Rock & Roll Ghost

Paul Westerberg looks forward, talks backward.

"...been greatly exaggerated. Until now. His latest solo album, the 2-CD Stereo, composed of the gentler "Stereo" and the..."

May 3, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

All-American

Jimmie Vaughan at 50

"...The last time Jimmie Vaughan sat down with the Chronicle..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Altman Speaks!

The ultimate indie director shoots straight about breaking into the business, staying there, and loving it.

"...Now in its seventh year, the Austin Film Festival and Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Stories

From Hollywood to Austin and beyond: the rise and rise of short film online

"...Just last week, another chapter in the seemingly endless Elián González saga was..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

R-e-s-p-e-c-t

The State of Austin's Hip-Hop Scene

"..."Jump On It" night at Rosewood Park on the Eastside photograph by Kenny Braun Austin's hip-hop scene just..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Reissues

"...GONE WITH THE WIND..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Reissues

"...The Forgotten Angel (32 R&B)..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...Okay, take a deep breath. Hold it. Exhale. Again. There. Feel better? Look, just calm down. So what if..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Halloween II

Rob Zombie's sequel to his 2007 remake of the original Halloween features Michael Myers coming back to town to wrap up some family business.

"...Margot Kidder, Howard Hesseman and "Weird Al" Yankovic. Each generation gets the Michael Myers it deserves. John Carpenter's original..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ABCD

"...directors, ABCD (an acronym for American-Born Confused Desi) dramatizes the conflicts between traditional and Western concepts of family life..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Blow Up Your Video

MTV forces American youth to sell their souls, but has Joan Jett in a bikini!

"...You'll have to make a special request to get the rap channel, though. The good folks at Time Warner..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Bob Marley: One Love

Jamaican reggae pioneer gets the biopic treatment

"...more attractive actor to play said icon, and retell their life story. If the last 10 or so years..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Carys Anderson

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Thanks for the great coverage of the LCRA plan to run a..."

May 21, 2004 Column

Calling Mom

An essay on the author's mother and her generation of African-American women

"..."We don't say 'nigger,'" my mother told me recently, during a long telephone call. This..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Making Lists

"..."Texas has no serious writers. I am the first serious writer Texas has produced." -- Katherine Anne..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Babylon

Four decades later, this gritty and earnest recounting of black British life keeps all its power

"...long as I can remember," Beefy (Laird) screams at the racist old lady who just told him and his..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...For many, Buckwheat Zydeco (née Stanley Dural, Jr.) is the embodiment of the widely popular black, South Louisiana accordion-driven..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...Robert Christgau Harvard University Press, $29.95 hard Pop culture aesthete/connoisseur and senior music critic for the Village Voice, Robert..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Literary Guisado

An Interview with Francisco Goldman

"...Three years ago, the book editor of this paper handed me a thick..."

June 6, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Nostalgia for World War II

"...Dear Editor, My dad is a computer nerd, the kind that hoards old computers and rebuilds them. Although..."

May 18, 2004 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

The prose themes of Willa Cather are timeless

"...about masturbation just wasn't done in 1919, but Willa Cather got away with it. With her innate, disciplined wildness..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Return to Never Land

"...Blayne Weaver and Harriet Owen. It wasn't as if the world was crying out for a new animated Peter..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frequency

"...Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell and Shawn Doyle. Frequency reconfirms the classic Hollywood axiom that the dumbness of sci-fi/fantasy movies..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Record reviews Reissues

"...THE CONGOS..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Review

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and

"...Generation Plan Needs You..."

Feb. 19, 2010 News Feature

Just in Time for Nader '08

Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan on An Unreasonable Man

"...An unavoidable aspect of An Unreasonable Man is the sense the viewer gets of being subjected too soon..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

America Circa 1999

"..."Teenage girls now control the world's economy." -- SPIN, July 1999..."

June 11, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Record Reviews: Reissues

"...The Unboxed Set (Triple X)..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Review

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"..."The original idea at 409 Colorado in 1997 was very..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements of..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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