Storyteller

Talking turkey with X-Ray

"...rock & roll's songwriting pantheon according to Kevin Carney of Austin's Wannabes, who like a gaggle of local musicians,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...near 161st Street. Gerald Wexler, running through the streets of Harlem, Queens, and Brooklyn during the Depression, and getting..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Wayne White at the Violet Crown

Artist & Pee-Wee puppeteer at screenings tonight and tomorrow

"...doc Beauty Is Embarrassing, you'll see a whole lot of award-winning multimedia artist Wayne White (the movie's about him)...."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Roger Duncan's Night Visions

Austin Energy's GM invites us to wrestle with the conundrum of clean energy

"...Roger Duncan often finds himself awake at 3am worrying about work. As..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

What We're Listening to Right Now

Aaron Stephens, Paul Cauthen, Drakulas, Glasshealer, Pretty Little Thieves, and more local sounds

"...in the sense that I'm trying to leave the world of Soul/R&B music, but not entirely," Stephens emailed. "I'd..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Music Column by Clara Wang

A Characterless Tweeter

Two Bit Art eschews typing for drawing

"...other words start following @twobitart now. Even if some of her tweets are about something you know nothing about,..."

May 15, 2014 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Where Did All Those Kids Go?

From summer 1968 to ‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ in 2013

"...Brother & the Holding Company arrived in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. This was a genuine Haight-Ashbury hippie..."

July 31, 2013 Music Post by Charles Beard

Roller Derby Update 3/26/11

Hotrod Honeys screaming for vengeance this weekend

"...bout every Texas Rollergirls fan has been waiting for tomorrow, as the Hustlers aim to prove their recent victory..."

March 26, 2011 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Dysfunkshun Junkshun

"...Prince's vault. And DJ shows depth, from the conviction of "Tomorrow's Song" to "People All Over the World," which..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Review by David Lynch

Get Your Rees On

Comic artist David Rees and the theatre of 'War'

"...the innovative theatre troupe who brought us stage versions of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces and James Kelman's How Late..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Animation Show

Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt inaugurate a new annual series of animation collections.

"...it’s called The Animation Show, and it’s the brainchild of Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt and Austin resident Mike Judge..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spellbound

This multi-award-winning documentary captures the suspense of the spelling bee in all its drama.

"...through the competition reflect that idea. The first half of the film introduces us to these young protagonists. "My..."

June 13, 2003 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Radio, Radio

Satellite radio, the burgeoning technology that may ultimately shake up the broadcast world the most, is right around the corner.

"...Think about the history of radio as a medium. It has defined entire generations,..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Postmarks

Transportation and trash are heavy on the minds of readers this week.

"...am writing to thank the Chronicle for its coverage of the recent events regarding the Terrace PUD, but also..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column

Corridor Conundrum

The Truth Is Out There on the Highway

"...Region" a mythical two-headed monster, lurking on the edge of the map of our known political world?..."

May 8, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Chris Ware and Seth at the Texas Book Festival

Two titans of sequential art, gabbing craftwise in Austin on Saturday

"...at least, comics that depict other than the antics of Spandex-clad superbeings slugging the shit out of each other..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post

Preserving the Food and Beverage Industry With Fermentation

Jason White turns his science chops to gastronomy

"...Somewhere between fermentation's homegrown past and the highbrow world of Michelin-starred gastronomy, the practice of curing and pickling..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Playback – SXSW 2016: FOMO

Fear of Missing Out at SXSW Music 2016? Best pack it in now.

"...haunting you, taunting you, leaving you without a moment of peace: FOMO...."

March 18, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

No

Gael García Bernal stars in this lo-fi drama about the role advertising played in the ouster of the Chilean despot, General Pinochet.

"...Dictators are generally overthrown, not voted out of office. Yet that’s what happened to Chilean dictator General..."

March 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anonymous

Normally a maker of big, explosive movies, Roland Emmerich directs this conspiracy-minded potboiler which questions the veracity of Shakespeare's authorship.

"...It turns out the "soul of his age," William Shakespeare, was actually a megalomaniacal drunken..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

10,000 B.C.

After all those cataclysmic movies like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, it seems right that Roland Emmerich has now turned his focus to the beginnings of civilization.

"...the times before before better than those twin titans of stop-motion Jurassitude – not even Raquel Welch's legendarily skimpy..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Annapolis

Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum.

"...Reon Shannon. Justin Lin’s promising 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow – about a group of overachieving Asian-American schoolkids who..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Other Worlds Austin Goes Intergalactic, Intercontinental

Steampunk, time travel, and zombie comedy join the fest

"...Second year, second wave: Other Worlds Austin, Central Texas' dedicated science-fiction film festival, has just..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

NEA awards AFS, festival news, and 'Black Metal' seeks extras

"...after the National Endowment for the Arts awarded the nonprofit one of 80 Our Town grants...."

July 12, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Daily Hustle: 12/1/10

Sunny outlook for economic incentives?

"...There’s a City Council meeting tomorrow, but it’s not one of the 100-item thumbsuckers we’re..."

Dec. 1, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: Let's Move On

Looking beyond the WTP4 controversy

"...The famous "Futurama" exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair, sponsored by General Motors, envisioned an autocentric tomorrow,..."

Oct. 23, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...1982-83 Chronicle History: By August of 1982, Sarah Whistler had moved out of Austin, Joe..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Future Is Transhuman

Inside GenEnCo’s new production The Future of Ismael

"...Science fiction often asks its audience to imagine a future where people..."

Nov. 13, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Charlie Mangan

Page Two: Love Loves to Love Love

On celebrating the Best of Austin, and learning to live with the worst

"...It's the best of times (that paraphrased legendary sentence cut off at the..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Column by Louis Black

The Future Is Here

In 2007, that distant tomorrow when Austin's arts dreams would be realized finally arrived

"...point when the Austin arts scene would really take off, would be recognized on the level of the Austin..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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