Michael Madsen, Last of the Warrior Poets

Mr. Blonde on poetry, hats, and 'Reservoir Dogs'

"...Ask Michael Madsen about the toughest part of filming Reservoir Dogs, and it wasn’t..."

Dec. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Last Fool of Chelm

How Nathan Englander Survives His New Fame

"...Nathan Englander has taken the pulpit. A small crowd is gathered in the synagogue..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

New Documentary Highlights the Legacy of a Black Queer TV Pioneer

Ellis Haizlip is the unapologetic Mr. Soul!

"...gay people of color rioted against police brutality at the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village. But nine..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Screens Feature by Charlie Neddo

Gathering Up the Wanderers

The Austin International Poetry Festival

"...Drive carefully this weekend. Two hundred poets will be wandering from cafe to bookstore to bar,..."

April 16, 2004 Books Feature by Abe Louise Young

The Year in Books

What New Book Brought You the Most Enjoyment in 1997 and Why?

"...1. The passing of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs...."

Jan. 9, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West

State of the Slam

The 1999 Austin Poetry Slam Team barely missed making the finals of the recent National Poetry Slam in Chicago, but after the trials and tribulations of the past few months (which continue into the present), the team was just happy to be there.

"...Nine-tenths of a point. That's how much the 1999 Austin Poetry Slam Team missed advancing to the..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Books Feature by Christopher Gray

The Heartsick Poet

Poet Dean Young celebrates a new book and hopes for a new heart

"...There are two things that never leave Dean Young's side..."

April 8, 2011 Books Feature by Amy Smith

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

It's a Russell Crowe's nest of a performance in this seafaring adventure.

"...Robert Pugh. As Capt. Lucky Jack Aubrey, commander of the British naval vessel HMS Surprise, which stalks the French..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Readers and fans of the literary, you might want to grab a napkin before..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Ringing in the New Year With Raw Paw

Austin art collective parties out 2014

"...Year’s Dance Revolution creatively unites sound and style with the purpose of overthrowing inhibitions as the calendar flips past..."

Dec. 29, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...and gave me a piercing look. Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...lost its tonic anchor and harmonic charm. Poetry jumped the fence of meter and rhyme. To read a "good"..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

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

Blondshell, Teezo Touchdown, and Omar Apollo’s starpower

"...Friday kicked off what some argue is the better weekend of ACL Fest 2022, with buzzy second-week..."

Oct. 15, 2022 Music Post by Kriss Conklin

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...not in a meteorological sense but a literary one. The Texas Book Festival has released the full list of..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The End of Austin Mic Exchange

Organizers retire the community cypher

"...For the past five years, local MCs, poets, and producers have..."

Aug. 21, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The FronteraFest Way

Christi Moore's top rule for producing the annual festival: Just say 'yes'

"...Congratulations! You've just won the plum job of producing a long-running, much-loved performance festival..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...What fills the holes dug by lies; what breeds in dank silence;..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List

Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean

"...and Héctor Tobar. Well, hold onto your bifocals, Bud, the full author list is out, and its 275 names..."

Sept. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

The Threat to NEA Funding and Austin

How would the proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts hit Austin? Hard.

"...art alive takes cash. Since its founding in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts has supplied money to..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Katarina Brown

Years of the Dead

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

"...The Years With Laura Díazby Carlos Fuentes translated by Alfred..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

In With the Old, In With the New

"...The latest pile of poetry to hit the Chronicle reflects..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West

The Dialogue of Poets

Conjunto Aztlan's Movimiento Music

"...Imagine a place where poets were noble, and the nobility were poets. A place..."

April 17, 1998 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Soundscapes, Bat Books, and More Arts Events for the Week

Things to do when you're not staring at an interloping moon

"...Queer TV Theory 101..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Wordy Wranglers of Typewriter Rodeo

The whole country's saddling up with Austin's vaqueros of verse

"...You hear them before you see them, the clickety-clack of letter keys..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Life and Times of an Emotional Transient

Poetry Festival Salutes Albert Huffstickler

"...no country for old men." He meant our country, the world of the living, pulsing with the fury and..."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Playing for the People

More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith

"...The article "Bohemian Rhapsody: Patti Smith's 12-Year Take," about photographer..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

The Reckoning

A traveling troupe of actors in medieval England stumble upon a mysterious murder and end up single-handedly inventing the morality play.

"...told me Scottish director Paul McGuigan’s next film after the ultraviolent bloodbath Gangster No. 1 would be a contemplative..."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fixing Up the Fringe

The Austin Zine Library Saga, Part V: Alive, authentic, and real

"...This is the fifth and final in a series of articles by..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Books Feature by Josh Medsker

Off the Bookshelf Pop Fiction

"...wants a life without risk. But when she becomes the only survivor of a mass murder, she is forced..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Books Feature

Reading Between the 'I's

The Secret Life of Pronouns author James Pennebaker on what your tweets reveal about your state of mind

"...There's a line I remember reading in a magazine profile..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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