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TODAY'S EVENTS

Antone's Blues Benefit for Sarah Barlow w/ Bear Ryan, Kathy & the Kilowatts, Elijah Zane, Sarah Barlow, Matthew Brodnax

Antone's Nightclub

Grand Opening of Toy Joy at Thinkery & Thinkery’s 40th Birthday Bash at Thinkery

Rod Wave, Ari Lennox, Toosii, EELmatic at Moody Center

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Meet the Stoner Who Puts Plants Onstage at Concerts

Your Guide to Local Nonprofits & What They Want for the Holidays

PHOTO GALLERIES

A Look Inside UT's New Esports Arena

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Review: “The Dog Show”

Review: Maestro Is a Truly Moving Biopic of a Musical Leviathan

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Dec. 8, 2023
Vol. 43, No. 15

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COP28: A Mission Worker’s Perspective on How the Global Climate Debate Marginalizes Indigenous People Jed Koball on not repeating history’s mistakes

COP28: “It Feels Like Disneyland for Climate Enthusiasts” UT prof Michael Webber on his first time at COP

What Is Civil Society’s Role at COP28? On influence outside of the negotiating table

After Long Day of Testimony, Council Votes to End Single-Family Zoning New rules will allow three homes on every lot

Travis County Commissioner Offers a Texas Perspective on Climate Action at COP28 WATCH: Brigid Shea on local government efforts

NEWS

A Very Merry List of Junk to Gift to News Junkies

For loved ones in the good fight and those you’ve yet to indoctrinate

by the News Team

How ERCOT and the City Are Preparing for the Next Winter Storm

Mayor: "We should anticipate that we will have a big weather event"

by Lina Fisher

COP28: A Mission Worker’s Perspective on How the Global Climate Debate Marginalizes Indigenous People Jed Koball on not repeating history’s mistakes

COP28: “It Feels Like Disneyland for Climate Enthusiasts” UT prof Michael Webber on his first time at COP

What Is Civil Society’s Role at COP28? On influence outside of the negotiating table

After Long Day of Testimony, Council Votes to End Single-Family Zoning New rules will allow three homes on every lot

Travis County Commissioner Offers a Texas Perspective on Climate Action at COP28 WATCH: Brigid Shea on local government efforts

FOOD

Foodie Field Trips and More Edible Experiences to Gift This Season

Austin Chronicle Gift Guide 2023

by Rod Machen

Food-Adjacent Gifts for Drinking, Cooking, and Entertaining

Stylish textiles, cutting boards, Austin bar guide, and more

by Melanie Haupt

Food-Adjacent Gifts for Drinking, Cooking, and Entertaining Stylish textiles, cutting boards, Austin bar guide, and more

Gift This: Iconic Austin Wearable Merch These bars and restaurants keep Austinites well fed, well quaffed, and well dressed

Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of December 7, 2023

Soup to Nuts for the Holidays Gift your besties some soupy and/or nutty goodness this year

Foodie Field Trips and More Edible Experiences to Gift This Season Austin Chronicle Gift Guide 2023

MUSIC

A Gift Guide for the Austin Music Fan in Your Life

Try a Nineties Austin oral history, Willie birthday LP, or BLK ODYSSY ashtray

Me Nd Adam’s Keep Austin Cheer’d and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Get in the holiday spirit with Spaceflight Records or Spiritualized

Me Nd Adam’s Keep Austin Cheer’d and More Crucial Concerts This Week Get in the holiday spirit with Spaceflight Records or Spiritualized

Texas State Professors’ New Book Recontextualizes Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird” To explore “how Black musicians sang the Beatles into being”

A Gift Guide for the Austin Music Fan in Your Life Try a Nineties Austin oral history, Willie birthday LP, or BLK ODYSSY ashtray

Free Week Announces January 2024 Lineup, and More Music News Power Trip reunited at Mohawk; Sonic Guild divvied grants at ACL Live

Commission Considers Making Venues Eligible for the Live Music Fund As grants from this year’s program roll out to 368 recipients

SCREENS

From Revolution to Entertainment in We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C.

Chronicle writer Joe Gross goes documentarian for the hardcore pioneers

by Tim Stegall

Latest Film Reviews

Maestro, The Boy and the Heron, and Poor Things

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Varsity Mural Finally Complete With New Image From Slacker Empty 13th frame now filled by the iconic Teresa Taylor

From Revolution to Entertainment in We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C. Chronicle writer Joe Gross goes documentarian for the hardcore pioneers

Everything Everywhere All at Once Directors Return to South By Southwest Daniels, Kara Swisher, AI, Mobile Suit Gundam for fest

Lost Cinema Reopening in East Austin Blue Starlite teams with Millennium for community initiative

Zero Charisma Celebrates 10th Anniversary at AFS Cinema Role-playing comedy rolls a 10

ARTS & CULTURE

Gift Guide: The Movie of the Book

Five page-turners for the film fan in your life who wants the whole story

by Richard Whittaker

Review: Broadway in Austin’s My Fair Lady

Sharp-tongued classic musical still needs to fix its modern ending

by Richard Whittaker

Gift Guide: The Movie of the Book Five page-turners for the film fan in your life who wants the whole story

Gift Guide: Tabletop Gaming From Austin Rolling the dice on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is just one way to kill some time over the holidays

Review: Broadway in Austin’s My Fair Lady Sharp-tongued classic musical still needs to fix its modern ending

Austin Public Library Services No shortage of fun at library in December

Moontower Just for Laughs Austin Goes Big Comedy fest adds arena shows from Andrew Schulz, Shane Gillis

COLUMNS

Day Trips: Buffalo Bayou Cistern, Houston

Cistern Illuminated sends a tsunami of light through the former underground drinking water reservoir

by Gerald E. McLeod

Qmmunity: Stop, Drop, and Shop

Qmmunity advises on what local places are best for gay gift shopping this year

by James Scott

The Luv Doc: Dark Days

A full glass of water? Who has time for that?

by The Luv Doc

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

by Mr. Smarty Pants