12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...really pop, but it's like, 'Fuck! How much can you do within this framework?'"..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

Standing Rock Pipeline Protests Bring New Life to Old Struggles

“It’s about all of us”

"...are giving, they are soon disappointed. "Which side are you on?" the group sings out a standard protest song...."

Sept. 30, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Texas Filmmaker David Lowery Updates Pete's Dragon

Reimagining the Disney classic

"...If you're looking for wonder in Pete's Dragon, it's not on..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

From the Vault: “The Guilt of Frank Sinatra”

As ASO toasts Sinatra in concert, we revisit a Michael Ventura classic

"...by Jason Stout (now the Chronicle’s creative director). When you’re done with that, we heartily recommend you head over..."

Dec. 29, 2015 Arts Post by Michael Ventura

Page Two: "I Wish That I Knew What I Know Now When I Was Younger"

Dancing and drinking in Jamaica Plain

"...There, not unusual weekend late-afternoon entertainment would be watching young thieves, having abandoned the cars they had just stolen,..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Column by Louis Black

High Stress at EMS

ATCEMS saves lives every day, but the stresses of the job have high costs

"...The days following Burger's death were filled with medics both active and separated expressing sorrow..."

May 8, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: Record Store Crawl

The day after Record Store Day breaks the bank

"...on Red River, I consider scrapping this adventure and sleeping in...."

April 24, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Detainees Strike for Freedom

Hunger strikes call attention to plight of women and children refugees

"...Primarily from Central America, the women and their children were part of a refugee influx last summer. In launching..."

April 17, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...films apiece, have been expanded to ten films each. While today’s press release doesn’t explicitly spell out the reasons..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Time Is on My Side (and My Other Side)

Wrap your head around wibbly-wobbly time-travel features like 'The Infinite Man'

"...If you could do it all over again, would you? Or..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...up in sunlight. And just so we clarify, if you sparkle and hang out in high schools mooning over..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Making a 'Killing'

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

"...An old man lies sleeping and whimpering on a bed, plagued by bad dreams..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Actual Innocence

Austinite wrongfully convicted for a decade-old school prank hopes to clear his name

"...Meanwhile, Clark had driven Hill home. "I was just in..."

July 29, 2011 News Feature by Caitlin Meredith

Letters at 3AM: The 'Austin Sun' Gets Hung

Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum

"...that exerts its subtle power upon the only day you know you have, the day that matters most, which..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Slow Drift

The eternal winter of our discontent

"...self-knowledge that rip through one like lightning – slicing you open, exploding your head, and searing your soul –..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Off the Record

Striking down the Thunder of Gods Festival

"...showed up for Friday's activities, the majority of whom were performing artists. The festival was subsequently canned, and Pruitt,..."

May 22, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...a day later by Stephen Bruton. Bud and I were never tight, but if we were at social events..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...the Republican National Convention. In the trailer behind them were shields homemade from traffic barrels – cut in half,..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

Trouble at Station 15

Austin firefighter sues city after officials stonewall unequal treatment

"...management and staff declined to comment for this story. You Don't Belong Here..."

Jan. 16, 2009 News Feature by Caitlin Meredith

After a Fashion

Stephen goes on a desperately needed staycation

"..."I'm sorry," replied the lovely young automaton-in-training, "We just don't have a room with two..."

July 18, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Page Two: Lost and Found

'Tis the season when the future is used up yet then renewed by singing each morning out of each night

"...a person so completely without moorings or hope that you can practically smell the putrid rot of his inner..."

April 27, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Family Flight

Will AISD abandon its shrinking schools?

"...history may come to an end this year. For while the school is full of history, it's not full..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City

"...17 recreation centers and three senior centers, or send your own postcard with name, address, and electric account number..."

Jan. 20, 2006 News Feature

Superbadass Web Sites for Everyone!

With the help of Knowbility's AIR-Interactive for the Arts and a team of professional designers, I am going to help reinvent the Internet

"...agreeing to a total makeover followed by public judgment. Meanwhile, Coker filled me on what was in store...."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Spike Gillespie

There's a Light Beyond These Woods

An unrestrained celebration of Nanci Griffith

"...the snow makes me drowsy ... while the dreams roll and tumble ......"

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Page Two

Gratitude and goodbye to Will Eisner, whose comic 'The Spirit' is the epitome of great American art

"...on Monday. I had a truly terrible night, hardly sleeping, racked by thoughts and the minor pains accumulated from..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Your poor judgement and lack of taste that you display..."

May 9, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the Jan. 17 issue, I once again thought how your newspaper can contribute to solutions rather than crying over..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Column

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...fifth and sixth grandchildren. Twins Jacob and Isabella Medel were born to Barrientos' daugher Adelita on Nov. 6, about..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature

Reasonably Offensive

Two civil suits against live music venues downtown call into question Austin's sound ordinance.

"...Rhode knows you're thinking -- that he's a whiner and a killjoy...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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