Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

It's the most wonderful time of the year

"...With Christmas lights, New Year’s Eve celebrations, bullfighting, and more, December is an..."

Dec. 1, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Playback: The First Hit’s Free (Week)

Free Week, free rides, and freeing your mind!

"...to kick off Free Week's first marquee show on New Year's Day. The annual club crawl, devised in 2003..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Energy's Quest to Bring Solar Power to Renters and the Less Wealthy

What can new incentive programs and community solar projects do for the city's most abundant energy source?

"...From the top of a Downtown skyscraper, looking west, there's a better chance of catching the twinkling reflection..."

Nov. 24, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Welcome to the Working Week-and-a-Half

A new federal provision mandating overtime pay for a new pool of salaried employees goes into effect in December. What does it mean, and how long will it last?

"...That's because a new federal overtime rule is set to go into effect..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Feature by Jack Craver

Café Society

A lesser Woody Allen film, but not without its pleasures

"...spend more time honing his scripts before rushing each new one into production with every passing season, Allen might..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friday SXSW Showcases

"...New West Records8pm, Maggie Mae's Gibson Room..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Jane Got a Gun

Natalie Portman stars in and produced this Western

"...Come expecting a feminist Western and you’ll be sorely disappointed. This film, which Natalie..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...backdrop of glitches and polyrhythms. The latter introduces a new element of delicious complexity without abandoning the Seventies vanguard...."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...and Ziggy Stardust and you have Vockah Redu. The New Orleans shaker has an aesthetic invoking Mars more than..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

HB 2 Back in Court: Judges Get Critical

Abortion providers “encouraged” by judges’ skepticism

"...In New Orleans this morning, justices on the notoriously conservative 5th..."

Jan. 7, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

First They Take Manhattan … Then They Don’t

The Alamo Drafthouse abandons the Upper West Side

"...Curtain Call on Broadway: Almost a year and a..."

Oct. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kolaches Are a Big Hit in Brooklyn

Homesick Texans visit bakery for a taste of home

"...While thousands of Texans were flocking to tiny West, Texas, over Labor Day weekend to celebrate their Tex-Czech..."

Sept. 3, 2013 Food Post by Phillip Pantuso

Death Watch: Racial Bias Infected Sentencing Hearing

Saga to secure new hearing for Duane Buck continues

"...Duane Buck deserves a new sentencing hearing...."

March 21, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...Spoon principal Britt Daniel, ex-Handsome Furs Dan Boeckner, and New Bomb Turk Sam Brown, kicks in at 6pm with..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Dripping Springs Re-con

Tasty new things are happening at the gateway to the Hill Country.

"...morning departure time was just right for hitting the new WoodPile BBQ on 290 West but the new brew..."

Sept. 19, 2012 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Off the Record

Checking in to South by Southwest 2010

"..."Checking in" is the new tweeting...."

March 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Handicapping the decade in Austin music and playing favorites for the Chronicle Music Poll

"...you think are less human than you." Thankfully, countless New Orleans musicians found comfort and redemption here...."

Jan. 1, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Air Guitar Nation

What other international competition awards points for general "airiness"? This fun documentary celebrates the weirdness but never mocks the participants.

"...Nation (winner of the Audience Award at South by Southwest 06) is a damn good time. Following the inception..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

I Am the Resurrection

Ignore Jim Morrison - do not cancel your subscription to the resurrection, because Roky Erickson is Lazarus unbound.

"...Lone Star sonofabitch, Kristofferson's back for more Austin sessions. New to Austin's New West corral, This Old Road proves..."

March 10, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Westward Ho!

In-progress or proposed developments for near-western Hill Country rise overnight like so many toxic mushrooms

"...Enjoy the wide-open spaces west of Austin while you can – before the creeks..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Mothman Prophecies

"...Richard Gere. Spooky is as spooky does in this new supernatural thriller from former video director Pellington starring Gere..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...THE DERAILERS: Bakersfield by way of Austin. The Derailers' new CD, Full Western Dress, finds the band venturing further..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Anna and the King

"...Brenner in the role he branded for life? This new rendition gives more emphasis to Siam's internecine political rumblings..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...your woofers though; "Declan" radiates mournful Celtic moods without new age sappiness. Same with the out-of-body fingerpicking closer "Another..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Rounders

"...Though it deals us a pleasantly engaging look at New York's underground world of high-stakes poker games, Rounders is..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ever After

"...Jeroen Krabbé, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey, Timothy West, Judy Parfitt and Richard O'Brien. Legends of the screen,..."

July 31, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Highway 61

"...road movie that stretches from Thunder Bay, Canada to New Orleans, USA. Pokey, an aptly named barber in small..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Iron & Silk

"...another martial arts fistfest as they have an entirely new genre hybrid: sort of an East-West martial arts romantic..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After Another Election, City Council Remains Staunchly Pro-Housing

But outcome in D7 contest remains undecided

"...Come January, when a new Council is inaugurated, it is likely that the current..."

Nov. 8, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Montana Story

Death in the modern West underlies this poignant family drama

"...are still over-defined by their production. Montana Story, a new film from the indie duo behind Uncertainty, The Deep..."

May 27, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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