Fantastic Fest 2014: Whispers Behind the Wall

Let’s lynch the landlady

"...Student housing isn’t what it used to be in the big city, but soon enough a mysterious old man..."

Sept. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Epiphanies for the Blind

Who's Teaching Who at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired?

"...for a carnival-like parade of odd couples and unexplainables, the bizarre sights that cause my occasionally visiting father to..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...The morning starts normally for Lucinda. Well, maybe not normal,..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Review: On the Ground at Levitation 2024

Gang of Four, Swirlies, Slowdive, and more highlights from the four-day fest

"...A Changing of the Alt-Rock Guard..."

Nov. 8, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Best Things We Saw at Austin Psych Fest 2023

Toro y Moi, Automatic, and more highlight homegrown festival’s return

"...Considering Austin’s inclement weather and the precarious state of national touring – survival..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

'The Sporting Life': … or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving to Lose

"...and man of leisure. I am a gentleman.    All the same, I must destroy Happy Jack.    The game is..."

Oct. 25, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

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..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...Fantastic Fest – the Austin-based film festival dedicated to horror, sci-fi, action, and..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

Eric Shattuck's "The Shape of Human Hearts"

The First Place winner in the 2017 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...The light is close, now. A week ago, Hamid saw..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Eric Shattuck

All the Pain Platinum Can Buy

"...in separate interviews, months apart and fully outside each other's earshot, Miles Zuniga and Joey Shuffield both quote the..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

The New Rage

Voxtrot finally conquers the LP

"...In front of a peppermint-cubed wall and against a motionless reel-to-reel in Voxtrot's East Austin..."

May 18, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

If You Have Ghosts: The Haunting of The Little Stranger

Director Lenny Abrahamson talks post-war Gothic

"...There are the ghosts that haunt us, and there are..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bill Adler and the Drug Underworld Innocence and Savagery

"...knew if I were caught I would go to the chain gang. But was not my life already a..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Books Feature

Japanese Madness Overtakes Fantastic Fest

Miike, Sono, and Studio Ghibli all added to lineup

"...The latest from Studio Ghibli, insanity from cult directors Takashi..."

Aug. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cobweb

There's something in the walls of this perfect summer nightmare

"...Sometimes, there's a phone tree among horror critics. Everyone reaches out..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...call from Jerry Wexler: Gerald Wexler, born 1917 in the Bronx to a Jewish Orthodox Polish immigrant turned window..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...flat, but it looks that way, as open to the sky as if it were set on the edge..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Rock and a Hard Place

Balancing the Austin Music Ledger

"...playing in a band/ it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock & roll"..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Music Feature

Chlorine

First place

"...Benjie sat in the mashed grass, eating soggy tater tots, while his Aunt..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Gail Miller

Worthy Stories

Third place, the 13th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...tell. Zhenya, she's got dozens (dozens!) of worthy stories. They rise in her sweet mouth, and the words in..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature by Katie Williams

High School Homecoming

The nation’s best runner, that guy from Spoon, and me

"...slides or being asked to say something nice about their ugly baby. The iceberg of the story is hidden..."

Oct. 19, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

'Chronicle' Mock NFL Draft

"...of frenzied-cool poetry Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive on the water tank of my toilet, along with A Brief..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Shine a Light

'In the Shadow' and more selections from the 15th annual Cine Las Americas

"...of feverish, sexual psychodrama, Nicole Elmer's debut feature, In the Shadow, at times feels like a Jess Franco film..."

April 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sxsw

"...Okay, take a deep breath. Hold it. Exhale. Again. There. Feel better? Look, just calm down. So what if..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...Ed Lowry had just headed off to teach at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. Louis Black was..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Texas Platters

"...THE CORNELL HURD BAND..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Review

Plan Your Psychedelic Weekend With These Levitation Picks

Nearly two-dozen choices ranging from the Flaming Lips to Elephant Stone

"...Middle Eastern sitar drone, and heavy synth exploration. From the swirling epic "Dripping Sun," wah-wah meditation "Nazo Nazo," and..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

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