Texas’ Hemp Industry Wants Smarter Regulation. Dan Patrick Wants to Nuke It.

Lieutenant governor pushes to ban all THC

"...THC-P, CB9-A. Disgustedly, I mutter something like, “Jesus, I’d rather smoke embalming fluid.”..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

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

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

Hit Man

Glen Powell co-wrote this real-life wild tale of a professor who goes undercover as a fake hitman

"...The Academy, those snobs, will overlook it, but the best..."

May 24, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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 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

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

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

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...Editor’s note: This is the third chapter in a serialized history of Austin’s punk..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Solar-Powered Suds

Texas breweries reducing beer's carbon footprint

"...in recent decades, are enjoying a second renaissance during the COVID-19 pandemic as social life has moved outside. "I..."

April 23, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

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

Get Duked!

Gloriously idiotic horror-comedy pits Scottish youth against aristocratic killers

"...about British cinema, no production house has ever reached the peaks of the sadly now-defunct Ealing Studios. Between 1930..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: Attack of the Demons

Catch the Austin animated horror online this weekend

"...for kids, but Austin-made blood-splattered paper horror Attack of the Demons goes full zombie invasion...."

May 23, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Award-Winning Restaurants Within Walking Distance of the ACL Music Festival

Step away from the music for a taste of Austin

"...Austin now – is perfect for dining outside of the ACL Festival grounds and includes South Lamar, Barton Springs..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Discovering (and Creating) Austin’s Best Self-Guided Beer Tours

Crawl before you ball

"...Initially we set off to write the quintessential New York Times-style 36-hour beer crawl of Austin,..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Food Feature by Eric Puga

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

Local Married Couple Flaunts Public Comedy Habit

Chloe and Lane Ingram are ... Chlane

"...So, there’s that married comedy duo in town, Chloe and Lane..."

June 20, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

When the Bulleit Hits the Bon Appetit

The whiskey company brings three dimensions of win to a new frontier

"...Even if you’re not the sort of person who hangs out in bars and..."

April 2, 2019 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Still Austin Whiskey Opens New Food Truck Called Pairings

Try a blackberry jalapeño whiskey margarita and fried chicken sliders

"...If you still haven’t experienced Still Austin’s whiskey – they opened at the Yard two years ago with the..."

March 13, 2019 Food Post by Jessi Devenyns

Denise Elliott Jones: "Does It Match the Sofa?" at the Butridge Gallery

This divine Texas artist is straight-up messing with the fabric of reality

"...All right, citizen, I'm sending you back to the Dougherty Arts Center, to the Butridge Gallery therein...."

March 1, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Best of John Rabon Is on Its Way

In a manner of speaking, baby, in a manner of speaking

"...This Thursday, the Chronicle’s annual “Best of Austin” issue drops...."

Oct. 31, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

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

Playback: Next Big Buzzes at SXSW 2018

Forecasting this year’s breakout acts

"...Pretending you knew about an artist before they blew up is a time-honored custom amongst music snobs...."

March 9, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Revamping the Austin Music Poll

Here's how Playback's voting

"...been appointed to investigate ties between 2016/17 Musician of the Year winner Hayes Carll and the Kremlin. Neither probe..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: A Music Snob’s Guide to ACL Fest

There's more to any ACL Fest list than meets the eye

"...Music snobs can't wrap their heads around the scene at ACL..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Music Awards Show Performers 1983-2016

Every AMA performance lineup of the past 34 years

"...1984: LeRoi Brothers, Angela Strehli, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Big Boys, Stevie Ray Vaughan..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Cobalt Cracks the Crust

Enigmatic metallers make a rare Austin appearance

"...force in extreme metal, Colorado duo Cobalt emerged as the blackened doom-prog act behind masterpieces Eater of Birds (2007)..."

Aug. 31, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Take-Out

In defense of restaurant chains

"...that I have lost all sense of perspective when the presence of a quartered green strawberry on my plate..."

March 4, 2016 Food Column by Brandon Watson

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

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