For Your Consideration

What to see at the 21st annual Austin Film Festival

"...Eight days of films, four days of panels – there is so much to do at the 21st annual..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

First Authors Announced for Texas Book Festival

Marquee names run the gamut from Amis to Ziggy

"...On Wednesday, the Texas Book Festival announced the first slate of marquee..."

July 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

2014 Austin City Limits Music Festival Line-up

Hip-hop tops the two weekends with ladies close behind

"...Tickets hit the streets at 10am, and the curtain’s now up. Festival..."

April 22, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Change of Venue

This year, FronteraFest is takin' it to the streets – and a chapel, a bookstore, a home ...

"...every year, FronteraFest fans begin flocking toward Hyde Park Theatre and Salvage Vanguard Theater with the instinctive surety of..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Nativity

A new musical by the 'Urinetown' team is born on the 40 Acres, and the chorus line craves bra-a-ains

"...'Tis the season when much attention is given to what is..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Arts Column by Robert Faires

TDH: 6/21/11

F1, pedicabs, Fun Fun Fun Fest & Willie close out council

"...With this Thursday being City Council's final meeting until the end of July, you know it's gonna be a..."

June 21, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Austin Shorts at Sundance

David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance

"...Bros. Don't get us wrong – we're sweet on their hilarious shorts, too – but the notoriously plays-hard-to-get film..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...cause for joy, but for thousands of filmmakers, it's the annual time of frayed nerves and to-the-quick-bitten nails, as..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Can't Get There From Here

While suburban rail spends and stumbles, Cap Metro's transit-dependent riders wait at the end of the line

"...There's something to be said for having a captive customer..."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Page Two: Once in a Lifetime

Obama and Clinton are the future – a real future that is better than any fabricated past

"...just might find, You get what you need." – The Rolling Stones, "You Can't Always Get What You Want"..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Free to Be You and Me

'Chronicle' letter-writers and the editors who love them: a field guide

"...But that's the other side to this life I've been leading..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Day Trips

The Brown Ranch and Hummer House south of Christoval is the summer home of the largest concentration of black-chinned hummingbirds

"...The first thing you hear when you step out of..."

April 13, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Life Is a Rhythm

Ground zero for Austin hip-hop: University Hills' 2-3

"...Pulling up to the Northeast Austin intersection of Rogge and Manor Road, an..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week: "Opinions vary on why homosexuals, lesbians and bisexuals..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Who Pays?

While the economy burns, the Bush administration promotes Mars, moonshine, and marriage

"...Like you, in the wake of our president's bold and visionary call to..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Don't Worry, Be Happy:

City Hall's left wing carries the day as the budget season draws to a close

"...By the standards of, say, the Texas Legislature, the City Council's..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Mutual Respect

Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.

"...I wish I had known Russell Lee in the Sixties, when he taught photography at the University of..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

How Much Mold?

AISD's notion of mold remediation might be too little money, too few schools.

"...with little more than a blank stare. Ask her the same thing today, she's likely to give you an..."

April 19, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lean and ... Leaner

A preview of the city's proposed (and shrinking) budget

"...People, people who need people, are the unluckiest people in the world. Or they will be..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...I walk the dog at twilight so I can glance in strangers'..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Hill Country Food & Wine Guide

by Virginia B. Wood & the Cuisines staff

"...There's no doubt about it, the Hill Country as we've..."

April 13, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Deep Blues From Gatesville

Amy Smith thought a judge would give her two years max for possession of crack cocaine; why is she doing 20?

"...ward, but that was how Amy Louise Smith spent the first eight days bonding with her newborn son, before..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Still Life

Whether it is the coterie around the world's most famous photographer or a group of cowboys on a West Texas ranch, Laura Wilson, who peeked inside a reclusive Christian sect for her new photography book Hutterites of Montana, has an instinct for penetrating insular, tightly knit societies.

"...to Dallas for an exhibition of his photographs at the Dallas Museum of Art. At one of the dinners..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Day Trips

The Lindheimer Home in New Braunfels stands as a monument to the "Father of Texas Botany."

"...Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer saw more on the landscape of Texas than did the average immigrant who..."

March 3, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Condo Clash

The Gotham Has Neighbors Up in Arms

"...When you hear the word Gotham, do you think of bats? You might..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Day Trips

"...The Easter Fires Pageant in Fredericksburg celebrates the 53rd year..."

April 2, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Commitment to Playwrights

The Life and Legacy of David Mark Cohen

"...I knew that I would see David Cohen at the next theatre opening or Critics' Table meeting. I wish..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Arts Feature

Day Trips

"...The Texas Wendish Heritage Museum in Serbin may be the..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Daytrips

"...The heavy logs of old Fort Parker stand as a..."

May 12, 1995 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Election Day Live Coverage for Travis County

Tracking the local races

"...Texas saw steady yet light turnout for most of the day – short lines, not much waiting, no shenanigans...."

Nov. 3, 2020 News Post by the News Staff

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