True Blues

Alan Govenar's blues tome doesn't need to correct blues mythos. Blues is myth and vice versa.

"...music more prone to tooting its own horn than Texas blues, and with good reason. Alan Govenar's new book,..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Remembering Rod Moag, The Pickin' Singin' Professor

Jeff Moag honors his academic, musician, and KOOP radio host father

"...Rodney Frank Moag, professor emeritus at the University of Texas, longtime community radio host, musician, and recording artist, died..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Music Post by Jeff Moag

APD Scores Low on Police Lineup Procedures

The Justice Project cites police department shortcomings when it comes to eyewitness identification of suspects

"...The nonprofit contacted more than 1,000 police departments across Texas requesting policies and procedures for lineups; 750 departments responded,..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Out at the Movies

Equinox Knocks

"...Filmed last summer primarily in Weimar, Texas, with a largely Austin-based cast and crew, Equinox Knocks..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Screens Feature

TV Eye

Independent Lens airs The Eyes of Me, a documentary look at four students enrolled at the Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired

"...Eyes of Me as "an extraordinary look at four blind teenagers," but it is the teenagers featured in this..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Who Says You're Drunk?

Bars and bartenders may help you tie one on – but they're also expected to cut you off just this side of 'intoxication'

"...least a part of her night at Sixth Street's Blind Pig Pub...."

July 5, 2013 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Arch Support

Foot Patrol's TJ Wade might just know the meaning of 'toe jam football'

"...touch are especially important to TJ Wade, who's been blind nearly since birth. The keyboardist and singer of Foot..."

April 29, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...That was when I could see and I’ve been blind coming up on about three-and-a-half years. Ray was a..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

KUT and Paste

KUT does major reconstructive surgery on its schedule, risking the wrath of change-phobic listeners.

"...(Not), Aug. 24, 2001), will return on Sundays, bumping Texas Radio over to late Tuesdays. KUT stalwarts Paul Ray..."

Jan. 25, 2002 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Becoming an Enlightened Carnivore

Outrider helps facilitate responsible hunting experiences

"...a cattle and agriculture operation on 3,000 acres of Texas pastureland, is all too familiar with the extreme damage..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

What Price Baseball?

The Rangers Ain't Gonna Like This, Yogi

"...by Robert Bryce Photos courtesy of the Texas Observer..."

June 20, 1997 News Feature

Sxsw

"...boy Jesse Dayton has the indelible stamp of a Texas musician: little bit country, little bit rock & roll,..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Nothing Succeeds Like Access

"...organization that was originally designed to serve the city's blind population. Its first order of business was to recruit..."

June 11, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Postmarks

Capital Metro Responds

"...a "working vacation" to promote tourist destinations in West Texas. As long as the Governor is promoting this part..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Column

Naked City

"...• Only in Texas would a blind person be allowed to hunt if..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature

Playback: Shark Attack!

American Sharks, the future of Austin rock

"...covers of Molina's stirring ballads by a series of Texas bands, including locals Some Say Leland, the Blurries, and..."

June 7, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions

Roots

"...teenager he was playing in small towns around Central Texas -- Smithville, Taylor, Elgin, Lockhart -- and making something..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Faster Than Sound: Bevis M. Griffin Teaches Austin Youth the Evolution of the Blues

School of Rock students play two events this weekend, and Stubb's sells to C3 and Live Nation

"...To learn more about Griffin's Texas roots, check out Chronicle writer Tim Stegall's 2020 piece..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Selling Pre-Packaged Foods Could Qualify Some Austin Bars to Reopen as Restaurants

"Creative things will happen" as Austin remains in Stage 3 phase

"...Two exceptions are the Blind Pig and Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden, owned by prominent..."

Aug. 29, 2020 Food Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Run D: Shana Feste In Run Sweetheart Run, a blind date turns violent and the woman has to get..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...2016 SXSW Film Festival runs March 11-19 in Austin, Texas. Look for the Chronicle's SXSW Film Preview issue, which..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Shake Shack Rocks Out

Today's Austin food news

"...a Divine Paloma to Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Texas, an organization that helped co-owner Susan Parker though her..."

Oct. 26, 2015 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Letters at 3AM: A View From the St. James Hotel

The St. James: It's an infirmary, it's a morgue, and it's a hotel where we each share a room with the dead

"...When Blind Willie McTell sings that, I don't know if the..."

May 18, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Fairness, Consistency, Safety

Rosemary Lehmberg defends her record

"...those kinds of cases in a huge state like Texas?..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Sipping From the Spigot

The time has come for the great boxed-wine challenge

"...start with the three Austinites who had won the Texas Best Sommelier awards (see "Austinites Sweep Texas Sommelier Competition,"..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Civics 101

"...COOPERATION TEXAS VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Learn about the local nonprofit that's dedicated..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Column

Letters at 3AM: 'Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?'

"Route 66" spoke to the sense of change afoot in America

"...Austin, 1962. Just south of the University of Texas, a building is going up. It might be Dobie..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Realigning Police Lineups

New study shows that changing lineup procedure reduces mistaken ID'ing

"...to a new field study released this week, a double-blind sequential lineup – in which the administering officer doesn't..."

Sept. 23, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Rolling Rebellion at Capital Metro

Budget cuts threaten transit services for the disabled

"...Pat Bartel, who is blind and frequently uses vouchers, told the board that despite..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature by Justin Ward

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Hop Humpday mainstays Bavu Blakes and Tee Double get Texas Longhorn sweats by default; fellow locals Arctectonics could be..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

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