Page Two

The forest fire that is SXSW continues to blaze, fueled by the SXSW Film Awards, the Austin Music Awards show, and upcoming Chronicle daily editions.

"...This is always one of the strangest "Page Two"s to write all year. I could..."

March 15, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Austin Music Awards

"...It was set to be the perfect show. The lineup for the 20th anniversary of..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...RED DYE #4, THE DISOWNED, THE SNOBS, FORTY SECOND SCANDAL: Over the next..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Weekend Wine: New Year's Celebration Wines

These wines should be available almost anywhere you shop

"...We always try to send you to the greatest wines at the lowest prices. Sometimes that takes..."

Dec. 28, 2021 Food Post by Wes Marshall

... And Read All Over

Everybody's doing it -- devouring Holes, that is, this year's selection for citywide reading.

"..."I write mostly for myself," Louis Sachar told The Austin Chronicle in 1999 (see Louis Sachar: Top of..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Austin's Summer Hellscape Persists. Time to Find a Frozen Margarita.

Some of our favorite places slinging frozen margs

"...It's Labor Day weekend, officially the end of calendar summer. And yet, it's still hot..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Food Post by Evan Rodriguez

Weekend Wine: Nothing Says Spring Like Rosé

Four delightful – and affordable – lightweight, full-flavored wines

"...you know that rosé wines are suddenly everywhere. In the last few years, winemakers have glommed onto the public’s..."

April 6, 2019 Food Post by Wes Marshall

Weekend Wine

As for the wine snobs, too bad for them!

"...gets such a bad rap. Lots of folks blame the movie Sideways for its reputation, but wine snobs had..."

Sept. 22, 2018 Food Post by Wes Marshall

Lorde’s Swingin Party

Teen Kiwi stuffs Austin Music Hall on sold-out tour opener

"...She stood tall and lean at the Austin Music Hall, flanked by two anonymous bodies and..."

March 4, 2014 Music Post by Luke Winkie

We’ve Wrangled Up Some More Coffee For You

Five jolts of java you probably don’t want to miss

"...Not that our previous coffee reportage has gone the way of used grounds, no...."

Dec. 14, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Why Geeks Spit

For an unparalleled wine education

"...If you scoff at those snobs who spit wine, I recommend attending TexSom to learn..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock.

"...In a year during which the term "garage rock" had all manner of musicians, critics,..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two

Even a lot of memorializing would not have been enough to pay tribute to Waylon Jennings, who had a profound and spiritual impact on Austin and its music; the Austin Music Awards will feature a salute to Ray Benson; our preview coverage of SXSW Interactive and Film gets under way with a tech-centric meditation by Bruce Sterling and an interview with Journeys With George director Alexandra Pelosi.

"...Waylon Jennings died the other week, and one reader properly chastised us for..."

March 1, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

The events of the week form themselves into a kind of poetry.

"...noted, were also gentlemen poets, but this time around they're a few odds and ends...."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Music Recommended

David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails

"...Southpark Meadows, Saturday 14 The Thin White Duke and the Thin Prince of Darkness...."

Oct. 13, 1995 Music Feature

Remedy Review: Willie’s Other Bus

Sampling the Red Headed Stranger’s CBD line

"...July Picnic and I can’t wait to get into the air conditioning of Willie’s bus. You know the bus:..."

July 12, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

American Berserk Theatre's Killer Girls

When the killer girls of this timely satire strike back at abusive bros, revenge is sweet, smart, and hilarious

"...Hamlet would no doubt amend his oft-quoted opinion of the so-called weaker sex to something like that were he..."

May 18, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Daito

The best Japanese restaurant you've never heard of

"...A few months into my tenure as the Chronicle's food editor, I made an informal declaration. The..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Little Shops of Wines

How a couple of ounces are redefining the experience

"...have you taken a chance on a wine and then wished you hadn't? At several new shops in Austin,..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

TV Eye

Fox's 'Reunion' is the latest wannabe.

"...People come and go so quickly in The OC!..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

That lean, mean, tanning machine George Hamilton is back on TV, playing a parody of himself on the new reality series The Family.

"...it to George Hamilton. He's got staying power. When other careers built on matinee-idol looks have faded into oblivion,..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Short Cuts

Austin Film Commission no more

"...Dept.: It's official -- as of Wednesday, Sept. 4, the upstart Austin Film Commission, which has found itself embroiled..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Page Two

A cornucopia of delights await you at the South by Southwest Film and Music Festivals and Austin Music Awards this year.

"...Peter Bogdanovich and John Sayles both epitomize the essence of SXSW, so it is appropriate they both..."

March 8, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Scanlines

Valley of the Dolls

"...Tawdry, tarshy, and totally diviiiine! Valley of the Dolls is a hoot not to be missed The..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Scanlines

The Young Ones in "Demolition," "Bomb," & "Sick"

"...The Young Ones (clockwise from top): Neil, Vyvyan, Mike and..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Screens Feature

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...Click here to jump straight to the brewery rankings...."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...Craft beer has begun its redemption arc. Out are the big bourbon barrel-aged confectionary stouts, the biting quintuple IPAs,..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Urban Tejano

Tortilla Factory pulls down a Grammy nomination as Best Tejano Band as the almost four-decade-old local institution gets ready to reinvent the genre

"...Tony "Ham" Guerrero's story begins in San Angelo, the real cotton fields of Western songs. Its chapters are..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...store. Which is exactly what happened last week to the entire rental stock – some 55,000 titles in all..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Author? Author?

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

"...did this middle-class schlub from a backwater burg in the Warwickshire sticks, the largely unlettered son of an illiterate..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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