Celebrate the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With These Texas Road Trips

Houston and other Texas sites celebrate the golden anniversary of the first lunar landing

"...Nobody really knew if we could get there. Well, get there safely. And if we did manage..."

May 17, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Decades of The Doctor

Our resident Brit examines the 50th anniversary of 'Doctor Who'

"...Fact: There are literally dozens of countries that didn't even exist..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

A Strange Brew of Old and New Media

"...I'm officially "conferenced" out. Last week, I attended the Austin Film..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...This is the story of a group of people who got together..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Eighth Street Survivors

They came out to protest police brutality. They were met by a life-altering wave of police violence. Eight months later, they still await justice and change.

"...has been updated since publication with new information concerning the shooting of Justin Howell...."

Feb. 5, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Fantastic Fest: A Double Barrel Blast of Begos

Director brings Bliss and VFW to fest

"...There are only two filmmakers at Fantastic Fest showing two..."

Sept. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

"...The 48 Hour Film Project came storming through Austin for..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

BLM Protester Shot In Face With Beanbag Round in 2020 Loses Eye in Surgery

Sam Kirsch was one of many injured by police in May 2020

"...Sam Kirsch was one of many protesters badly hurt during the Black Lives Matter..."

April 25, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

How Estate Services of Austin Finds New Homes for Treasures Left Behind

In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help

"...this. It's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in..."

July 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Real Crash Davis

Alan Zinter of the Round Rock Express still lives the big-league dream

"...thinks about quitting, Alan Zinter looks you straight in the eye, barely blinking, not a hint of a smile..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Sports Feature by Kevin Brass

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

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

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Eighth Street Survivors Still Wait for Resolution From the City and APD

Sixteen months later, civil and criminal cases move slowly

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

Sept. 29, 2021 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Letters From the Women of SAFPF

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

"...In early 2008, Jodi Stodder-Caldwell, an inmate at the Ellen Halbert SAFPF unit in Burnet County, contacted Austin..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...The phrase "shit-hot," cribbed from some international band's bio, comes..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

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

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...Interviewed by phone Feb. 19 in London on the occasion of a keynote appearance at the subsequently canceled..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...and very sparsely populated place. Little dusty towns, hundreds of miles apart from one another cling to the foothills..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...its 30-plus-year run was it Austin's classiest venue, but the Back Room definitely had balls; in the self-proclaimed Live..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the moon, but the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Playing on the Past

"...Gorf. QBert. Zaxxon. Kaboom. Yar's Revenge. Hunt the Wumpus. Dig Dug. For anyone who's ever played them,..."

June 11, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

The Full Monte

"...Lubbock was an auspicious event for 14-year-old Monte Warden. The Lubbock Hilton was abuzz with the names of Tornado..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...on my back in a dimly lit room on the seventh floor of a Dallas research hospital. A device..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

Eye of the Media Storm

On the block, the Statesman fiddles while the industry burns

"...From his office atop the Bat Cave, the Austin American-Statesman's lakefront headquarters,..."

March 6, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

When the Bough Breaks

In 1993, the Hyde Park Baptist Child Development Center hired a teacher who proved to be a little 'rough' with the children. Now the church is being sued for ignoring alleged child abuse.

"...In December of 2003, Tara Turner, recently divorced and with a year-old..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The Smell of Success

Austin's poster art scene is back, and it's better than ever.

"...[Posted to the chat room at Gigposters.com, Thursday, July 19, 2001:]..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Devil in the Details

Why Is 'Talented Amateur Historian' Leon Day Obsessed With the Death of Ambrose Bierce?

"...Death is not the end; there remains the litigation of the estate. --..."

May 17, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

The De-Railers

RR Commission Challengers Say the Office Is Off-Track

"...Is it time to derail the Texas Railroad Commission? Three of the four candidates running..."

Nov. 1, 1996 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

The Luv Doc: Jesus Is Watching

West Lake left the Luv Doc off the pool party list

"...old friend to a pool party on Sunday and there were a lot of people there I haven't seen..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, a neat farmhouse stood on..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

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