BoomBaptist and the Art of Crafty Self Promotion Schemes

Instrumental hip-hop mastermind sells us his world

"...CEO doubled down with smarmy salesman charm: "There is something in those donuts ... the love we put in."..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Julian Towers

The Most Memorable Moments of Saturday’s ACL Fest

Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, Mongolian metal, Doja Cat, Dayglow, & more

"...“Not too many years ago, I uploaded something onto SoundCloud while I was in my dorm room..."

Oct. 3, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

All the Neighborhood's a Stage in the Drive-Through Vortex Odyssey

The Vortex keeps things safe, sacred, and mythically provocative in their newest stage spectacle

"...from earlier Vortex and Ethos shows, and whisper generators borrowed and rented to supply power to locations that don't..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sen. Cory Booker Tells Austin to Embrace the “Moral Moment” We’re In

Presidential candidate spoke Wednesday at Cheer Up Charlies

"...the soul of our country. Because I worry that something is happening now that really just makes me, I..."

Aug. 29, 2019 News Post by Roxy Bonafont

What Happened to Bonnie and Clyde's Missing Gun?

In which we hear the report of a gun and a secret is revealed

"...– I was a professor of art there for 20-something years – and Ed Pinkston was also at Louisiana..."

July 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How One Man Started the Local Mesquite Movement

A baking challenge led Sandeep Gyawali to this little-known flour

"...It started off simply enough: Bake something using a unique ingredient. Who would have thought that..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Amanda Shires’ Closet Craft

Texan fiddler adapts her process and updates her sound

"...AS: No, I borrowed a phone from the lady that runs the store...."

June 28, 2018 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Down Home Ranch Builds Community With Farm-to-Table Goods

At home on the ranch

"...was underway, with 13 campers utilizing tents and cots borrowed from a supportive nearby Texas National Guard air base...."

April 27, 2018 Food Feature by Acacia Coronado

Review: Street

Chinatown's new pan-Asian concept covers all the bases

"...like Mai Tais and margaritas (the latter surely had something with the choose-your-own-adventure style of the bartender on duty)...."

Sept. 9, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

The Take-Out

Drinking habits can be a tough thing to swallow

"...break out in a sweat. I could avoid until something became a crisis, and after a cinematically tearful confession,..."

June 3, 2016 Food Column by Brandon Watson

Austin's Public-Access Glory Days

When We Were Live time-travels back to weird TV

"...better than Vimeo, better than a video game. It's something that I don't think technology has even come close..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

I Smell (Kevin) Bacon

Two kids take the titular Cop Car on a joyride in this lean thriller

"...through his hometown of Fountain, Colo., in an illicitly borrowed car, uncertain of what fate awaits them. "There's something..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Screens Feature by Caitlin Moore

The Ballad of Davy Jones

Hickoids guitarist keeps breathing

"...accompanied by a roar of rushing words that goes something like, "ohGodnoI'mdyingpleasejust-givemeanotherchance."..."

May 22, 2015 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Counter 3. Five. VII

Congress Avenue's new math

"...name does have some utility in explaining the concept, something that does bear some explaining. The Counter part is..."

May 8, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Eastward Expansion

Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside

"...for their business and is currently operating at a borrowed site at 4926 E. Cesar Chavez...."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

The Slow Death of R&B

In the face of the Austin Urban Music Festival, where’s the love?

"...feeling of relief and exaltation, partly artful triumph and something analogous to the success of “experimental treatments” of 100%..."

Jan. 14, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Playback: Margaret Moser Retires

'Chronicle' Senior Music writer Margaret Moser retires after 33 years on the beat

"...It's every writer's dream to be something more than a messenger. To create something better than..."

May 16, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: 'Frightmare', 'The Flesh and Blood Show'

Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker

"...scripter David McGillivray points out in the included extra (borrowed from a 2005 Anchor Bay release) "Sheila Keith: A..."

March 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Symphony Orchestra With Anton Nel

This concert of music by neglected composer Edward Burlingame Hill returned some lost gems to the concert hall

"...horns, the gathering force of the percussion. They signal something on the horizon, something to make the pulse race,..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Growing Pains

Emily Hagins became a household Austin name for her work as a teen director, but what happens when that novelty wears off?

"...class behind you and we'll make it.' ... I borrowed all of the equipment for My Sucky Teen Romance..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

The Hightower Report: The Class of 2013 Seems to Get It

Civilization is what we make happen

"...I borrowed that rich concept for a commencement speech I recently..."

June 21, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

Stanley Roy's on Uke, Beyonce's on Watch!

The GayPlace talks trash with soulful uke songster.

"...SR: Well, I borrowed it for a while and then she asked for..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...In the Echo: A sleeping bag borrowed from opera singer and frequent camper Emily Breedlove; two..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Don't Fence Me In

The Fun Fun Fun Fest schedule arrives, Flesh Lights return from touring with the Hives, and Tim O'Connor lives to fight another day

"...of entry. I was so perplexed that I did something very out of character: I called the cops. "I..."

July 13, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Way We Watch Now

Is theatrical-on-demand the next big thing?

"...to not be a mechanism to convince somebody of something they should see, but to empower people who have..."

June 22, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ex-Punk Author, DIY or Die Forever

Test-driving the newest iBooks Author app (bumps ahead)

"...kind of music delivery device, like a CD or something, it was like asking for a book tour on..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Letters at 3AM: About 18 a Day

About 18 U.S. veterans commit suicide on an average day

"...for at least another three years. All of it borrowed. Plus 18 American veterans a day who die by..."

July 1, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

TV Eye

The new faces of late-night TV

"...like a child who decides she's going to say something naughty at the top of her lungs. It's off-putting,..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Season Opener: Swan Lake (Act II) and The Firebird

Ballet Austin's fowl-centric program bagged a comforting swan and powerful Firebird

"...go hunting in tights, you're bound to run into something magical, likely a bird. Swan Lake is the most..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

SXSW Interviews

The Decemberists, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Dan Auerbach

"...love that kind of music, that ambition in creating something so heavy and bombastic. Not only that, but the..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

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