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"...THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEYD: Steven M. Martin. (PG-13, 85 min.) Some stories just write themselves. This..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

A Clash Over Gas

Squaring Off

"...Austin residents and the courts. Said Longhorn PR consultant Martin:..."

Jan. 1, 1999 News Feature by Walter Cole

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...panel members -- Shimmy Disc's Kramer, Tape Op's Larry Crane, and local producer and studio owner John Croslin --..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

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

"...De Margheriti, Daniel Monks, Yerin Ha, Lucy Barrett, Shaun Martindale, Amelia Lule, April Blasdall, Camille Cumpston (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Kick off 2019 with some Texas travel

"...Watch eagles from your computer or chase whooping cranes on the Texas coast...."

Dec. 29, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...Yumi Cottrell – Sorry to Disrupt the Peace Elizabeth Crane – Turf Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink – It..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Good Eye: Big Time

Turn up the volume on this oversized trend

"...colossal caftan down the runway; and MM6 by Maison Martin Margiela showed a Brobdingnagian button-down shirt that looked as..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Letters at 3AM: 'Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?'

"Route 66" spoke to the sense of change afoot in America

"...the sky. The camera pans to follow Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) riding a cable suspended from a crane. A..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

A Year's Cheers

The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Sean Martin, Mary Stuart/Three Days of Rain..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

EAST, at Ease

The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour reveals 86 studios and one stacked pod art city with a shared alphabet

"...a page in the EAST tour book, rented a crane, and built their own secret Marfa at 3506 Rogge..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

SCTV Network 90: Volume 1

"...Tongue's 3D House of Stewardesses; and it's got Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, and Catherine O'Hara, who went on to..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Review by Nick Barbaro

What'cha Watchin'?

Screengrabs from the Chronicle staff

"...it up to me enjoying the antics of Frasier Crane, his brother Niles, father Martin, and that bit-of-a-psychic home..."

May 7, 2021 Screens Column by James Scott

Do We Really Need More Superhero Movies?

We asked local artists if we're approaching Peak Cape anytime soon

"...write and draw their own works, such as Roy Crane, Moebius, Jeff Smith, Los Bros, and Blutch...."

April 25, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

News Roundup: MLK, Chris Kyle, and the Lege

Get ready to celebrate "Chris Kyle Day"

"...displaying two images of (and corresponding quotes from) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were quelled Friday afternoon when it..."

Feb. 2, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

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

"...the Heart of Mexico's Drug War Holly Aker, Shaun Martin, and Caroline Wallace: Austin Beer: Capital City History on..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Culture Class

The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Sean Martin, Mary Stuart/Three Days of Rain..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Getting Ahead of Themselves

Enron's collapse caught on tape, sort of

"...testimonials from former employees – notably the hyper-intelligent Amanda Martin-Brock – and an underlying survey of corporate culture complete..."

April 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...more like Chaplinesque rewrites of the surrealities of Stephen Crane or Ambrose Bierce." In short, Hannah's work is a..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Slacker, the Map

It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.

"...In his "making of" book (St. Martin's Press, 1992), the following passage, Linklater's own, appears: "I..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

November Previews

"...Burton, and with Johnny Depp as spindly detective Ichabod Crane and Christina Ricci as his chesty damsel in distress,..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Something Worth Living For

Michael Fracasso's World in a Drop of Water

"...the West Virginia panhandle and the hometown of Dean Martin. Once there, Fracasso's father ended up in a steel..."

May 8, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

"...how a commercial society chews up writers is London's Martin Eden...."

Aug. 16, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

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