Nuke Waste: Get It While It's Hot!

Crony capitalism drops a dirty bomb on Texas

"...Prepare yourself for a long and convoluted journey, from the corridors of the State Capitol to the tiny West..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Robin Hood Goes to Court

The Lege punts, and the judge catches the school-finance football

"...Depending on your perspective, the Texas school system is either near collapse from insufficient..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Column by Michael King

On Ondine on Film

The pope and the artist, the hotel and the factory

"..."We were in the middle of an orgy being run by a friend..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

On Ondine on Film: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"..."We were in the middle of an orgy being run by a friend..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...Down the I-35 corridor, hot, excoriated, eternally re-constructing two-lane death alley..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Wasn't It FABulous?

Economic and environmental consequences of high tech plant closings are potentially grim.

"...town of shuttered auto factories and a population on the dole. What he'd like to do, Hoover said, is..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Policing the media, mediating the police.

"...The Police & the Middle Class..."

April 6, 2001 Column

Lost at Sea and Back Again

Bill Broyles' Extraordinary Adventure Story

"...for FedEx, Noland's job is, in fact, to control the path of the items shipped all over the globe..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta runs down programs to take our minds off the upcoming election, along with programs to make us confront it.

"...I don't know what's scarier: the fact that another sweeps month is upon us, or..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

"If you fail light rail again, you've sealed your fate to sucking a tailpipe and damned your city's 21st century global position."

"...See the Big Picture..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Column

Of Moose and Movies

Nine days and nights at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...The first thing you notice are all the moose statues...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Starbucks vs. the Chronicle: Who's zoomin' who?

"...tirade against George "Dubya" ["Page Two," Sept. 8] and the style and content place you in the forefront of..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW blurbs

"...Wednesday Picks Sonny Knight & the Lakers..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Superhero Movie

Superhero Movie is a tonally confused spoof, which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.

"...of questions. Why wasn't this green-lit and out in theatres a month after Sam Raimi's Spider-Man? Did all the..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bellflower

Hellaciously original, this low-budget, post-apocalyptic film looks like no other in recent memory.

"...burning, Japan is irradiated, and Rick Perry is on the verge of formally announcing his presidential intentions. In short,..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spider-Man

"...It must have seemed like a terrific gamble when the suits at Columbia elected to go with director Sam..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chef Flynn

New York's young culinary genius is an enfant adorable

"...Culinary wiz kid Flynn McGarry cooks up a storm in this charming little documentary about an amazing, freckle-faced..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Waves

A bracing dive into a Floridian family set adrift

"...encapsulate just how extraordinary a film it is. Like the writer-director’s previous films Krisha and It Comes at Night,..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...Just to prove the world was here...."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Summer Fun

Oh, Galveston

"...menu of martini concoctions, and prime location, 21 is the island's new "It" girl, as it were. At the..."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Playback: ACL Fest Platinum

Lucky 13 marks the biggest ACL Fest yet

"...music festival commences this weekend with ACL Fest. A gathering of radio rockers, stadium rappers, celebrity DJs, tabloid pop..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Shane Black's directorial debut is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretensions that’s just as full of them as the pulp it lampoons.

"...Bernsen, Dash Mihok, Larry Miller and Angela Lindvall. Blammo! The directorial debut of screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Law & Order

"...Thanks to the addition of Wednesday night South by Southwest showcases two..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...Okay, take a deep breath. Hold it. Exhale. Again. There. Feel better? Look, just calm down. So what if..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Node Exit

What ails singers

"...At Club DeVille's every-other-Tuesday Karaoke shindigs, the average person onstage is thinking about..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...FATHER OF THE BRIDE PART IID: Charles Shyer; with Steve..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Austin’s Essential Frozen Cocktails

Because sometimes you gotta think beyond the margarita

"...There is never a bad time for a frozen libation,..."

July 21, 2023 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

What We're Listening to Right Now

Darden Smith, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Fuvk, Photokem, and more notable local sounds

"..."Western Skies is a near perfect multimedia balancing act performed by poet, essayist, photographer, singer..."

March 25, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Reveals First 2020 Artist List

Music from all over the map … literally

"...288 performing acts, which accounts for about 14% of the total roster. As usual, the early announcement pulls from..."

Oct. 16, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Harvey Hurricane Concert Rallies

Can’t Mess With Texas benefit beams Lone Stars and all-stars

"...Can’t Mess With Texas benefit concert and broadcast at the Frank Erwin Center proved a marvel less for its..."

Sept. 23, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

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