Do They Dare?

Austin Team Portland-Bound for the National Poetry Slam

"...perfect Slam Team Summer: MTV gears up to rock the vote, KISS stages a reunion tour, and Atlanta burns..."

July 26, 1996 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

SXSW Film Review: Azrael

The left behind navigate a supernatural horror

"...caused a surprising firestorm by daring to suggest that the visual medium of cinema should rely primarily on the..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Transportation Future: What Will It Look Like in 2033?

Highways, headless horsemen, and high-speed trains: The ghost of our transportation future

"...I-35 with nobody in it. A college student taking the light rail from the Drag to Downtown for a..."

Nov. 10, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Fantastic Fest Review: Knocking

Swedish psychological horror rewrites Repulsion

"...(Cecilia Milocco) is in Swedish psychological thriller Knocking after the death of her lover, a tragic event that has..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Bleed With Me

Blood binds friendships in this remote chiller

"...implication, and Canadian three-handed chiller Bleed With Me loads the screen with tension, and leaves the rest to the..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ruby's BBQ Pits to Live On in New Restaurant

Local chefs preserve a piece of barbecue history

"...Ruby’s BBQ closed its doors at the end of February, after serving Austin for nearly thirty..."

April 3, 2018 Food Post by Veronica Meewes

Top 10 Austin Albums of 2017

Consensus on the best local platters

"...1) Xetas, The Tower (12XU)..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

2016’s 10 Biggest Queer Crushes

We’ve got a crush on you and all you do

"...Despite – or perhaps because of – the tumultuous year, these queers brought some much needed humor,..."

Dec. 29, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Thanksgiving as a Refugee in America

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

"...The Al-Hallaq family just celebrated its first-ever American Halloween. In..."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chef Erica Beneke Competes on 'Chopped'

Max's Wine Dive hosts viewing party this weekend

"...Erica Beneke is no stranger to cooking competitions. She won the local round of..."

May 30, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Gay Place

South by So Gay. That's what we like to call it.

"...place to land, eh? Yeah, we know you're out there, desperate in the back "guest room" of some stranger's..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Wednesday Rewind

Quiet Company gets Rock-afired, plus Darden Smith and Kydd Jones

"...There's a little something for everyone in this week's edition..."

Nov. 3, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Fantastic Fest: 'Fire of Conscience'

Dante Lam's good cops versus bad cops thriller is sensational.

"...will not be disappointed with this ratatat descent into the grimy-slick underworld of Hong Kong lawbreakers and the damaged..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

2008 Texas Book Festival

Citizen of the World: Stephanie Elizondo Griest

"...she is very much at home virtually anywhere in the world, be it at a Rolling Stones gig in..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Big in Japan, but What About Austin?

Magnolia Pictures and the Alamo Drafthouse hope to build an audience for a Japanese oddity here in the heart of Texas

"...who yearn to be bigger, faster, and stronger than the workaday, wage-slaving salarymen has never been so literally and..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Two Towers, Six Years, and 16 Millimeters

The remarkable journey – and uncertain toll – of Steve Bilich's 'Native New Yorker'

"...like every life has a history, but rarely do the two commingle to such a fantastic and phantasmagoric degree..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Her First House

"...a real killer By Wells Dunbar TOTALLY SPECIAL TO THE CHRONIC-STATESMEMBER Monday, Nov. 20, 2006 Part of an ongoing..."

Nov. 20, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Metallurgy

Record review

"...same bands now have long hair and beards, and the sounds are a little stranger. Featuring J Mascis on..."

March 31, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Artful Presents

Local gift suggestions from the Art Elf Prize Patrol

"...It has come to the attention of the Art Elves – that division of..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Imagine

The music business in a post-911 world

"...Like so many others that day, Dan Gellar's phone rang on the morning..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Postmarks

The Executioner

"...knowledge. This latest drawing broke my heart. It's called "the Executioner". We did not discuss it, as I find..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Column

Beth Lisick and Justin Chin In Person

"...an accomplished performance poet who has done shows across the country, Beth Lisick has seen many reactions to her..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Books Feature

Color in Sara Hickman’s An Eclectic Array of Texas Musicians

Presenting two illustrations from Sara Hickman’s new volume

"...No stranger to rounding up Texas artists for a good cause,..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

We Have an Issue: Never Boring

In this week's issue, Lina Fisher examines the uncertain environmental impacts of Tesla and the Boring Co. on the Colorado River

"...Visionary or flimflam artist? Climate savior or just another billionaire who'll exploit anything and anyone to make a..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Geeky Lifestyle Brand BoxLunch Brings Exclusive Indiana Jones Pop-Up to Austin

Fortune and glory awaits you at Barton Creek Square this weekend

"...went searching for rare items, he found himself in the Well of Souls or the Temple of Kali. Austinites..."

June 1, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Six Mindblowers From Fantastic Fest’s FF@Home

Our picks from the streaming side of the genre celebration

"...Fantastic Fest is over, right? Wrong! Yes, the in-person celebration of global genre festival, which opened with..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Can Quibi Be Your New Go-To App?

CEO Meg Whitman on diversity and innovation in the new streamer

"...The coronavirus lockdown has been a mixed affair for the..."

April 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crime Month: A Chron "Crime" Playlist

Hit after hit, for your next hit

"...Seeing as July is Crime Month at the Chronicle, it only seems appropriate that it comes with..."

July 16, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

Crime Month: Gypsy on Netflix

In this series, Naomi Watts puts the "psycho" in psychotherapy

"...Psychotherapy depends upon vulnerability. A patient’s either naïve enough or..."

July 9, 2019 Screens Post by Laura Jones

You Puts a New Lens on Toxic Masculinity

Lifetime screens pilot of its newest stalker drama

"...Tales of obsession are in steady rotation on the Lifetime network; yet upcoming miniseries You, which screened its..."

June 11, 2018 Screens Post by Danielle White

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