Allies No More

illustration by Doug Potter

"...close, it would forfeit approximately $8.5 million in earnest money which had been deposited on the condition that Phoenix..."

July 25, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Faster Than Sound: Edith Frost Returns

Austinite once again, Edith Frost offers first new songs in over a decade, plus Natalie Jane Hill's debut and Red River Cultural District requests

"...last 15 years to please hurry up and make more songs! Everyone else had pretty much given up."..."

May 22, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Pure X Reconciles With Austin

Local rock group returns after six years, Gold Rush Vinyl checks in, and Threadgill’s closes permanently.

"...adds Grace. “New York and L.A. were just way more up on the internet. The first time we got..."

April 24, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: 12 Years of Peligrosa Drives ¡Eso Es!

Local DJ collective sets a mood at Margin Walker’s new fiesta-val of all Latinx talent

"...former member Patrick Murray's boogaloo samples stood out among more single-minded local Latin nights. Having already survived the Nineties..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

More to the Story

Advocates work to change the conversation around human trafficking

"...haze of heroin and selling sex to pay for more heroin...."

April 22, 2016 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

U.S. More Fascist Than Capitalist

"...Dear Austin Chronicle, A thanks and a contention. On behalf of all the starving,..."

Aug. 30, 2005 Postmarks

Education Does Deserve and Need a Lot More Funding

"...majors put in the same amount of time and money as other college majors, but then find out they've..."

Aug. 22, 2005 Postmarks

More Summer Fireworks at ACTV

A half-year after a city-led investigation began into missing money at ACTV, no answers are forthcoming. In the manner of many of the colorful programs and personalities that populate the public access airwaves, conspiracy theories abound – and not solely over the missing funds.

"...theories abound – and not solely over the missing money. With new ACTV management offers already submitted to the..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Ventura Needs to Get More Sleep

"...to the changes." Schools are a national disaster and more money (from Iraq War?) will not decrease the decline..."

July 13, 2004 Postmarks

Cap Met's Five Year Bus Plan: More, Faster, Better

"...Version 2.0 -- the post-rail edition -- foresees much more, faster, better bus service than Cap Met has heretofore..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The More Things Change...

"...live in the central city, you can afford a more expensive house, because you won't be spending so much..."

Jan. 8, 1999 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Desperado HoursFor a Few Dollars More

"...mostly do-it-yourself process that solves problems with ingenuity rather than bucks, a process Rodriguez calls "Mariachi-style." Though Desperado was..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Until the End of the World

Chopped to ribbons by the American distributor upon its initial release, Wenders’ sprawling Odyssean epic is only now seen in its true form, in a positively Homeric 295 minute version.

"...Sam Neill, Rüdiger Volger, Max von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau. What starts out promisingly enough continues considerably beyond the..."

Feb. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

'Everybody Loses'

Anti-abortion crusade will devastate health care

"...to shutter their operations – and will result in more than 200,000 women left without access to basic health..."

May 27, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Crossing the Line

"...-- the main problem being Danny's male ego rather than any threats of starvation or indebtedness). When his childhood..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Great Gatsby

A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.

"...Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet’s hot bloods with too much money, Moulin Rouge’s showgirls and courtesans – and then draining..."

May 10, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Mayor's Plan to Fix Everything

Adler to announce Downtown revitalization plan

"...most centralized Downtown districts while simultaneously purchasing housing for more than 200 members of the homeless population – all..."

July 16, 2017 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Good Woman of Bangkok

"...Starring: Yaiwalak Chonchanakun. If there's anyone Aoi (Chonchanakun) hates more than herself, it's men as a whole. Aoi is..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man Behind the List

Craig of Craigslist really exists, and he's about more than selling your tuba

"...flirted with a pit bull named Daisy. Craig did more than clear up a mystery; he spoke about a..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

The Endless Summer II

"...sport itself. The original was shot with very little money and grainy, hand-held, 16mm equipment. Twenty-eight years later, the..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: And the Armadillos Went Wild

Threadgill’s World Headquarters goes the way of its predecessor, the Armadillo World Headquarters, plus Black Fret offers more than just money

"...reminisced about old times, and uttered a common phrase: "Thank you for everything you've done."..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

New Model for a Funny Business

Bill Burr and Al Madrigal's All Things Comedy lets the folks making jokes own more than the laughs

"...own every bit of that. We do not take money from them at all. We're hoping to make them..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Russ Espinoza

My Life on Apps

The convenience and economics of living through your phone

"...been made lately of our civic need to be more agile in our habits of transit that it's begun..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Marvelous Jew

Larry Harlow talks salsa consciousness

"...as he’s affectionately known in Latin music circles, produced more than 250 albums for the Latin Motown in addition..."

Oct. 7, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Page Two: Funny Papers

More than ever, the Chronicle is what people make of it

"...they are comfortable. In some ways, that voice is more the directional map and gyroscope of one's writing than..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Column by Louis Black

88 Minutes

Al Pacino stars in this dull and formulaic procedural.

"...following several other ill-conceived roles in Two for the Money, Gigli, and S1m0ne – all to varying degrees crimes..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Volver

No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodóvar, and Volver is his ode of love to women’s congress and fortitude.

"...No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodóvar, and Volver is his ode of love..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Not Just Another Pretty Face

With the Naughty Austin theatre company, there's more than meets the eye.

"...Still, as there is frequently more to a pageant contestant than a glossy smile and..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Custody

"...original interview turns out to be a drunken ramble, thanks to Nur's rum-besotted fan club who show up at..."

July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Man Bites Dog

"...director Rémy Belvaux, is all of these and much more, a ghastly, shocking and explosive debut with all the..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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