The Best New Year’s Eve Concerts Happening in Austin

Eleven live music options to ring in 2024, from Snail Mail to Gary Clark Jr.

"...with earnest love songs on her 2018 debut Lush, then bested it with 2021's streamlined, electronic-tinged Valentine. A recent..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Need a Lyft? Rideshare Wars, the Sequel

New player brings rideshare back to city agenda

"...kicked into high gear last Thursday, May 29, with the unexpected arrival in Austin of "transportation networking company" Lyft...."

June 6, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Trying To Fix the World

Five-year review of APD Chief Art Acevedo

"...On the April morning of the funeral for slain Austin Police..."

May 25, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Behind the Bars

Why are gay bars not counted within Austin club histories?

"...Dirty Sally's (The Apartment)2828 Rio Grande, approximately 1968-1988..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...This is no doubt the strangest story I've ever had to write. What makes..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Head of the Class

With Senioritis, the conclusion to his quartet of plays set at a Catholic high school in Houston, solo performer Rob Nash is all set to graduate -- to Off-Broadway, says Robi Polgar.

"...Once there was a kid who attended Catholic high school in..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Supersizing the Scene

From Rest Stop to Tour Stop

"...of tour buses and equipment trucks have be-come yet another obstacle on the highways in and around Austin. And..."

May 12, 1995 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Director Peter Hedges on Why Austin Film Festival Means So Much to Him

A shared rain's a-gonna fall in The Same Storm

"...festival because it's a writer-centered festival," says Peter Hedges, the writer and director of Austin Film Festival 2021 opening..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Making Waves

Austin Screenwriter Bill Wittliff Discusses The Perfect Storm

"...The snarl of traffic, the human genome, the rising price..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Twister

A daredevil storm chaser gets the tornado he's always longed to see.

"...Ruck and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In a word, wow. The first of the 1996 summer blockbusters finally arrives (after..."

May 10, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...The 2022 film festival is just around the corner (even..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Poseidon

A handful of talented actors checked their egos at the door in hopes of … something, but this Poseidon is a wash.

"...Andre Braugher, Jimmy Bennett, Kevin Dillon and Freddy Rodríguez. The anthropomorphized bunnies of Watership Down had more pizzazz than..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Critical Grasp

Civil disobedience and free speech are cut from the same unalienable cloth

"...One of the ongoing mysteries of the Chronicle for me is the..."

July 18, 2008 Column by Louis Black

November

November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.

"...Nick Offerman and Anne Archer. Harrison couldn’t have roamed farther afield from 2000’s funky Groove, which explored the Bay..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Testosterone

Part colorful noir, part scatterbrained comedy, Testosterone envisions the severed tether of a presumably functional relationship.

"...returns. Part colorful noir, part scatterbrained comedy, Testosterone envisions the severed tether of a presumably functional relationship through the..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

With Honors

"...If you listen hard enough, you can just hear the pitch: “Four college kids, at, um, at Yale…” /..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

This doc about the storied department store stays relentlessly on-message.

"...Directed by: Matthew Miele...."

May 24, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Sweet November

"...Liam Aiken, Brian Leonard, Greg Germann, Jason Issacs, Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves. Get out your handkerchiefs. No, scratch..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business

"...Directed by: Helena Solberg. We all know the screen image of Carmen Miranda: the fiery Brazilian bombshell..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Aiko, Jurassic 5’s Soup, Quiet Light, and More Reviews From Monday of SXSW

Music fest kicks off with a bang

"...All South by Southwest goers pass the same phrase around as they mill about Downtown each..."

March 11, 2025 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Come Home to Grey Gardens

HBO premieres Grey Gardens, featuring Drew Barrymore.

"...filters down through a few generations of American culture, the inevitable spawn, so often a diluted bastard of its..."

April 21, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Anne Harris

Don't Let Go

Sci-fi crime drama gives a cop a chance at redemption

"...Directed by: Jacob Estes. Starring: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Byron Mann, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina, Brian Tyree..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

TNA Talks

Wrestlers of TNA on life on the road, and how to survive a muscle buster.

"...Backstage at the TNA Wrestling event at the Travis County Expo Center..."

Jan. 14, 2008 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Dreaming ART

This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.

"...What's wrong with this picture? A play titled Spring Storm is receiving its world premiere production in Austin. Inside..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Supporting Local Farmers and Ranchers Helps Everyone

Back to the soil

"...After the devastating winter storm system that sustained freezing temperatures and..."

March 5, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Fantastic Four

Marvel not at this Fox flop

"...Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey and Tim Blake Nelson...."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Good Deed

Idris Elba plays a home invader hell-bent on terrorizing Taraji P. Henson’s suburban mom.

"...Just how lazy is No Good Deed, the latest entry in the home-invasion/woman-in-peril subgenre? Well, for starters,..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Snowjob

Was It Sleet or Chicken Little That Fell From the Sky?

"...According to the Austin Police Department, the brief bout of winter weather..."

Feb. 16, 1996 News Column

What’s Happening, What’s Being Done, and How We Got Into This Cold Weather Catastrophe

More chaos with continued power outages, calls for water conservation

"...Although most of the southern U.S. has been experiencing winter storm conditions and..."

Feb. 17, 2021 News Post by Lina Fisher

Faster Than Sound: Free Lunch Creatives Feed Austin’s Unhoused

Musicians rally for emergency storm relief, and Spicewood's Katy Kirby debuts on Keeled Scales.

"...Southwest. As leader of local psych-folk enthusiasts Calliope Musicals, the former played the show while the latter musician oversaw..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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