'Beauty Is the Best Priest: Short Plays of the Harlem Renaissance'

ACC's Department of Drama polishes a few rare gems by black women playwrights

"...great African-American poet and thinker James Weldon Johnson – saw a wealth of poems, plays, novels, and other written..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

School of Dance

Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin' new choreographic point of view

"...[Cohen New Works Festival] project in 2011 [Transitional Spaces III]. Through the school and through the New Works process,..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

'The NFL Beat': Browns Face Tough Decision at QB

RG3 looms large in the 2012 draft

"...road you might have heard of named Robert Griffin III. The Heisman-winning Baylor QB represents most everything a team..."

Feb. 18, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Critics Poll

"...The Bo-Keys, Continental Club (Jay Trachtenberg) Local Act You Saw the Most..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Music Feature

Off the Record

Throwing the first stone for the Chronicle Music Poll

"...two respective regions. Capping off a banner year that saw the local sheltering of more than 50 Scandinavian artists,..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: The Time of the Toad

The New McCarthyism, or why the way the Dixie Chicks incident passes into history matters

"...have long memories and the shortest tempers you ever saw, and they fondle guns instead of girls. Yet I..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Gus Gonzales IIIVentura Comes Off as a Dupe ...Dear Editor,..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

Summer of Solo Shows: The Second Wave

In Austin theatre, solo shows sometimes come in waves, as in the second half of August, which has four one-person theatrical vehicles opening the same weekend

"...like those hundred-degree thermometer-busters in the dog days. July saw a trio of them: Shirley Valentine, American Fiesta, and..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lear Jaunt

Matthew Radford explains how a professional British actor wound up playing Lear in a Central Texas barn

"...Shakespeare Festival. (His performance as Buckingham in ASF's Richard III earned him a 2006 Austin Critics Table Award.) Shakespeare..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

Page Two: Constitutional Conventions

A document birthed in controversy is understood by few and respected by fewer

"...In the past week, on television, I saw both a politician and a preacher make reference to..."

June 9, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• With surprisingly little fanfare, Rex Baker III – a real estate lawyer/investor, title company owner, and..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I saw the good in Danny. He was a good friend..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Column

After a Fashion

Is Stephen your style avatar or Eddie Izzard? Who was that man behind the shades at the Texas Film Hall of Fame?

"...intensity, he wanted to make sure that no one saw him sign my photos of him for fear of..."

March 19, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

An Artificial Wilderness

Philip Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles is getting a serious and heartening push from its publisher, Knopf, writes Roger Gathman. Does he seriously think there's an audience for a book that, among other things, explains the strategic deliberations of Napoleon III? "I always conceived a large audience for this book," Bobbitt claims. "I'd be crushed if scholars didn't attend to this book, but I meant it for anybody who wants to keep seriously informed about world affairs."

"...it had been oversold," he says. "But what we saw both in Desert Storm and in Kosovo was that..."

June 21, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...inspiration. Dropped by Verve/Antilles after 1998's claustrophobic electro-fusion masterpiece III, SXSW trumpets the return of Green's jazz 'n' paste..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...dash of bad relationship angst, while the Norman, Ok.-based Chainsaw Kittens deliver their Seventies-informed fuzz and glam with road-tested..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Articulations

In Memoriam

"...This past week saw the passing of an Austin arts lover who made..."

April 30, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Arista out of Austin?

"...yet. In any case, I flipped past it and saw that Fastball's "The Way" was one of their phone-in..."

April 17, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

VanScorned

"...the current plan still includes the giant, traffic-snarling Act III theatre and Randalls supermarket...."

Jan. 23, 1998 Column

Arts and Culture Events to Get You Off the Couch

It's spring break (for some of you), get out and have some fun

"...Day screening choice more culturally insensitive would be Halloween III: Season of the Witch. (It’s surprisingly anti-Irish!) Yet there’s..."

March 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Down the Rabbit Hole With Something in the Dirt

Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson explain their favorite conspiracies

"...are on film, and it really seems like they saw it. I can't explain it, but it's a really..."

Nov. 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

As Texas Redistricting Maps Advance, Lawmakers Aspire for Newly Drawn Seats

Talarico goes south, Doggett west, as Casar trades up

"...starting gate was Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock, who saw his Williamson County district turn a rich ruby red..."

Oct. 22, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Playback – 2014: Keeping the Dream Alive

Reviewing ATX music 2014

"...Dreams die too. 2014 saw the exit of instrument retailer Music Makers, vacating its..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

'The NFL Beat': Week Two

Back to the grind

"...the "crabby" bet featured here at the Chronicle. We saw last week that Browns RB Trent Richardson does not..."

Sept. 15, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Nuff Said, Wear Red

What do rockabilly cult figure Johnny Legend, women's health care advocate Marcia Ball, and hit-and-run victim Slim Richey have in common? This weekend.

"...and Austin's reigning kings of Red River, the OBN III's...."

March 30, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

The Science of Injustice

Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence

"...Swearingen saw Trotter at least twice in the days just before..."

Aug. 19, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Howdy, Pardner!

In 2010, the watchword among Austin creatives was 'collaboration'

"...the 200,000-plus Magnum Photos archive. Theatre and dance both saw the national spotlight turned their way, the former with..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Of a Lifetime

Gregg Rolie, the voice of classic rock, and originally, Journey

"...played with a couple of frat bands, said he saw Carlos play at the Fillmore on a Tuesday night,..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Looking Up

Along the path back to wonder

"...never be of me. After the second time I saw Citizen Kane – when I really watched that 1941..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...Just before I left the U.S. in mid-September I saw one of my ethnic Albanian friends who came to..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

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