30 New Shows, Returning Series, and Other TV Premieres This April

Top Chef, crazy love, and sweet potters

"...The streaming service nabbed headlines when it acquired Warner Bros...."

April 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A World-Class Scandal Snowballs on Paxton

And let's not forget 2015's felony securities-fraud charges

"...provocative, ethically questionable, and now embattled Austin real estate mogul Nate Paul. Just how well – and at what..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

ATX Film News

Acquisitions, awards, and a big gaming rumor

"...Is the Alamo Drafthouse planning its own MoviePass killer? The Austin-based..."

July 6, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Robert Johnson Plays Antone’s Anniversary!

Antone’s resurrects Robert Johnson for its 42nd anniversary

"..."It's been keeping me up at night since last October," Zach Ernst reveals of his musical obsession, the..."

June 30, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Beyoncé

"...a salvo of imitators releasing albums without notice while the world sleeps. By comparison, a cryptic HBO teaser for..."

May 13, 2016 Music Review by Abby Johnston

Playback: HAAM Payback

Austin music says thanks for saving our butt, HAAM

"...All 365, the small staff at Health Alliance for Austin Musicians works..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Music Column

Can Davis Reverse Poll Numbers?

New poll shows Abbott pulling even further ahead

"...Good fundraising numbers but bleak polls: The vying totals are causing heartburn in the campaign offices..."

Aug. 1, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Business Leaders Hire Lobbyists to Battle Dirty Coal

Coalition of free-market well-to-dos formed to oppose Texas' 17 proposed pulverized coal power plants fights electric utilities using their own weapon of choice – lobbyists

"...The founders of the Dallas-based Texas Business for Clean Air,..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Record Review

"...The booing begins three songs into that first 42-minute set..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

Developers float a proposal to reduce the size of the Green Water Treatment Plant on Town Lake and build something more profitable there, but they'll have to get in line -- the city already sees the site as a prime location for the new central library.

"...Is Austin's favorite little downtown utility, the Green Water Treatment Plant, about to go the way..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Hot Shots

Nearly 300 stalwart salsa chefs braved the heat and the potential ridicule of the preliminary judges to compete in the 10th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival. Here's the list of those who came out on top.

"...to a close, nearly 300 stalwart salsa chefs braved the heat and the potential ridicule of the preliminary judges..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Dancing About Architecture

Behind Closed Doors

"...intention to plead guilty to at least one of the charges against him rather than demand his day in..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Art Imitates Chef

British Actor Lenny Henry Cooks in Restaurant Sitcom

"...Chefs in pristine whites may greet devoted fans in the dining room, but rarely are civilians invited into the..."

April 11, 1997 Screens Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Scanlines

Cold Comfort Farm

"...Who says there's no such thing as intelligent comedy these days? Thankfully,..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Screens Feature

What We're Listening to Right Now

Ayo Tamz, Blushing, Whookilledkenny, Chief Cleopatra, and more have us dialed in

"...released sex- and dembow-drenched bilingual tracks since 2019, but the Texan branches off into her "alt-pop princess phase" with..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Column by E. Ryan Ellis

Painting Ron Jeremy Again & Again & Again

Three of the same portraits. On commission. Thanks to marijuana.

"...– was recently commissioned to paint three iterations of the same image of porn-industry legend Ron Jeremy. And single..."

July 31, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM

We share a collective amnesia about the 1950 U.S. law that permitted the concentration camp internment of known Communists and others "liable to become subversives"

"..."The Justice Department refused again to disclose the purpose of..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Electronic Edibles

Virginia B. Wood and Barbara Chisholm have spent some time going through a mountain of catalogs to cull some very interesting suggestions for the food lovers on folks' Christmas lists.

"...you have a decision to make. Do you sweep them off the table into the circular file as you..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

East-West Dissent

Neighborhood Concerns

"...The way de Leon sees it, Slusher and his fellow..."

April 23, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Strangled Triangle

Money Troubles Leave Advocacy Paper Gasping

"...Bill Clinton's victory and interpreting a net increase in the conservative nutjob population in the House and Senate as..."

Nov. 22, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters

David Wheeler of Dragon’s Lair Has Been Selling Comics In Austin for 30 Years

Local bastion of supergraphics & gaming celebrates three decades

"...stalking now,“ says David Wheeler, sitting with me on the patio of the Genuine Joe Coffeehouse on Anderson Lane,..."

Sept. 14, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mary's Pop Shop

Neighborhood eatery is mostly solid

"...One of the first things you notice in this sunny little eatery..."

May 22, 2015 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Mighty Fine

Dixiecrat Jesse Dayton ain't banging his head against a wall

"...it, most people have a stock word or phrase they use to punctuate conversational pauses. Know what I mean?..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Thank God It's Friday

UT grad Christian McLaughlin discusses Spyder Games, his MTV "soap opera on crack."

"...12, this is one part of what happened on The Young and the Restless, according to TV Guide:..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Let It Rock

Rock & Roll Books Spring 2000

"...The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971by Gayle..."

March 17, 2000 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All Done Up

"...Elton John in The Naked and the Dressed: 20 Years of Versace by..."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Watson's Way

Mayor's Homeless Package Leaves Some People Cold

"...illustration by Doug Potter The area of town that the Salvation Army is in..."

April 24, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

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