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

Possibility of Failure

Pulitzer or not, composer David Lang won't play it safe

"...field. Thomas Burritt, whose Percussion Ensemble in UT's Butler School of Music performed Lang's "the so-called laws of nature"..."

April 30, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Six-Card Stud

It's a wide-open Place 4 race

"...property Downtown, which should have taken affordable housing or middle-class housing. We should not lease it out for high-end..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

A Browner Shade of Black

Blazing trails of Chicano soul

"...teenage players from the various Westside and Southside high schools with group monikers like the Royal Jesters, the Lyrics,..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Beyond 'The Electric Company'

Can a bunch of toddlers watching television save the world?

"...lefty celebs guest-starred: Sting, Meg Ryan, Tim Curry, and Martin Sheen. Captain Planet himself had Chess King good looks,..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...struggles and successes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., and the guy who invented Napster...."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Soup Is Good Food

"...real deal. Good thing too, because the way that middle linebacker Mike Simoneau was seemingly making it a point..."

Oct. 16, 2006 Sports Post by Robert Gabriel

Betty Baker Rules

Love her or fear her, Austin's land-use queen rules the city her own way

"...In this instance it was the southwest corner of Martin Luther King and West Avenue, in the Judges Hill..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

On the Lege

Redistricting: the end? the feds and the courts pick up the shattered pieces of Texas

"...has now transformed the political geography of the whole middle third of the state, from South Texas through Travis..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Column by Michael King

In Person

Sue Brandt McBee at the Carver Branch, August 9

"...one can't help but covet one fan in the middle of one glass case, the one with Martin Luther..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Postmarks

Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.

"...J.C. Martin..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Column

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...friendship between a drug addict and a transvestite. After Martin Scorsese's successful rerelease of Luis Buñuel's Belle du Jour,..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Coffee Table Books That Depict and Provide Escape From

"...ñ as such they look like typical American high school girls in certain big cities and suburbs today, where..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Scanlines

"...D. Martin Cohen (1970)..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Enter the Hugos

We Take On the Best of SF

"...to get the job done, to contain a beginning, middle, and end. It's horrifically frustrating and, to be honest,..."

July 31, 1998 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

Confessin' the Blues

Soul Man W.C. Clark

"...- Martin Banks, Blues Family Tree Video (1991)..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

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