And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...On Monday, June 4, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Consigned to History: The Last Days of the Austin Antique Mall

When two iconic Austin businesses share an address, someday one was going to lose out

"...It’s a balmy, blue-skyed early April day, and yet there’s a pall over the Austin Antique Mall. It’s an..."

May 17, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

True to the Blues: Eastside Kings Festival Returns

"It's not three chords, it's the heart and soul of a nation!" – Birdlegg

"...as a next-generation talent in America's purest art form. The 25-year-old from Greenville, Ga., owns a superb style: fingers..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Gone to the Dogs

Bob Byington on his latest Austin comedy, 7 Chinese Brothers

"...Filmmaker Bob Byington's new feature 7 Chinese Brothers is a timeless tale of a man-child and his..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

One of the Good Guys

Is Chris Ohlson the nicest film producer in town, or just the hardest working?

"...great guy. Seriously. Everyone says so. In fact, that's the very first thing they tend to say about this..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film: Family Matters in The Overbrook Brothers

Austin filmmaker John Bryant draws on his own childhood traumas

"...Austin filmmaker John Bryant has either directed ("Momma's Boy"), crewed (the Duplass brothers' The Puffy..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"...liked an awful lot of it. That essentially describes the reaction of the Austin Critics Table to the last..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rich From the Journey

The crazy quilt career of Kimmie Rhodes.

"...In the waning daylight of a winter Sunday afternoon, Kimmie Rhodes..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Kickstart Your Weekend With John and the Frye Brothers

Two local films take you to a threesome and a car wreck

"...Some movies excel in feel-good, heartwarming exchanges that leave the viewer content and satisfied. These are not necessarily that..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Present Beware! The Future Beware!

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

"..."He'll save children/but not the British children." My conversation with Brad Neely at Crown..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Blood Brothers

This book does a superb job of capturing the essence of these two great Americans and their shared love of the American West

"...and Dakota medicine man Sitting Bull were first bound together by shared mortal combat during the Plains Indian Wars..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Bobby Bridger

The Talented Mr. Isaac

Scenes from an interview with the star of the Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

"...day in a second-floor conference room, giving countless interviews, the Talent had a sore throat...."

Dec. 20, 2013 Screens Feature by Jeff Winkler

Band of Brothers

In a brotherhood like Los Lonely Boys, all is 'Forgiven'

"...Eden, after Highway 87 splits from 71 in Brady, the face of the land changes. The Hill Country flattens..."

July 4, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Ringer

A Farrelly brothers comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intellectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny "Jackass" Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit.

"...by: Barry W. Blaustein. Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl, Camille Chen, Geoffrey Arend, Bill Chott, Luis Avalos,..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hammer of the Gods

Scandinavia brings the lobster tail to SXSW 07

"...The Romans and Greeks were the first to write about..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...Editor’s note: This is the third chapter in a serialized history of Austin’s punk..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo Turns 50

The landmark album spins at the Moody Theater via two of its makers and their virtuosic friends

"..."The Byrds were ahead of the curve, and they taught..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Film Review: 7 Chinese Brothers

Schwartzman rules as a paragon of booze, Arrow, and love

"...With the title ripped from an R.E.M. line off 1984’s Reckoning,..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...Johnny Winter on the outdoor stage at Stubb's Saturday, March 21 photograph by..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Fusebox, Alejandro Escovedo, alexalone, and the Ballinger brothers lead our recommendations

"...feat. Thelma & the Sleaze, Dorian Wood, SKLOSSVarious Locations, through Sunday..."

April 14, 2023 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

The Kid's Got Moxie!

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

"...You've probably never heard of Man of the Century. Of all the trailers you've sat through and..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Organ Great James Polk Works Wonders Outside the Limelight

We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles

"...considered recollections of older black men from Texas and the broadly American South below the Mason-Dixon line generally bear..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Into The Adventure Zone With Griffin McElroy

Local podcaster tells how his brother, his brother, and he turned a game of Dungeons & Dragons into storytelling magic

"...paper, it was largely improvised. To be technically accurate, The Adventure Zone is an actual-play podcast, which means it's..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

The Thousand-String Guitar

Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar

"...in June, you expect local teens to be marking the summer break in the time-honored ways: minimum-wage-slaving it in..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Everybody knows Ray Benson: the big guy with the big hat, booming baritone, and..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs

The Death of Indie Labels: Reports Have Been Exaggerated

"...illustration by John Keen It's everybody's favorite number these days -- 28,000 -- which is the staggeringly absurd..."

May 2, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Illustrated World at AFS Cinema's New Season of Animation

There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki

"...animation fans looking for alternatives to Disney felt like their only options were bad anime dubs and Eastern European..."

July 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AmericanaFest 2022 Brings the Roots Community Back Together

Eight emerging acts seen in Nashville, from Nora Brown to Early James

"...and open. That emphasis was on full display throughout the five days of packed programming last week in Nashville,..."

Sept. 21, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

David and Nathan Zellner Deconstruct the Cowboy Myth in Damsel

Two of Austin’s most quirky filmmakers venture west

"...Zellner were to remake a Western, it should be They Call Me Trinity, the 1971 spaghetti comedy about two..."

June 22, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

Surveying the aftermath from the Red River shootout outside Spiros

"...was literally bulletproof," Spiros general manager Josh Cisneros told the Chronicle in April, regarding the club's security measures for..."

June 5, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

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