Getting Behind The Tender Bar With Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan

The challenges of authenticity (and George Clooney's acting class)

"...Accuracy in a biopic can come down to the smallest recognizable detail. Like the brown cord jacket that..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Can I Touch the Tender Button?

An interview with UT professor and archive expert Ann Cvetkovich

"...a couple of earnest journalist/blogger/academic types wanted to document the history of Austin's gay bars. Where would we begin?..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

The Lemon Twigs, Obongjayar, the Zombies, and Ambré Added in SXSW 2023’s Second Lineup Drop

With a whopping 301 musical artists

"...As the festival looms just three months away, March 13-18, SXSW..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Beck Saw Austin’s Jesse Ebaugh Playing at Mohawk Friday Night, 20 Hours Later They Performed Together at the Moody Theater

The Tender Things frontman spontaneously enlisted to play pedal steel

"...Going back decades in Austin, there’ve been stories people tell that are so incredible and..."

March 20, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Two Music Critics Dive Back Into the Scene

Raoul and Kevin hit the clubs for the first time in 14 months, and only one of them has a psychedelic freakout

"...dude, so Saturday I attended my first show since the 2020 Austin Music Awards: Nemegata and Tiarra Girls at..."

May 28, 2021 Features Feature by Kevin Curtin

Jack White Swings for the Fences at Austin Sandlot

Singer/guitarist/first baseman hits home run in post-arena show baseball game

"...Out there at the Long Time, the bats are wood, the..."

June 3, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Barnstorming With Beto at The Long Time

"...out Saturday, April 14, for Barnstorming With Beto at The Long Time, a sandlot baseball field/event space in East..."

April 16, 2018 Photo Gallery

All the Real Girls

"...Benjamin Mouton, Maurice Compte, Danny McBride and Shea Wingham. There’s a Silver Jews song called "Inside the Golden Days..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Toes Knows

It's the Five Fingers of Dr. Vibram!

"...(And you know I am a shoe whore.) Well, these new double-take eliciting Five Fingers foot coverings make my..."

April 18, 2008 Design Post by Kate X Messer

Austin Opera's The Daughter of the Regiment

Just as the young woman of the title is deemed "charming," so too is Donizetti's work in this company's staging

"...From the opening strains of the overture to Donizetti's comic romance..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

At Home in the Outpost

R.O.'s Outpost, 17 miles west of Austin in the Hill Country, serves the kind of food, reviewer Mick Vann reports, that "the old folks grew up on, and the kind rarely found these days in our modern, fast-food, a-go-go world."

"...unassuming little spot on Highway 71, one mile before the Briarcliff turnoff, 17 miles from the "Y" at Oak..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Food Feature by Mick Vann

When the Bulleit Hits the Bon Appetit

The whiskey company brings three dimensions of win to a new frontier

"...Even if you’re not the sort of person who hangs out in bars and..."

April 2, 2019 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Last Sunset

The day the DEA came for Dan Del Santo

"...This is the story of a family trauma. The loss of a..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Anne Sherwood

Queering the Archive With Kate Messer

"Your own culture is worth a memory."

"...been sacred ground for Austin’s queers and misfits. In the Eighties, Sandra Martinez opened Chances, a popular lesbian bar..."

July 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Devil in the Details

Why Is 'Talented Amateur Historian' Leon Day Obsessed With the Death of Ambrose Bierce?

"...Death is not the end; there remains the litigation of the estate. --..."

May 17, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

Good Things in Small Packages

At Starlite, it's possible -- and exciting -- to belong to the Clean Plate Club, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry says.

"...out after moving to Austin from Paris. "That isn't the American 'rule.' Really, don't force yourself." Accustomed to France's..."

July 27, 2001 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

The Chili Dog Fest Caps SXSW Local Style

Impressive lineup of musicians to benefit Central Texas Food Bank

"...In its ninth year, the Chili Dog Fest serves as a gathering for local..."

March 15, 2018 Music Post by Mark Fagan

The Luv Doc: Kid Crazy

Any man over the age of 50 who wants to have children isn't playing with a full deck

"...professional woman in my mid-30s, I have found that the pool of available men has been shrinking considerably. Because..."

March 4, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

TILT Performance Group's Pandora: Life Outside the Box

This world premiere of Allen Robertson's musical releases kindness and joy into the world

"...keep a lid on her own curiosity or on the box given to her by Zeus, thus unleashing on..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Molly Burch Finds the Love in Pop

Singer/songwriter puts the guitar down for the follow-up to her acclaimed debut

"...her guitar down to emphasize one moonlit ballad in the full-band set. Now, behind a debut headlining tour for..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The J. Cole & Anderson Paak Show

Friday’s Erwin Center twofer keeps it sincere

"...Opening at the Erwin Center on Friday, Oxnard MC Anderson Paak testified..."

Aug. 21, 2017 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

The Taste of Summer

The perfect meal, searching for seafood tamales, eating wild strawberries stoned, and more memories of heat and hunger

"...I feast on what has always been for me the definitive summer meal. This particular meal hearkens back to..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Food Issue: When Vegetables Aren't Enough

John Mackey, “Conscious Capitalism,” and the Ideology of Food

"...vegans through sushi savants to connoisseurs of deep-fried turkey. They pursue their gastronomic passions with singular concentration, and it’s..."

June 12, 2013 Food Post by Michael King

New Kid on the Block

ASTI is the perfect addition to Hyde Park's busiest corner

"...The corner of 43rd and Duval streets has been the..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Illegal Tender

A throwback to the Eighties crime dramas and Seventies blacksploitation films, this Latino action thriller about family ties and blood feuds rarely transcends clichés.

"...following his 2002 film Empire confirms his interest in the fine lines that can separate dirty money from clean..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

La Vista at the Hyatt

"...Because La Vista is on the second floor of the Hyatt Hotel, chances are you've..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Food Feature

The Animal

"...Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley and Edward Asner. About the best you can say regarding this inoffensive Schneider vehicle..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of the Pink Panther

"...Peter Sellers rest in peace while he could extract another simoleon from the cash cow that is the “Pink..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...There are two positions to take on The New Mutants,..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tickle the Ribs

The first annual 'Austin Chronicle' Invitational BBQ Beef Rib Smackdown

"...There's something primeval about eating a barbecued beef rib. Holding..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Food Feature by Mick Vann

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