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Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature
The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
As Captain America enters a Brave New World, every MCU film reviewed
"...and the first time behind the camera for those pesky Russo brothers, who guide the franchise as much as..."
Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Relays, Rides, and Rasslin' Headline This Week's Community Events
Recommended happenings around town
"...eclipse presentation by led by Hill Country Alliance’s Night Sky Program Manager Dawn Davies (7:30pm), and night sky viewing..."
March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
Blue Starlite Lights Up in Buda
Mini urban drive-in adding overnight camping at new location
"...the same kind of glorious retrospective screenings, the same candy and popcorn and speakers-on-the-window experience. Frank said, "We're still..."
Dec. 20, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Gay Place
SXSW Saturday
"...Gordon, Lissie, Paloma Faith, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Brooke Candy. 5:55pm-2am. Austin Music Hall, 208 Nueces. SXSW badges/wristbands...."
March 15, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer
'Deliver Me'
First-place winner
"...Ed pulled into a gas station. The sky was dark now, but the parking lot was lit..."
Feb. 12, 2010 Books Feature by John Roberts
99 Bands
Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard
"...asleep. Instrumental bands are multiplying, but that remains a risky proposition. Lyrics add layers, and without them, a band..."
July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens
Double D'Amour
In one week, Austin is blessed with two theatrical projects by gifted playwright Lisa D'Amour: her 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, a curious romance between a big-city enchantress and the fairy-tale beast who adores her; and Nita and Zita, a cabaret in which the ghosts of two sisters relate the story of their lives as a vaudeville team and as eccentric "gypsy ladies" in New Orleans in dance numbers, songs, and malapropisms.
"...our hearts. Of course, these aren't the same-old, same-old candy-Cupid and greeting-card-poem love days; they belong to Lisa D'Amour,..."
Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Picks & Sleepers
Sxsw
"...Of course, before Jason and the Scorchers, there was Skynyrd. (Liberty Lunch, 1am) -Michael Bertin..."
March 20, 1998 Music Feature
Review: DAIISTAR, Good Time (Fuzz Club)
Quartet's debut fleshes out counterculture ethos with shoegaze lilts and industrial guitars
"...Pandemic-formed act DAIISTAR seems to have fallen from the sky, crash-landing its layered neo-psychedelia into a record deal three..."
Sept. 22, 2023 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann
Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music
Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival
"...on Synthetic: Season One, the first volume in his sky-sized quadruple LP, where he took on the monumental (and..."
March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff
Review: Broadway in Austin’s Disney’s Aladdin
Poster child for Broadway's Disneyfication still crazy entertaining
"...set pieces is an abundant supply of Casey Nicholaw’s eye-candy choreography, performed in Gregg Barnes’ spectacular midriff-baring and bedazzled..."
Feb. 16, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman
Hot and Bothered: Austin’s Record-Hot Summer Affects Pepper Harvesting
The hottest peppers are most threatened by increasing temperatures
"...pummeling his pepper crop. The day we spoke, the sky was studded with fat gray clouds, threatening rain and..."
Sept. 9, 2022 Food Feature by A. Richmond
The Concourse Project Brings the Raver Spirit Back to Austin
High-capacity event space looks to diversify their sound
"...hotbed. When Austin was, in fact, that – grownup candy kids fondly remember (illegal) raves and (legal) massives from..."
Nov. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Christina Garcia
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, July 23-29
"...the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee;..."
July 23, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny
Top 20 Austin Breweries of 2020
It's time for our annual Central Texas Brewery Power Rankings
"..."We have to go back!" toasting the 5:15 from Sky Harbor. But as we are also hearing rumors of..."
Nov. 11, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga
Chronicle Critics Choose Their Top 10 Local Albums
10 lists by 10 of our music writers
"...5) Townes Van Zandt, Sky Blue (Fat Possum)..."
Dec. 20, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff
The Best of Asia at SXSW Music
"..."Connection" could easily pass for ethereal Explosions in the Sky B-sides...."
March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile
99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music
Support the home team!
"...Modular synthesizers allow electronic musicians to patch together a candy store worth of gear, but often the results sound..."
March 16, 2018 Music Feature
The Mayor's Plan to Fix Everything
Adler to announce Downtown revitalization plan
"...Representatives for the mayor talked like kids in a candy shop Thursday about the potential improvements that could come..."
July 16, 2017 News Post by Chase Hoffberger
Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books
Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs
"...ducked his head and extended one finger in the sky, wondering – for good reason, it turned out –..."
Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Bob Mould
"...in Bob Mould's best work. Judging from Patch the Sky, the 55-year-old ex-Hüsker Dü frontman must've undergone the worst..."
Aug. 12, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall
DVDanger: The Hallow
There’s something evil in the woods
"...the misguided interjection of a social media game, with sub-Candy Crush Saga visuals created by Subkoff’s fellow conceptual artist..."
April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Ariana Grande’s Tween Spectacle
TV star’s vocal prowess matches her debut arena spectacle
"...singer emerged in laced rabbit ears and her signature sky-high ponytail, her crew of dancers touched off a Grande..."
Oct. 14, 2015 Music Post
DVDanger: Fantastic Fest Rewind
Before the deluge, a 2014 flashback
"...and makes an argument for the sensuality of John Candy, can't be wrong...."
Sept. 23, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
HAAM Sampler
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians benefit day donations
"...personality, Kevin Russell got the village’s entire ration. Okra Candy, third and best album from the capital city privateers,..."
Sept. 2, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Help Desk
Surviving Austin's rising cost of living with some help from the "sharing economy"
"...were kids, we were taught to share toys and candy. Sharing was supposed to be the opposite of selfishness...."
July 10, 2015 Screens Column by Michael Agresta
Kickstart Your Weekend: Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In
Local drive-in revivalists want to improve their screen
"...get anything from four walk-in tickets (with popcorn and candy included), to retro-commercials for your business, and even a..."
July 18, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Happy Feet!
'You listening to the ooold school – KUTX, nine-eight-nine!'
"...babies cry; so bad I make flowers die. Take candy from babies, and give dogs rabies. If that ain't..."
Nov. 29, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger
LoneStarCon 3: The Jo Walton Interview
The Hugo-winning author of 'Among Others' really loves books
"...not having eaten up the [Lois McMaster] Bujold like candy. In which case probably Captain Vorpatril's Alliance would be..."
