Qmmunity: Brrr, It’s Cold in Here

Shake off the icicles and step out on the gay Austin streets with these queer events

"...Hello to all the girls, gays, and theys out there who've..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: A Sis With a Fist

Sister Fisters event group plans their fifth annual Halloween party with an eye toward encouraging queer talent

"..."If you have never been to a Sister Fisters showcase," creator Ariel De Leon says,..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Fund-Raising Hell

This month’s edition of Austin International Drag Foundation’s drag competition fundraiser digs into Halloween nostalgia for its theme

"...Don’t raise the dead this October; help Austin International Drag Foundation raise funds at Hot..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: The Gay Place Rides Again

Original Chron legend Kate X Messer talks "Qmmunity"/"The Gay Place" origins

"...2) a frustrating lack of space and energy put toward covering the goings-on of that burgeoning social set. Messer..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Transing Pride

ATX Trans Pride puts the spotlight on the transgender community during Austin Pride

"...Trans Pride – happening this Saturday, Aug. 12, 7pm to 2am, at Cheer Up Charlies, with more info avails..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Column by James Scott

Hays County Medics Are Officially Unionized

Election over, work begins

"...result proved true, with 68% of eligible employees voting to unionize when ballots were counted, June 2...."

June 23, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Qmmunity: The Queer-ster Bunny

A springtime showing of Austin's queer haps, like a new leather bar, pre-show parties, and the academic achievement by a young Black trans scholar.

"...Queer-ster Bunny, who brings good tidings and gay times to all the good little alphabet babies. With such a..."

April 7, 2023 Column by James Scott

Faster Than Sound: Inside a Competition to Become Musician-in-Residence at a Luxury Apartment Complex

Would you play 25 hours a month to live rent-free in Downtown Austin?

"...5 when my landlord pointed out I had forgotten to pay rent. I felt considerably more terrible than I..."

April 15, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Qmmunity: Queers Gone Country

Nashville's Jaime Wyatt brings queer twang to Austin, Elysium gets Bizarre, and more events

"...country music. Which is ironic considering I've only come to believe in the Church of the Twang & the..."

July 30, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

SXSW Online Offered Lots to Look Forward To

Virtual festival forecasts incoming local debuts and tentative fall touring.

"...interviewer Andy Langer inquired whether Willie Nelson missed his tour bus. The pandemic marks the 87-year-old's longest tour gap..."

March 26, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Road Trip Drama Travels into No Man's Land

The filmmaking Allyn brothers see Mexico through a new lens

"...No Man's Land, the new cross-border road trip by North Texas filmmaking brothers Conor and..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The World of Wayfinding in Austin

How we get from here to there in our ever-changing city

"...ACL Fest shuttle bus last fall just after we'd crossed back into Downtown. She had just moved to Austin,..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...From moon explorers to tech investors, musicians to Muppets, and from the joint..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Kelcy Warren Takes a Meeting

Talk of Standing Rock overshadows Texas Parks & Wildlife's pipeline easement dispute

"...people from all corners of the state lined up to speak at last Thursday's meeting of the Texas Parks..."

Nov. 11, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Bloodsucking Bastards

Cubicle horrors: Vampires bloody the workplace

"...awfully obvious metaphor – capitalism sucks, literally! – but director O’Connell and a thoroughly game cast drawn from the..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crimes That Paid

In Jesse Sublett's top reads of 2014, wherever the protagonists go, trouble follows

"...Unless your name is Dick Cheney or you're an investor in ISIS, you're as sick of war as I..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

ACL Fest 2014 Interviews

2:15pm, Honda stage

"...Jimmy Cliff remains a global master of translating triumph into song. Signature compositions "You Can Get It If You..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...Texas Book Festival authors, friends, and coordinators gathered at The Contemporary Austin tonight to share some..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Indie rock music festivals could learn a thing or three from the Montreal Jazz Fest

"...– high season runs from March's South by Southwest to Chaos in Tejas at the beginning of June, boomeranging..."

July 12, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Mud

Hypermasculine yet soulfully romantic, this coming of age story with thriller elements stars Matthew McConaughey.

"...lures 14-year-old best friends Ellis (Sheridan) and Neckbone (Lofland) to a tiny, untrammeled island off the Mississippi River in..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'The NFL Beat': Mock Draft

The 'Chronicle' gets Draft-y with a li'l help from friends

"...This is "The NFL Beat" and today I brought some friends. We set up the studio,..."

April 17, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Jimmy Cliff

SXSW Showcase Reviews

"...other Jamaican artist is more responsible for exporting reggae to the world than Jimmy Cliff. Spearheading the 1972 soundtrack..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Bruce Springsteen

SXSW Showcase Reviews

"...profound and assured deliverance. It began with a tribute to Woody Guthrie on the occasion of his centennial, "Ain't..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Percy Sledge

in box

"...Tough act to follow, "When a Man Loves a Woman."..."

March 11, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Gotta Get Up

Harry Nilsson, the Pussy Cat who roared

"...psychology of musicians, especially those we ascribe genius status to, used to hold more mythical weight. Nowadays there's a..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Harder They Come

Scenes from Jimmy Cliff's ACL taping

"...fact that the Austin City Limits studio is this town's best listening room is the worst kept secret. In..."

Aug. 5, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Best-Laid Plans

How does the patchwork of separate plans for the future of Central Texas fit together? No one knows.

"...Big visions and decisions for the region's next 20 to 30 years are being created – or were just..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

BPness: A Line in the Sand

Notes from Kate's trip thru Lafourche Parish to Grand Isle, LA., Part 1.

"...An opportunity arose to drive a friend to New Orleans (and visit my..."

June 25, 2010 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

Tracking Cap Metro's Eastward Proposal

The Green Line takes conceptual shape

"...hard data – or at least good estimates – to make that call. In sum, the report makes the..."

Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Half a World Away, and at War

How one journalist went from a desk job to covering the war in Congo

"...desk job, but he never imagined he would stumble into covering the shockingly underreported war in Congo – the..."

May 16, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

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