10 Free Week Acts to Watch This Weekend

Keep an eye out for these musicians in 2019

"...Vaidehi. Credible assurance arises from the Indian rapper's receipt of an O-1B visa for extraordinary artistic abilities, as well..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Q&A Hole: Considering All the Different Gods Available to Humanity, How Do You Choose Which One to Believe In?

With Russell Glasser, Cristine H. Legare, David Wheeler, and more.

"...“Oooh, Lord, you are so big, so absolutely huge,” as Michael..."

Oct. 25, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Same as It Ever Was

Massacres, mass shootings, lynchings, and other forms of social interaction

"...people were right there. Right behind them, with much of the same sentiments but very different analysis, were the..."

June 24, 2016 Column by Louis Black

DVDanger: Tokyo Tribe

Sion Sono's deranged, delirious hip-hop musical rocks

"...Sono's hip-hop musical Tokyo Tribe is a two-hour fountain of crazy, unapologetic, wondrous musical mayhem...."

Dec. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More

New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest

"...a month away, and today the festival announced some of its biggest titles ever, with Ridley Scott's eagerly awaited..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Entertaining Angels

Skylark Lounge pianist Margaret Wright plays divine

"..."Kind of cold out there, ain't it?" she asks a slender,..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Richard Attenborough: Tougher Than The Rest

Recalling a 2000 meeting with the late, great director

"...all the eulogies praising him as an aristocratic poet of cinema. The one time I met him, Lord Richard..."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The History Book on the Shelf Is Always Repeating Itself

'Mad Men' hits reset with midseason finale "Waterloo"

"...The first half of the last season of Mad Men ended with a..."

May 27, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

'Downton Abbey' Season Premiere: Part One

The denizens of Downton are back (some of them in black)

"...and newborn son George. As such, the opening moments of season 4 of Downton Abbey are cold, dark, and..."

Jan. 6, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

Reefer Breakthrough: What Happens Next?

"...after midnight on Dec. 6 that the collected breath of the crowd turned to steam in the air. But..."

Dec. 21, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

TV Eye: Let the Bloodletting Begin

Feeling lukewarm about Ice and Fire kick-starter Game of Thrones

"...could use to describe the much-anticipated HBO series Game of Thrones. "Sweeping," "bold," and "grand" would be other obvious..."

April 15, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Off the Record

The fast and the furious: the sentencing of J Kapone, Steve Wertheimer's Hot Rod Revolution, and 'How to Tour in a Band or Whatever'

"...was sentenced by the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas to 135 months of imprisonment and three years..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

From the Trenches

Previewing the Austin Eats battlefield

"...So says Luke Bibby of Austin's Best Burger, when asked what it's like to..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

The God's Heaven Truth

Rev. Gean West & the Relatives add another chapter to Texas funk history

"...decades. Unless you happen to be among the handful of parishioners at God’s Anointed Community COGIC in West Dallas,..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...blood,” yearns the Mighty Hannibal on his devastating 1966 anti-war anthem. “But one thing that I know … there’s..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The House

The House, director J. Ed Araiza's third collaboration with the student artists at St. Edward's University, is unapologetically about them, which makes for the show's strengths and its weaknesses

"...The HouseMary Moody Northen Theatre at St. Edward's University, through April 25..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Down South Jukin'

The South rises again even if Southern rockers deny it.

"...Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, and Matthew McConaughey became three of Hollywood's most in-demand mugs. The kicker, of course, is..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Our "best-of" lists in the last Chronicle concurred that 2002 was..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Pronoun Music

"...title like Pronoun Music, I expected Richard Cohen's collection of family-oriented stories to be the Bronx-born, Austin-residing author's tip-of-the-dark-bowler..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Review by Ric Williams

Dyed-in-the-Wool Fan

The Historical Fiction of Diana Gabaldon

"...is a national holiday in Scotland, commemorating the deaths of Scottish Army soldiers under the command of Prince Charles..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Ernie Cortés

Profile of a Leader

"...by Robert Bryce He's been called one of the most powerful people in Texas, and has been..."

July 21, 1995 News Feature

Steve Van Zandt’s Soulfire

Springsteen henchman and Sopranos boss hits the road and classrooms

"...a political activist with his Eighties act the Disciples of Soul, the guitarist now stumps for his teaching initiative..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...Cosmic Slop, the untrained artist delivered a crazed cornucopia of Afrocentric sci-fi imagery that equaled the madness in the..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Fantastic Fest Won’t Stop Announcing Awesome Stuff

May the Schwartz be with all of us

"...the Cormans and now this: a Spaceballs Quote-Along with Schwartz-channeler Bill “Lone Starr” Pullman in attendance...."

Sept. 8, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Animation Revelation

Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment

"...awfully interesting ways. They have managed, over the course of two short years, to build and maintain the most..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Gael Force

Austin's Celtic tributaries feed into Austin Celtic Festival -- and the larger whole.

"...Mayhem On the morning of Nov. 16, 2001, Lanora Davidson drove to work fearing..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Y Ask X and Y?

"...Chad Salvata Oh. My. God...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Shooting Star

"...The phone is no friend of Curt Kirkwood's.Too often, the tidings it bears are foul...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by David Holthouse

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...the weather has hit 100 degrees before the beginning of June. It's a drier heat, to be sure, but..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Ripping the Shrew

The Rude Mechanicals Tear Into Shakespeare

"...their 97/98 season premiere, curst & Shrewd: The Taming of the Shrew Unhinged, a candid, impertinent, and downright feminazi..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

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