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Sweet Ritual Weathers the Pandemic With More Products, More Sustainability

Meghan Shogan Carves a Career Path Through Solid Rock

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The 31st Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

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The Verde Report: Tough Decisions After Latest Damning Loss

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Vaquero Taquero Opens Second Location in Downtown Austin Saturday grand opening promises music and carne asada

Austin FC Gets Good Performance, Nothing to Show For It in Latest Loss RECAP: LAFC bests struggling club, 2-1

Super Coffee Invades, Still Austin Celebrates, Trudy's Brings the THC, Bird Bird Almost, and More All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Terror Tuesday, Weird Wednesday, Are Back! Sorry about that exclamation point, citizen, but we’re excited af

NEWS

Austin at Large: The Pleasure Is Not Ours, Sir

If GOP bad boys like Chip Roy dislike Austin so much, why not just leave us alone?

by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Oaks, Highways, and No Pickleball?

A potpourri of upcoming happenings

by Nick Barbaro

Looking for Solutions for Residents Feeling Extreme Heat UT-Austin partners with city, community orgs to mitigate local "heat island" effect

Headlines / Quote of the Week

Record-Breaking Murder Count, Still a Low Murder Rate. Huh!

Feds Escalate Legal Intervention Over SB 8 Biden's DOJ sues, files emergency motion to block Texas abortion ban

Austin at Large: The Pleasure Is Not Ours, Sir If GOP bad boys like Chip Roy dislike Austin so much, why not just leave us alone?

FOOD

Sweet Ritual Weathers the Pandemic With More Products, More Sustainability

Living the ice cream dream

by Alexandra Detmar

Vaquero Taquero Opens Second Location in Downtown Austin

Saturday grand opening promises music and carne asada

by Rachel Rascoe

Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 16, 2021

Sweet Ritual Weathers the Pandemic With More Products, More Sustainability Living the ice cream dream

Super Coffee Invades, Still Austin Celebrates, Trudy's Brings the THC, Bird Bird Almost, and More All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

The 31st Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival 73 photos by Jana Birchum

2021 Pillsbury Bake-Off Winner Austin’s Julie Holden scores big with a cookie/pancake hybrid

MUSIC

Dubbo Flipped a Dime into Rising Rap Career

North Austin rapper goes from trappin in the streets to national touring

by Derek Udensi

Heartless Bastards A Beautiful Life

Erika Wennerstrom's extraordinary personal and artistic journey reaches a new pinnacle

by Doug Freeman

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week Future Museums, Charley Crockett, Merciful Heavens, Frederico7, Eric Unusual, and Bob Schneider

Heartless Bastards A Beautiful Life A Beautiful Life

Dubbo Flipped a Dime into Rising Rap Career North Austin rapper goes from trappin in the streets to national touring

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week Chris Conde and Third Root, Bully, Robert Ellis, Lil Baby and Lil Durk, Molly Burch, and Pulkingham Layne

Asleep at the Wheel to Bring Back Distinguished Alumni and a “Super Special Guest” for 50th Anniversary Concert Tickets on sale now for Oct 15 celebration at the Moody Amphitheater

SCREENS

Getting Real Weird at Fantastic Fest

Two gems from the Weird Wednesday archive connect the genre fest to the Alamo Drafthouse's history

by Richard Whittaker

Latest Film Reviews

The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, Blue Bayou, Copshop, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Malignant, The Nowhere Inn, Prisoners of the Ghostland, and Queenpins

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Getting Real Weird at Fantastic Fest Two gems from the Weird Wednesday archive connect the genre fest to the Alamo Drafthouse's history

Terror Tuesday, Weird Wednesday, Are Back! Sorry about that exclamation point, citizen, but we’re excited af

Austin Film Society’s Doc Days Returns Third edition opens with Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

AFF Announces Second Wave Local voices are spotlighted in the new round of eight fest films

ARTS & CULTURE

Meghan Shogan Carves a Career Path Through Solid Rock

With hammer, chisels, and steel brushes in hand, the Austin artist is on a trajectory in stone

by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams" Tells the Story of an Artist

The first-ever museum exhibition of Daniel Johnston's work digs deep into the man, the myths

by Robert Faires

Terror Tuesday, Weird Wednesday, Are Back! Sorry about that exclamation point, citizen, but we’re excited af

You Have to Be High to See This Mural There’s a new 30,000-square-foot artwork on a Domain NORTHSIDE roof

Texas Book Festival Scales Back In-Person Programming COVID puts the kibosh on State Capitol as a venue

9/11 Memorial: The 20th Anniversary Claude van Lingen honors those who died on Sept. 11, 2001

LBJ Library at 50: "Lady Bird Johnson: Beyond the Willdflowers" The LBJ Library exhibit shows sides of the First Lady you may not know

COLUMNS

Day Trips: Big Ike, Denison

Giant bust of DDE welcomes visitors to his birthplace

by Gerald E. McLeod

Qmmunity: Whoa. The Matrix Is Back!

Remembering the message behind the blockbuster as a new Wachowskis opus appears on the horizon

by James Scott

The Luv Doc: Space Limitations

This is super readable!

by The Luv Doc

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

by Mr. Smarty Pants