Chris Cubas: King for a Month

How comedian Chris Cubas talked his way into being one of the wealthiest people in Austin – temporarily

"...tenuous connections to DeJoria through media friends and other, stranger avenues. "The hotel where the crew was staying, the..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Arts Feature by Carina Magyar

DVDanger: Lace Crater

Ghostly romance reinvented, plus more DVD and VOD releases

"...Their low-water mark is eating dirt, but kinks get stranger from there...."

Aug. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

Thanks for the prayers, but they're not good enough

"...I've read lots of things asking for moments of silence for the lives lost,..."

June 17, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Jennifer Chenoweth's XYZ Atlas

For years, the artist has been mapping locals' emotional experiences of the city and making them into art

"...I felt like I was being forced to do things I had no use for. I'd be damned if..."

May 13, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Payback

Onetime James Brown impersonator Charles Bradley transcends

"...the southern soul circuit, while the latter was no stranger to the R&B charts. Even late-blooming Daptone labelmate Sharon..."

April 22, 2016 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

David Cross Goes Cross Country

In "Making America Great Again!!," David Cross cracks up fans from sea to shining sea

"...you've learned from all these different places. How are things out in the heartland?..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lukas Nelson and Willie Nelson

"...cross-platform hit and accompanying Stardust LP. Now, the Red-Headed Stranger applies his touch to a sole composer, the imminently..."

April 8, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Shipping & Handling

Coming-of-age comedy Slash peeks into the world of erotic fan fiction

"...a really handsome guy, some total hottie of a stranger with lank hair the color of a raven's wing..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dead Man's Curse

Simon Rumley mines horror from a real-life death row case

"...Rumley's no stranger to Austin. His film The Living and the Dead..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Playback: The Mayor's Plan to Save Austin Music

Mayor Steve Adler addresses the elephant in the club, Susan Antone honored, and Henry Gonzalez goes to the head of the Austin poster artist altar

"...Collective, calling it "a model for the kind of things this resolution could achieve."..."

March 4, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Chronicle Endorsements

"...for 21 years and may have dodged a few things in depositions, his reputation as a prosecutor who values..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature

Fantastic Four

Crowdfunded juggernaut Lazer Team hits screens big and small

"...an online pioneer, that doesn't mean everyone was a stranger to cinema. Before joining the studio, Free provided slow-motion..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

FronteraFest: The Place to Start

Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' annual performance festival keeps giving artists a spot to launch a stage career in Austin

"...original work. Traditionally, it's been about trying out nontraditional things...."

Jan. 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Dumb Waiter

In Capital T's simple, elegant staging of the Pinter classic, it's what isn't said that matters

"...is not said – and even more so how things aren't said – that matters here. Pinter's trademark dialogue..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

SXSW Cancels Panels, Cites Safety Threats

Harassment panel pulled; BuzzFeed threatens boycott

"...SXSW Interactive is no stranger to controversy, as 2014's Skyped interview with Edward Snowden..."

Oct. 27, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fran Kranz vs. the Bloodsucking Bastards

The Cabin in the Woods star returns to horror-comedy

"...sense of perspective on that issue since he's no stranger to the stage, having appeared in Death of a..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mark Duplass Is a Creep

Found footage gets arty on Netflix

"...this is so amazing. Craigslist has brought two disparate strangers together, and allowed him to have the chance to..."

July 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Grateful Dead

Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif., June 27 & 28

"...to a sing-along for 80,000, "Uncle John's Band." Then things got woolly and willfully obscure with such Sixties chestnuts..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"..."The record did two things. It brought the band together again, and it got..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

UT, OU Take Different Approaches to Racist Speech

OU takes swift action, while UT declines to punish students, citing freedom of speech

"...when it came to affirmative action policy, among other things." Still, he says, the response has, yet again, been..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Gay Place

What's at the fest through a queer lens

"...folks who used to scratch their heads (or do things way worse) have not just gotten used to us,..."

March 20, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Free to Brew

Tech to help aid the home beer- and coffee-maker

"...member of an all-female writing staff, Wallace is no stranger to exclusion. "'Bitch beer' is a term that usually..."

March 13, 2015 Food Feature by Ashley Moreno

Mardi Gras 2015: Wendy Colonna to Home and Back, Pt.1

Austinite/SWLA-native proves you can go home again – and sing about it

"...Austin Chronicle: [After much futzing with blue tooth] Hey, stranger! Where ya headed?..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Fantastic Fest 2014: Joe Lynch Guns for Everly

Director of Salma Hayek action flick talks sealed-room rules

"...Lynch is no stranger to being in a fight you can't escape. In..."

Sept. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns

Daniel Radcliffe's latest heads up final wave of films

"...2013, North American Premiere, 76 min D: Martín Desalvo Things are a bit off in Virginia’s tiny village. Something..."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Dram Held High for Ed Miller

KUTX folk sage is shown the door after 43 years on-air

"...Sunday night, he led off with Doc Watson’s “Hello Stranger,” a song he used to open shows with quite..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

First Look: Punch Bowl Social

Austin outpost opens in the Domain

"...Punch Bowl Social aims to be all of these things for North Austinites. Bowling, karaoke, and old-school video games..."

Aug. 21, 2014 Food Post by Rod Machen

Bethany

Theatre En Bloc delivers a tough and disturbing social critique on suburbia and adversity facing single mothers

"...utterly repulsive as he assures us that, among other things, God wants us to be rich. His prey is..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

Slam Sisters

The Women of the World Poetry Slam brings Austin a spoken-word contest that's about more than scores

"...school with three future WNBA players, Roop was no stranger to adrenaline, but her first slam was like nothing..."

March 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Official Drink of Austin Contest Names Team Qui the Winners

Holy crap, does my head hurt

"...bacon). I could have eaten a dozen of those things! I was surprised to see that many of the..."

Feb. 24, 2014 Food Post by Claudia Alarcón

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