Christmas With the Kranks

Holiday pap and circumstance.

"...Cheech Marin, Austin Pendleton and Felicity Huffman. It looms, swathed in clanking, rust-flecked chains of pap and circumstance: The..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When the Family Business Is the Oldest Profession in the World

AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Mystelle Brabbée's 'Highway Courtesans'

"...is more arresting: Mystelle Brabbée's film, Highway Courtesans, or the story behind it. The film is set in a..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...Bow down, ye unworthies! The final wave of Fantastic Fest films has been unleashed,..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...Vengeance is a dish best served by Prince Randian, the armless, legless human torso who wriggles, mud-encrusted but for..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...A sonic hiss slithers poisonously from the right channel to the left and..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Ethan Embry Licks The Devil's Candy

Cheap Thrills star on his very heavy metal Austin horror

"...Bellflower, California, straight up white trash." In thrash-infused horror The Devil's Candy, he plays "a kid that did the..."

March 31, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pilgrim in an Unholy Land: Notes of a Lonely Cowboy

"...up close and in person. Make no mistake – they will beat someone this Saturday. The question is who?..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...Think of the Puritan settlers, eking out a new life amid impossibly..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...tanked in sophisticated company. You head on down to the Warehouse District, and plop yourself at any one of..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

City Hall Hustle: In the Zone

Land-use issues in all corners of the city dominate council agenda

"...ask City Council. Like much of council's previous meeting, the upcoming agenda (Thursday, Aug. 26) is devoted to development..."

Aug. 27, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Liberty Lunch Reunion, Genesis Owusu, Poppy, Chief Cleopatra, Georgia Parker, Monte Luna, and more

"...The Far Out Lounge & Stage, Saturday 9..."

April 8, 2022 Music Column by Tim Stegall

Diedrick Brackens Weaves Multitudes in the Blanton's "darling divined"

From his loom, the acclaimed artist fuses folk tales and forgotten memories with his own experiences to tell new, expanding stories of identity

"...backgrounds of lime greens, poppy reds, hazy purples. Sometimes the figures are presented together in nature: outside under a..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

The AggreGAYtor: December 5

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Angela Merkel thumbs her nose, George Takei meets the Donald, and Dov Charney is in hot water. The..."

Dec. 5, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Swallow the Sun, Benny the Butcher, Every Time I Die, Buck Meek, and more recommended shows

"...Swallow the Sun..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

LBJ Library Spotlights the Little House That Motown Built

Collection stars Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Supremes & more

"...thunderstorms remind us that summer’s technically not over until the autumnal equinox on Monday. Serendipitously, one tidy little housing..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Running With the Wild Gang

Self-proclaimed patriots don't seem to have much love for their country, except on their own terms

"...out exactly what I have in my hands. In the wake of the election, three decades into the Chronicle,..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Immortal Mansion

House of Torment remains the blood-stained king

"...If you think you've been to the House of Torment before, think again. Austin's nationally recognized..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

Red River rolls out the red carpet with bottle service at Beauty Bar, the Jungle Rockers get down on the Bo Diddley beat, and the Kadane brothers return to Austin

"...Guitarist Jason Borkowski of the Jungle Rockers describes the Bo Diddley beat the same..."

June 20, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Cowboys Get a Special Talking to (Cue the Sentimental Music)

"...Despite the warnings of my three visiting Christmas spirits, I’ve neglected..."

Dec. 28, 2006 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

Hold the Phone

The Jerky Boys Ain't Got Nothin' on Russell Miles

"...host Paul Pryor didn't have any reason to think the caller on the line at that particular moment was..."

Feb. 7, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard

Ryan Reynolds adds a new client but no extra fun

"...wonders if we would even have a follow-up to The Hitman’s Bodyguard if it were not for industry-wide underperformance..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Luv Doc: How Old Is too Old?

Old people creep everyone out - including themselves

"...me out. Am I just being a bitch? Shouldn’t there be a cutoff age difference? - Sharon..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

Page Two: We Are the Walrus

... And other tales of circles unbroken

"...he as you are me and we are all together."..."

July 9, 2010 Column by Louis Black

'The Last Supper'

Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas: an excerpt

"...crew had been working twelve- to sixteen-hour days for three weeks, with only one day off from week to..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"..."Lester's Last Stand: Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas" is an..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

Summoning Hell in Attack of the Demons

Austin artist Eric Power casts a cardgore spell

"...Eric Power has opened the gates of Hades, but he didn't use eye of..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Thank You for Smoking

This snarkily playful little comedy gets so wrapped up in its own barbed witticisms that it fails to land even the lightest sucker-punches on the institutions it aims to skewer.

"...H. Macy and Robert Duvall. What could have been the cinematic equivalent of a rapier’s tip held to the..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Restorative Powers

Scorsese nonprofit teams with Mondo & Alamo for film series

"...1950 are now lost forever. Preservation and restoration are the clarion calls of Martin Scorsese's nonprofit The Film Foundation;..."

May 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Moon

A man (Sam Rockwell) and his computer (voiced pitch-perfectly by Kevin Spacey) – alone on a moon-based work station of the future – plumb the depths of identity and inner space.

"...Wong and Malcolm Stewart. Any cinematic space odyssey of the past 40 years surely owes a debt to Kubrick's..."

July 10, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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