Character

"...Starring: Fedja Van Huet, Jan Decleir, Betty Schuurman, Victor Low, Tamar Van Den Dop and Sting. Character, this year's..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Myth of Che

The Short Life of Revolutionary Che Guevara

"...its fictional equal: The magic combination of an interesting life as retold by a gifted stylist transcending even the..."

July 11, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...Also, make sure to follow all our coverage at austinchronicle.com/sxsw. Speakers..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Quin Galavis Track Premiere

Dark songwriter lets a little light in

"...10 months after releasing his melancholic magnum opus, My Life in Steel and Concrete, emotionally intense songwriter Quin Galavis..."

June 12, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

'Miami Connection' Connects After 25 Years

Grandmaster Y.K. Kim reels as his 1987 flop becomes a 2012 cult

"...many lost films that get a second burst of life. William Wellman's silent WWI drama Wings. The Bette Davis-starring..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ROTFL

Sex meets social media in Fuck My Life

"...is his newest feature, the romantic comedy Fuck My Life (Que pena tu vida). The title – which is..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Page Two: Lost Diamond

Robin Shivers' life defined what makes Austin the kind of community it is

"...Well, because she was always willing to help. Her life explicitly defined what makes Austin the kind of community..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Column by Louis Black

2008 Texas Book Festival

Lit Life: Richard Price

"...Wanderers) and present (as in his newest, greatest, Lush Life) – are his permanent beat. Price writes it and..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

Earth can't possibly hold the only intelligent life in the entirety of it all, right? Christopher Chybacan poke holes in that argument.

"...the universe, Earth can't possibly hold the only intelligent life in the entirety of it all, right? Well, Christopher..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez

Che Bella

The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.

"...finally emerged was a taut, largely unvarnished vision of life as they had seen it lived over the past..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Writes of Spring

"...first novel, Kafka's Curse, a middle-aged Muslim loses his life and mysteriously transforms into a "beautiful and sensitive" willow..."

April 9, 1999 Books Review

Lege Finds Even More Funds for Anti-Choice Grifters

Alternatives to Abortion program gets $100M in House budget

"...amendments that could have expanded health care for struggling low-income Texans and helped victims of human trafficking, Texas House..."

April 23, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma

Show Some Love for Emancipet

Fundraising kits offer treats for a Valentine’s Sit Stay Day at home

"...furry friends are two of the best parts of life. The eighth annual fundraiser for Austin’s low-cost veterinary clinic,..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Food Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Film Review: 68 Kill

Amorality road-trip tale heists Midnighter Audience Award

"...pursuit of scummy laughs, Haaga successfully grasps for the low-life brass ring. Even taking into account a spree of..."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Bob Byington's Infinity Baby

Austin director has made a reputation for his low-key social comedies

"...Byington has made his own reputation for his brittle, low-key social comedies, while New York's Onur Tukel is raising..."

March 17, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Budget Deal Evicts Planned Parenthood From Cancer Program

Under new budget deal, Planned Parenthood ousted from life-saving cancer program

"...Low-income, insured women would no longer be able to turn..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Report: Thousands Fewer Women Served by Texas Women's Health Program

After excluding Planned Parenthood, fewer women in health program

"...officials decided to kick Planned Parenthood out of a life-saving, preventative Medicaid program: Far less women are being served...."

March 25, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...anthology of art and writing. And it's not the low-budget celebration of creative expression you typically find in the..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fantastic Fest 2014: Kung Fu Elliot

Outsider art gets ugly in this strange Canadian documentary

"...Lightning" Scott? After two years of documenting the oddball low budget action hero and martial artist's life for Kung..."

Sept. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Food & Wine Alliance Announces Grant Winners

Culinary innovation and community projects rewarded with $20,000

"...and an initiative to provide local organic foods to low income families, and underwrite a documentary to teach Texas..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Point Austin: Making Women Suffer

The self-appointed defenders of life and family values are neither

"...Planned Parenthood insist that giving the organization federal dollars allows it to spend other money in its budget to..."

April 22, 2011 News Column by Michael King

I’m Yo’ Pusha

The Knux and Q-Tip clean out ears

"...credit that to evolution. Stacked next to 1991’s The Low End Theory, 3 Days possesses that same musical intonation,..."

Nov. 19, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Very Ecstasy of Love

"...I’ve spent this past month in low-grade agony, without the thrill of constant argumentation and online..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Angels on a Mission

"...is a region synonymous with high infant mortality and low education and prospects, and it has been ripped apart..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Dan Selinger

Enviro-Rentalism

Saving the planet when you don't even own your own (low-flow) pot to piss in

"...to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, the lower your income, the lower your energy use. So, pat..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Page Two

Persistence of memory

"...getting the kinds of looks I've gotten my whole life when I'm with women. It isn't just that I..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Chest Cavities, Empty Kneecaps, and Elbows

A week at Austin's all-ages live music venue Redrum and the 'School of Rock' lessons learned

"...to go to the cramped practice spaces, play one low-paying gig after another, and make it up as they..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Tip-Off

Where is Malcolm Gladwell's mind? What about now?

"...indulgent in its number of anecdotes, analogies, and examples, overflowing with little surprises, and apparently inspiring to countless people..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...his eyes rapt on the lighted Paramount Theatre stage below him. "Stop!" he yells suddenly, when the light is..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

TV Eye

Two new specials focus on the Internet -- one on its remarkable past, one on its potentially hazardous future; also, Showtime launches the Latino Filmmaker Showcase.

"...at computer access initiatives in community settings, where some low-income and predominantly minority youth get their only hands-on experiences..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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