Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...In his 1997 autobiography Call Me Lumpy, the late actor Frank Bank claimed..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Gary Floyd, Scene-Defining Singer of Austin Punks the Dicks, Has Died

WATCH: An exclusive look at Arts+Labor’s in-progress Dicks doc

"...of music, Floyd wrote books – including the 2014 mini-autobiography Please Bee Nice: My Life up ’til Now and..."

May 3, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

SXSW Film Review: Civil War

Alex Garland enters the battlefield of combat zone journalism

"...War Has Gone, I Miss It So, the harrowing autobiography/front line reportage by The Times’ reporter Anthony Loyd. Garland’s..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Austin Rainbow Theatre’s Sordid Lives

Company’s inaugural production resurrects Del Shores’ queer Texas classic with gusto

"...same play: Sordid Lives, part evangelical absurdity and part autobiography of Shores' life growing up the son of a..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Arts Feature by James Scott

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...Speaks Spanish) Edward Carey (Edith Holler) Lakiesha Carr (An Autobiography of Skin ) Eirinie Carson (The Dead Are Gods)..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...15th centuries, is credited as having written the first autobiography in the English language...."

Sept. 1, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

AFS Cinema Celebrates Producer and PR Expert Carolyn Pfeiffer’s Extraordinary History

The art of being there

"...With the recent publication of her autobiography, Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic..."

July 21, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

What Chronicle Music Writers Are Reading This Summer

Recent musical reads on Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O'Connor, and more

"...wasn't to encourage his co-author to practice traditional narrative autobiography. Threadgill notes his awesome catalog with cursory or limited..."

June 30, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Review: Penfold Theatre’s Box

Audacious retelling of an equally audacious life

"...side of Henry’s mind not revealed in his stoic autobiography. It also examines the held belief that women were..."

June 28, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Farewell to the Danger God: Gary Kent (1933-2023)

The stunt legend who called Austin home died this week

"...his name – was waiting for him. His 2009 autobiography, Shadows & Light: Journeys With Outlaws in Revolutionary Hollywood..."

May 26, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How the Universe Sent Paul Newman to Ethan Hawke

The director discusses his HBO Max series and recent AFS screenings

"...turned out that Paul had started working on an autobiography, and had recorded many hours of interviews with friends,..."

March 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Penfold Theatre's Vincent

Size matters when painting a portrait of Van Gogh

"...on tour not long after the release of his autobiography I Am Not Spock. It was built with plenty..."

March 31, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Best Music We’ve Seen So Far at SXSW 2023

An insightful Jeff Tweedy, sunshiney Armani White, and more

"...ambient to techno and jungle in a kind of autobiography of his DJ past spent experimenting across genres in..."

March 14, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Writer, The Editor, and the Filmmaker: The Story of Turn Every Page

Lizzie Gottlieb on her father and LBJ biographer Robert Caro

"...the daughter of the man that edited his own autobiography, and Lizzie was well aware that she was not..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Top 10 Events in 2022

Cap’n Day Trips reflects on a year of adventure

"...3) Greenlights, an autobiography by Matthew McConaughey, was published in 2020. This year..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Top Texas Drummer Ernie Durawa Turns 80

The Sunday Antone's celebration benefits nonprofit HOME

"...The Story of a Legendary Texas Drummer – An Autobiography. Pandemically collaborated on alongside Anita Tobin Dunn, the as-told-to..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg presents his own origin story

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantasia Review: Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Inside the mind and art of France's genius of decay

"...amount of narration by Benoit Carry from Rollin's 2008 autobiography Moteur coupez! Mémoires d'un cinéaste singulier, he's there only..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Kendrick Lamar, Brandi Carlile, Red Young, Chucky Blk, and more recommended shows

"...Way, I Forgive You, Brandi Carlile has written an autobiography, created the female supergroup the Highwomen, and celebrated Joni..."

July 15, 2022 Music Column by Julian Towers

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...GF: I did two books – a mini autobiography [Please Bee Nice: My Life up ’til Now, 2014]..."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Shimmy Around the Globe as the Jigglewatts Celebrate World Burlesque Day

Austin's sinsational artists join the international festivities

"...Ruby Joule reading extracts from Gypsy: A Memoir, the autobiography of legendary burlesque artiste Gypsy Rose Lee. "It was..."

April 27, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Moontower Review: Marc Maron

The Cassandra of comedy enjoys the silence

"...If Marc Maron ever writes an autobiography, it should be called Hope Dies First, and the..."

April 23, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...soundtrack series? 2022 also portends the publication of his autobiography. And all the while, there grinned he who helped..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Tender Bar

Affleck gives life to this listless coming-of-age drama

Dec. 31, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Hand of God

Unromantic semi-autobiography about an auteur’s discovery of cinema

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Trail of Dead, Opeth, Mykfresh, Big Laugh, Rattlesnake Milk, Deezie Brown, and more recommended shows

"..."Still Married 2 da Game" is an impressively breathless autobiography of going hard. Also on the bill is Austin's..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Music Column by Julian Towers

Texas Book Festival Lineup and Schedule Goes Online and IRL

Big names for hybrid celebration of literature and literacy

"...Maria Hinojosa (host of NPR's Latino USA) about her autobiography, Once I Was You, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence..."

Oct. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 3-9

"...SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In her autobiography Changing, Sagittarian actor Liv Ullmann expresses grief about how..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Austin Music Sucks

Michael Corcoran's infamous 1986 music column

"...book which inspired you most, the Jerry Van Dyke autobiography ... Still Will: Why did you make cutthroat motions..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Corcoran

Passing in America: Colman Domingo on Complex Identities in Zola

The character actor cracks open the life of a villainous pimp

"...it's on documentaries, whether it's Iceberg Slim and his autobiography, Pimp."..."

July 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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