A 'Fright Night' at The Opera

Stars of the remake get all Marx Brothers at the Drafthouse

"...first of several fits of the giggles. Basically, the good-natured trio were one good mirror gag from a Marx..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Art To Enchant

The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Mark Pickell, Bug/Hunter Gatherers Acting in a Leading Role..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Come and Take It

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' lightning strike sophomore disc, Scandalous, stops in for a G&T at the Mustang Ranch

"...does the most different things. This still has that shred to it, but the distortion is the same. Remember,..."

April 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

City Loses Appeal in Property Case

City is considering taking the case to Texas Supreme Court

"...block – bounded by Fourth and Fifth streets and Red River and Sabine – contains the city-owned Austin Convention..."

April 2, 2010 News Feature by Amy Smith

Peter and the Wolf

Playwright Allison Gregory schticks it to the kids' classic in a new stage adaptation

"...Ten years after Peter and the Wolf premiered, the Sergei Prokofiev children's symphony was adapted into an..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big 12 Power Rankings: Week 4 … or Is It 5?

Sports blogger livin' on 'kickoff time'

"...habit is hard to break, sure. And it will reduce you to a babbling idiot several times a season,..."

Oct. 1, 2009 Sports Post by John Razook

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

"...it straight into the faces of Danica Steinhauser and Hunter Harris, two of our employees, hitting Danica square in..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

City Needs to Put Cycling Issues at the Forefront

"...on Congress a motorist tried to run over (or appeared to try to run over) a cyclist near the..."

April 9, 2009 Postmarks

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...both of their lives forever. Cast: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo, Carmen Leyva, Lane ‘Roc’ Williams..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A Geezerville Mixtape

More of the best of 2008

"...1) Bob Dylan, "Red River Shore", Tell Tale Signs (Columbia)..."

Jan. 14, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...century and a half is how quickly art forms matured. In terms of perspective – use of the comic-strip..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...like Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, and Jon Brion (who scored Eternal Sunshine and I Heart Huckabees); and – get..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Alpha Rev goes Hollywood, Book of Shadows pen a few new chapters, and Alejandro Escovedo meets a Man From Plains

"...of perpetual perspective. "I've played a gig with Ian Hunter, wrote songs in a room with Iggy Pop, saw..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Recapping 2007 one list at a time

"...7) Jana Hunter, There's No Home (Gnomonsong)..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Natrix Natrix

The Basement Tapes

"...Hopper, as well as notable national artists like Jana Hunter, Deer Tick, and Spencer Kingman...."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Juiced: Wayward Astros Still Hold Fans' Attention

"...Carlos Lee and potential Rookie of the Year in Hunter Pence, both of whom have become huge favorites during..."

June 4, 2007 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

Texas Biennial, Site 1808

The 2007 Texas Biennial exhibition at Site 1808 boasts strong outdoor artwork, but the use of PODS didn't quite realize its potential

"...in the Butridge Gallery at the Dougherty Arts Center, appeared in the Chronicle's March 30 issue. The review of..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Review

Thursday Sleepers

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...and "Bookstores and Restaurants." Local headwaiters Mike McCoy and Hunter Darby (Cher UK, Wannabes) ensure 2006's Ranch Is the..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

After the Storm

Austin's Louisiana exiles remain suspended between before and after

"...streets – that the carcasses weren't going anywhere. She gathered up what she could inside and returned to Austin..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Metallurgy

Metallurgy

"...ancestry. Fellow countrymen Burst erupt hardcore screamo, Linus Jägerskog's punctured lung infinitely more bearable when the fivepiece puts hammer..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Howard Defeats Bentzin

Dems claim a 'Republican' district

"...in a Valentine's Day rout that had Republicans seeing red as they watched their lock on House District 48..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Honky-Tonkers Don't Cry

Dale Watson's heads for the streets of Baltimore

"...the mythic honky-tonk is pulsing to the beat of hundreds of shuffling Justins. Every breath imagines sawdust and manure,..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader

Jesus Christ! What are these words? Hincty, goudge, donicker, furze, rick, pecksniff, flapdoodle fantod, tumerling? What kind of screwball whips out stuff like this?

"...pop figures (Lightning Hopkins, Robert Mitchum, Sam Peckinpah) and sneered at the rest. His sneer came natural by virtue..."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Brant Bingamon

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...and the way capital cases are investigated and prosecuted. Predictably, both the Harris Co. and Dallas Co. district attorney's..."

April 8, 2005 News Column

TV Eye

It finally happened. I am in that group PBS courts during fund-drive time with those extended remember when' music special.

"...Brian Price, a former convict from Crockett, Texas, who prepared last meals for executed inmates at Huntsville Prison. Steak,..."

April 1, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Not Fade Away

The 2004 / 05 Austin Music Awards. In a word, roots.

"...a True Believers CD. Alejandro Escovedo's San Antonio soul roared up there like the wind's dominion, just as the..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Film News

Look no further than this alt-weekly's SXSW coverage for proof that Austin is the film capital of Texas, but don't forget some of the stuff going on 'Between the Scenes'

"...which is being described as The Apprentice for the red states. Murphy, who grew up in Refugio and has..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Independence, would pledge his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor to fight for all of our individual rights..."

June 25, 2004 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Week: "We regularly receive reports, some quite intriguing and credible, about concealed caches." – New CIA Iraq weapons-hunter Charles..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is in thinking all they have to do is discredit evolution and, presto, their beliefs are proved by default...."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column

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