D.A.'s Race Heats Up With Lawsuit

Reed accuses TCDP's Harding of failing to properly review Cobb's application

"...ignorance, but rather a different interpretation of the law: Pages can conjoin into one part if there's indication that's..."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Stargayzer Lineup Released

A first look at who's playing the inaugural Stargayzer Fest

"...Stargayzer is produced by Christeene cohort, JJ Booya and..."

April 15, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...point of view as the owner of Downtown Lounge. My first encounter with the mayor was during his election..."

June 11, 2004 Column

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...first-timers each season, and just recently Time spent three pages reviewing spring fictional debuts. Thousands of novels are published..."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...population, and so I have to focus most of my attention on reaching that 99% for whom jazz is..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Holy Smoke!

The Barbecue! Bible

"...fish and shellfish, and yes, even veggies. Some 100 pages of condiments, salsas, and slaws, and sauces to mop..."

June 25, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...styles to expect from each. You can get this background from just about any book for beginners. However, one..."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

Mediatruck Makes Software That Makes Sense

"...learn logic so I'd intrinsically understand this is not my home language, therefore I shouldn't waste time trying to..."

May 14, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Faces and Places

"...old and living in a faceless South Houston suburb. My eight-year-old world is colored by fear. I imagine Russians..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Scaggs Photo in Bad Taste

"...three stabs the long knife poked out of her back."..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Column

Serious Intuition

John Thorne's Before Side of a Recipe

"...Ward recommended his second cookbook, Outlaw Cook, in these pages. I bought the book and quickly became mesmerized by..."

May 16, 1997 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

Experience the C.H.A.R.M.?

Marketing the "live music capital of the world"

"...potential slogan switch was only a rumor -- traceable back to the Austin Convention & Visitor's Bureau (ACVB) and..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Qmmunity: Taking Yourself on a Date

Make sure to make time for the coolest queer you know, aka you.

"...Despite being an artist, I do not do morning pages. This is because I am also a professional writer,..."

April 18, 2025 Column by James Scott

Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds

Seussian fairy tale from GKIDS about two sisters who turn into cats

"...five-year-old Juliette (Charpentier) has more than a little of My Neighbor Totoro’s chaos-causing little sister Mei about her. Of..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Have You Seen the Last of Kevin Curtin?

No, but due to big life changes, I am demoting myself

"...For every day of my life over the last 12 years, I've consistently done..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...clawhammer banjo picker – and by now counts four Grammy Awards and nine nominations. Blue Heron Suite, that 32-minute..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Day Trips & Beyond: November Travel Roundup

Port A's Harvey recovery, Millican's pecan pie, and fall travel news

"...Over the last three years my family, friends, and I have watched as the Port..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...When I was 16, sort of on a fluke my dad had me go to this workshop with Scott..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVD Watch: Snitch

Director Ric Roman Waugh makes the Rock into an everyman

"...set with them, and I was able to develop my own voice."..."

June 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Katy Perry: Part of Me

The film is an inoffensive slice of canny brand (or is that non-Brand?) management and marketing.

"...that there wasn't a bobble-headed, ADHD gum-snapper kicking the back of my seat to the beat of Perry's be-all-you-can-be..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beat Currencies

In a look at some recently reprinted classic works by the Beats, Chronicle writer Dale Smith examines why being on the road was such a dangerous place -- and why it no longer is.

"...I'm a famous Beat poet, why can't I pay my rent?" Few if any of the Beat writers received..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Dale Smith

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin

"...USA Today last month, where a 5% nationwide personnel cutback meant closing the paper's Austin bureau: a one-man operation..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Town & Country

"...characters' dual residences, it also calls to mind those smarmy style magazines that like to splash across their pages..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Corner to Corner

In his final "Corner to Corner" column, Mike Clark-Madison declares victory and gets out, noting that neighborhood issues are now taken seriously in mainstream city politics.

"...most writers I know, I'm a little afraid of my past work. Not that most people aren't embarrassed by..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Working Worked Out

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...had successfully captured the post-war mood of turning one's back on the Second World War. Rude Mechanicals earned an..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

It's a Mystery to Me

"...illustration by Penny Van Horn Believe it or not, mystery musketeers, there are people in the world who maintain..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Celebrity Cynosures

"...does have its pleasures, it is at least 300 pages too long and it just isn't worth it...."

March 5, 1999 Books Review

Status of the Original

"...president of that company. Well, I'd only been running my business for a few years at that point and..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Whisks Up

The Way To Cook

"...Even though I've been obsessed with food all my life and cooking for years, I'm always on the..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Food Feature

Rants of a Technological Primitive

Letters at 3am

"...means being linked umbilically (plugged in!) to the corporations. My resistance to technology isn't an aversion to the machines..."

May 15, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

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