Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the only safe option for the heavily bicycled road. Growing numbers of bikers were seeing the council's move, consistent..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

I Before E

A career retrospective on one of the lost cosmic cowboys, Rusty Wier

"...hat." Next to him on a small table, a row of tequila shots. He holds his black acoustic guitar..."

May 31, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Part of Our Day

When discussing the Golden Age of Television, we usually speak in terms of the national networks, but there's another chapter to the tale. Belinda Acosta looks at some of the pioneers of Austin television.

"...known for some sounding off on their own. The death penalty, reproductive rights, stiff punishment for drunk drivers, and..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...10 years of these children's lives," Grant whispers. He throws his head back, grins, hollers. "But they are bought..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Page Two

"...kids, and swimming with kids, we had missed the growing presence and importance of the film. Critics be damned..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Austin Man’s Suicide in Jail After Seeking Medical Care Raises Question: Why Was He There?

Suffering from criminal depression

"...me the same question a hundred times in a row."..."

April 1, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...thing I can talk about: 57% goes toward killing brown people in foreign countries – in order to remain..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Upcoming Legislative Session

Lawmakers set to tackle immigration, education, legalization, transportation, and more

"...two in the Senate, perhaps – we hope? – growing the Not-Insane Caucus further toward a working majority. Here's..."

Dec. 14, 2018 News Feature by the News Staff

Fantastic Fest Goes for the Big 10

Kevin Smith's 'Tusk,' 'ABCs 2' and 'V/H/S 3' in first titles

"...least in the two anthology titles. The ABCs of Death 2 was a no-brainer selection (especially since it's produced..."

Aug. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Way We Watch Now: Case Studies

Five experiments in theatrical-on-demand

"...the key to a successful theatrical-on-demand event: a committed crowd. Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League noted that Kelley's success..."

June 22, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...some comfort, however: Texas is seeing its biggest population growth in urban areas, and in the nine most populous..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...clothes neatly laid out, mostly sweaters except for a row of riding boots on the bottom. It continues across..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Naked City

"...• AISD proposed moving 200 students from overcrowded Wooldridge Elementary to underenrolled Brentwood, where parents said it's..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature

Lioness in Winter

Eliza Gilkyson finds her roar

"...adoration. Her toned arms drape around him, and his brown-turns-silver head rests on her breast. He lifts his face..."

April 30, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Chapter 3: Crazy Weekly

September 1988-August 1991

"...bust. The first year or so is hellish. Revenue grows by 20%, except twice as many issues are being..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Page Two

Contemplating life, death, and the bell curve at the annual meeting of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in New Orleans.

"...the body, resplendently laid out in white suit and crown (K-Doe was the self-proclaimed Emperor of the World). Any..."

July 27, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...and reveal assumptions about power and sexuality, humanity and death, and be either an awkward or incredibly satisfying, even..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Alternate Universes

"...own achievements in the world of letters (he directs Brown University's creative writing program, for one) make it seem..."

March 12, 1999 Books Feature

Shooting Star

"...the embrace. He's smoking cocaine and shooting heroin in death-wish quantities. Overweight from binging on Ben & Jerry's ice..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by David Holthouse

Pressure Drop

The State of Modern Reggae

"...Jimi) into which Marley was inducted after his martyr's death in 1981, is a universe of sexually charged, devilishly..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...And as your life slipped away, your head would grow heavy and fall back, your hair wet against your..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

High Road Construction Ahead

Thomas Pallotta and Delta-9

"...-- or at least relegate your career to slow death through benign neglect...."

Jan. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol Stays Hungry

A serious band with a silly name and an all-in mentality

"...The trio's local recognition has grown steadily, especially over the past couple years, which –..."

June 24, 2022 Music Feature by Robert Penson

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...describe the art and affability of Billy Ray Perkins. Growing Up Temple..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

Departing Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez passes the reigns [sic] to Kevin Curtin with 10 anecdotes from 27 years.

"...uttered to Margaret Moser fused us through life and death. Fresh off a Bay Area refugee boat and crashing..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

For the 2020 Austin Chamber Music Festival, You Provide the Chamber

With the annual event online in your home, chamber music doesn't get any more intimate

"...tribute to Beethoven on the 250th anniversary of his death with his most beautiful piano trio, the "Archduke."..."

June 26, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: Biggest Austin Music Stories of 2016

Looking back on the biggest Music news headlines of the year

"...Death of Fun Fun Fun, Birth of Margin Walker..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Forest Fires!

Blue hair is flammable. Don't let any geezer tell you different.

"...in a nightstand next to a person wearing the death mask of late-stage lung cancer, it would probably end..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Shut Out Again

"...Dear Editor, I appreciated the article "Death Waits for No Plan" [News, Feb. 6] on the..."

Feb. 11, 2015 Postmarks

Sym the Prole

A radical takes on the practical in the fight against HIV stigma

"...was 2012, and for the third year in a row, the crowd had assembled to drop a Queerbomb on..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Feature by David Estlund

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