Bittersweet Spotlight

Round Rock's Ellen Marlow is on Broadway (at the age of 10)

"...its noisy reputation this morning as the animated sounds of early morning traffic and passersby are strangely absent. Instead,..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Clay Swartz

Brothers at Arms

UT film professor Mitko Panov returned to his homeland, the former Yugoslavia, to interview the men he knew in the Yugoslav Federal Army. "They were no better or worse or more bloodthirsty than any of us -- that's my point. Whatever happened there can very easily happen anywhere." The film, Comrades, plays at SXSW Film as part of the Texas Documentary Tour.

"...In 1982, at the age of 19, Mitko Panov left his native Yugoslavia soon after..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Sing Me Back Home

The Return of Libbi Bosworth

"...how you will view yourself -- for the rest of your life...."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Culinary Dream Team

Texas authors headline the book fest Cooking Tent

"...Sarah Fioroni's new book details the wonders of life and food at her generations-old family farm in..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The Sound and the Fury

Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts

"...Keeping beat for the Monsters of Folk at a sold-out Stubb's on a November night,..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Red River Shore

Lifting the Dylan sideman vow of silence, Lone Star-style

"...Freeman and a handful of other notable Texas artists appear on the latest output..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Bi-ology

The Texas Biennial's second rising

"...word biennial is linked to a very different type of art from that which will be on display at..."

March 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week"I love this city. I've been here less..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Destiny's Child

Tom Doyal reviews Sam Houston, Austin author James Haley's new biography on the Texas legend, and finds that the biographer's "hard work is almost invisible to the reader; he makes this complex life accessible, even understandable, in light of the times in which Houston lived."

"...biographical labors by having chosen Sam Houston, the hero of the Battle of San Jacinto and an extraordinary man..."

June 14, 2002 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

Honor Among Thieves

James Carlos Blake demystifies A World of Thieves and the world of writing.

"...roar back into the Roaring Twenties with A World of Thieves (Morrow, $25.95), his new novel about a Prohibition-era..."

March 8, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Live and In Person!

Views and Reviews of Recent Author Visits

"...been reading speculative fiction, both the hard and the soft stuff, since I discovered that Animal Farm was about..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Books Feature

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...good book to read. We hope to inspire some of your choices with these reviews, but we hope just..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

The Lights Are On at AFS Cinema

After 16 months of closure, the arthouse indie cinema reopens this weekend

"...Film Society's two-screen theatre, is back. After 16 months of pandemic shutdown, the movies return to the beloved arthouse..."

July 16, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: All This Horror Business

Catching up with the major terror releases

"...Film Festival, and he insisted on taking iPhone pictures of everyone at the table, like a proud and tech-savvy..."

July 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

When the Clock Strikes 12

Bill Haley died for rock & roll – in Harlingen

"...2007, Pete Best performed Downtown on the outdoor stage of Threadgill's World Headquarters. You of a certain age remember..."

May 16, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bedside Manner: Hell on Earth

Dark literature in dark times, plus a plea for casting sanity

"...There is a time of mourning coming in my reading habits. Hellboy is dead,..."

Sept. 6, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Living Maya

Austin becomes a hotbed of past and future Maya knowledge

"...the stages and workshop rooms at the annual University of Texas Maya Meetings, often peppering her language with curses..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Jan Reid: A Remembrance

Jesse Sublett pays tribute to his late friend as a true writer

"...Jan Reid, author of The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, the Ann Richards..."

Sept. 22, 2020 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Jason Phelps & Co.'s Landfallen – the lost and found

This new work of dance-theatre takes us on journeys through wild wastes and personal histories, but leaves us in a place of hope

"...an old, weathered pay phone standing in a corner of the stage. Though the phone numbers are spoken aloud,..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Antony and Cleopatra

Poor Shadows of Elysium boils this powerful Shakespearean tragedy down to its essential elements

"...true that by story's end, we have a pair of lovers who end up dead by their own hands,..."

May 16, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

Page Two: Printing the Legend

A brief history of Austin's improbable weekly, 28 years on

"...romance or feud that's decorated the almost three decades of the Chronicle. There are precious few biographical details here...."

Aug. 7, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: The Stravinsky Theory

The healing power of prescience, set on "repeat"

"...to listening to the same song over and over, often at very high volume. Different songs on different days,..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Be Like Julia

Inspiring Tales of Ms. Child and Other Women in Kitchens

"...The conclusion of one year and the rapidly ensuing birth of another..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

One Double, Six Ingredients

"...it being Mother's Day, I didn't feel the presence of anything ominous. I certainly didn't feel that a mystery..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Energy Forward

Sofia Resnick gets her kee-op! on at Master Yi Martial Arts Academy

"...Rolling to a stop at the side entrance of Master Yi Martial Arts Academy on North Burnet Road,..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

From Script to Screen

"...The fifth annual Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Festival winds to a close..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Learning From Our Mistakes

Free, but not exonerated, Fran and Dan Keller are the victims of a continuing injustice

"...after 21 years, yet still have so little freedom of movement or circumstance, or even quality of life. Their..."

March 11, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Tales of Badmen, Bad Women, and Bad Places: Four Centuries of Texas Outlawry

"...Tales of Badmen, Bad Women, and Bad Places: Four..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Review by Elizabeth Skadden

Record Reviews

"...would've married Tony Bennett. If you knew the passion of my parents' marriage, the gravity of my mother's devotion..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...South by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

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