Gay Place: South Bi Gay Bi

Bedpost, Viva, and 'Get Out of My Crotch' highlight this last week before SXSW madness

"...The tournament of festivals careens toward Austin at light speed. Are you ready? Also, GayBiGayGay..."

March 1, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: TransTexan Luv

Advocacy summit, Trans Lobby Day at the big pink dome, and so much more, Sunday and Monday.

"...big pink dome, and so much more, Sunday and Monday. ON OUR GAYDAR..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Glen Hansard's One-Night Stand

Just Once with the Frames' Glen Hansard.

"...There’s a quote by Bill Callahan, the nomadic songsmith behind Smog, that’s been stuck in my head for..."

May 18, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Gay Place

Gathering Tribes

"...So long, farewell! Auf Wiedersehen, adieu!..."

March 20, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

The HPV Flashback

After rivals attack Perry, a review of the 2007 Gardasil fight

"...Old story" files: Gov. Rick Perry is getting pummeled on the national stage for his 2007 order to vaccinate..."

Sept. 13, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

An Okie-Dokey Deadpan

Oklahoma director Mark Potts on his suburban comedy Simmons on Vinyl

"...director of nanobudgeted Austin Film Festival audience favorites The Stanton Family Grave Robbery (2008) and last year's Simmons on..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Victory by the People

Filibuster, parliamentary gamesmanship kill abortion bill … for now

"...for the Texas Senate to determine whether 12:02am occurs on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning – but they ultimately..."

June 26, 2013 News Post by Dan Solomon

Paradise Road

"...Spriggs and Joanna Ter Steege. The story of the women interned in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps during World War II..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Their Finest

How to make a propaganda film in World War II England

"...Directed by: Lone Scherfig. Starring: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Few Good Women: America's Military Women From World War I to the War in Iraq and Afghanistan

While the ambition to cover the history of women's service since World War I is noble, its delivery often overwhelms

"...A Few Good Women: America's Military Women From World War I to the..."

April 2, 2010 Books Review by Kate X Messer

Ever the Spoils

Two University Dramas Tackle Women After War

"...describing Boudica, a Celtic queen who waged a two-year war against the Romans. "In appearance most terrifying, in the..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

True Grit

Three women under siege in feminist western The Keeping Room

"...Mention the cinema of the Civil War, and the first..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I'm just now getting around to accessing the Chron via the Internet in the Balkans, where I've been..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...Directed by: Anne Fontaine. Starring: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Get Off Your Ass and Change the World

Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams speaks tomorrow at BookPeople

"...headlines from around the globe, there are those people among us who see a problem and simply start working..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

In the Land of Blood and Honey

Angelina Jolie steps behind the camera to helm this picture she also wrote, which focuses on the emotional fallout of the Bosnian War.

"...Ironically, the very attributes that make Angelina Jolie’s debut as..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Caramel

The denizens of a beauty parlor in Beirut depend on one another for friendship and support in this lovely Lebanese film.

"...a microcosmic array of human life has a solid tradition within the history of film. In Caramel, the familiar..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Shorts 2005

A rare opportunity to see what's considered the best in the field of short docs; plus all four nominees have a socio-political bent.

"...these nominees prior to the big night? Although this compilation of the four short documentary films nominated this year..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City (the one destroyed in the April 19, 1995, bombings) as the..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Suspiria

Giallo remake uses dark magic to give women their voices

"...Directed by: Luca Guadagnino. Starring: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mia Goth and Jessica..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...None of us much want to spend our leisure time..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Abandoning Illusions

Chris Hedges on the inevitable consequences of empire

"...On Tuesday, the editorial pages of Austin's daily newspaper offered:..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Column by Michael King

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Our readers talk back.

"...Theology department, directing the community service program, and sitting on the board committee on Catholic identity. I have been..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...Tragedy Brings Out the Worst in 'Chron'..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Coming Out Under Fire

"...Directed by: Arthur Dong. Coming Out Under Fire is a 71-minute-long documentary about..."

Aug. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wonder Woman

The origin story of Diana, princess of the Amazons

"...Patty Jenkins. Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner,..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Best Friend's Girl

Dane Cook stars in this rom-com about a serial womanizer who accidentally falls in love with his best friend’s girl.

"...Directed by: Howard Deutch. Starring: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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Our readers talk back.

"...a recent news story involving me [Lawyers, Drugs, and Money: The Latest on Metabolife," March 14], The Austin Chronicle..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Paula Kamen's New 'Strain' of Female

"...flat-out suing the Secretary of Defense. Her beef with Donald Rumsfeld pertained to a federal mandate instructing her to..."

March 22, 2002 Books Feature by Laura Donnelly

Regret to Inform

Sonneborn has captured the horror of the Vietnam conflict from an angle as yet unexplored, that of the women left behind. Sonneborn travels to the place of her husband's death in Vietnam with a film crew to retrace his final days.

"...Directed by: Barbara Sonneborn. Filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn takes a unique and personal tack..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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