No Man's Land

Substandard Conditions Are a Way of Life for Northridge Acres

"...water in the drainage ditch parallel to his yard are dramatically out of sync with the choice real estate..."

June 9, 2000 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Postmarks

Home Is Where the Tax Credits Are

"...for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, we commend The Austin Chronicle for contributing to the ongoing..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Column

Postmarks

We Get What We Want

"...say I enjoyed Lee Nichols' article regarding our local area news coverage ["Media Clips," Vol. 17, No. 24]. Though..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Column

Austin's Active Shelf Life

Can Our Public Library Keep Up the Pace?

"...As American urbanites, we expect a public library at our disposal, just as..."

Sept. 20, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Things to Do in Denver

Brown-eyed, Handsome Man, W.C. Clark

"...the Atlanta airport, everything was busy. Busy, busy. People everywhere, baggage everywhere...."

Aug. 16, 1996 Music Feature

Making the Flowers Bloom in Encanto

Austinite Jay Jackson talks about Disney's latest animated blossom

"...In Encanto, the latest animated musical from Disney, flowers bloom everywhere Isabela, the oldest and most perfect daughter..."

Nov. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: Location, Location, Dislocation

Decent housing for all Austinites "where it's needed." Where might that be?

"...I, too, fled the state last week, but I'm back and COVID-free and ready to keep..."

July 23, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Collective Burgeoning

For the artists of Okay Mountain, it was a very good year

"...was really about Okay Mountain's leap from being a well-regarded local team of gallerists and artmakers to a force..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...J.V. Krum (bass), Justin (guitar), and Tommy G. (drums). We traveled up the Midwest to Minnesota, down to Miami,..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

Thunder Road

SXSW award winner is a captivating study of a mess of a man

"...is a mess, even though most of his problems are of his own making. If he weren’t so tragic..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Snowman

Jo Nesbø's crime series hits the big screen

"...Bond,” but then this chilly, borderline clinical adaptation of Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø’s novel is about as far..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Church of Misery’s Riff Worship

Japanese tsunami hits Red 7 on Monday

"...later, my fiance and I flew to the Bay Area to get married. We detoured in S.F. to see..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland

Back in September 2005, Vaughn decided to try his hand at the impresario game and Gathered together four young stand-up comedians for a 30-day bus tour of the heartland.

"...Sandel. Back in September 2005, with his summer hit Wedding Crashers making money faster than studio heads could count..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Top Five

Chris Rock is on a roll with this funny yet pointed comedy, which he wrote and directed, and also stars in.

"...is trenchantly funny, dramatically engaging, and thoughtfully of-the-moment. Some reviewers have called Top Five Rock’s Annie Hall or Stardust..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alejandro Escovedo’s Hurricane Honeymoon

Rocker’s Category 4 account: “I thought, We might not make this"

"...a friend in Pescadero, just outside La Paz. A week later, Hurricane Odile hit...."

Sept. 23, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Act of Valor

Navy SEALs conduct a rescue mission in this film that employed actual soldiers and their experiences in its making.

"...deep friendship with Lt. Rorke. But as soon as we learn that Rorke’s wife is pregnant with the couple’s..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Derrickson’s film, based on a real event in which a priest was charged with negligent homicide because of a death that occurred during an exorcism, flirts with relevance and assorted hot-button topics but fails to amount to much more than an overlong exercise in Jesuit Theosophy 101, played against the backdrop of Law & Order.

"...pitch, the soundstage courtroom set. To hell with Daniel Webster and the Darrow/Bryan contingent – true unbelievers everywhere now..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time Changer

"...is doomed to failure. How does MacLeod know this? Well, he plays a Bible professor in 1890 who sends..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Out Cold

"...Derek Hamilton and Victoria Silvstedt. The white powder seen everywhere in Out Cold is not anthrax, but its effect..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touch of Evil

"...Directed by: Orson Welles. Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia,..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two

"...The movies are over, the bands have left the stage, the computers..."

March 27, 1998 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Schedules Supernatural Retrospective, Stephen Colbert, and More

2020 fest adds Samantha Bee, Diplo, Jack Dorsey, Disney Imagineers

"...up the '67 Chevy Impala, 'cos the Winchester boys are coming to town. SXSW has just announced that Misha..."

Jan. 13, 2020 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Hell or High Water

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster shine in West Texas crime film

"...This West Texas crime movie barrels in with the force of..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beautiful People

"...Ackroyd and score composer Garry Bell, whose work here, apparently his first, is hauntingly frenetic, if such a combination..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sleepy Hollow

"...to the fact that this version of the story owes less to Irving's original tale than to screenwriter Andrew..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Killer Condom

"...in all, this summer has not been a terribly carefree time for male private parts, what with There's Something..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

"...Jean-Luc Godard, the reigning film provocateur of the Sixties, were to make a sequel to one of his movies,..."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

"...of sequels. From James Whale's Frankenstein to John Carpenter's Halloween, and from Merian Cooper's King Kong to Sean Cunningham's..."

Sept. 20, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...basic tales, five boilerplate set-ups, or seven narrative archetypes: However many storytelling devices civilization funnels down to, a quest..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Kin

Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal

"...the story of an adopted child who finds a powerful ray gun in an abandoned factory and then goes..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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