Splitting the Difference

Which Way Will the Votes Go?

"...Peña, Karen Hadden, Bill Spelman, and Bobbie Enriquez all split the anti-Manny vote. Certainly, this is what Spelman's camp..."

May 30, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Best Things We Saw at Austin Psych Fest 2023

Toro y Moi, Automatic, and more highlight homegrown festival’s return

"...Considering Austin’s inclement weather and the precarious state of national touring – survival..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Final Year

Behind the scenes with the Obama foreign policy team

"...There's a key moment in Greg Barker's behind-the-scenes examination of..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Verde Report: Austin FC Earns Improbable Wins Over Mexican Giants in Leagues Cup

The Verde and Black advance to Round of 16

"...In by far the most impressive 180 minutes of soccer in the history..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Putting the Art into Fart: Peter Strickland Heats Up Flux Gourmet

The filmmaker traces how industrial music informed his new work

"...art goths Joy Division, "but I appreciated – pardon the pun – the atmosphere."..."

June 24, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Netflix's Home Game Catches Austin Roller Derby on the Track

TXRD rolls onto the unconventional sports show

"...Roller Derby. The sport revived, re-created, and unleashed out of Austin in..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Dems Set Their Eyes on the 2020 Prize

Their goal: Flip the state House of Representatives

"...Richards Democrat," Celia Israel says, as she commonly does; the state representative from northeast Travis County's House District 50..."

Oct. 25, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Free Week 2019 Is in the Rearview Mirror, but These Homegrown Standouts Aren't

10 local showcases that got us excited for what’s to come this year

"...Abhi the Nomad, the Bishops, Magna CardaStubb’s, Jan. 3..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

How Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" Became the Most Valuable Song of All Time

Buffett began composing the song after visiting a local Mexican restaurant

"...White begins his new biography of Jimmy Buffett with the transcript of a 2012 hearing before the Nevada Gaming..."

July 21, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

"Shakespeare in Print and Performance" at the Ransom Center

This exhibition celebrates the Bard with rare artifacts from the Ransom Center's holdings

"...With the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death mere months away..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Ringo Starr’s Still the Greatest

Beatle’s All Starrs jukebox first of two Moody Theater shows

"...Scale: two nights by Paul McCartney at the Erwin Center in May versus Ringo Starr’s pair of..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Man in the White Hat

Larry Joe Doherty rides into the battle for CD 10

"...The strategy was supposed to solidify power for Tom DeLay...."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Beside the Point

Council ponders where to set the property-tax rate, and which health care package should cover city employees and their partners

"...since BTP's salad days covering covering school-finance hearings in the Capitol's frosty granite dungeons, it's never ceased to amaze..."

June 2, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Everybody knows Ray Benson: the big guy with the big hat, booming baritone, and..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

The Smell of Success

Austin's poster art scene is back, and it's better than ever.

"...[Posted to the chat room at Gigposters.com, Thursday, July 19, 2001:]..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Dark Horses

The redistricted Centex Democrats bravely into battle go

"...The sun is just coming up over the East Texas..."

July 30, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Bray Wyatt: Follow the Buzzards

WWE superstar on horror, power, and the allure of the ring

"...Bray Wyatt remembers the first time he saw the fireflies. That’s when the..."

Aug. 15, 2016 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc: The Definition of a Double Standard

There's no difference other than the equipment

"...said that he is only a friend and that they hadn't done anything other than get dinner and watch..."

March 8, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

The Luv Doc: Gracious Acceptance

The Luv Doc postulates on why 69 was invented

"...10-day streak before that, and five days right before then, and so on and so on. You'd think it..."

June 2, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Riding the Pinwheel

The GOP redraws the map of Texas – brazenly sidestepping most of the state's newest voters

"...Outside a committee hearing room during the 82nd Texas Legislature, I ran into Austin political consultant..."

Aug. 26, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Daily Hustle: 3/25/11

Recycling contract put thru the wringer

"...Talks on awarding the city’s long-suffering, long term recycling contract dominated City Council’s..."

March 25, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Battle of Small Beer vs. Big Distributors Rages on With Texas Beer-To-Go Bill

Another chippy round of political beer pong

"...Here in Texas, the small, plucky craft brewers and the overdetermined parade of..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Food Feature by Eric Puga

The Austin Music Scene's Spectrum of Sexism

From sexual assault to all-female bills, women musicians face myriad issues in the live music capital

"...Fisher sat at a picnic table, visibly working out the best way to articulate her experiences as an Austin..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Music Feature by Libby Webster

The Big Picture

Taking stock of Austin music's female legacy

"...When Marcia Ball moved to Austin in the early Seventies there were only a handful of female..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Universal High School Experience

Sarah Dessen's latest novel is 'The Moon and More'

"...a bestselling author of young adult novels? With typical Southern modesty spiced with just the faintest whiff of irony,..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...The following program notes were originally printed in conjunction with..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

The KeyPoint Report

What APD didn't want the public to know

"...are selections from our direct, full transcript made of the KeyPoint Government Solutions report – available on our Newsdesk..."

May 14, 2010 News Feature

A Delicate Balance: Austin Progressives Struggle to Hold the Movement Together

Council Watch

The Chronicle's endorsements explained; Council Watch writer JennyStaff Johnson says goodbye.

"...If you've been reading the papers lately, you may have noticed that SOS Action,..."

May 5, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

One of the Great Ones

"...The tall pine bookcases take up the entire west wall..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Weak at the Knee?

Chief Stan Knee's tenure at the APD has had many external successes, and several internal failures.

"...When Stan Knee was sworn in as the new chief of the Austin Police Department on Oct...."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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