Day Trips: Top 10s

A look back at 2019

"...Texas Travel News in 2019:..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Top 10s

The biggest Texas travel happenings of 2018

"...Top 10 travel events in Texas during 2018:..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

2018/19 Austin Music Industry Poll Top 10s

Nearly half of this year's Austin Music Poll/Austin Music Awards winners are now known

"...3) UtopiaFest..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Feature

The Austin Chronicle Top 10 Films of 2019

Parasite takes the top slot in our critics’ year-end review

"...Well, this seals the deal: 2019 was the year that Austin formally fell in love..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

2019's Big Stories Shaping Austin's Path Into a New Decade

Never a slow news day

"...Our Top 10 News stories of 2019 included some unexpected shockers..."

Dec. 20, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

Steve Davis’ Top 10 Films of 2019

"...it's Tarantino's drive through the Hollywood Hills with the top down. 5) Booksmart..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Richard Whittaker’s Top 10 Films of 2019

"...about social climbing that has no mercy for the top or bottom of the mountain. 6) The Last Black..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 100 Austin Records of 2019

Kevin Curtin unveils his third annual list of local releases

Dec. 20, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Rosalind Faires' Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019

Here’s to a year of rollicking adventures, laughing, weeping, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Jay Trachtenberg's Top Books of 2019

From the social upheaval of the Sixties to the double life of an intelligence agent to the secular past of an Orthodox rabbi, splits resolved into memorable books

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2019

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kimberley Jones’ Top 10 Films of 2019

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Josh Kupecki’s Top 10 Films of 2019

"...a more profound example of the effects of contemporary dystopia (courtesy of the 1986 disaster). Who needs Black Mirror..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Matthew Monagle’s Top 10 Films of 2019

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Marc Savlov’s Top 10 Films of 2019

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Local Video Games

From battlegrounds to the bathroom, here are our favorite Austin games

"...game that's as simple as it is charming. The top-down tracks make for quick matches and lend themselves to..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019

History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year's most memorable shows

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 Joys in Dance and Classical in 2019

It was a year in which the bold and the beautiful made strong impressions in dance and music

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wayne Alan Brenner's 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019

Kinetic performances and galleries mounting great show after great show kept the year exciting

"...that the only way arch-chanteuse Sarah Marie Curry can top her performance here would be to meld with the..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Barbara Purcell's Top 10 Only-in-Austin Arts Highlights of 2019

The year seen through a lens of the city, upending the expected and lifting up the unusual

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Trey Gutierrez's Top 10 Moments That Left Audiences Speechless in 2019

The year celebrated through moments when performers stunned their audiences into silence

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

Elizabeth Cobbe's Top 10 Arts Entrances of 2019

It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Ten Local Stories That Got Overshadowed

Most of these could top the charts in a normal year ...

"...1) Jan. 23: Council Nixes Low-Level Pot Busts In 2019, the Texas Legislature legalized hemp, defined as cannabis with..."

Dec. 18, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Industry Awards Grow Into Emo’s

Berkshire Hounds back a piano-smashing good time, non-Spring Break SXSW needs more volunteers, and Bayonne brings his piano home

"...If getting ribbed by Waterloo Records owner John Kunz..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Ten Key Moments in a Year of Endless Texas Election Drama

Vote Early and Often

"...Delia Garza (no relation) beat out Laurie Eiserloh, a top deputy of retiring incumbent David Escamilla, with a campaign..."

Dec. 18, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Ten Defining Moments of Austin's Intense Year of Police-Community Conflict

We Fought the Law

"...Prompted by controversy that arose at the end of 2019 around abruptly retired Assistant Chief Justin Newsom, a third-party..."

Dec. 18, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders