FronteraFest Review: How to Be an Ethical Slut

How to have a good time in three parts

"...cabaret at FronteraFest, How to Be an Ethical Slut? The story of Blake’s discovery of ethical sluttiness and exploration..."

Feb. 7, 2023 Arts Post by Jasmine Lane

Suerte x la Barbecue, Blurred Vines’ Assured Wines, Kiin Di at Corner Bar, Paperboy’s Bourbon Library, and We <3 Little Ola’s …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...scene, as wrangled from numerous PR releases, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdroppings:..."

Nov. 3, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Summer Stock Austin's Carnival

The production offers impressive spectacle, but the musical's treatment of women is still a problem

"...Lili, the protagonist of the musical Carnival, is the very definition..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Sausage Fest

Banger's does brats right, but it's the more adventurous menu items that really sing

"...Banger's may not be the newest or the hippest establishment on Rainey Street, but..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Skating and Shooting

Austin film makers talk about filming Roller Derby when there was no Roller Derby to film

"..."Best of Austin" award for best emergent filmmaker, and the DVD release of his Roller Derby documentary Hell on..."

Oct. 19, 2008 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

You Deserve an Escape This Year, to Lakeway Resort & Spa

Because you don’t have to run yourself ragged 24/7/365

"...for a little escape, isn’t it? An escape from the humdrum, grind-you-down, workaday world – even when (or maybe..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Paramount Summer Season Has a Giant Ending Lined Up

Wizards, restoration, and l'amour round out the classics

"...The 46th Annual Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, as the..."

July 21, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019

"...There’s plenty of holiday cheer to go around as we..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Playback: Austin Music Awards (On Everything)

Austin Music Industry Awards down, here come the 2016/17 AMAs and a slew of SXSW buzz acts

"...Blaze Foley's been added to the 2016/17 Austin Music Awards lineup!..."

March 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Page Three: Open Season

There's no way to process 2015 without worrying how much worse it's going to get once Texas' open carry law goes into effect

"...firearms should be considered socially acceptable, not just what the law allows."..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Column by Kimberley Jones

No Green Beer Here

The best St. Patrick's Day pub action

"...alcoholic. One year, we found ourselves in Boston, where they take St. Patrick's Day very seriously. That particular holiday..."

March 14, 2014 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

First Look at Sap’s Sibling in Allandale

Second location for Austin Thai fave Sap's Fine Thai Cuisine

"...Sap’s newly opened restaurant. Sap's Fine Thai Cuisine in the southern bend of the Allandale Village, on the southwest..."

March 3, 2014 Food Post by Mick Vann

Clash City Rockers

Unexpurgated Clash box set review

"...A half-dozen box set reviews in the Chronicle this week issue didn’t exactly allow for a..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Page Two: Discovering Enough

End-of-year thoughts at the start of another day

"...'Tis the season of odd emphasis and sideshow/hall-of-mirrors distortion. When thinking..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Looking Up

Along the path back to wonder

"...too many think that it is revolutionary to damn the present, to attack the government, to heap scorn on..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: To Whine Is to Love Again

The GOP masterfully weaves a tapestry of deceit

"...now shrunken and free-floating, with precious few connections among them...."

Oct. 3, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Rockabye Baby

Rockabye baby, on the treetops, when the bow breaks, the cradle will rawk!

"...The house was shaking. The windows were rattling. The halls..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Long Way Home

Considering the art of the map, as inspired by two local exhibitions and a housewarming party

"...I ran into my old friend Sylvia Davis at the Faulk Central Library the other day – I was..."

May 20, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Our Country Mapped in Music

The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music

"...You begin below the Mason-Dixon Line, where dusty, red clay roads cut through..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

(Re)learning Japanese

One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature. The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman-in-training who stumbled into acting after his grizzled mug and gruff mien won a talent search. Together, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune created some of the Japanese cinema's most enduring treasures.

"...a painter and apprenticed to director Kajiro Yamamoto (Chushingura). The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman-in-training who..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Cloud 9 and Rising

Jesus, space rock from Denton: Lift to Experience

"...It happens the moment they walk onstage. The moment the tall, intense..."

May 31, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Book Reviews

The Politics of Prose

"...Even ardent Francophiles might blink at the name Roger Martin du Gard. Besides the fact that..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Scanlines

The Haunting

"...Watching the theatrical coming-attractions trailers for 1999's The Haunting unnerves me...."

July 23, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Parappa the Rapper

"...that thing Simon where you had to punch out the colored, beeping lights in the right order? It's like..."

May 1, 1998 Screens Feature

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...Click here to jump straight to the brewery rankings...."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...artists to play on more than 75 stages throughout the Texas capital. Among the international, national, and hometown musicians..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Texans With Disabilities Physically Barred From Policymakers

The inaccessibility at the Capitol is emblematic of the city at large

"...Kenneth Semien Sr. stands on the Texas Capitol steps in early April. This is not..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature by Taylor Jackson Buchanan

Lives Less Ordinary

The Austin Film Society's neorealism and Beyond: Italian Cinema, 1948-1970

"...Amid the rubble of World War II, a new cinema was..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Three Canyons

The Southwest Edge of Texas Hill Country -- Home to Lost Maples and Garner State Park -- Is Rich in Both Beauty and History

"...There's a beautiful place about 150 miles southwest of here...."

May 18, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...Songs Sung and Played on Guitar at the Same Time (Shockorama)..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

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