Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...Does going home for the holidays have you fretful? Are you fearing the same..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Do You Remember the Internet?

Instar Books wants you to help them tell everyone about it

"...But, really, who doesn’t remember the Internet?..."

Jan. 22, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Flight of the Night Bird

Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.

"...By the time beloved Austin restaurateur Harry Akin died in 1976,..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Because the Night Playlist

Daylight savings end-times tunes

"...The light changed this week. The sun that sucks streams..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Night Gwen Stacy Died

This oddly beautiful debut novel could garner a million no-prizes.

"...By the Flames of the Faltine! What the everlovin' non-canon hell..."

Aug. 7, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: You Always Remember the Dance

First steps, two step

"...You get up too slowly in the morning, in a totally different way. You rarely have..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Recipe: The Night Hawk / Frisco’s Smothered Pork Chops

One of Harry Akin's signature dishes gets resurrected

"..."There is nothing accidental about quality."..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Food Feature by Joel Fried

Ghost Stories Take Flight With The Night Owl

Exploring Austin's dark history with podcaster Stephen Belyeu and his team

"..."The little boy likes to touch people." That's no regular..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Features Feature by Naomi Brady

Kerlin Prioritizes Kerlaches, Farmhouse Offers Intoxicants, Sawyer & Co. Cajuns Into the Night, SBK’s Downtown Again, and WTF Is Andy Baraghani Doing on SoCo?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...scene, as wrangled from numerous PR releases, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdroppings...."

Sept. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Night the Lights Went Out at the Roller Derby

"...Last Sunday, like the first Sunday of every month during their season, the..."

June 7, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Flavor tripping the night away.

Miracle fruit makes lemons taste like lemonade.

"...The Chrontourage is the Austin Chronicle's promotions street team..."

July 31, 2009 Events Post by Logan Youree

The Statement

The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator on the run for four decades (Michael Caine) is as listless as the justice system that pursued him.

"...Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Ciarán Hinds and John Neville. The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator..."

March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Night Moves

The National’s Aaron Dessner talks Dark Was the Night

"...Early last year, 4AD released the two-disc, 31-track compilation Dark Was the Night to benefit..."

Oct. 6, 2010 Music Post by Doug Freeman

The Shins' James Mercer: Fond of Y-O-U

The Shins' James Mercer winces upon a star.

"...My rave review of the new Shins album, Wincing the Night Away, was less..."

March 1, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Bonnaroo (From the Pit)

"...me I had won a trip to Hollywood for the premiere of PS I Love You starring Hillary Swank...."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Gary Miller

Swingle All the Way!

Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland

"...Jim Caruso, Billy Stritch, and Klea Blackhurst are bringing their seasonal special A Swingin’ Christmas to the Long Center..."

Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...its 30-plus-year run was it Austin's classiest venue, but the Back Room definitely had balls; in the self-proclaimed Live..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...On any given evening in the 1940s or 1950s, an old man named J. Frank..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...Jody Denberg: The Chronicle had these annual parties where they'd rent these..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...Down the rabbit hole we go, reader, and you're already familiar..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

"...Want to hear some good drinking stories? Ask theatre people. Between their research for playing soused characters, work..."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Reporting Life

Oh, the places you'll go

"...Our reporting has taken us everywhere from the Supreme Court and death row to up and down..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Behind the Bars

Why are gay bars not counted within Austin club histories?

"...Dirty Sally's (The Apartment)2828 Rio Grande, approximately 1968-1988..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature

Misery Business: The Cathartic and Unexpectedly Joyful Trend of Emo DJ Nights in Austin

Welcome to the Black Parade

"...Anyone who's done time manning a nightclub DJ booth comes armed with a clutch of "in..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

The Oral History of Austin Beerworks

How the local brewery became the heir to the aluminum throne

"...as plucky hometown breweries go, Austin Beerworks might be the pluckiest. From the shoestrings that budgeted the original 30-barrel..."

March 10, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...It was one of the most schizophrenic eras, but so typical of Austin --..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?

The 100 Tunes of Oldies Rock Radio

"..."Do you remember Murray the K, Alan Freed, and high energy?...Do you..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Music Feature

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Posted after the jump is the entire transcript of CNN's Democratic presidential..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Qmmunity: Season of the Homoscopes

Change is the name of the game this week in Austin’s queer event horoscopes

"...Scorpio. What does that mean? Honestly, I don't know. Other than knowing my sun, moon, and rising signs (for..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Column by James Scott

Late Night

Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling spark and bond in this timely and charming media satire

"...Remember the infamous, galling 2015 Vanity Fair cover with all..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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