Drafthouse Films Elects 'The Congress'

Release slate adds new adaptation of Stanislaw Lem sci-fi classic

"...Seem the folks at Drafthouse Films finally shook the last few..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stories We Tell

Canadian filmmaker and actress Sarah Polley goes looking for her biological father and comes homes with a wise and poetic documentary about the nature of truth.

"...The further into the past things recede, the knottier their..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Happy Couple

This Last Act Theatre show depicts a couple's nice life unraveling with equal parts tension and release

"...The Happy CoupleThe White House Ranch, 3410 E. Pennsylvania, 512/865-9484..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Austin Psych Fest: Rain Parade

Q&A with headliner/bandleader Matt Piucci

"...Between the Three O’Clock’s Coachella appearance earlier this month and Rain..."

April 25, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

Deconstructing John Milius

SXSW Film explores wild life of a Hollywood iconoclast

"...Milius, the feature-length debut from industry stalwarts Joey Figueroa and Zak..."

March 5, 2013 Screens Post by Shawn Badgley

Thanks for the Memories

'Chronicle' staff past and present on 20 years of covering SXSW Film

"...Southwest as a film event and added music later, rather than the other way around. After all, Nick Barbaro..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Barge to Hell, Part 1

HeadCrusher’s seven seas of ‘metal brotherhood’

"...attend, but that green-eyed monster jealousy coated me like the Grinch upon seeing the Barge to Hell line-up Austin..."

Jan. 9, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Django Unchained

As entertaining and subversive as Django Unchained is, Tarantino's latest also suffers from a certain slackness.

"...Directed by: Quentin Tarantino. Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Laura Cayouette..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Platters Finale

EPs from Junior Brown, Mice & Rifles, Ben Livingston, and MaryAnn & the Revival Band

"...released a new album in seven years, so while the aptly titled Volume Ten arrives at a short length,..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Nutcracker

Ballet Austin's warm and decidely unstuffy production deserves to be a family holiday tradition

"...The NutcrackerDell Hall at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside,..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Arts Review by Dawn Davis Loring

Cracks in the Ceiling

An extended Q&A with Ann Richards biographer Jan Reid

"...Last week the Chronicle sat down for a conversation with..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Arts Post by Michael King

You Don’t Even Have to Go to the Movies Anymore

You really shouldn’t stop going to the movies

"...Austin has a hugely vibrant film culture, bursting at the seams with talented filmmakers, savvy filmgoers, insightful film writers,..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playback: Heart Transplant

The future of Ray Hennig's Heart of Texas Music, Austin Vintage Guitars, and the HighBall called into question.

"...who later won five Grammys as Christopher Cross (see "The Reluctant Celebrity," Jan. 20), showed up and traded in..."

July 6, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Into the Mystic

RIP: Traci Hancock, Duck Dunn, Tony Offender, Robert Vignaud

"...Last month, in a note about her dying sister Traci,..."

May 14, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Playback

Austin Psych Fest and Old Settler's Music Fest headliners Psychograss have more in common than you might think

"...I'm not the only one confused about psych music. It sounds like..."

April 27, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: Waltz Across Texas

San Antonio rock & roll posters and Central Texas dance halls – preserve them.

"...The notion was fueled by blind faith: Would San Antonio's..."

April 6, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...rockabilly veteran Ray Campi wrote his first song on the last day of 1949 and left Austin at the..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Carnage

Roman Polanski directs this chamber piece about the demise of social decorum that's adapted from the play God of Carnage.

"...by: Roman Polanski. Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly...."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

OTR goes country with Mike & the Moonpies and Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas

"...Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas at the Frank Erwin Center..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Wednesday Rewind

NSFW: Centro-matic, White Dress, and Suzanna Choffel

"...“Bastrop and its surrounding piney woods has inspired the last few years of our songwriting and the releases..."

Sept. 7, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Seaholm Power Plant reboots, reuses, recycles

"...Flick of the Switch..."

May 13, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Okkervil River

"...Perhaps as a result, I Am Very Far is the local indie folk outfit's most divisive and difficult work..."

May 13, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Chaos and creation at South by Southwest and the Monday realization that blues landmark Pinetop Perkin is gone

"...Judging only from the local television news coverage, the 25th anniversary of South..."

March 25, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Saturday-Sunday SXSW Live Shots

Saturday night SXSW showcase reviews

"...Saturday night's Dirtnap showcase demonstrated just how far the Portland, Ore., label has its hands up Texas' skirt...."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature

Off the Record

South by Southwest turns 25, the Austin Music Awards score a Bubble Puppy coup, and Ted Nugent leaves his hat on

"...chronicled in new documentary Outside Industry, on display at the Austin History Center exhibit "5X5Y: 25 Years of SXSW..."

March 18, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Mother Falcon

Saturday

"...Mother FalconAlhambra..."

March 18, 2011 Music Review by Margaret Moser

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...7:30pm, the Parish..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Hard Listening

Reviewing Butch Hancock's winter tour of Texas.

"...two concerts this past weekend. Which is probably for the best. As I told the Lubbock raconteur in La..."

Jan. 18, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Wednesday Rewind

Okkervil River, Sahara Smith, Centro-matic

"...Fresh off a nomination for the Austin Music Hall of Fame, Okkervil River appeared on..."

Jan. 12, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Still a House Divided in Speaker's Race

Why can't Republicans get along?

"...There are fresh moves by Republicans to completely exclude Democrats..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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