Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...especially when the subject matter is as sensitive as Rob Reiner's film The Ghosts of Mississippi. The 1997 motion..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

Get on the Bus

"...of characters, strangers all, talking back and forth -- probing, goading, discussing, arguing everything from skin color, sexual preference,..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...SLEEPERS D: Barry Levinson; with Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt...."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

"...One person who wasn't at the Emo's bash was Rob Bernard of Prescott Curlywolf, who had been turned away..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...up on late issues of Forest J. Ackerman's seminal black-and-white mag Famous Monsters of Filmland before graduating to the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

October Previews

"...the film is composed as a surreal triptych of black comedies featuring characters who sound as if they'll make..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...Early '97 (probably): Shine, Citizen Ruth, The War at Home, The Whole..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces Film Award Winners

Shithouse takes top narrative honors

"...Will Halby, Terra Mackintosh, Andrew Pilkington, Lauren Smitelli Louis Black “Lone Star” Award..."

March 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW blurbing

"...long. Look out, Gary Clark Jr. – Jim Caligiuri Black Books..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature

Jackie Robinson's Austin

The All-American, Major League star and human rights hero spent a few youthful months on the east side of our city's 'Mason-Dixon Line'

"...still in high school when he first met Jackie Robinson. It was in 1944, at the Yeates Drug Store..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Saturday Picks

"...rapped, "If skills sold, then truth be told, I'd probably be, lyrically, Talib Kweli." Kweli's latest, Eardrum (Blacksmith/Warner Bros.),..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts now

"...its Northeast outpost as rappers Gator, Lyricist, Phenom, and Black Prophet rally around neighborhood issues of police brutality and..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Stephen explores the similar trajectories of the lives of Martha Stewart, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela??!

"...tell us that a few months ago, Güero's owner Rob Lippincott set out to collect the signatures of local..."

July 23, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Post Marks

Muddying the Waters

"...The Statesman has printed several articles which addressed the problems with the proposed mobile home development in our area,..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Column

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...by Southwest: discovering the undiscovered. Of course, local director Robert Rodriguez, who featured the L.A. band on the soundtracks..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Carrie Snodgress, Willie Carpenter, Robert Gossett. (R, 90 min.) From the Lawrence Bender production..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Friday SXSW Picks

"...it cool for '00 kids with floppy hair and black clothes to dream of Rob Tyner-style afros and buy..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Pilot Light

Previously doomed shows finally air at ATX TV Fest

"...Heat Vision and Jack, the sci-fi sitcom starring Jack Black and Owen Wilson: Fox ordered the pilot in 1999,..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...Matt Ruskin When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Poster Perfect

How Mondo is revolutionizing film art-vertising

"...was brought on board alongside longtime local gig-poster maven Rob "Sideburns" Jones and Mitch Putnam, Mondo has morphed from..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

The ongoing liquor-fueled legend of the Hickoids, Neil Diamond's people make the Diamond Smugglers' life hell, and Pete Townshend will be at SXSW anyway, anyhow, anywhere

"...raucous time." That also defines Akron, Ohio, duo the Black Keys' meaty set before a sold-out La Zona Rosa..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Holiday Productions

Five performing arts groups that revive holiday-themed shows every December share the traditions they've developed within these seasonal traditions

"...Pro Arts Collective has produced Langston Hughes' Black Nativity for four years running, but a tradition has..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Human Rights Are Indivisible

International Human Rights Day activities in Austin strung together workers' rights, social services, and Texas' awful death penalty.

"...in Texarkana, where he was tried, of excluding all black jurors from capital cases against black defendants, nor did..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Column by Michael King

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics

The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene

"...Windy City's loss is the River City's gain. – R.F. Rob Gagnon..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mansion at Judges' Hill

New owners are breathing life into an Austin landmark

"...made reservations for dinner recently to check out chef Rob Snow’s new menu*...."

Nov. 30, 2012 Food Review by Gracie Salem

TV Eye

TV Eye enters week three of no TV (okay, with an itty-bitty cheat)

"...happens in the TV writers' room. Van Dyke played Rob Petrie, the head writer of a three-person staff behind..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

"...banter" that he insisted was actually directed at aide Robert Black.Headlines• On Saturday, June 18, longtime Austin Rep. J.J...."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Hanging Up the Torches

After 20 years of juggling fire and other foolery, the Flaming Idiots are calling it quits.

"...But not when you're Jon O'Connor, Kevin Hunt, and Rob Williams. For 20 years, people have wanted them to..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002

The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election

"...ideal of true justice.Court of Criminal Appeals: Place 1: Robert C. (Rob) Owen Place 2: Pat Montgomery Place 3:..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature

More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"...(music), and Moira Muldoon (theatre), and Austin Chronicle writers Rob Curran (theatre), Robi Polgar (music and theatre), and yours..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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