Janis Joplin, Texas, and the Big Beat

How East Texas Shaped Rock's First Female Superstar

"...Port Arthur, and Orange -- the promised land of booze and blues lay just across the Louisiana border. While..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

How Austin Transformed Danny Brown

The Detroit wild card on getting his shit together (and finding H-E-B)

"...“It turns out my weed bone’s connected to my booze bone and my booze bone’s connected to my coke..."

March 29, 2024 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

How to Have Sex

Un Certain Regard winner explores first sex and consent from the perspective of a British teenager on a holiday in Crete

"...their way into a pool view. Cheap flights, cheap booze, shared rooms, clubs where boys and girls are thrust..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chile '76

Story of radicalization evokes the golden age of political thriller

"...a distraction, but Carmen’s diet of prescription pills and booze, chainsmoking and insomnia, makes clear her depression...."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Qmmunity: Spirits of Sobriety

Austin's queer community offers intentional alcohol-free events for the sober and sober curious

"...as community social spaces of other queer folks without booze in the background...."

July 7, 2023 Column by James Scott

More for Your Heart’s Desire on Valentine’s Day

Delight your darling with these sweet and savory choices

"...eyes that can beat a few hours of games, booze, crafts, and (of course) chocolate at the new headquarters..."

Feb. 2, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kids vs. Aliens

Gory romp that does exactly what the title says

"...speedball romp on a diet of candy and purloined booze. Second, it actually has characters, something for which the..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

NYE Draws Extremely Nigh, Granduca Becomes Viata, Snap Abets Your Healthy Resolutions, Fiore Tedesco Is All Over the City, and OMG Garrison Brothers What’s This About Water Buffalo Milk?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Oh, and? We also hear that chef Tedesco (dude,..."

Dec. 28, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Spirited Liquids for Gifting

Adult Beverages From Around the World to You

"...You know we feature local booze whenever we can here at the Austin Chronicle, but..."

Dec. 1, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Asian American Bakers Boxes, National Corn Dog Day, Women Winemakers at the H-E-B, Desert Door's Gold Dust, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...And of course we’ve got a new round-up of booze to pique your tippling interest, and You Won’t Believe..."

March 16, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Studio Tour Beer, Spooky-Ass Ice Cream, Pizza, More Pizza, Wine Passports, Surrealist Delicacies, and More …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...out – let’s merely click over to these recent booze recos, where, at the very least, you’ll be glad..."

Oct. 27, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hot Luck Fest Returns, Top BBQ Joints Revealed, Bordeaux Women Honored, Prep ATX Launches, Mangia Dies a Lizardly Death, and Somebody’s Gerrymandering Pizza

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...And, ah, you did see your current reporter’s latest..."

Oct. 20, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cry Macho

Old man Eastwood heads down to Mexico and into his soul

"...who makes passing references to an accident, pills, and booze before unceremoniously firing his unreliable employee from his horse-training..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fareground’s Triumphant Return, Johnson’s Backyard WTF, Wanderlust’s Wine Expansion, Hilton’s Analog Debut, and Never Mind That Got-Damn Pumpkin Spice …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...On the other hand, if we're staying at home,..."

Aug. 25, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Easy Tiger Roars on Seventh, Simona's Coffee Supercharges the Colton House Hotel, Tiff's Got a Brand New Treat, You Could Win A Herd of Cattle, FFS, and More

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...that? You want a small, separate round-up devoted to booze news? Who loves ya, baby?..."

April 14, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

St. Patrick’s Day Could Chase the Snakes of Your Blues Away

Annual celebration of all things Irish brings new shenanigans

"...Steve Potts, at Second and Brazos) in our latest Booze News & Views column …..."

March 8, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Prohibition Creamery Closes, Sweet Ritual Ramps Up, and You Want Even More, What, Pizza?

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Aidan’s Prohibition Creamery, that Insta-gothy East Sixth hotspot of booze and ice-cream bounty, where the bar program was as..."

Jan. 5, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The 30th Anniversary of the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Goes Virtual

Hot sauce and silver linings

"...Beyda offers a refreshing citrus spritz with options for booze or no booze; and Joel Fried, co-owner of Eldorado..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

15 Austin Restaurants & Bars With Alcohol-Free Menu Options

"...Chris Marshall believes a bar doesn't have to serve booze to provide a raucous night out. 1818 E. 12th..."

March 6, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Come to Daddy

Family freakout with Elijah Wood in this slick and twisted thriller

"...hideous scum demon, prone to guzzling outrageous amounts of booze – early on, Norval admits to his own prior..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waves

A bracing dive into a Floridian family set adrift

"...anguish from his Great Santini-esque dad by popping Oxys, booze, and weed. His downward spiral climaxes in a horrific..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Golden Glove

Serial killer biopic is too gruelingly accurate for its own good

"...meal's a meal, or his mercurial temper and free booze is better than a night on the streets or..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

The life and pain of the jazz great in his own words and music

"...away from Davis’ vicissitudes, the musician’s demons of heroin, booze, and domestic abuse remain more in the background than..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on

"...laconically snappy patented QT dialogue, Red Apple cigarettes, and booze-fueled late-night bullshit sessions. Yet it’s Robbie’s Tate that makes..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When the Bulleit Hits the Bon Appetit

The whiskey company brings three dimensions of win to a new frontier

"...passingly familiar with the high-toned single-malt whiskey choices of booze snobs, and I love them. (The whiskeys, not the..."

April 2, 2019 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Will Texas Patch Up TABC Before It Bursts?

If ever an agency needed to be scorched by the state’s Sunset Act, it’s the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Com­mis­sion

"...Austin land use, a more functional regulatory regime over booze in Texas would remove absurd pain points for the..."

Feb. 1, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

How Has TABC Screwed You Lately?

Tales from the front lines of the Austin entertainment industry

"...of liquor – they don't need 10 bottles of booze delivered at once. It also comes up when a..."

Feb. 1, 2019 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Wildlife

Gyllenhaal and Mulligan burn in this period marriage drama

"...of information: a man with repressed depression self-medicating with booze. Once he’s out of the picture, Jeanette undergoes a..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Thunder Road

SXSW award winner is a captivating study of a mess of a man

"...a feature that has nothing to do with illegal booze and everything to do with the kind of small-town..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Never Goin' Back

Augustine Frizell ingeniously revamps the stoner buddy comedy

"...Dustin (Allen) and friend Brandon (Mooney), is spent on booze, pot, and laundromat quarters. The girls are inseparable and..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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