Preaching to the Converted

"Troubling Era"

"...Or NPR Talk of the Nation host Ray Suarez, author of the upcoming The..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Gift of Words

Corrido

"...Take all the lingering ghosts and graying sages out of the American..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Books Feature

The Life and Times of an Emotional Transient

Poetry Festival Salutes Albert Huffstickler

"...no country for old men." He meant our country, the world of the living, pulsing with the fury and..."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

The Faces of "New" Country Buck and Hag Revisted by Lee Nichols

"...150,000 and few tall buildings, it seems more like the rural towns that surround it. It's a placid, quiet..."

May 26, 1995 Music Feature

West Austin Studio Tour

The second WEST provides a journey of creative wonders

"...Here comes the second year of WEST, the West Austin Studio Tour,..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

This Christmas

The film has the perfect formula for holiday cheer: redemption through sentimentality, salvation through schmaltz.

"...London. I have to ask: What could possibly explain the presence of two first-rate actors like Lindo and Elba..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

A Perfect Murder

"...Gretchen Palmer, Tommy “tiny” Lister, Helen Martin and John Witherspoon. For all of its brutality, and it has plenty,..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

AGLIFF Closing With Mapplethorpe

Festival adds major bio-pic, plus complete line-up

"...AGLIFF, the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival, has just..."

July 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Aldous Harding’s Enormous Voice

Kiwi channels the brilliant mania of Kate Bush

"...dressed entirely in white – from her sneakers to the way her eyes rolled in the back of her..."

June 20, 2017 Music Post by Libby Webster

Sour Notes Tour Diary

Local indie troupe cruises NXNE and all points between

"...In his seminal 1994 memoir, Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag, Henry Rollins..."

June 28, 2013 Music Post by Jared Paul Boulanger

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...deeply suntanned man, about 40 years old, walked into the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Boise, Idaho, and readied..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sleigh Ride

Robin Bradford takes a trip back to examine love, trust, and safety.

"...The first thing I remember from my mother's second marriage..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Features Feature by Robin Bradford

Opinion: There Is an “Us” in USA. Let’s Act Like It.

Now is the time to speak up, to build bridges, and to come together

"...“There is an 'us’ in USA.” I heard that line..."

May 30, 2025 Column by Erblin Ribari

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

Dim Sum Under the Rainbow

"...Early in the summer, Chronicle bookeeper cindy soo piped up in a..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Arts Feature

Danny Malone’s Backyard

Special Magic Barn Fantastic Show comes off as billed

"...Tuesday night, the barn in Danny Malone’s backyard became crammed with bodies..."

Dec. 20, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

South of Heaven

Metal has a new home in Austin, and a new sponsor.

"...November 2011 and all's quiet on Fun Fun Fun Fest Saturday night at the..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

Hamlet 2

The manic comedian Steve Coogan plays a high school drama teacher who pens a scandalous remake of the Bard's classic in an attempt to save his Tucson class from budget cuts.

"...Directed by: Andrew Fleming. Starring: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria, Skylar Astin, Phoebe Strole, Melonie..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Let Her Speak!'

Abortion hearing erupts into an emotional match

"...It’s 12:25 in the morning in the House State Affairs committee room at..."

June 21, 2013 News Post by Dan Solomon

Vacancy

Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale play a couple who try to escape from the snuff-film motel at which they're stranded.

"...66, and I am here to tell you that the darker the night, the lonelier the road, the more..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Based on a novel by Bishop T.D. Jakes, a black evangelical preacher and author who also co-stars, this unusual film is part revivalist sermon, part narrative drama, and wholly urgent and engaging.

"...always successful drama that is also part revivalist sermon. The film is based on a novel by Bishop T.D...."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sylvia

Sylvia Plath biopic is sad dirge.

"...Casar, Andrew Havill, Sam Troughton, Lucy Davenport, Antony Strachan, Blythe Danner and Michael Gambon. The life and death of..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Far From Heaven

"...Douglas Sirk's 1952 Hollywood melodrama All That Heaven Allows: The camera cranes through a grove of treetops, through their..."

Nov. 21, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

While My Ukulele Gently Weeps

Get ready to see a lot more ukuleles

"...out brushfire folk songs on a tarnished guitar first. Then a ukulele was produced from backstage. He smiled...."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

A Year's Cheers

The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 18th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

That One Sad One

Second place

"...The bees loitering around the trash bucket a couple feet..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Will Furgeson

Beaten by Wackenhut

A former Travis County inmate alleges that Wackenhut Corporation bears responsibility for his prison beating.

"...46, says he had never been in trouble with the law before March 1997. While he was visiting Austin..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Hill Country Food & Wine Guide

by Virginia B. Wood & the Cuisines staff

"...Since the last time we visited Rose Hill, owners Robert and..."

April 13, 2001 Food Feature

Eric's World

The Many Fanastic Colors of

"...Tarrytown, Eric Johnson's beige stone house is dwarfed by the tall trees that tower above it. Against their late-summer,..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bittersweet Ending

Notes From the Republican Revolution

"...8pm: The big banner screaming "Republicans: The Future of Texas" is..."

Nov. 6, 1998 News Feature

Austin Looks for Routes Out of Its Homelessness Crisis

Under pressure, the city experiments with fast and sustainable strategies

"...For more than a year, the city of Austin, its social service partners, and primary..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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