Outlaw Onda

If Tejano music isn't on the radio, does it still exist?

"...screeching demands like Julian Limon Fernandez's, which ran not once, but twice in Arriba Newspaper last December:..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...festival proved that first-year food, transportation, and toilet troubles were indeed just first-year jitters, your biggest problem is picking..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Day Trips

The Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas' Love Field is fun for the whole crew

"...traces the evolution of air flight from da Vinci's conceptional drawings through modern unmanned spy planes. For a sense..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Simon & Garfunkel, the Everly Brothers

Live shot

"...Simon & Garfunkel, the Everly BrothersFrank Erwin Center, July 6 For all their pleasant melodies,..."

July 9, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...year. And the comptroller's office reported that statewide collections were up 3.6% for the month, the largest single increase..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Project in Interpreting the Texas Past

"...have? Where did migrant Mexican workers live, and what were relationships with the German farm owners they worked for..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

Down From the Mountain

There was no snow at Sundance this year, but a strong slate nonetheless.

"...was the glitz factor. This meant that not only were more individuals clamoring to get into screenings, but that..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

American Idol comes to town, the Funk Bros leave -- a little poorer for the musical wear and tear.

"...contestants (including the winner!) of American Idol's debut year were Texans, is it any surprise that for the show's..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Good Show

It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.

"...compared notes with in Toronto expressed overall feelings that were similar to my own: We had seen lots of..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Readers weigh in on the criminality of musicians, the integrity of neighborhoods, and more.

"...was to report what the cashier saw (as they were obligated to do)...."

July 6, 2001 Column

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...There were films made in Texas before the commission existed, of..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...Lauren duds, mugging for the camera as if they were supermodels. Profiles of new novelists pop up everywhere these..."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Mapping Calle Ancha

The Avenue That Existed Before That Big Parking Lot in the Sky, I-35, Was Built

"...Calle Ancha is the nickname of what was once East Avenue Parkway, the street that existed before that..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

"...April 19, 2000, at Mount Carmel in Waco. We were dedicating the new memorial chapel for all those who..."

July 21, 2000 Column

Letters at 3AM

The music of Tony Fruscella reminds us that art is about an unending attempt to give what we can, where we can, to whom we can.

"...so many children, beneath the poses my actual feelings were almost unbearably tender, full of yearning and longing, rended..."

May 26, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...a Texas prison guard by an inmate since 1985, were inmates. If you ask how it happened, that is,..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...breakthrough-that-never-was, Never Loved Elvis. In the U.S., they certainly were his best days, even if the Wonder Stuff took..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Craig's Wife, Harriet Craig, The Little Foxes

Stephen MacMillan Moser celebrates those glamorous, backstabbing, deliciously bitchy divas: Rosalind Russell in Craig's Wife; Joan Crawford in the remake of that film, Harriet Craig; and Bette Davis in The Little Foxes.

"...act, she just didn't get the chance very much, once she'd been typecast as the motor-mouthed madonna. And in..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Malcolm, Movement, Memory

With subjects that range from Malcolm X to choreographer Alvin Ailey, Orlando Bagwell's documentaries depict the African-American -- as well as American -- experience.

"...not much overlap. From the incendiary black separatist who once fixed the "devil with blue eyes" squarely within his..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Driving and Cranking

"...revealing he apparently does read the Chronicle at least once in a while. "It sounded insincere to me. Really,..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Live Shots

"...from the stage by way of introduction. And for once in the band's long, tumultuous history, '97's South by..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature

Destination Unknown

"...Besides free love and the concept of artistic expression, the Sixties also ushered in the..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

No Schism

"...has been giving to East Austin recently, but we were dismayed at the tenor of last week's article "Withering..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Column

10 in Focus

Alma

"...a succession of writing jobs with studios. The results were paychecks that took the edge off inflation and an..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Parallel Universe

Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's

"..."When we were young, we used to migrate from field to field,..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Election Aftermath

Bathing in Napalm

"...making a detailed autopsy," Earle told his supporters, who were all grins by this time. "They know more about..."

Nov. 8, 1996 News Feature

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala come together once again for this portrait of the tumultuous private life..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Nest

First Comes Love...

"...leaving my house unlocked and not having it robbed, were a thrill to me after New York and New..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...Miss Manners once passed along an MP3 file to fellow KOOP 91.7FM..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Danny and Michael Philippou Say Talk to Me

Creators of the new A24 horror on the foolishness of youth

"...They were really pushing fate's patience when they replaced the ropes..."

July 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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