An Outdoor Screening, Bluey Live, and More Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

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"...creative life, right? Well – holy chiaroscuro, Artman! This nighttime screening takes place on the grounds of the Elisabet..."

March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Scenes From the Winners Lounge at the 2024 Austin Music Awards

"...2024 Austin Music Awards show kicked off at Antone's Nightclub this past Sunday, the winners gathered for a happy..."

Feb. 27, 2024 Photo Gallery

Lydia Loveless, Helado Negro, and More Crucial Concerts

Essential Austin gigs in the coming week

"...Vegas transforms into Heartbreak Hotel for two tender pre-Valentine’s nights. Electro-Americana duo Me Nd Adam, of swoonworthy tracks like..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Music Feature by Elizabeth Braaten

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Beetlejuice

There's a lot of life in this show about death

"...find themselves among the recently departed. Adam (on opening night, Matthew Michael Janisse filled in with aptly awkward gusto..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Megan McGinnis is Full of Life in Beetlejuice, the Show About Death

The Broadway star on the magic of bringing a movie to the stage

"...trying to defend the interlopers' strange and unusual daughter Lydia (Isabella Esler) from the nefarious schemes of low-rent underworld..."

Feb. 6, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Arts Happenings off the Walls and in the Wild

Historical celebrations on your doorstep and road trips worth the drive

"...first place, at 23rdstreetmural.com.Sat., April 1, noon23rd & GuadalupeFreetexpopatx.org Lydia Street Gallery: "Details of Our Existence"..."

March 31, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...of flying are stranded in the wintry north. Cast: Lydia Leonard, Timothy Spall, Ella Rumpf, Sverrir Guðnason, Simon Manyonda,..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Sundance hit, stalker thriller Watcher, makes it into the Midnighters...."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...• Adair Margo and Gaspar Enriquez, Voices of la Lydia: The History of Lydia Patterson Institute • Melissa M...."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Checking In: Ley Line Needs Their Sisterhood

“This has been a curve ball to test our abilities”

"...Kate Robberson, Emilie Basez, and twins Madeleine and Lydia Froncek blend Brazil, Latin America, West Africa, and Austin..."

July 7, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

This Is Who We Are #1: Rude Mechs' Big Love

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...Lydia is on trial for not killing her husband. She..."

May 4, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...(you have to wait another three weeks for the Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Shorts, Episodic Pilot Competition, Virtual Cinema, Music..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Unpacks Longest Lineup List

Soccer Mommy, Caroline Rose, Alyona Alyona, and 351 more

"...reggae intrigue Tessellated. No Wave musician and intense poet Lydia Lunch, Philly power pop unit Beach Slang, and neo-trad..."

Jan. 14, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

As Millions Demand Justice, Texas Prepares to Take Rodney Reed's Life

Looking back at a long road of injustice for the death row inmate

"...meant Stacey had to wake in the dead of night and drive 30 miles through the Lost Pines of..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Crutsinger Seeks Last-Ditch SCOTUS Appeal

Following the Aug. 21 execution of Larry Swearingen, Crutsinger could be the fifth Texan killed this year

"...representing a death row inmate," according to his attorney Lydia Brandt, who told the Chronicle that her client "never..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Will Courtney Summons Seventies L.A.

The rootsy popsmith takes the production reins in a West Austin duplex

"...local gigs and a mini Midwestern tour opening for Lydia Loveless...."

Sept. 21, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Unplugged: Lowering the Volume of the Live Music Capital

Ley Line, Aaron Stephens, Team Goodtimes, Uncle Pie Hole, and more grounded sounds

"...Kate Robberson, Emilie Basez, and twin sisters Madeleine and Lydia Froncek, the fourpiece found solace in traditional Brazilian forró,..."

May 18, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Rodney Reed Returns to Court of Criminal Appeals

Bastrop Judge recommends CCA deny latest appeal

"...in Bastrop – that he'd stayed out later the night before than he eventually told police and testified at..."

Jan. 12, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Gay Place

Seriously, who doesn't love Halloween?

"...treat will be the LCD Soundsystem afterparty on Halloween night with Gavin Rayna Russom (LCD's keyboardist and well-known DJ)...."

Oct. 27, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 20-22

First, read this list aloud … in the voice … of Michael Caine, Mr. Wayne

"...oblique Batman reference to pointing out that this Saturday night is the debut of that new Barney Miller Dark..."

Oct. 19, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...Paraíso de los Maniquís Mariela Denson, A Shoe Story Lydia Kamm, Monty Python's Spamalot Valeria Smeke, El Paraíso de..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Regrettes

Feel Your Feelings Fool! (Warner Bros.)

"...at the crossroads between the Ramones and Shangri-Las, singer/guitarist Lydia Night demonstrates a remarkable grip on youth and vulnerability..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music List No. 3

Dead Meadow, Sad13, Cindy Wilson, Lizzo, Boogarins, and 494 others

"...Los Coast, RG Lowe, Danny Malone, Mike Melinoe, MykeJay, Night Beats, Otis the Destroyer, Saul Paul, Peelander-Z, Curtis Roush,..."

Jan. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

East Austin Studio Tour: A Few More Picks to Get You Going

Life is short, art is long, going EAST works better with a plan

"...parties and afterparties into the wee hours of each night...."

Nov. 14, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

East Austin Studio Tour Made Easy

Whether you're a veteran or a rookie, get the most out of East.

"...116-132: Leona Gallery, curated by Billy Bishop, Lydia Emily, Josef Kristofoletti, and Tim Kerr, is not something..."

Nov. 10, 2016 Events Post by Thomas Danh

SXSW Music: Grammy Museum's 40 Years of Ramones Tribute

Flash covers traverse time, age, and ilk

"...LP that sculpted punk rock for the ages. Thursday night, the Ramones’ catalog endured 18 acts’ own renditions...."

March 18, 2016 SXSW Post by Neph Basedow

DVDanger: This Is Halloween

Unconventional horror for the haunting time

"...the Right One In, try … Children of the Night...."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 5 Soundtracks and Original Scores of 2014

Awesome Mix, No. 2: Tehran punk, Cave, and Carpenter

"...a forbiddingly spare synth score for Ti West’s Jonestown-y nightmare The Sacrament and, with Joel J. Richard, injected some..."

Dec. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Music: Second List

243 + 171 = as many acts as the last two ATX fests combined

"...Lydia Ainsworth (Toronto, Canada)..."

Nov. 18, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Gay Place

Austin's Gayest September Ever continues with aGLIFF and StarGayzer

"...a celeb artists' art show including Phyllis Diller (WHAT?!), Lydia Lunch, Bruce LaBruce, JD Samson, Nicky Click, Raja, Heyd..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

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