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A Good Time to Be Lawrence Wright
With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment
Fusebox Festival Review: Magdalena Jarkowiec’s In Here
Are we all just doing a dance in a box?
Hot Luck Offers Discount for Chronicle Readers
Get tickets this weekend and save some money on all the food and fun
Moontower Comedy 2018: Ali Siddiq
The Houston comedian on taking his act back behind bars
Songs for the Stoned
Hip-hop and psych rock 4/20 playlists
Voter Registration Closes on April 23
Monday deadline for May 22 run-off election looms
State’s Teen Pregnancy Booklet Riddled With Anti-Choice Propaganda
Pregnant minors in foster care given medically inaccurate literature
DVDanger: Mohawk
Ted Geoghegan on blood and lessons in his historical drama
CodeNEXT Public Hearings Open to Austin Residents
When and where you can give feedback on the land use code rewrite
Amy Adams Coming to ATX Television Fest
Plus NatGeo and Shondaland confirmed for small screen celebration
Tyler Mount’s Broadway Success
Playbill vlog king hosts High School Musical Theatre Awards
LBJ Library Celebrates Fight for Equality in American Sports
The “Get in the Game” exhibition’s opening ceremony is April 21
Connor Clegg Impeached at Texas State
A student government showdown in San Marcos
Moontower Comedy 2018: Julio Torres
Here comes the Space Prince, but don’t worry about his bangs
Go Go Gourmet Says Goodbye
Craig Long announces the closing of his campus-area restaurant
Charitable Battle of the Flavors at Tèo
Local gelateria gives a new definition to culinary goodness
Mohsin Hamid Speaks to Mayor’s Book Club
Author fills Central Library for talk about his Exit West
Levitation Returns
Levitation is back to bring psychedelic, rock, electronic, drone, and other outré and popular sounds to town.
Moontower Comedy 2018: Shmanners
Travis and Teresa McElroy demystify social dos and don’ts
Utopia Fest Announces New Location and Lineup
Music festival lands in Burnet County
Fusebox Festival 2018 Is Still (In Part) Available for You
Didn’t make early reservations? Wait, wait, check this out –
2018 Arts Hall of Famers Announced
Kleins, Hamrick, Naimpally, and Blumensaadt to be inducted
Afridrilles, Shoes From Africa to Austin and Beyond
Local nonprofit helps children with special needs via Kickstarter
Wim Wenders Talks About Submergence
The self-avowed German romantic on his new film
ATX Food Truck Festival Premieres This Sunday
All manner of non-brick-and-morter eateries will be on hand
Ibeyi Transmits
Sisters prove the measure of their society
A Primer to CinemaTexas Rewind
From Jester Auditorium decades ago to AFS Cinema, present day
SBOE Passes Mexican-American Studies, but Whitewashes the Name
Right-wing board member objects to “hyphenated Americanism”
Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend
Right before all those, you know, festivals rock the city sideways
Baja
Kerouac-loving road trip stalls out fast.
Submergence
Europe’s great sentimentalist explores the mysteries of separation.
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Charming, old-fashioned true story of one brave pupper.
Borg vs McEnroe
Tennis’ greatest feud re-evaluated as an inner battle.
Rampage
The Rock! The ape! The lizard! The … flying wolf?
Ismael’s Ghosts
French drama follows the artist split between two women.
Sweet Country
The modern Western goes to Northern Australia.
Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare
Truth or dare? We say pass on this demonic schlock.
An Ordinary Man
Oscar winner Ben Kingsley as a war criminal on the run.
Chappaquiddick
The car crash that changed America.
Ramen Heads
What’s cooking in the world’s greatest ramen shops?
You Were Never Really Here
Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger’s tragedy.
Texas Platters
Abhi the Nomad comes by his moniker honestly. Son of an Indian diplomat, Abhi Sridharan Vaidehi spent much of his 24 years globe-trotting, home base changing eight times before he turned 18. That constant movement informs his debut full-length Marbled, which pairs bright beats with subtly gritty raps grappling with urban loneliness and isolation. Acoustic…
Oops!
Last week’s News story “Feds Move Closer to Removing Vireo From Endangered Species List” incorrectly identified one of the organizations that said it would support removing the black-capped vireo from the endangered species list as the Environmental Working Group. In fact, it was the Environmental Defense Fund. In “Point Austin: Partly Cloudy With a Chance…
Affordable Housing With CodeNEXT
Also starring the People’s Plan and Housing Justice Agenda
Texas Platters
Where electrified anxiety drove his second full-length Absolutely Crazy to quarterlife anthemics, the Elephant in the Room (Patrick Dunn) immediately stakes a grounded vibe for its follow-up in commencing Fucking Fuck Fuck Fuck by isolating Loleatta Holloway’s guttural screams from her 1980 disco jam “Love Sensation.” At first, it appears an innocuous event, but the…
From Tibet to the Indian Ocean
Indie Meme highlights the diverse visions of South Asian cinema
Texas Platters
Izzy Cox’s voice spanned postwar jazz, Southern blues, and outlaw country atop twanging, hollow-body guitar slides and old-time roots on originals such as “Bad Bad Woman.” On the sprawling Songs of Life and Death: An Izzy Cox Tribute Album, Vol. 1, Joleen Heilman begins the song somber, her voice steadily unfurling into a howl (“I…
Want to Be a Justice of the Peace?
County judge accepting applications for visiting justices
Texas Platters
“You can’t think when your mind is closed,” shouts Al B. Damned over the careening, locomotive opening track to No Class. “That’s why I’m all opposed.” Bullet-train pace and demo-like production means you’d be forgiven for thinking this Austin DIY quintet is the second coming of Minor Threat. Then they downshift to still-speedy but less-hardcore…
Where Have We Heard That Before?
Perennial notes in city politics …
The Luv Doc: A Black Lexus
Racing to close the gates of hell
Texas Platters
Professionally recorded by drummer Drew LeClair, the Awful Lot’s debut hurtles through high-speed snot-rockets such as “I’m a Wreck” and “No Call No Show” like Pennywise’s booze-breath River City cousins one minute, and then in the next breath swings through the Irish-flavored “A Chorus of Booze” as if they were Dropkick Murphys’ dopey little brothers.…
Council: The Bird Is the Word
Rollin’ into City Council, invited or not
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
If you were Bart and Lisa’s age during the first few seasons of The Simpsons, this year you’d be the age of Homer and Marge. Women accounted for 52% of moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada in 2016, according to the most recent annual study by the Motion Picture Association of America. The bootlace worm…
Texas Platters
New quartet helmed by the local punk scene’s mom and pop, CJ and Rich Atrain (moonlighting from Animal Train), Sugar Pill coats an angsty, mostly midtempo proposition. Singer snarling like a PiL-era John Lydon plopped into a 1981 Orange County act, tunes highlighted by “Monsters” are thick-toned, moody soundtracks for picking psychic scabs. The title…
UT Policy Change Coincides With Professor’s Sudden Death
University more likely to punish employees who commit criminal acts off campus
Egg White Alternatives for Bartenders and Bakers
Foam over function
Texas Platters
TJ Robinson fronts possibly the funniest, most manic of local speedrock outfits as an equally entertaining spaz. Across their 14-song debut (average track length: 54 seconds), Hans Gruber & the Die Hards careen between blistering hardcore (“It Just Doesn’t Matter,” “My Bad Luck”), ska-core workouts (“We’re All Gonna Die,” “Sheer Tyranny of Will”), a near-garage…
Strategizing a City Budget
Finance staff delivers tentative 2019 forecast
Health-Conscious Alpaca Market’s Vending Machines Serve Jars of Fresh Food
Goodbye Little Debbie, hello kale salad
Texas Platters
For some odd reason, guys who used to populate the Motards (bassist Toby Marsh), Chumps (singer Sean McGowan and drummer Aaron Fox, also of Eastside Suicides), and Red Leaves and Bitter Birds (guitarist David Lujan) thought the world ached for a concept album about working odd jobs, mostly lawn servicing. They were right. McGowan drawling…
Columbus Crew News: Delay of Game?
Legalese in Ohio could slow soccer team’s move to Austin
Snapshot: HONK!TX
Celebrating the sousaphone
Gay Place
Die Felicia scares up a new night and Cheer Ups celebrates eight years with Lez Wedding
Giddyup to the Home Movie Round-Up
Texas Archive of the Moving Image needs your old tapes
Josh T. Pearson Record Review
The Straight Hits! (Mute)
The Many Projects of Lawrence Wright
From TV to the stage the local writer has been busy
Public Notice: People’s Housing Justice
What Council can do that’s not CodeNEXT
Review: The Elegant but Irreverent Southern Fare of Colleen’s Kitchen
Mueller’s food scene gets elevated
Street Corner Arts’ Grounded
Every element of this production works together to get us inside the head of a troubled military flyer
Beside the Point: Everybody’s Got the Right
Concerning the fate of Mark Conditt’s confession
Capital T Theatre’s I and You
Lauren Gunderson’s play uses Whitman’s “Song of Myself” as a vehicle for two teens on the cusp of adulthood to explore identity
Headlines
City Council meets today (April 12) for what should be a brief session dominated by purchasing and various other contracts and a few zoning questions. See “The Bird Is the Word,” April 13. The Chimene Onyeri trial, into charges that he attempted to murder District Judge Julie Kocurek in November of 2015, entered its third…
“Clarissa Tossin: Meeting the Waters” at the Blanton
The Brazilian artist explores the confluence of globalization’s streams of production through the Amazon
Quote of the Week: Ryan Robinson
Austin’s city demographer dishes on the census
UT Professor on the Making of Texas Film Epic Giant
Don Graham’s Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
Playback: The Greyhounds Hoof It
Groove-mongering R&B duo the Greyhounds get mule-headed, S.S. Hangover floats Laguna Gloria, and the Austin Music Commission overlooks music hub
Tell It to the Judge
Jimmy Flannigan’s shake-up at the Municipal Court
Day Trips: Warbird Flights
A few of the vintage airplanes still welcome passengers
God-Fearing, Honky-Tonk Man Josh T. Pearson Tries to Play It Straight
Airplay with the Lord
Texas Platters
El Paso transplants Holy Wave bathe listeners in dreamy distortion, languid layers of keyboard-prominent psychedelia flowing inevitably toward a distant shore. On fourth voyage Adult Fear, the local fivepiece hunkers down behind drummer Julian Ruiz and Dustin Zozaya on bass, the rhythm duo fusing the group’s undeniable lysergic identity with Ariel Pink-style freak pop and…
Soccer Watch
Boston fans can rejoice at having two teams in the European Champions League semifinals, as Liverpool (owned by Fenway Sports Group) and Roma (co-owned by Celtics co-owner Jim Pallotta) advanced to the final four along with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. The shocker was Roma, who handed streaking Barcelona their first defeat in any competition…
Judge Finds Texas Violated National Voter Registration Act
Motor voter mayhem
Rape Kit Backlog Reaches Zero
Kits have been sent out for testing, but the wait continues
Felony Charges Dropped in “Facebook Threat” Case
Justin Carter pleas out to class A misdemeanor
The Propagandists in Our Backyard
KEYE CBS partakes in Orwellian pro-Trump script
