Fantastic Fest Review: The Beta Test

Jim Cummings goes for Hollywood's throat in this scathing satire

"...to the directors, many of his lines are taken straight from former studio/agency employees who broke NDAs to speak..."

Oct. 4, 2021 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Artists Guaranteed to Turn Heads at ACL Fest

Six unique acts that'll blow your mind before the sun sets at the festival

"..."Honey," where her intense, rhythmic delivery seems to emanate straight from her chest. 2020 debut LP Modus Vivendi continued..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Fest Review: Let the Wrong One In

This toothy farce from Dublin has gore galore and more

"...Sixteen year old straight arrow Matt (Karl Rice) lives with his mother (Hilda..."

Sept. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

"...a voice seemed to bypass the larynx and emanate straight from his adenoids...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Striker Djitté Offers Silver Lining in Latest Austin FC Loss

RECAP: San Jose prevails, 4-3, at Q2 Stadium

"...defense. Five minutes later – and for the second straight game – Austin FC was victimized by a harsh..."

Sept. 19, 2021 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Austin FC Gets Good Performance, Nothing to Show For It in Latest Loss

RECAP: LAFC bests struggling club, 2-1

"...El Tree. The end result, though, was a fourth straight loss and a seventh in the last eight matches...."

Sept. 16, 2021 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Opinion: Bring Back East Avenue – Downtown Is No Place for a 20-lane Death Machine

The case for running freeways around cities, rather than through them

"...of towns that earlier versions of the highway ran straight through. You can still go through the center of..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Column by Chris Riley

Dubbo Flipped a Dime into Rising Rap Career

North Austin rapper goes from trappin in the streets to national touring

"...to work until the work was done. He'd go straight into shooting the video with really limited resources. He..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...mayhem, totally unique, almost totally unseen, and beamed in straight from the armpit of the 80s French trash-horror cuckooverse...."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

We Need to Do Something

The terror is coming from inside and outside the house

"...Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein. It’s a 97-minute roller-coaster ride straight into an ecstatically fucked up familial meltdown that’s a..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Have an Issue: Here’s to 40 More

It's The Austin Chronicle's 40th anniversary issue

"...investigative journalist Jordan Smith, now at The Intercept, reported straight-faced on the "The Great Golf Cart Swimming Pool Massacre"..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Verde Report: Consistency Eludes Austin FC as Expansion Season Pressure Mounts

The Verde suffer team's biggest defensive meltdown to date

"...fix that on Sunday night – the Oaks were straight off a cathartic 3-1 win against the Portland Timbers..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

A Man Among Monsters: Elijah Wood on No Man of God

Finding the heart of the man who hunted serial killers

"...in these rooms and listen to these horrifying stories straight from the mouths of people who committed atrocities?..."

Aug. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

LBJ Library at 50: "Lady Bird Johnson: Beyond the Willdflowers"

The LBJ Library exhibit shows sides of the First Lady you may not know

"...picture is her poise and demeanor. She’s standing as straight as a queen, but her body is at ease,..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

No Man of God

Elijah Wood dissects the mind of Ted Bundy

"...a bar from a shift in the office, tie straight over a crumpled blue shirt. The other's off the..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

aGLIFF Honoree Madeleine Olnek Finds a Space in Cinema

A look through the queer lens

"...being metaphorically punished through disease and death, which allowed straight viewers to embrace them...."

Aug. 27, 2021 Screens Feature by James Scott

Fareground’s Triumphant Return, Johnson’s Backyard WTF, Wanderlust’s Wine Expansion, Hilton’s Analog Debut, and Never Mind That Got-Damn Pumpkin Spice …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...domestic pleasure with a bottle of Still Austin's new Straight Wheat Whiskey. (The excellent stuff's made from 100% winter..."

Aug. 25, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Album Review: Altin Sencalar’s Reconnected

Trombonist crafts a multi-cultural chordless jazz album as accessible as it is experimental

"...evolve organically out of what came before. "Links" heads straight to the dance floor with its hip-weaving rhythm, as..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Faster Than Sound: Saturday in Waterloo Park

Sights, sounds, and an undetermined musical niche at Downtown's new greenspace

"...swooping concrete trail (Waterloo Park's modern design offers few straight lines), the sound of rushing water takes over. The..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Live Review: With Nothing Left to Prove the Black Crowes Shake Their Moneymakers – Front-to-Back

Robinson brothers invoke a good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll bash

"...named, Rich Robinson stepped from the wings and jumped straight into LP opener “Twice as Hard,” bringing the crowd..."

Aug. 16, 2021 Music Post by Michael Toland

Swan Song

Meandering story of nearing death flies on Udo Kier’s wings

"...forgiving nature of growing old is David Lynch’s The Straight Story: a quiet cross-country journey about an older man..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Bigger Than Me: The Musical Journey of BLK ODYSSY

A child of funk who lost his brother to police brutality soundtracks a revolution on BLK VINTAGE

"...Bilal and D'Angelo. Sweet, rich, silky, and layered, it's straight-up tiramisu for the earhole...."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Under the Hoof of the Merciless Kandisha

Julien Maury on a Moroccan myth, and what scares him

"...have too many exposition sequences, we wanted to go straight to the action, and it was really clear from..."

Aug. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...to shatter records by playing Gyruss for 100 hours straight on a single coin and he can’t do it..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

Hog Book Aims to Encourage Hunting and Eating Feral Hogs

Jesse Griffiths wants you to #EatAHogSaveTheWorld

"...of this book. I had to maintain a simple straightforward balance – not too preachy or overly technical –..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Billy F. Gibbons on the Death of Dusty Hill and the Future of ZZ Top

“Nobody else could sound like The Dust!”

"...even had to set [ZZ Top publicist] Bob Merlis straight. He said, “Is that fake?” I told him, “No,..."

July 30, 2021 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Old

Beach vacation, anyone?

"...scene and drift off? How did no one fall straight down one of the multitude of plot holes dug..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ride the Eagle

Jake Johnson gets his head straight in this comedic kin to Walden

"...than a guy getting his head a little more straight than he thought it was and burying a few..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How Did Legendary DJ and Londoner Paul Oakenfold Land in Bastrop?

The Londoner finds his way to a Texas ranch

"...Since these spaces proved unfriendly to noncisgender or non-straight men, early EDM, post-disco, and its clubs served as..."

July 30, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

Departing Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez passes the reigns [sic] to Kevin Curtin with 10 anecdotes from 27 years.

"...Backstage in Ft. Worth, in a store room/dressing room straight out of All About Eve, a preternaturally silken man..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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