TCB

Choosing Darkness, a Chairman, and the much-appreciated new air-conditioning at Emo's

"...A lengthily named band beloved by both locals and the Pitchfork crowd is hard at work in Mob House..."

June 10, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Book Reviews

"...he titled this debut collection, he might have had the wrong idea. In each of his nine richly varied..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Books Feature by Cecily Sailer

In Person

"...January 28, Book People's reading room was packed to the gills and 45 copies of her book Sister of..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Books Feature

Austin Chronic: Hemp Cup Spotlights Dank Weed and a Thriving Scene

And Austin grower Errganix takes top prize

"...What are you two doing together? I wondered, submerging my flat, wooden sample spoon into..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Album Review: Haslanger and Sailors Rebop Hard Bop

Local jazz legends offer a world-class collaboration on co-leader debut

"...saxophonist Elias Haslanger and trumpeter Mike Sailors icons in the Austin jazz community? Pals for 20 years, each musician..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Review: Zach Theatre’s A Christmas Carol

Boisterous but shallow jukebox musical of the Dickens classic misses opportunities

"...Despite the decidedly un-wintry air, Zach Theatre has rolled out its..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Arts Feature by Jasmine Lane

Temple of Angels' Joyful Dream-Pop Return and Five More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Sabrina Ellis, DAIISTAR, Wilson Marks, and more

"...The previous output of Temple of Angels, especially their 2019..."

May 19, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Of Fleece and Folklore: Noomi Rapace and Valdimar Jóhannsson Raise a Lamb

In the fields and fables of the new A24 rural folktale

"...have a lot of strange ideas about sheep. That they're soft and cuddly, stupid and easily scared. Not so,..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

VR Arena Adds Cardio to Your Virtual Experience

Virtuix's new attraction at Pinballz has players running and gunning without moving

"...be brain deep in virtual reality headsets by now. The barriers to entry, like the necessity of expensive, high-powered..."

March 22, 2019 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Luv Doc: A Very Simple Formula

Your right to smell like ass extends right up to where someone else's nose begins

"...get out of bed so I don't retch. His below-the-waist hygiene isn't any better. A big part of the..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Austin Collectors Show Off Their Toys

Lights, camera, action figures!

"...for kids, right? Think again. Play inspires; it kick-starts the brain and hurls it out of every rut. That's..."

July 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

ACL Fest 2015 Sunday Listings

Final first-weekend handicapping

"...BØRNS 2:30pm, Honda stage Christened Garrett Borns on the rural coast of Michigan, he now makes music in..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Music Feature

Necks of Kin

From Dusk Till Dawn bares its fangs for season 2

"...a burnt-out wreck of a car. He's back in the costume and war paint of suave bank robber Seth..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ecopocalypse Is Here

Are you scared of this postapocalyptic Austin?

"...to think green – so Ecopocalypse wants to scare the sustainability into you. But even scarier for the creators..."

Oct. 26, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFF Honors Chris Carter, Announces First Wave

Outstanding TV Writing Award for 'X-Files' creator

"...The Austin Film Festival announced today the first ten films..."

Aug. 28, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

The games are finally over. Time to get back to regular programming.

"...I have to admit, the opening sequence of Jay Leno's first night back as..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Endgame

Palindrome Theatre's debut squeezes all the meaning it can from Beckett's bleakness

"...Endgame..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Will Austin's Silicon Hills Supply Plug-In Hybrids' Techno Entrails?

How Austin's inherent intellectual, industrial, and human resources can take charge in supplying technological guts for plug-in-hybrid electric vehicles

"...Austin may have the guts to lead the plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle revolution in..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Playing Around

Reports From Interactive Panels on Gaming

"...Austin Convention Center, Monday, March 12Warren Spector Presentation: The Future of Storytelling..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

The Play About the Baby

In the Coda Theater Project production of 'The Play About the Baby,' the actors deliver Edward Albee's brilliant and dreamlike play cleanly and clearly

"...The Play About the Baby..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Vaudeville Vanya

St. Idiot Collective's 'Vaudeville Vanya' ambitiously seeks to explode a great old play with a great old medium, but it ends up a sheen of vaudeville brushed over a hellbent staging of Uncle Vanya

"...Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya was written in 1899 at the height of vaudeville's popularity. Chekhov himself tried to convince..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Christmas Choraling

With Conspirare’s Christmas at the Carillon and Austin Civic Chorus’ Sing It Yourself ‘Messiah’, you’ll get a thrilling dose of that most potent Christmas commodity: song!

"...'Tis the season. You know how I knew? When a local..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

After a Fashion

A babe on each arm and a case of forbidden Grey Goose: just another fabulous night in the life of Your Style Avatar!

"...GLAM, GLAM, GLAM Omigod, I went to the best party I've been to in a thousand years...."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Stephen explores the similar trajectories of the lives of Martha Stewart, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela??!

"...a $30,000 fine – a reasonably fair sentence for the unrepentant Diva of Domesticity (fair, as long as the..."

July 23, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

TCB

This week's column brought to you by the letters J, O, U, R, N, E, and Y

"...When Emmis Communications bought out the LBJ radio family last year, the Indianapolis-based media parent..."

July 16, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Geeks Get Paid

What's cool about gaming? Apparently, everything.

"...published his first game in 1980, is creator of the Ultima Online series; currently executive producer at NCsoft, he's..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Gathered Treasures

'Collected Response,' the first joint exhibition of artists Steve Wiman and Marjorie Moore, is an extension of their shared passion for collecting

"...flows through your veins, urging you on in a never-ending quest for the next acquisition. Some people speak of..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

The Bedlam Faction is as smart a bunch of actors as you'll find, and they take the Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and make its extra-dense language crystal clear and its characters comprehensible, and the story relatively easy to follow, but the production suffers from a flatness born of a lack of specificity.

"...'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Plain Cutthroat VengeanceHyde Park Theatre, through March 15..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Tech Toys

Gift guide for the tech-minded.

"...gotta get it. Here's a rundown of some of the most head-turning gadgets on the market, just in time..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Page Two

Lost Austin behind us, Smart Growth ahead?

"...and Bob's morning show on KVET-FM last week promoting the "Lost Austin" issue of the Chronicle. After the usual..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column by Louis Black

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