ACL Preview: Bob Schneider Is Always Evolving

Local favorite celebrates birthday weekend on the ACL stage

"...BS: “Tarantula” is a favorite and has been since I started..."

Oct. 8, 2024 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Unweaving the Tangled Web of Inspector Sun

Director Julio Soto Gúrpide on loving noir and insects

"...and Bugsy, the millionaire mobster, he's a type of tarantula, the blue tarantula. So each character is based on..."

Oct. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cactus Lee’s New Phase of Folk Realism

With Perfect Middle Hall, songwriter Kevin Dehan steps out of honky-tonk confines

"...self-titled Cactus Lee. The Austin native followed up with Tarantula in 2020 and Texas Music Forever in 2021...."

Jan. 6, 2023 Music Feature by E. Ryan Ellis

The Bad Guys

DreamWorks’ latest puts animal crooks on the right path

"...(Maron), Mr. Piranha (Ramos), Mr. Shark (Robinson), and Ms. Tarantula, aka Webs (Awkwafina), rob banks seemingly just for the..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

The Table Ed Ward Built

Pioneering music journalist (1948-2021) wrote rock & roll history

"...his girlfriend’s possession of galleys for Bob Dylan’s book Tarantula under Williams’ nose...."

May 5, 2021 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Kevin Curtin's Top 100 Austin Albums of 2020

Why stop at 10 when 10 times that still only scratches the surface of year-topping ATX releases?

"...70) Cactus Lee, Tarantula (709)..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Summer Fun Playlist: Release Shows TBA

"...Cactus Lee, Tarantula: Kevin Dehan's calming voice, sweet as cantaloupe, hovers like..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: Lolita Lynne & Tito Larriva Wrote an Album Together

Father/daughter ATX musicos maintain during the chaos

"...[Tito &] Tarantula had just released album No. 6 in October 2019..."

April 14, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Adds 105 Acts

Whoop-Szo, Blood, Fennesz, and La Meme Gang join the fest

"...Patricia Vonne, Reginald DeVore, Shelley King, and Tito & Tarantula...."

Jan. 30, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

North Austin's Ebisu Japanese Restaurant Boasts Fresh Modern Sushi

Anyone for sake mac & cheese and other tasty surprises?

"...vibrant photos. The Ebisu, 911, Spider, Hot Nights, Firecracker, Tarantula, and Sexy (no rice) rolls were among our collective..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Review: Petite Portions and Not-So-Petite Prices at She’s Not Here

South Pacific-themed tiki bar-cum-restaurant evokes a sense of sleek playfulness

"...delicious, it edged out the equally tasty soft-shell crab Tarantula roll in showmanship and fun. The hands-down favorite at..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk

Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place

"...Lolita, who performs alongside her dad in Tito & Tarantula...."

April 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...A Mexico City restaurant can't serve $27 tarantula tacos because the Mexican red rump tarantula is a..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Playback: No Really, How Are You?

Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal

"...Friday's album christening at Barracuda. Daughter of Tito & Tarantula bandleader Tito Larriva, she enchanted thoroughly with impeccably penned,..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

My Obsession: The Dick Van Dyke Show

Was the Sixties sitcom a harbinger of horror?

"...a fancy new impractical sports car. Its name? "The Tarantula."..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Screens Column by Joe Gibson

No Escape From Island Zero

Rizzolli & Isles creator on her creature feature

"...up during the golden age of creature features (Them!, Tarantula) which were really manifestations of our fear of the..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Pet Issue: Chronicle Staff Pets

"...Arts Listings editor Brenner's pet tarantula, Belvedere, freshly molted on National Coming Out Day 2016..."

Feb. 9, 2017 Photo Gallery

Finding a Friend With More Than Four Legs

Spiders and scorpions make prehistoric pets

"...a semblance of pet-worthy infrastructure, are a Grammostola rosea tarantula and a Hadogenes troglodytes scorpion...."

Feb. 10, 2017 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Evidence for the Prosecution of Rock

Austin’s Graffiti Trials releases a garage-flavored chunk of awesome

"...Takashi Miike got the scenic designer high on Bolivian tarantula venom and kept, like, dry-humping that designer’s left leg..."

Oct. 12, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Time for Another Graphic Novadose of That Kramer’s Ergot

Sammy Harkham’s new anthology is one long & strange & stunning trip

"...or ‘shrooms or, ah, what was Jim Morrison’s thing? Tarantula venom?..."

May 25, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Tarantula Species Named After Local Arachnologist

Arachnid expert David Moellendorf nabs a sort of spidery immortality

"...There’s a new tarantula in town: Aphonopelma moellendorfi...."

April 27, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Live Shot: Victim Mentality

Korea Night II: The Revenge of Glam Metal

"...Drummer Tarantula kept up a mid-tempo beat, occasionally kicking it up..."

March 21, 2015 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Margaret Moser’s Retirement Party

Christopher Cross crowns the Continental’s all-star love-in

"...Victor, who also keeps the beat for Tito & Tarantula. Churchwood delivered a high voltage set, while the Standing..."

May 6, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Three Cheers for Reading

Our favorite books of 2013

"...My Lovely. "He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake." –..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Your Mouth Wants a Biscuit Like This Biscuit

Because, we suggest, the toppings are downright Pre-Raphaelite.

"...Puglia-based, bread-oriented cuisine. It was called “Night of the Tarantula,” this event, and it was one hell of a..."

Dec. 2, 2013 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

We're the Millers

This Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis comedy shows some sweetly crude family values.

"...not once, not twice, but three times. (A pesky tarantula bite causes the gonad’s temporary elephantiasis.) Not since another..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Food Events

April 11-17

"...› Night of the Tarantula at Fusebox Festival Experience a Digestible Feat featuring a..."

April 12, 2013 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Maestro Allegedly Not Bitten by Tarantula

But he went gloriously spider-man apeshit on the piano

"...possible, for incorporating into compositions for The Night of theTarantula, the combination concert-and-feast created in partnership with Lucky Sibilla..."

April 27, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Food Events

Upcoming food related events

"...Fusebox Hub (1100 E. Fifth), with Night of the Tarantula (featuring tarantella music by Graham Reynolds and the Golden..."

April 20, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Face Off Recap: Venom on the Sculpting Room Floor

Malice amongst the molds on SyFy

"...storming out. It's a flocking thing: Sue believes their tarantula beast needs to reflect the hairiness of a spider..."

Feb. 11, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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