Small Town Crime

John Hawkes hits the bottle and the case as a modern day detective on the trail for redemption

"...big coastal cities. Not Kendall, hanging around the same small town from whose force he was bounced after a..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Small Town Crime Is a Nasty Bit of Noir

The Nelms brothers and John Hawkes team up for trouble

"...Hawkes' wiry frame stumbling drunkenly out of bed in Small Town Crime, one recalls Elliott Gould's conversation with his..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

SXSW Film: Small Town Crime Red Carpet

"...Octavia Spencer attends the premiere of Small Town Crime at the Paramount Theater..."

March 12, 2017 Photo Gallery

Small-Town Drama, Small-Town Hospitality

Austin director Tyler Russell gets help picking some Texas Cotton

"...by the same name, a gnarly, sly, and humorous crime drama about real estate, crops, and political corruption in..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Our Town, Our Time

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of The Laramie Project retells the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in a compelling, heartfelt way, but it also tells a town's story and gives us the opportunity to see our town in its reflection.

"...daughters, fathers and sons, the people who comprise a town. There is the funeral for one of them, taken..."

March 15, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crime and Consequences

American Crime creator John Ridley talks about shooting in Austin, faith, race, and Felicity Huffman

"...to Austin to finish prep for shooting the American Crime pilot for ABC. The series remained to shoot in..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 4

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 23-31

"...Since July is Crime Month at the Chronicle, the ruffians and reprobates at..."

July 23, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Crime Month: A Chron "Crime" Playlist

Hit after hit, for your next hit

"...Seeing as July is Crime Month at the Chronicle, it only seems appropriate that..."

July 16, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 3

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 16-22

"...Since July is Crime Month at the Chronicle, the ruffians and reprobates at..."

July 16, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Chronicle Recommends: Crime and No Punishment

For Crime Month, our favorite films about getting away with it

"...July is Crime Month around here, so as part of our celebration..."

July 9, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

True Crime?

Why is the Austin American-Statesman in touch with the lawyers for Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings and its subsidiary Holt, publisher of the critically acclaimed A Death in Texas?

"...in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption. In it, Dina Temple-Raston, a..."

June 28, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

sxswf: Reel Crime, Real Victims

Phil Anselmo, Hart Fisher talk pain and punishment

"...SXSW panels that stick with you. Reel Murder: From Crime Scene to Big Screen wasn't memorable just because of..."

March 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crime Month: A Chron "… and Punishment" Playlist

Songs answering the musical question, "Does crime pay?" No.

"...Seeing as how July is Crime Month at the Chronicle, it only seems appropriate that..."

July 17, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...probably contain the highest density of hoity-toity nightspots in town...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

Attica Locke on Solving Crime on Highway 59

Heaven, My Home author talks her East Texas roots and the blues

"...and that she's now made a setting in her crime fiction series set along Highway 59...."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Crime Month: Encyclopedia Brown

Can you solve our fondness for Idaville's favorite sleuth?

"...gave the reader the opportunity to figure out the crime, right along with his protagonist, Leroy aka “Encyclopedia” Brown...."

July 3, 2019 Arts Post by Laura Jones

Crime Month: Down Those Mean Streams

Nordic noir and other criminal pleasures worth streaming

"...field day, and streaming services are providing so much crime fiction, viewers have trouble keeping track of it all...."

July 20, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Crime Month: Appreciating Mary Higgins Clark

The author to read when you need suspense and comfort

"...So, for this crime month, when the news is filled with casual references..."

July 23, 2018 Books Post by Nina Hernandez

Crime and the City Solution

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

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

June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Council: Crime and Coronation

Lengthy City Council meeting reinforces police staffing, congratulates APD

"...the morning press conference held by the Greater Austin Crime Commission, in order to support that day's Item 47..."

March 30, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Town Lake 'Chinatown'?

Bill Moriarty's lawsuit against the city opens a can of worms on contracting, conflicts, and a good ol' boy network of city contractors

"...City had credible evidence that Moriarty had committed a crime, Futrell would be obligated to pursue criminal charges." In..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Crime Month: In the Dark Podcast

Why did a boy's murder go unsolved for 27 years? Just listen.

"...1989 young Jacob Wetterling was also abducted from his hometown of St. Joseph, Minn., as he was biking home..."

July 11, 2019 Arts Post by Laura Jones

Saving Small Business Downtown

"...would take fees the city levies on major developments Downtown – fees that have often gone uncollected as the..."

Dec. 27, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...galvanized resistance to Vail's expansion, but in this true-life crime story, the natural world and its non-human inhabitants take..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Into the Abyss

In his latest documentary, Werner Herzog tackles the subject of the death penalty in Texas.

"...indictment of capital punishment as an effective deterrent to crime, but it's also just as much an indictment of..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crackpot Crackdown

Joining a long East Texas tradition, Jackson County DA Bobby Bell has convicted 28 black people on drug charges via manufactured evidence and railroaded trials. One small-town exile, her family, and a few neighbors are finally fighting back.

"...Frederick "Rick" Patterson was born in the small Southeast Texas city of Edna, seat of Jackson Co...."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand gives a searing performance as vengeance personified

"...grief, she decides on a plan to shame the small-town police chief (Harrelson) into action. Her plan upsets the..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bob Byington and Kaley Wheless Go to Nebraska in Frances Ferguson

Small-town sins follow an unlikeable person in this likable film

"...addition to Byington's rogues' gallery. A substitute teacher in small-town Nebraska, she becomes a celebrity of sorts after a..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cartel Land

Vigilante groups on both sides of the border fight the Mexican cartels in this harrowing doc

"...Vigilante groups fighting the Mexican crime cartels are the subject of this harrowing documentary. Filmmaker..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Blue Room

Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this Hitchcockian story of l'amour four.

"...with his partner and co-star Cléau) one of Gallic crime novelist Georges Simenon’s slimmer volumes into a fittingly tight..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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