How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020

In person and virtual events abound on the city' annual free museum day

"...the museum’s permanent collection galleries of modern and contemporary American and Latin American art as well as classics and..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Arts Post

Letters @ 3AM

Globalization isn't only something that's happening to our economy: Globalization is happening to us – to our bodies, our families, and our psyches

"...could be the prize of an upstart, rich, Catholic Irish-American. Scan the 1960 convention floor: There are no women...."

April 25, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Yardbird's Blues

How the bone-out chicken-fried chicken breast is destroying American menus

"...appeal." – John T. Edge, from Fried Chicken: An American Story..."

June 29, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

November is Dvorák month in Austin!

The University of Texas is marking the centenary of Dvorák's death with an ambitious multidisciplinary festival called "New Worlds: Dvorák in Search of America."

"...when you can learn about his lasting impact on American music...."

Nov. 5, 2004 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The Chronicle is an alternative publication. That means that concerned and informed citizens such..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

On Fifth Street, Mexic-Arte Pushes for Cultural District Designation, Funding

Designation would bring in a $250,000 per year

"...The 5th Street Mexican American Heritage Corridor plans have been in the works since..."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

Texas Book Festival 2020: Mychal Denzel Smith

A conversation with the author of Stakes Is High

"...almost didn’t write Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, his insightful and sobering examination of the American..."

Nov. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

Psychedelic Acid Trope

Exhibits at the Bullock, Briscoe, and LBJ explore our recall of the Sixties

"...fist, and Jackie doing the Twist, n'est­-ce pas? Few American decades are as imbued with meaning – some collective,..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...This comedy of the American frontier by Christopher Guest (This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Chronicle Kills Poster Art

"...their front lobby of all posters, handbills, brochures and alternative free publications. I felt some of that weirdness that..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column

Who We Are

The 'Chronicle' interviews Howard Zinn on war, peace, and human nature

"...America's Perilous Path in the Middle East; Andrea Smith, Native American activist and scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Country of Exiles?

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

"...to keep down wages and to discourage investment in native training and employment...."

July 9, 1999 Books Review

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...surprisingly, I was greatly distressed by your article on American Family Association Executive Director Wyatt Roberts. A single sentence..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Recipes to Reimagine Your Holiday Feast

It’s time to revamp your end-of-year celebration menus

"...the globe, but we wonder: Is cranberry-orange the greatest (American) Christmas flavor combo? Yep! Listen, Meanwhile Brewing has a..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Point Austin: Who We Are

Treatment of desperate immigrants a stark test of the American idea

"...who we are," goes the refrain. "These actions are un-American."..."

June 22, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Fistful of Freaks

Albert and Allen Hughes' American Pimp

"...half years, the Hughes Brothers' (Allen and Albert) documentary American Pimp dives headfirst into the rightfully maligned subculture of..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Day Trips: Killough Massacre Monument, Jacksonville

Monument memorializes a sad event in East Texas history

"...what some say was East Texas' worst and final Native American depredation on Oct. 5, 1838, but there is..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Film Review: The Unknown Country

Reality proves more compelling in this mixt of journalism and fiction

"...the country, with a special focus on South Dakota’s Native American community. Appearing as a relative who had long..."

March 14, 2022 SXSW Post by Dina Barrish

Artist Calder Kamin Envisions "A World Without Waste"

With animals crafted from plastic bags, the Austin native turns our eyes to nature

"...as artist, activist, and now, amenity. The 36-year-old Austin native is currently artist-in-residence at a multifamily apartment complex in..."

July 2, 2021 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Casey Suchan Follows The Animal People

Documentary shows how anti-terror laws targeted animal rights groups

"...In the months before 9/11, American law enforcement was busy tracking down a dread threat..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: Pecos National Historic Site

Travel tips for the Land of Enchantment

"...Native people first settled on a ridge overlooking Glorieta Creek..."

Oct. 31, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Gay Place

Queerbomb is short on funds and needs your help

"...film series. This week: Two Spirits, a doc on Native American culture's gender identity beliefs. Thu., May 11, 7:30pm...."

May 12, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Only Bowie

Long lost 1995 Austin compilation wields a license to freak

"...Smith, who produced Only Bowie. Now living in his native San Antonio and running the ever lively and prolific..."

Feb. 10, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Who Let the Dogs Out?

A playlist for the dog days of summer

"...its revamp as a tribal drum glam band in pirate/Native American garb with this 1980 anthem. The cutthroat, dog-pound..."

July 17, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film Review: Son of the Congo

Can basketball star Serge Ibaka go home again?

"...To American sports fans, he’s Serge “i-BLOCK-ah”, a smiling giant in..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Michael Agresta

The Good Eye – Clothes-Minded: An Eyeful of Austin Fashion Week

Austin Fashion Week comes to a clothes

"...saucy sweatpants. Would that they had left the giant Native American war bonnet in L.A., where I presume it..."

May 9, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

FF2011: Getting Fisted By 'Knuckle'

An interview with 'Knuckle' director Ian Palmer

"...world of bare-knuckle boxing and bloody feuds amongst the native Irish subculture known as Travellers, he had no idea..."

Sept. 22, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Into the West

Kelly Reichardt re-creates the hazards of the Oregon Trail in Meek's Cutoff

"...battles for primacy. Meek's Cutoff is a story about American settlers stuck in the wilderness, caught between believing in..."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

The Medford Collection of American Western Art fills the corridors of the Lufkin City Hall

"...The Medford Collection of American Western Art fills the corridors of the Lufkin City..."

July 16, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Tradition Meets the Marketplace

AFS Documentary Tour presents Weaving Worlds

"...Many of the totemic Native American crafts of the Southwest are so familiar as..."

July 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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