The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...The phrase "shit-hot," cribbed from some international band's bio, comes to mind when trying to put words to Tito..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

The Peril of Memory

"...look that jibes with one of my memories, I may like or dislike you without reason, and our lives..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 4-10

"...craft the next chapter of your life story. You may not yet have been able to fully conceive of..."

March 4, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Letters at 3AM

People in the small towns of the West and Midwest are watching their communities, and their way of life, shrivel and die.

"...than there used to be, less cultivation. Then you come upon an almost ghost town, one of hundreds across..."

March 30, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Too Tough To Die

The last surviving real Ramone takes us back to the best years of our lives.

"...the Ramones redux, P2: End of the Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, and Too Tough to Die. The first..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Making a 'Killing'

Joshua Oppenheimer on the half-decade he spent filming for 'The Act of Killing'

"...sleeping and whimpering on a bed, plagued by bad dreams – dreams of blood, dreams of decapitation, dreams of..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Passion Forward

The Chronicle's style avatar, Stephen M. Moser, explores the fashion program at the University of Texas.

"...lesson, and stayed away from the darned thing. Or maybe there had been some sort of poison on the..."

April 21, 2000 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Scanlines

Above the Rim

"...Above the Rim is the Hoop Dreams story -- star basketball player from the inner city..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...sunbake season, the tanking of last summer's Speed 2 may have scared off more than a few potential recidivists...."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Change of Hart

Pam Hart Stretches Out

"...modifications are also absent, though token elements of them may be used to give a song a "jazzy" feel...."

Feb. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 8-14

"...came naturally to everybody and that we understood implicitly what kind of things a person might like to keep..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven

The Aikawa Brothers debut a worldclass venue of storied wonders

"...aficionados: A man who knows his shit when it comes to what originally sprang from the rum-inflected imaginations of..."

Oct. 4, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Be Filled With Dredd For Other Worlds

Judge Dredd retrospective plus new hits for SF fest

"...just delivered the Christmas themed creature sci fi puppet comedy you’ve been asking for.”..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wheels of a Dream

With the long-awaited Topfer Theatre, Zach races full-throttle into the future

"...the machine, which is just the vehicle for understanding what this new facility means for Zach, but the space..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Obama Comes to Town

Full text of president's speech at UT Austin

"...in an America where all of us, no matter what we look like or where we come from, can..."

Aug. 9, 2010 News Post by Jillian Richardson

South of France by Southwest

In keeping a journal during my five days in Cannes, where my first feature, 'Room,' premiered internationally, it occurred to me that it's the creative energy in Austin that has carried me this far.

"...May 10..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Kyle Henry

A Revolution in Acting

The SITI Company's J. Ed Araiza is transforming the way Austin actors view their art

"...What's the breeding ground for these notable young actors? St...."

April 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Can a super-sized Long Center fit in Austin's Happy Meal box of civic dreams?

"...chin-pulling think piece on the decline of Austin's dot-com dreams, supersized as they were back in 2000, when the..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...to shot set-ups, discussions between Kyle and Gene about what will and will not be filmed, and the film..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Recviews

"...Rage Against the Machine, only the Deftones aren't it. What they've obviously overlooked on this forgettable debut is that..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Review

Austin Yards Where Weird Finds a Home

Seven front lawns that push beyond garden gnomes

"...Come, walk out into the yard with me. Sure, your..."

May 2, 2025 Arts Feature by Caroline Drew

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...(Noémie Merlant) and Jumbo, even if they have to overcome the bigotry and bias of Jeanne's small town, and..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...three big additions, with a few more promised to come. Wright's eagerly awaited crime drama gets its world premiere,..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"..."A working-class husband and father questions whether his terrifying dreams of an apocalyptic storm signal something real to come..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...Andalucia come to stay"..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Magic Time

Oh, the sights you'll see at First Night Austin

"...Life-size cityscape modeled after Guanajuato, Mexico, through which families may wander and meet the wizard...."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters @ 3AM

These Lubbock friends of mine were always writing books – thick notebooks of drawings and words

"...played that night, or the next night. Jesse Taylor (may he rest in peace) played his last hometown gig..."

March 16, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Fatal, Houston's Grit Boys, and Play-N-Skillz from Dallas, this may be the only SXSW hip-hop showcase this year that..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

You Should Start a Web Site ...

Though they claim to only answer to their man-on-the-streets tastes, both these Web sites demonstrate how diverse the dialogue on arts becomes when just the right voices cut in.

"...Ebert, slim him down, paint him in goth, and what you end up with is a mysterious figure named..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by David Garza

Postmarks

Sweep Them Out

"...First, the mayor tries to secretly and rapidly move day laborers into..."

June 4, 1999 Column

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