Syriana

One of the most uncompromising movies of the year, Syriana is like a living tableaux composed from all the stories that lurk just behind the news, the stories that put human faces on the demand for oil.

"...There’s little room for emotion in Syriana (although some small but telling moments are nevertheless there for the taking),..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ate Days a Week

How much more food and music can you ask for in this town around this time and after?

"...do it by presenting Austin's finest music in a small, relaxed venue and by offering both music and drink..."

March 18, 2005 Food Feature

Bittersweet Spotlight

Round Rock's Ellen Marlow is on Broadway (at the age of 10)

"...open. Surrounding her are dozens of people with pretty faces and bubbling personalities, all of whom had the same..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Clay Swartz

Crimes of the Heart

Onstage Theatre Company's production of Crimes of the Heart focuses on the relationships among Beth Henley's small-town Southerners and describes them simply, truly, and beautifully

"...kitchen table are looking through an old scrapbook. Their faces are bright and giddy with the rediscovery of past..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Same River Twice

A documentary about how things change and don't change.

"...raising of children. Two subjects became mayors of their small communities. One faces testicular cancer, another teaches aerobics and..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Class of 1985

The 69th Legislature, 1985, marked a turning point in the future of Texas politics

"...stood before the 1985 composite. Craddick looked at the faces behind the glass and talked about who they were..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Leave No Child Behind

In a an excerpt from their new book, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose expose Bush's No Child Left Behind policy as an educational Enron.

"...of nervous energy seems unaware of the odds he faces when he gets his first crack at the high..."

Oct. 3, 2003 News Feature by Louis Dubose

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Our readers talk back.

"...promotional campaign, and the Chronicle's reproduction intentionally obscured the faces of officer Chapman's children. If Ms. Huffman (or her..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column

Something Someone Someplace Else

Like so many characters in American drama, the folks in Ann Marie Healey's Something Someone Someplace Else are trying to measure the distance between the life they have and the life they want, and Hyde Park Theatre's world premiere production is so rich in humor and warmth that we feel no distance between them and us.

"...The two sisters perch on the end of the small bed in the small apartment in the big, big..."

April 18, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Confessions of a 'Little House' Lover

Bonnets and braids and pioneer lovin': Christina Smith treks to the land of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

"...just some made-up TV family with moles on their faces. Sheesh. How can anyone not know that?..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Feature by Christina Smith

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Our readers talk back.

"...to consider Austin's growing Asian-American population, which is too small and too widely dispersed to constitute a majority or..."

March 15, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...very proud of our record of introducing many new faces to the Austin scene, some of whom were included..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Smith turns his stoner Greek chorus into leading men on a mission.

"...about Larter as she makes her entrance is a small, dirty comic gem. Were that the whole film was..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Feeling the Heat

A profile of the new Texas ACLU and Executive Director Will Harrell

"...lobbyists go, not so much to see the senators' faces as to make sure that every time a legislator..."

April 27, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Freddy Got Fingered

"...shoving a microphone covered in dog crap in people's faces or making his friends perform with circus acrobats while..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...in a rumpled suit hawking souvenirs. Mostly, he's selling small statues of ancient gods and heroes, but what he..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Picking Up the Pieces

Karr Conviction Closes Another Chapter in O'Hair Case

"...sitting down at his kitchen table, which overlooks a small auto salvage yard, Waters began talking about religion. The..."

June 9, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

A Map of the World

"...is Alice Goodwin (Weaver), a school nurse in a small country town where she and husband Howard (Strathairn) have..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

"...of his life. We first encounter him as a small British boy in Kenya, peeping through Venetian blinds to..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Judge on Trial

County Court at Law No. 5 Candidates Want Aguilar Out

"...10-year presiding judge at County Court-at-Law No. 5. Aguilar faces John Cutright and Janet Stockard, both criminal defense attorneys..."

March 6, 1998 News Feature by Amy Smith

It's in the Water

"...set in the fictitious Texas burg of Azalea, a semi-small town with a distinct Waco/Tyler feel to it. As..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Chronicle Art Reviews Exhibitionism

"...Michael Stuart's set simply adds to the atmosphere, finding small touches to capture the script's air of frivolous desperation...."

Nov. 28, 1997 Arts Review

Missive to the Ending Year

Letters at 3AM

"...You showed us your face -- or rather, your faces, for I see you as sometimes male, sometimes female...."

Jan. 3, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Malcolm X

"...on its cover over the last few weeks the faces of either Spike Lee, Malcolm X, Denzel Washington and/or..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...– and an eerie, identical grin on too many faces – drag her to the edge of sanity...."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD: One for the Money

"...Unlike City Council, where a deluge of new faces takes power in January, the Austin Independent School District..."

Dec. 5, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3am: Doppelgängers

Across generations and geography, doppelgängers emerge

"...my writing projects – present, past, and intended – faces evocative of characters in my books. There are photos..."

March 8, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Now You're Cooking With Gastronomy: 'Return to Beauty' by Narine Nikogosian

Nikogosian schools Chronique in putting food on our faces

"...we'd just smeared honey, egg, and strawberry on our faces. The real test was the moisturizers. Many of Nikogosian's..."

Nov. 3, 2009 Design Post by Sarah Jean Billeiter

Off the Record

Reunion fever hits close to home: Faces, the Kinks, the Jesus Lizard, and more

"...in more than three decades, the surviving members of Faces – Rolling Stone Ron Wood, Rod Stewart, Kenney Jones,..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Art From the Streets: Taste the rainbow of flavors

What makes the annual "Art From the Streets" exhibition and sale interesting is the way it shows not how different homeless people are from us, but how much we all have in common

"...booty calls. Topics include the setting sun, beaches, Picasso-like faces, moonlight, landscapes, and flowers. The love of nature is..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

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