Players Guide

News, rumors, and outright lies from the gaming realm

"...• The Korea Times reported on Monday that NCsoft's Austin branch..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 19-25

"...through phases that feel extra plodding and pedestrian. During these times, the rhythms and melodies of our lives seem..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Everything Everywhere All at Once Directors Return to South By Southwest

Daniels, Kara Swisher, AI, Mobile Suit Gundam for fest

"...The path to Oscars victory for Everything Everywhere All at..."

Dec. 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

No Repeats, No Regrets: Metallica Catches Lightning in Arlington, Twice

Symmetrical nights on the M72 World Tour dug deeper into the catalog

"...night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. “Have we played your favorite song yet?”..."

Aug. 21, 2023 Music Post by Austin Powell

Sources: City Manager Spencer Cronk Will Be Asked to Resign

Brazen police-contract gambit follows ice-storm SNAFUs

"...City Council resolution that would have moved negotiations with the Austin Police Association over a new labor contract in..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Listen to This: Nick Garza’s Get Along Goes “Out of Her Mind”

Tex-Mex waltz continues to dig into songwriter's San Antonio roots

"...in 2019, as that raucous folk quartet slid to the backburner, he returned to guitar and formed the Get..."

April 13, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Austin at Large: Ain’t No Highway Wide Enough

TxDOT abandons any pretense of new thinking about I-35. It's time to stop them.

"...contacted me urgently this week: "TxDOT's going to bulldoze the Chronicle! You're in danger!" As part of its current..."

Aug. 20, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Playback – Typecast: David Yow & Brett Bradford

Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard in their new roles, plus a Twin Peaks themed concert

"...Lead villain status ain't nothin' new for the noise rock marauder who spent the Eighties and Nineties..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lege Lines: Tough Balance

The Lege's budget standoff stumbles forward

"...Joe Straus – even if doing so meant abandoning the entire concept of fiscal conservatism?..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Papa Mali Extols Mark Rubin

Former locals gone New Orleans bond over Southern Discomfort

"...better than that. He captures Rubin as perfectly as the new LP art...."

June 2, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Mardi Gras 2015: Wendy Colonna to Home and Back, Pt.1

Austinite/SWLA-native proves you can go home again – and sing about it

"...There's a certain quality, one of them-thar je ne sais..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

DVDanger: Real Monsters

Documentarian John Borowski studies Serial Killer Culture

"...Gacy. Dahmer. Gein. Serial killers are the ultimate folk monsters, media obsessions from news to fiction...."

Jan. 10, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Surely We're All Worth a Nickel?'

Will AISD flinch from tax election?

"...Austin Independent School District has one of the lowest tax rates in Central Texas and in its..."

Aug. 23, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

The collapse of the American political process in Election Year 2000 is both an event in itself and a world-class metaphor: The American Century is over.

"...Election Day developments here and abroad have both raised the stakes and highlighted what the stakes really are:..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Making History Personal

History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.

"...We cling to the idea that history can be recorded as fact, as..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Scanlines

The American Patchwork Series

"...The Land Where Blues Began: Appalachian Journey Jazz Parades: Feet..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...artists to play on more than 75 stages throughout the Texas capital. Among the international, national, and hometown musicians..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 1-7

"...TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is there an area of your life where you would like..."

May 1, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 26-April 1

"...ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your oracle comes from Aries poet Octavio Paz: “The path..."

March 27, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Talking Prince With Revolution Drummer Bobby Z

Purple punk, purple polka bands, purple pancakes

"...and became his Andy Newmark a la Sly & the Family Stone: white drummer in a multi-racial/-cultural R&B band...."

Oct. 10, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Texas Republicans, Defiant as Always

Why the GOP isn't listening to you: They don't have to

"...Day with a meat hangover, consider instead freedoms, like the First Amendment: a right to free speech, but not..."

July 5, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Howard Kaylan: Coming Out of His Shell

Two Turtles scurry back to Austin

"...Howard Kaylan’s new book, Shell Shocked: My Life with The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc., reads..."

June 6, 2013 Music Post by Scott Schinder

Preaching Beyond That Choir

San Fran Bishop Yvette Flunder has some 'mighty real' revelations

"...She's spent a life in the cloth, the third generation of a family that has..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Fogo de Chão

"...All over southeastern South America, diners flock to grilled-meat emporiums where they..."

April 4, 2008 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...my home. I am compelled to write after reading the "David vs. Goliath" article in regards to Las Manitas..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column

Honky-Tonkers Don't Cry

Dale Watson's heads for the streets of Baltimore

"...South Austin's Broken Spoke is splintering. Packed to the low-slung rafters, the mythic honky-tonk is pulsing to the..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Pianist Jason Moran stands at the forefront of a new generation of jazz musicians. His..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...a catchy cover but I beg to differ ["If You're White, It's All Right," News, Sept. 24]...."

Oct. 1, 2004 Column

Hissing Fits

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

"...Hunter has been annoying his neighbors. Like most of the campers with their pop-up trailers, huge cast-iron smokers, and..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"......"

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

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