Chronicle Recommends: Family Dysfunction Films

Because the holidays aren't all about happiness and good cheer

"...spend some time basking in the glow of a Manhattan all dressed up for the holidays, as you get..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

It's a Wonderful Lie

The breezy, sneaky charms of 1945's Christmas in Connecticut

"...gag is that Elizabeth is in fact a single Manhattanite who can’t boil an egg to save her life..."

Dec. 7, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: As Time Goes By

"I'm not quitting. I'm turning," says Michael Ventura in his final column

"...My mother spent that war staffing Manhattan's Italian-American radical weekly L'Unità del Popolo, working closely with..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

CMJ Report

Texan takeover and Slowdive reunion

"...return Saturday night at the multi-story Terminal 5 in Manhattan. The seminal Nineties shoegazers turned in a 90-minute set..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Hornography

"...This weekend Longhorns travel to the tiny town of Manhattan, Kan., to play the Wildcats from Kansas State. Back..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Sports Column by Eric Sollenberger

Gabrielle Hamilton Cooks in Austin

Award-winning chef and author is a guest during Austin Style Week

"...Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of the popular Prune restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side, will present dinner Friday night on..."

Sept. 24, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

The Dog

Dog Day Afternoon is a film about a wildly true bank robbery; as conveyed by John Wojtowicz in this doc, the story gets even nuttier when told from the horse's mouth.

"...1972, he and two barroom acquaintances entered the Chase Manhattan Bank on Avenue P in Brooklyn, New York, with..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The slang-slinging, sewer-dwelling, pizza-loving lot are back.

"...into Shredder’s brutish Foot Clan lands her face-to-face with Manhattan’s secret heroes – a slang-slinging, sewer-dwelling, pizza-loving lot –..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Let Me See It

A collection of elegantly wrought stories that follow two cousins, both gay, coming of age during the 1980s AIDS crisis

"...and find each other while coming of age in Manhattan during the AIDS crisis of the Eighties. The French-speaking,..."

July 11, 2014 Arts Review by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez

Social Dining Surrender

Dinner Lab Austin pops up with unconventional dishes

"...4) Manhattan - braised short rib, lobster gravy, truffled pomme puree,..."

June 13, 2014 Food Post by Jessi Cape

None Cooler Than The Fonz

Henry Winkler takes inaugural ATX Television Festival award

"...laid out an anecdotal history of his trip from Manhattan kid to Yale graduate to one of the world's..."

June 9, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New York, New York

My first trip to the land of fire escapes

"...affair with New York, from the high rises of Manhattan to the historic brown stones of Brooklyn. It’s an..."

May 27, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Brewskee! Tears, Cheers, and Beers

Skee-ball calls foul over patent rights

"...after working as a manager at Ace Bar in Manhattan, where Brewskee-Ball filled its first frames, suggests his 200-roller..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Fading Gigolo

John Turturro directs himself and Woody Allen in this movie that gently cruises but but never drives it home.

"...his friend and employer, Murray (Allen), shutters his small Manhattan bookstore. Murray has known Fioravante since he was a..."

May 9, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life Is Sweet

Three talented restaurant professionals run the show at LaV

"...Rutgers University Press next year, cites the way convicted felon-turned-Manhattan-restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow talks about Miami chef Michelle Bernstein. In..."

May 9, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Other Woman

Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upton play gals who team together to ruin the mutual philanderer in their lives.

"...the movie progresses. Carly Whitten (Diaz) is a no-nonsense, Manhattan career woman who rudely discovers that Mark King (Coster-Waldau),..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SoundSpace: Downtown NYC 1960

Blanton Museum's music series turns the clock back to minimalism's early years in Manhattan

"...of this little style, if you will, with lower Manhattan, where so many of the composers began their work..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Great Expectations

Sarah Jarosz returns to her roots – the Old Settler's Music Festival

"...modern folker. The log cabin's become an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side and long walks in the woods..."

April 11, 2014 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

First Look at Friends & Neighbors

Eclectic new shop at home in cozy neighborhood cottage

"...dishware, and jewelry handpicked by the former owner of Manhattan’s I Heart boutique. The bedroom in the back serves..."

April 9, 2014 Food Post by Amira Jensen

Soundtrack Series’ Sunshine of Your Love

Kathy Valentine and more continue storytelling song recall

"...vividly – forever branding my memory – there’s the Manhattan street performer who played out a 30-minute routine to..."

April 9, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Letters at 3AM: To Sit on a Park Bench

The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up

"...drove on and on, over terrain as horizontal as Manhattan is vertical: the High Plains. I pulled off on..."

April 4, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The Lunchbox

This off-Bollywood charmer is a light-hearted drama about two lonely souls who forge a friendship when they start passing written notes.

"...while The Lunchbox unfolds, you might imagine yourself in Manhattan during another era, watching as James Stewart and Margaret..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Symphony Orchestra

ASO turns to Kickstarter for help in making its first CD – and rescuing a forgotten composer

"...customary elegance and finesse – seemed to wander through Manhattan, dancing through the cosmopolitan hubbub on the streets, then..."

March 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin's New (No) Sex Institute

Nascent think tank enters the culture wars

"...because it shares those concerns with Robert P. George's "Manhattan Declaration," a 2009 manifesto that vows civil disobedience to..."

March 7, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Letters at 3AM: BigBoy's 'Slap Noir'

James BigBoy Medlin's 'Slap Noir' changed my life in a most concrete fashion

"...too pulpy for the literary, too ornery for the Manhattan crowd and too dust-devilish for the Los Angeles crowd..."

March 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Austin’s New (No) Sex Institute

Nascent think-tank enters the culture wars

"...because it shares those concerns with Robert P. George's "Manhattan Declaration," a 2009 manifesto that vows civil disobedience to..."

March 3, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

The Good Eye

Ah, le printemps

"...the Lunar New Year, either – regular old (auld?) run-through-the-streets-of-Manhattan-to-proclaim-your-love-to-Meg-Ryan Jan. 1. In his defense, it was a nice,..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

The Future Food Salon Carries a Message of Tasty Protein on Six Legs

Haute cuisine gets buggy to promote progressive thinking about global food supplies

"...For tickets to the Future Food Salon, go to www.alimentaryinitiatives.com/future-food-salon-manhattan/#future-food-salon-cricket-anyone...."

Feb. 14, 2014 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pete Seeger 1919-2014

Did the folk overseer ever play Austin?

"...Monday evening at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He was 94 and lived an unquestionably bursting life..."

Jan. 28, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Austin Symphony Orchestra With Anton Nel

This concert of music by neglected composer Edward Burlingame Hill returned some lost gems to the concert hall

"...customary elegance and finesse – seemed to wander through Manhattan, dancing through the cosmopolitan hubbub on the streets, then..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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