All There in the Music
Mandy Mercier puts down her fiddle to talk about her eventful life.
"...evening in early April, Mandy Mercier sets up on the makeshift stage at the Waterloo Ice House on 38th..."
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May 11, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
On the Santa Trail
Ace reporter Jordan Smith is hot on the trail of Austin's own Santa.
"...Or that he is an award-winning chili chef in the off-season? Or that, aside from that North Pole workshop,..."
Dec. 22, 2000 Features Feature by Jordan Smith
Shoot for the Moon
Actor Danny Trejo has made a film career out of
playing criminals. Before that, he made a career out of
being one. In town to shoot Robert Rodriguez's Spy
Kids, Trejo visited Travis High School to talk to
students about the lessons he learned the hard way.
"...The busboys at Güero's stare at Danny Trejo hesitantly, unsure..."
June 9, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson
The Art of the Dealer
Exploring the Relationships of Artists & Gallery Owners
"...arts writer and former art dealer Dave Hickey described the relationship between dealer and artist as a simple one:..."
Aug. 23, 1996 Arts Feature
The Year That Slipped Away
The 6,000 Albums of 1995
"...I dreamt that Mick Jagger died. I was, pardon the pun, shattered. I couldn't believe it, and I spent..."
Jan. 5, 1996 Music Feature
Doing the Bret Thing
On the Town with Bret Easton Ellis
"...When I get in, there are messages on the machine. Three of them are..."
Oct. 20, 1995 Arts Feature
The 20-Year Overnight Success of Glen Powell
Hollywood’s newest A-lister – according to the directors who knew him first and best
"...Midway through Glen Powell’s induction ceremony into the Texas Film Hall of Fame, the thought comes to..."
June 7, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Ethan Hawke Teams Up With Local Writer for The Black Phone
The team behind Sinister creates the summer's scariest film
"...In pop culture, the late Seventies signify a cutesy suburban Spielberg fantasy or..."
June 24, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music
Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music
"...and gave me a piercing look. Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back..."
April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday
Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more
"...very, very tired) music team, Friday was filled with the Chronicle’s wild day party at Hotel Vegas and witnessing..."
March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett
The Future of Health Care?
Dell and Central Health "re-think" the way we provide – and pay for – health care
"...reviewing patient records and X-rays. For roughly an hour, they skimmed through patient records, considering both the monochrome images..."
March 24, 2017 News Feature by Michael King
DVDanger: The Club
Home release roundup time
"...There’s a famous and brilliantly subversive British-Irish comedy called Father..."
May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Speaking of the Dead
To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history
"...Austin receives no such shout-out in "Truckin'," the Grateful Dead's highest-charting single of the Seventies. The psychedelic..."
July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin
The Way It Is and Isn't
Ben Rubin's art installation at UT shows the gap between TV news in Cronkite's time and now
"...time – and not just because it kicked off the cocktail hour. That was the time, in the Central..."
Sept. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
'The NFL Beat': Mock Draft
The 'Chronicle' gets Draft-y with a li'l help from friends
"...This is "The NFL Beat" and today I brought some friends. We..."
April 17, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap
Can't Stop the World
Austin's native contribution to the Go-Go's, guitarist/bassist Kathy Valentine, relives 30 years of Beauty and the Beat
"..."There was a guy I met in Austin that worked..."
Aug. 19, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Catastrophe and the Cure
Behind the scenes of Explosions in the Sky's most challenging and personal album
"...Each member of Explosions in the Sky is branded with the same emblem: the black..."
July 1, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Shoot Out the Lights
Bare buzz, bare butts: The Bright Light Social Hour shakes it
"...Several hundred yards from where the Mississippi River borders Baton Rouge's
industrial section, the Spanish..."
Feb. 11, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Running the Funny
Club manager Margie Coyle has kept the laughter going for 20 years
"...something dark. "Good morning," she says, flashing me a smile, setting the container on the box-office counter. "We're going..."
July 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Green Movement
KRS-One and Hakim Green bring the Stop the Violence Movement to Austin
"...Kool Moe Dee, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, and other all-stars in the booth to cut “Self Destruction,” hip-hop’s..."
Jan. 21, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett
The Choice Is Yours
Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse
"..."Most of the women were bleeding from their anuses after two days,..."
Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Man With the Light Touch
Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire
"...If all the term "symphony conductor" calls to mind is that cartoon..."
Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Miller's Tale
Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'
"...holds in one small hand a framed photograph from the Forties. It's a band photo of the Prairie View..."
July 6, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
The Taco Kings, Besieged
A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense
"...The four members of AVATACO, a newly formed association of..."
Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May
The Real Crash Davis
Alan Zinter of the Round Rock Express still lives the big-league dream
"...thinks about quitting, Alan Zinter looks you straight in the eye, barely blinking, not a hint of a smile..."
Aug. 4, 2006 Sports Feature by Kevin Brass
Meet the New Neighbors
A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado
"...The town of Eldorado, Texas, seat of Schleicher County, flanks..."
July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Council We Deserve?
In the races for City Council, it's a search for competence amidst the chaff
"...down this year from her Place 3 seat on the dais, has attended a few of the candidate forums..."
April 22, 2005 News Feature by Michael King
Talking Art at the Top
The executive directors of the city's museums shed light on the local visual arts scene
"...If you didn't know, the Austin Museum of Art is not going to build..."
July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin
The World as He Knows It
H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.
"...100 years, readers of literate nonfiction have gravitated to the brand names, the household names, of the historical profession..."
Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker
I Am the Jellyfish That Walks Upon the Land
The Mother of all pop bands
"...-- Bernard Holland, The New York Times, June 18, 2000..."
June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
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