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The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

Sydney Yeager's new paintings at D Berman Gallery represent a departure in the artist's work, a potential turning point from the figurative images that made Yeager's work recognizable for nearly a decade to what has always been the real strength of her paintings: the abstraction beneath.

In Madame X, playwright Ann Ciccolella dramatizes the events surrounding the creation of Sargent's famous portrait of Virginie Gautrau, using them as a springboard for an absorbing inquiry into the meaning and relationships of art, beauty, and society.

Can the city keep the Mueller redevelopment project on course?

Our readers talk back.

If a holiday gift trend is big here this year, chances are, it was already big over there

The Intel Building and its discontents

Beneath all the glitter and glamour at Kenichi lies a restaurant of authentic substance, Chronicle Food writer Rachel Feit observes. Kenichi's executive chef Shane Stark knows more than the fine art of raw fish and rice.

In the State Theater Company's new staging of The Tempest, director Scott Kanoff offers a carefully considered, vividly imagined, and vividly theatrical exploration of Shakespeare's text, sounding its themes of family, aging, freedom, justice, and mercy.

Exciting new things on the horizon for "After a Fashion." Check inside for a sneak preview!

The city's "hospital within a hospital" plan for reproductive services at Brack fails to satisfy.

A writer and his artist aunt explore cave paintings and see more than just writing on the wall.

Iced tea gets a makeover

Many actors leave Austin seeking a career on the stage and are never heard from by the folks in their old hometown. But Austin native Starla Benford has come home as the star of a national tour. She talks about starting out at Harvard, making her mark as a professional, and nine months on the road with The Vagina Monologues.

On a comedy club stage, News Radio star Joe Rogan exudes a mad joy for life in all its insanity, depravity, and delicious dirt; if Henry Miller had done stand-up, it would have come out like Joe Rogan's act.

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture

Why U2 is the best band ever

In the backstage comedy Anton in Show Business, playwright Jane Martin wittily paints the contemporary stage as a madhouse overrun by loons and lunatics so preoccupied with money, image, and themselves that they can hardly be bothered to create art. And the State Theater Company's production takes us inside the insanity with an air of playfulness that keeps the audience primed for a good time.

Acts Playing South by Southwest

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

Novelist Shelby Hearon has made an art of the little white lie.

Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.