Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...The new front corners of the Ransom Center exterior are..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Taste of Summer

Summer Food Essays: A Pinch of Recollection, A Dash of Tradition

"...Peach Season On the second Saturday in June, I went to the farmers..."

July 14, 2000 Food Feature by MM Pack

Short Cuts

"...Halloween plans. Beginning this week and continuing on through the Halloween weekend, the scary movie opportunities are plentiful and,..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

AHFF Film Festival Schedule

Thursday, October 10

"...Paramount 7:15pm Cowgirl (short)Deep in the Heart (followed by Q & A) 10:10pm Albino Alligator..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Screens Feature

VOD Watch

Adapting Robert E. Howard's ancient scrapper to screen

"...produced adaptation of Weird Tales icon Robert E. Howard's other ancient scrapper is only now getting a fitful release...."

Sept. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Drafthouse Films Gets Cannonized

Drafthouse Films acquires Cannon Films documentary

"...It's a fact: the 1980's were the wonder years of low budget, down..."

Dec. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Film News

Solid reporting and decent rumors

"...War! Football! Snake Plissken? The hotter it gets this masochistic summer, the more they..."

July 28, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

DVDs

"...The Last American VirginMGM, $14.95..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Most Likely to Endure

With the exception of the era-specific music, what the kids like in Dazed and Confused is pretty much the same thing kids like now, which goes a long way in explaining why, 10 years later, the video's a staple in college dorms, owned by kids who weren't conceived yet in the Seventies and couldn't buy a ticket to the R-rated movie when it came out in the Nineties.

"...special collectors issue ranking cinema's top 50 cult classics. Texas made a more than respectable showing, with The Texas..."

May 30, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Dancing About Architecture

Robbie Jacks is dead, but Auditorium Shores is not. Check back later about the Empanada Parlour.

"...Just as the Chronicle was going to press on Wednesday, along came..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Page Two

The history of the intermittent Halloween mask covers and of burgeoning staff dinners.

"...In the paper's first year, we didn't do a Halloween mask..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

"...pattern. Happy birthday, ACAC.) To celebrate, ACAC will cablecast the 1997 Austin Video Awards in a live ceremony from..."

June 6, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: 'Hatchet III'

Gleefully signing up for the Hatchet Army

"...of Hatchet III before watching Hatchet and Hatchet II, then here's my advice. Stop, go rent both, and come..."

Aug. 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nerd Ascending

Simon Pegg's star trajectory

"...as it does, between being a trenchant memoir on the sometimes comic (and often not) vicissitudes of growing up..."

June 10, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...There's a lot of wrong directions..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Short Cuts

If L.A. fell into the ocean, Hollywood would move to Austin. If it doesn't anyway.

"...is three years old this week and, not coincidentally, they're currently basking in one of the most productive film..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Animation Station

Through ADVision, Austin has become a hotspot for producing English-dubbed anime. Who knew?

"..."In the dying days of the Tukoobuwa Sho -- "..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Short Cuts

"...Break out those laminators. The fake ID business is in for a real boost..."

June 11, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Screen Dreams

Drive-In Theatres... on the Web!

"...see It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the drive-in in our small Southern Illinois farm town. My..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Coach's Corner

"...The NBA has suffered a tedious year. The scoring outage,..."

April 25, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Scanlines

Rory Cochrane in Love & a .45 Love and a .45

"...homegrown addition to a long line of films in the lovers-on-the-lam genre, Love and a .45 is smaller than..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Feature

AHFF Wrap-Up

Every Picture Tells a Story

"...For one brief weekend, it might be said that the lobby and mezzanine of Austin's historic downtown Driskill Hotel..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Heart of Film Festival Schedule

"...The third annual Austin Heart of Film Festival and Screenwriters..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Screens Feature

"Headcheese"

"...Meeks. Starring: Justin Meeks and Rene Moreno. Co-produced by Texas Chainsaw Massacre screenwriter Kim Henkel, this short film is..."

March 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film News

Summer shoots, Senate bills, and a few film festivals you should know about; plus, Bob Ivy plays with dolls

"...• Chainsaws 'n' Fried Worms: Multiple sources say Austin's film summer..."

April 15, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Fantastic Fest Schedule

Thursday, Sept. 21-Thursday, Sept. 28, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

"...for individual shows will be available in person at the door 15 minutes before each showtime, subject to availability...."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature

Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

"..."One of the great rock & roll singers stood on the stage..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Articulations

Austin won't be the same without cultural legends Steve Barton, John Martin, and Robbie Jacks.

"...Sometimes the losses just come in waves. A couple of weeks..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Page Two

There is no other place in the country, outside of New York and L.A., with the same quality and quantity of filmmaking and filmmakers as Austin

"...The Austin film scene was the unavoidably appropriate cover story..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Meet our new Web site; local film news; and tackling denial, from the city budget to the Republican right.

"...our new Web redesign (austinchronicle.com), masterminded by Karen Rheudasil. The Chronicle has an incredible amount of archival information, and..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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