What Is Going On With Ken Paxton and Nate Paul?

What we know – and don't know – about the strange connection between the embattled Austin real estate magnate and the Texas attorney general

"...fully devoted followers of Christ in Collin County at Preston­wood Baptist Church, which has 45,000 members – enough potential..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Bruce Lee cultural biography Be Water, and Freak Power, Robert Kennedy III's long-rumored documentary about the gonzo king, Hunter..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

March 2020 Club Endorsements

Who's backing whom in the Democratic primary?

"...Royce West www.roycewest.com ENDORSEMENTS: Tejano Democrats, The Preston Hollow Democrats, Area 5 Democrats..."

Feb. 4, 2020 News Post

Evan Smith on the Secret of Texas Tribune’s Success

Founder and CEO on the present and future of nonprofit journalism

"...very best man’s wedding toast and a reprise of Robert Preston in The Music Man. Delivering his one-man panel..."

March 13, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Capital T Theatre's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

This production of Edward Albee's play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece

"...more importantly, betrayed by his defense of it. Here, Robert Pierson brings such an earnestness to his portrayal of..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...– on getting the opinion of another neurologist, Dr. Robert Van Boven, who had been present during some of..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

BBC Names Top 100 Comedies of All Time

Film critics poll picks Some Like It Hot for top slot

"...Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) 2) The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942) 3) The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)..."

Aug. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...(1976, 114min/color, DCP) Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Critics Poll

"...Hernandez: Robert Plant, Austin Music Awards..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers

We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician

"...Robert Earl Keen (4/24/97)..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Who Let the Dogs Out?

A playlist for the dog days of summer

"...David Robert Jones released his eighth album on RCA in 1974...."

July 17, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Beale Street Dynasty

Historical overview of Memphis' legendary music row

"...Beale Street Dynastyby Preston Lauterbach W.W. Norton & Company, 368 pp., $26.95..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

Other Worlds Austin Announces Lineup

New SF fest announces latest Amy Seimetz feature as closing title

"...Amy Seimetz, Tim Habeger, Adam Fristoe, Scott Poythress, Lake Roberts, Melissa McBride, Jeff Rose William Blakely, a cutting-edge geneticist,..."

Oct. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

LoneStarCon 3: The Lois McMaster Bujold Interview

The Hugo Award nominee and past winner on biology as politics

"...more Hugo Awards for best novel than anyone but Robert Heinlein, and if you’re confused about why, you haven’t..."

Sept. 1, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

DVD Watch: 'Freaked'

Alex Winter talks cult classics and the Butthole Surfers

"...course, for a generation he'll always be Bill S. Preston, Esq., co-star of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. More..."

Aug. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Music Man (1962)

Seventy-six trombones

"...with 110 cornets on their heels? And yet when Robert Preston's professor Harold Hill paints the picture of that..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...the guitar like an alien. Like Kaki King and Preston Reed, the self-taught Riaz utilizes fret tapping, string slapping,..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Framing the Guilty?

Houston police thought they had their man – so the evidence was no problem

"...to rape me.'" Who did, he asked. "She stated, 'Preston.'" She knew her assailant, Hamilton said Charles told him;..."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin Police: Suspect Charged in Downtown Death

One arrested and one still at large in death of Matthew Casey

"...Police have arrested and charged 22-year-old Preston Joe Sharpnack with manslaughter in connection with the death..."

Sept. 20, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Sarah Rowland Dies at 53

One of the matriarchs of the area organic farm movement died Friday

"...to Elizabeth and Anthony Green and graduated from Sir Robert Borden High School in Ottawa, Ontario in 1976. She..."

Aug. 26, 2012 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

Young Judy's summer takes an upward swing when her Aunt Opal (played by Heather Graham) comes to stay.

"...John Schultz. Starring: Jordana Beatty, Heather Graham, Jaleel White, Preston Bailey, Parris Mosteller, Janet Varney, Kristoffer Winters, Robert Costanzo,..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...he lost? Library of Dust Directors: Ondi Timoner & Robert James Death becomes art when a photographer captures images..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...Jason Ritter, Jake Sandvig, Chandler Canterbury, Rebecca Hall, Carrie Preston (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'To See the Dream'

Wyler by the bullet

"...the set of The Good Fairy (1935), one of Preston Sturges' best early screenplays...."

Oct. 15, 2010 Screens Feature

Page Two: Looking Up

Along the path back to wonder

"...Jean Renoir – or that great American poetic filmmaker Preston Sturges (almost no one quite as cynical nor nearly..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Louis Black

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

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

"...Hal Holbrook, Mia Wasikowska, Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Carrie Preston (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bewitched

AFS Essential Cinema: I Married a Witch: Fredric March's comic curse

"...biography, Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges (1992), the father of screenwriters probably torched the..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Me and Miss Jones

Shirley Jones looks back at playing against type.

"...librarian in The Music Man, playing opposite the wonderful Robert Preston as the lovable con man. To the studio’s..."

Sept. 12, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Naked City

"...and equipment info – from nationally recognized bike-safety guru Preston Tyree, Tuesday night, 7-9pm, at REI Downtown. • And..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature

Wednesday Picks

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts now

"...has toured with Parliament Funkadelic, Luther Vandross, and Billy Preston. Last year's debut LP, My Higher Ground, is a..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

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