Sing Me Back Home

The Return of Libbi Bosworth

"...major event that will shape how others will view you, and how you will view yourself -- for the..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

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

Why Be 'Normal'?

Debra Monroe to read from her memoir On the Outskirts of Normal Thursday

"...Since the Chronicle profiled Debra Monroe back in May, the novelist and Texas..."

June 15, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Shadows and Fog

"...about a Woody Allen film -- it's the result of peer pressures. The problem is that when one is..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Ratcatcher

Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.

"...afflicts the city. Children in the projects play king of the mountain on mounds of garbage; rats overrun the..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Greg Beets' National Top Ten

"...Product Music Vol. 1: Industrial Show Tunes in Praise of the Products We Trust (Honest-Abe Disc!)..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature

Villains

Delicious black comedy finds bad guys in a battle of the generations

"...like pornography: They’re not always easy to describe, but you know them when you see them. These are films..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Alien Trespass

Taking its cues from several classic 1950s sci-fi films, Alien Trespass is a deeply affectionate homage to the era when every kid on the block knew what "Klaatu borada nikto" meant.

"...planet, Mars. Thematically similar to 2002's The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (but minus that film's obvious tongue-in-cheek and intentionally..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking might have been a terrific character study of damaged adult siblings, but instead becomes a muddled road trip toward redemption.

"...Woody Harrelson and Deborra-Lee Furness. In the movies, if you’re the kind of character who’s spent his entire life..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Still Homeless

City Council Ponders Repeal of Flawed Camping Ban

"...a thin black wire leading up to a bouquet of empty beer cans in a nearby tree. "That's my..."

July 4, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

"...more accessible way. Depp is the titular Grape, a young man living out his days in the tiny Ohio..."

March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bad Lieutenant

"...He takes crack from his perps, admires the bodies of female corpses, treats his suburban family with contempt, bets..."

Feb. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Brother's Keeper

This documentary is about the unlikeliest of subjects: an alleged mercy killing between a pair of barely socialized, virtually illiterate, unkempt, unhygienic, slow-witted, never-married bachelors.

"...Directed by: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. The glaring mistake is last week's Oscar nominations was..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's maestro of madness and desire, reunites with Antonio Banderas for this dark and frazzled tale of l'amour fou.

"...An elaborate puzzle box of a film that continuously confounds expectations in the grandest..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rock en Tijuana

The border city of Tijuana gives birth to the bastard genre of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec.

"...wave back. Bostich points out a fence made entirely of washing-machine lids that encircles the junkyard..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...So SXSW made its first announcement for film, so you've had your headliners and competition titles, with the normal..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Raoul Hernandez's Local Top Ten

"...5. Libbi Bosworth, Outskirts of You (Freedom)..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature

Libbi Bosworth

Texas Platters

"...Bosworth five years to follow up her impressive debut Outskirts of You, but Libbiville was well worth the wait...."

Aug. 17, 2001 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Libbi Bosworth

"...Outskirts of You (Freedom)..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature

We P.2

Kate & Andy go on a road trip …

"...Journeys usually start with a setting of the scene, specifically, the homeplace. But how do you..."

Jan. 10, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Mr. Blue

Denny Freeman's epic remembrance of Alex Napier

"...Shortly after the passing of bassist Alex Napier on Feb. 3, his longtime bandmate..."

Feb. 24, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Her First House

"...SPECIAL TO THE CHRONIC-STATESMEMBER Monday, Nov. 20, 2006 Part of an ongoing holiday series. When the workload piles up..."

Nov. 20, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Adding to Austin's Asian-American Cinema

Huay-Bing Law on his new short "June," now on HBO

"...legacy, there's a blindspot in the discussion. The position of Asian-Americans has often been a strained one, and their..."

May 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Before and After at Austin Studios

The big plans after the National Guard Amory take-over

"...The long-awaited takeover of the National Guard Armory by Austin Studios finally happens..."

May 10, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Women on Top

The Risks and Rewards of Being a Woman In Austin's High Tech World

"...with partner Tommy Deavenport in 1996, may be one of the only companies, in fact, for which getting rid..."

Nov. 24, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Five Things to Enjoy Beyond Austin

Get out of town for some entertainment that's a bit less intense than SXSW

"...– at South by Southwest or otherwise. But maybe you feel like getting the hell outta Dodge – or,..."

March 18, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Multifarious Mike Wiebe

Music, comedy, faux-Christianity: the many faces of the Drakulas/Riverboat Gamblers frontman

"...Last time the Chronicle profiled Mike Wiebe, 14 years ago, the reporter paid for..."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips & Beyond: Kokopelli's Cave

One-of-a-kind lodging offers privacy and panoramic views

"...comes to unusual and strange, there is no shortage of overnight accommodations around the world that fit in that..."

Aug. 24, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

B.B. King Saved My Life

He played blues so we can find a way through ours

"...They called him “King of the Blues” for the past 50 years, but for..."

May 15, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...weekend is usually cause for joy, but for thousands of filmmakers, it's the annual time of frayed nerves and..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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