SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Wednesday

A primo Tiger Den showcase, iLe, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and more

"...From legacy Texas songwriters to New Order’s keynote insights, the Chronicle music team’s Wednesday sightings at South by Southwest..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Fading Dreams

"...always dreamt of college, a career, and success. However, the dream is fading with circumstance: Student loans are smothering..."

March 15, 2023 Postmarks

Terry Crews Launches Mock Idiocracy Presidential Campaign with a Thundercat Concert

Back from the future, President Camacho hosted a dystopian SXSW rally

"...The future is fucked. At least, that's what Terry Crews..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Kriss Conklin

Scenes From the First Weekend of SXSW 2023

"...South By Southwest 2023 at the Austin Convention Center..."

March 13, 2023 Photo Gallery

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Texas travel news and events for spring

"...popping, making March a great time to go daytrippin’. The state added two new historic sites to its inventory,..."

March 1, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Animation

Selections prove (yet again) that animation is for everyone

"...The Academy's disdain for animation is a matter of record,..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

She Is Love

Dry love-triangle comedy sacrifices honesty for hollow style

"...The fear of a bump-in with the ex. It’s why..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips: Container City, Burnet

Shipping containers become cabins for a scenic mountain getaway

"...those big metal boxes used to transport goods around the world also make great cabins in the woods...."

Jan. 27, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Music Adds New Order, Killer Mike, Protomartyr, and Isabella Lovestory

Along with over 300 more artists headed to the Austin festival

"...How does it feel? New Order leads the pack among 320 musical names announced in SXSW Music’s..."

Jan. 25, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A tribute to tattoo legend Shanghai Kate, Hi How Are You Day, and Karima Walker highlight our recommended shows

"...Remembering Shanghai Kate, America’s Tattoo Godmother..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

The Old Way

Nic Cage saddles up for a Western with a surprise in its saddlebags

"...a horse opera. Sure, he's dabbled in neo-Westerns like the dusty noir Red Rock West, but he's never saddled..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Critics Announce the Five Best Austin Films of 2022

Linklater and mountain lions, the pandemic, the legacy of slavery, and the fight for abortion rights all part of this year’s AFCA Austin Film Award short list

"...center of filmmaking, and 2022 proved no exception as the short list for the Austin Film Critics Association's Austin..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Babylon

Star-studded, bittersweet love letter to the golden age of Hollywood is cinema maximus

"...Chazelle's epic, multistranded, vibrant, debauched, and heartfelt tribute to the golden age of Hollywood – begins with an elephant..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Farewell to the Future at the Final Other Worlds Film Festival

Founder Bears Rebecca Fonté looks back and forward

"...If you look at the schedule for this year's Other Worlds Film Festival, it's..."

Dec. 1, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Texas travel tips from Llano lights to Kerrville craftsmanship

"...Happy holidays to one and all; now get out there and start daytrippin’...."

Nov. 30, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Strange World

Disney animated adventure revamps pulp fun with a story of fathers and sons

"...Imagine living in a world where the energy resource upon which you have depended is running..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: 10 Watering Holes From Dripping Springs to Wimberley

Take a drive for outdoor patios and spectacular scenery

"...The hills around Wimberley are some of the prettiest in..."

Nov. 23, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Oscars Accepts That Animated Films Are Animated

Austin-made Apollo 10 1/2 now eligible for Academy Award

"...Three of the year's most critically acclaimed and visually stunning animated movies..."

Nov. 10, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

Fall events and news from all over Texas

"...issued a building permit for a beauty parlor on the lot next to his house in a quiet neighborhood..."

Nov. 2, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Decision to Leave

Park Chan-wook strips away his signature violence for a tender, tragic love story

"...A sensation, beginning from the back of the skull, accompanied by a wave of..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Restaurant Review: Maie Day

Michael Fojtasek’s new South Congress chophouse turns up the fun … and the volume

"...We weren't steakhouse people when I was growing up. The closest thing we got to it was after-church lunch..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Academy Excludes Apollo 10½ From Oscar Consideration, Prompting Appeal

Animators push back at Academy committee bias

"...Friday, IndieWire's Eric Kohn broke news that in July the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' animation committee..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...Craft beer has begun its redemption arc. Out are the big bourbon barrel-aged confectionary stouts, the biting quintuple IPAs,..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

The weather’s ideal to learn about Bob Dylan or see hot air balloons

"...Is it rolling Bob? On May 10, 2022, the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, opened. Fourteen days..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Jo’s Helpful HAAMburgers, World Saké Day at The Yard, Suerte’s Seafood Flex, Perry’s Fall Feastables, Cory Starr Shines, No Shortage of Good Booze, and More, More, More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...scene, as wrangled from numerous PR releases, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdroppings...."

Sept. 28, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moseying Out Into the Multiverse With the Quantum Cowboys

Geoff Marslett probes memory and the many-worlds theory in his new animated mind-bender at AFS Cinema

"...Shocking news. Hollywood has lied to you. The cavalcade of multiverse movies, well, that's just not how..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AmericanaFest 2022 Brings the Roots Community Back Together

Eight emerging acts seen in Nashville, from Nora Brown to Early James

"...and open. That emphasis was on full display throughout the five days of packed programming last week in Nashville,..."

Sept. 21, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

God's Country

Thandiwe Newton finds darkness in the heartland

"...It's the dark and menacing, still and foreboding look of God's..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Ramblin' Soul of Songwriter Melissa Carper

Following the critically acclaimed Daddy's Country Gold, the spotlight-averse artist is primed for broader attention

"..."Watch out, there's a bird's nest in the outhouse," Melissa Carper warns..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 2-8

"...question to start one of her poems. She spends the rest of the poem speculating on possible answers. At..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

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