Brokeback Mountain

The beautifully wrought film is a tragic love story (not a "gay cowboy movie") that’s defined by its staggering heartbreak.

"...the fall. But time, isolation, alcohol, and frost break down their resistance, and one night they wordlessly start their..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Are You Decent?

Dudley & Bob and the footsoldiers in the FCC's war on pop culture

"...With Glass machine-gunning his lines, Dudley warily stands near the cutoff switch for Glass' microphone. But he..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Almost Famous

Adventures in young bandom: Zykos on the road

"...as a growing local fan base. The performance of "Understanding Fire," the most intense song on the new album,..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Your Beautiful New Home

Welcome to the City Hall you thought would never come

"...a City Hall on Block 3 of its original downtown. Generations of Austinites have now coursed through the city's..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Steady as She Goes

Li'l Cap'n Travis humbles its way into Austin's musical heart

"..."Before all of this ever went down,..."

July 2, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

'Never the Same Again'

Jesse Sublett's 'Rock 'n' Roll Gothic': an excerpt

"...It's night outside, about 10:30 p.m. Time seems to stand still in here, even when you have to hold..."

May 7, 2004 Books Feature

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...animals to keep them from eating it too far down. "And fixing fences which is always...That's eternal." He says..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...AC: Sort of a two-night stand sort of thing. It occurs to me, just as..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...2001 debut, Will Self-Destruct (Better Looking), never belies its standard lo-fi pop pedigree, but the hints of tweaked-out experimentalism..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...for us to proceed with a vote up or down on the main motion of the night. While the..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...that there are elderly people who have to walk down the block to get a ride because their friends..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...of the entire Oak Hill area, it imposed tougher standards than would have been utilized by any other previous..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

A Shot at Glory

"...and Robert Duvall. It might sound like a fairly standard sports movie transplanted to the Scottish Highlands -- the..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

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World affairs and more Critical Mass mess missives

"...will even consider doing this, because it would slow down motor traffic. And we can't have that. It would..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Column

Eric Mitchell Speaks!

"...On his decision to stand for election: "While we have had good council members,..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Hearts and Violins

Jennifer Bourianoff has found happiness playing chamber music and living in Austin.

"...one of her former UT professors shares a music stand with her during ASO performances. Concertmaster Vincent Frittelli sits..."

June 29, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Letters at 3AM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon asks whether we’re really living … and if not, why not?

"...film begins where most end: with two whose love, understanding, and acceptance of each other know no bounds. It..."

June 22, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The People vs. Mike Sheffield

The new APD oversight agreement is a first for Austin -- but will it do what it's supposed to do?

"...means Sheffield is more powerful, when it gets right down to it, than Police Chief Stan Knee. The APA..."

March 30, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...published some personal essays he had written, he was standing in front of a group of people who knew..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.

"...rendition -- seemed lost in reverie; he was looking downward, almost wistfully, and for some reason it always made..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column

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Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

"...buses come at seven-minute intervals. When a bus breaks down or fails to arrive, another shows up within seven..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column

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The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.

"...and other subsidies in order to speed, not slow down, new development in exchange for a legally unenforceable promise..."

March 24, 2000 Column

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...could argue on any subject [and] absolutely shut people down...."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

"...most U.S. colleges and universities are converting from older stand-alone computer systems to integrated, interactive databases such as Datatel...."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column

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Readers against Starbuckfucking, violence against children and rattlesnakes, and internal combustion engines.

"...the rug. You property owners must realize that closing down the Rio is no solution to these common neighborhood..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Column

Bending the Rules

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

"...the game, there are breaks in the inexorable winding down, moments when fortunes waver and maybe, just maybe, a..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Writer-at-Large

"...them," who returns to fictional Shepherdsville, Texas -- Draper's stand-in of sorts for Huntsville -- to receive official pardon..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Record Reviews

Abbey Lincoln

"...the warm delta broil of opener "Run the VooDoo Down," featuring Holland, and its end-of-album reprise with the ever..."

April 2, 1999 Music Review

Scanlines

Straw Dogs

"...relationships, but the pace gradually picks up to a downhill-with-no-brakes meter. It is a thoroughly uncomfortable movie with hardly..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Record Reviews

"...from a Californian, Peter Case's "I'm on My Way Downtown," with an honorable mention going to Jeffrey Gaines for..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Review

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