Owen Egerton Gets Spooked Writing The Axe Murders of Villisca

Austin author on his new haunted house movie

"...conferences tend to be mundane affairs. They don't generally involve spending the night in a haunted crime scene in..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Playback: New No Wave, Old Dicks, and Woody Allen

US Weekly emerges, the Dicks reunite, and Woody Allen casts Kat Edmonson

"...midtempo beats; kludged together by four musicians with pedigrees in dream-pop and chillwave, there's a million reasons this could..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

I Like to Watch

Bringing The Thomas Crown Affair to Shondaland

"...I saw Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain in the theatre many times – very good movie –..."

March 18, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

Playback: Bavu Blakes Carpes the Diem

Bavu Blakes seizes his own day, Shakey Graves lands an Austin City Limits taping, and the Saxon Pub turns 25

"...As City Council deliberated housing bonds late Thursday afternoon, a conglomeration of rappers and..."

May 1, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Sweat, Equity

How vegan doughnuts can help fix the economy

"...In a small commercial kitchen off Mon­topol­is Drive in southeast..."

June 8, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Forever Young

The alumni artists of "YLA 15" continue to transform our world into their own

"...In the 15th iteration of Mexic-Arte Museum's annual "Young Latino..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exit Music for a Film Fest Producer

Sending off South by Southwest's Matt Dentler

"...that, for him, has always been about "the little moments" – when an audience loves a movie, or a..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Place of Honor

Twelve rounds between Hiroko Shimbo and Tyson Cole

"...Hiroko Shimbo when she was on a book tour promoting her first cookbook, The Japanese Kitchen, the seminal English-language..."

June 1, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Walk a Mile

The Texas Documentary Tour: Ramona Diaz's 'Imelda'

"...When, with unblinking earnestness and nary a trace of irony, Imelda Marcos..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Book on Lance Letscher

What lies behind the buzz of Austin's hot collage artist

"...Lance Letscher has more than buzz going on; he has mystique workin', too. The buzz comes..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...It's a fact I reflect on as I sit in Guillermo del Toro's darkened office-cum-fanboy-playpen, viewing a sequence from..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Saint Jackie

It was with high expectations of low class that Stephen MacMillan Moser embarked upon the latest crop of books about Jackie O. But shortly into it, he found himself thinking, "Where's the dirt?"

"...If John F. Kennedy were president now, when we scrutinize the private lives of our public officials so intensely,..."

June 9, 2000 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Future's So Brite

I Love the Scent of Burning Flesh...

"...marketed to horror fans, her fiction outstrips the genre trappings of contemporaries like Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz...."

Oct. 25, 1996 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Confessions and Misinformation

Fear's Lee Ving

"...Ask Lee Ving why he, his wife, and his family moved to..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Music Feature

You Are Entering Harlan County

Justified creator Graham Yost exits Kentucky for the ATX Television Festival

"...years," wrote the late, great Elmore Leonard as an opening. "Now it looked like they'd be meeting again, this..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Hero Returns

Vince Young carves out a second career at UT-Austin

"...If you need to find Vince Young on the University of Texas campus these..."

Feb. 13, 2015 News Feature by Jessica Luther

Depths of 'Desire'

Curator Annette Carlozzi invites art lovers to dive down into images of longing

"...The first sign that the exhibition "Desire" is something a bit different is simply the title. Held between..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...– Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Blessed McGill..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Rag Recollections

Former 'Rag' staffers remember the old days, when a Texan was in the White House and America was stuck in a quagmire war

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Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The U.S. taxes more corporate income at higher rates than most of the world, but..."

June 18, 2004 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Shores After a yearlong Wednesday night residency at Antone's, this dynamic, climbing toward a dozen members horn- and percussion-driven..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...Painting stopped looking like anything at all. Music lost its..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Red River Valley

Red River, home to Austin's real live music venues

"...A funny thing happened while a throng of shirtless rabble-rousers turned Austin's..."

June 22, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...Once again, the peace of the realm is threatened by the..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Who has the ego problem?

"...story by Rob D'Amico (Oct. 15) on the controversy involving LCRA's water line to Hays County was comprehensive and..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column

Bending the Rules

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

"...Nothing is more grueling than the final stage of a..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Postmarks

Hysteria Doomed Plan

"...Dear Mr. Black:..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Column

Kustom Film Kommando

Interview With Filmmaker Kenneth Anger

"...Kenneth Anger, who will be in Austin this Halloween weekend, is a premier figure of..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

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