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Scott Blackwood's initiation into the writing life

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

Three years after leaving Austin for Hollywood, comics Chip Pope and Howard Kremer still aren't celebs, but with pilots for HBO and Comedy Central and a willingness to schmooze, they've come agonizingly close.

Austin Stories

Our Free Radio coverage generates some audio radiance, and more.

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

Bush League lambasting, locally-grown concerns, and a side of jazz.

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

Celebrating the Life of Otto Hofmann,1918-2001

The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

Our readers talk back.

Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.

The video mailed across the state, the Christian film that found an audience in Austin, and other stories of evangelicals using film to spread the word

Austin - bands, bikes, billboards, ballots, Bradley, and beyond - under scrutiny.

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

Once an outlaw, always an outlaw: The Return of Steven Fromholz

There's nothing lower-case or lethargic about theatre director, actor, and producer Sharon Sparlin. She's bold, animated, even electric, and channeling all that high-voltage energy into creating equally energetic theatre all the time.

Who amongst ye could have conjured Mainer Janet Bonney's true chicken story? Mark Lewis' documentary The Natural History of Chickens, playing on Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, features real-life stories of fowl play so strange they must be true.

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

The new APD oversight agreement is a first for Austin -- but will it do what it's supposed to do?

Looking at three books -- Plague Time, Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy, and The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, Roger Gathman observes that for every advance in technology, nature counterbalances with new opportunities for disease.

The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.

Good cops and bad cops, radio waverings and global warming warnings.