Day Trips & Beyond: Daytripping in the Age of a Pandemic

Texas travel updates as of Memorial Day weekend

"...Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park, The Rittenhouse in Philadelphia, the Whitney Hotel in Boston, Parrot Key Hotel & Villas in..."

May 22, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Music Rolls Out Second Artist List

Wire, Jucee Froot, plus 207 real acts and one Hollywood contrivance

"...My Education, Pastel Ghost, Pleasure Venom, Shy Beast, Superfónicos, Whitney Rose, William Harries Graham, and World Music Unleashed...."

Nov. 13, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

"...Screened at: Houston Film Commission Texas Filmmakers Showcase..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...Angels' dark drone, remains its only recording. – Michael Toland Whitney Rose..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Food-O-File

Huzzahs for local restaurateurs, plus comings and goings

"...President's Gala at their annual convention next week in Houston, Austin restaurateur and County Line co-owner Don "Skeeter" Miller..."

June 13, 2014 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Life in Prison for Hemp

José Peña brought some roadside weeds home from Kansas. Cops decided it was reefer, and a Texas court sentenced him to life in prison – without the evidence. It took a decade for Peña to get back some of the pieces of his life.

"...José Peña was tired as he drove south toward Houston on the morning of Sept. 27, 1998. Following a..."

March 16, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Don't Fear the Interface

Web designers are wielding the coolest new tools for the greater good

"...accessibility. Ruger spoke to us by phone, from his Houston homebase...."

March 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

More From 'Iconoclast' Country

W. Leon Smith on freedom of speech, peace, and Crawford

"...'79, we also bought a paper called The Lake Whitney Star-Shopper. We converted the Star Shopper into a paper..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Co-op in Smoke

The fire that destroyed the Arrakis Co-op left more than embers in its wake.

"...of black. The toaster oven, according to now-former resident Whitney Young, was "notorious for not switching off," and the..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Features Feature by Stuart Prestidge

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Enjoy fall foliage, festivals, and fairs

"...invites the world in. On Oct. 8, Alan Marburger, Whitney Davis Grohman, and Penny Stone invite musicians and music..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Bi-ology

The Texas Biennial's second rising

"...in Venice, Italy, or in this country at the Whitney. But regardless of their locations, biennials usually signal that..."

March 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Bare-Bones Blanton

The economic downturn hits the world of art museums, including UT's Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art.

"...the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums in New York -- have significantly..."

June 28, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...love and I'm tired of Austin being overlooked by Houston when it comes to talent in the rap category...."

Oct. 14, 2005 Column

Sxsw

"...JESSE DAYTON: Houston-by-way-of-Beaumont boy Jesse Dayton has the indelible stamp of a..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Who Gives a Damn About Big Range Austin?

The answer might be a lot closer than you think

"...... I mean, we've always talked about ties to Houston, where Big Range started, but there's never been a..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Shutter To Think

Six photographers offer a snapshot of the state of the art

"...lecture at Arthouse, like the guy who curated the Whitney Biennial, and the day after you met him or..."

May 20, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Art prize finalists, grants for a dancemaker and a new musical, and Mother Ginger

"...dance panel chaired by Sixto Wagan of DiverseWorks in Houston. She was not, however, the only Austin resident to..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Livin' Lavaca Loca

In the early Eighties, back when Jay Leno was still funny, he and a number of now-big name comics told jokes at a little place on Lavaca called the Comedy Workshop. Being there changed the life of one person, who recalls what it was like.

"...Menzel, who also owned the original Comedy Workshop in Houston, drove up to Austin on most Fridays and conducted..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Angela Davis

Day Trips

Nineteen ninety-nine: hot, dry, and touristy.

"...the Stars brought hockey's Stanley Cup to Dallas, the Houston Comets won their third consecutive WNBA title, and the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...little bit Boyz N the Hood, a little bit Houston geography lesson, and a lot of gangsta polemics, Fifth..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Second SXSW 2019 Band List

Black Midi, Jealous of the Birds, Deerhunter, and 247 others

"...Doeman (Houston)..."

Nov. 28, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

'The NFL Beat': Mock Draft

The 'Chronicle' gets Draft-y with a li'l help from friends

"...who came on last year as well as Justin Houston bringing outside heat, but DT Allen Bailey will not..."

April 17, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Medicine Men

The Band of Heathens' collective mojo

"...has this core trio – along with bassist Seth Whitney and drummer John Chipman – better realized its cumulative..."

May 6, 2011 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Larger Than Life

The late Luis Jiménez created art on a grand scale – and lived life that way, too

"...1980s sculpture Vaquero, one version of which lives in Houston's Moody Park and another of which stood outside the..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Visions Holy and Damned, Innocent and Experienced

The documentary 'The Devil and Daniel Johnston' – as well as this story – are just the latest attempts to make sense of his life and art

"...100 artists invited to the show at the prestigious Whitney Biennial (leading to a full-page story in the Sunday..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Louis Black

TCB

Praying for Daniel Johnston, marveling at Townes Van Zandt, and wondering 'what hath Snoop Dogg wrought'?

"...folk hero, remains in critical but stable condition in Houston's Ben Taub Hospital, his family said Monday. Johnston, 44,..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Transmedia This!

Bill Lundberg is rightly revered among Austin's media arts dwellers for his biting hybrids of conceptual and filmic art forms; when he brings his program to the Hideout Theatre on Saturday, you'll have a chance to see what all the fuss is about.

"...soon. Directly preceding his upcoming one-man "Perspectives" exhibition at Houston's Contemporary Museum of Art, Lundberg brings his film and..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Qmmunity: Brrr, It’s Cold in Here

Shake off the icicles and step out on the gay Austin streets with these queer events

"...intentionally lesbian/sapphic space. This month's theme is Asstrology with Houston's Divine Goddess Berry and Roman Syder Ross. Third Fridays,..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Queer Texan Pride Rides Again

Qmmunity rustles up queer events all over Central Texas

"...nights of live drag shows featuring Dee Gee Rey Whitney, Cheeki Khant, Alysha Pretty, and more. Friday's show is..."

June 3, 2022 Column by James Scott

Moontower Review: New Faces of Comedy

Auditioning comics go wild in six minute slots

"...Dewji is used to pressure, having already opened for Whitney Cummings, and he set the agenda for the evening:..."

April 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

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