Anything Goes

That free-for-all spirit is part of the kick of FronteraFest

"...The hidden lives of flight attendants. And artists. And actors..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Actually Living With War

The latest AFS Essential Cinema series focuses on the films of the Middle East and North Africa

"...The climax of Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly transpires thusly:..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Keep Not Silent

The fourth Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...Before Marc Levin embarked on the series of confrontations with anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists of various..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

TCB

A rock out, a rock opera, and a rock show. Must be Rocktober.

"...Even before the Red River Rock Out got under way last weekend,..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

You Can't Touch This

The budget battles, Round 2: Citizens rally to save community services

"...proposed fiscal 2004 Austin city budget. By this standard, the Aug. 14 budget hearing on community services -- parks,..."

Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Story Book Children

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez duet their way into Austin's heart.

"...When Chip Taylor wrote "Storybook Children" in the mid-Sixties, there was no way of knowing it would..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...I've regularly been around children, so when I see them saying or doing things beyond their years, I find..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...When a friend writes an exceptional book it's your victory too --..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Blood Feast

Shadow of the Vampire isn't just an imaginative riff on the making of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. "It is an allegory of an aspect of what cinema is at its heart," says director E. Elias Merhige. "It's this dangerous, mad kind of science."

"...souls just like hearts pump blood to our bodies. The flickering pulse of the images create physiological reactions that..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...a monk and a dedicated surfer," Barry Lopez says. "These are not antithetical states." Lopez is speaking about a..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

Scavenging for Home

The NATObombing of Belgrade provoked playwright Lisa D'Amour to examine the intention behind her art and reasons for being an artist.

"...I was sitting alone at a table at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis when I saw it. I..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Lisa D'Amour

Postmarks

Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

"...and staff have worked "long and hard" to make the transition to Datatel as painless as possible for our..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...blockbusters which whisked us through worlds of pure imagination. These otherworldly adventures -- which include Raiders of the Lost..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Geek Chic

Software

"...Win98 runs faster and smoother than 95. With more features and easier customization, any..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Screens Feature by John Avignone

Exhibitionism

O.t.: Court and Spark

"...John Henry Faulk Living Theatre,through November 7 Running Time: 2 hrs..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Arts Review

Dancing About Architecture

The Star System

"...and most powerful radio networks, Capstar, based here in the capital, took a bite out of that big local..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Cooking in Heels

Trailblazing Women in Austin's Food Business

"...cooking turned into a respectable "profession," hot stoves became the province of men. As recently as 40 years ago,..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Food Feature by Ronna N. Welsh

Dancing About Architecture

The Ins and Outs of SXSW

"...It continues to blast towards us like the juggernaut it has become, and now South by Southwest..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

From Scully to Spock

The Sights and Sounds of Worldcon

"...Snapshot from the 55th World Science Fiction Convention: The exhibit hall in..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Eric's World

The Many Fanastic Colors of

"...Tarrytown, Eric Johnson's beige stone house is dwarfed by the tall trees that tower above it. Against their late-summer,..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

What Hath Uncle Tupelo Wrought?

Alternative Country's Second Wave

"...Does anyone know if the Cosmic American Music News is still being published? I..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Music Feature

Texas Platters

"...rock favorites Vallejo fail to do just that on their sophomore effort -- cut loose. At the go-for-broke point..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Music Review

Steampunk Doc Explores Vintage Tomorrows

"...was on a path to craft a documentary about the movement. He said, "More than anything I've ever made,..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

"Body Worlds" at the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas takes the visitor on an incredible journey through the human body

"..."Body Worlds" at the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas takes the..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

TCB

Finally, nobody died this week, heralding several new beginnings: Trail of Dead hopes its career is reborn on 'So Divided,' ex-Domino Bobby Whitlock relocates to Austin, Stretford comes back on the scene, and even the boy-band craze is revived

"...for a new ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead album. And so it is: The..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Dvorák's New World Inquiry

How a Czech composer helped America find its authentic voice

"...less lucky, increasingly resentful class lagging far behind. Right: the Nineties. But not those Nineties. Push back another hundred..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Little Inklings

"...a deserted feed store and pays dearly for his theft: Somehow, this is not a plot you'd expect from..."

April 30, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Coffee Table Books That Depict and Provide Escape From

"...to coffee table books, why not throw it out the window with a hearty heave-ho? When I think about..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

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