This time last year, we told you about the fine art school founded by Jennifer Balkan, Denise Fulton, Karen Offutt, and Karen Maness, and how it was starting up within that Eastside hotbed of creative industry called Canopy.

To paraphrase a Seventies feminist anthem: Stefanie Mannaerts is woman, hear her roar. Brutus’ singer also wails on drums as the atomic Belgium trio makes its Austin debut this weekend. Their Levitation set ignites Empire’s sold-out Sargent House showcase Friday, then Sunday they open a killer trifecta with Cave In and Helms Alee at the Parish.

Lingua Ignota, making a Levitation appearance Friday at Empire, broke out in 2017 with All Bitches Die, a masterstroke of brutality and reprisal expounding on a justifiably vengeful concept: abusing your abuser.

Final vote counts in the Tuesday Travis County election were not completed until early Wednesday morning. County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said Wednesday afternoon that voters taking away their ballot cards instead of depositing them in the ballot box meant numerous recounts.

For many in Austin's theatre community, they will remember, remember the fourth of November, as that's when the 45th annual B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards ceremony was held at the Austin Scottish Rite Theater. More than 30 shows from the 2018-19 season were honored on Monday, with five productions earning four awards apiece.

After a multi-decade legal battle, Bobby Moore, the Houston man convicted in 1981 for the capital murder of supermarket clerk James McCarble, has been spared execution.

Get ready, crime fans. ATX Television Festival is getting gritty next year, with the announcement today that two crime faves – and a lost gem – will be at the heart of next year's celebration of all things small screen.

At close of early and mail-in voting Friday, Nov. 1, 48,415 Travis Countians – a whopping 6.02% of registered voters – had cast their ballots.

You are good enough. A simple message every kid — and adult — deserves to hear.