AFF Review: The Get Together

Shakey Graves and friends grow apart in this Austin dramedy

"...Alejandro Rose-Garcia (better known as Shakey Graves) stars in The Get Together, an ensemble comedy centering on three separate..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Screens Post by Naomi Brady

The Get Together

Austin party movie is one perfect night in the velvet rut

"...college party experiences were anything like mine, you’ll share the gleeful nostalgia I felt hearing those words in The..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

A Delicate Balance: Austin Progressives Struggle to Hold the Movement Together

Council Watch

The Chronicle's endorsements explained; Council Watch writer JennyStaff Johnson says goodbye.

"...If you've been reading the papers lately, you may have noticed that SOS Action,..."

May 5, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

The Sea

"...Gísladóttir and Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir. Colder and bleaker than the Icelandic countryside in winter, this domestic psychodrama by the..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

On the Stage, On the Screen: Austin's Theatres Embrace a Virtual Future

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

"...The rumors of the death of virtual theatre have been..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Independent

"...Meara, Max Perlich, Janeane Garofalo and Jerry Stiller. To get a sense of this goofily funny, oddly tenderhearted mock-documentary,..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Beach

"...Joseph and Lars Arentz Hansen. Can we all just get together, once and for all, on the ought-to-be-obvious notion..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Boy Who Cried Bitch

"...Serial Killer as a Young Child.” “John Wayne Gacy: The Road to Manhood.” “How to Lose Friends and Kill..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Emily Hagins Says Sorry About the Demon

Austin director teams with Shudder and local producers Paper Street

"...Austin's horror community has come together again for a new collaboration. Emily Hagins, director of..."

Aug. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The 33

Antonio Banderas stars in this story about the trapped Chilean miners

"...Converting a recent, true event that gripped the world’s attention into popcorn entertainment is almost tantamount to..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Peanuts Movie

Happiness is a warm animated cartoon called The Peanuts Movie

"...Happiness is a warm feature-length animated cartoon called The Peanuts Movie, a loving tribute to the beloved comic..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin Films For the First Wave of Austin Film Festival

Fugitive Dreams, Horton Foote doc in first wave

"...The team behind Austin Film Festival promised that they'd stick..."

Aug. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Aimee Mann & Ted Leo: The Both

Likely/unlikely collaboration might even yield a musical

"...a deep friendship – one that manifests itself in their musical partnership, the Both. After touring together, the two..."

Aug. 13, 2014 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...first semester, I only knew one individual who fit the criteria: Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek...."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Posted after the jump is the entire transcript of CNN's Democratic presidential..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Checking In: Conjunto Los Pinkys Readies for the New Normal

“Conjunto has survived [here] for decades and will continue to do so”

"...of conjunto lifers skipping rhythms across time and stage. The Conjunto Los Pinkys cabal leader provides an epic glimpse..."

Aug. 31, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Two Shannons Take the Improv Stage to … Where?

Local stars McCormick and Stott, together at last for the first time

"...The Shannons, y’all. Two of them...."

Dec. 14, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Putting It Together

The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music

"...watch Austin Symphony maestro Peter Bay at work on the podium is to see a conductor leading musicians as..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...herself a fusion of different cultures, so why shouldn't the dances she creates be the same? "I am part..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Space and Distance: A Joint Interview With Balmorhea and Explosions in the Sky

How Austin’s landmark instrumental outfits soundtrack the state of Texas

"...Chris Hrasky wishes there was a better backstory to Big Bend (An Original..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Wild Child to Sir Woman, Kelsey Wilson Is Taking the High Road

The laid-back ringleader reinvents Wild Child and forges a new path with Sir Woman

"...Kelsey Wilson floats into the Pershing in her familiar long black dress, and immediately..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Spoon's Hot Thoughts Remodels the Locals' Art-Funk

Britt Daniel and Jim Eno talk about the rise of R&B in the band's sound

"...urgently. "We told people we're on at this time. They may not get to see us!"..."

June 2, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Better All the Time

Cabaret and musical legend Barbara Cook is still learning

"...You may think Barbara Cook hit the heights musically on Broadway in the Golden Age of..."

Sept. 19, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Run the Jewels

Killer Mike & El-P Riverdance cleats on the Mohawk tonight

"...Collaborations can come correct, or half-baked. On Run the Jewels, Killer Mike and El-P occupy the former with..."

Aug. 5, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Party All the Time

'Much Ado' and much fun with Whedon, Acker, and Denisof

"...Old friends at a party. That's the feel Joss Whedon was after in his micro-budget film..."

June 21, 2013 Screens Post by Robert Faires

The Price of 1,000 Songs

'Ordinary Peephole' celebrates the delights of songwriter Dick Price

"...– unless you were Matt Hislope. As one-half of the Rubber Repertory creative team, the Esther's Follies star co-produced..."

Jan. 20, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Kids Stay in the Picture

Diana Welch talks about the joint memoir she wrote with her siblings about surviving childhood

"...It's unfortunate that the term "survivor" has been co-opted by reality personalities eating..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...join thousands of protesters in St. Paul, Minn., for the Republican National Convention. In the trailer behind them were..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

The Next Next

Jasper Fforde reveals the secrets behind the new Thursday Next adventure, narrative gymnastics, and the job of writing

"...In the fifth novel of Jasper Fforde's series starring Thursday Next,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Books Feature by Robert Faires

The Pleasure Principle

Local bands find the dance-driven heart underneath post-punk's industrial pall

"...Before local clubs started closing, before the war and 9/11, before people got stabbed for enforcing..."

April 25, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

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