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Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it

"...renegade, a prolific and fiercely independent renaissance artist with old-school credentials – Poison 13, the Monkeywrench, Lord High Fixers...."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...horny suburban moms ... well, and horny teens, horny middle-aged preservationists, horny rockers, et al...."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Wednesday Sleepers

"...9pm, Copa Old-school. Bet you're thinking Brooklyn 1970? Not even close. Try..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

Naked City

Headlines

"...starts this Saturday, Oct. 19 (see Running to the Middle)...."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Starbucks vs. the Chronicle: Who's zoomin' who?

"...Lisa Goodell and Leslie Martin,..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column

Confessions of a Boy Band Groupie

"...ridiculed boy bands. As is the nature of a middle schooler, I bristled at the creepy, chirpy sexual ambiguity..."

June 11, 1999 Music Feature

Exhibitionism

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika: Feels Like Hope

"...Walter (Jason Phelps), the tender, AIDS-stricken homosexual, and Louis (Martin Burke), his thoughtful, but frightened, former lover who fled..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Review

Postmarks

United Way Clarifies

"...those who attend Pride functions will be overwhelmingly white, middle class, and over 30. Maybe that's the goal. Please..."

June 12, 1998 Column

Pete's Principle

Ex-Chamber Head Winstead Takes Us to the Toll Road

"...on it. A career highway man from the old school, Garbade seemed a little uneasy at last November's first..."

May 22, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...The Loss of Common Decency in American Culture (St. Martin's Press, $22.95 hard). My need to argue without later..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

Public Notice

Let's ALLGO Out & Party

"...13, 9am-1pm at Austin North Hilton & Towers, 6000 Middle Fiskville. Tickets are $15 in advance and $25 at..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Column by Kate X Messer

Megachurch Miracle

Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches

"...target -- hundreds of what appear to be primarily middle class families of all races and creeds. Considering the..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy

Book Reviews

"...weeks later, cops stopped Wiley on his way to school. Turns out that bike was stolen. Mother said I..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...mental, physical, and alcoholic kind. Mrs. McMullen tells her middle son Barry (Burns) not to waste his life married..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Movie Duos, Rude Little Pigs, and More Events for the Week Ahead

Time to reflect and project

"...The festival will take place Feb. 1.]Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 at age..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

At Wit’s End: Bob Byington on His Dry New Comedy, Lousy Carter

“My career puzzles people, including myself”

"...Bob Byington: Yes. Martin Starr knows how to be in scenes; he knows..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Shawn Badgley

Cyrus Gray Hasn’t Been Convicted of a Crime, but He Spent Years in Jail

Now he is an advocate for the rights of the accused

"...Houston. Gray finished his childhood there, living in a lower-middle­-class neighborhood, playing football and running track. He was 23..."

March 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Eighth Street Survivors

They came out to protest police brutality. They were met by a life-altering wave of police violence. Eight months later, they still await justice and change.

"...had predicted that Austin would be right in the middle of things. When the protests broke out, he texted..."

Feb. 5, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Record Turnout in Run-Off Election Pushes Democratic Party Toward Change

State and local races show the blue getting bluer

"...1994, when Democrats still controlled the state. "In the middle of a pandemic, Texas Democrats showed we are ready..."

July 17, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Behind Enemy Lines at ALEC's Right-Wing Policy Conference

Activists say the American Legislative Exchange Council backs corporate interests over people

"...economy that in reality still overburdens and overtaxes its middle and lower classes.)..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Chronicle Recommends: Halloweenies

Deliciously spooky films for the scaring season

"...old to fully indulge in Halloween, even though his too-cool-for-school friends distance themselves from his nerdiness. It’s an accomplished..."

Oct. 8, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived

The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism

"...and oil and gas producers – with almost no middle class, a few Mexican-American professionals, and African-Americans at the..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Other Worlds Austin Adds Owen Egerton's Latest

Plus sci-fi fest's closing night title, and shorts

"..."Thump" D: Whit Spurgeon, USA, 4 min. In the middle of the night, things should be quiet. Sometimes things..."

Nov. 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beside the Point: Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Ignorance

As we become submerged in factless policy-making, a request to return to reason

"...positive light – and marginalized minority figures, such as Martin Luther King Jr. They overemphasized "states' rights" in lieu..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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

Drawn and Quarterly? Fantagraphics? A Few Recent Releases?

Yes: Our new comics-reviewing team gives 'em a look-see

"...of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs and the poster of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Then there's the content of the..."

May 10, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...trailer. In 2010, he released Dear Companion with Daniel Martin Moore to fight mountaintop removal in Appalachia. Last year's..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Queer Culture From the 1970s to 70

Three documentaries highlight a generation of gay icons

"...disco; he refers to the Baths as his "finishing school." But the primary function of a bathhouse is, and..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

TFPF Awards Filmmaker Grants

AFS' funding arm awards $121,000 to Texas filmmakers

"...KALTAG, ALASKA
Daniel Levin
Kaltag is a small village in the middle Yukon. For centuries it has relied on salmon for..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Intergalactic Nemesis Strikes Back

The live action graphic novel debuts book two this week

"...The show mixes the best of old-school radio drama, classic pulp action comics and modern AV..."

June 7, 2012 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

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