Naked City

A Sinking Foundation?

"...When Wimberley's single grocery store expanded into a new building this year, Brookshire Brothers..."

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Dancing About Architecture

George Jones comes to Austin and everyone gets arrested in the melee. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey gets naked and busted, and Austin's answer to Santana, Vallejo, signs with Gloria Estefan's Sony imprint. Maybe K-NACK, a local alt.rock station from earlier this decade, can play them online as the station returns -- on the Internet.

"...this weekend, you had something to talk about on Monday. Friday night, the atmosphere was infused, it seems, with..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Condo Clash

The Gotham Has Neighbors Up in Arms

"...play out, as the Gotham is scheduled for consideration today (Thursday, Sept. 30). The Gables Sand Beach project, meanwhile,..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...FRIDAY PICKS All showcases subject to change Fastball FASTBALL: All..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Texas Platters

"...It must be akin to how Prometheus felt serving day two of his eternal sentence: "Didn't I just endure..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

To Be Or To Be Not

"...the announcement that wristbands were going off sale last Saturday, more than a thousand of them flew out of..."

March 7, 1997 Music Column

Dog Toys and Puppy Sports Lead Our Recommended Community Events

Bucking broncos, drag vampires, and more highlights

"...Thursday 8, Austin Creative Reuse..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Kat McNevins

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...and our fishing poles. We'd go fishing! Cutting school nowadays is different [laughs]. The whole Friday Night Lights thing..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...They're not the only directors with Austin roots in today's massive lineup drop: PJ Raval has his latest short,..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"...It was 3am on Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998, when Melvin Jones called the police...."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Naked City

"...at the age of 94, was laid to rest Sunday at the LBJ Ranch, following a weekend of visitation..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

The beefs this week: Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce on CNN, genetically engineered foods, Steamboat, John Aielli, Paul Minor, and more.

"...to educate ourselves, talk to friends, speak to our store and produce managers, and fill out comment cards at..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Don't Shelve Smart Growth

"...Given the recent furor over the relocation of the day labor site and the end-run around SOS over the..."

July 2, 1999 Column

A Gift Guide for the Austin Music Fan in Your Life

Try a Nineties Austin oral history, Willie birthday LP, or BLK ODYSSY ashtray

"...to Snoop Dogg to Norah Jones attended Willie's April birthday blowout in Los Angeles, captured here in 21 performances...."

Dec. 8, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Blues on the Green, Texas punk tales, and more recommended local shows

"...on the Green w/ Devon Gilfillian, Wild ChildZilker Park, Tuesday 18 – Wednesday 19..."

July 14, 2023 Music Column by Doug Freeman

If or When I Call: Will Johnson Discusses His Debut Novel

Long-held itch harvests the road, autobiography, and compassion

"...continues to release album after album of acclaimed solo records, sparse, evocative affairs infused with the great sensitivity and..."

April 9, 2021 Music Post by Matt White

In 1990, Austin Audiences Watched Slacker... and Saw Themselves

Richard Linklater’s indie milestone celebrates 30 years

"...of high school, living at 31st and Speedway, splitting days between being a good student at ACC and hanging..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Musicians of Color Talk About the Pandemic's Outsized Impact on Their Communities

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

"..."I could feel it a few days before the grocery stores got crazy, so we got..."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...York for three nights to promote his all-star Atlantic Records country rock masterpiece, Doug Sahm & Band, the San..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Being Christeene in 2018

“I’m a collection of all the shit that you’re throwing around in this stratosphere of online media conversation.”

"...raps over unconventional electro production, isn't particularly suited for today's inoffensive social climate, but thrives in 2018 nonetheless. The..."

May 25, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...off-kilter instrumental ambience. Sadness3, released last year via Sports Day Records, is six tracks of chugging, lo-fi melodics with..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback: Hot Shivers

New Whiskey Shivers, Butthole Surfers, Casualties, murals, and takes on American literary classics

"...their plan of "maximum music, no banter." Whiskey Shivers' in-store performance last Thursday at Waterloo Records instead delivered the..."

July 21, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Follow the Money

City attempts to keep up with growing need for services

"...they made." – Amy Kamp Job Training: Creating a "Record of Success"..."

Oct. 23, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Thanks Barbara Lynn

Empress of Gulf Coast soul graces the North Door Saturday

"...business for over 50 years with success as a recording and performing artist? I feel honored to have become..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Court Weighs New Trial For Pitonyak

Gruesome slaying in West Campus revisited by federal jurists

"...As it happened, Pitonyak had fled to Mexico the day before with another friend, Laura Hall, with whom he..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Playback

Fun Fun Fun Fest reels off some greatest hits and more

"...of the lineup for the eighth annual music festival Tuesday night, confirming its success and rising national popularity by..."

July 12, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...The SXSW Film Festival announced today its 2012 feature film lineup. Click through for the..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Crash Landing in Teen Heaven

A reunited Sincola on the 1990s

"...musically. Then Sincola's reunion appeared – at the ND Saturday. So I asked four out of the five bandmembers..."

Sept. 8, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...Hall (Sept. 21-22) and Sleep's Holy Mountain pilgrimage on Friday (Sept. 10) at Mohawk began at ATP...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

My Dinner with the Tornados

Texas Tornados celebrate a new CD with a lengthy stay in Austin

"...“It’s been a long day,” Meyers slid out the chair for his wife, Sarah,..."

March 9, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

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