Count the Zeros

"...Editor, One million dollars looks like this: $1,000,000 (six zeros). For 1 billion, multiply by 100 (nine zeros). For..."

July 16, 2010 Postmarks

Fun Fun Fun Fest's Got The Time

Schedule out: Run-D.M.C. Friday, Edward Sharpe closes Sunday

"...your Fun Fun Fun Fest schedule bingo card out. The winner of the opening day first slot is the..."

Sept. 5, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

X Frontman John Doe Has More Fun in the New World

Living quietly in Austin for two years now – and only for hours at a time!

"...schedule as he nurses a beer and chili at the Long Play Lounge...."

June 28, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...Every month, the Chronicle's film critics select a theme and offer movie..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Off the Record

Recounting the first decade of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one year at a time

"...The Austin City Limits Music Festival always begins the same..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Hightower Report

"...Who says that big-time politicians pay no attention to their constituents?..."

July 4, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

About the Maya

"...The Maya first began establishing their own artistic, linguistic, and..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Council: The Bird Is the Word

Rollin' into City Council, invited or not

"...A mobile app built to disrupt the transportation industry enters Austin's market without the city's blessing...."

April 13, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Playback: Barracuda on the Block

"...at a real concert," offers Jason McNeely, leaning against the red brick exterior of his new Seventh Street venue...."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Public Notice: Break Out the Sharpies (or the Sharp Knives)

If CodeNEXT staff want community input, they need to be more transparent

"...I have a good feeling generally about CodeNEXT and the staff working on it, including lead consultants Opticos Design,..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Playback: Groping the SXSW Elephant

SXSW Music doesn't just boil down to three power points

"...men examine an elephant and attempt to describe it. The one near its leg likens the animal to a..."

March 21, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Pluck of the Irish

AFS Essential Cinema hand-picks four nights of rare Irish filmmaking

"...George Bernard Shaw – and yet for most of the 20th century, the story of Ireland on film was..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

SXSW News and Carryings-On

"...Last year, the MTVu Woodie Awards were a prime-time spectacle shoehorned into..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The End of the Double Rainbow

Does it take a pot of gold now to go viral?

"...For every Charlie who bites his brother's finger and becomes an international sensation (417 million views!),..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet

Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines

"...Its pages smell of newsprint and flop over at the corners. The ink is rubbing off a little on..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Who's Got the Hootie?

Comparing Austin' and Dallas' 1995 Output

"...Edie Brickell always seemed harmless enough. What she and the New Bohemians may have lacked in soul, they seemed..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Feature

Gypsy Son

Former Zeros front punk and True Believers co-captain Javier Escovedo circles back to Austin

"..."When I was a teenager, the band I loved was the New York Dolls."..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

One Big Guitar

The return of the True Believers

"...three decades' measure of how beloved he was in the local music community, long dormant bands honoring him with..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

ACL Music Fest Sunday Interview

Don't drink the Kool-Aid

"...Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros5pm, Zync Card stage..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Film Winners

Winners of the SXSW 2001 Film Festival

"...Runner-Up: The Zeros (D: John Ryman)..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature

Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

Punk rock as L.A. lit no less than Charles Bukowski and Raymond Chandler

"...had a simultaneous trashy vibrancy befitting its ascendancy in the shadow of the Hollywood dream factory, and a dark..."

June 17, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music: List No. 5

New crop ups the ante to 1,251 acts so far

"...We’ve been poring over the growing list of showcase announcements now arriving weekly from..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Steel Wheels

Scenes from the Railroad Revival Tour

"...of Woody Guthrie’s “This Train Is Bound for Glory.” The Railroad Revival Tour’s the first of its kind –..."

April 27, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Leave No Trace

Into the woods in this moving family drama

"...To the individual, the constraints and restrictions imposed by society can..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ramen Heads

What's cooking in the world's greatest ramen shops?

"...Food trends come and go, but the foodie documentary boom shows no signs of going bust...."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ready to Rumble

"...and Martin Landau. I'm sorry. I laughed. I know the whole country has spent the past week trashing this..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...The Zombies 7pm, Stubb's The second British band after the..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Javier Escovedo Record Review

Kicked Out of Eden (Saustex)

"...York Dolls-style punk on "Downtown," it's impossible to discern whether he's being tempted by a drug or woman. That..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Alejandro Escovedo

"...indicated Alejandro Escovedo's 12th studio LP might lean punk, The Crossing doesn't boomarang back to the Texan's slam-rock roots...."

Sept. 28, 2018 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Small-Screen Blockbusters

The summer games preview

"...sales army breeding a Trojan-horse-like marketing virus constructed of the finest milled lumber from Hollywood and Cyberwood. Summer gamers..."

April 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

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