Two for the Read

Off the Bookshelf

"...Soho Press $20 hard While the catchy title had me eager to read this book,..."

July 14, 1995 Arts Feature

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...Every time Denny Freeman picked up his guitar, whether a lean and mean Fender Stratocaster or a beautiful..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Sanctuary Cities and the Ways We Fight for Human Rights

When community matters more than the law

"...On the Sunday morning after Donald Trump won the presidential election,..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Victoria Rossi

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...Down the rabbit hole we go, reader, and you're already familiar..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...celebration of a certain kind of cinematic fare and the theatres that showed it. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Towers of Power

Are high-rises the key to a middle-class Downtown?

"...a trend – or, perhaps, starting a new one. The Downtown real estate broker and his wife have been..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...The God-Wheel of Fate has stopped for all these kiddies..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...Before he took the stage of Central Missouri State University's Hendricks Hall on..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

The Rules Have Changed

Two veteran music writers conduct an e-mail correspondence in order to look at new ways of reinventing the music industry.

"...In the age of electronic media, the roundtable discussion has evolved..."

June 23, 2000 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Urban on the Rocks

It's the Sprawl, Y'all

"...Problem is, nobody asked the folks in the Desired Zones whether they desired to..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Net

A Brief History of the Internet

"...Understanding the Internet is the first step toward nerd enlightenment. So..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by John Avignone

The New Payola

When Radio Stations Become Concert Promoters

"...Everclear hasn't played in Austin this summer. By now they should have played twice -- once by themselves, once..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

South by Spoken Word

No Slam, Thank You, Ma'am

"...Phil West, Danny Solis, Wammo, and Hilary Thomas are the Austin Poetry Slam Team. In past years, the South..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature by Phil West

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...During the week of March 19, legendary journalist Seymour Hersh was..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet

Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines

"...Its pages smell of newsprint and flop over at the corners. The ink is rubbing off a little on..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

The Kid Stays in the Picture

"...debauchery. Thankfully, this film version is almost (and often) word-for-word the same, narrated in Evan's own whiskey and cigarette..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

South by Spoken Word

Thursday

"...be more familiar as a musician than a spoken word artist; he's one of the founders of Hitting Birth,..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature by Phil West

The Midnight Sky

George Clooney saves humanity from an Earth that no longer wants it

"...has been convinced, at some point, that it represents the end times - either as the peak of experience,..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

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

"...fanatics be warned: This document contains NO music. Every word, 7,900 or so, concerns politics. And not by some..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

From the Trenches

Previewing the Austin Eats battlefield

"...insane. It couldn't be any more intense," Bibby contends. "The food court becomes your whole world. For 15 hours..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

The Hangover

The Hangover is deliciously darker than Todd Phillips' previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice or drenched in the "bromance" creed of the present.

"...Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Mike Tyson, Mike Epps, Sasha Barrese,..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Movies That Matter

An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

"...Look among the titles of the most daring and delirious American independent..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

So, Where Were the Vampires in Before Sunrise?

"...guess you're supposed to figure that any film with the word "Dawn" in the title (Dawn of the Dead,..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Column

'The Austin Chronicle' Adult Spelling Bee

May 20, Threadgill's World Headquarters

"...The heat was on, as in summer heat, at the..."

May 28, 2010 Sports Feature by Kristine Tofte

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...a part of town that is not so much either of those things – Zell Miller III is rehearsing..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

History by the Tape

LBJ's secret White House tapes reveal more than he may have intended

"...The news to come out of Reaching for Glory: Lyndon..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Right Man for the Job

Charlie Robison says 'fuck everybody.'

"...about Charlie Robison is to invite an anatomy lesson. They marvel at the size of his balls. Then they..."

June 29, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

They Got the Beat

Living the pop life in Austin

"...Oh. My. God. How did "pop," a mere three-letter word, cause this much havoc? Could there be a more..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Faguette Bakery Serves the Qmmunity, One Sweet Treat at a Time

"...The word can mean a bundle of sticks, or be..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Food Feature by James Scott

Lulu Wang Introduces Us to The Farewell

Director talks identity, family, and Awkwafina's superpower

"...cinema has a habit of conflating a film where the bulk of the dialogue is not English with "foreign..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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