Oh, Oh, Those Summer Bites

Camp Food

"...for me a potent dose of nostalgia which rattles my sense of the present. I ache for specific things:..."

July 9, 1999 Food Feature

All Done Up

"...the world what we would wear, but at least back then, they all wanted us to look pretty. Pretty..."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Get It While You Can

"..."I'm sorry you didn't take the time to read my book, Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

A League of Their Own

"...the film map more closely resembles a Studio City backlot than the campus paved with espresso and daydreams depicted..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Postmarks

Libertarians Say No to Doggett

"...a sidebar to balance the 7 photos and 6 pages of gushing coverage...."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column

To Preserve and Protect

The HRC's Texas Dante and India Alice

"...between, there was a month of microfilming, various correspondence back and forth with people in Italy, at three American..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...really found the right guys to play these songs, back then. Some wanted to be in the Beatles, some..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Nik Wallenda: Life on the Wire

In which we send an aerialist to talk to a stuntman. Whoa.

"...than about what I was raised doing. More about my industry and about the Nik part, than about the..."

May 19, 2011 Arts Post by Raven Hinojosa

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...Back then, the Monthly was avant-garde for pointing out that..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...question is, how well can you pogo to these pages? Well, like the music, some books may be the..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Postmarks

Readers weigh in on the criminality of musicians, the integrity of neighborhoods, and more.

"...prominently featured on the cover and in photos on pages 24 and 30. When I picked up the Chronicle,..."

July 6, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Nichols Is Biased

"...the bylaws by keeping them a secret -- ignoring my two written requests last summer (one by certified mail)..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Column

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...some dark corner of the National Archives in Washington (my guess is that someday a floor tile will be..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Making Movies on Cyber-Location

Doug Block's Film, Home Page, and How It Grew

"...immediately gravitated to the personal sites: mainly, personal home pages and online diaries. The rest of the Web held..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Myra Breckinridge Video stores killed the revival houses. Video and..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap

After a decade and a half, the legendary manga's battle dreams are made real

"...Avatar happened, and Cameron's dream adaptation went on the back burner...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...about destroying the suffer-for-our-art funk of the place with my type-A obsessive behavior. Instead he asked, "How would you..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Egg Cartons and Foam-Rubber Wallpaper

Finding Rehearsal Space in Austin

"...level?" asks Bones. "Well, that obviously doesn't always work. My band knows that firsthand from practicing. Neighbors have complained,..."

April 11, 1997 Music Feature

311 Story in Error

"...assessments of Bill, I thought I would throw in my much less than 2cents worth...."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column

What Galleries Are Doing on the World Wide Web Why Net Art?

"...I can. The galleries and muse-ums, in particular, provide my incentive to return...."

Jan. 19, 1996 Arts Feature

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...ease the summer heat by spending time at Austin's myriad bookstores, where you'll find all these titles and so..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Preserving History’s First Draft in Central Texas

From treasure legends to backyard graves, news archives fill gaps

"...“Old Silver Mine Legends Now Coming Back Into Popularity” the 1949 headline reads, as if announcing..."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

Faster Than Sound: A Belated Introduction From Your Incoming Music Editor

Music columnist graduates to Music editor after four years

"...school to get really into music and drive from my hometown of San Antonio to Austin for shows as..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Until the End of the World

Writing is not what I live for, it’s how I live

"...why, and for whom do I write? Well ... my mother used to say, "Why is a crooked letter."..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Arts Feature by Michael Ventura

How Pepe Was Martyred by the Right

Austin-linked SXSW doc Feels Good Man liberates the frog

"...but hopefully it's a much larger cultural narrative, it's my favorite kind of film; and Matt is just this..."

March 13, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Edward Carey's Portrait of Madame Tussaud in Little

The Austin author both writes about and illustrates the grand, strange life of the waxworks queen

"...humor to a book titled Little that's over 400 pages long. But then again, intriguing contradictions go right to..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Mom and Apple Pie

Celebrating the new America

"...was something intoxicating about the full color spreads in my grandmother's and mother's magazines. 35 holiday entertaining ideas. 10..."

July 3, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

15 Minutes With Paul Kelly

Aussie “Boss” Paul Kelly has quite the tale to tell.

"...the year with some music students. We’ve been going back and forth on this for about nine months. It’s..."

Feb. 22, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Bedside Manner: This Book Will Change Your Life

A peek at what Chronicle staffers’ bedside tables

"...kick off a weekly series in which we pull back the curtain, or rather, kick open the boudoir, to..."

Oct. 4, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We're still wild about Harry, even though this new adventure prefers to flush pink with its lovesick teens than forward-thrust toward the mammoth battle of good vs. evil.

"...Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (besting, in my book, even Alfonso Cuarón’s artful, toil-and-trouble Harry Potter and..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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