AGLIFF Closing With Mapplethorpe

Festival adds major bio-pic, plus complete line-up

"...and Identities Film Festival, has just announced the rest of its line-up for 2018, including the addition of the..."

July 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...None of us much want to spend our leisure time contemplating..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics fame has a new book out from..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Two Sides to His Story

Manuel Gonzales leads the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave into uncharted territory while readying for a rapid literary ascent of his own

"...exterior. The light is pristine. Two girls just out of school, Christmas break a hair's breadth away, stand on..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Taking the World Stage

How more theatre made Here is getting Out There and what that means

"...Exhibit C: A local sci-fi radio spoof tours the country to acclaim, performing for audiences of..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol

The sinister legions of the 'Drug Cartel' have little to fear from the latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us ...

"...On the first of October, if you wanted to contact the Texas Minutemen..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Being Robert McNamara

Through 'The Fog of War,' Errol Morris gets inside a mind full of hindsight, regret, and the lessons of Vietnam

"...Errol Morris' new documentary, The Fog of War, might just be the most important film in..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Deep Blues From Gatesville

Amy Smith thought a judge would give her two years max for possession of crack cocaine; why is she doing 20?

"...that Amy would get the maximum penalty for possession of $20 worth of crack cocaine, or $40 worth if..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Final Flowering

With Cold Sassy Tree, distinguished composer Carlisle Floyd crafts an opera to crown his lengthy career.

"...In the parlor of a house in a small town in rural Georgia,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Toasting Hogmany

The French Buffet

"...Partygoers get all gussied up to fete the flip of the calendar, and hosts and hostesses feel obliged to..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Food Feature

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"...many years back, when I spent an awful lot of nights in the neon arms of the Deep Eddy..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down - officially kicking off..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Where Have All the Cowgirls Gone?

Austin's Female Country Singers

"...late one October night like it was straight out of Bradley's Barn, 1960. About 14 people saw her that..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

I Wanna Be a Paperback Writer

Perusing the Texas Book Festival Panels

"...(American Class Wars). In a South by Southwest-like blitz of the Festival, Chronicle reviewers cover seven of the panels..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Books Feature

A Forced Confession?

Jurors spent much of week three of the yogurt shop murder trial of Michael Scott watching nearly 20 hours of an exhaustive videotaped confession he gave Austin police in September 1999.

"...Jurors spent much of week three of the Yogurt Shop Murders trial of..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Fall Film Previews

September

"...AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Live Shots

"...a little late (but jeez, considering the mammoth task of re-erecting another stage in four or five hours, not..."

April 18, 1997 Music Feature

Scream

Ghostface is back in the serial killer/movie nerd franchise

"...Wes Craven was always going to feel sad. One of the few horror franchises that kept the same director..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Review: Kyōten Sushiko

Exceptional nigiri is served with few frills

"...adding a few new chapters. Sure, there's no hollers of "no soup for you," but one can't help thinking..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Food Feature by Melody Fury

Page Two

To completely pretend this week isn't somehow special was ludicrous, but we're paying our respects with silence.

"...this. It is impossible to escape the awful sadness of that day. There is an enormous range of possible..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Coach's Corner

"...now my girlfriend and I are in the middle of a country/western dance class. Did I say placid? As..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Drafthouse Uncorks Two More Wines

'Silence of the Lambs' duo on sale today

"...Drafthouse's latest announcement: two new wines, inspired by The Silence of the Lambs...."

May 29, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

'The Butcher's Hands'

Short Story Contest second-place winner

"...1935, the month of July: while the rest of Spain suffered through a..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Dana De Greff

Texas Platters

"...understood those references you should probably get out more often, and realize that when you do finally get out..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Music Review

Gay New York: Pilgrimage to Stonewall

Forty years of gay struggle, one tasty beer.

"...just drank my beer (Brooklyn Lager!) and ate in silence, happy to be soaking in the moment...."

Aug. 3, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Shooting Star

Stories told this well don't come around very often, and this one deserves to be seen

"...time and place in your life, or maybe because of the way it's told, or maybe because the people..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Truth Seeker

Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white

"...oppressive regime takes over a nation or state, one of the first acts of the coup leader is to..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Coach's Corner

"...What follows is a narrative of two brothers, two dogs, and a girlfriend. It's not..."

June 20, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

GenEnCo's 893 | Ya-ku-za

This suspenseful two-hander serves up tension in its silences as much as its words

"...There's an old joke that an acting professor I had used to tell: One night at dinner,..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Public Notice: Waiting for Ott to Go

A short play, in one looong act

"...low landscaping rock, is trying to scrape grackle poo off of his boot, without much success...."

July 29, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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