FF2011: 'A Lonely Place to Die'

The Gilbey bros. explain the truth of their Fantastic Fest title

"...many measure, Europe's borderlands are still pretty wild places. The political wilderness thriller may be set in the Scottish..."

Sept. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Arcade Interview: Robin Hunicke

Designing games for the heart instead of the adrenal gland

"...Despite the din of a HighBall stuffed to the gills with..."

Sept. 24, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch

What Are You Looking At?

The year in pop-culture fixations

"...I have a happy fantasy where somebody trips over the Internet's cord and plunges us all into a state..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Screens Feature

Stats Man

FiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver on the state of the nation

"...for politics parlayed his number-crunching acumen into one of the election's most closely watched blogs, FiveThirtyEight.com. Outflanking pollsters through..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Music Deportment

The Live Music Task Force recommends a Music Department under Austin government. Time for the Austin music community to put its many heads together.

"...The Mohawk encapsulates both the promise and struggle of the..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Why Chamber Music?

For the folks who play it, it's the intimacy and democracy and unity and fun

"...Summer is their season to migrate, the time when they wing across..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Not to Pick a Police Chief

As the search reaches full speed, so do complaints about the process

"...In the backstage jockeying over the city's search for a new..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Layers of Connection

Miranda July's crazy, shiny lovefest

"...collects random photographs and adds her own dialogue to them. She is also an Eldercab driver, helping those who..."

July 15, 2005 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Page Two

Advice for artists, inspired during the whirlwind of SXSW 2005

"...as we enter SXSW 2005, on a journey down the always long and winding road, to finally find two..."

March 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Insecure

John Cale's strange relationship with Austin and Alejandro Escovedo

"...As co-founder of the Velvet Underground in the Sixties, John Cale's station in..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two

Steve Earle brings Townes Van Zandt's ghost along on Silver City's magical mystery tour; it hangs around for the Toronto Film Festival

"..."The wicked king of clubs awoke..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Black and White and Rick All Over

The ABCs of 'The School of Rock'

"...Mike White, and director Richard (aka Rick) Linklater are the primary creative forces that shaped The School of Rock..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Location, Location, Location

The Y Bar & Grill's is a great place and has quite the popularity, but what about the food?

"...There's an age-old axiom in the real estate business that..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Our Bodies, Our Selves

An unusual convergence of dramas dealing with women and disabilities prompts a conversation among four actors about what playwrights are trying to say through characters who are disabled, and how actors approach playing a disability.

"...The woman onstage is ripping her body apart. Off goes..."

March 22, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

It's a Wrap!

A Legislative Wrap-Up on the 77th Session

"..."Years of watching the Lege in action," one veteran Capitol lobbyist told another,..."

June 1, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Lansdale's Revenge

For umpty-some years now Joe Lansdale has been terrorizing the book world with radically weird, unsettlingly violent, and often indefinable short stories, novellas, and novels. What happens when he veers toward the mainstream?

"...know Joe Lansdale, don't you? For umpty-some years now, the East Texas native (and longtime Nacogdoches resident) has been..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Mike Shea

What's In Store

The city's self-storage business is changing as corporate giants push mom and pop operations aside.

"...fin protruded from a sea of bubble wrap on the other side of the trash heap. She was beautiful...."

Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Making Waves

Austin Screenwriter Bill Wittliff Discusses The Perfect Storm

"...The snarl of traffic, the human genome, the rising price..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Telling War Stories

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

"...and fuzzy, my head too muddy to hurt yet. The situation is still being slowly, reluctantly assessed. My bed...."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Girl, Upgraded

According to the 1999 Interactive Digital Software Report (IDSA), the majority of people playing computer games are older than 18, and 38% percent of the people most frequently playing computer games are women. Boy, have things change

"...interest me -- it seems like boys get all the computer fun. (5 points)..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Short Cuts

"...Over the years, ACTV has provided a berth in the storm..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book Reviews

"...In the good old days, political journalists were often brighter than..."

July 4, 1997 Books Feature

Festival Snapshots

The Toronto International Film Festival

"...On this continent, the most formidable showcase for new films from around the..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

At Close Range

The Men Behind the Texas Militia Myth

"...is squeezed into this trigger. I can feel it there, my whole worrisome, tentative life, all of the rage..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Start your SXSW Film Festival planning now: the annual celebration..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Ground Floor Theatre’s Gibberish Mostly

This production of Max Langert’s brave play breaks the silence about autism and the stigma and shame surrounding it

"...and maybe that child steals your heart. You grow together. You bond. She's the ideal infant. Super chill. Then,..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...Locals call it "The Y": the congested intersection in Oak Hill where Highway..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

ACL Preview: Jon Muq Wants You to Get Happy

“I decided to make a happy album to change someone’s day”

"...film. He came from holding his first guitar at the age of 19 to busking in his hometown of..."

Oct. 9, 2024 Music Post by Cy White

Baby Greens Is Closing

Kale and well-met to ATX’s only fast-food drive-thru salad joint

"...her six-year-old (or almost 20-year-old depending on when you start counting) drive-through salad concept, Baby Greens, on Friday, October..."

Oct. 3, 2022 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Tim Kerr Sets His Own New Colors

Austin "Self-expressionist" paints visionary artists, photographs their environments, accompanies with old time music duo Up Around the Sun

"...In his North Loop adjacent home studio, the DIY polymath sits, surrounded by his beautiful, rough-edged paintings..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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