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Selena Birthday Week Celebration at French Legation Museum

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

Theatre Review: The Baron’s Men Presents Romeo and Juliet

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The CMT Music Awards Return to Moody Center

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April 19, 2024
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Point Austin: Trials of Our Would-Be Rulers Highlight the Limits of American Justice In Trump and Paxton trials, the rules don’t apply

Austin ISD Fields Criticisms of Plan to Replace Nonprofit Director of Austin Voices for Education and Youth suggests a fix

Weekend Wine: Tenuta Sant’Antonio’s Monti Garbi Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore Tastes much more expensive than its $23 price

200 Ryans Converge Downtown to Celebrate Their Ryan-ness Jumping on the Ryan Rodeo

Presidential Candidate Cornel West Hosts Music Industry Roundtable at Carver Museum Sentimental talk invites Bill Callahan and Alphabet Workers Union

NEWS

In the Worst Moments of Austinites’ Lives, APD Victim Services Shows Up

Inside one of APD’s most-celebrated divisions

by Austin Sanders

Endorsements for the May 4 Travis Central Appraisal District Election

It's the first time we're voting for these positions

by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Point Austin: Trials of Our Would-Be Rulers Highlight the Limits of American Justice In Trump and Paxton trials, the rules don’t apply

Austin ISD Fields Criticisms of Plan to Replace Nonprofit Director of Austin Voices for Education and Youth suggests a fix

Austin Blocked Apartments by Houses for Years. New Rules Would Change That. Code change would facilitate 60,000+ new units, city staff estimates

Building Up, and Building Middle-Class Austinites’ Wealth A suite of development policy changes will go before Council this month

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FOOD

Weekend Wine: Tenuta Sant’Antonio’s Monti Garbi Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore

Tastes much more expensive than its $23 price

by Wes Marshall

SXSW Panel Recap: The First CRISPR Foods Have Arrived

Ready or not, more resilient food through DNA altering is here

by Wayne Alan Brenner

Zoé Tong Is Making Dinner Fun Modern Chinese restaurant brings to Zilker big flavors, sincere hospitality, and a ballsy refusal to be boxed in

Review: Murray’s Tavern A great hangout, maybe not a great restaurant

7 Breakfast Tacos to Start Your Day Right Welcome to Austin, where breakfast tacos reign supreme

Austin Dive Bars That Are Neighborhood Icons Come for the cheap drinks, but stay for the community

SXSW Panel Recap: The First CRISPR Foods Have Arrived Ready or not, more resilient food through DNA altering is here

MUSIC

Geto Gala, Two Step Inn, and a 420 Smokeout Headline Our Crucial Concerts

From country to hip-hop to sludge metal, get some ideas for your week in live music

Presidential Candidate Cornel West Hosts Music Industry Roundtable at Carver Museum

Sentimental talk invites Bill Callahan and Alphabet Workers Union

by Carys Anderson

Presidential Candidate Cornel West Hosts Music Industry Roundtable at Carver Museum Sentimental talk invites Bill Callahan and Alphabet Workers Union

Stick Around, Say Damn: Inside the Cactus Cafe’s Tuesday Open Mic Songwriters connect under Jake Farr’s ground rules

Madonna Remains a Prickly Pop Disruptor at Moody Center First of two nights drives home Madge’s four-decade ubiquity

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

Mini Music Fests Abound in This Week's Crucial Concerts Country, hip-hop, pop, and more shows worth the cover

SCREENS

It's a Family Affair for the Hurleys in Strictly Confidential

How Elizabeth tried (and failed) to keep son Damian out of the film biz

by Richard Whittaker

Latest Film Reviews

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and 'Deep Sky'

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Paramount Theatre Announces Star Wars, Pink Flamingos, Sin City for Summer Classics Film Series Plus Robert Rodriguez gets his star on Congress Avenue

Austin's Aaron Moten's Trip From Batboy to Fallout How one St. Ed's actor became part of the new Prime series

Tom Copeland, Behind-the-Scenes Powerhouse of Texas Film, Dies Former Texas Film Commission executive director passed last Sunday

A Trans Journalist With the Taliban in Transition Austinite Monica Villamizar on Jordan Bryon's truth in wartime

How The First Omen Broke the Curse of Legacy Sequels Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith on creating a horror they believe in

ARTS & CULTURE

Book Review: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen

New authorized biography vividly exhumes the artist’s West Texas world

by Doug Freeman

Book Review: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen

New authorized biography vividly exhumes the artist’s West Texas world

by Doug Freeman

Book Review: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen New authorized biography vividly exhumes the artist’s West Texas world

Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events It'd be a lot cooler if you went to one of these events this week

Theatre Review: The Baron’s Men Presents Romeo and Juliet The Curtain Theatre’s BYOB outdoor production is a magical night out

200 Ryans Converge Downtown to Celebrate Their Ryan-ness Jumping on the Ryan Rodeo

Squirrel Fest, a Bidi Bidi Birthday, and More Community Events Plan your week with some of our recommended happenings around town

COLUMNS

The Austin Chronic: Austin Documentarian Links Up With Jimmy Kimmel for Reality Series High Hopes

New Hulu show captures organic humor among dispensary misfits

by Kevin Curtin

The Off Beat: Celebrating Nané Day, Two Years After Daniel Sahad’s Death

Soulful funk-rock band, with special guests, plays Empire April 7

by Carys Anderson

Qmmunity: Short n’ Sweet

More events, less column is just what the editor ordered

by James Scott

Day Trips: Boutte’s Boudin Cajun Market and Deli, Lumberton

Authentic Cajun food in the woods north of Beaumont

by Gerald E. McLeod