Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...Outstanding Lead Performer Hollis L. Edwards III (Mike Hill), “Principal’s Office,” Manifest Minifest 2021, New Manifest..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Television Fest Heads to Letterkenny

"You were talking with your pals the other day ..."

"...seems to care. What are we on now? MoDean's III or IV?..."

June 7, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Lords of Salem'

Or, in defense of Rob Zombie as a filmmaker

"...(yes, that means go read my review of Hatchet III.) But, for some bizarre reason, when Zombie does the..."

Sept. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Atlas Shrugged: Part II

Atlas isn't the only one to shrug off this tiresome load of Ayn Rand – but with poor production values.

"...Starring: Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Esai Morales, Patrick Fabian, Richard T. Jones, Diedrich Bader, Paul McCrane, Arye Gross and..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...upon reason's back," so said Ben Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack...."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

After a Fashion

It's a veritable monkey jungle this week: first Stephen goes ape, and then finds himself on South Beach ... sort of. Ahh ahh ee ee!

"...Fosse ... or at least like Mrs. Thurston Howell III. Paul Weyland emceed and longtime Chronicle ad exec Carolyn..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

'It All Leads Back to Texas'

Robert Bryce on the Texas-Washington-international crony network

"...supporting the Republicans. A lot of oil money backed Richard Nixon both in '68 and '72. Then you get..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Men With Guns

Plus swords, arrows, and armies, packing heat on dvd

"...1985's Rambo: First Blood Part II, and 1988's Rambo III. All three films follow disenfranchised Vietnam vet John Rambo..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Comics Worth Spending Money on

Three Chronicle writers recommend 14 current comics, from standard superhero fare to funny-animal satire to slice-of-life drama.

"...the conjoined twins, Hindrance and Perfidia; the anthropomorphic wolf, Richard Dirt; Strega Pez, whose speech appears as words on..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Stratus Quo?

Stratus Properties tries to shake the ghost of Jim Bob Moffett as it is acquired by Tom Hicks.

"...William H. "Beau" Armstrong III, the boyish CEO, president, and chairman of Stratus Properties,..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Environs Observer

"...happened with Lee Nichols' article on Austin American-Statesman Editor Richard Oppel ["News Boss," Vol.16, No.45]...."

July 25, 1997 Column

An Amarillo State of Mind

The Plutonium Circus Comes to Town

"...such as the charming and demented artist/collector Charles Johnson III, a man who will gladly guide you through all..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Arts Feature

Austin Opera's Madame Butterfly

The company delivers a lovely staging of this Puccini opera that builds to a heartbreaking finale

"...connection to Chenes in Act I, for example. Act III, however, was her strongest vocally; The moment Butterfly first..."

May 5, 2017 Arts Review by Michelle Haché

Steve Davis' Top 10 List

"...1)Boyhood Richard Linklater's gutsy 12-years-a-movie experiment pays off in so many..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

The Whipping Man

City Theatre travels unexplored territory in this Civil War drama in which both slaves and masters are Jewish

"...for whiskey, china, and anything else of worth, and Richard R. Romeo wears John's opportunism lightly, but the pinched..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Candidate Filings

"...Commissioner of Agriculture: Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III, Richard "Kinky" Friedman, Jim Hogan..."

Dec. 13, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lee Daniels' The Butler

The stars shine bright in this broad yet moving overview of the last 90 years of African-American history.

"...Schreiber, Jane Fonda, Minka Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave, Clarence Williams III, Yaya Alafia, Elijah Kelley and Alex Pettyfer...."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jogging Toward March

SXSW Film announces opening night film, Texas Film Hall of Fame picks 2013 inductees

"...Wright (The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump), Annette O'Toole (Superman III, Smallville), and character actor par excellence Stephen Tobolowsky (Groundhog..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Texas Film Hall of Fame 2013 Goes Extra-Terrestrial

Elliott, Buttercup, Ma Kent, and Ned. Ned! join roster

"...ceremony and after party. Dazed and Confused director/AFS co-founder Richard Linklater called it "a big cultural event" that helps..."

Jan. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Contested Dem Races

And the rest of the ticket

"...Three Obama opponents – Darcy G. Richard­son (historian and consumer advocate), Bob Ely (an independent who..."

May 11, 2012 News Feature

Moving Pictures

Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition

"...Like the city it depicts, Richard Linklater's Slacker sees no need for a traditional beginning,..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TDH: 6/22/11

F1 lawsuit against Comptroller Combs to cause pile-up at council?

"...suit is brought by Audits in the Public Interest's Richard Viktorin – last seen speaking before council against the..."

June 22, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

National Top 10s

"...5) RICHARD THOMPSON Dream Attic (Shout! Factory)..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Feature

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...(Hired Gun), Michelle Phillips (Banker's daughter), Robert Rothwell (Citizen), Richard Rust (Cisco), John Stevens (Cameraman), Toni Stern (Dance Hall..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

And Taylor Makes 106

Speaker Straus makes tactical gains in race to be speaker again

"...Veronica Gonzales Ryan Guillen Roland Gutierrez Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton Richard "Rick" Hardcastle Linda Harper-Brown Ana Hernandez Abel Herrero Scott..."

June 6, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Nov. 4 Joint General and Special Elections

Travis Co. Sample Ballot

"...Richard J. (Rick) Noriega (D)..."

Oct. 17, 2008 News Feature

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...Richard Holland, Don Graham, Larry Speck, James Magnuson; Moderator: Richard..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

TV Eye

Mekka Lekka Hi-Mekka Hiney Ho!

"...– most notably as the conniving Andrew J. Lansing III in Murphy Brown (1995, CBS) and later in Blow..."

July 7, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TCB

CDFuse, the Wannabes, Last Waltz, and MySpace make for a very happy (and busy) Thanksgiving.

"...songs and albums directly from CDFuse. Owner Sal Silva III, who started CDFuse with J. Erik Schaeffer last January,..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Naked City

The council listens for four hours as proponents and opponents of the doomed motion to change Rosewood Avenue to Dorothy Turner Avenue make their case; the motion failed for lack of a second.

"...it into redeveloping East Austin," said Reverend Colby Shorter III of Rosewood Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, which headed the..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

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