2017 Payne Theatre Award Winners

Lotta love for Nevermore, Drowning Girls, Agent Andromeda

"...Revolutionists also netted four awards, including Production of a Comedy, with additional honors for director Rudy Ramirez, actress Sarah..."

Oct. 25, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Chronicle Interviews Al Franken

Minnesota's junior senator stops in for a brief chat

"...ambiguity. What I learned is that you can’t litigate comedy. You can’t go “No, no. Let me explain why..."

Sept. 23, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...recognized in four areas, including Outstanding Production of a Comedy. Netting three awards each were LOLA Austin's La Femme..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Page Two: The Art of Surprise

S.R. Bindler's Surfer, Dude continually pulls off the unexpected

"...Body, there is a lot of curiosity about this new one. McConaughey is an enormously gifted actor, though he..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Column by Louis Black

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Austin arts in a ceremony at the Cap City Comedy Club. This year's ceremony, the 15th such presented by..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Bookshelf

End of an Age

"...tragic satire and only an intermittent talent for screwball comedy. A Certain Age may yield certain occasional pleasures (nice..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Books Review

Three Faces of Steve

Actor Steve McDaniel Shows His Different Sides

"...had heartstrings that they were tugging on. I watched Newt Gingrich. You want to know something? The guy comes..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wallace & Gromit

Aardman's Big Cheese Is Nick Park

"...tempting to believe that the Greeks, whose appreciation for comedy was not limited to the plays of Aristophanes, would..."

June 28, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

Squirrels, Girls, and Other Pearls in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Acro-Cats, Earth Day, and all manner of arts and culture happenings

"...Well, maybe that’s a little true with Ventanas, a new revival of contemporary circus troupe Cirque Vida’s show that..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Playdates, Secret Screenings, and More Events for Your Week

Get out on a school night

"...had to guess the plot to a 1962 French New Wave film, what would it be? Right: a love..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Miyazaki, Hot Boys, Jane Austen Improv, and More Recommended Events

The weekend is looking ... a little weird

"...deadly. The VORTEX presents her acolytes in artistic burlesque, movement set to Homeric and Orphic hymns praising Aphrodite and..."

July 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...side, there's also the world premiere of Immaculate, the new Catholic horror from Neon, and Timestalker the second film..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Carnival of Queers

A carnival of queer cavorting will delight your senses this weekend

"...desiring a local drag festival in the spirit of New York City's Bushwig, Miami's Wigwood, or Oakland's Oaklash. "The..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Column by James Scott

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...have been tearing up the festival circuit, including raucous comedy Dinner in America (which just won the audience award..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Cracking the SXSW Music Algorithm

If my phone broke and clickbait subsided, where would bring me joy at SXSW?

"...industry revenue last year, stifles listener potential for finding new music. Spotify-generated playlists open up a black hole of..."

March 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

AGLIFF Closing With Mapplethorpe

Festival adds major bio-pic, plus complete line-up

"...title portraying the artist from his early days in New York City, chronicling his relationships with musician Patti Smith..."

July 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...works from many of our alumni, remains focused on new voices, new directors and a range of films that..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...Jan Hammer Michael Mann's 1985-89 network television smash rode New Wave's hairstyles, pastel blazers, and soundtracks into prime-time infamy...."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Playback: Headhunters Decapitated

Headhunters and Hotel Vegas get face-lifts, and maybe Whiskey Shivers gives one

"...Like an old hooker in a new dress, local music dive Headhunters was transformed into a..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Spirits To Enforce, Capital T Theatre Production, Comedy..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Chronicle' Mock NFL Draft

"...Stuff Magazine, and some decomposing installments of The Sporting News. When scrutinizing the 2008 draft, often between morning bran..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

The Electric Exchange

Theatre, dance, music, and film meld and get supercharged in the Fuse Box Festival

"...together under the same presentational tent, as it were, new and experimental works of theatre, music, dance, film, and..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lives Less Ordinary

The Austin Film Society's neorealism and Beyond: Italian Cinema, 1948-1970

"...Amid the rubble of World War II, a new cinema was born. Its heroes were an unlikely sort:..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Love Is a Battlefield

In 'The Holy Land,' indie auteur Eitan Gorlin Feels at home as an interloper in a world of religion, romance, and war.

"...His new film, The Holy Land, is that rarest of films,..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Pleasure Principle

Local bands find the dance-driven heart underneath post-punk's industrial pall

"...filtered in, and Joy Division, Wire, and PiL became New Order, the Cure, and U2. By the mid-Eighties, even..."

April 25, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...label, Bella Union. Denton, Texas' unheralded Jetscreamer is their newest signing, a dirty dual slide-guitar assault that weds the..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...inventors, engineers, and other creative types, they root out new ideas before the rest of the community. They dig..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Is Possible ... Again

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

"...and several years later in the windowless basement of New York's famously chaotic Strand, picks up the same book...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...If Prince Paul's dramatic new album had its own movie trailer, it might go..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

A Movie Mesa

"...unique natural beauty of Taos and the surrounding northern New Mexico area and the vibrant creative community that is..."

April 30, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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