The Full Franklin

It's been 60 years since a biograpy of Benjamin Franklin has been written; Austin author H.W. Brands' The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin makes up for lost time.

"...Who is Benjamin Franklin? The question is bizarre but necessary. Unlike George Washington, for..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Letters at 3AM

Follow the yellow brick road to Wounded Knee in this account of L. Frank Baum's effort to tame the untamable.

"...The supermarket racks were rife with TV Guides huckstering 100..."

July 21, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Why a sizable number of heterosexuals feel threatened by the concept of gay marriage

"...The state of Vermont is not exactly a hotbed of..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

October 1, 1955, a half-hour show called The Honeymooners slipped in some uneasy truths under cover of laughter.

"...In 1955, General Motors became the first corporation to earn more than $1 billion in..."

March 31, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

What does a Dark Age demand of a good person?

"...At the end of one Millennium and the beginning of another,..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

How to be and not to be.

"...not meant for publication is a discipline that frees the spirit to go where it needs to and speak..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

The Keepers of Your Silence II

Letters at 3 AM

"...breaking an ancient silence ñ an ancient taboo. At the time, Europe was a continent of state-enforced religions, where..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

The Zen of Filmmaking

Letters at 3AM

"...Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin was engaged in the improbable business of making people laugh in such a..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Rants on the Writing of Novels

Letters at 3AM

"...your taxes. Divide fees earned by hours worked, and the pay is usually less than minimum wage. Whether your..."

April 11, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Missive to the Ending Year

Letters at 3AM

"...as half promise, half threat. We wanted to believe the promise, but these days a sense of threat is..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Revolution: The Power to Begin

Letters at 3AM

"...a great dream, a dream of justice and community. The odds are always lousy, the situation always desperate. That's..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Column

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...said that you had to get rid of all the toxic people in your life? Not when they're the..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...only serve two years before facing voters again in the presidential election year of 2024 (as per a charter..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Space and Distance: A Joint Interview With Balmorhea and Explosions in the Sky

How Austin’s landmark instrumental outfits soundtrack the state of Texas

"...Chris Hrasky wishes there was a better backstory to Big Bend (An Original..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Austin Powell

LBJ Library at 50: "Lady Bird Johnson: Beyond the Willdflowers"

The LBJ Library exhibit shows sides of the First Lady you may not know

"...a lake and a wildflower center named after her, then you may think her story begins and ends with..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

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

The One-Man Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Park Conspiracy

“Do you see it? Cuz if you don’t, then I’m crazy.”

"...The illustration came into my possession last Monday morning...."

Dec. 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Painful Splits Along the Way to Stopping Sexual Assault in and Around Austin

Different approaches to accountability lead to rifts throughout the county

"...In the quest to find justice for local rape survivors, advocate..."

March 15, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...William Friedkin sits back on a couch in the Four Seasons and stares at me. "Possession," he intoned,..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Looking Back on the Champions Tract Rezoning

Does this development belong in this particular corner of the Hill Country?

"...have a new landmark. Rezoning and special exceptions that the Austin City Council granted last Novem­ber would allow a..."

June 30, 2017 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Nick Broomfield Tells Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Filmmaker talks about his new HBO doc, LA, race, and death

"...serial killer. But what interests filmmaker Nick Broomfield is the community that created the killer, and the racial politics..."

April 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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 Death Penalty Is About Us'

'Dead Man Walking' scribe Sister Helen Prejean speaks in town tonight

"...The year Sister Helen Prejean published her bestselling book Dead..."

Dec. 3, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

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

David Lindsay-Abaire: The Interview

The 'Good People' writer goes back to the old neighborhood

"...Tonight is your last chance to see the Different Stages production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, the..."

May 11, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dance of the Century

Rhoda Winter Russell reflects on a historic life in dance and the Mary Wigman connection

"...Rhoda Winter Russell remembers Mary Wigman addressing her, rolling the "r" and lowering the pitch to emphasize the final..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

There Goes the Neighborhood

City split over the latest in urban living options: short-term rentals

"...Strunk. Derek is nonverbal and has autism, and his mother brings him to Aus­tin for weeklong, one-on-one communication therapy..."

June 22, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...March 22 was a slow day on the News desk. This was Austin in campaign season, not..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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