How the West Was Won

SXSWUK 2008

"...The Gorillaz are extinct, and with barely a Queen, good,..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Joke's on Bush

Newspaper cartoonist Dan Piraro launches a national stand-up tour, Bizarro's PolitiComedy-A-Go-Go, starring a "quartet of liberal wisenheimers" cracking wise about election-year issues, this week in Austin

"...has really found its voice again this election year. The pitched battle for the White House has every satirist..."

April 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin in the Big Apple

If Texas food can make it here, it can make it anywhere. MM Pack explains.

"...in Manhattan can be. But Austin had descended upon the Big Apple, and preparations for a Texas-style party were..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...Third Place: The Warmth of Snowby Margaret Burns..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

Music in the 1990s

"...More than anything else, the Chronicle started as a music publication. Some of the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Playing the Violin

Mr. Sinus Theater's Jerm Pollet is also a musician!

"..."You were a punk. You were the first to get me drunk. There was no math..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Tumultuous Years

"...During the late Seventies and early Eighties, the United Farm Workers..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Paul Ciavarri

The Loyal Lieutenants

Bush Applies Litmus Test of Allegiance in Choosing Inner Circle

"...Forget "compassionate conservatism." While you're at it, toss the "reformer with results." Education, taxes, welfare reform -- none..."

March 17, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...Urban Cowboy, Scott Glenn is explaining to Debra Winger the intricacies of worm swallowing. "Mess-kins say eatin' the worm'll..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Between the Lines

"...When Christopher Dickey was eight years old, his father, the poet James Dickey, took him aside and told..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Books Review

The Salt of San Marcos

Journalists Who Write Like Scholars - and Vice Versa

"...Juan Palomo and David Barton of The Salt Journal photograph by Jana Birchum Although San Marcos..."

May 29, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

The Texas Accent

Texas Writers Month in Its Fifth Year

"...now, Peggy Hubble will find an elongated envelope with the Office of the Governor as a return address on..."

April 24, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

My Life in The Real World Kult

Please Take My MTV

"...Real World 3: The Puck Year Just for the record, I am not..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature by Adrienne Martini

The Star Maps Hustle

Interview With Filmmaker Miguel Arteta

"...photograph by Todd V. Wolfson Perhaps the first thing you notice about Miguel Arteta is his..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

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

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Eric's New Johnson

"...When the G3 tour featuring Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai,..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Music Column

cornering the bagel market

Austin's Hole-y War

"...Jumbo Bagels when most people are getting intimate with their REM cycles, arriving at two in the morning to..."

Aug. 16, 1996 News Feature by Chris Walters

Brouhaha Below the Border No Simple Answers

"...Picador USA, $13 paper Drinking gin by the case, an emaciated Stan Laurel watches from the window..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

Joe Gould's Secret

"...Hope Davis, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Tovatt and Celia Weston. The very thought of Stanley Tucci's new movie -- his..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review

Bedside Manner: Return to Bed Station Alpha

Comics, all systems go

"...Top Floor: A recent subscription to The New Yorker was based on a life-long love of..."

Dec. 12, 2011 Books Post by Jason Stout

MCW Alum Brian Hart Reads at BookPeople

Michener Center for Writers also announces hiring of Elizabeth McCracken and a reading by Richard Ford

"...no stranger to accolades – in 2006, he become the first-ever recipient of the University of Texas’ Keene Prize..."

Jan. 20, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

DIIV Stays on Topic – Guitar

“The focus on my personal life caught me off guard”

"...car and running late to a gig in Cleveland, the third stop promoting new LP Is the Is Are...."

May 25, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

Bedside Manner: Got Opium?

Getting High and Low with Steven Martin, Nick Tosches, et al

"...be an opium addict, I can't claim that as the reason I went to China." -- Emily Hahn, "The..."

July 23, 2012 Books Post 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

Postscripts

New Yorker3

"...Larry Wright's new book, Twins and What They Tell Us About Who..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Pauline & Paulettes

Anthony Lane's new collection of writings from his tenure at The New Yorker makes for an engaging, easy read. The question still stands as to whether film criticism should be easy.

"...Nobody's Perfect: Writings From 'The New Yorker'by Anthony Lane..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Life Itself

Maudlin multigenerational drama thinks it's profound (spoiler: it's not)

"...decades-spanning, multigenerational mashup of intertwined, tragic romances is, in the end, much ado about nothing much at all. It’s..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Hayden Panetierre stars in this coming-of-age comedy about a high school valedictorian who proclaims his love for the school's hottest cheerleader during his graduation speech.

"...Jack Carpenter, Lauren Storm, Lauren London and Shawn Roberts. There are so many things wrong with I Love You,..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...The Republican Playbook..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Boiler Room

"...Giovanni Ribisi. “People that tell you that money is the root of all evil don't have any,” says the..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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