Nutshell Your Screenplay for Success

Austin Film Society partners with the Screenplay Workshop for Seminar

"...the story down, dig in, and determine whether the mystery of grandma's lost necklace is a workable script. But,..."

Oct. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

The Number 23

Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey combine their dubious talents to create an even more dubious movie in which a man becomes obsessed with the number 23.

"...a one-time fluke in an interminable career that seesaws back and forth between puerile comedy and Oscar-chasing melodrama. If..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

'Why Jimmy'

Second-Place Winner

"...Off the record, Grandmother brought Jimmy to our house because his goodfornothing mother was hooked..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Erin Pringle

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...30-plus-year run was it Austin's classiest venue, but the Back Room definitely had balls; in the self-proclaimed Live Music..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Anatomy of a Gay Bashing, Part 2

More of the story of the Christmas night gay bashing

"...not pretty. I immediately took a snap shot of my face and posted it on Facebook because I wanted..."

Dec. 30, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

What, Me Worry? Yes.

'American Splendor' is one of the most celebrated movies of the year, and everybody loves my comic again. But … I dunno.

"...He has been a frequent contributor to the Chronicle's pages, mostly as a jazz music reviewer, and has come..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Screens Feature by Harvey Pekar

Diamond in the Rough

Dawson's Can-Do Spirit Emerges in Pilot Project

"...lost in these bigger applications, and frankly, I wanted my three pages," Medlin says, referring to the maximum length..."

June 5, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

No Tours, No Interviews

Doubling Back with Bob Mould

"...Actually, I think I'm gonna end up back up here."..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Music Feature

Horror Unearthed: The Return of Confessions of a Serial Killer

The lost Austin horror classic finally gets the respect it deserves

"...movie, the name Henry Lee Lucas was on front pages across the nation. When Lucas was arrested in Texas..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...branded the 1965 hit with Texas twang to his Grammy-winning work with the Texas Tornados, Meyers has stood on..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Town Crier

Oscar Casares dips back into Brownsville for his new novel, Amigoland

"...was only after I left that I started looking back and realizing it was great," Casares says. "There were..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Books Feature by James Renovitch

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I too was a young hopeful, with visions of my first Oscar acceptance speech dancing in my head. But..."

July 18, 2003 Column

Elizabeth Morris: 100 Years of Memories in Austin

Of back porches, corrupt politicians, and fireworks at Zilker Park

"...She remembers sitting with her siblings on their screened-in back porch in East Austin each evening and listening to..."

April 5, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

A Lesson in Gender Fluidity: I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

SXSW selection finds new life courtesy of Amazon Prime

"...woman, she performed across Manhattan's cabarets and glossed the pages of NYC gossip rags. Toward the decade's end, Tish..."

March 13, 2020 Screens Post by Beth Sullivan

As Millions Demand Justice, Texas Prepares to Take Rodney Reed's Life

Looking back at a long road of injustice for the death row inmate

"...executed on Nov. 20. "But those words have passed my lips in the last week or so."..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

DVDanger: Victor Crowley

Adam Green and Kane Hodder head back to the swamp

"...Adam Green decided to bring the modern movie maniac back to his slaying ways...."

Feb. 6, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Girl Who Met Robert Johnson

Shirley Ratisseau wrote a song with Robert Johnson

"...Even so, her name has slipped through time's back pages...."

Aug. 3, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Year in Rewind

The Chronicle looks back at 2008 at the movies

"...film list and then presented individually on the following pages) are a wealth of good suggestions of movies to..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Starbucks vs. the Chronicle: Who's zoomin' who?

"...for adult entertainment (the sex industry) which decorate the back pages of this alternative rag. I just thought that..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's translations of 20th-century poets enrich our language.

"...For myself, my first book of Bly's was Neruda and Vallejo...."

July 7, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

The Whole Package

With Margaret Wiley, you didn’t have a one-trick pony; you had a multitude of talents and personalities in one big and big-hearted woman. Wiley’s friends and colleagues at Esther’s Follies offer their memories of this exceptional Austin comedian who died November 2.

"...With the writer, that bawdy satirist who could skewer Tammy Faye Bakker with songs by The Who and deliver..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Search & Destroy

Pages That Rock

"...In the subUrban wasteland of my youth, in a tiny, bland town in Anywhere, U.S.A.,..."

March 14, 1997 Books Feature

Bedside Manner: Mogwai's Travel Reading

What Savlov's dog is napping on these days

"...busy-reading-please-be-quiet, or scouring used bookstores for cool book-scores that my dog Mogwai (seen here) can nap upon...."

Nov. 30, 2010 Books Post by Marc Savlov

Zeppelin 3

"...to Norway,” read the email subject line. That got my attention. So did frostbite and snowbanks downstairs in the..."

March 28, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Not Clucking Around

East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.

"...in his "Comments From the Chairman" epistle on the back of the glossy newsletter. After explaining that the company..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...to play an Ian Dury tribute at London's Brixton Academy. Too often, though, it's rather pathetic to see a..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Postmarks

We're Not Naive

"...6) My name is spelled "Behr," not "Beher."..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column

Postmarks

Duff Gets Tough

"...in competition" with Capitol Metro. To the best of my knowledge that statement is only currently correct. Backtracking, I..."

June 27, 1997 Column

Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue – He Got One

Nora Ankrum responds to the bowtie backlash

"...I was scrolling through my Facebook feed Friday night when I spotted Dan Solomon’s..."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Nora Ankrum

Charlie Baird and the Tobacco Lawyers

Reaud, Tigar denounce Baird D.A. campaign charges

"...investigate them a decade ago. The lawyers are striking back...."

May 26, 2012 News Post by Michael King

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