The Most Memorable Moments of Levitation’s Thursday and Friday

King Gizzard, Godspeed You!, and more lengthy band names

"...Christmas big, Levitation reiterated its seismic shift last night from outdoor convergence to individual club shows in 2018. After..."

Oct. 29, 2022 Music Post by Christina Garcia

What We're Listening to Right Now

Beats by Balto!, Hayes Carll, Kiko Villamizar, Ley Line, and Colin Clark

"...wails, filtered bass grooves, and incongruously mellow trombone fills from guest Sam Kulik. If this is fusion, it's fusion..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Music Column by Michael Toland

SXSW Online: Recommended Programming

Must-catch panels, films, music showcases, and more at this year's all-virtual Fest

"...10:30am:  From Moonlight to The Underground Railroad: Barry Jenkins & Composer..."

March 12, 2021 Features Feature

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...more terror-tinged titles in the Midnighters, a buzzworthy selection from other fests, as well as episodic pilots, and the..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...Contemporary artists have taken us far from the gallery. Michael Rakowitz's paraSITE includes temporary housing for..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Public Notice: "We Are Orlando"

And Baton Rouge, and St. Paul, and Dallas ...

"...pre-empted just about everything else in the public discourse, from the Chronicle cover this week, to the Austin Police..."

July 15, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Sending Postcards From the Great Divide

UT RTF chair Paul Stekler on election year for PBS

"...Launching on July 11, Stekler's new nine-part series Postcards From the Great Divide is produced in partnership with..."

July 10, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Nick Broomfield Tells Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Filmmaker talks about his new HBO doc, LA, race, and death

"...If convicted, he may go down in history as America's most butcherous serial killer. But what interests filmmaker Nick..."

April 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cruelty-Free Produce?

Coalition of Immokalee Workers comes to Austin

"...Most of America’s fresh tomatoes come from Florida. Until recently, those fields..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Post by Amy Kamp

AFF2012: Case Study: 'It’s a Disaster'

Todd Berger says some - but not too much! – about his doomsday rom-com

"...say little as possible about the film’s plot. Judging from the attendance at the Paramount last night, the reverse-psychology..."

Oct. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Leah Churner

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...wrote him a fan letter on one of our postcards. I know because he told me – said it..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

'Postcards From America'

On an epic road trip, the legendary photo cooperative makes a stop at the Harry Ransom Center

"...a documentary project that gets its start this week. "Postcards From America" aims to put five Magnum photographers and..."

May 13, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City Theatre Company

A pro-Catholic organization threatens City's staging of a biblical comedy – sort of

"...in early May, Austin's City Theatre Company began receiving postcards and e-mails protesting its upcoming production of Paul Rudnick's..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

My One and Only

Renée Zellweger stars in this 1950s-set story that's based on George Hamilton's memories of his early years traveling with his mother while she searched for a new husband.

"...Weber. Perhaps the most interesting fact to be gleaned from this loose retelling of actor George Hamilton’s teen years..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

State of Wonderment

The Texas Biennial's first outside curator describes what he saw in Lone Star art

"...to remember that Austin never seems to shy away from fulfilling a vision or challenge. Major cultural events such..."

March 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Page Two: And Everyone and I Stopped Breathing

What if the government isn't broken?

"...of new Polaroids, and a set of gaudy color postcards that blend the present with the past and future...."

Nov. 14, 2008 Column by Louis Black

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...Looking back, 1945 was a pivotal year for America, for Austin, for the embattled world-at-large, but most of..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...troops into Baghdad, source unknown but with numbers running from 10,000 to as high as 40,000 "temporary" troops. Meanwhile,..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature

Curatorial Reportage

The Blanton Museum's ever-shifting WorkSpace offers up- to-the-minute views of what's happening in contemporary art

"...no windows, fixtures, or anything else that might distract from the art enclosed therein. There is no place, no..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...Juli 06. Tomorrow. The image, five fresh-faced English skinnies from the Sixties, backdropped against atomic gray/white and a ruby..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Luv Doc Recommends: Sixth Street for Bourbon Street Benefit Concert

Sixth Street, Thursday, September 15, 2005

"...other New Orlenians and French/Irish/Spanish Haitians down on vacation from the Bronx. If you hail from the heartland, you..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

The Movies That Matter

An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

"...among the titles of the most daring and delirious American independent films of the past 15 years and you'll..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...to see what it's like to watch someone fall from a great height." – David Olney, in Be Here..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

TV Eye

The next few weeks bring numerous 9 / 11 specials.

"...better or worse, to capture a national Zeitgeist. Images from those four days of mourning are from an unblinking,..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Raised by Lesbians

In the Subterranean Theatre Company production of Raised by Lesbians, writer Leah Ryan and director Ken Webster transport the audience to the heart of The Who's "Teenage Wasteland," dealing with adolescence, lesbians, and men and women's notions of each other without laughing at teens or distorting them with nostalgia.

"...a 16-year-old tormented by a choice: Stay in Middle America to deal with bullies and his mother loving another..."

April 13, 2001 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Day Trips

Mineral Wells, Texas: "Where America Drinks Its Way to Health."

"...renowned as a health resort, the new owners sell postcards, souvenirs, ice cream, Italian ices, coffee, and espresso drinks...."

May 26, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Readers hash over the war on drugs in response to an AISD principal's being busted for marijuana possession.

"...has shrunk the size of the Board policy manual from 320 pages to less than 30, raised the threshold..."

April 21, 2000 Column

Letters at 3AM

It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.

"...during the first half of the 20th century an African-American man was lynched in the South at the rate..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Sea Cruise

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

"...other kind of cruise!" enthuses Janice, a chubby blonde from Memphis. She'd been on cruises before last year's Sandy..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Believing in Beauty

Fabric, home altars, and the influence of her mother all figure heavily in the art of Connie Arismendi, and writer Mary Jane Garza opens up the heart from which her remarkable images spring.

"..."These sheers and the velvets that I use are from my mother," Arismendi says as she touches the draped..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

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