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New Local Service Looks to Change the Way You Eat
At 4am on Monday mornings, when the vast majority of Austinites are still tangled in sheets, chef Raad Mansour is steaming butternut squash for his recently launched meal delivery service, Austin Food Company.

2:45PM Mon. Jul. 31, 2017, Kali Venable Read More | Comment »

Plax Coalesces
Exactly one year after their arrival on the scene, Plax, an Austin quartet spewing a revolutionary mixture of post-punk, basement hardcore, and outsider rock, unleashes debut full-length Clean Feeling on Aug. 11 through local imprint Super Secret Records.

1:00PM Mon. Jul. 31, 2017, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

DPS Pulls Back on Forensics Charges
Turns out the Department of Public Safety will not be charging law enforcement for forensic work after all. A week after announcing a fee implementation for DNA testing and alcohol, toxicology, and controlled substances analysis, DPS rescinded the proposed charges on Friday (July 28), hours after Gov. Greg Abbott instructed the department to do so.

11:15AM Mon. Jul. 31, 2017, Sarah Marloff Read More | Comment »

C3 Buys the Scoot Inn
The Scoot Inn, one of East Austin’s oldest watering holes, is changing hands. A source with knowledge of the deal confirms that ACL Fest producers C3 Presents acquired the business late last week and the locks have already been changed.

10:45AM Mon. Jul. 31, 2017, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

Transgender Comics Anthology “We’re Still Here” Nails Kickstarter to the Crowdfunding Wall
Holy Winsor McCay, there’s a daunting multitude of comics anthologies in this world! So many, many, many anthologies of copiously illustrated stories, of sequential-art narratives, already in existence. And sometimes it seems that there’s another one being published, like, every single goddamn day. Y'know?

9:00AM Mon. Jul. 31, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

DVDanger: Willard
Name a film that isn't automatically made weirder adding Crispin Glover. Correct, you're thinking of Willard, the Seventies strangest horror/crime hybrid that he remade in 2003 and yet could not make a lick more bizarre. After all, how much stranger can you make rat burglary?

8:00AM Sat. Jul. 29, 2017, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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John Kelso, R.I.P.
It's the undoubted end of an era in Texas reporting today, as the Austin American-Statesman reports that veteran columnist John Kelso has died at the age of 73.

3:20PM Fri. Jul. 28, 2017, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Live Music to See This Weekend
Hitting the summer slumps? Try a sonic solution. Pack your Friday through Sunday with the music team's cherry-picked recommendations.

11:45AM Fri. Jul. 28, 2017, The Music Staff Read More | Comment »

DVDanger: Camera Obscura
There's a revolution going on in Austin horror, and with his supernatural debut feature, Camera Obscura, writer/director Aaron B. Koontz is part of its blood-splattered vanguard.

8:00AM Fri. Jul. 28, 2017, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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