Crypta, Cherubs, and More Crucial Concerts for the Week

Must-see shows for the weekend and beyond

"...living, seething, bouncing bridge between pioneering local post-punks of the Eighties (Scratch Acid and Butthole Surfers) and their contemporary..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

Texas travel news and more

"...Head scratcher. Since the late 1990s, three Easter Island Heads have mysteriously watched..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Nature news, scenic drive routes, and events all over Texas

"...December means the Christmas lights are calling and it’s time for a..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Friday

A Margo Price keynote, Koffee's evolution, & Obongjayar's rising star

"...Margo Price delivered the last Convention Center keynote, while Koffee closed out the..."

March 18, 2023 SXSW Post by Abby Johnston

Urban Heat's Darkwave Road Map for Uncertain Times

Spaceflight-deluxified Wellness pushes beyond post-punk pastiche

"...toe in all-black everything, Urban Heat is modest about the whirlwind 12 months they just wrapped up...."

Feb. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

The Dimension Sculpture Park Is Newly Illuminated

... and the darkness cannot overcome it

"...Here in the final days of 2020, as a global pandemic's got..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How OPA Design Studio Makes Austin's Elite Brewery Taprooms

Stephen Oliver does his tap dance

"...its own beer to its own visiting taproom customers. There was a loophole breweries cartoonishly tiptoed through like top-hatted,..."

July 24, 2020 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...readers, your wait to learn who will be attending the literary banquet of the year is over. The Texas..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin II and Butler Fellowship Program's Spring Performance

The program's mix of classical and contemporary work challenged its young dancers and left you wanting to see what's next for them

"...dancers are eternal students; even international stars depend on their teachers and coaches. So when does a ballet student..."

March 10, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Sister of Shattering Glass

A new supernatural thriller spills out, live, through your phone

"...trapped in a great secret maze that links all the mirrors of the world. Deep in this surreal place,..."

Feb. 8, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art

"...She's always creating at least three things at once. Katherine Catmull has just returned to Austin from a West..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

To Build a Home

Four Austin writers discuss how they create their fantastic worlds

"...of fantasy and science fiction still have rights to the name "explorer" since, nine times out of 10, they're..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

The Radiant Road

Author Katherine Catmull elegantly summons a fairy-tale timelessness for this YA story of teen anxieties, fairies, and creativity

"...Sometimes when we talk about The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we act..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Estate Sale Roundup: October 31-November 2

Keeping it core: Allandale, Crestview, and Northwest Hills pillaging

"...Estate sailing is like fishing – some days the deals are tugging at our line, and some days..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Renoir

Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.

"...Directed by: Gilles Bourdos. Starring: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret and Romane Bohringer...."

May 10, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...tenure leading fellow countryman/saxophonist Manu Dibango's group beginning in the early Eighties. His funky FM Tribe gives way to..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...been up with comedy, and a quick skim of the just-released feature lineup shows the fest continuing the trend,..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Strawberry Fields Forever

Future Clouds & Radar float to the magical kingdom of … Peoria?

"...Entering the living room of Robert Harrison's South Austin residence feels..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Cool City: My Big Fat Carbon Footprint

One reporter's liberating steps toward energy efficiency

"...It started when the lightbulb went on...."

July 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Art + Commerce

Marc English Design's DIY Criteria

"...here plenty of times before, but I still feel the urge to stop and check myself whenever I walk..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Keep on Growing

Derek's main Domino Bobby Whitlock settles in his legend in Austin

"...comes as songwriter, vocalist, and keyboardist for Derek & the Dominos, Eric Clapton's post-Cream wrecking crew that gave the..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Save as We Pave?

The latest trend in environmentally sensitive planning tiptoes into Travis County

"...Imagine a beautiful piece of land along the Pedernales River. Should it become a nature conservatory, preserved..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Page Two: Tearing It Up

Tearing It Up: Smart, committed, and usually the funniest person in the room, Ann Richards kicked down doors and prepared us all for the future

"...One time, backstage at the Texas Film Hall of Fame, I remember looking over..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Column by Louis Black

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...About three years ago, some good friends told me they had just seen Otto Preminger's Laura and loved it...."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Master of the Speedy Stroke

Gordon Fowler wastes no time when it comes to making his mark in watercolor.

"...to Montana, Wyoming, San Miguel, and France. Looking at the work he made on these trips, you can see..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

It's a Done Deal

The City Council approved the Stratus settlement 6-1. Now what?

"...In their adamant haste last Thursday to approve Stratus Properties' 1,253-acre..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Truth Is Out There

Patrice Pike emerges from the "jam band thing."

"...There. Patrice Pike has just addressed the million-dollar question without..."

June 7, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...Roseana Auten began writing for the Chronicle in 1987, writing book reviews and "whatever Louis..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

After a Fashion

Our resident fashionista delivers a play-by-play account of the newest (fictional) reality game, Shopping Survivor; he also recommends the straight-to-video feature Intern, a bitchy, insidery take on the high-fashion industry, and Swap & Bop, an open-air flea market / music event at Waterloo Brewing Company this Saturday.

"...SHOPPING SURVIVOR Please, anyone could survive the jungle in Belize or the Australian Outback. The toughest..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

South Austin's Neon Transformers Light Up Life South of the River

"...They admit they love it: seeing their work illuminated and..."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

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