Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"..."The present-day composer refuses to die!"..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Muse for the Ages: Loreena McKennitt

Canadian chanteuse warms to vinyl and Texas

"...Instead, Canada’s beloved siren remains celebrated as a muse with an unparalleled triple threat talent for singing, writing, and..."

March 2, 2016 Music Post by Margaret Moser

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Men With Mommy Issues

Jay and Mark Duplass rock the cradle of love in Cyrus

"...John and Cyrus have one thing in common: They both love Molly. Scratch that. John and Cyrus have..."

June 25, 2010 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?

This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear

"...and threat to human life ... City Council directs the City Manager ... to make Austin the leading city..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Council We Deserve?

In the races for City Council, it's a search for competence amidst the chaff

"...down this year from her Place 3 seat on the dais, has attended a few of the candidate forums..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...It was one of the most schizophrenic eras, but so typical of Austin --..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Tying the Knot: A Drama

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

"...Forget merger. Think wedding. Yes, the union of the Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fanning the Flames

Did TV News Reports Jeopardize Out Youth Austin's Partnership With AISD?

"...into a house north of Hyde Park. His dour-faced mother stood a few steps away and watched. She had..."

March 24, 2000 News Feature by Suzy Spencer

The Year of the Rabbit

The Origin

"...photograph by John Anderson The Chinese word "Nian" in modern Chinese language means "year,"..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The De-Railers

RR Commission Challengers Say the Office Is Off-Track

"...Is it time to derail the Texas Railroad Commission? Three of the four candidates running..."

Nov. 1, 1996 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

The Iceman

Michael Shannon stars as a contract killer with a double life.

"...man in this atmospheric, steamy, violent, and dark film. The true story of Richard Kuklinski (Shannon), the film is..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: 'Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain?'

In the early part of the Sixties, television's "Route 66" offered a taste of the new American consciousness

"...The years were 1960-64. America's factories hummed in prosperous cities..."

June 15, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

How Green Is the Music?

Festivals, bands, and musicians seek environmental harmony

"...Last October, Thom Yorke, frontman for the British band Radiohead, told the UK's Guardian newspaper he..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

Austin slowly thaws out from an unprecedented – but not entirely unexpected – disaster

"...By Wednesday night, most of Austin was dealing with four overlapping crises: the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the arrival..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

20 Questions With Darden Smith

The return – again – of Austin singer-songwriter Darden Smith

"...longtime locals, singer-songwriters, Cactus Cafe loyalists. That's not why they're on the cover of this week's Chronicle, however. Unlike..."

April 19, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Rock Pile

"...Music From the Heart by Rod Kennedy Eakin Press $39.95 hard/29.95 paper..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Little Fleshlets, On the Run

"...In my back-pocket black notebook I wrote the date numerically without punctuation: 111999..."

July 23, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

The Spectre of Swing

Don McCalister's Demon

"...What do you think it is?" queries Don McCalister with a sharp, inquisitive expression shooting out from behind his..."

June 21, 1996 Music Feature

Janine Barchas’ The Lost Books of Jane Austen

In this nonfiction book, the local scholar provides fresh insight into the ways that Jane Austen became Jane Austen, literary superstar

"...There's no way that the author of Pride and Prejudice..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Magnificent Seven

Why three records are better than two

"...By 1980, the Clash had fallen in love with New York, holing..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Page Two: The Air He Breathed, the Baby Blue Sunglasses He Wore

Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017

"...Her long blond hair flyin' in the wind..."

April 28, 2017 Column by Louis Black

LoneStarCon 3: The George R. R. Martin Interview

'Game of Thrones' creator discusses how he writes and why

"...Amid reports of a dramatic uptrend in babies named..."

Aug. 29, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

The Miller's Tale

Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'

"...holds in one small hand a framed photograph from the Forties. It's a band photo of the Prairie View..."

July 6, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Future Is Now

Local fiscal policy enters its Cold War era

"...That's what Council Member Brewster McCracken asked when the City Council got the first of this year's budget..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

All the Pain Platinum Can Buy

"..."Here today, gone later today."..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Challenge of Playing Living People in Zach Theatre's Notes From the Field

The cast discusses how hard it can be getting into the skin of living people in Anna Deavere Smith’s play

"..."It's impossible to talk about the criminal justice system, mass incarceration, without talking about education."..."

March 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Just Watch the Livestock

Texas schools' sex ed favors 'don't ask, don't tell ... and keep 'em ignorant'

"...5pm on Oct. 31, 2007, Sid Pruitt, superintendent of the small Evant Independent School District (about 60 miles west..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Right Man for the Job

Charlie Robison says 'fuck everybody.'

"...about Charlie Robison is to invite an anatomy lesson. They marvel at the size of his balls. Then they..."

June 29, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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