The Beat That My Heart Skipped

A character study of a young man torn between disparate career paths as either an enforcer for his slumlord father or a virtuoso pianist, is underserved by its prosaic realism and adds little to the original.

"...Devos, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï and Linh Dan Pham. The Beat That My Heart Skipped, in an uncommon switch,..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Turn the Beat Around

The Pre-Millennium Rise of Dance Music

"...Tompkins "For years, I've taken [industrial music] to be the sole province of elevator musicians (Front 242, Front Line..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Beat Goes on Without Stern

Infinity adopts new talk format but leaves Austin hip-hop property alone

"...grand strategy for life after Howard Stern, including, among other elements, the novel idea of giving David Lee Roth..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

The Beat Divas Teach Cooking With Songs of Food, Love, and Mayhem

Music on the Menu at Central Market

"...When Kelly Ann Hargrove founded the Music on the Menu series at the Central Market..."

June 17, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Eat to the Beat

Gotta break eggs to make a musician omelet

"...There's this old joke: "How do you get a drummer..."

June 14, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

They Got the Beat

Living the pop life in Austin

"...a mere three-letter word, cause this much havoc? Could there be a more misunderstood and misapplied musical classification? Little..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Beat Goes On

Harry Ransom Center hosts the Kerouac scroll

"...As curators in the Ransom Center Galleries unrolled the yellowing 120-foot manuscript, cameras..."

March 14, 2008 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Hairspray: 'The Beat' goes on

Austin gets its first blast of Hairspray via a new national tour, and director Matt Lenz explains what makes this musical such a crowd-pleaser

"...to, considering that he's served as associate director for the Broadway, Vegas, and Toronto productions of the musical based..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'The NFL Beat': A Day in the Beat

Pigskin news and an update on Longhorns in the NFL

"...On Wednesday I took in the largest media event Waco has seen since the Branch..."

March 24, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Council Recap: The Beat Goes On, Ever So Slowly

Music scene frustrated at pace of COVID relief

"...music venues facing closure, but many advocates fear that the relief won’t come soon enough...."

Dec. 4, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: The Beat(ing) Goes On

Never a dull moment on the Land Development Code front

"...Events just keep snowballing. In the last week:..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

When the Beat Reporter Packs a Pipe

Rolling Papers looks at how The Denver Post tackled its pot coverage

"...In all of journalistic fantasy, there are few scenarios more desirable than the one that..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Laura Pressley: The Beat Goes On

Defeated candidate makes her case at Tres Amigos

"...About three dozen people gathered at Tres Amigos Sunday afternoon to hear defeated City..."

Feb. 16, 2015 News Post by Michael King

The Beat Goes On: R.I.P. Uncle John Turner

Johnny Winter drummer and the power of three

"...sucks today, as it does on any day when the world tilts to one side and then straightens, one..."

July 26, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

My Semester on the Beat

Wherein our reporter pursues the bad guys, abhors Problem People, studies community policing, and earns a perfect attendance koozie in the APD's Citizen Police Academy

"...When you imagine a 10-hour ride-along with a cop, there's a lot of stuff you expect – sirens, squealing..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Find the Chrontourage at the Beat Film Series TONIGHT!

"...Tonight the Chrontourage will be at the Alamo Drafthouse at the..."

April 16, 2008 Events Post by Logan Youree

11 EDM Artists to Help You Find the Beat at SXSW

"...Our Blood pulses experimental dance pop and R&B techno. The Canada-based, South America-born, Paris-bred producer puts on "spacious, improvisational"..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Can't Stop the World

Austin's native contribution to the Go-Go's, guitarist/bassist Kathy Valentine, relives 30 years of Beauty and the Beat

"..."There was a guy I met in Austin that worked..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

"...Directed by: Jerry Aronson. After numerous documentaries tracing the lively literary exploits of Beat icons William Burroughs and..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Source

"...know it, you're probably already familiar with some of the work of director Chuck Workman. He's the one who's..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Paper

The chaos, confusion, and ongoing struggle that is involved in putting out a newspaper is well-captured in Howard's movie. Despite a melodramatic storyline, the texture rings true and the rapid-fire dialogue recalls screwball comedies from the Thirties.

"...Tomei, Randy Quaid, Robert Duvall, Jason Robards, Spalding Gray, Catherine O'Hara and Clint Howard. Early every morning for years,..."

April 1, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...Beauty and the Beat was mixed, mastered, and finished. All of the..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

The Peanut Butter Falcon

This modern Huck Finn may not innovate, but you can't deny its heart

"...The Peanut Butter Falcon is a movie that wears its..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lost City of Z

A futile quest for an extraordinary place

"...The burden of dreams can drive a sane man mad,..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Proposition

"...Madeleine Stowe, William Hurt, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Loggia, Blythe Danner and Josef Sommer. It must be rough being..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'The NFL Beat': Back To Reality

NFL playoff scenarios

"...If "The NFL Beat" was a car commercial it would feature..."

Dec. 29, 2011 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Beat Currencies

In a look at some recently reprinted classic works by the Beats, Chronicle writer Dale Smith examines why being on the road was such a dangerous place -- and why it no longer is.

"...San Francisco Beat: Talking With the Poets edited by David Meltzer City..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Dale Smith

Mad Beat Hip & Gone

Playwright Steven Dietz takes Austin on the road with Kerouac and Cassady – sort of

"...As one of the most in-demand playwrights in the land, he's regularly shooting..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

'The NFL Beat': Senior Bowl Recap

And a li'l Super news

"...This is "The NFL Beat" and this morning I heard one media..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

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