Black as Your Lungs, Black as Pitch

First-Place Winner

"...I smoked the back porch, I ashed onto the dry lawn. I put all the butts..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Greg Koehler

Resources to Support Black Austinites During Police Brutality Protests

How to help and how to find help

"...the streets to protest racism and police violence against Black people. In the wake of the police killings of..."

June 3, 2020 News Post by Selome Hailu

Other Worlds Goes Into The Black Hole

Disney cult fave for SF fest, plus final lineup

"...Wars. Disney dropped jaws and stretched minds with The Black Hole, one of the most unlikely family films ever...."

Oct. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Red Ash Italia

Downtown hot spot brings back the basics

"...that scrawled on the dual story wall of Red Ash Italia, along with a magnified lipstick trace and a..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Showing Black Lives Matter

Facing race then and now onstage in Pretty Fire and Hands Up Hoodies Down

"...was muted by the news of yet another unarmed black man killed by another white police officer, our joyful..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Donya Stockton Isn’t Going Anywhere Near Hell in That Handbasket

The Austin clubland mover-and-shaker weaves much to the imagination

"...JoAnn Kelly Catsos, who taught the class. She’s a black ash weaver in the Shaker tradition. Which is weaving..."

April 4, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Slappy returns in this perfectly timed sequel

"...McLendon-Covey, Madison Iseman, Chris Parnell, Ken Jeong and Jack Black...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zentropa

"...forever overcast here and you can almost taste the ash on your tongue. Trier combines all of this into..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Around the World in Tasty Ways

Ash Corea: Empress of the Empanada

"...India meets Mexico," says Ash Corea, owner and sole cook at the recently opened..."

May 12, 1995 Food Feature by Patrick Earvolino

Qmmunity: Pride Month Is Here and Queer

Celebrate with Austin Black Pride, aGLIFF’s mini film-a-thon, and more

"...here and queer. Unlike last year, this summer is sashaying into our lives with a quickening sense of possibility:..."

June 4, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Qmmunity: Summer of Pride Is Here

Kicking off Stonewall’s 50th anniversary with QueerBomb, Black Pride, and more

"...of my friends, my larger qmmunity. I'm proud of – and awed by – queer history. Which is why,..."

May 31, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Scary Movie 5

This parodic auto-mash-up of Paranormal Activity, Black Swan, The Evil Dead, and more is even worse than you think.

"...Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee. Starring: Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Katt Williams, Terry Crews,..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Austin Film Society Documentary Tour

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

"...but, at the end of Steven Okazaki's film White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we're informed..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

New Model Army

Anarchy in the UK

"...Last year saw the release of Ash's Meltdown, a louder disc than what we're used to..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Musicophilia

ASH's (unofficial) specialty services now include Austin's prime resource

"...Allison Thrash, a petite brunette wearing white cowboy boots and a..."

April 11, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Toying With Tradition

Lots has changed of late at the Empanada Parlour, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes, but the restaurant's festive little pockets stuffed with spirited meat, vegetable, and fruit blends are as delicious as ever, and continue to enjoy a dedicated local following.

"...of Rio or Caracas. But the Empanada Parlour's owner, Ash Corea, is not Latin American. She's English. So why..."

June 16, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Season's Grazings

"...smaller dose than Mom does) or pour in a splash of white wine. It isn't really Oklahoman, but cheese..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Food Feature

Bauhaus

"...in Northampton, England, and 15 since Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, David Jay, and Kevin Haskins called it quits amidst..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature

Hands Up Hoodies Down

Zell Miller III mounted a stirring, provocative blend of slam poetry, dance, improv, and rap

"...the hoodie, one can easily envision a number of black men – a number far too high – caught..."

March 20, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Austin Film Society Announces 2013 Grants

$116,000 awarded to Texas filmmakers

"...and a travel grant for her new award winner Black Metal. Andrew Bujalski gets travel support for Computer Chess..."

Aug. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave Three

Multiple monsters, sequels, and regulars (and RZA)

"...fraction of the distance to cover with his Austin-shot Fashionista. If you have a bad case of sequelitis, just..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Tells Tales of the Long and the Short and the Tall

Short film selection from Austin to Estonia, animation to sushi

"...as young Tony in Grow Up Tony Phillips) for S/ash. Here's the full list of shorts:..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...2012 release Oozy secretes stickier than Texas in July. – Thomas Fawcett MIKE SCOTT..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...metal sludge, mix in machine gun drums, add a dash of growl-scream-growl vocals. Speed up, slow down, serve with..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Pahokee

Austin filmmakers' portrait of rurban Florida both illuminates and obfuscates

"...turn apocalyptic. (Apparently, the annual harvest fires cause an ash nicknamed “black snow” that has caused severe respiratory problems..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jersey Boys

Even though Clint Eastwood guides this Broadway hit to film, there’s not much new in this rise-and-fall, music-biz story.

"...of the group is often depicted as still-dangerous nuclear ash by the end...."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

TFPF Awards Filmmaker Grants

AFS' funding arm awards $121,000 to Texas filmmakers

"...arm/deep-pocketed fairy godmother – awarded a whopping $121,000 in cash and services to Texas filmmakers. Here’s how the numbers..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Red Riding: 1974

This is the first of three absorbing adaptations (filmed concurrently by different directors) of David Peace’s linked novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire, England.

"...investigative reporter) has a habit of getting his face bashed in, usually on account of a girl. RR: 1974..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Qmmunity: Anti-Trans Student-Athlete Bill Slithers Through the Lege

SB 29 voted out of committee for full Texas Senate vote

"...as early as this Monday (March 29), but alas – just as last week's Chronicle went to press –..."

April 2, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Queerbomb 2019

"...LGBTQ policy expert and Austin Democratic precinct chair Ash Hall..."

June 3, 2019 Photo Gallery

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