The Method Gun

The Rude Mechs' latest pays at times comic, at times touching tribute to the strange craft of acting and its practitioners

"...The Method Gun..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

"...Watching Angus Young go nuclear on the first disc of..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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

Golden Girls on Stage, Xmas Parties Galore, Satangeddon, and More Events

Your recommended arts events for the weekend

"...Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

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

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Lido Pimienta, and More Austin Psych Fest Reviews

Dispatches from three days at the Far Out Lounge

"...here!” We’d missed out on such onstage banter in the since-2015 gap after Austin Psych Fest rebranded to Levitation...."

April 29, 2024 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 1-7

"...competitions. Runner Thomas Hicks took advantage of this in the marathon race. The poison strychnine, which in small doses..."

April 1, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Co-Lab Projects' "Texas Toast" Dishes Up a Heapin’ Helping

This group exhibition looks at the food that means the most to us

"...Come Thanksgiving, you may feel you've had all the food you can handle, but there's a feast in..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt on Their New Horror A Quiet Place

The filmmaking power couple on fighting monsters and real intimacy

"...John Krasinksi is grinning from ear to ear. The night before, his latest film as a director, A..."

April 6, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...The worst part about summer is everyone demanding that you..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Gaming Award Nominees and Hosts

WWE star Xavier Woods to co-host ceremony in March

"...You can almost feel the tectonic shift as March approaches marking the annual disappearance..."

Jan. 25, 2017 Screens Post by James Renovitch

DVDanger: Hellions

We binge-watch this month's horror for you

"...Freddy. Jason. Dracula. The Wolfman. Icons of horror, all. But is there anything..."

Feb. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Dream Is Destiny

Louis Black finds himself at Sundance – a Jersey kid from Texas, a writer slipped into filmmaker

"...Growing up, the ever-mounting passions of youth boil up inside, "a head..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Mysteries Unraveled

Part two of Louis Black's interview with novelist John Irving

"...It's the way vast endless snow turns purple under the moon..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Get Your Arms Around CLAW

How one quirky hobby became an over-the-top phenomenon

"...The sleepy city of Charlottesville, Virginia, is like the Austin..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 2011 Aftershots

Friday night SXSW showcase reviews

"...minutes when he launched into a 360-degree spin, grabbed the mic stand, and dropped to his knees to wail..."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature

Recent 'Rockpalast' Avalanche

"...Meat LoafBat Out of Hell: The Original Tour (Eagle)..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Everybody's Talking at You

Austin's reading series scene is booking good

"...If print is dead, as has been suggested by the usual boys and girls who cry wolf every time..."

July 30, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...Heard at a Distance Through the Broken Windows of Battered Buildings the Too Loud, Barely..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Pachanga!

Cinco de Mayo month Part III – the hombres: from Jovita's Mayo Pardo to Ruben Ramos' Mexican Revolution, Del Castillo, Joel Guzman, y más

"...Rather than attempt to sum up Austin's wildly varied Latino..."

May 29, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Burn, Baby, Burn

On Fahrenheit 451 and why good democracy should make you feel bad

"...I was 12 years old, word came down that the Montgomery County School Board had decided to ban a..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Nothing Less Than Magical

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

"...two things: It'll be hotter than Beelzebub's armpit, and there will be a musical you can see for free..."

July 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Two of a Kind

Jesse Dayton & Brennen Leigh, Austin's new George and Tammy coupling, more or less

"...has a shotgun leveled at Jesse Dayton's head. Inside the rusting heap of a trailer, Dayton is still asleep,..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Mars

When Mars landed on South Congress, citizens of the 78704 didn't flee in horror from the invaders

"...When Mars landed on South Congress, citizens of the 78704 didn't flee in horror from the invaders. On..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Food Review by Barbara Chisholm

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...Who wrote the first song about smoking pot?..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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

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

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

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

Letters at 3AM

We call them "retirees," although in other cultures and eras they would be elders, but if they had anything real to do they wouldn't be coming here to Jean, Nevada.

"...Two gaudy, cheap-looking, neon-lit structures constitute most of what there is of Jean, Nevada, one on each side of..."

May 2, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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