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March 20, 2015 Music Feature
Springsteen’s High Hopes in Houston
Rarities set-list turns on a pair of Hispanic siblings
"...and this was one of them. [Thanks to] the town that adopted us so long ago.”..."
May 8, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced
'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film
"...Maddin, Screenwriters: Guy Maddin, George Toles I'm only a ghost... but a ghost isn't nothing. Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Jason..."
Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
The blurbing of SXSW
"...Austin native Choffel is unlike any other singer-songwriter in town, with poetic lyrics and a smoky voice adding to..."
March 19, 2010 Music Feature
2004 ACL Fest Guide
Everything you need to know
"...fence is likely to dispute he's one of this town's most consistent live entertainers. He's got a deep catalog..."
Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature
Little T-Bone
"...in the clubs around Rockdale, packing the house in town and in the surrounding communities of Elgin, Bryan, and..."
Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig
Their Satanic Majesties
Dark knowledge and Jäger shots with Austin’s Ancient VVisdom
"...ever met; nothing like the four guys from my hometown who were sent to prison for digging up corpses..."
July 25, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
Wednesday night SXSW handicapping
"...gears on its fourth LP this summer courtesy of Downtown Records. (Also: Thu., 5pm, Dot Com Day Stage, Austin..."
March 18, 2011 Music Feature
Wednesday Showcases
Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance
"...pure pop for then-people, a matching skinny-suited mash-up of Motown, Farfisa organics, and post-hepcat rockability. Miike Snow is two-thirds..."
March 19, 2010 Music Feature
Decade on the Vanguard
No. 10 looks like the best Salvage Vanguard birthday ever!
"...few drama school grads from Brown showed up in town, proclaimed themselves a theatre company, and aimed to prove..."
March 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Has Daniel Clowes Really Grown Up?
"...man stuck in a world of headless dogs, S&M-crazed, small-town police, and homely, potato-headed women. In short, a perfect..."
Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Ken Lieck
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Fourth film heads home to the Big Apple, baby
"...Fire, police, ambulance, Ghostbusters. In the hearts of film fans, the goofy protectors..."
March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Chronicle’s Favorite Austin Albums of 2023
Ten music writers reflect on the records they loved this year
"...Combo Oscuro, La Danza de las Sirenas; Jackie Venson, Ghost in the Machine; Kalu & the Electric Joint, Garden..."
Dec. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson
Austin FC Reveals Stadium Noms, Your New Neighbors Are Coffee & Dogs, Jimmy Eat Sandwich at Old Thousand, Salt & Time on Seventh Respawns, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
"...noms at MLK & Chicon? They’ve just opened a ghost kitchen in North Austin, joining the (already remarkable) lineup..."
March 31, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Sonya Cote's Bastrop Storehouse, Extending the To-Go Booze Waiver, Suga's Cakery at Dear Diary, Pizza from Intero, and More
All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering
"...opened a new venue: Storehouse Market + Eatery, in downtown Bastrop. It’s not just “another new venue,” though. This..."
Jan. 12, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Top 100 Austin Records of 2019
Kevin Curtin unveils his third annual list of local releases
"...Being Dead, Fame Money Death by Drive By (Austin Town Hall)..."
Dec. 20, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin
FP2: Beats of Rage
Mad Max meets Dance Dance Revolution in a microbudget beatdown
"...JTRO hears about a tournament that can save his hometown and bring enough booze to keep his people safe,..."
Feb. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Angelica
Jena Malone stars in this Victorian potboiler
"...are properly rigid. There’s a freak show in the town square. It’s the 1880s, so just roll with it...."
Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White
SXSW Music List No. 3
Dead Meadow, Sad13, Cindy Wilson, Lizzo, Boogarins, and 494 others
"...recently singed by Captured Tracks. The 512 also yields A-Town Get Down, Bee Caves, Analee Cantu, Chamothy the Great,..."
Jan. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
The Descendents’ Uncontrollable Urge
Fun Fun Fun punks anew – coffee, documentary, and album
"...at the Alamo Drafthouse while the Descendents were in town last fall for Fun Fun Fun Fest...."
Jan. 27, 2014 Music Post by Claire Gordon
Prince Avalanche
Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch co-star in David Gordon Green's pleasing backcounty dramady, whose tone is heightened by its setting in burned-out Bastrop, Texas.
"...wants nothing more than the chance to go to town and get his “little man squeezed.” Alvin, in his..."
Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Off the Record
Juan González answers to no one
"...the Cactus Cafe to be the hottest ticket in town. As far back as December, you approved the closure..."
May 14, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell
Adult Swim in a Box
Just because it's a cash grab doesn't mean it's a rip-off
"...bonus disc. Titles included such early shows as Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Sealab 2021 and more current..."
Nov. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Volver
No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodóvar, and Volver is his ode of love to women’s congress and fortitude.
"...from Madrid where they live to the windy, dusty town of their birth, where their aunt and some friends..."
Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Smoking Ban Kicks Off as Katrina Kicks In
Cigarettes are out at Austin’s clubs, but New Orleans musicians could be in
"...music-oriented glimpses into Austin's nightlife future so far: a crosstown club tour Thursday evening as the smoking ban took..."
Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Boogeyman
Don't go into the closet.
"...that never seem to go away. Once back in town, Tim hooks up with old pal Kate (Deschanel, sister..."
Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Overnight Sensation
Sword of Dracula' creator Jason Henderson is taking
over the (fantasy) world
"...And recently there's been a lot more. In a town renowned for its love of fantasy, be it cinematic,..."
Jan. 14, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
TV Eye
Sometimes real life is much scarier than scary movies.
"...be heard and seen, instead of passing as faceless ghosts into the night...."
Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Big Circus of Life
Books Editor Clay Smith and Litera columnist Ric Williams handicap which of the 200-plus international poets attending this year's Austin International Poetry Festival will be best bets.
"...akin to highly intelligent stand-up comics. They have the ghost of Lenny Bruce in their bag of tricks as..."
April 19, 2002 Books Feature by Ric Williams
The Princess and the Warrior
"...nurse at a mental hospital in the director's native town of Wuppertal, Germany. She's so into her job and..."
