Coach's Corner

Golf Wars: Coach barely survives a brutal midsummer struggle against Lions Muni Golf Course.

"...need little further comment. The fact they ran out of golf carts, that most of the water stations were..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

A Drag DJ, Ducks Ltd., and More Crucial Concerts for the Week

All kinds of sounds can be found around town

"...jangly power pop and/or zippy post-punk should be aware of this co-headlining tour. Toronto duo Ducks Ltd. issue sunny,..."

April 4, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Monday

Cifika in a tube, Haru Nemuri thrives live, and other highlights

"...Monday of South by Southwest’s music week is typically chill in..."

March 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Carson McHone: Still Life, Still Alive

Potent Austin songwriter, now married and living in Canada, explores themes of attachment and longing, uncertainty and loss on new album

"...and scrapping for toilet paper in the decimated aisles of H-E-B...."

Feb. 25, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Selling Pre-Packaged Foods Could Qualify Some Austin Bars to Reopen as Restaurants

"Creative things will happen" as Austin remains in Stage 3 phase

"...Sixth Street’s two main strips of bars still look relatively..."

Aug. 29, 2020 Food Post by Kevin Curtin

Composer Nathan Felix Transitions to Video During Quarantine

Short, simple films of mundane tasks analyze human condition

"...Felix attended his first symphonic performance at the invitation of his older brother. He recalls marveling at how the..."

July 17, 2020 Music Post by Nataleah Small

Judas Priest Co-Founder Ian Hill Wields Firepower

UK metal gods near the half-century mark

"...a hotel overlooking Central Park after the first show of a two-night New York stand, Ian Hill, 67, apologized..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Nils Lofgren Gets Blue With Lou (Reed)

Songcraft: “Fictional characters with non-fictional emotion”

"...Five decades in, Nils Lofgren maintains a full musical life. Besides long-running partnerships with..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...flash mob, putting bons mots to the last half-century of auditory ephemera. Even notoriously loquacious bar etiquette couldn’t drown..."

March 1, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: “Hastily Prepared” Ordinances Head to City Council

Revised drafts of Agent of Change and OMV permitting head to Council, but again, live music interests raise alarms

"...Economic Development Department (EDD) revealed its re-draft on Agent of Change and Outdoor Music Venue (OMV) permits, the latter..."

June 9, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Public Notice: Learning to Share?

A full week of Proposition 1

"...The Truth of the Matter..."

April 29, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Playback: The Mayor's Plan to Save Austin Music

Mayor Steve Adler addresses the elephant in the club, Susan Antone honored, and Henry Gonzalez goes to the head of the Austin poster artist altar

"...here to help. The mayor appeared on the balcony of City Hall last Friday morning, trumpeting a resolution to..."

March 4, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Entertaining Angels

Skylark Lounge pianist Margaret Wright plays divine

"..."Kind of cold out there, ain't it?" she asks a slender,..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Playback: 2013 – That's a Wrap

Twelve months of boom recapped

"...doubt extend to music – consider our two weekends of ACL Fest – yet somehow our cultural appetite supports..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Meet the AISD Bonds

A thumbnail introduction to the $890 million bond package on the May 11 ballot

"...infrastructure, recession-deferred maintenance – and never forget, persistent underfunding of public education by the state of Texas – the..."

April 12, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Football Prophecies

Dick Cheney, Butch Vig, and chicken wings all play a role in Week 7

"...The Football Prophecies foretell the outcomes of each week’s slate of NFL games. Pigskin prophet Russ..."

Oct. 20, 2012 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

Parades Go By

The history of the rainbow lineup rolls forward into a spectrum of Austin Pride 2012

"...people coming together and showing solidarity across a variety of differences. What greater visible display of the LGBTQ community..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

Welcome to the Circus!

The redistricting fight and the grassroots politics of chaos

"...After more than six months of trials, delays, allegations, and political infighting, the..."

March 9, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Media Watch: Bow Chica Wow-Wow

The life and times of a porn-music impresario

"...John Dial, software designer and porn-music impresario, is trying to explain his..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Column by Kevin Brass

Let It Bleed

Riverboat Gamblers: The most thrilling (and battle scarred) punk band this side of the Mason-Dixon Line

"...The Great State of Texas, whose image has been battered and bruised more..."

April 21, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Oye Como Va

This trio of brothers from San Angelo aren't gonna be lonely for long.

"...It's particularly amusing to watch Ringo Garza, youngest of the Los Lonely Boys siblings, work the Antone's anniversary..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Our "best-of" lists in the last Chronicle concurred that 2002 was..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The $975,000 Question

The Hole in the Wall needs to dig itself out of one.

"...over the past three decades: In the front room of the Hole in the Wall, on a stage that's..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Leaving Town

On the verge of their hard-earned future, Dexter Freebish contemplates a life of Saturdays.

"...In the half-dozen-odd years since the germs of what would become Dexter Freebish first began coming together,..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Hot Sweltering Summer Sex Vignettes

Brenner contemplates the going and coming of oral gratification.

"...penile infrastructure, a clever little mechanism -- a sort of physiological ratchet -- that thwarts simultaneous ejaculation and urination...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Live Shots

"...piano music emanating from a speaker in a tree of the Caucus Club's upper deck battled a funky wah-wah..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

James Cameron, Ted Lasso team, Bill Hader also announced

"...The Venn diagram sweet spot of people who are going to fangirl over voting rights..."

Feb. 11, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Buck Dharma in the 21st Century!

Epic Q&A with Blue Öyster Cult’s “Reaper”

"...singer-songwriter cabal Blue Öyster Cult composed art-rock unlike any of their era peers between the late Sixties and the..."

Aug. 9, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...big features like Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, the debut of Starz's American Gods adaptation, and documentaries on subjects from..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Swingle All the Way!

Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland

"...the classic NYC jazz club, where it's played for six seasons...."

Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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