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Nov. 27, 2020 Features Feature by Beth Sullivan
sxsw: Daily Texan Reunion
Another year older, another year wiser
"...As you may have heard, there are a couple major anniversaries going on here in..."
March 16, 2011 SXSW Post by R.U. Steinberg
The National Texan?
The Texan Yanks Its Liberal Roots
"...The billboards around town proclaim, "It's not your same old..."
Aug. 29, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols
New Rival for 'Daily Texan'
'The Austin Student' aims to the right of the UT campus paper
"...It may not be the stuff of gladiators, but there's a showdown brewing in..."
Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass
The Daily's Dollars
Statesman Turns Tidy Profit for Parent Company
"...Rich Oppel has undoubtedly improved the quality of the local daily. But a better product..."
July 11, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
UT student frequency KVRX struggles to stave off the nationwide downturn in collegiate media
"...Ben Cox scrambles up the stairs and into the on-air booth with a load..."
May 11, 2012 Music Feature by Luke Winkie
The Facts Were Immaterial
The 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin
"...and humane struggle can build a living community within the shell of the dying one." – Letter from the..."
June 7, 2013 News Feature by Dale Brumfield
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
In this prequel to the original Chainsaw, we learn how Leatherface grew up to become a monster.
"...Jordana Brewster, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey, Taylor Handley, Matthew Bomer and Diora Baird. Origin stories are difficult and..."
Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away
The Chronicle at 35
"..."The present-day composer refuses to die!"..."
Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black
The Comics (Artist) Panel
Five Austinites on the state of the sequential art, from comics to comix to manga and beyond
"...nervous. And it's certainly more than enough to justify the geek-chic culture. But while Chris Ware reigned through the..."
Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Joey Seiler
'In the West': Living Portraits Avedon Would Die For
The original Austin Chronicle review from Nov. 15, 1985
"...When the lights come up, we're face to face with a..."
April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Something the Grackles Made
The life and works of Mr. Pants
"...sociable fellow, an amiable seeker well-suited to survival in the cloistered, miscreant-infested asylum of The Daily Texan entertainment department..."
Sept. 19, 2008 Features Feature by Cindy Widner
From the Vaults: 'Weekend at Bernie's' Review Revived
Gaming guru Warren Spector's review of 'Weekend at Bernie's' from 1989
"...Back when he was still honing his chops as the gaming guru he was later to become, Warren Spector..."
June 28, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
Changes at UT’s Fine Arts Library Cause a Rift in the College of Fine Arts
Showdown on the fifth floor
"...floors: On one, rows and rows of books filling the length and breadth of its 18,000 square feet, with..."
March 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Desegregation of Austin's Movie Theatres
A history of the stand-in movement
"...Efforts in 1960 to desegregate movie theatres along the Drag started with a bang...."
Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Jordan Buckley
What the Hell Happened at Austinist?
Local site dramatically changes direction after NYC overhaul
"...that started in 2005 an “institution,” but Austinist – the scrappy group blog started that year by Ben Brown..."
June 14, 2013 Screens Post by Dan Solomon
Divya Srinivasan Is Living
the Dream of Art
the Dream of Art
The multimedia creator's work wakes a world's imagination
"...suddenly shifted Divya Srinivasan into creative overdrive. After all, the artist – who'd started out in the early Nineties..."
Jan. 18, 2013 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Austin Gets the Geek Stamp of Approval
Wizard World Comic Con brings Lando, Lee, and the Centipede three to town
"...Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca, and all three parts of the Human Centipede walk into a convention center ......."
Nov. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Chapter 1: Before the Beginning
The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.
"...This is the story of a group of people who got together..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Chapter 4: The Nineties!
March 1991 -- December 2000
"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
The Battle of Washington's Bulge
The textbook wars make a casualty of Washington Crossing the Delaware.
"...and his ragtag Continental Army may have heroically defeated the mercenary Hessians at Trenton in December 1776, but the..."
Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
Music in the 1990s
"...More than anything else, the Chronicle started as a music publication. Some of the..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Crossing the Lines
Women Comic Strippers
"...The close-up is of a mottled beard, flecked with feathers..."
May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer
All Over Creation: The Persistence of Penguins
And Then Came Tango stirs up a fuss, but its birds fly after all
"...Well, for the past few months, theatre and making a number of..."
Nov. 30, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Spooking the Students
"...If you thought the days of COINTELPRO were over when Nixon left the..."
Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols
A New Documentary Meditates on Texan Electronic Composer Pauline Oliveros
Celebrate the queer theorist behind Deep Listening this Sunday at AFS
"...Heloise Gold first met Pauline Oliveros at one of the influential composer's concerts in New York in the mid-Seventies...."
Nov. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe
The Power of the Dog, Pig Split Austin Film Critics Awards
Plus, which local movie gets an AFCA award screening at AFS?
"...The Austin Film Critics Association must be animal lovers as..."
Jan. 11, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Chris Ware and Seth at the Texas Book Festival
Two titans of sequential art, gabbing craftwise in Austin on Saturday
"...all into comics – at least, comics that depict other than the antics of Spandex-clad superbeings slugging the shit..."
Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post
The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin
From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city
"...Thomas, Lisa Davis, and all those we've lost along the way...."
Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan
UT Cuts: Framing (and Reframing) the Message
The backstory to UT's decision to axe campus institutions
"...If the executives in charge of the Texas Union are to..."
