DVDanger: Drawn to the Screen

Some animated selections from beyond the House of Mouse

"...There comes a point in every film fan's life when,..."

Dec. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Long Trip up the 'Dark Mountain'

Writer/director Tara Anaïse brings her wilderness horror to Austin

"...If there are two terrible fears to combine, it's claustrophobia and..."

July 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Aftermath

Days later, the Red River rampage echoes through many lives

"...driving westbound on East 12th Street, when he spotted the gray Honda Civic...."

March 21, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'The Death Penalty Is About Us'

'Dead Man Walking' scribe Sister Helen Prejean speaks in town tonight

"...The year Sister Helen Prejean published her bestselling book Dead..."

Dec. 3, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

The Alamo's Action Man

Programmer Greg MacLennan on the world's most ridiculous job

"...If you're a regular at the Alamo Drafthouse, you've probably seen one man's work more..."

Oct. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Appeal Filed for Fran Keller: The Oak Hill Daycare 'Ritual Abuse' Fiasco

Appeal cites outdated medical evidence and Brady violation

"...was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and has spent the last 20 years behind bars for a crime that..."

Jan. 14, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Fantastic Fest Breaks the First Wave

'Dredd 3D' and 'The Shining' headline 2012 festival

"...us and we would have been stoked: But now they've sent their first wave of titles crashing over us,..."

July 30, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Face Off Recap: Boys, Girls and the Drowned Man

Catch up on Austin's Matt Valentine on the SyFy show

"...Austin's own Matt Valentine is looking like one of the top contenders...."

Jan. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Social Disease

2010 was the year social media was ready for its closeup

"...our Top 10s issue hits stands, and, as usual, the Chronicle's movie reviewers count down our best loved and..."

Jan. 5, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Tales From the Commute

What's crowning Jay Trachtenberg's bedside table

"...Taking the bus to work: Good for the environment, and great..."

Nov. 1, 2010 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

Point Austin: The Body of Christ

McNally play defies the fake religiosity of those who would suppress it

"...When public officials engage in literary criticism, the results are seldom edifying. So last month, when Lt...."

April 23, 2010 News Column by Michael King

The Empire That Dreams of Us

Unlocking Shearwater's The Golden Archipelago

"...At first glance, the sepia-toned photograph appears innocent enough. A young, athletic man..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The New Traditional

Damian Mandola has the restaurant business in his blood

"...it is possible for a profession to be in the blood, then this certainly is the case with Damian..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Sorting the Family's Dirty Laundry

AFS Documentary Tour revisits Alan Berliner's 1991 film Intimate Stranger

"...on that below), you think of Nobody's Business (1996), the film he made about his cranky dad, the late..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Kids Stay in the Picture

Diana Welch talks about the joint memoir she wrote with her siblings about surviving childhood

"...It's unfortunate that the term "survivor" has been co-opted by reality personalities eating..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...– a baffled Hank Hill to son, Bobby, in the series finale of King of the Hill..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Eye of the Media Storm

On the block, the Statesman fiddles while the industry burns

"...From his office atop the Bat Cave, the Austin American-Statesman's lakefront headquarters, new Publisher..."

March 6, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

The Cable Channel Shell-Game Shuffle

The FCC is investigating Time Warner; African-American weekday news anchors are few and far between

"...The Federal Communications Commission is investigating Time Warner Cable and..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Tragedy on the Border

AFS Documentary Tour| Kieran Fitzgerald|The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez|Tommy Lee Jones

"...You may detect something familiar about Kieran Fitzgerald's doc, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez, and Tommy Lee Jones' directorial..."

June 6, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Listening to the Bones

Bones tell a story at world's largest body farm

"...could happen in 24 hours or less. This is the kind of information we need to get in the..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature by R.U. Steinberg

The Film Prof's Drunk, and the Kids Are Not All Right

Zombie auteur George Romero delivers another state of the union

"...Perhaps it's prankishly appropriate in the time of viral video "2 Girls 1 Cup" that..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Morales Murder: Misreported worldwide

Blame for sloppy reporting goes to ... APD?

"...internationally – in an unusually wide broadcasting of an otherwise fairly ordinary, local crime story – on Tuesday, June..."

June 29, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Over the Wall

Echo & the Bunnymen's guitarist Will Sergeant didn't much care for Donnie Darko.

"...The Merseyside port of Liverpool languished with one of the..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Towers of Power

Are high-rises the key to a middle-class Downtown?

"...a trend – or, perhaps, starting a new one. The Downtown real estate broker and his wife have been..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: The Fire This Time

In their rush to reach out to the Eastside, city officials get burned

"...As the comedians like to say, timing is everything...."

March 25, 2005 News Column by Michael King

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...Twelve years after the end of the First Iraq War, George H. W...."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Best-Case Scenario

After years of work, Envision Central Texas goes majorly public.

"...Envision Central Texas' regional vision project. You can find them on the 74-member ECT board itself -- though, understandably,..."

Oct. 24, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Roots of the Left

The South Texas (Nuclear) Project isn't quite lost -- too bad.

"...sizes, and political parties ago, but even in 1979, then-Mayor Carole McClellan was a master of the faux homespun..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

All the Hill Country's a Stage

No matter where you are in the Hill Country, you're never too far from a theatre. From Boerne to Kerrville, Marble Falls to Uvalde, community theatres are enthusiastically serving up choruses of "76 Trombones" and Odd Couples with a Lone Star twang, as well as some theatrical surprises.

"...In the Hill Country, just as you're never too far from..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Room at the Top?

Part I of the Chronicle's preview of the Nov. 5 general election

"...This is the first of three Chronicle thumbnail previews of the Nov...."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

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