The Q&A Hole

Austin chefs field questions about the weirdest thing they ever ate and the trends they want 86'ed

"...We run this question-and-answer feature – the Q&A Hole – every week or so online, asking..."

June 14, 2013 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...I want to tell you about the men and women with the live fireworks exploding..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'To Need, the Women Say'

Short Story Contest first-place winner

"...Open a window and you can hear them cry outside – my mother is mad and sweeping..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Mary Terrier

'The Butcher's Hands'

Short Story Contest second-place winner

"...1935, the month of July: while the rest of Spain suffered..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Dana De Greff

The Reluctant Celebrity

When you get caught between the moon and New York City, it's time to head back home to Austin

"...photo session. He was wary of even interviewing with the Chronicle, writing in an email weeks before that the..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Shoot Out the Lights

Bare buzz, bare butts: The Bright Light Social Hour shakes it

"...Several hundred yards from where the Mississippi River borders Baton Rouge's industrial section, the Spanish..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Ups and Downs of Comedy

Hanging with the stand-ups for a look into the life

"...But what's also not so easy, besides the jokesmithing itself, is the stuff comedians go through in..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Between the Lines

What editors blog about when they blog about editing

"...perhaps particularly obsessive desire to level with Chronicle readers about outside commentary on both the publication and myself, as..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Tire Mound of Mystery

Thousands of city tires lie moldering southeast of town – and the city is claiming ignorance

"...Stacked in long rows and towering piles in the middle of a field southeast of Downtown are thousands..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Never-Ending (Crime) Story

Although their case has hit a dead end, prosecutors of the yogurt shop murders say they're determined to find the 'unknown suspect' – and then to retry Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen

"...Wednesday, June 24, Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen walked out of jail after spending nearly 10 years behind bars..."

July 17, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'The Sporting Life': … or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving to Lose

"...and man of leisure. I am a gentleman.    All the same, I must destroy Happy Jack.    The game is..."

Oct. 25, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

Here Comes the Guv

Kinky Friedman lights up his campaign

"...guess it just by looking at him. Waiting in the green room of San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium for his..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Banks of the Blanco

Environmentalists and Hays County clash over river-clearing project

"...clamshell excavator dumping full-grown trees onto a bonfire. That's the scene a group of kayakers found one recent morning..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Real Greezy

Greezy Wheels, back from the dead (the Seventies).

"...The drive up the last 50 yards of dirt road..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Cleve Hattersley

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...If he hadn't been driving the getaway car, Tim O'Connor might have punched Willie Nelson...."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...It's an overly romanticized notion, the idea of every generation having some sort of defining..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...Anikulapo-Kuti's funeral procession to make its way to Ikeja, the working-class district of Nigeria's metropolis Lagos and center of..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

It's Always the Nice Ones

"...At first glance, the five members of Austin's Kiss Offs look like nice,..."

March 5, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Believe the Buzz

"..."Well, it wasn't the full-blown Vespaio experience," was my initial response to friends..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

The Truth Will Set You Free

"...The failure of the mainstream music press to unglamourize drug..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All the Pain Platinum Can Buy

"...notice that in separate interviews, months apart and fully outside each other's earshot, Miles Zuniga and Joey Shuffield both..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Spirit of Improvisation

"...photograph by John Carrico Ambient energy still pulsed in the smoke-filled air as scores of dazed fans shuffled through..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...Johnny Winter on the outdoor stage at Stubb's Saturday, March 21 photograph by..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

The Backstage Crew

Council Candidates' Consultants Direct the Show

"...The Dream Team Scheme..."

April 11, 1997 News Feature

Portrait of the Artist as a Road Comic

Long Drives, Low Pay, and Drunks -- What a Life!

"...Road comics are the gypsies of the modern age, wandering far and..."

March 28, 1997 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

The Ruta Java

Where to Go for a Cup of Joe

"...could be found inside its multitude of coffeehouses. Although the closest thing to a coffeehouse I'd experienced back then..."

March 14, 1997 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

It's Not the Pot

Directing a Different Kind of Drug Movie

"...Whatever criteria are used when labeling a film `alternative' these days, it's certain that Use Your Head would qualify..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature

The Evil of Two Lessers

"...child. You can find hungry children easily, all over the world. If you're an American, no matter where you..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Who's Got the Hootie?

Comparing Austin' and Dallas' 1995 Output

"...Edie Brickell always seemed harmless enough. What she and the New Bohemians may have lacked in soul, they seemed..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Feature

Keel: The Real Deal

He's No Andy Griffith

"...Travis County Sheriff Terry Keel recently bragged about the time that two men tried to carjack him..."

Nov. 10, 1995 News Feature

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