Thank You, Central Time Zone: A Preview of the 2007 NFL Draft

"...I moved to Texas from the East Coast for a multitude of reasons. I don’t..."

April 26, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie may have been done to death, but the strong cast of the Austin Shakespeare Festival production makes this masterpiece come alive again

"...The Glass Menagerie..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Review by Clayton Maxwell

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...blond, lanky, in his ever-present BÖC concert tee, repeated the lyric, heavy metal mysticism firing his blue eyes...."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Arthur and the Invisibles

Live-action/animation hybrid from Luc Besson features a host of hip vocal talent but little more.

"...on his own series of children’s books. Bowie is the voice of an evil wizard, and a computer-animated Snoop..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

On Leaving Paradise for an Oasis

An Austin foodie falls in love with Marathon and West Texas' other boutique towns

"...following a chef, but like many who've headed in the same direction, I discovered much more. In my 22..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Toros Tryouts: Day Two

"...When I walked into the Delco Activity Center for the second day of the..."

Nov. 4, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Hard Habit to Break

Moonlight Towers' DIY road rage: This is you, Austin

"..."When we get there gonna jump in the air...."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Cartoon Heritage

Food faces, renegade puppets, rainbow purses, and nicotine washes – it's all part of the art of Matthew Rodriguez

"...This is the thing about stripped-down, bare-bones cartoon illustration: It can communicate..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...for at least two decades before I finally visited there last summer. The area is one of our nation's..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Challenger Park

"...Knopf, 393 pp., $24.95 It's tough being a writer. The ghosts of legendary ones float around your head as..."

March 31, 2006 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

TCB

SXSW 06: Was it all a dream? Or a nightmare?

"...AND BALLYHOO"Fate, up against your will" – Echo & the Bunnymen, "Killing Moon," 1985..."

March 24, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Power, Forward

Dave Zirin on 'What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States'

"...ugly abandon; call-in drunks whose slurring stupidity seeps from the speakers like poison; and a complete disregard for actual..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Home Entertainment: Neighbors Blowing Bubbles by the Rising Moon

In the city's back yards, Leticia Rodriguez and Tim Mateer are turning strangers into neighbors through evenings full of home entertainment

"...When I pulled onto West Ninth in the old Clarksville neighborhood, where the houses are packed together..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville

Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades

"...This isn't really the return of "Page Two." Instead it's a ... well,..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

A singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.

"...Griffin, Til Schweiger, Jeroen Krabbé and Hanna Verboom. As the tagline proclaims: Same ho. New low. What else is..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the moon, but the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

The Oklahoma City Memorial and Ground Zero stir feelings of the dead calling on us to live

"...intention of stopping, intending to sleep in Tulsa ... then, a highway sign that went something like: OKLAHOMA CITY..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two

It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin

"...wristbands have already gone on sale at Waterloo Records. The first 2,000 will be sold exclusively at Waterloo; they..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...After reading Christopher Gray's "TCB" in the Jan. 7 issue [Music] (specifically the "2004 on the..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The recent decision by the State Board of Education to..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...or baseball, find Alvin Crow. If you're looking for the best fiddle player in Austin, Alvin Crow's your man...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Steady as She Goes

Li'l Cap'n Travis humbles its way into Austin's musical heart

"...In another place, another town,..."

July 2, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Pop Rocks

Making music in mecca for parents and children alike

"...tiny blond toddler in Abercrombie khaki and plaid makes the rounds through the dining area at Jovita's, trailed by..."

June 18, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

After a Fashion

Stephen's date gets hit on, and, remarkably, there's no word of bloodshed. Read all about it.

"..."LIFE IS A ..." We walked out the door, and I said, "Wow, it was just breathtaking."..."

June 18, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

TV Eye

Is the old genre new again with Deadwood, a gritty, decidedly unromantic look at how the West was won?

"...My mother loved Westerns. She grew up watching cowboy heroes like..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Red, White, and Blue

Second place, the 12th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...I sit crumpled like a sack lunch in the coach class of a discount airline 30,000 feet above..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Books Feature by Garth Mueller

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...Welcome to the Chronicle Web extra full transcript of our interviews with..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Who Pays?

While the economy burns, the Bush administration promotes Mars, moonshine, and marriage

"...Like you, in the wake of our president's bold and visionary call to..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King

'One From the Heart'

Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback

"...On the career road of director Francis Ford Coppola, One From..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"...More than 5,000 Austinites were waiting to welcome the president of the United States to their city. Each..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

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