Cinescape

Cinescape offers a weekly home to microcinema.

"...Ever since the genesis of that brand of adventurous small-scale film known..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Puns of Steel

There's a science to interpreting puns; just ask audience members at the 23rd Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships.

"...like she might be AWOL from a meeting of the Society for Creative Anachronism bound up an outdoor stage..."

May 12, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Judas Priest Pounds Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014

Some heads are gonna roll

"...months before its usual unveiling, Transmission Events just announced the cull for Fun Fun Fun Fest’s ninth annual edition,..."

May 19, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

You Can't Bury Me

Octavis Berry died, but he left behind the League of Extraordinary G'z

"...hip-hop duo Dred Skott and a founding member of the League of Extraordinary G'z – a dedicated rap troupe..."

June 8, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Beautiful Bitter

The heartachey animation of Don Hertzfeldt

"...had an anxiety dream this morning after I hit the snooze button on my iPhone. In it, I'd already..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Two Towers, Six Years, and 16 Millimeters

The remarkable journey – and uncertain toll – of Steve Bilich's 'Native New Yorker'

"...like every life has a history, but rarely do the two commingle to such a fantastic and phantasmagoric degree..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...a monk and a dedicated surfer," Barry Lopez says. "These are not antithetical states." Lopez is speaking about a..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...More book than box per se, The Disco Box, compiled by Billboard and A&R veteran Brian..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Austin Over Easy

The Chronicle Guide to Breakfast Dining

"...out to breakfast from my cowboy uncle Charles Walden. Whether he came to visit us in Midland or we..."

March 13, 1998 Food Feature

Pressure Drop

The State of Modern Reggae

"...after some long-forgotten gig, I was returning home in the back of a taxi. At 3am, conversation is difficult,..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...Bella Union..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...This is the 15th year that local critics have put their heads..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Screens Top 10s

"...is somebody to give him a lousy break. With the Coens playing God to his Job, it isn't likely...."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...Welcome to the Chronicle Web extra full transcript of our interviews with..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Professors of Pleasure

Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.

"...floating, just floating, about a dozen feet up in the air. It's not really doing anything else, just kind..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Film Calendar

Your month-to-month guide to summer film

"...JUNE 1The Animal: Rob Schneider gets doggie organ transplants, then curiously..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

B-Boy City Freestylin'

Roméo Navarro's freewheeling philosophy of dance has inspired a vibrant freestyle dance community in Austin for the past decade, and now his B-Boy City events, gathering 350-400 dancers from all over the South and Southwest and points beyond, are realizing a dream of freestylin' dancers on an even grander scale.

"..."You got some crews where you need the whole crew to battle. One guy can do the..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Feature by Deborah Hay

Wyatt Earp

"...Going, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Jobeth Williams, Mare Winningham, Catherine O'Hara and Isabella Rossellini. Wyatt Earp wasn't Gandhi, but..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Younger Than Yesterday

Brothers and Sisters, tighter than yesterday, looser than today

"...As Austin starts giving way to the flat, barren stretch of road to Houston, east on..."

July 18, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...call from Jerry Wexler: Gerald Wexler, born 1917 in the Bronx to a Jewish Orthodox Polish immigrant turned window..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...is Preston Hubbard. From 1984-94, I played bass for the platinum-selling, multi-Grammy award-nominated Fabulous Thunderbirds. Besides recording five albums..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

TV Eye

Two new television shows remind us what it was like to be young: Nickelodeon's half-hour comedy series The Brothers Garcia and Fox's "nonfiction drama series," American High.

"...again. It would be great if you could relive the good parts and overlook the crummy ones. On the..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

All My Love

C-Side Records' family values

"...Chris Gregory isn't uniquely blessed with the iconoclastic golden locks and hedonistic wail of Robert Plant..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Cinema's Labyrinth

The year in film, 2006

"...gives no quarter to, and precious little hope for, the future of mankind. Still, beneath the globalized dread beats..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Working Beauty

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

"...At this moment Bonnie Cullum probably envies Sleeping Beauty. The artistic director of the Vortex has had a very..."

March 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

The war betwixt Dynamite Hack and Vallejo escalates, in truth and in fiction; Watchtower gears up to rock Germany's ass off; Hank's Roadside Cafe bites the dust.

"...Take Another Whack at It..."

June 23, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Rush Hour

Todd Phillips' Frat House, screening at the Alamo this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, asks the question: Will you ever dick a brother?

"...Todd Phillips, co-director of the Sundance-acclaimed Frat House (1998), would prefer to wait until..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Manchester Perps

Interview with Chemical Brother Ed Simons.

"..."We have a party on the line."..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

PrintAustin 2017: A Sampler

Get a taste for printmaking’s infinite variety through four exhibitions at the Flatbed complex

"...so many different printmaking techniques on display in PrintAustin, the annual art banquet that takes advantage of the city's..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Into Thin Air

The already under way adventures of Austinites at the Dances Sun and Slam, and what they might mean for the local scene

"...question is cut off by a more important call. The post-production house finishing his feature, The Puffy Chair, to..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

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