The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel's unorthodox but true story about a protagonist who is stripped of all self-movement and expression is equal parts reverie, despair, and social experiment.

"...Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup and Olatz López Garmendia. In his brilliant new film, The..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW Keynote: Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner on Creative Inspiration and a Good Sandwich

Crying in H Mart author also hints at second book

"...Zauner lives “a life without much yearning, the bread and butter of creativity,” she said. Sounding like a dopamine..."

March 20, 2022 SXSW Post by Christina Garcia

The Peril of Memory

"...memories, I may like or dislike you without reason, and our lives may change because of that. One memory..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Diverse Space Dance Theatre's Memoirs and Armours

The company's season closer showed the young dancers' commitment to a shared vision and their potential as artists

"...thing, this dance show mounted by Violet Crown Players and Diverse Space Dance Theatre. The evening was centered around..."

May 10, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Veterans Leading the Charge

Psychedelic healing around Austin and beyond

"...air inside the maloca, an octagonal hut, was heavy and wet. Gould felt saturated by the jungle, its heat,..."

July 5, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin at Large: Back (and Forth) to the Future

At some point Austin history will stop looping upon itself. Until next time …

"...for the government, but I left the Chronicle before and then came back, so who can say what will..."

March 17, 2023 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Get Off Your Ass and Change the World

Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams speaks tomorrow at BookPeople

"...are those people among us who see a problem and simply start working on a solution...."

Sept. 6, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

We Have Met the Future, and It Is Us

Film on the Web, part II: the movies

"...be alone. But to be alone with other people, and not to forget yourself within yourself. And when there's..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"......"

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

Y Ask X and Y?

"...Chad Salvata Oh. My. God...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Social and Personal Turbulence of Armageddon Time

James Gray explores his own flawed youth in this autobiographical coming-of-age film

"...of the Amazon in The Lost City of Z and the furthest reaches of outer space in Ad Astra,..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Screens Feature by Trace Sauveur

Zach Theatre's The Ballad of Klook and Vinette

In tracking one couple's affair, this production shows us how love is an imperfect art

"...cues a smooth bassline. Taking notice is Klook, a handsome if tired-looking man in his 50s. Bearing two beverages,..."

May 17, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Austin at Large: Tear It Down and Start Again

Convention Center reboot gives us a second crack at change

"...on the States­man – that is how City Hall and the press corps have framed this story as it's..."

May 31, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Bart Layton on Secrets, Lies, and American Animals

How the documentarian turned true crime tropes on their heads

"...documentaries, he said, "You're always looking for stranger-than-fiction stories, and that was one that was completely bananas."..."

June 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers

The Butler Opera Center's pairing of these Jake Heggie chamber operas opened up small concerns to an enduring sense of love

"...the protagonists of Jake Heggie's operas Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick, for that matter – but that doesn't mean..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A Place, a Time, a Memory

The Meaning of Thanksgiving

"...spent more than a year in Barcelona, that ancient and worldly capital of Catalunya, for centuries a proud autonomous..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Food Feature by MM Pack

SXSW Saturday Picks and Sleepers

"...12:30pm, Auditorium Shores Backbeat of the Band and one of the most iconic voices in American..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Page Two: And Everyone and I Stopped Breathing

What if the government isn't broken?

"..."and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Blood and Memories

"...There's one memory of Stevie Ray Vaughan so powerful it comes to..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two: Songs of Ourselves

As friends and legends pass, art and memory burst from the present and warn the future

"...The Light and the Darkness..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Column by Louis Black

A Matter of Taste (Une Affaire De Gout)

"...Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Charles Berling, Florence Thomassin, Jean-Pierre Lorit and Bernard Giraudeau. This French psychological drama opens many twisted..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Eye: Closet Therapy

Peeling back the layers of clutter to an organized you

"...the cruelest month," begins T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," "breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing..."

April 18, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...week's list of bestsellers is from Adventures in Crime and Space, 609-A W. Sixth...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Column

All the Houses

Karen Olsson's novel tells the tragedy of Washington, D.C., through one family's isolated members

"...All the Housesby Karen Olsson Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 416 pp., $27..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Melanie Haupt

DVD Watch

'Sunday Bloody Sunday'

"...picture – Darling – that Sixties-mad cinephiles can’t shake, and the American flashpoint – Midnight Cowboy – that headlined..."

Oct. 23, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Extreme Temperature Swings

AFS Essential Cinema kicks off Asia: Hot and Cool series

"..."Seduction and revenge. Two things that always give us great joy,"..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Spring Is the Cruelest Season

"...with some more contemplative words on the condominium Waste Land...."

Dec. 6, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Austin FC Rediscovers Its Intensity in Win Over Houston Dynamo

ATX, Dallas will face off in Copa Tejas showdown

"...Inspired defending, dangerous attacking from Cecilio Domínguez and Sebastián Driussi, and an all-around high level of effort..."

Oct. 25, 2021 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

TFAA Director Sandra Greagor Igniting a Fire for the Arts

"...art be- cause you can't not make it," says Sandra Greagor, Director of the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA)...."

July 28, 1995 Arts Feature

A Revolution of Spirit

Ritual jazz theatre pioneer Sharon Bridgforth premieres a new work, her last in Austin

"...rivers pour into the ocean. Light blurs, birds congregate, and things change. The South is full of them. It's..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Abe Louise Young

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