Wonder Wheel

Woody Allen's ode to Coney Island

"...Wonder Wheel, maybe Woody Allen’s most glorious-looking film since Manhattan,..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Plump Fiction

"...awful parodies, this is the nadir of the cheese wheel. Maggoty Brie is more appetizing than this unfunny take..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Friends With Money

Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, kids, mortgages, and so-called life plans? That’s the short list of differences between the depressed, single stoner, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her circle of female friends.

"...follows the three couples and Olivia, forever the seventh wheel, as they navigate middle age in seemingly mundane ways..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Screened and Searched

Asleep at the Wheel Gets...

"...that's where we played just a week ago. I wonder who was on stage at the time?" The report..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Music Feature

Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, and Kanye West headline ACL 2011

"...When the trifecta of headliners - Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, and Kanye West – leaked over the..."

May 17, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Stories from the Midway

Coney Island Creepout

"...late August, 2000, one of those days where you wonder if you'll ever see the sun again...."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Michael Chamy

Film Flam

Fanning the Fantastic flames of P.T. Anderson's 'The Master'

"...wave of its 2012 festival programming, including To the Wonder, the latest from Austinite Terrence Malick. But – fingers..."

July 25, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Touched by Fire

For half a century, Ishmael Soto has used flame to transform copper, clay, and bronze into works of wonder

"...Soto does. We think of the potter at his wheel, his hands shaping the damp clay, but his work..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Bad exists in dialectic with good

"...travelers by where they sat: Back Seat, Shotgun, and Wheel Man. Shotgun was a keen observer, and she asked..."

June 19, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Ten Chronicle Music Writers on Their Favorite Austin Albums of 2022

Almost 100 albums we loved this year

"...Bonnie, 90 in November Kevin Curtin: Deezie Brown, 5th Wheel Fairytale..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Postmarks

The Real Obscenity

"...Is it any wonder our legislature only meets for one session (six months)..."

April 30, 1999 Column

Letters @ 3AM

Elation is complicated. It can be joy, but it can also be terror – and it can be both, and more

"...line was, or the shoulder. I bent to the wheel. .... We hit a turn too fast, the old..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest by the numbers and Asleep at the Wheel's Top 40

"...Tuesday morning, on the occasion of Asleep at the Wheel's 40th anniversary. After last year's Willie and the Wheel..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

17 Austin Bars With Great Food and Drinks

These one-stop shops are known for more than booze

"...Tatsu-ya family is a playful, cat-themed space with a freewheeling feel that makes it ideal for a late-night hang...."

June 14, 2019 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

Mark Killian's "Future Planning"

Second Place winner

"...the Eastern Standard Time Zone. And now, wrestling his wheelchair into the hatchback of my Prius, I'm trying to..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Mark Killian

The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

Timbuk 3's Barbara Kooyman looks to a brighter future with Texamericana.org

"...musical legacy of the most interesting sort: the one-hit wonder. She'd always been spiritually conscientious, and her experience with..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Insurgence From the Heart

The 1997-98 Austin Music Awards

"...Asleep at the Wheel and the Derailers The continued insurgence of country music..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Need for Speed

Somewhat fast but seldom furious, this is an adrenaline junkie’s wet dream that stars Aaron Paul.

"...consequences of an Xbox game rated for 10-year-olds. (Little wonder: The 3-D film is loosely adapted from the video..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Magic Time

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

"...the heart of the city to work their creative wonders on the urban landscape. In the two years that..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...PAM HART QUARTET: In a city with many wonderful jazz singers, Pam Hart is one of the best...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...even a little Cajun and Latin in there. (No wonder Doug Sahm guests on his album Raisin' Cain.) Singing..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

To Oblivion and Beyond: A Breakdown of the Bands at Oblivion Access

Translating the scrolls at Austin’s most interesting festival of the year

"...Massacre, Windhand, Primitive Man, Devil Master, Hell, Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Immortal Bird, Shitbag..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

2014 Austin City Limits Music Festival Line-up

Hip-hop tops the two weekends with ladies close behind

"...Elizabeth McQueen, who left ACL mainstays Asleep at the Wheel over the winter, returns for both weeks, while her..."

April 22, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

ACL Fest Friday Picks

The blurbing of ACL 2008

"...Austin, and it brims with the spirit of Stevie Wonder and Al Green. Formerly of high-energy band Breedlove, this..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature

Texas in the Title

"...guitar, fiddle, and Sahm's homesickness as he asks, "I wonder what happened to the man inside, the real old..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

TV Eye

Jack Kerouac is turning over in his grave while middle-class kids "following their bliss" in The Open Road mangle his vision.

"...Kerouacian rite of passage, the comparison ends behind the wheel of The Open Road's fussy RV. Oppressed by the..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Dancing About Architecture

A New Year and those who didn't and almost didn't make it

"...a category won last year by Asleep at the Wheel, Best Long Form Music Video, for the Wim Wenders..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dah-Veed Savings Time

"...Big Hat. Since Capitol Records dropped Asleep at the Wheel (and since 14-year Wheel veteran Tim Alexander retired from..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Music Column

Inevitably Texan

Left-Winging It with Cornell Hurd

"...at all. A town that has Asleep at the Wheel, and Jerry Jeff Walker, and the Geezinslaws, and Junior..."

June 21, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Earthen Works at the Austin Museum of Art Revolution in Clay

"...to say with her Pottsville, Pa. patois -- one kick-wheel away. It was a meditative experience. As her forms..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

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