Why Venues Are Struggling to Stay Open in the Live Music Capital of the World

As Hot Summer Nights descends, Austin’s live music epicenter campaigns for city support

"...Outdoors at Mohawk, hardcore kids mosh on the ground floor while elder emos look on from the..."

July 12, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Austin Improv Celebrates the Day of the Dead With La Vida de los Muertos

Hideout Theatre breathes life into una vida improvisada

"...Not yet changed out of their bright costumes and excellent sugar-skull makeup, Cat Drago..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

Checking In: Tiarra Girls Can’t Stop the World

Full-time school and a new record label engage in a tug of war

"...Final cut on the Go-Go’s groundbreaking 1981 bow, “Can’t Stop the World” also..."

Oct. 20, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Save the World With Bill Nye

SXSW Eco closing speaker thinks we're not a lost cause

"...If there was one takeaway from Bill Nye's closing keynote speech..."

Oct. 18, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Decades of The Doctor

Our resident Brit examines the 50th anniversary of 'Doctor Who'

"...Fact: There are literally dozens of countries that didn't even exist..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen

This double-layered documentary examines the creation of a Hong Kong action film and the impossible feats performed by the Asian stuntman.

"...Directed by: Robin Shou. If you’ve seen any of the Mortal Kombat series, then you’re already familiar with..."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...I interview a person older than 65. As an out-of-state student in my first semester, I only knew one..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...What keeps Austin's cultural scene among the liveliest in the nation is that it's never static...."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend

"...lives up to its hype. Overfiend has been making the rounds of the Japanimation underground for a year or..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...tanked in sophisticated company. You head on down to the Warehouse District, and plop yourself at any one of..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"..."The present-day composer refuses to die!"..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Years of the Dead

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

"...The Years With Laura Díazby Carlos Fuentes translated by Alfred..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

The Pyramids

Where to find some of the finest pastichio, moussaka, and moi-moi in Austin

"...The Pyramids6019 N. I-35 (at Highway 290 East), 302-9600..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Friend of the Family

In Thomas Mallon's new nonfiction book, the strangest figure in the JFK assassination is the most honest one.

"...Lee Harvey Oswald was in her front yard under the oak tree playing with his daughter Junie. His wife..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...For more than 100 years, readers of literate nonfiction have gravitated to the brand names, the..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

A Portrait of the Artist as a Grad Student

Chronicle reviewer David Garza uses Tom Grimes' new history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop to question whether creative writing can be taught.

"...wooden bat and take a few clumsy swings on the baseball diamond with her closest poet-friends, or if she..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...What Are Three UT Students and 100 Grand? Four seasons after their first appearances..."

Feb. 17, 2023 News Feature

Out of the Comfort Zone

For international students and Texans traveling abroad, life is the lesson

"..."A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Features Feature by Liz Williams

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Here Comes the Deficit: The city’s budget analysts delivered the bad news..."

April 11, 2025 News Feature

Salt of the Earth

Local activists remember Cesar Chavez on the seventh anniversary of his death.

"...was a hero to some and a pain in the ass to others. Not everyone in Austin liked or..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Paul Ciavarri

Bill of the Week: Down With Tests, Up With Standards?

Bipartisan starting point for school graduation reform

"...When the 83rd Legislative Session started, Speaker Joe Straus said he..."

Jan. 26, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Heart of The Beast

Can Donald Byrd Make Art of True-Life Violence?

"...be long before we get a national touring production of the O. J. Saga, complete with a white Blazer..."

May 9, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Art of the State '98

Art & Theatre to See Around Texas This Summer

"...Windows of Remembrance at Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery, Houston That..."

May 29, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Roots of the Left

Sixties Austin took a deep whiff of revolution.

"...Rebels With a Cause "My name was read into the Congressional Record as one of five people responsible for..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Progressive Responses to Evictions, Truancy Define Justice of the Peace Contests

Power to the People in the "People's Court"

"...Often described as the "people's court," the chambers of our..."

Feb. 18, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Fantastic Fest Tells Tales of the Long and the Short and the Tall

Short film selection from Austin to Estonia, animation to sushi

"...It's time to get small. With two rounds of feature films already on the schedule, Fantastic Fest has..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Quotations of the Prophet Warren Jeffs

"...The following are excerpted from transcripts of several audio clips..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Dance of the Century

Rhoda Winter Russell reflects on a historic life in dance and the Mary Wigman connection

"...Rhoda Winter Russell remembers Mary Wigman addressing her, rolling the "r" and lowering the pitch to emphasize the final..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

What Galleries Are Doing on the World Wide Web Why Net Art?

"...in love with it." That's how I feel about the Internet. One minute I didn't know it existed, and..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Arts Feature

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