Transformations

A Conversation with the three directors of the SXSW premiere Cruel & Unusual

"...was always somebody you could rely on. And that's what's really nice on a project like this...."

March 10, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Flowing Over

More with Craig Brewer

"...Terrence Dashon Howard's DJay, a bottom-rung hustler with sketchy dreams of becoming a rap star like local hero Skinny..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Slash and Learn

Austinites Troy Lanier and Clay Nichols' 'Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling Off Your Shorts' hinges on the writer / director / producer model

"...out of the frame and parlays the filmmaker into what the authors call the "Slash" (the all-in-one writer/producer/director/editor). Then,..."

May 20, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Almost Famous

Adventures in young bandom: Zykos on the road

"...decent job in pursuit of his rock & roll dreams, eschewed employment for the better part of 2004 to..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Money Changes Everything

Greg Pak's 'Robot Stories' is ap-pealing to just about everyone, seven years after his appeal to the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund launched his career.

"...from the heart" that recall nothing so much as what you might get if Ray Bradbury met Rod Serling..."

May 7, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sunset vs. Goliath

Tiny Sunset Valley defends the aquifer -- but could use a little neighborly help

"...Sunset Valley Mayor Terry Cowan climbs into his vintage '79 Ford Bronco..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The Envision Central Texas project is an opportunity for the citizens to plan our own destiny.

"...most of Central Austin).Flowers or Weeds But so far, what rancor and unease there is about ECT has come..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

20 Questions With Darden Smith

The return – again – of Austin singer-songwriter Darden Smith

"...on the cover of this week's Chronicle, however. Unlike comedians Jon Dee Graham and Stephen Bruton, interviewed together for..."

April 19, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Latino acts in veteran border pop mobsters La Mafia, newcomers Grupo Control, and chart-climbers Palomo and Costumbre. Slick sounds..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Page Two

Light rail is coming, sooner or later, because it's a necessary part of our long-term traffic solution.

"...to go away. In fact, it is going to come back again and again until it is passed. The..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Playing the Bad Guy

With actor David Stahl currently appearing as the wicked Richard III and actor Katherine Catmull having recently played the evil Goneril in King Lear, the challenge of playing villains seemed a ripe topic to launch a series of artist-to-artist conversations on craft.

"...to provide readers with more of a window into what artists do by having them talk about how they..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

One More for Her

Dale Watson turns his grief into an album.

"...("One More for Her"), guilt ("If I Knew Then What I Know Now"), and acceptance ("Angel in My Dreams")...."

July 27, 2001 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Rollergirl

A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star! You are a muse on eight wheels! You are roller skating!

"...And maybe you were both being a tad ambitious, because when..."

May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Future's So Bright ...

Johnston High School has problems with grades, attendance, dropouts, a magnet program resented by the host school, and a high turnover rate among principals. Will new principal Sal Cavazos stay and can he make a difference?

"...look in their eyes and I believe in their dreams and hopes. They have the right and the obligation..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...-- a voice -- when it came to protecting what was left? In the pocket of fuckin' Kirk "mob-ties,..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...Pearl Street Warehouse in late 1975 -- and it may be one of the last totally clear memories I..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...it takes to rewind a tape. A vacant lot becomes a Dell facility seemingly overnight. Subdivisions appear where corn..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

Crimes of Passion and Prose

With Quills, Philip Kaufman (Henry & June, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) has made another film about the startling fusion between literature and sex.

"...Winslet's character will say, "Reading is my salvation." (It may also be her doom.) Kaufman didn't intend The Unbearable..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Screens Feature by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

It's a salmagundi of responses this issue, with bits regarding dolphin bacteria, word use, national politics, and Marc Savlov's cinematic taste (or lack thereof).

"...not be about light rail. It might be about what Bogota is doing...."

Dec. 1, 2000 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...So what has changed in the last 10 years? While the..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Column

Dark Days

Six years ago, Marc Singer wasn't homeless, and he wasn't a filmmaker. With Dark Days, he became both.

"...Marc Singer may be the man responsible for directing the year's most..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Postmarks

Readers weigh in on the recent Best Of Austin issue, and the Save Our Volente committe rebuts an article.

"...What a Little Moonlight Can Do..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Column

West Side Story: Brave, New, Whirled

According to Chronicle writer Wayne Alan Brenner, West Side Story survives just fine in a "post-apocalyptic future," thanks to an amazing production at Zilker Hillside Theatre.

"...Shelia Hargett working up all those colorful costumes, Melisa May-Moncus handling the pyrotechnical dance numbers, and -- oh Lord..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

All the Way to State

A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.

"...The stage may be empty, but that does not keep Matt Humphrey..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Public Notice

Public Notice straps on the skates, picks some flowers for mom, and finds out if it is eligible to donate to the Mother's Milk Bank….

"...Some Motherly Advice ... Don't forget Mother's Day: Sun, May 14. That's some derned fine advice this time of..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Sphere of Influence

The creators of Phantasm talk about the amazing success of their work over the years and why on Earth it's been so successful in the first place.

"...terms of budget, effects work, and overall slick feel. What my battered Maltin (circa 1995) fails to note is..."

March 31, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

"...beach paradise has an enormous, culturally diverse population. But what else do you know about Brazil? Not much, huh?..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Scanlines

Dazed and Confused

"...that particular rite of passage, more elaborate, more triumphant. What those adults didn't understand (they never do) was that..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

Stompy Jones

"...Time to get back to the real world (or whatever you call graduate school)...."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Great Scott!

"Why Not?"

"...the advice you did or did not take, and maybe most importantly, all the many people along the way..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Feature

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