This Week's Waste of Time

The last 53 (of 303) contestants in the Independent Games Festival get played

"...All in all I've looked at 303 games (most of which were unfinished or required downloading) that are readily..."

Dec. 10, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Best of the Best (With Qualifications)

"...So Charlie Kaufman is the best screenwriter of the 21st century, eh? Compared to whom, exactly?..."

Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Many Lives of Candide

"...The birth of Candide the comic operetta dates back to 1953, when..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Most Memorable Moments of Saturday’s ACL Fest Weekend Two

Lido Pimienta, Habibi, and Princess Nokia’s Kirby squirt gun

"...Nas X, the Chronicle music writers picked a run of new Weekend Two arrivals as the day’s standout sets...."

Oct. 16, 2022 Music Post by Kriss Conklin

Biology Professor Brings Field Expertise to Craft of Botanical Foraging

Molly Cummings finds the spirit of West Texas

"...berries – and she is about to scale the roof of the house right below it to forage some..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Conspirare's Hope of Loving

This concert of works by Jake Runestad conveyed a sense of love as a force that soothes, enlightens, and heals

"...To say love was everywhere in Conspirare's first concert of 2019, that it was as pervasive as the very..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

“Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: Giant” at the Blanton Museum of Art

The film is good at showing the fate of the film set of Giant, but it leaves open the question of what’s happened to Marfa

"...and Alexander Birchler, features an imagined 1950s Hollywood studio office juxtaposed with scenes of a decrepit movie set outside..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Price of 1,000 Songs

'Ordinary Peephole' celebrates the delights of songwriter Dick Price

"...include – unless you were Matt Hislope. As one-half of the Rubber Repertory creative team, the Esther's Follies star..."

Jan. 20, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Alchemies of Anatomy

Choreographer-performer Rosalyn Nasky has a penchant for details

"...In her solo piece "Found It," performed as part of Co-Lab's Solo Show last July, she wore 5-inch shimmering..."

June 22, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

School of Dance

Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin' new choreographic point of view

"...as they paced and pivoted, evoking the human machine of mass transit in Ellen Bartel's MFA thesis dance, "Watch..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Point Austin: A Tale of Two States

How you see Texas depends on where you're standing

"...to the Legislature: "By any meaningful measure, the state of our state is strong."..."

Feb. 18, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: Dead and Alive on the Fourth of July

A eulogy spoken over the coffin of our empire

"...the masses, plug undersea gushers, or govern. Meanwhile, avoiding officialdom of any kind, Huck Finn lives. Independent, tolerant, skeptical,..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Portraits of the Artists as FronteraFest Regulars

Why they perform year after year after year

"...to do just that. Over 14 years, literally hundreds of writers, directors, and performers from Austin and beyond –..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Speaking of Dance

The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.

"...review when a phrase caught her eye: "multiple cuppings of dipped heads." Huh? She had seen the show, too,..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Unlocking the Joys of Austin’s Puzzle Rooms

Escape rooms bring the solitary diversions to life

"...an hour locked in a room with a crew of collaborators who share your mission: to find clues and..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Majcher

Of Thee I Sing (and Dance)

The musical is America's gift to theatre, and here's the local state of the union

"...founded? After all, musical theatre, like jazz, is one of America's contributions to world culture. And having recently noted..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

That Time of the Month

Christian Remde spans the calendar year with his Twelve Films Project

"...is red in the face. And in the back of his neck, and probably his arms, too. It's two..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Mothers of Reinvention

White Denim's Fits of maximum R&B

"...bassist Steve Terebecki – has honed its compact juggernaut of grimy, psychedelic soul and maximum R&B. That's the comfort..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Cult of Pitchfork

How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

"...wear tiny gym shorts in public, even in blistering, dead-of-summer heat. But there they were: grown men dressed like..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Pieces of Time

The legendary Peter Bogdanovich discusses his latest film, The Cat's Meow, about a hush-hush Hearst scandal of long ago.

"...In the minds of the celebrated and well-heeled guests aboard William Randolph Hearst's..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sensational Saga of Mr. Sinus

Picking up where Mystery Science Theater 3000 left off, Mr. Sinus Theater 3000 skewers the movies of our childhood to sold-out crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...John: "And They Take a Lot of Dristan ..."..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Crimes of Passion and Prose

With Quills, Philip Kaufman (Henry & June, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) has made another film about the startling fusion between literature and sex.

"...It is no coincidence that film director Philip Kaufman's offices are a five-minute walk from the City Lights bookstore..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Screens Feature by Michael Ventura

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...Scott Glenn is explaining to Debra Winger the intricacies of worm swallowing. "Mess-kins say eatin' the worm'll give you..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Change of Hart

Pam Hart Stretches Out

"...photograph by Diane Watts Smooth jazz is the work of the devil. It is a ravenous creature, born of..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Studio of (Un)truth

Photographer Pedro Meyer Journeys to Film's End

"...second revolution that has followed hot on the heels of the personal computer, it is the ability to digitize..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Screens Feature

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...Yes, the era of chasing ultra-rare, saccharine-sweet candy beer all over town, brewed..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2016

"...personal and the universal in one American boy's story of growing up black, poor, and gay. 3) La La..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest 2014: My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

Scenes from a marriage

"...second-guesses his script (you can almost hear a nation of critics nag "told ya so"), worries over the impossibly..."

Sept. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bull Creek Foundation Proud of Record

"...Greenbelt in 1997. Since then, volunteers have enjoyed thousands of hours improving it. First, we had to stop vehicles..."

Dec. 14, 2004 Postmarks

Writes of Winter

"...Co., $14 paper Some background: Back in the summer of 1994, Ken Foster took a job as volunteer literary..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Books Review

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