Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...The town of Eldorado, Texas, seat of Schleicher County, flanks..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Traveling Through Time at the Speed of Life

Director Liz Manashil on a romance across time ... and Bowie

"...Have you ever had the sneaking suspicion that the universe has been broken ever..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: A Bad Case of the Sequels

Retreads, remakes, and do-overs rule the home releases

"...producer Keith Calder took to Twitter to ask, "What's the most recent wide-release, non-platformed horror film that wasn't a..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Into the West

Kelly Reichardt re-creates the hazards of the Oregon Trail in Meek's Cutoff

"...On the Oregon Trail in 1845, a wagon train of three..."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Chicken and Egg Deal

Getting Press: The Haves

"...self-promotion, Paul Minor e-mailed a pithy quote for this story on music press. "All I have to say on..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Gary Clark Jr.: The Chosen One

‘Bomber’ issue of ‘Rolling Stone’ also features Austin hero

"...about this hour, my wife and I sat in the outer office to Rolling Stone, waiting for our friend..."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Wrenchies Draws a Mad, Mad World

Dalrymple signs today at Austin Books & Comics

"...Alice doesn’t live here anymore. It’s a rabbit hole tunnel that plunges Sherwood and Orson into an alternate,..."

Nov. 10, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

'The Hundred-Year House'

Author Rebecca Makkai teases the real and the unreal in this 'Austin Chronicle' Book Club selection

"...Rebecca Makkai's The Hundred-Year House is a sly, funny, literary mystery, a..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade

In his book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus explained punk to the world and created a bible for that music's true believers. As Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals opens its stage adaptation of Marcus' book, the author talks about the Stones, the Sex Pistols, and the "mad parade" of history.

"...have. He was finishing up his new column for the online magazine Salon and is planning a visit to..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Crisis at the Rape Crisis Center

Has Idealism Become the Victim of Financial Reality?

"...To some volunteers, the failure of ARCC's board to award volunteer Rev. James..."

Dec. 20, 1996 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

After the Pandemic at the Alamo Drafthouse

New management, new owners: Can the Austin movie chain retain what made it special?

"...The oldest operating Alamo Drafthouse in the nation still survives...."

July 2, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...Austin receives no such shout-out in "Truckin'," the Grateful Dead's highest-charting single of the Seventies. The psychedelic..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...I see you standing on the other side...."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

The Lights Are On: Is Anybody Home?

Downtown's boom has busted, yet developers still build.

"...evening last summer, Tim Hendricks and Craig Jones took the company credit card and set off on a walking..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Live at the Apollo 13

Awake in the Dark

"...At least we had a problem until The Bridges of Madison County and Apollo 13 cleared the..."

July 14, 1995 Arts Feature by Patrick Taggart

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...and gave me a piercing look. Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Show Them the Need

The great GOP wave breaks on the realities of the actual cost of government

"...The Texas Legislature did not return (or rather, did not..."

June 10, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: The Cost of Community

The city budget is where Austin decides how to live

"...year I'm really going to get my arms around the city budget – no doubt you made the same..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Mueller: The Art of the Deal

Will the City Give Away Mueller Airport to Save Barton Springs?

"...for it. That you'll get to -- someday. And then let's say your neighbor has big plans for a..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Death and Life of Free Radio

Austin microradio lived fast and died young -- can the movement live to broadcast another day?

"...We're listening to the sound of a man kicking in a door...."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The Bullet Hole in the Butterfly Bar

This East Austin joint's a good story you could be part of

"...There's a bullet hole in the gorgeous wooden bar between..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...This is no doubt the strangest story I've ever had to write. What makes..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

We Have an Issue: The Grubby Side of Composting

Inside this week’s cover story about where our food waste goes to die ... and live again

"...That's how Lina Fisher described to me the seven-month rabbit hole she fell through in reporting this..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

Rabbit Hole

In the wake of their child's death, a couple tries to claw their way back to "normal" life.

"...and Jon Tenney. Although it is achingly sad, Rabbit Hole is not maudlin or depressing. Adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...They call it a lineup drop for a reason: South..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Into The Black Hole at Other Worlds Austin

Director Gary Nelson on Disney's sci-fi epic, returning this weekend

"...When Disney's groundbreaking science fiction oddity The Black Hole explodes back on the big screen at..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...When the little girl on the witness stand said, "No, it..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Tacos of Texas Takes Cultural Exploration to the Screen

Episodes feature one taco and one Texas city

"...Mando Rayo's friendly voice fizzes out of the phone speaker. His writing partner and longtime friend, Jarod..."

July 27, 2018 Food Feature by Nina Hernandez

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