We Have an Issue: The News About News

Meet the News team

"...Austin Sanders sat a few of us down to pitch their vision for the future of Chronicle News. There..."

May 12, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday

Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more

"...Brown in his playpen, and how he had perfect pitch at two months old. DJ Jazzy Jeff remembered cheesesteaks..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Texas French Bread Burns, La Mexicana Says Adios, Texas Sake Company Brings the Sushiko, Delysia Brews Up Major Wins, Patika Reopens Downtown, and More …

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

"...Let’s please switch to something generally happier now? How about Texas Sake..."

Jan. 26, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Who Wants to Be Mayor Pro Tem? More People Than You Might Think.

Council members jockey for the mostly ceremonial title

"...someone who would break through some kind of barrier – such as former Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza, the..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Minnow Mountain Co-Founder Goes Into the Archives

Animation studio's Steph Swope takes a mountaintop view

"...The idea of an animated documentary – never mind one dealing the with still-raw horrors of..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Screens Feature

We Have an Issue: How’s Your Blood Pressure?

Platitudes don't help. Now is 100% the time to get political.

"...flipped abortion care on and off like a light switch for millions of Texas women. The light is back..."

May 1, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

Playback: You Can’t Press Pause on Life

A musician’s life: laid off, livestreaming, and … giving birth?

"...way up and out, crammed amongst the roof’s narrow pitch, running speaker wire. I emerged, wide eyed, covered in..."

April 24, 2020 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine

Support local business while maintaining your social distance

"...Austin’s thriving restaurant community is being forced to switch gears. As restrictions and guidelines surrounding COVID-19 continue to..."

March 16, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Complicity And #MeToo in The Assistant

Kitty Green unravels systems that enable the Weinsteins of the world

"...first pure narrative drama. It may seem like a switch in style but Green said she didn't see herself..."

Feb. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...impulses. An hour in his company, and the topic switches wildly, from 14th-century mystical tract The Cloud of Unknowing..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Seth Gibbs Promises to Fight

Cancer stricken pop savant crafts his NOT-posthumous album

"...when discussing the rate of survival for his condition – 1% live beyond a year and a half –..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lust for Life

The 2015/16 Austin Music Awards' bedrock mania

"...with the Fabulous Thunderbirds at the second-ever Austin prom – Thursday, March 8, 1984. Last year's AMA centerpiece, a..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Things That Go Bump

Ghosts, nightmares, and flashlights in this horror roundup

"...her because she gets knocked out at a lakeside party, almost drowns, and develops severe hydrophobia. So bad, in..."

May 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

No No: A Dockumentary

Famous for pitching a no-hitter while high on acid, Dock Ellis the man was so much more.

"...the acid in me” is how legendary Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis described his state of mind when he..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Food Is People

Look at Jody Horton's photographs of food, and you'll see the passionate folks who make it

"...the colors combined with the precise moment being captured – the instant that boiled-up goodness hits the weathered wood..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Went Black: Rewriting Sight & Sound's Top Ten

What, no Polanski?

"...that. Ditto Vertigo. And to my mind the big switch-up between the two is not only fair but accurate...."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Food Events

Upcoming food related events

"...› Myrna & the Bulldog present their second SongTasting at Ventana del..."

April 20, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Enrollment Stalling, IDEA Gets Magnetic

IDEA begins recruiting districtwide, magnet-style

"...becoming increasingly concerned that Allan will become another magnet – recruiting the best students away from their campuses...."

April 13, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Face Off Recap: The Finale And What Came Before

So what happened to Matt? The long overdue wrap-up

"...that got in the way of any TV watching – even the ongoing chronicling of local FX maestro Matt..."

March 29, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sports Games Stocking Stuffers

A last-minute list for last-minute shoppers

"...results when two players come into contact on the pitch with each player's size and strength taken into account..."

Dec. 22, 2011 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Luv Doc Recommends: Gagarazzi: A Lady Gaga Burlesque and Variety Show

The HighBall, Friday, September 30, 2011

"...steak and call it haute couture. Tim Gunn would pitch a fit. Heidi Klum would fold her arms and..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

International Bands

Around the world in one-liners

"...– Belinda Acosta All-Scandinavian Cipher..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

The 11th Hour

Tim McCanlies eyes the finish line

"...multicolored visual representation of the film's various audio components – dialogue, sound effects, musical score, etc. – scroll by...."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

There Can Be Only One

'Chronicle' beats BookPeople for the millionth time to capture ASL title

"...the team's very existence – the Chronicle flipped the switch in time to emerge as 2008 champions, dispensing of..."

Nov. 13, 2008 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Spring Training

Seasonal snapshots of the council candidates

"...as a fair and deliberative consensus-builder on the council – a trait challenger Jason Meeker has tried to turn..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Documentaries of Louis Malle

"...the French needed their own available-on-DVD Eddie Murray, Malle switch-hits at the storytelling plate and again plays pepper with..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Review by Taylor Holland

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...It's not too late to switch the track, folks. And that means reckoning with reality,..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

The Real Crash Davis

Alan Zinter of the Round Rock Express still lives the big-league dream

"...valuable for a stretch run. Maybe he'll get a pitch, maybe he won't...."

Aug. 4, 2006 Sports Feature by Kevin Brass

Luv Doc Recommends: Cinco de Mayo Music Festival

Fiesta Gardens, Thursday, May 6, 2004

"...of a Cinco en Mayo, so buckle down that party hat and get ready to rumble. There’s a whole..."

May 7, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Get Your Game Face On

'Tis the season to glue yourself to the PlayStation controller and get in some batting practice.

"...Somehow, though, when it came time to switch platforms to the PlayStation2, EA Sports dropped the ball..."

May 17, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

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