The Long Dumb Road

The road may be dumb, but at least it's fun

"...When it comes to buddy comedies, The Long Dumb Road isn’t exactly forging new territory. It’s..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Austin Film Festival Review: The Long Dumb Road

Hannah Fidell's road trip comedy makes all the right stops

"...When it comes to road trip buddy comedies, The Long Dumb Road isn’t exactly..."

Oct. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Danielle White

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking

Hannah Fidell travels The Long Dumb Road

"...Hannah Fidell's new road trip comedy The Long Dumb Road begins, suitably, with..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...Every month, the Chronicle's film critics select a theme and offer movie..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Putting the Austin in Austin Film Festival

What ATX and Lone Star titles are screening at next week's fest?

"...Austin Film Festival is just around the corner. But in between major international screenings like Natalie..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: On the Campaign Trail With Beto O'Rourke

Plus: More TribFest picks, and our favorite movies made by women

"...This week on The Austin Chronicle Show, we contemplate Beto, the blue wave,..."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Post by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: All in the Family

Debunking the hippie Mafia theory, and starting to say goodbye to Rollo Banks

"...Sometimes, when you are driving long distances, when time has been going by so slowly..."

April 20, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...The town of Eldorado, Texas, seat of Schleicher County, flanks..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Road to 10-1

The City Council districting destination is settled. Is anybody driving the bus?

"...early, complicated Christmas present that would require extensive assembly. The night before had marked the dramatic victory of a..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Austin at Large: This Road’s Gone On Forever

Is it wrong, or dumb, or evil to spend billions to fix I-35?

"...As you'll see elsewhere in this issue, last week, the City Council affirmed Austin's support of the Green New..."

May 17, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...Beauty and the Beat was mixed, mastered, and finished. All of the..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

Breaking the Code

Plain English Is the Goal for Land Development Rules

"...bond debt, Austin's onerous Land Development Code has become the stuff of local folklore. Unlike those other sacred tenets,..."

May 15, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art

"...She's always creating at least three things at once. Katherine Catmull has just returned to Austin from a West..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Portrait of the Artist as a Road Comic

Long Drives, Low Pay, and Drunks -- What a Life!

"...Road comics are the gypsies of the modern age, wandering..."

March 28, 1997 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...a colleague and I kicked a conversation around about the book a while back, she accidentally called it America..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Urban Experience

Dâm-Funk's intergalactic jam

"...After my interview with Dâm-Funk, the 38-year-old Los Angeles DJ/keyboardist/composer, I sent an email to..."

March 16, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail

One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.

"...The great thing about presidents is their vulnerability. Nothing is..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Bolduc

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"..."The present-day composer refuses to die!"..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

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

Blessed Are the Buttholes

Austin's 1996 in Review

"...January: It sounds funny to say that the first great show of the year was a funeral..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs

The Death of Indie Labels: Reports Have Been Exaggerated

"...illustration by John Keen It's everybody's favorite number these days -- 28,000 -- which is the staggeringly absurd..."

May 2, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Queer Collaboration Yields Otherworldly Campiness in p1nky and The Kwane: Another Soup Opera!

Genres collide in cartoon-inspired DIY musical

"...joke from a night at Cheer Up Charlie’s provided the spark...."

May 29, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Mac Irvine

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...The phrase "shit-hot," cribbed from some international band's bio, comes..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Who's Minding the Clinics?

City/County Divided on Public Health

"...Nurse Beverly Milwee examines client Maria Miles at the South Rural Health Clinic. photograph by Jana Birchum There's..."

May 1, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Austin at Large: The Front Lines of Democracy

As voting's become a battlefield, Dana DeBeauvoir has stood up for all of our rights

"...election in Travis County that Dana DeBeauvoir hasn't run; the county clerk, herself among the longest-­serving local elected officials..."

Nov. 19, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Walser Keeps the Top Hand

"...being overexposed -- if I was in it for the money, I'd be in Nashville playing Top 40 country...."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Column

The Candidate From Brown & Root

As Halliburton CEO, Dick Cheney and his employer made millions on government projects.

"...Herman Brown's huge bet on the Mansfield Dam just keeps paying off. It made Brown..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Off the Desk:

"...Freeport-McMoRan has cancelled an insurance policy it had with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), according to TAPOL, the..."

Sept. 20, 1996 News Feature

Slabs, Screw, and Stories from the Country: Deezie Brown & EC Mayne Soundtrack Bastrop County

Candy Blue Like Screw reclaims Texas rap heritage

"...The biggest mistake everyone makes about small towns is considering..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin @ Large: The Writing on the Wall

If neighborhoods don't embrace Smart Growth, the city as a whole will get stuck with stupid growth.

"...-- of which I am president -- took to the Planning Commission a request that, if approved by the..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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