Nubian Queen Lo-La: Don't Tread on My Trim!

Nubian Queen Lozina Stephens facing eviction for … a purple door?

"...Kitchen, Lozina E. Stephen’s new RV is dark, cool, and comfortable, done up tastefully in burgundy and purple crushed..."

July 17, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Congress and Iraq: Two steps back

Congress votes to appropriate more funds for Iraq war as requested by the Bush administration, without timetables for withdrawal or other constraints on occupation, other than nonbinding security "benchmarks" for Iraqi government

"...– a bill that passed strongly in the House and narrowly in the Senate but with insufficient support to..."

June 1, 2007 News Feature by Michael King

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

This first feature from Bosnian director/writer Jasmila Zbanic offers up a slice of life after hell in which a widowed mother and daughter still veer perilously between fear and hope.

"...Starring: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Mijovic, Kenan Catic, Leon Lucev and Bogdan Diklic. As ever, the first casualty of war..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Found My Fill on BlackBerry Hill

At Sundance, a renewed "Focus on Film" amid celebrity worship and the frantic search for the next big thing

"...Film Festival, the admonition to turn off all cell phones used to issue from the hard-working theatre volunteers before..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Will Travel for Food and Drink

Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic

"...coffee behind. The Viennese developed a taste for it, and little restaurants specializing in it started opening up along..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The Sound and the Fury

Nic Armstrong's IV Thieves, stealing thunder in Austin.

"...Thieves isn't easy under the most benign circumstances, let alone their first show back in the quartet's adopted hometown..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Crying Boy (and Bob) of OU

"...is apparently getting his mug plastered all over T-shirts and e-mail attachments slinging back and forth across the Red..."

Oct. 12, 2006 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

The Chosen One

Director Jamie Babbit sounds off on 'The Quiet' – Burnt Orange's first national release – and its discomfiting implications

"...Classics – a coup for both the UT-affiliated company and a decided change of pace for both director Babbit..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Here and There

The 'Chronicle' offers its Web forums and reaches out for a community conversation

"...edition interactive. The Chronicle comes out of the community and is published for it. Therefore we need to make..."

July 28, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Flip It and Reverse It

Bush abandons troublesome action for the sanctity of meaningless battles and ideological purity

"...July 4, this column was going to be another one focused on the Constitution and the American government. Unfortunately,..."

July 7, 2006 Column by Louis Black

... And the 'West' is History

How Big State Productions' little monologue show changed Austin theatre

"...in the offing. The shows listed are a pretty standard mix of hardy perennials (Bus Stop, All My Sons,..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Anything Can Happen: Jon Favreau and Dax Shepard on Zathura

How this Jumanji requel took to the stars

"...Hollywood's output is as rife with seemingly bizarre improbabilities and their attendant uncertainties as anywhere in the known universe,..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Discord and Ecstasy

Werner Herzog on 'Grizzly Man'

"...makings of a Werner Herzog hero: personal demons, a mysterious and difficult past, a receding hairline, paranoia, grandiosity, and..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Melinda and Melinda

Woody Allen literally imagines a scenario as both a comedy and a tragedy, but we can't understand why half of this movie isn't at least amusing.

"...Chloë Sevigny, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Brooke Smith, Amanda Peet, Wallace Shawn and Larry Pine. I’ll freely admit..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...morbid curiosity to see what it's like to watch someone fall from a great height." – David Olney, in..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Austin @ Large: To Preserve and Thrive

Alvarez and Thomas' Eastside plan needs fine-tuning, but it's about time

"...Austin" issue, I riffed on Eastside revitalization, or gentrification, and whether we can create one without the other. Clearly,..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Floyd Tillman

Texas platters

"...half of his life in semiretirement, living near Houston and in the Hill Country, gigging sporadically and never far..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Hops, Barley, and ... Rainwater?

The Bitter End's Environmental Pale Ale is ready just in time for the Teas Craft Brewers Festival

"...was good for you? Well, I think we've found one right here in Austin. It is the new Environmental..."

May 14, 2004 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Renaissance (and Baroque) Man

As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.

"...a place, especially coming from such a refined figure, and yet given his position -- curator of prints, drawings,..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Forty-Fives

SXSW Records

"...The Forty-FivesFight Dirty (Yep Roc) Good times and great oldies. Except the Forty-Fives aren't old. These young..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Only Natural

The Texas Memorial Museum decides to focus on its natural history roots.

"...up supersized, consumers who pay top dollar expecting -- and getting -- spectacle in return. From its gigantic welcoming..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Cafe Spiazzo

Five new reviews of family-friendly ethnic cafes and east coast-style pizza parlors

"...of Austin as well as a few small businesses, one of which is the 12-year-old Cafe Spiazzo. Take a..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Band, Little Feat

Reissues

"...The BandThe Last Waltz (Rhino/Warner Bros.)Little FeatWaiting for Columbus (Rhino/Warner Bros.)..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Scott Jordan

Fast Cars, Strip Bars, and Elvis, Even

What's new, Pussycat? Onetime Russ Meyer leading lady Tura Satana comes to town for the first annual Alamo Drive-In.

"...combination of high melodrama, high-octane editing, hot-rod camera work, and a trio of impossibly voluptuous women looking to kick..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Baker and the Benney Tract

Dripping Springs economic development, the city attorney, and the Benney Tract

"...One rainy evening in November, only a handful of residents..."

Feb. 22, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Miguel and the Miracles

Why Austin's most revered restaurant, Fonda San Miguel, is still in business against all odds.

"...One day last week, Miguel Ravago, the executive chef of..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Food Feature by Clay Smith

One More for Her

Dale Watson turns his grief into an album.

"...Country music and grief go hand in hand. Hank Williams set the..."

July 27, 2001 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Bread and Roses

"...Ken Loach. Starring: George Lopez, Elpidia Carrillo, Adrien Brody and Pilar Padilla. Over the course of his 30-plus-years-long career,..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alive and Kicking

Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.

"...the Sundance Film Festival, I had little more on my mind than visions of the marathon of independent films..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...It's Friday, and you're going to get tanked in sophisticated company. You..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

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