Mexico City/Austin Trio Demons My Friends and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Plus the debut of Radio Coffee’s new location and Natalie Jane Hill’s Texas return

"...Tearjerk, Creekbed Carter Hogan Saturday 21 w/ Texas Gentlemen, Lady Dan, Brown Burlesque..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

My Great Big Booty

Taking home more than souvenirs from Mardi Gras lady krewes

"...Hands down, my favorite prizes so far have come from the two..."

Feb. 6, 2008 Design Post by Kate X Messer

Kickin' It Old School: Historic Dining in the ATX

"...Scholz Garten (1607 San Jacinto) Austin's oldest outdoor biergarten and dining hall was built by German..."

March 15, 2013 Food Feature by MM Pack

Modern Tales as Old as Time

New AFS series travels back to the seat of civilization

"...suicide bomber. But director Dror Zahavi's fictional film For My Father forces the audience to consider the whole story:..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Gay Place: DON'T Rain on My Parade!

Get your Pride parade seats early. This year is going to be a doozy.

"...participants. The crowd cracked the 100,000 figure. This year, hold on to your hat: Austin Pride has over 9,000..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

BFFs: Lady Bromance or Romance?

Exploring the gray area between friends and girlfriends at aGLIFF

"...looking at what happens when you start to get older and attractions change. What you’re attracted to at 20..."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

How Green Grows My County?

'Greenprints' aim to protect our most precious natural lands

"...the water. Everyone wanted to see and touch a week-old soft-shelled turtle. All bemoaned the handful of sand and..."

Dec. 14, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Whether Saving Lives During the Freeze or Saving the City From Save Austin Now, Bob Nicks Just Helped

"I didn’t do a thing. I sat in my office and dispatched people. But I was part of it.”

"...advice is to stay home really bothered me," Nicks told the Chronicle in one of several wide-ranging conversations. "I'm..."

April 8, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

'Downton Abbey' and the 'Desire of Suitors'

Mary is beating suitors off with a stick

"...Hello, my dearest readers. So sorry to have abandoned you last..."

Feb. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

I Before E

A career retrospective on one of the lost cosmic cowboys, Rusty Wier

"...on the piano as Larry Nye's electric guitar and Jeremy Bow's drums follow suit. The loping rock beat starts..."

May 31, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Still Hazy After All These Years

The Seventies may be long gone, but counterculture comedian Tommy Chong is still here and still doing what he loves: smoking dope, playing music, and making people laugh.

"...I have to confess that when I called Tommy Chong at 8:30 on a Monday morning, I had..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature

The Luv Doc: A Surreptitious Grope

Not exactly the Kama Sutra of hugs

"...from the Northeast and I am very happy with my new adopted state/city. I love the weather (yes, even..."

May 18, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Shout It Out

On talking in all the right places

"...into the endzone (to continue the running sports metaphor), my Grinchy heart grew three sizes...."

June 27, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Momentum and the Mountainside Sound

Dylan's bottler of magic, Bob Johnston, on the nicest guy ever, plus Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, Michael Martin Murphey, and more

"...Joe Ely's Down on the Drag, and efforts by Jimmy LaFave and Willie Nelson.Johnston Meets Dylan..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Gross In

Is any writer in Austin as revolting and entertaining as Andrew Hilbert?

"...watch such trash. Being confident about his opinion, he told his sons that if the movie received one thumb..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by François Pointeau

The Year in Movies, and in Moments

What didn’t make my Top 10

"...I filed my Top 10 list this year, as every year, with..."

Dec. 31, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'Found' Affects

Scott Schirmer tells a twisted serial killer tale through the eyes of an 11-year-old

"..."My brother keeps a human head in his closet." That..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Popovers at the Piggy Place

Pastry chef Jodi Elliott slings carbs & community at Foreign & Domestic

"...North Loop neighborhood: a pop-up bake sale in the two-year-old American bistro, Foreign & Domestic. "I thought it would..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Food Post

Rusty Wier

Texas Platter

"...Rusty Wier"Under My Hat" (Harlequin)..."

April 11, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

A Stitch in Time: Revisiting Stitch V

In lieu of an event, a virtual trip around the online crafting world

"...are still so many Neanderthals hunched over keyboards. (I myself am pretty resigned to unwanted Planet of the Apes..."

Nov. 23, 2008 Design Post by Anne Harris

Toros on Top

"...rebounds for every 30 minutes he’s on the floor. My man Justin Bowen is putting in 13 points a..."

Jan. 14, 2008 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Review: Angélica Rahe

Autorretrato

"...into poetic supplications as musings like "I come with my mother's curves, my dad's guitar" ("Ancestros") and "My old..."

July 15, 2022 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Nightstream Review: Honeydew

Keep an ear open for this new tale of backwoods malice

"...Babes in the wood. Hansel and Gretel. Hop-o'-My-Thumb. The myth of the innocents who stumble into the..."

Oct. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...which will also be available to stream for badge holders, of which there will be 76 World Premieres, 4..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Ida,' Ho!

Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Princess Ida' makes her Austin debut

"...of curtseying and have voices that – well, as Lady Blanche describes to her sister Melissa, "They're such marvelous..."

June 13, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...a 5-CD set of Beefheart rarities?), this box set holds a blue million miles. At least half of the..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

'Cribdeath: Bellocq's Girl'

Second-place winner

"...Price is the same. No matter what, take up my time. Ya gotta pay...."

Feb. 12, 2010 Books Feature by F.J. Schaack

The True Story

Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …

"...Father's father was a buffalo soldier...."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Katy Perry: Part of Me

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

"...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 track, "Firework,"..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Preserving a 'Special Kind of Place'

Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’

"...this – there's a history here; it's not being told. ... This [movement] is not really that nonsensical notion..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

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