Slouching Toward Happy Hour

East Sixth & Thereabouts

"...not only cheap drinks, but also half-price appetizers. Seafood lovers can get a fix here with cheap ceviche, crab..."

March 19, 1999 Food Feature

Get It While You Can

"...Hits isn't reviewed here and guiltily I did go back to try and slog my way through the thin..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

Toasting Hogmany

The French Buffet

"...truffles, of woodsy Bordeaux and smooth, buttery foie gras. Come December 31, these and other national treasures star on..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Food Feature

10 in Focus

Alma

"...the truth, as elusive and fragmented as it may become, is ultimately inescapable. This is Ruth Leitman's brand of..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Record Reviews

"...with Steve Zirkel's very blue trumpet playing on "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" or Julie Noble's icy cry on..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Music Review

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a real family. Steve Martin combines his peculiar physical comedy with a pathos that is so genuine and touching..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Why Venues Are Struggling to Stay Open in the Live Music Capital of the World

As Hot Summer Nights descends, Austin’s live music epicenter campaigns for city support

"...economy, she wondered, couldn’t Red River receive some money back?..."

July 12, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

On Eras Tour, Taylor Swift Can Take Us Anywhere She Wants

Over those bridges and through the woods to Arlington stop

"...bridge of “My Tears Ricochet,” a 2020 track to come later in the night, looped. “And I can go..."

April 2, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Gay Place: Queer Waves

Listen to KOOP-FM's annual Stonewall show

"...Ghost Bones and Mom Jeans With Androids of Ex-Lovers. Fri., June 26, 9pm. Cheer Up Charlies, 900 Red..."

June 26, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

The Secret Lives of Girls

AFS Documentary Tour presents the six-part Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

"...–and simultaneously juggled relationships with a married South African lover (with whom she was crazy in love) and a..."

April 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Re-Re-Re-Re-Reopening Night

The Ritz: Talkie theatre, cowboy hangout, playhouse, comedy and punk club, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

"...of an infinite number of Shiner Bock wipeouts to come, there's still only one screen – the little one..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

For the People

Why Shostakovich, as played by the UT Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Kevin Noe, is better than 20 punk rock bands

"...world for so long. Shostakovich wrote music that looks back to its predecessors while striding toward the future. The..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Monteverdi: Vocal Glory, Vocal Splendor

A program of songs sacred, secular, and straddling those two realms, all by Italian Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi, provided Conspirare with another opportunity to provide that which it does so well: powerful, ethereal song that seems to come directly from the distant, historical source yet has all the immediacy of new work.

"...does so well: powerful, ethereal song that seems to come directly from the distant, historical source yet has all..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...he's still a singer's singer. Wearing a tuxedo and backed by his legendary band, the Cherokee Cowboys -- featuring..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...a small town -- Cody, Wyoming. The banner read: "WELCOME BIKERS!!"..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Record Reviews

Abbey Lincoln

"...the singer is wandering. Still not the follow-up her back-to-back Blue Note beauties Blue Light 'Til Dawn ('93) and..."

April 2, 1999 Music Review

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...and credibility Christgau brings to rock journalism, but to come to appreciate or to learn something from his treatment..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...This comedy of the American frontier by Christopher Guest (This Is..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Texas Platters

"...the Eighties. Still, Obsessive Personality feels like a horrific flashback to the nauseating "underground" party circa 1985. Every wimpy-ass..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Review

Exhibitionism

The Dog Show: Our Bowsers, Ourselves

"...and about their dog photos in particular. No dog lover should be without Carter's new book Bones or Andrea..."

April 25, 1997 Arts Review

The Ex-Files

"...disappeared and the woman I thought I knew came back into focus. I don't remember what we said then,..."

July 5, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a comic actress. She exposes a natural talent for comedy and it's a side of her that we've never..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Sultry, Aggressive, and No-Bullshit Blues by Margaret Moser

"...a man's world. It's a scenario with which Foley becomes more and more familiar every day. "These are just..."

June 30, 1995 Music Feature

Scanlines

"...relationship that blossoms between a lively, fast-food counter clerk (newcomer Faye Wong) and yet another police officer recovering from..."

June 23, 1995 Arts Feature

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

"...the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back to my fourth day in Texas: Fourth of July,..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...lineup with a major-label ringer. But old heads and backpackers grouse not! Even from a Triple A vantage, Maxo..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Always Be Chloe-sing

Mary Lynn Rajskub on moving from 24 to stand-up

"...favorite, and now her popularity is luring viewers into comedy clubs to see Rajskub do stand-up...."

Nov. 12, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Tweet This Mess Around: Fred Schneider Tells It Like It T-I-Is! Part 1

What's that on your head? An interview with the B-52's lead man?

"...who owns Rock & Roll Heaven. They would never come over to say hello because they were too nervous,..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Chasing Amy

Painting lamps, chasing elephants, and singing with Alejandro Escovedo: Amy Cook jumps into the pool

"...this hive of activity is attorney-turned-hotelier Liz Lambert, Cook's lover and the remarkable visionary behind Austin's San José and..."

April 9, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

La Onda Chicano

Tejano music, as a genre, might be on the ropes, but Sunny Ozuna – one of the genre's architects – is anything but

"...35th anniversary of the university's Center for Mexican-American Studies. Backed by an orquesta drawn from Hernández's La Familia and..."

July 21, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

« 1    ‹ BACK    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     NEXT ›    15 »