ACL Live Shot: Zoé

Rock anthems for and from south of the border

"...Larregui’s seductive murmur, but everybody from native speakers to the guy draped in Canadian colors understood the misty vibes..."

Oct. 12, 2014 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

Skirt Chasin' Smirk Chasers

The Queer Queens of Qomedy qame to town

"...One of the uniquely human senses binding all walks of life is..."

Sept. 16, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Erin McArthur

Roky Erickson

Reissues

"...anthology, I Have Always Been Here Before (Shout! Factory), these reissues would be a much bigger deal. Don't Slander..."

July 1, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

I Love You, Jimmy

Nearly four-hour LaFave convergence petitions a greater good

"...As midnight neared Thursday at the every-last-seat-sold Paramount Theatre, Jimmy LaFave’s 10 minutes onstage turned..."

May 19, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Moontower Review: Ali Wong

Has motherhood made the Baby Cobra star a cleaner comic? No.

"...headliner Ali Wong no longer has what she called “the luxury of anonymity.” As she noted in her set..."

April 24, 2017 Arts Post by Ashley Moreno

Rhiannon Giddens Reanimates Black Feminism

Antebellum bandleader untangles African-American music history

"...playing a haunting and dark phrase to segue into the menacing “Spanish Mary,” a cut off of the Bob..."

April 26, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Closing Arguments

Olivier versus Branagh

"...you take away my knee-jerk naysaying, you’ll take away the very thing that makes me me. Rash judgments are..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Leave It to Biber

In the concert Leave It to Biber, violinist Boel Gidholm, cellist Christopher Haritatos, and keyboardist Keith Womer exulted in the expressive freedom that this music offers the interpreter

"...keyboardist Keith Womer in this season's opening concert for the St. Cecilia Music Series, it is easy to see..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Wintry Mix

The holiday film forecast

"...THE LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Qmmunity: Y’alloween Fun

Keep up the tradition of great gay Halloween fun with these queer Austin events

"...Halloween is an important holiday for LGBTQ folks. In the wake of the Stonewall Riots, big queer parties like..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Column by James Scott

A Fake Disease That Saved Real Lives in Syndrome K

New documentary reveals a secret history of Italian resistance

"...spread about Jews during World War II was that they spread disease. As new documentary Syndrome K reveals, a..."

Aug. 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pressure Grows for Austin to Settle With Protesters Injured by APD

Nearly a dozen of those most seriously injured last summer are suing the city

"...To the Austin Police Department, the thousands of people who gathered..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Historic Night of Firsts as Austin FC Prevails in Colorado

RECAP: The Verde defeats Colorado Rapids in comeback fashion

"...A sensational second half performance that delivered the first three goals in club history propelled Austin FC..."

April 25, 2021 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Austin's Throwing a Big Bash for Beethoven in 2020

The classical community is lighting 250 candles for this musical superhero

"...You want to party in 2020? Then get to wherever Austin's classical musicians are, because they..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: Armadillo Tales

A review of the best book on Austin’s 1970s music scene since The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock

"...A book can cure the worst case of boredom. I'd know...."

April 7, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Deconstructing Sonic Borders

The 13th annual No Idea Festival explores everything from phenological sound art to avant jazz and microtonal composition

"...in Mexico City, Chris Cogburn set out to bridge the gap between Houston and Austin artists in 2003. Thirteen..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Conor Walker

News Roundup: Congress, Council, & Concealed Weapons

Guns in; refugees out

"...In this week's News Roundup: The retirement of several Democrats in the state house leaves..."

Sept. 8, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Polari: 'Valencia' Then and Now

This weekend, Michelle Tea's Valencia hits Polari

"...Valencia. The capital city of Spain. An orange. A street in..."

Oct. 19, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Perry's Veto Axe Comes Down

Democrats and Republicans of all stripes and experience hit

"...Just before he took off for the weekend, Gov. Rick Perry delivered his final 'screw you'..."

June 17, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Swanning Into 2011

But first, a look back at the films of 2010

"...Among The Austin Chronicle's three film critics, Black Swan earned a..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sound Decision

The Austin Film Society Documentary Tour: Hear and Now

"...for it than Irene Taylor Brodsky's Hear and Now. The most skeletal program notes' synopsis would go something like..."

July 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Radical Inclusion: A Morality Tale

Halfway through the 365 days of 365 Days/365 Plays, Suzan-Lori Parks' dramatic project has everyone making theatre and in new ways

"...We are about at the halfway point of the 365 Days/365 Plays cycle, written..."

April 27, 2007 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Homemade History

Las Manitas, the Pérez sisters, and a usable past

"...Street, Las Manitas is our main street cafe – the hangout where everyone in town meets, greets, exchanges gossip,..."

July 21, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Blood Feast

Shadow of the Vampire isn't just an imaginative riff on the making of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. "It is an allegory of an aspect of what cinema is at its heart," says director E. Elias Merhige. "It's this dangerous, mad kind of science."

"...souls just like hearts pump blood to our bodies. The flickering pulse of the images create physiological reactions that..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Theatre Refuses to Fade in 1995 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

The past 12 months saw some of Austin's

"...brightest theatrical talents leave us: meticulous director Mark Ramont, who left..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...his name above a whisper/ He'd just disappear into the hot Texas night," Crockett laments on the introductory track..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

John Carpenter, Rock Star

Filmmaker as synth-pop pioneer horrifies the Moody Theater June 23

"...of John Carpenter’s muses – ghost director of 1951’s The Thing From Another World – helped invent film repartee..."

June 15, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Choosing Detention Over Death

Refugees come to the U.S. seeking protection, find detention instead

"..."M," a 27-year-old Guate­malan woman, decided to come to the U.S. with her 9-year-old son to escape the injustice..."

Dec. 25, 2015 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Full Circle

The gospel according to Ruthie Foster

"..."When my mind didn't know how to get there, I trusted my heart, and I swear, my soul..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Two Brothers, Two Paths

AFS Documentary Tour: The Oath

"...prefers to talk about large foreign policy issues through the stories of individuals. Her first film, the Academy Award-nominated..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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