Long Way Home

Considering the art of the map, as inspired by two local exhibitions and a housewarming party

"...– I was returning Borges' Ficciones, she was checking out poetry collections by Keats and Eliot – and we..."

May 20, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"

Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.

"...Most forms of artistic expression have a brass ring of sorts --..."

July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'2 Awkward 2 Heavy'

Art collective Ink Tank unleashes its sequel to last summer's blockbuster 'More Awkward Than Heavy'

"...Ink Tank, the artist collective known for its encompassing, unconventional..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

'Armageddon Outta Here'

Ink Tank's show stretched between an achievement of something truly artistic and an extravagantly themed party

"...'Armageddon Outta Here'Co-Lab Projects, 613 Allen www.colabspace.org Through Dec. 29..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

These Five Last-Minute Gift Ideas Might Be the Best You’ll Ever See

Because, frankly, most other listicles like this are boring AF

"...late for buying gifts. Because … well, you’ve heard about New Year’s Gifts, right? It’s the newest sensation, citizen!..."

Dec. 21, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Austin Chronicle Presents Rollo Banks' Lunar New Year Series

A pirate with ink in his veins

"...Michael Malone, better known by his nom de ink Rollo Banks, was a brilliant iconoclast and renowned tattoo..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by S. Emerson Moffat

Related Reading

"...The Chronicle has spilled plenty of ink over the Arts Commission through the years. Here..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Premember" Drawings Capture Austin Shops Before They're Gone

Northern-Southern gallery is showing Drew Liverman's art series focused on quirky local businesses that are still here, but maybe not for long

"...His current series, "Premember," now on view through the Northern-Southern gallery website, is a weekly installment of an ever-changing..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Viper Club

Susan Sarandon and the murky world of paying kidnappers

"...what is it good for? Absolutely nothing in this YouTube Premium feature that follows the endless travails of a..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

Watch and prepare for your Oscar pool

"...to attempt to hazard a guess as to which of these five short animated films from across the globe..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For a Good Time Call …

The Apatowian bromance has found its reverse-gender equivalent in this comedy about two gals who enter the phone-sex biz.

"...this new comedy isn’t coy like those embedded homoeroticisms of yesteryear (okay, the late Aughts): If For a Good..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

General Jackson

Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well

"...called in the Sixties and Seventies, the irreverent twisting of the classic art form to reflect the changing values..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Swordfish

"...Gone in 60 Seconds' Dominic Sena) is a mish-mash of cops and robbers, broken-family sob stories, and cyber antics..."

June 13, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Techno-Artistic

Katie Rose Pipkin and the new art

"...find me obsolete well before I'm ready to pour out the inkwell...."

Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Feature by Matthew Irwin

... In With the New

More on Upgrades for PCs

"...upgrade options for your PC. This week we'll talk about add-ons and upgrades that don't require removing the case...."

Aug. 21, 1998 Screens Feature by John Avignone

Back Home in Texas

The return of the reigning Queen of Austin Country Music

"...It sounds like the grandfather Buddha of Austin country music, big daddy Don Walser, but closer..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Cultural Hero

"...It just kinda happened," says Sam Coronado about his new studio space in the East Austin neighborhood..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Zigal Excerpted

"...Tom Zigal says simply need to see the light of day. Here are several salty and insightful selections:..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Texas Teen Book Festival Is Here!

Celebration of YA lit moves north to Southwestern University

"...money to watch Lizzo twerk under the scorching heat of the sun while smelling the sweat of thousands of..."

Oct. 9, 2019 Arts Post by Addie Costello

"Dave Culpepper: Wake Me When It's Quitting Time"

Even as Dave Culpepper dreams about our future in space, he humorously points out our present decline

"...Me When It's Quitting TIme," toes a coy line of exploring the aesthetic of future space habitats while also..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Wish(fulfilled) List 2010

Queer Jews should have everything they wanted by now

"...means that I've already got what I wanted. Most of it was gifted to me… by me! I believe..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

New Works

"...Tim High, a printmaking professor at UT, says, "Great art... is borne out of..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Arts Feature

Valleyesque: Not Just Weird for Weird’s Sake

Inside the pages of the new anthology from Fernando A. Flores

"...growing up in the Rio Grande Valley. The collection of short stories reads like a memory trace, filled with..."

June 8, 2022 Arts Post by Valeria Valdez

"Matt Rebholz and Rachel Wolfson Smith: We Can See Through Time" at ICOSA

Drawings in red and blue ink, intended to be viewed through 3-D glasses, pull the viewer in to landscapes that make the familiar look alien

"...Step into ICOSA gallery, pick up a pair of glasses, put them on and look around at the..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Trolls

Banal plot mars this toy marketing scheme

"...There’s nary a hint of the original Troll dolls' disconcerting unearthliness in this utterly..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Handmaiden

A stylish and alluring love triangle

"...South Korean director Park Chan-wook is probably best known for..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

'The Cartoon Utopia'

Regé's drawings vibrate with a vision of life seen through a scanner brightly

"...In this city of Austin, where Philip K. Dick's dystopian novel A Scanner..."

July 16, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Broken Flowers

Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.

"...successful filmmaker, Jim Jarmusch, combines his skills with those of beloved comic actor Bill Murray in this ambiguous romantic..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Door in the Floor

Jeff Bridges shines in this new adapatation of a John Irving work.

"...Phillips and Louis Arcella. In adapting the first third of John Irving’s A Widow for One Year into his..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Little Mermaid

Inessential remake of the Disney classic is bloated as a puffer fish

"...artists in traditional hand-drawn cel animation. Like any lover of animation, my heart soared, but the cynic in me..."

May 26, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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