Point Austin: The Abbott and GOP Project Is an Exercise in Brute Political Cynicism

What’s at stake in Texas

"...by the governor as the state’s last refuge of scoundrels, is traditionally a rubber-stamp committee slavishly devoted to capital..."

June 12, 2024 News Post by Michael King

Angels, Devils, and Jim Cummings at The Last Stop in Yuma County

The indie icon breaks down his new dusty noir and its ensemble

"...The customers at this diner are soon revealed as scoundrels, vagabonds, wastoids, and villains of all stripes: or, as..."

May 17, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...ales are deeply satisfying. Destroying several of these mid-ABV scoundrels in a single Saturday evening is light work while..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...cult storytelling can impact both real-life survivors and big-time scoundrels...."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Anthea, Terry Allen, the Greeting Committee, Hellfury, Dorian Electra, and Olson St. Clair

"...sexism, inequality, and issues affecting POC. Local Oi! boys Scoundrels open up the party. – Robert Penson Dorian ElectraEmpire Garage,..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

Austin’s Best Breweries, According to Children

Meet your beer garden friends, the Beergardigans

"...town. But none of them discuss what their little scoundrels think. That's just not understanding the assignment. Enzo (9),..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Hit Brewery Row to Choose Your Own Austin FC Home Match Beer Adventure

How to get a little matchy-matchy with the city's first top-tier sports club and its many superb beer options

"...plenty of beery opportunities to keep the 20,500 Verde-clad scoundrels hydrated well into the evening kickoff, along with the..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Eric Puga

New Documentary The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story Tunes in to the Channel That Changed TV

Shorts, Dudes, and Good Burgers

"...Hey Dude writers and future TV producers Lisa Melamed (Scoundrels, The 4400) and Graham Yost (Justified) signed up to..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Critics Choose Their Top 10 Local Albums

10 lists by 10 of our music writers

"...5) Sorted Scoundrels, Cause & Solution..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The 12 People You Meet at Sam’s Town Point, Austin’s Real-Life Roadhouse

You’d never know the South Austin honky-tonk is there, but wait 'til you meet its cast of characters

"...squabbles to clearing out the sordid cast of addicts, scoundrels, and lowlifes that squatted around the property...."

April 26, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Frank Oz on Muppets, Disney, and Being Puppies at SXSW

The great director gets candid at the fest

"...Oz made heist flick The Score after Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, it was a deliberate genre switch. “I did it..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

Sherry Thomas Is Our Lady of Crime Solving

The game's afoot in a very different way in the Lady Sherlock series by Austinite Sherry Thomas

"...of female reboots – Ocean's 8, Ghostbusters, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (now The Hustle), et al. – what better time..."

July 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

2017 Music Critics Poll

Best roadshow, best new local acts, R.I.P.s, etc.

"...Stegall: Sorted Scoundrels..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

BBC Names Top 100 Comedies of All Time

Film critics poll picks Some Like It Hot for top slot

"...Bridesmaids, Bringing Up Baby, Broadcast News, Clue, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Flirting With Disaster, The Hudsucker Proxy, In the Loop,..."

Aug. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Wonderful World of Frank Oz

It’s time to meet the folks behind Muppet Guys Talking

"...has been responsible for screwball comedies like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and hard-edged crime caper The Score. Yet this is..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Get Talking

"...working class. Anti-Communism has always been the refuge of scoundrels, union busters, racists, and warmongers. All in all, I..."

Jan. 14, 2016 Postmarks

The Hightower Report: Scurrilous Corporate Thieves Are Stealing Workers' Comp

No honor among these thieves

"...in the top suites are pickpockets, swindlers, thugs, and scoundrels, routinely committing mass economic violence against America's working families..."

April 17, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

SXSW Day Stage: Clear Plastic Masks

Nashville quartet heats up a cold corner of the ACC

"...his songs, hollering through Gothic narratives about vagrants and scoundrels, perpetually pleading, as in “Baby Come On,” for one..."

March 12, 2014 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Hightower Report

"...This last bunch of scoundrels went out of their way to monkey-wrench the rollout..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...Andrew Cannata, I Love You Because/Dirty Rotten Scoundrels..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe

"...old medicine shows and vaudeville with the Pgraphers playing "scoundrels and ne'er-do-wells disguised as good Christian men and women..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

April Fooles

Our nominees for Capitol expendables

"...unto the parade of fooles! See lollygaggers, jackanapes, and scoundrels of all ilk and manner dance and prattle for..."

April 1, 2011 News Feature

Bedside Manner: Mogwai's Travel Reading

What Savlov's dog is napping on these days

"...your postage stamps in your bible lest revenuers and scoundrels abscond with them. Jesus.)..."

Nov. 30, 2010 Books Post by Marc Savlov

The Devil's in the Details

Andrew Bujalksi and Cinema Club screen an overlooked John Huston gem

"...And that quartet of radioactivity-obsessed scoundrels? Peter Lorre, pop-eyed and chain-smoking; Robert Morley, quivering with..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Headlines

"...for information that would help officials track down the scoundrels...."

May 14, 2010 News Feature

Gay Place

We are proud as peacocks to announce our new totally all-gay all-day Gay Place Web page

"...HELL Yes, there is. And it is reserved for scoundrels and scumbuckets who prey on innocent swag bags at..."

March 12, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

After a Fashion

In between TV marathons, Stephen Skip-Bos to his Lou all over town at the functions he can still make it to

"...STARS! I love it when those suave scoundrels Dennis Karbach and Robert Brown throw a movie day..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Henry V

This one-man version succeeds in staging Shakespeare's enormous play with clarity

"...of Henry IV, Parts I and II cavorting with scoundrels and drunks. What Shakespeare and Faires give us in..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Page Two: Looking Up

Along the path back to wonder

"...lazy: Pessimism has become the last refuge of true scoundrels, and the absolute insistence on the sanctity of the..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Louis Black

U.S. Run by Organized Crime

"...is tricky, a conniver, who can deal with other scoundrels, and get the job (of president) done (and can..."

Nov. 10, 2007 Postmarks

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