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Gearing up for a new national tour of her hit show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Lily Tomlin took a few minutes to talk about connectedness -- her connectedness with The Search, with audiences, and with Austin.

The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History

"Your own culture is worth a memory."

Star-cross'd love, superhero-style

Is this the end for Cinematexas?

In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help

The origins of the celebrity chef

The co-director of Inside Out talks shop

Composer Mark Hollmann on the show's creation and success

Author Rebecca Makkai teases the real and the unreal in this 'Austin Chronicle' Book Club selection

Cabaret and musical legend Barbara Cook is still learning

Diana Welch talks about the joint memoir she wrote with her siblings about surviving childhood

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

Austin's latest class of cinematic talent – represented by six anticipated films at SXSW – is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

The Dirigo Group's 'Gypsy Chain' Speaks for the Trees

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

The local wheatpasting provocateur reveals … a thing or two

The young Austin actor takes one giant leap in Richard Linklater's tale of the space race

The Hugo-winning author of 'Among Others' really loves books

The deliciously cracked comedies of Bob Byington

Wild Thing Chip Taylor waxes political on 'New Songs of Freedom'

Zombie auteur George Romero delivers another state of the union

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

A Dream Collaboration: Richard Linklater and 30 animators team up to produce a startling, surreal new film.