Taking Austin’s LGBTQ Temperature

Getting the hot and cold scoop from local LGBTQ community members on queer Austin

"...How to talk about an entire queer community within the limited space of weekly print? Interview every single LGBTQ..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Features Feature by James Scott

Election Ticker: Are We There Yet?

The latest – and last! – news from the campaign trail before Election Day

"...Castro and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (founder of the national redistricting-focused campaign All On the Line) will..."

Oct. 30, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Attica Locke on Solving Crime on Highway 59

Heaven, My Home author talks her East Texas roots and the blues

"..."Darren had never seen anything like it. Cypress trees, their trunks skirted like shy dancers at a church social,..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Interview: Santigold

Philly pop songstress struggles with change on new disc 99¢

"...Since releasing her sophomore LP Master of My Make Believe in 2012, a lot has happened..."

March 18, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

His Name Was Gary Poulter

Meet the homeless man who became a movie star

"...He was a smart kid from California who dreamed of joining the circus. He was a Navy man and..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

War Stories

From Austin to the Upper Peninsula to Afghanistan and back: Heather Courtney's long journey to arrive at Where Soldiers Come From

"...As the quiet real-life drama of Where Soldiers Come From unfolds,..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...night in 1985. I'm lying on my back on the main stage of the Doll House, one of Austin's..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

West Side Showdown

The new political year begins with a four-way speed race for House District 48

"...The 2006 election cycle in Texas will be given an..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two: For What It's Worth

Thoughts on conflict of interest and the staying power of Neil Young

"...We stuffed into the car; the odor was soon nearly putrid, mixing the..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

20 Questions With Eliza Gilkyson

The maturation of Eliza Gilkyson

"...in common: longtime locals, singer-songwriters, Cactus Cafe loyalists. That's not why they're on the cover of this week's Chronicle,..."

April 19, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Actions are our only true belongings.

"..."The piano concerto is over, and so many didn't make..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Still Life

Whether it is the coterie around the world's most famous photographer or a group of cowboys on a West Texas ranch, Laura Wilson, who peeked inside a reclusive Christian sect for her new photography book Hutterites of Montana, has an instinct for penetrating insular, tightly knit societies.

"...1978, Richard Avedon came to Dallas for an exhibition of his photographs at the Dallas Museum of Art. At..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Southeast Feast

On 620, about halfway between Mansfield Dam and Lakeway, in Lakeway Plaza, is one of Austin's best pan-Asian restaurants. It's a small spot with limited seating and tiny tables turning out some of the finest Thai, Cambodian, Laotian, and Burmese cuisine around. As a matter of fact, they turn out the only Cambodian, Laotian, and Burmese cuisine in Austin, and it's not even on the menu!

"...The current loyal group of patrons who frequent LemonGrass Asian..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Well, the early voting turnout for the City Council Elections was..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature

Pointed Remembrances, Pointless Arguments

Letters at 3AM

"...about two years younger than that. Yet we're part of a generation to whom so much happened, so quickly,..."

May 9, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, the annual Austin celebration of movies from across the Spanish-..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Leans in Hard to Change TxDOT’s Mind on I-35

The road not taken

"...As questions, concerns, and cries for help from thousands of Austinites, including City Hall itself and other powerful public..."

April 2, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Clear As 'Mud'

Writer/director Jeff Nichols dishes the dirt on his third feature

"...that are very personal and precise yet universally identifiable. These films have furrows that are deep, rich, and fecund...."

April 26, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sara Smile Still

Behind Sara Hickman's sunny countenance lies real life. And still a smile.

"...Who can turn the world on with a smile? Besides Mary Tyler Moore,..."

May 7, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Voice of the People?..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy

UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.

"...This spring, Peter Bay, music director and conductor of the Austin Symphony, had the bright idea of getting..."

April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Cruel Summer

Kate X Messer remembers Lisa Davis: professional photographer, Austin music scenester, activist, suicide victim.

"..."And when you die ... nothing"..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

Sea Cruise

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

"...dancing audience into a frenzy that all but raises the roof off the place, the Frankie Ford classic working..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"...effect nowadays can get a person in a lot of trouble. We are standing in the entrance hallway of..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...It was a hot Sunday afternoon late in the summer of 1978. Having arrived in town only two..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Lies, All Lies

The Silver Castle

"...In the past few months, several journalists have been busted for..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Books Review

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...Jason Neulander Experimental drama. Now, there's a term to conjure dread in the heart of..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This revival proves Albee's 1962 drama to be as brutal and unsettling as ever

"...Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Advice to a high-school graduating class: Face your fear and take risks.

"...A graduating high school class eyes the speaker with everything from polite suspicion to impatient disdain...."

June 9, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

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