C. Robert Cargill’s Journey From Writing About Film to Making Blockbusters

Something sinister, something strange from Dr. Strange scribe

"...keyboard clacking. For C. Robert Cargill, it's the fear of standing still. "I don't like not working," he said...."

June 15, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Can a Working Musician Find a Decent Job in This Town?

Musicians looking to subsidize their poverty-level passion already have one strike against them

"...Sitting in the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians office last summer, waiting for an eye exam, I realized..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

Day Trips & Beyond: Six Baseballs for Cuba

Capt. Day Trips makes friends in Cuba by handing out new baseballs

"...boarded a cruise ship for a seven-day, educational tour of five Cuban ports in early January, I asked Patrick..."

March 16, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Down the Rabbit Hole … Still [UPDATE]

City Council re-dives into short-term rentals … and hasn’t yet emerged

"...Mayor Steve Adler, who was proposing a new brace of regulations (posted earlier on the Council message board). They..."

Sept. 22, 2015 News Post by Michael King

The Long Journey Home

The Houston Kid comes full circle

"...Zandt] was fucking my girlfriend. Well, that was part of it, but I said, 'I'm out of here.'..."

April 18, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Running to Daylight

Blind runner and teacher determined to see what he can do

"...earned himself a fresh laceration on the right side of his face...."

Dec. 20, 2013 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Off the Record

Seaholm Power Plant reboots, reuses, recycles

"...Flick of the Switch..."

May 13, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Steel Bluebonnet Determination

Robin Shivers, founder of HAAM, worked behind the scenes, and yet was one of the Austin music scene's most important faces

"...efforts in the music community were substantial. Besides years of service to the Seton health care system, she also..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two: Love, Grace, and Tears

Borne aloft by Jefferson Airplane

"...This is a consideration of music and memory: how each evokes, enriches, and enhances..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Journey Through the Past

Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1

"...replaced by pre-Elvis pout. Dad reveals a top row of senatorial ivory, but Rassy and Neil (born Nov. 12,..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Pondering Downtown Condos

Frequently Asked Questions

"...The "O" word irritates all of the developers interviewed, Realtors as well. All insist: "No,..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Fan Favorite

How the geekdom came together to save a love song to Star Wars from the dark side

"...wrote a script called Fanboys. It was the story of four Star Wars fans who road-trip from Ohio to..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Jim Gaffigan

Pack up the kids: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is back, taping his Austin shows for cable

"...George Carlin called it the "little world," the minutiae that everyday people experience. These days that..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Working Playwright

Steven Dietz just wants to get in, roll up his sleeves, and make the words better

"...Some mornings, just before he dashes off to the University of Texas campus to teach a..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Iraq Comes Home

Wounded Warriors return to the Thin Blue Line

"...Investigating a report of an armed combat in a nearby neighborhood, two officers..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM

If I hadn't become a writer, I'm sure I would still keep the scribbles and torn scraps that I jot down like fragments from an inner life

"...Some of us write declarative sentences meant only, or mostly, as..."

July 20, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Friday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...label remains amiably stuck in reverse. The robotic retro-sounds of hometown heroes Automusik – check out their Kraftwerk ethos..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

The Carol You Don't Know

There's much more to Ms. Channing than Dolly and Lorelei

"...Everyone knows Carol Channing, right? The much-imitated star of stage and screen, the original Dolly Levi of Hello,..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin and beyond.

"...Quote of the Week: "We're not here to say we wish..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week: "I just wish they'd put a tax..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...death metal, Scandinavia continues to churn out an array of sounds with worldwide resonance. Copenhagen folk duo Hush recalls..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Page Two

An amalgam of influences with a life of its own, the Chronicle is smarter than we are

"..."I began to speak of style, of the army of words, of the army..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Column by Louis Black

The Kids Are All Right

Not your parent's summer camp, rock & roll camp!

"...Austin. She's been playing music in Austin for most of her life, by herself and with people like Alvin..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Stanley Crawford's new book, The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays, reminds us that we must all do our part.

"...sanity? The Oxford definition has gotta be tongue-in-cheek: "state of being sane." In other words: "How would we know?"..."

June 27, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two

The war in Iraq has diverted our attention from other important matters, including a truly destructive proposed federal budget, mirrored by Texas' very own fiscal abyss.

"...Among the many unfortunate consequences of the Iraqi invasion has been to obscure all other..."

April 4, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Seton Healthcare Network's undermining of a proposed hospital district -- combined with the city's consistent lack of long-term planning -- may have tragic, real-world consequences.

"...on how Seton Healthcare Network torpedoed an ongoing discussion of the creation of a hospital district with the surprise..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

You can't always be who you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you can be who you need.

"...1950s. She remembered him well: a small dapper man of precise habits who preferred a Homburg hat and lived..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Cumbia Sobre El Rio

Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia

"...The remnants of Monterrey's socialist party are holed up in Cafe Nuevo..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Did SOS Matter?

The battle for Barton Springs has been a struggle over the soul of the city.

"...45,000 Austinites -- more than voted for any member of today's City Council -- voted for the Save Our..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Deconstructing Film

The Hideout hosts a retrospective of experimental filmmaker Aaron Valdéz's work.

"...Aaron Valdéz sits in a dark space of the Ritz balcony sanding the face of a young..."

July 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

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