Listening Outside the Lines

Kevin Curtin spends four days on the fringes

"...There's an innate curiosity inside us we probably don't feed..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Working the Lines

Where to find a captive audience

"...The film festival entrepreneur is alive and well at SXSW..."

March 14, 2012 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

Inside and Outside the Curatorial Box

Husband and wife curators Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Regine Basha discuss the art of their profession.

"...being a curator all about? How do you influence the world through the art you select to exhibit? After..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Planners Need to Think Outside the Box

"...are both doomed due to planners’ failure to think outside the box. The intellectual box in which they find..."

April 24, 2007 Postmarks

Playback – Kinky Friedman: Between the Lines

Kinky Friedman's first album of original songs in 35 years: "How hard could it be?"

"...Echo Hill Ranch in Medina. "Though I read at the 75-year-old level."..."

June 29, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: Between the Lines

What editors blog about when they blog about editing

"...particularly obsessive desire to level with Chronicle readers about outside commentary on both the publication and myself, as well..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Best Outside-the-Box Public School Philosophies

TIE: Austin Voices for Education & Youth and AISD High School Redesign

"...If your memories of high school involve something along the lines of Ben Stein intoning, "Bueller ... Bueller ..."..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Best of Austin Feature

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony Bourdain..."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Wedding Plan

A rom-com with a twist

"...The Wedding Plan isn’t a romantic comedy in the familiar..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Theatres Are Moving the Stage Beyond Zoom

Companies thinking outside the boxes bring theatre to your radio, your mailbox, and your neighbor's yard

"...For the first six months of the pandemic, the two words..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Spamarama’s Happening, Kombucha Is A-Tappening, Texas Wine Auction’s Got the Deals, the Roosevelt Room’s on Wheels, and Nolan Ryan Outpitches Those Damned Tornados …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...scene, as wrangled from numerous PR releases, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdroppings...."

March 30, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Verde Report: So What Happens Now?

Austin FC's season comes to a close but TVR stays on the beat

"...The 2021 Major League Soccer playoffs kick off this weekend..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

From Light Rail to a Downtown Tunnel: The Parts of Project Connect

Diving into the plan

"...The Project Connect system plan and "initial investment" – the..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: Counting Heads, Drawing Lines

Next year, when (if?) the current crises recede, we may be surprised at what we find

"...This week's pair of News features details the labor that goes into some of the unexciting but..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...The town of Eldorado, Texas, seat of Schleicher County, flanks..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Into the Woods, With a Canister of Film

The 2009 Art Outside festival

"...October could mark the end of the brief breather in Austin's otherwise packed..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden

The exhibition "Charles Umlauf: A Retrospective, 1933-1992" at the gallery Spazio by Lytle Pressley, is a fresh reminder that Umlauf was an artistic virtuoso in many ways and not simply an artist who lived in Austin, but an artist who was Austin, who embodied something of the character of the city and revealed it in his artwork.

"...The small bronze sculpture offers a modest depiction of a..."

June 1, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Basement Tapes

The Netherworld of Iconoclastic Music

"...Throughout history, the economics of creativity have often acted as a barrier..."

March 28, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Idol

The true story Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol

"...Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of the second season of Arab Idol,..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

House of the Dead

Students are stranded on an island of zombies; viewers are stranded by the filmmakers.

"...Enuka Okuma and Tyron Leitso. You need only see the opening shots of Clint Howard, in bright yellow foul-weather..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...Jody Denberg: The Chronicle had these annual parties where they'd rent these..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

Making a Front Porch for the City

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

"...Just over two years ago, the Austin Museum of Art selected an architect to design..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Avengers

"...some time since I had a chance to catch the old BBC television show upon which this updating is..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lauryn Paige Fuller Story

Eighteen-year-old Donald Scott Fuller was brutally murdered last year. Jordan Smith explores

"...It's just weeks before Christmas, but outside it feels like spring. The sky is clear and..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...herself a fusion of different cultures, so why shouldn't the dances she creates be the same? "I am part..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"..."The present-day composer refuses to die!"..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Lege Lines: Gov. Abbott Takes the Stage

Abbott delivers the State of the State and lawmakers get a per diem boost

"...17, Gov. Greg Abbott delivered his first State of the State address to the Lege, and designated his five..."

Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Good Eye: Girl, Illustrated

The fine lines between the lines

"...water, wielding a flaming chair high over her head. The room is littered with domestic debris, some of which..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Riding the Pinwheel

The GOP redraws the map of Texas – brazenly sidestepping most of the state's newest voters

"...Outside a committee hearing room during the 82nd Texas Legislature,..."

Aug. 26, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Natural Center of Gravity

Utter Reading Series at the Austin History Center

"...Kenny Braun For writers aiming for literary magazine publication, rather than a row of 10s at a poetry slam..."

May 9, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

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