Lucky Seven for Sci-Fi Film Fest Other Worlds

Interstellar picks for the festival's seventh year

"...Originally selected for SXSW, Noah Hutton's savage takedown of the high-tech, low-paying gig economy traipses after blue collar schlub..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"...in a lot of trouble. We are standing in the entrance hallway of his photography studio, a two-story brick..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

"...There are some days when it feels like PD operates..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Music Amidst Used Furniture

The History of the Red River Strip

"...The bar's gonna be pushed back, and all this is..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature

Der Bestrafte Brudermord

As realized by the Hidden Room, this German puppet version of 'Hamlet' is as much Monty Python as Shakespeare

"...York Rite Masonic Hall, 311 W. Seventh www.hiddenroomtheatre.com Through Feb. 8 Running time: 1 hr., 15 min...."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Toros Tryouts: Day One, Part Two

"...Halfway through the first day of Toros open tryouts last weekend, I..."

Oct. 22, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Just Call Him "Coach"

Westlake senior Eli Kooris profiles the Westlake Chaparral football's legendary head coach, Ron Schroeder.

"...deer, Westlake Hills lies just outside of Austin on the sloping bluffs of the Edwards Plateau. The small, affluent..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Sports Feature by Eli Kooris

Alamo Drafthouse Touts Post-Bankruptcy Expansion Plans

With sale complete, chain announces five new locations

"...(just ask Apple, Marvel Entertainment, and Six Flags), and the Alamo Drafthouse has just announced that it's moving past..."

June 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Why Are Some of Austin's Smartest Restaurants Heading Toward Dripping Springs?

The Switch, Pieous, and the League look west

"...When then-fledgling brewers and distillers like Thirsty Planet, Argus Cidery, and..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Food Feature by Tom Thornton

Housecore Headhunter Summons You

Festival boss Corey Mitchell makes his recommendations

"...If you ask Corey Mitchell which nation is making the most depraved, disturbing horror movies these days, the answer..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Communal Ground

Communal dining sets the mood in trendsetting restaurants

"...grumbled as my friend joined me for lunch at the communal table at Elizabeth Street Cafe. "Because this is..."

July 13, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Iraq Comes Home

Wounded Warriors return to the Thin Blue Line

"...combat in a nearby neighborhood, two officers cautiously approached the scene. As they came in sight, one of the..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Rockabye Baby

Rockabye baby, on the treetops, when the bow breaks, the cradle will rawk!

"...The house was shaking. The windows were rattling. The halls..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Joe Montana – Nice Guy, Pretty Good Football Player

"...of my bad decisions have included booze, bottle rockets, the improper use of a Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, or a dirty..."

July 2, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Take Your Slacker to Work Day

"...I would like to thank Mark Fagan and The Austin Chronicle for hooking me up with a press..."

June 12, 2007 Sports Post by John Hunt

Serious GAME

For the Austin Outlaws, the game is the only thing

"...A lightning storm has delayed the start of the Austin Outlaws football game, and a..."

June 2, 2006 Sports Feature by Kevin Brass

Movies and Shakers

The production companies behind – and ahead of – the boom, and how they might be able to help you

"...a production company, but we don't do development in the traditional sense of finding material, hiring a writer, writing..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sk8 Baby Sk8

Austin author Inga Muscio (Cunt, Seal Press) reflects on her experience as a badass skateboard babe and wonders why more women in Austin don't fancy life on four wheels.

"...trauma, alien abduction, and disease are among some of the things that might cause a quality-of-life epiphany. However, motivation..."

April 7, 2000 Features Feature by Inga M. Muscio

Not Rocking

The American Analog Set

"...These guys do not rock," says Lisa Roschmann, laughing...."

Feb. 28, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Former Heartless Bastard Jesse Ebaugh Finds His Own Texas Touch

The Tender Things face hard truths on new LP

"...In a small rehearsal room at Space ATX off Menchaca Road, Jesse Ebaugh plugs..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

At No Lights No Lycra, You Really Can Dance Like No One's Watching

Since this weekly sober dance party happens in the dark, you're free to move without worry over how you look

"...No Lycra – Austin's weekly sober dance party in the dark – feels at first like you're in a..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Arts Feature by Erica Lies

Giveable City

The treat of Austin eats

"...Take Them Away..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Professors of Pleasure

Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.

"...floating, just floating, about a dozen feet up in the air. It's not really doing anything else, just kind..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Listen to This: David Beck Breaks Down Bloom & Fade

Family ties and looking at life, track-by-track

"...David Beck was hiding from the ceaseless flow of information when Bloom & Fade began..."

Sept. 22, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music

“The banjo is such an interesting instrument because it’s like a musical id and ego”

"..."Do you want to see the banjo I made?" interjects Lindsey Verrill, jumping up from..."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Dip, Sip, & ’Que: A Texas Trilogy

Day Trips on the best barbecue and swimming holes in Central Texas

"...Summertime in Texas goes better with the cooling effects of dipping your body in water, sipping..."

June 30, 2016 Columns Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Swampadelic

Grateful Dead + Papa Mali = 7 Walkers

"...Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and Austin's godfather of funk Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne share the same..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Sara Smile Still

Behind Sara Hickman's sunny countenance lies real life. And still a smile.

"...Who can turn the world on with a smile? Besides Mary Tyler Moore,..."

May 7, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Zupan on Impact

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

"...heals all wounds – but for now, one of the world's greatest sportswriters had better watch (or listen?) out..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Pao, Wow!

The Mandarin House's stellar reputation has followed it out to Lakeway – why haven't you?

"...There was an Austin culinary uproar in 1997 when Pao's..."

May 7, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

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