

Oct. 25, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Tomar Williams Hones Four Decades of Soul

Breakout of his family band, the performer seizes on his pop, soul, R&B, and hip-hop successes and failures in Tomar & the FCs

"...The dynamic namesake of Tomar & the FCs certainly looks the part in his throwback cotton button-up with high-waisted..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Letters at 3AM: James Hillman (1926-2011)

Remembering James Hillman

"...Santa Barbara is a city on the California coast that teeters over the sea and will one day be..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

'My love is an imperfect thing but it sings.' Those are the words to be carved on the tombstone of Michael Ventura's brother Aldo, an unstable soul who died last week.

"..."Christ dwells in cancer cells." My brother Aldo wrote that many years ago. He died..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

Megachurch mockumentary needs a change of focus

"...When I see the Monkeypaw Productions bumper at the beginning of a film, an expectation sets in...."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Fighting With My Family

Wrestling biopic of breakthrough WWE superstar Paige

"...It seems off to say, but Fighting With My Family – the biopic of trailblazing WWE superstar Paige..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Honky-Tonk Soul Man Charley Crockett Makes His Move

The singer’s long road to Austin

"...in four years. Come early January, the 34-year-old country soul singer will undergo open-heart surgery...."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Letters at 3AM

The Devil gives you five seconds, and God gives you none at all

"...What was I doing in Las Vegas in a Fremont..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.

"...night or day ... most of us lit cigarettes that fumed in metal ashtrays beside our typesetting machines, and..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...It was a hot Sunday afternoon late in the summer of 1978. Having arrived in town..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Stone Soul Booksigning

Interview With Filmmaker and Author Oliver Stone

"...Oliver Stone at the Paramount photograph by Minh Oliver Stone is one..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Edward Lagrossa

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate family its frequently recurring characters) has manifested a discography..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Sundance Review: Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Questlove's joyous celebration of the Harlem Cultural Festival

"...Thompson, better known as Questlove, has always been a multihyphenate of hip-hop and Black pop culture at large. In..."

Feb. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Selome Hailu

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...Want to hear the music that Austinites are buzzing about right now, before they bust..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

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