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Faster Than Sound: The Austin Music Census Returns While the Live Music Fund Faces Delays

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Vol. 41, No. 39

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Project Transitions Campaign for Supportive Housing Kicks Off Local HIV nonprofit's campaign will fund two new facilities

We've Got Festivals, and Ramen Tatsu-ya Chilled Noodles, and Much Tasty Booze and Brunches Galore, and – um, What Happened to That Chicken Salad Shoppe? All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

The Drop-In Music Series Returns to the Long Center Lawn Weekly shows are free but capacity is limited

The Mystery of the Mysterines Why did I fly 1,500 miles to see Liverpool’s sixth best act?

Foundation Communities Pushing To Complete 1,000 Units In 5 Years Housing nonprofit working on 8 new properties throughout town

NEWS

Be It Flood or Fire, Austin Is Preparing for Disasters to Come

Austin residents must be prepared for hell or high water

by Lina Fisher

Austin at Large: Neither Slumber Nor Sleep

We will be othered, threatened, vilified, even fired upon. We must not let it stop us.

by Mike Clark-Madison

Project Transitions Campaign for Supportive Housing Kicks Off Local HIV nonprofit's campaign will fund two new facilities

Foundation Communities Pushing To Complete 1,000 Units In 5 Years Housing nonprofit working on 8 new properties throughout town

Elizalde Bails Out of Austin ISD, And There Was Much Rejoicing (And Great Anxiety) Short-time superintendent leaves budget, morale crises behind

Council Recap: Once-Sacred Neighborhood Protections Battered by Austin's Affordability Crisis Are taller buildings with less parking the answer?

City Blamed After Break-Ins at Future Housing for People Exiting Homelessness Former Candlewood Suites hotel broken into and vandalized

FOOD

The Beergardigans Return: Austin Kids Grade Local Breweries

The second installment with your beer garden friends

by Eric Puga

We've Got Festivals, and Ramen Tatsu-ya Chilled Noodles, and Much Tasty Booze and Brunches Galore, and – um, What Happened to That Chicken Salad Shoppe?

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

by Wayne Alan Brenner

The First Annual Texas Wine Auction A fun and classy start to a new tradition

The Return of Hot Luck Aaron Franklin's food and music fest is about more than just chilling with your homies

For Those About to Eat: A Menu of Music at Hot Luck Shannon & the Clams, Sweet Spirit, Colleen Green, Superchunk, and DJ Jazzy Jeff make the cuisine scene

Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of May 19, 2022

Argus Cidery Returns, Lou’s Comes to Barton Springs Road, Hip Hotels Hype that Hemp, Fierce Whiskers Hosts Loro, Chi’Lantro Goes South, and More All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

MUSIC

After a Relapse Into Addiction Quietly Broke Up Street Sects, the Duo Has Exorcised Their Demons

The Gentrification V seven-inch hit last week, but Austin experimentalists are focusing on a balanced existence instead of rushing anticipated third LP

by Julian Towers

Faster Than Sound: The Austin Music Census Returns While the Live Music Fund Faces Delays

A spring music ecosystem news roundup with all those familiar players: the Austin Music Census, Live Music Fund, and HAAM

by Rachel Rascoe

The Drop-In Music Series Returns to the Long Center Lawn Weekly shows are free but capacity is limited

The Mystery of the Mysterines Why did I fly 1,500 miles to see Liverpool’s sixth best act?

Last Week in Live Music: The Eagles, Phoebe Bridgers, Megafauna, and More 51 photos by David Brendan Hall

Singer-Songwriter Lizzy Lehman Finds “Sweet Relief” New single with Project Traction lifts the lid on letting go

With “themesong” Video, Mobley Introduces Injustice-Fighting Masked Man Persona Musician & filmmaker trekked to Johannesburg to shoot latest project

SCREENS

The 48 Hour Film Project Celebrates 20 Years in Austin

The fastest movies in Texas

by Sage Dunlap

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The Bob’s Burgers Movie, Montana Story, and Top Gun: Maverick

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Panic Fest 2022: Dashcam Screen life horror works because you hate the "hero"

Two New Music Documentaries About New Orleans Merge Genres and Generations A river runs through it

Other Worlds Goes Delving into the UnderWorlds Senior Programmer Dan Repp digs into two days of horror

Panic Fest 2022: Woodland Grey Fear in the forest in this subtle psychological horror

Audrey Diwan Recounts a History of Abortion in Happening The French director explains why these stories are important

ARTS & CULTURE

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Gets Back Together for the Texas Burlesque Festival

The kitties of Austin's legendary burlesque troupe still have claws

by Richard Whittaker

Five Things to Keep Your Arts Account in the Black

From a fresh take on War of the Worlds to pushing back against censorship

by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ground Floor Theatre’s Dot An authentic albeit imbalanced emotional journey into dementia

Austin Gay Men’s Chorus Sings for Gen Z and Queer Community Concert looks to keep Austin young and queer’d

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Now is the Summer of our discontent after this flat jukebox

Inside Season 3 of Barry at Moontower Just for Laughs The cast spill the beans on Bill Hader's darkest secret

Shimmy Around the Globe as the Jigglewatts Celebrate World Burlesque Day Austin's sinsational artists join the international festivities

COLUMNS

Day Trips: BeeWeaver Honey Farm, Navasota

Farm offers a delicious education on essential insects

by Gerald E. McLeod

Qmmunity: Queer Latinx Joy

Cuchi Cuchi host Lavender Thug explains what makes this Latinx drag show “feel like home”

by James Scott

The Luv Doc: A Situationship

Love should be an affirmation not a concession.

by The Luv Doc

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

by Mr. Smarty Pants