Short Cuts

"...Actor Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan Ian McKellen, Gods and Monsters..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Record Reviews

"...much more convincing punk than Billy Idol. It's why Tom Waits has more soul than Michael Bolton. And years..."

May 1, 1998 Music Review

Burn, Aspen, Burn

Chasing Celebrity With a Basic Cable Nobody at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival

"...bona fide 'A-List' celebrities?" I mean, you rarely see Tom Cruise hanging out with Up All Night's Rhonda Shear...."

March 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Brad "Chip" Pope

SXSW Record Reviews

"...stop there, either. They head north to address double mastectomy in the perfectly named "Ta Ta, Ta-Ta's" and spout..."

March 13, 1998 Music Review

Festival Snapshots

The Toronto International Film Festival

"...always get bounced into the suspicious people's line at customs, I dash in the pouring rain to pick up..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Labors - Night Falls

Austin's Day Labor Site Attracts Drugs, Criminals

"...the use of the lot after 5pm for his customers. Pratz observed, a few days before the murder, that,..."

Aug. 30, 1996 News Feature

Pool Parties, Pride Picnics, and Other Events Worth Braving the Heat

Get good and sweaty

"...Saturday 29, Sagebrush..."

June 28, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Top 10 Festival Films of 2023 You Haven’t Seen Yet

From the Toxic Avenger to school shootings, the best of the fests

"...as her husband and favored bad boy, Benny, and Tom Hardy as club president Johnny, the biggest romantic of..."

Dec. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sex, Lies, and Katie Folger

The Austin artist on her new show, Getting in Bed With the Pizza Man

"...a feature called Tooth Shop Fiasco produced by George Rush and Mike Tully (that same movie David Hartstein asked..."

May 11, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Umma

Generational trauma becomes terror in the heartland

"...Iris K. Shim. Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Fivel Stewart, Odeya Rush, Sandra Oh and Tom Yi...."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

There are stars, and then there is Nicolas Cage

"...The script by director Tom Gormican (creator of the short-lived Adam Scott/Craig Robinson supernatural..."

March 23, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...way the band streamlines it into one loud sugar rush prevents anything from becoming outright theft. Like any good..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Days of Being Wild: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Reflects on Source Tags & Codes

Twenty years after its release, the band and producer look back ... while always looking forward

"...invite to Sussex for the Scottish post-rockers inaugural All Tomorrow's Parties festival in April. A small clutch of other..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Rock & Roll Will Never Die: Locals Take “Safe in Sound” Pledge

Live music ecosystem continues to fight the power (and COVID)

"...same. That's continued this week, as Gov. Greg Abbott's rush to declare Texas "open and free" failed to compel..."

March 19, 2021 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin at Large: “It’s Time to Get <blank> Done”

As we dive deep into 2021, let’s complete that sentence with real talk, not “stuff”

"...at risk, that we should just not allow to rush back in to fill the voids left as MAGA..."

Jan. 29, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 26 - July 2

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Novelist Tom Robbins articulated a vision of what it means to..."

June 26, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Checking In: Bridge Farmers Sustain Sonic Possession

ATX power triangulation bides its time

"...for the bands and the crowd to feel that rush of a live show. People can be pretty crafty..."

June 15, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Terror Fest Review: Daikaiju, Lightning Bolt

Four-alarm dose of masked mayhem

"...A floor tom, a snare, a cymbal, and a throne then got..."

June 9, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Goes to A Quiet Place

Over 100 films and 43 world premieres fill a noisy nine days

"...putting The Office behind him with action fare like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, but now he launches into high-concept..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Wheelman

Frank Grillo drives through the night

"...is scarcely a new conceit. It gave structure to Tom Hardy's rightly lauded performance in the contemplative character study..."

Sept. 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Chronicle Interviews Al Franken

Minnesota's junior senator stops in for a brief chat

"...administration with [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos; or [Health Secretary] Tom Price; or [Supreme Court Justice] Neil Gorsuch; or Attorney..."

Sept. 23, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Blaze Foley's Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings

Cult songman keeps thwarting his own success – even posthumously

"...either half moved into or cleared out in a rush. In a back room, TPJ Director Craig McDonald and..."

May 5, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...Pineda said he witnessed other demonstrators rush over to a team of state troopers and ask..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Chasca Oinks Like Gods

Local crazies’ superstentialistic origin story

"...seem to get booed by porcine middle-aged men wearing Rush T-shirts. I think it’s the same guy in different..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Friday SXSW Picks

"...to dream of Rob Tyner-style afros and buy used Rush LPs. Always the most prog-influenced of all the emo..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Dram Shop Girl

Native daughter Carson McHone comes a courtin'

"...truck at sunset; like this quintessential country lyric," remembers Tom Watterson, McHone's teacher. "Nobody else in the class was..."

July 31, 2015 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...and unraveling and re-knitting itself around you. Some Salman Rushdie narrator says: “Metamorphosis is the secret heart of life.”..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Santa Is Real: Seasonal Platters

Pick of the holiday album litter

"...Keen’s band: Rich Brotherton, Marty Muse, Bill Whitbeck, and Tom Van Schalk. Together, these music pros brew up inspired..."

Dec. 18, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Summer Fun: Into the Mystic of High Road Pool

Plunging back in time with my iPod

"...The property at 701 Dawson was dedicated by Mayor Tom Miller in 1958. That was back when American highways..."

May 13, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Rock, Then Nosh

ACL aftershow eats

"...legit Thai cuisine into the wee hours. Try the Tom Yum Firepot or the green curry. Open 'til 3am..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Food Feature

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