Checking In: BettySoo Invents the Corona-Gram™

Inside the beautiful mind of a reluctant livestream breakout

"...dreaded part of work before was having to see themselves on video to transition to spending all of their..."

May 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Settling in but Never Settling at the Old Settler's Music Fest

Executive Director Jean Spivey looks back at three decades of roots music

"...a 4x4 utility vehicle into gear and accelerates down the dusty path that'll soon act as a landing strip..."

April 12, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Unplugged: Lowering the Volume of the Live Music Capital

Ley Line, Aaron Stephens, Team Goodtimes, Uncle Pie Hole, and more grounded sounds

"...Emilie Basez, and twin sisters Madeleine and Lydia Froncek, the fourpiece found solace in traditional Brazilian forró, a fusion..."

May 18, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Anna and the Apocalypse

Fantastic Fest 2017 preview

"...There are three kinds of musical films. Romantic comedies, straight-up..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Payback

Onetime James Brown impersonator Charles Bradley transcends

"...As we walk toward our table in the quiet cafe of a Downtown Austin hotel, Charles Bradley..."

April 22, 2016 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Setting the Table

How Thanksgiving meals make their way to Austinites in need

"...food to people in need on Thanks­giving Day, brings the three of them closer. She knows that seeing people..."

Nov. 27, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Page Two: The Undoing of Due Process

Why Republicans, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, and committed pro-lifers should oppose Gov. Abbott's attack on Planned Parenthood

"...The Lumière Brothers in France were among the first filmmakers...."

Oct. 23, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Gone to the Dogs

Bob Byington on his latest Austin comedy, 7 Chinese Brothers

"...Filmmaker Bob Byington's new feature 7 Chinese Brothers is a timeless tale of a man-child and his..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sign of the Times?

Plot thickens in Eastside demolition saga

"...Jordan French, the man behind last week's sudden demolition of a Hispanic-owned,..."

Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

The Butt-Numb-a-Thon 14 Lineup

Harry Knowles' annual film fest sneaks 'The Hobbit,' 'Mama'

"...There was a time in my life where 24 hours..."

Dec. 10, 2012 Screens Post by Louis Black

Okay, Everybody– Back Into the Pool!

Esther's Pool, that is: Winning fools, grooving stars.

"...We're not talking about cerebral comedy along the lines of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, but we..."

Sept. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Scare Game

Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon on what went wrong with horror and where to go from here

"...set out to make something audacious, you know?" says The Cabin in the Woods director and co-writer Drew Goddard..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest spins at Turntable.fm, Zorch goes viral, and other digital delights from Bali Yaaah and the Meat Puppets

"...The Angel of Death has smiled upon Fun Fun Fun..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Last of the Delta Bluesmen

Pinetop Perkins goes home to Mississippi

"...A peculiar darkness penetrates nights in the not-so-Deep South – heavy, humid, dense at 3am. By..."

April 22, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM: A Prayer at the End of My Rope

The crucial element of prayer is "no alibis"

"...Because of these friends, I know AA saves lives...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Darkness on the edge of Springsteen

"..."Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau." – Meat Puppets,..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

From the Trenches

Previewing the Austin Eats battlefield

"...insane. It couldn't be any more intense," Bibby contends. "The food court becomes your whole world. For 15 hours..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Great Are the Myths

Edward Norton introduces Leaves of Grass to Austin

"...and spent all or part of your youth in the central plains of this great nation, odds are you..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Letters at 3AM: Jesus Walking the Panhandle

The Christian cross is a question mark

"...We lived in a caboose and a trailer near the cliff of a quarry by the Salt Fork of..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Into the Valley of Death, and Back Out Again

Filmmaker and war photographer Tim Hetherington talks about his yearlong embed in Afghanistan

"...When Sebastian Junger and Tim Hether-ington's remarkably immersive and gritty-intimate Afghan war documentary Restrepo won..."

July 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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

A eulogy spoken over the coffin of our empire

"...Tom Sawyer is dead. Huck Finn is not. The "can do" all-Americans that Tom Sawyer symbolized are cyber..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Behold The Maslin

The Maslin is not a person but, rather, a function of virtually every book-review staff in the Western world

"...a movie trailer, a sonorous voice would intone: "Some there are who live and die for literature. Others live..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Ashes to ashes: drying off and winding down after Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...Fun Fest may brand itself as an "anti-fest," but the two-day jaunt at Waterloo Park still endured the same..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Riding the 'Wave'

Bud Shrake compacts his far-flung, storied career in his new collection

"..."There are people who go to New York as professional..."

April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

Beside the Point

Single-member districts proposal shoehorned into discussion and vote, barely in advance of city's election-setting deadline

"...The Feb. 19 memo from City Attorney David Smith rescheduling..."

Feb. 29, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: The Moment Belongs to the Music

John Sayles' 'Honeydripper' takes flight

"..."'[R]ock 'n' roll' was a term from the juke joints of the South, long in use by..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Off the Record

Welcome to "Spazmodica," the future of Austin music

"...In the "Indie Rock Universe," as illustrated by Rolling Stone in..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

The El Paso Connection

Longtime Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest judges Henry and Fred Alvarado and Carlos Contreras

"...What do a graphic artist, an occupational therapist, and a state information technology auditor have in common?..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Pearl King

Formed through irritation, time, and friction, yet gorgeous, imperfect, and universally valued: Oliver Rajamani

"..."My dad would rather me sing in a Johnny Cash band," declares Oliver..."

May 4, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

State Representative: Let's Hang the Artist!

Borris Miles decides he is the arbiter of taste and free speech at the Capitol.

"...freshman state Rep. Borris Miles, D-Houston, was walking through the Capitol with his two young children when he saw..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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