Meet Joe Black

"...Hopkins and Brad Pitt. A loose retelling of 1934's Death Takes a Holiday, this updated version adapts a fuller,..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Death Rattle Shakes

A case of "Rigor Mortis," and we pay our dues at the 'Death Spa'

"...You! I want to take you to a Death Spa! I want to take you to a death..."

July 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: Conflicts of Interest

What to do when your appelate attorney's headed to work for the D.A.?

"...The state's death chamber fires up again after a year in which..."

Jan. 6, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Your Weekend in Film

More than mere faces in the crowd

"...credits have rolled. Other than the new releases, deserving your attention is last weekend’s visually scrumptious and subtext-laced Blade..."

Oct. 12, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Playback: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

But you can still put your arms around Margaret Moser

"...You never know the last time you'll see your friends alive. Death mostly adheres to an unknown time..."

June 16, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Short and Sweet: “Love is Only Just a Death Away”

Bára Anna Stejskalová gives stop-motion life to a lonely worm

"...SXSW. Today's pick is "Love is Only Just a Death Away" - Bára Anna Stejskalová's stop motion story of..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Gifts of Literary Delight for You or Anyone Lucky Enough to Be Your Friends or Family

Sentence yourself to a long stretch of reading pleasure

"...You want to read books that enrich your life? That make you think, make you laugh, maybe..."

Nov. 28, 2022 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Now Streaming in Austin: "Meet the Creeper"

Watch this ATX contribution to the Corman Challenge

"...watch while self-quarantining. Bored at home? Why not make your own two-minute movie? That's what cinema legend Roger Corman..."

April 26, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Cat Corpses in Your Rearview

Keep your head on a swivel

"...All in all I can't complain about my life...."

March 30, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

DVDanger: Over Your Dead Body

Takashi Miike resurrects an old Japanese ghost

"...little left for him to do. Yet with Over Your Dead Body, he breaks new ground by opening an..."

Jan. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...When Hasmukh Patel was shot to death in his San Antonio convenience store in 2004, it..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Row Dilemma

Resistant to Change

"...In federal court, two death row inmates -- Danny Lee Barber and Joseph Stanley..."

Jan. 22, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Letter From Death Row

Our condemned cover artist makes his case

"...that you may find useful in the formulation of your piece...."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by James V. Allridge

Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...he tersely confirms the wrenching details of his son's death...."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Life, Death, and Shoofly Pie

Chatting with the Gourds' rabid online fan base, family through thick and BAD.

"...Elaine Magnolia Wagner was named. One week before his death, he discussed with the band taking over the Gourds'..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Death Star and Fat Boy

The "invisible hand" of utility deregulation looks an awful lot like Ken Lay's.

"...maneuvers to which they gave juvenile but revealing nicknames: "Death Star," "Fat Boy," "Ricochet," and "Get Shorty." (The point..."

May 17, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Life, Death, and Dance

Robert Duvall loves to tango. Robert Duvall loves Buenos Aires. And Robert Duvall loves Luciana Pedraza, the ravishing Argentinean-born woman who plays opposite him in Assassination Tango, a film in which the screen legend somehow conflates all these things.

"...life," one character says, but John J.'s business is death...."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Q&A Hole: What's One Good Thing About Death?

With Marc Savlov, Steve Moore, Elizabeth Doss, Ken Webster, and more

"...a few people to name one good thing about death. And the macabre subject brought the usual mix of..."

April 8, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...one that deals, as so many operas do, with death. Were it a wooden scaffold, with steps the prisoner..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Austin Chronicle: Your album last month, Vintage Machine, feels distinctly autobiographical in..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...rewarded with her encore to our rainy day lunchtime meet 'n' greet: During fifth period, her family cashed out..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Powerful Never Change in Death of a Unicorn

A24’s star-studded satirical horror comes to SXSW

"...he’s bringing those deadly qualities back as writer/director of Death of a Unicorn...."

March 7, 2025 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Hunted'/'The Grapes of Death'

Horror auteur Rollin abandons vampires for mental decline

"...releases from the auteur. Yet both The Grapes of Death and Night of the Hunted are the antithesis of..."

April 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Job Will Change Your Life

Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle

"...the cover, illustrated by a Guy Juke drawing of yours truly wearing a fedora, my size 12 shoes on..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Jesse Sublett

Shake Your Rump

Me, my dad, and MCA

"...girl from the Midwest just over a year after meeting her, and spent the majority of the early Nineties..."

May 5, 2012 Music Post by Luke Winkie

Pledge Your Allegiance

Austin Film Society lets two iconic filmmakers square off in its new series

"...of the French New Wave – there were no look-into-your-heart hard decisions to be made. That line in the..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

Departing Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez passes the reigns [sic] to Kevin Curtin with 10 anecdotes from 27 years.

"...1) Meeting Margaret Moser (1992)..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...experimental ensembles, K-pop collectives – it’s all here for your Festival scheduling...."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Knocking at Your Back Door

Austin's Soak: Not Sitting Around

"...said this before," finishes the bassist. "You could spend your whole career trying to be king of the hill..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Luv Doc Recommends: Who Is Your Daddy? Little Lounge Lizards' June Dance Party

Qua Bottle Lounge, Saturday, June 6, 2009

"...thing. The folks loading up the boxcars for Nazi death camps or the ones poisoning the punchbowl in Jonestown..."

June 5, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

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