Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...photograph by Jon Lebkowsky Hard-working, prolific genre-bending author Don Webb..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Paper Towns

Paper-thin teen tale is based on a John Green YA novel

"...Directed by: Jake Schreier. Starring: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Halston Sage, Austin..."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

What Dreams May Come

"...Directed by: Vincent Ward. Starring: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jennifer Chenoweth's XYZ Atlas

For years, the artist has been mapping locals' emotional experiences of the city and making them into art

"...When I was 18, I got my first job at Schlotzsky's Deli..."

May 13, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Murder Most Female

Austin Author and Edgar Nominee Susan Wade

"...Susan Wade Walking Rain, Susan Wade's first novel, is dedicated..."

May 2, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

To Die For

"...Directed by: Gus Van Sant. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...Tinkering With Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in Americaby Kim Todd..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Antifogmatic

Novelist Dominic Smith and the glow of the particular

"...The black Bakelite telephone on Dominic Smith's desk is strictly..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Books Feature by Sarah Smith

Lost City

Steven Saylor's Austin Murder Mystery, A Twist at the End: A Novel of O. Henry

"...To get from ancient Rome to Austin, Texas, 1885, Steven Saylor had to..."

April 7, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer,..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Film Previews

September

"...[ September | October | November ]..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEYD: Steven M. Martin. (PG-13, 85 min.)..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEYD: Steven M. Martin. (PG-13, 85 min.)..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Goodbye to Summer

Onward Into Fall

"...by Robin Bradford..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Arts Feature

Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over

Our interview with the Houston-based author

"...This is an interview with Mat Johnson, who wrote the acclaimed Pym..."

June 18, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

From Tulsa to New Delhi to BookPeople

Benjamin Lytal, Karan Mahajan, and two stories of place

"...People from Austin know as well as anyone: A place isn't the..."

March 27, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...THE PLUTONIUM CIRCUSD: George Ratliff. This is a reprint of..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...DOUBLE HAPPINESSD: Mina Shum; with Sandra Oh, Alannah Ong, Stephen Chang,..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Laying It All Out

Novelist Shelby Hearon has made an art of the little white lie.

"...When I walked into the polished granite lobby of the Renaissance Hotel..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...TO DIE FORD: Gus Van Sant; with Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Tall Tales and Texas Rising

Fact battles fiction in new History Channel miniseries

"...David Marion Wilkinson never expected to be at this place...."

May 22, 2015 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Page Two

Gratitude and goodbye to Will Eisner, whose comic 'The Spirit' is the epitome of great American art

"...Will Eisner died on Monday. I had a truly terrible night, hardly sleeping, racked..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Goosebumps Rising

Enduring Books in the SF Realm

"...Although this year's Worldcon didn't really do it for me..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Your Fantasy House

Where reader types would own a vacation home if it could be anywhere in literature

"...For lease: 2 BR cottage inside heritage oak, western edge of..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Something for Everyone... Jack's Back... and It's Hell

"...by Martin Wagner..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Books Feature

Iron Age's Seminal Album Reverberates Through Texas' Metal Scene

The Sleeping Eye turns 10 with a reissue, its creators and other Texas metal icons consider its influence

"...An hour southwest of Austin sits another world. Rolling hills..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Bedside Manner: Return to Bed Station Alpha

Comics, all systems go

"...Top Floor: A recent subscription to The New Yorker was based on..."

Dec. 12, 2011 Books Post by Jason Stout

Live Shots

"...LAUREL AITKEN & THE NEW YORK SKA-JAZZ ENSEMBLE..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature

Kirk Lynn

For he's a jolly good fellow

"...Who knew it paid so well to be rude?..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TIFF Notes

What I took away from the Toronto International Film Festival

"...Instead of searching for the themes, commonalities, and distinctions among..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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