Black Pumas Cap Banner Week with ACL Taping
Lightning in a bottle
Sen. Cory Booker Tells Austin to Embrace the “Moral Moment” We’re In
Presidential candidate spoke Wednesday at Cheer Up Charlies
DCCC Targets Trump’s Trade War
National digital ad campaign hits consumer costs
Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup
Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more
Traveling Through Time at the Speed of Life
Director Liz Manashil on a romance across time … and Bowie
One in a Crowd: A Stray Dog’s Ruff Life
Help a new animal welfare documentary crowdfund its way to festivals
Behind the Camera With the Capital City Black Film Festival
Celebration of film places more emphasis on making it into the industry
Designer and Fashion Columnist Stephen MacMillan Moser Passes Away at 61
Your Style Avatar loses battle with cancer
ACL Fest 2019
Oct. 4-6, Oct. 11-13 at Zilker Park Edging toward two full decades in Zilker Park, this year’s C3-presented ACL Music Fest packs the first two weekends in October with 130 international and homegrown artists across eight stages. Hungry? The festival now offers two ACL Eats locations at different spots in the park, accepting cash, debit,…
aGLIFF Review: Transfinite
SF anthology feature shows lives as limitless as nature
aGLIFF Review: A Dog Barking at the Moon
Chinese-Spanish drama embraces its theatrical magic
Weeknight Drag Roundup
The party shouldn’t stop when you clock in.
Third Court of Appeals Rejects Convention Center Ballot Language
Unconventionalists win a round against Council
Hot Sauce Festival Winners 2019
The judges and people have spoken (and scorched their palates)
8 Austin Education Opportunities for Adult Learners
Get your GED, find your passion, take a class, or just nerd out for a night
How The Pulse Nightclub Massacre Transformed “Conversion Therapist”
Local horror-tinged short makes the personal political
This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: What’s Next for Marijuana in Texas
Kevin Curtin and Jessi Cape talk weed, hot sauce, and summer songs
Council Tackles Property Tax Rate, 4700 Riverside, Gun Violence
Wheels in motion for upcoming adoption of FY 2020 budget
Erica Nix’s New Show Promises This Is Not a Cult
Get swept up in communal aspect of spiritual sweep-ups
Deals for Austin Restaurant Weeks Continue
Dine at award-winning restaurants and help Central Texas Food Bank
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life Revealed at Austin Film Festival
Kasi Lemmons’ Harriet Tubman biopic also joins lineup
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
An assassination, a conspiracy, and decades of secrets unlocked in this chilling documentary
One Child Nation
Inside China’s 36-year war on women’s bodies
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
New sharks, who dis?
Overcomer
God and running in this faith-based drama
Ready or Not
Party games will be the death of Samara Weaving in this raucous black comedy
Love, Antosha
The fascinating but fleeting life of Anton Yelchin given due reverence
Angel Has Fallen
An unexpected twist in the franchise is all for the better
aGLIFF Goes Behind the Flounce and Bounce of Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts spotlights the Drag Race alum and musician
Quote of the Week
“We hope the persistence and close cooperation among all organizations will inspire others in continuing to make Austin a place where ‘all’ means ‘all.'” – Anna Nguyen of PFLAG Austin, one of the leaders of the yearlong protest against anti-LGBTQ Celebration Church’s use of the Austin ISD Performing Arts Center; the church announced this week…
Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis Step Into Their Third Act
Chronicle Hot Sauce headliners look ahead to the next waltz
aGLIFF Honoree Rose Troche Looks Back at Go Fish
Director remembers her era-defining directorial debut
Abbott Appoints Domestic Terrorism Task Force in El Paso’s Wake
Thoughts, prayers, committees
How Much Reform Is Enough in the Travis County District Attorney Race?
Incumbent D.A. Margaret Moore faces challengers from the left
Six Documentaries Not to Miss at AGLIFF
From strong voices to strong representation, true stories being told at the LGBTQ+ film festival
Judge Chantal Eldridge Under Fire in Rape Case
D.A. seeks judge’s recusal in sexual assault case awaiting sentencing
Residents to Vote for Hotel Occupancy Tax Allocation, Soccer
County, city grapple for hotel dollars
Improviser Shannon Stott Brings Some Lord of the Rings to Out of Bounds
The Gandalf of improv is all over the comedy festival
Former City Council Candidate Runs for U.S. Senate, Nobel Peace Prize
Put that in your dyad and smoke it
For Council, No Easy Next Steps After Lifting Camping Ban
Austin’s homelessness strategy turns to housing
Bringing Real-World Trauma to Action Blockbuster Angel Has Fallen
Ric Roman Waugh flies on broken wings
Cap Metro Creates New Way to Get to Campus
Streamlining the passage from Downtown to the Drag
The More the Merrier Finds Fun in Creative Sleeping Arrangements
Room for one more at AFS Cinema
Waller Creek Conservancy Rebrands to Waterloo Greenway
Don’t worry, the creek hasn’t changed its name
The Luv Doc: The Man of Your Dreams
Either you care how people are dressed, or you don’t
Austin FC Soccer Stadium Groundbreaking Nears
Major league organization preps to quickly build new stadium
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The words “whisky” (Scotland) and “whiskey” (Ireland) are from the Scots-Gaelic “uisge-beatha” which is a direct translation of the Latin aqua vitae or “water of life.” The fortune cookie was invented by either a Chinese man named David Jung in 1918 in Los Angeles, or a Japanese man named Makota Hagiwara in 1914 in San…
Austin ISD Gets Its State Report Card
The district gets a B for performance
Pam Pritchard Serves Up Unpretentious Hospitality at the Tigress Pub
The Tigress of North Loop heads Austin’s coziest neighborhood pub
Zach Theatre’s Ann
This revival of Holland Taylor’s play replaces Ann Richards the Lone Star icon with the everyday Texan who faced challenges head-on
It’s About Much More Than Just Hot Sauce
Welcome to the 29th Annual Hot Sauce Festival
“Shana Hoehn: Hauntings” at Women & Their Work
Vintage hood ornaments are reimagined as sculptures that expose the historically distorted treatment of women’s bodies
2019 Hot Sauce Contest & Festival Facts
Everything you need to know to attend the celebration of spice
Day Trips: Spider Mountain Bike Park
Round the mountain at Spider Mountain Bike Park
Hot Sauce Festival Celebrity Judges
This year’s distinguished panel includes…
Soccer Watch
Peace in the Valley? Austin Bold owner Bobby Epstein’s Fair Play Austin PAC this week renounced the ballot initiative it helped spawn – widely seen as an attempt to derail Austin FC and its stadium deal – with a press release, announcing: “In its current condition, passing Proposition A would do more harm than the…
Qmmunity: Fangirling Over Austin’s Queer Film Fest
Plus make marriage with p1nkstar and Y2K, and Erica Nix promises no cults
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 22, 2019
For Foodies Looking for Adventure, Local Hot Sauces Keep Getting Hotter
Do you yearn to burn? You have options.
Austin At Large: For the Price of a Policeman
The cost of public safety, in different community currencies
Faster Than Sound: Empire Control Room Owners Purchase Longtime Location
Seventh Street venue takes charge of its live music destiny
Headlines
Shuffling State Secretaries: Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Workforce Commission Chair Ruth Ruggero Hughs as his new secretary of state, succeeding David Whitley, who failed to receive Senate confirmation after a botched purge of statewide voter registration records targeting alleged “noncitizens.” Whitley resigned at the end of legislative session; Ruggero Hughs won’t face a confirmation…
Council Members To Back Abortion Support Budget Measure
Garza, Casar plan support for $100K in abortion assistance
