Unlocking the Joys of Austin’s Puzzle Rooms

Escape rooms bring the solitary diversions to life

"...and don't mind spending an hour locked in a room with a crew of collaborators who share your mission:..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Majcher

Austin’s Sisters in Crime Prefer Their Ink Mixed With a Little Blood

Murders, they write

"...who write mysteries.") Foster is the current president of Austin's chapter, Cedeño vice president, and Waller the web editor...."

July 6, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Game On Austin

The Austin Chronicle and SXSW Gaming show off Austin's gaming bounty

"...Thursday, Oct. 23, 6-10pm Empire Control Room, 606 E. Seventh $3 (kids free) austinchronicle.com/gameon..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Austin at Large: Yup, He Goofed! Now What?

For Austin’s own good, we may want to patch up that hole Steve Adler shot in his foot

"...now-immortal bad phone video (it drew a 0/10 from Room Rater, the Twitter arbiter of Zoom background aesthetics) telling..."

Dec. 11, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...off your trench coat, and get wise. Noir City Austin is blowing into town, and is set to put..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Downtown Puzzle: Live on Red River

Mayor’s plan envisions a brighter future for Downtown clubs

"...While Austin's vaunted music culture spreads thick throughout our burg, Red..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Public Notice: The Planning Puzzle

Music venues, hospitals, and neighborhood plans

"...the schedule of community events going on around town, Austin is definitely finished with its midwinter break (see below)...."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Room With a View

La Zona Rosa's Ripple Effect

"...local music insiders say is about to erupt between Austin's mid-size venues. "I think we've been operating more on..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin City Council Prepped to Tackle Palm District, Micro-Mobility, and More

A preview of the May 23 Council meeting

"...City Council is meeting Thursday, May 23 at the..."

May 22, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Bands Are Practicing Again, but Does Austin Have Enough Rehearsal Space for Them?

A love letter and state-of-affairs on the practice space scene

"...tell you a secret: I have dreams about the [Austin Rehearsal Complex], a couple a year," reveals Don Harvey,..."

June 18, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Venues Are Out of Money

Following last week’s Barracuda closure, a domino effect will continue without emergency city funding

"...the Red River Cultural District and Music Venue Alliance Austin warned that surveyed Austin venues had, on average, only..."

June 19, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Séance Shares the History of American Spiritualism

In their sittings, Jake Cordero and Albert Lucio give you the experience of contacting the departed

"...of Jake Cordero, co-creator with Albert Lucio of the Austin Séance, "The mystery is what's important."..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Council: Visit Austin, But How?

Defining oversight for city tourism

"...Austin is on its way to having a Tourism Commission...."

June 22, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Page Two: Proposition Puzzle

A series of shapes that all fit together, although not like jigsaw pieces

"...a different position is wrong, that really doesn't leave room for much discussion. Given my predilection for films, at..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Point Austin: Budget Puzzles

Before your eyes glaze over, a few matters for consideration

"...job is to find me $16.6 million of wiggle room, elsewhere...."

May 18, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Cops Go Free

APD acquittal suggests citizens still judge cops by a lower standard

"...all his strength, while the other officers barely have room to get in their own shots. As Smith points..."

April 7, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Austin Over Easy

The Chronicle Guide to Breakfast Dining

"...Charles, I'll tell you about a local hotel dining room that does as good a job of gently easing..."

March 13, 1998 Food Feature

Playback: Sizing Up Music's Bite of the Hotel Tax

Two new municipal funding schemes look to finally impact Austin music

"...income from the constant stream of tourists frolicking around Austin? Ideally, jet-setters would patronize clubs featuring original live music,..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...her face spread across the first page of the Austin Amer­ican-Statesman's Metro section. In a Q&A by the paper's..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

This Old House

Sam Houston and the historic jigsaw puzzle of Boggy Creek Farm

"...as well as the Travis County archives and the Austin History Center, gathering bits of information like so many..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge

Horror-comedy anthology has a mild case of sequelitis

"...Chad's funeral suddenly finds themselves kidnapped, sealed in a room, and forced to solve a series of puzzle-based traps..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bats Left, Sings Right

With help from Esther's Follies, Austin Lyric Opera turns Strauss' Viennese waltz into a Texas two-step

"...And you can relish the results this week when Austin Lyric Opera premieres a new version of Die Fledermaus,..."

May 30, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nemegata Pieces Together “El Rompecabezas”

Video premiere debuts cinematic visions of Leyenda del Dorado

"...in July when the South American power trio from Austin dropped its full-length bow. Local producer Beto Martinez put..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Getting the Joke

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

"...April is the cruelest month for the Austin comedy scene. That's the time of its annual rite..."

June 30, 2000 Arts Feature

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to Song and his directorial debut, Lost River...."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, the annual Austin celebration of movies from across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Massively Multiplayer Partying

SXSW ScreenBurn and the Chronicle host Game On Austin

"...obscured. That's why, for the second year running, The Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest ScreenBurn present Game On..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Riding the Wave of Rum Punch

Pleasant Storage Room fuels summer fun with rum

"...Pleasant Storage Room208-D W. Fourth, 512/322-9921 Tue.-Sun., 5pm-2am; happy hour, 5-7pm..."

May 16, 2014 Food Feature by Gracie Salem

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...beautiful big box Gibson, he quested to solve the puzzle of the cosmos. Here stood a man looking for..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Recommended Shows for Levitation Weekend

The sounds may be scattered all over Austin, but here are a few must-see performances

"...New converts still get walloped by Andrew Savage and Austin Brown's apoplectic wordplay on pricklier passages like "Almost had..."

April 27, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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