Eating My Way Through Two and a Half Decades of Comics

The Drawn and Quarterly 25th Anniversary Anthology

"...It's when I'm preparing some eggs for breakfast that my mind flashes on an image of Chester Brown masturbating...."

June 5, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Food Issue Extra Helpings: My Relationship as a Google Doc

Foodie favorites find an OCD home

"...the lights went down at the Alamo Drafthouse during my first date with my now-boyfriend, my mind was running..."

Feb. 10, 2014 Chronolog Post by Monica Riese

Bedside Manner: Back to School Edition

Melanie Haupt relaxes by planning her fall syllabi

"...These days, my bedside reaing is informed almost entirely by my fall..."

Aug. 6, 2012 Books Post by Melanie Haupt

Sunshine (State) on My Shoulder, Part 1

A deeper look at the work of Florida's ragtag art collective, The Highwaymen.

"...in a few coffeetable books covering subjects relating to my home state, Florida. In the intro of the review,..."

Dec. 17, 2007 Design Post by Kate X Messer

Owen Kline Turns the Funny Pages

New movie looks at the grotesque and absurd sides of collection

"...In A24's Funny Pages (read our review here), the particular subject is comic..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pages for Presents

Helpful and Not-So-Helpful Book Ideas

"...names always seem to elude just the right gift. My philosophy is: A book for everyone and everyone with..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two: Row My Boat Ashore

Louis Black bids farewell in his final “Page Two” column

"...to Brooklyn for a Jonathan Demme retrospective at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Paul Thomas Anderson and I introduced the..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Back to the Future

Austin's agrarian past rises again

"...Rain Lily Farm914 Shady, 386-7633 www.rainlilydesign.com/pages/farm..."

April 9, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Animation and reality collide in this paean to pubescence

"...ingenious and creative, qualities that make the perpetrators Public Enemy No. 1 to the humorless martinets that run the..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life

Live review of the jam band godfather's Sunday set

"...Accompanied by a fourpiece backing band dominated by drummer Richard Bailey and a conga..."

Nov. 27, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Austin's Greenest 'Yellow Pages': Seventh Edition Hits Stands

Paul Robbins draws on institutional knowledge to produce a 'labor of love'

"...for Maximum Potential Building Systems calls it "the Yellow Pages of the green movement"). The current issue fills about..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Brandon Cash Says He's a Clown. His Critics Say He's a Bigot. Will His Customers Keep Coming Back?

The show must (?) go on

"...and misogyny – after having already weathered a storm back in 2017 prompted by similar social media mischief. This..."

Aug. 14, 2020 News Feature by Lee Ackerley

All My Love

C-Side Records' family values

"...wail of Robert Plant nor the guitar-god gifts of Jimmy Page. He enters Ruta Maya's full-moon Led Zeppelin Hoot..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Move TMCM Back to the Front

"...through a copy of The Austin Chronicle, I find myself asking what many other readers must be asking. What..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Postmarks

Playback – Lift to Experience: Back at the Crossroads

Lift to Experience returns to Texas-Jerusalem, X Games music crashes, and Prince-a-plenty

"..."That's the one good thing I did with my life," says Josh T. Pearson, frontman of the short-lived..."

June 3, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

My Semester on the Beat

Wherein our reporter pursues the bad guys, abhors Problem People, studies community policing, and earns a perfect attendance koozie in the APD's Citizen Police Academy

"...to fetch the Camry; a second tow truck was backing into the turn lane to try again; and Silvio..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Intergalactic Nemesis Strikes Back

The live action graphic novel debuts book two this week

"...adventures of two-fisted journalist Molly Sloan and her sidekick/researcher Timmy Mendez blast off from where Book One: Target Earth..."

June 7, 2012 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...into the jaws of danger. Without music at his back, poor Robin might as well be facing the Sheriff..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

He's Coming Back

Who gets punished when George W. Bush comes home to Austin after losing the election.

"...was mean and uncalled-for," he said. "It didn't bother my dad. He's lived with 'Doonesbury,' so he's used to..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

A Proposal in Our Pages. The Crossword to Be Exact.

Here’s the down and across of the plan. But did it work?

"...“I get the crossword for my girlfriend every Thursday. … I usually come home and..."

Nov. 20, 2019 News Post by Alyssa Quiles

Cool City: My Big Fat Carbon Footprint

One reporter's liberating steps toward energy efficiency

"...I'm speaking of my first compact fluorescent lightbulb, the newfangled squiggly kind that..."

July 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

My Weetzah Days

A case study of one post-Winedale company, the Weetzah Players

"...Tormé rendition, so it's with his undulating voice in my head – when the lonely protagonist, after cheering on..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Clayton Stromberger

Getting Weird on the Back Nine With Austin Comedy The Salamander King

Director Austin Nichols takes his ATX golf comedy to Dallas

"...Austin for Best Public Golf Course within these very pages. Nichols said, “It’s small, it’s not well taken care..."

April 24, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hands off My MUD

Davenport Fights to Retain Independence It Never Had

"...Back to the Basics..."

Nov. 14, 1997 News Feature by John Spong

A Way Back to Tenderness

Writing workshops serve Austin's aging and their caregivers

"...My fear is waiting on the bedside table...."

Dec. 27, 2013 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Back in the Mirror

First-time director Niels Mueller on 'The Assassination of Richard Nixon'

"...history. So I had started writing a script on my own called The Assassination of LBJ – I picked..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Brisket Thief Strikes la Barbecue, Easy Tiger Works Some Pretzel Logic, Garbo’s Claws a Sunday Service, the Carillon Chimes Back In, and the Quesoff Is on Its Cheesy Way Again

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

"...Last week we told you about the return of..."

Aug. 10, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'A Lie of the Mind'/'Love's Labour's Lost'

Seeing two plays she did 23 years ago prompts flashbacks for a local actor

"...Summer 1988: My then-boyfriend Ken Webster directed me in Sam Shepard's A..."

May 20, 2011 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Page Two: Yes We Said Yes We Will Yes

The Chronicle in bloom

"...– Bob Dylan, "My Back Pages"..."

June 25, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Tributes

"...boy Hansen, whose duet with Parsons' real Grievous Angel, Emmylou Harris, on "Sin City," from the Flying Burrito Bros.'..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

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