Crime and the City Solution

How safe do you feel exiting the Sixth Street/Red River Austin music crucible at 2am?

"...some unsafe ground." – "Six Bells Chime," by Crime & the City Solution, from the soundtrack to Wim Wenders'..."

June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

A Progressive Pilgrim’s Progress

Robert Jensen's new memoir is an extended meditation on his tentative return to the Presbyterian church of his youth.

"...a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice (Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, paper, 194 pp.) is an extended meditation on..."

June 10, 2009 Books Post by Michael King

This Charming Man

Morrissey enraptured the Bass Concert Hall Sunday night

"...Arms Around Paris,” Refusal detonator “Something is Squeezing My Skull,” and “One Day Goodbye will be Farewell” all sounded..."

April 14, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Napoleon: Dynamite!

The former Zappa sax man does it for the kids

"...die for more? That ripped the top of your skull off and sailed it to parts unknown, so that..."

April 7, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...8pm, the Music Gym Patio Sixties R&B got a sweaty boost in ATX fourpiece Shapes Have..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

Thursday

"...year's The Ken Burns Effect. Gypsy-folk duo A Hawk & a Hacksaw, back in New Mexico after a stint..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Vinyl by Vinyl West

It's always Record Store Day here

"...1pm Eat Skull 2pm Crystal Stilts 3pm Gary War 4pm Cursive 5pm..."

March 9, 2009 SXSW Post by Audra Schroeder

Morrissey

"...Morrissey in surging, anti-anti-depressant opener "Someting Is Squeezing My Skull" before confessing: "The motion of taxis excites me. Will..."

March 6, 2009 Music Review by Marc Savlov

The February Blues

What's a sports fan to do during the lean days of February?

"...clue, I’m drunk and I'm bored out of my skull!”..."

Feb. 17, 2009 Sports Post by Justin Sanders

Harptallica

Harptallica strings up metaldom's Masters of Puppets at Headhunters

"...bore the unmistakable bass line of Lizard expressionism. Shot’s “Skull of a German”? “Monkey Trick,” nodded Kimzey during Harptallica’s..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...Disappointment: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. George Lucas continues his quest to turn his past..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Texas Top 10s

"...3) Future Clouds & Radar, Peoria (The Star Apple Kingdom)..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Music Feature

Top 10 Belly Laughs of 2008

Chronicle Arts writer Elizabeth Cobbe remembers the sweetest comedic moments in 2008

"...3) Jose Villarreal's bit as the comic skull in Frankenstein (Trouble Puppet Theater Company)..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Humor

Rees' strips are provocative and wise, and delivered with a punch to the gut

"...Soft Skull Press, 256 pp., $15.95 (paper)..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Books Feature by Jordan Smith

LittleBigPlanet

Cutest. Game. Ever.

"...know it, you're running from a jilted skeleton bride's skull-dozer and delivering highly volatile explosives through craggy tunnels like..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me

"...Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Meby Martin Millar Soft Skull Press, 222 pp., $13.95 (paper)..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Fashion Axe

Fashion axe

"...Seeing rock & roll as more than its performers and music necessitates..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Francesca Camillo

The Art of Football

Who in the NFL is playing in an artistic manner this season, and who is not

"...aspect of this squad makes me scratch my bald skull. They can’t score. They can’t stop anyone from scoring...."

Nov. 13, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Off the Record

Putting on the gloves for round three of Fun Fun Fun Fest, Dangerous Toys go platinum, and Okkervil River stands for a fire demon

"...tribute show led by Wayne Hancock and Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, among others, kicks off at 2pm...."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Can't Tell the Flix Without the Pics

Fantastic Fest's pictograph reference guide to the films is an endlessly fun diversion

"...2¢ coin ups the stakes to "low budget," a skull sucking on a ciggie means you should be ready..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Around the World of Weird

The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008

"...nothing personal, Hollywood; we just roll like that, with zombie-skull-crushing, adamantium-belted supertreads smoking the macadam beneath our heavily modded,..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...approximately over 36 inches long" and encased in a skull-head cane. Bradley told the Leader his priority was public..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature

The Devil Bat

"...The Devil BatLingers Like a Ghost (Sister Skull)..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Mayor of Washington Boulevard

The first Beach Boys' solo album, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, washes back ashore after more than three decades

"...the man who brought one of the biggest rock & roll bands of all time to life. Like all..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Industrious Anarchy

Anarchy Championship Wrestling is striving to keep the wrestling tradition alive in Austin

"...he got to wrestle big Mexican names like the skull-masked superstar La Parka. "He didn't know much English, and..."

July 18, 2008 Sports Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lovey and Lovey: Tippling twosome toasts the town (but no titillation, please)

The gin-soaked alter egos of comedians Tami Nelson and Michael Jastroch dish on Austin, alcohol, and their new show

"...favorite drink is the "Arrggarita." It comes with a skull and crossbones flag in it. It's all about nostalgia..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Quick Something

"...2) Anyone who saw The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull knows that Indiana Jones should have been put out..."

July 8, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Living With 'Monstrosities'

Jen Hirt and Scott Webel and their Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata

"...smoked by Marilyn Monroe, a taxidermied pygmy kangaroo, the skull of P.T. Barnum's organ-grinder monkey, a lock of hair..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hamilton Township

Salvage Vanguard turns Jason Grote's new play into a rare slice of performance: funny, frightening, visceral, violent, and totally unforgettable

"...idea of starting a theatre company with a rock & roll sensibility. Bucci came up with the word "salvage,"..."

June 13, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

@ Newsdesk

"...before his presidential run) to remake this Andover-educated Yaley Skull and Bonesman as scrub-clearing reg'lar folk for the press...."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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