Top 10 Media Stories

Alive and wired

"...Perry Blindness In December, state media suddenly discovered that the Texas governor isn't very bright – and that he's..."

Jan. 6, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Flat-Track Roller Derby

It's all eyes on the prize this weekend for the Texas Rollergirls

"...It's all eyes on the prize this weekend for the Texas Rollergirls. The local..."

May 21, 2010 Sports Feature by Richard Whittaker

Res Publica

"...ANIMAL SHELTER MEETING Learn about the city's plans for the new Levander Loop animal shelter,..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature

The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

"...The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemensby John Rechy..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Books Review by Melanie Haupt

Shopping and Fucking

From the first stomach-turning minute, audiences for the Vortex Repertory Company production of Shopping and Fucking are in for a rough ride; they're witness to the horrible depths to which its characters have sunk and the desperation with which they try to claw their way out.

"...Shopping and Fucking: Coitus An' Corruptus The Vortex, through November 3..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postscripts

Why dull people make witty writers and other mysteries in this week's Postscripts.

"...Frances Kiernan, who was a fiction editor at The New Yorker for 21 years and the author of..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Gynomite: Fearless, Feminist Porn

"...New Mouth From the Dirty South, 280 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Review by Ada Calhoun

Articulations

Austin native Starla Benford brings The Vagina Monologues to town, Kerthy Fix takes Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show to Chicago, and where does rm 120 theatre go?

"...Most of the time, this column reports on local artists touring hot..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Closer: Within Fucking Distance

Local Arts Reviews

"...Zachary Scott Theatre Center Whisenhunt Arena Stage,..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show: A Roaring Existentialist Campfire

Kerthy Fix's Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show is an intimate, sometimes disturbing look at a group of people in perpetual free fall. Public Domain's production of Howard Barker's Possibilities is a fascinating invitation to the Theatre of Catastrophe and to run around on the tarmac.

"...Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show:A Roaring Existentialist Campfire..."

March 31, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia

"...Bring Me The Head of Alfredo GarciaD: Sam Peckinpah (1974); with Warren..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Review by Louis Black

Page Two

"...I've refrained from lauding the Austin Film Society's Rainer Werner Fassbinder series at the..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column by Louis Black

What We're Listening to Right Now

Deezie Brown, El Combo Oscuro, Ifé Neuro, Don Leady, Lizzy Lehman, and more locals worth a listen

"...Deezie Brown’s “Malice at the Palace”..."

May 13, 2022 Music Column by Clara Wang

Chronicle Recommends: War Movies

Movie picks for Memorial Day

"...This Memorial Day weekend, the Chronicle film critics have picked some of the greatest..."

May 25, 2018 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: Major Frost

Who's Max Frost and how did the Austin native sign to Atlantic Records?

"...Count Max Frost as the only Austin musician who's down with both Kydd Jones..."

June 28, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Do or Do Not

SXSW sports docs follow heroes' journey

"...do what you can do," young Allan Kournikova tells the camera, blond hair flowing over his sky-blue eyes, as..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Hornucopia

With a lightened suspension. Kabongo set to return Feb. 13

"...After they were taken to town by Georgetown at the Jimmy..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Sports Column by Michael Corcoran

Letters at 3AM: Why a Duck?

The Marx Brothers were funny but they weren't kidding

"...Groucho pursued his education almost 'til the end of sixth grade. He wrote that Chico was..."

July 27, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Annie Get Your Gun

At the Palace, Irving Berlin's ode to showmanship is a tribute to community theatre at its best

"...Palace Theatre, 810 S. Austin Ave., Georgetown, 512/869-7469 www.georgetownpalace.com Through July..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years

April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to

"...breakfast, often with apricot brandy. It's doubtful she finished the sixth grade, but she read voraciously, a thesaurus always..."

March 23, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: A Hill of Beans

Tom DeLay's story is a profile in political corruption

"...too excited about a trial over an eight-year-old grand theft when you know that – no matter what else..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Step Up to Citizenship

The curtain rises on the annual budget pageant – places, please

"...This week our resident City Hall Hustler, Wells Dunbar, formally begins his long march through city..."

June 25, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Prog Blogs

The progressive bloggers are establishing a political agenda

"...Next weekend, the Austin Convention Center will be awash in progressive bloggers,..."

July 11, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Move over McMansions, and make way for alley flats! The U.S. Green Building Council has recognized the University of..."

May 16, 2008 News Feature

TCB

Gimme whatcha got for a poke chop…

"...could end up having an even bigger 2004 than their meteoric 2003. After moving 60,000 units of last year's..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Our Dinner With Tony

Wes Marshall and Mick Vann do dinner with a worldly renegade chef.

"...hands. Bestselling author Anthony Bourdain was coming to town. The brilliant writer (Kitchen Confidential, A Cook's Tour), world traveler,..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Coach's Corner

In his "View From the Couch," the Coach takes on a variety of pressing subjects, from the demise of the Detroit Red Wings and Pat Riley, to the sad state of women's golf.

"..."View From the Couch":I watch NHL hockey only at playoff time, so..."

May 4, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

James St. James' Disco Bloodbath

"...The quiescent days of New York's trendy club nightlife were..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Review by Margaret Moser

Scanlines

Virtual Graceland

"...The length to which Elvis Presley has been immortalized reached..."

June 6, 1997 Screens Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Understandably hungry amid a broad reset, the grimy Beautiful Nightmares features veteran Austin MC Lil' Bully..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

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