Playback: The FAQs of Austin Music 2015

Q: Is Austin still the "live music capital of the world"?

"...This tradition-steeped stretch of December, when we munch tamales and exchange gifts (then..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Jackie Davies

Austin entrepreneur was national restaurant delivery pioneer

"...the Fifties and Sixties, Jackie Davies spent a lot of time around the restaurants and bakery delivery business run..."

April 10, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

30 Years of Melvins

Buzz Osborne & Co. almost matched that output these past two years

"...When forming the Melvins in Washington State at Montesano High School in 1983, with drummer Mike..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Point Austin: In Defense of Women's Rights

The GOP does battle for a government of men, not laws

"...The spectacle of grown men (and it is mostly men) attempting to..."

June 21, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Then There's This: Power Play

The continuing debate over who should control Austin Energy

"...to suggest an immediate need to hand over control of the utility to an unelected, independent board...."

April 19, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Air Sex in the Name of Love

Bryan Poyser's 'The Bounceback' strives to strike a balance between comedy and emotion

"...that might make audiences uncomfortable, there are movies that play it safe and movies that take chances. Then there..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

In a Blink of an Eye

A conversation with Double Trouble’s Tommy Shannon

"...has ever been on tape and a superb mix of earlier material...."

July 28, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Chaos of Eros

Isabel Coixet's 'Elegy' for a dying animal

"...attached to pretension-impaired non-arthouse fare. And in the case of Elegy, based on Philip Roth's 2001 book, The Dying..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Tale of the Lion Tamer

Former WWE wrestler Chris Jericho's autobiography, released today, talks about the art that makes choreographed entertainment out of a sport.

"...Pro-wrestler Chris Jericho must have a bucket of hyphens somewhere, since he seems to be setting new..."

Oct. 25, 2007 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Ain't Nothing but a Good Time: or, How a Lowly 'Chronicle' Writer Learned to Play With the Big Boys

"...for many so-called journalists, and especially for elite members of the sporting press (of which I most certainly and..."

June 20, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

The Year in Sports, as Pitched to the Head of a Hollywood Studio

"...pretty hard to make it as screenwriters. Every one of them has taken a crack at writing about those..."

May 14, 2007 Sports Post by John Hunt

Glass of `93

Five Years of Austin Brewpubs

"...Anderson Has it been five years already?" Billy Forrester of Waterloo Brewing Company wonders aloud. "Summer of '93... I..."

April 24, 1998 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

With Cronk Out of The Way, Council Goes For a One-Year Cop Deal

Decision allows voters to consider police oversight in May

"...After suffering a temporary defeat at the hands of former City Manager Spencer Cronk last week, Mayor Kirk..."

Feb. 16, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Taking a Tour of Freedom House

Poet KB Brookins talks their new full-length book Freedom House

"...KB Brookins, author of Saguaro Poetry Prize winning How to Identify Yourself With..."

Dec. 17, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

The Most Memorable Moments of Saturday’s ACL Fest

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

"...sunny Saturday set the scene for a packed day of live music at Zilker Park. Here are the Chronicle..."

Oct. 3, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Ethan Hawke Pens a Valentine to Theatre in A Bright Ray of Darkness

His new novel is also a prayer for the stage and a reminder of the healing power of performance

"...The protagonist of the novel A Bright Ray of Darkness is a..."

April 23, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Local Exhibitions Point to Ways People of Color Were Freed but Still Aren't Free

The Carver Museum asks: Freedom when?

"...the Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogical Center Gallery. Part of the first display in its Juneteenth exhibit, they refer..."

June 14, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Past, Present, and FuturX of Latinx Performance in Austin

The current surge of Latinx theatre and dance in Austin speaks to both tradition and pioneering new directions

"...about how that evening alone, we had a plethora of excellent options for Latinx performance and were struggling to..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Arts Feature by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

The Aftermath of the Big Headline: Stronger

David Gordon Green talks about the unlucky bystander to history

"...During the opening weekend of the Toronto International Film Festival, Stronger made its world..."

Oct. 3, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Of Manos and Mosquito

Two schlocky classics get a pre-Halloween restoration

"...The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was the Lone Star State's first successful independent movie. However, it wasn't its first..."

Oct. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...rental stock – some 55,000 titles in all – of Manhattan's legendary rental store Kim's Video on St. Mark's..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Towers of Power

Are high-rises the key to a middle-class Downtown?

"...or, perhaps, starting a new one. The Downtown real estate broker and his wife have been living in the..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Island of Dr. Ersek

Austin's media-friendly Robert Ersek is the king of pop cosmetic surgery

"...fat sucking – and the people who crave all of these things – the silver-haired Austin plastic surgeon is..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Love in the Time of War

Nanci Griffith returns after a four-year absence, heart, mind, and activism in hand

"...How many musicians can say they played the Hole in the Wall and headlined Carnegie Hall?..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...J. Frank Dobie might walk over to the house of another old man named Roy Bedichek for a conversation..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

A Hundred Years of Shadows

One hundred years after "The Great Train Robbery," motion pictures have transformed consciousness into a Kingdom of Shadows.

"...was wildly popular ... audiences cheered and stomped and often demanded that the projectionist run the film again, right..."

March 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...space is small and austere: fluorescent bulbs and walls of bare brick, a window for observers in an adjoining..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...dedicated surfer," Barry Lopez says. "These are not antithetical states." Lopez is speaking about a story from his new..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

Lot of Livin' to Do

For 15 years, Paul Beutel has managed Austin's Paramount Theatre, programming its popular film series and live shows and bringing it back from financial ruin, and he still puts in six to seven days a week there. Where do his passion and devotion spring from? Would you believe Bye Bye Birdie?

"...everything about Paul Beutel falls into place: his love of musicals, his film degree, his stints as an American-Statesman..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Visions of Sugar Plums

It may be old news to most of us, but every December thousands of children discover The Nutcracker for the first time, and it inspires many to take up dance. Dawn Davis was one of them, and she talks to three young ballerinas about what The Nutcracker means to them.

"...upon us. We are caught in the holiday whirlpool of cards, gifts, office parties, and exhausting waiting lines. Excerpts..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

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