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May 8-14

"...For more events, see Community Listings. Thursday 8..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature

The New Rage

Voxtrot finally conquers the LP

"...Every day, every day losing my sympathy..."

May 18, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...did not kill Father Patrick Ryan. I was innocent yesterday! I am innocent today! And, I will be innocent..."

June 24, 2005 Column

Page Two

Once again, Austin has demonstrated its deep indifference to front-line troops who nourish the music scene it purports to be so proud of

"...and over, I'm listening to Frank Zappa's "Trouble Every Day" on the Mothers' maiden album, Freak Out (I had..."

May 13, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...these things, chances are you would not live another day. It probably wouldn't be extremists who killed you, just..."

June 25, 2004 Column

High Tech vs. High Touch

The midwifery debate is not new in Austin -- a Chronicle reprint from June 18, 1993

"...It's 11:00 on Tuesday morning at the East Austin clinic and Mary Barnett..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Dancing About Architecture

A recap of the first Austin Music Commission Town Meeting; the Antone's Blues Festival looks to have a bright future.

"...back of the old Threadgill's on North Lamar on Tuesday night. It was also swelteringly hot, due to the..."

May 19, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Writing About Humans

"...esteemed group of biographers, editors, and historians spent two days in Austin last week discussing their various experiences with..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Arts Feature by Cari Marshall

L’Oca d’Oro Reopens, ACC Bristol-Joseph Scholarships Activate, Chocolate In General FTW, and Small Mercies Everywhere …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Award-winning chef Tavel Bristol-Joseph (of Emmer & Rye and..."

April 28, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Shiva Baby

Wry observational comedy puts the fun in funeral

"...baby, and that's just the beginning of her bad day...."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Film About a Father Who

Documentarian Lynne Sachs comes to terms with her complicated father

"...spent time with her on the self-proclaimed Bob Dylan Day, a man who has given her a large network..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Saint Frances

SXSW 2019 light-touch comedy faces growing up at 34

"...the casual way that it takes on so many everyday issues that we just never talk about. The abortion..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...said Gay Liberation truly began on the site of today's Convention Center, in a little stone house located at..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

The Luv Doc: Stressing Out

How many long, luxurious bubble baths can a man take?

"...My guess is that by your fourth or fifth Monday morning pedicure and mud mask, your wife will come..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Grandma

Lily Tomlin leads a dynamic cast down roads less traveled

"...abortion that she has scheduled for later in the day. Her boyfriend flaked out on the promised money, and..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art and Motherhood on the West Austin Studio Tour

Four WEST exhibitors reveal how their work is informed by being a mom

"...Virginia Fleck that, due to the proximity of Mother's Day, the Chronicle is sparking its West Austin Studio Tour..."

May 8, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Return of Lila Downs

‘La Reyna’ makes another rare stop in Austin – tonight

"...Austin Chronicle: Where am I reaching you today?..."

April 9, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Rocket Science

On the surface, Rocket Science is yet another quirky high school movie, but its story of a stutterer who's enticed into joining the debate team is special in its own way.

"...the one who carries a briefcase to school every day. Following his 2002 Oscar-nominated documentary, Spellbound, writer/director Blitz demonstrates..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...conceived by Freud, Detailed by Jung and Rendered in Day-glow, Neon, Blood and Sweat. With Car Crashes, Politics, Sex..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Twelve and Holding

This disturbing but emotionally authentic story about adolescent life treats its subjects with bravery and compassion.

"...apathetic, and over-indulgent, and he grimaces through the first day of school as the brother of a dead sibling..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Get on the Bus D.C. Report

If 100,000 march on the White House and nobody reports it, did it really happen?

"...the anti-war movement, had spent the previous couple of days knocking on legislators' doors, hoping for face-to-face discussions about..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Page Two

The anti-safe-and-legal abortion movement is about control, not life

"...Let's start today with some words of Christian love, some neighborly good..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Igby Goes Down

Black comedy about youthful unraveling while on lam from boarding school.

"...vacuous and commanding at once, a slick, not unkind modern-day robber baron whom Goldblum embodies as effortlessly as his..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Thursday Picksall showcases subject to change..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...WEDNESDAY PICKSAll showcases subject to change..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

Twentieth Century

"...baby – the brightest of them all. Born Valentine’s Day, 1882, Philadelphia, where his mother’s family, the Drews (Drew..."

Jan. 31, 2002 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Live Nude Girls Unite!

"...the kicker is, Mom doesn’t know about her daughter’s day job (a fact in itself that strips Query of..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dancing About Architecture

Clifford Antone receives a sentence; Heinz Geissler takes over the Antone's Records label; Ed Hamell is hospitalized after a car accident.

"...out in full force at the federal courthouse last Thursday, with not one but two major trials under way..."

June 2, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

A bitch session about the plight of the Austin music scene is scheduled at Threadgill's; here's hoping Negativland's long-anticpated Austin appearance doesn't dissapoint a la SRL.

"...Connor, explaining the urgency behind the airing of this Tuesday's Town Hall Meeting at Threadgill's and broadcast live throughout..."

May 12, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Friday Picks..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

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