Restaurant Review: Poeta

All-day Italian cafe brings the romance

"...black-fringed lampshades, and the semi-private room with heavy curtains perfect for doing business in hushed tones. All it needs..."

April 26, 2024 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Lil Yachty’s Whiplash Catalog Run and More Highlights From Friday at ACL Fest

Maggie Rogers, Little Simz, and more kicked off at Zilker Park

"...Earlier this week, Kali Uchis dropped out of both..."

Oct. 7, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...can be just as strange as fiction, this year's documentary strand will included the latest slab of film history..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc: A Little Bit Metro

Some people defy sterotypes

"...My sister is getting married in the fall to..."

June 14, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Top 15 Austin Breweries

Our semiannual power ranking of local brewhouses

"...or international accolades from our city's most-acknowledged breweries, their investments in making a charming taproom/biergarten with which to waste..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Coralie Fargeat Gets Revenge on the Male Gaze

Writer/director flips the script on action movies

"...that could happen to her, in a way that men could consider her as nothing, is the rape. But..."

May 11, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hot Takes

What to drink with the fieriest salsas at the AC Hot Sauce Festival

"...a little bit of sadism when I asked the men and women who determine what Austin drinks to come..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

You Are Entering Harlan County

Justified creator Graham Yost exits Kentucky for the ATX Television Festival

"..."They had dug coal together as young men and then lost touch over the years," wrote the..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Q&A Hole: Which One Typeface Would You Eradicate Forever?

With Swissmiss, Marc English, Jennymarie Jemison, and more

"...more Asian – or its brother-in-arms Souvenir – “Real men don't set Souvenir,” type scholar Frank Romano famously said...."

March 4, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Antifogmatic

Novelist Dominic Smith and the glow of the particular

"...Daguerre, which traces the inventor's attempts to capture 10 perfect images using his patented (though deadly) photography technique, made..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Books Feature by Sarah Smith

La Sylphide

Ballet Austin's first brush with Bournonville showed his style suiting the dancers

"...little ballet. It has a clear plot and a perfect balance of the ethereal, the human, and the evil...."

Feb. 18, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...School. In its earliest incarnation, it was a bold experiment in class- and culture-hopping, social-engineering outreach. Goetzmann Kelley and..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Island of Dr. Ersek

Austin's media-friendly Robert Ersek is the king of pop cosmetic surgery

"...If there was ever a perfect man for a perfect moment in time, it is..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Thursday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...doing two-cover, 10-minute sets, here's a glimpse at the menagerie of local and national talent gathering to raise their..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Summer Fun

Oh, Galveston

"...Bars & Hangouts21 With its Roaring Twenties motif, arm's-length menu of martini concoctions, and prime location, 21 is the..."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

New Year's Eve Events

"...take it easy into 2004. It's a comfortable, casual, perfect-night-away-from-home affair. Lazy Oak Bed & Breakfast, 211 Live Oak,..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...to Coldplay. Josh T. Pearson of Denton's favorite Old Testament-fixated space-rockin' cowboys Lift to Experience is playing a rare..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

A Cook's Tour

You just had to be there: The Chronicle's Mick Vann compasses the cuisine of Thailand, in Bangkok and beyond.

"...expectations. A glowing review (see www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-28/ food_feature.html) of their establishment followed in September of 2001, and I became a..."

June 28, 2002 Food Feature by Mick Vann

20 Years of Austin Gifts

... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries

"...Surely, we have missed some establishments. That's where you come in. If you know of..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

Day Trips

The Fredericksburg Herb Farm is everything great about the Hill Country town condensed down to 14 acres.

"...treat your senses to a special journey. The scenic settlement-within-a-town includes two stores, a gourmet cafe, an aroma-therapeutic day..."

March 10, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"...and render in response to this motivation the single, perfect dramatic action capable of bringing the story satisfyingly to..."

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

Texas Platters

The Rev. Horton Heat

"...very proud he is of his penis. It's quite well-documented here: 1990, "Love Whip"; 1993, "Wiggle Stick"; 1996, "Big..."

May 28, 1999 Music Review

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...artist so clearly used a song title as an announcement of intent. Starting off as a hard-bop sideman, Hancock..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

The Morning Report

KVET-AM - All the News That's There to Air

"...real news instead of ridiculous reports on things like men who wear cameras on their shoes to look up..."

April 17, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Sticking it to the Fat, Lazy Americans

International Acts at SXSW

"...first single "Supersonic Daydream" has generated a "blur" of excitement across Europe. (Atomic Cafe, 10pm)..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Exhibitionism

Chronicle arts reviews

"...NAKED TEXAS ART: SENSUOUS WOMEN AND BITTER EXES..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Arts Review

I'm Sorry, Yogi

"...billowing white drapes. It's looks a lot like a perfect view of the San Francisco Bay...."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Charles Whitman in the UT Tower

"..."...a concoction of lies, a dynamic that drives men to do things...."..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

Texas Platters

"...DEEP LISTENING BAND & THE LONG STRING INSTRUMENT..."

April 11, 1997 Music Review

Live Shots

"...night in Austin, the multi-award-winning Irish sextet played two near-perfect hours of music that drew equally from the far..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature

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