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The State of Trans Health Care
Gender affirming care in Austin is improving. But by how much? And how far must it still go?
Court: Texas House Districts Unlawful, Unconstitutional
Panel of judges rules 2-1 against drawing of 2011 maps
New Books Blooming Through the Blockchain
Google + Visual Editions = Books x Internet
Nancy Pelosi Visits the New Seton
Dem leader and Lloyd Doggett lead roundtable on Obamacare
Still No Vote on the Bathroom Bill “Compromise”
After five hours of public testimony, HB 2899 sits in limbo
Earth Day 101: All Things Consignment
Clean the city and your guilty conscience
Day Trips & Beyond: Texas Springs Under Threat
Visit these five watering holes while you can
Bullock Museum Screens Bonnie and Clyde
Texas Focus series spotlights seminal Sixties film
Earth Day: Parks Through Prints
See America’s natural wonders via the Fifty-Nine Parks Series
Dawn of the Code
CodeNEXT maps released by city staff, presented to Council
Kraken Quartet Unseals the Gates
Polyrhythmic Austinites preview debut LP
The Dystopia of Perfection in Teleios
Other Worlds Austin brings class systems to space travel
Métier Cook’s Supply to Call It Quits
Lenoir team to focus on restaurant
Housing Blueprint Strategery
City Council works Merck, Housing Plan, Austin Oaks PUD
Chronicle Recommends: Baseball Films
Four picks step up to bat for your attention
Nacho Vigalondo on Colossal
Combining the mediocre and cosmic with the creature feature director
Gifted
A child prodigy gets caught up in a custody battle
Colossal
Toxic masculinity melds with a monster movie
The Fate of the Furious
The car thieves are back to save the world
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
Doc on the men behind the astronauts
Tommy’s Honour
Lacking biopic on the game of golf
Their Finest
How to make a propaganda film in World War II England
The Void
A gory serving of cosmic horror
The 2017 Indie Meme Film Fest
Bringing in the best of South Asian films
Jarrott Productions’ The Herd
In this staging of Rory Kinnear’s domestic drama, a birthday celebration reveals the stress fractures of caring for a disabled child
Public Notice: More and Cheaper Housing
Demographer’s report offers new perspectives
Readily Apparent Media on Their Basketball Doc
Local production house goes for the fast break
One Ounce Opera’s Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera II
Austin’s One Ounce Opera juices the night away
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City Council meets today, April 13, with a theme of housing that includes potential adoption of the Strategic Housing Plan and arguments over housing (and many other things) for the Austin Oaks PUD. For those and more, see “Council: Our House, in the Middle of the Corridor,” Apr. 14. Civil Matters: District Attorney Margaret Moore…
My Favorite My Favorite Murder
When comedians Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstack talk homicide, people listen
“Anne Siems: Weaving” at Wally Workman Gallery
The disembodied heads that populate this solo exhibition suggest departed women but are still beautiful and empowered
Quote of the Week
D.A. Margaret Moore discusses her new Civil Rights Division
Day Trips: Krause’s Cafe, New Braunfels
Famous German restaurant is back with a beautiful new bierhalle and 80 beers on tap
Soccer Watch
A bombshell in the European Champions League quarterfinals Tuesday: Three actually – literal bombshells, exploded next to the Borussia Dortmund team bus, wrecking the bus, hospitalizing one player, and causing a postponement of the game with Monaco (replayed the next day with the visitors winning, 3-2). Elsewhere, Juventus, Atlético Madrid, and Real Madrid all scored…
Celis Brewery Returns
The revitalization of Austin’s first big-time brewery
Page Two: It’s Not That We Can’t Handle the Truth but That We No Longer Want To
Forget about The brotherly and other-ly love Motherly love Is just the thing for you You know your Mothers’ gonna love ya Till ya don’t know what to do “Motherly Love,” Frank Zappa The above song the Mothers of Invention described as a “body commercial for the band.” What follows appears to be a rant…
Desperately Seeking City Manager
Council to create a City Manager Search Advisory Task Force on Thursday
Carrie Elkin’s Life-and-Death Folk
Her father’s death and daughter’s birth upped the stakes of the singer’s finest work
Carrie Elkin Record Review
The Penny Collector
Sekrit Theater for Sale
Current price for Beau Reichert’s Eastside theatre: $3.5 million
Council: Our House, in the Middle of the Corridor
Council considers strategic housing … again
Playback: Greetings From Euphoria
Austin’s best spring festival – correction, “experience” – faces competition after idyllic sixth year
Officer-Involved Shootout?
“Sometimes perceptions are not always 100% accurate,” says Chief Manley
Texas Platters
The dichotomy of Will Johnson’s impulses, long held between the aggressive guitars of former outfit Centro-matic and the darker, solemn pull of his solo outings or country tinge of South San Gabriel, both rise at the outset of his fifth solo LP. Opener “Childress (To Ogden)” slowly folds an easy, moaning melody into Ricky Ray…
D.A. Unveils New Civil Rights Division
Moore says division will replace Critical Incident Unit
Texas Platters
Lone Star song whisperers (octogenarians Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson), their inheritors (septuagenarians Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, Billy Joe Shaver), and great grand inheritors (sexagenarians Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen) left a palpable void for the half-century set: Slaid Cleaves, Bruce Robison, Darden Smith. Out of the lot, the longtime local latter from the…
Lege Lines: Don’t Blame the Death Worm
The Texas House wants to kill off “film incentives”
The Luv Doc: Buy the Snake
They say it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird
Texas Platters
Greg Vanderpool perfects the sound of epic sparseness on Pilot. As with previous ATX outfits Milton Mapes and Monahans, the local songwriter works in dramatic slow builds, winding tighter and tighter but never quite breaking into a release. Opening his second solo LP, “Be My Eyes” blankets blues lines in reverb, while “To Violet” leads…
Bills Grant Texas Doctors Legal Cover to Mislead Pregnant Women
Is the Lege giving doctors a license to lie?
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
There are at least 15 different bands named the Spazmatics across the country, all using the same schtick of nerds playing songs from the Eighties. The original group formed in 1983 when Kevin Stigwood, a high school physics teacher in Thousand Oaks, Calif., lost a bet with a student and performed “She Blinded Me With…
Texas Platters
OctProj staked its claim with sprawling instrumental, cinematic soundscapes, which made the local quartet’s forays into video game and film scoring a natural transition. After several such projects in a row, Memory Mirror reacts with fast and decidedly concise songs. The Austinites’ sixth album blasts off on “Prism Riot,” a one-minute beach rock blip led…
Say What?
Debunking team Anti-Choice’s favorite terms
Gay Place
Stay informed, stay enraged, and surround yourself with good people
Texas Platters
The advantage of a project like Cotton Mather leader Robert Harrison’s songs for every hexagram in the I Ching is that there’s little pause between releases. Wild Kingdom, second chapter in the Austin guitar pop band’s magnum opus, thus arrives eight months after last year’s sterling Death of the Cool. If the latter spun a…
Bill of the Week: We the People
Rewriting the Constitution is as easy as 1, 2, 3
Review: Kuneho
Does Paul Qui’s new concept offer redemption?
Texas Platters
Austin native Lili Blessing’s billowy vocals and soft melodies imbue a poignant vulnerability that only a 20-year-old could deliver on a debut full-length such as Lifeline. Seemingly untethered by the madness that encompasses the 21st century, Sara Hickman’s singer-songwriter daughter welcomes us into her world with 11 songs showcasing the qualms that come with her…
The Hightower Report: The Sad Saga of John Stumpf
Talk about a racket
Dear Glutton: Dining With Newborns
Do babies belong in nice restaurants?
Texas Platters
Literal translation of chthonic is “subterranean,” but its use in Greek deals with sacrifices made to deities in the looming underworld. A fitting title for Julia Lucille’s dark, otherworldly third album, which sounds like it hangs in the balance between life and what comes after, both aching and hopeful. Nine tracks of feminine, swaying, and…
Point Austin: The Way Things Are
Another victory for judicial fairness leads to … more discrimination at the polls
Saldaña Quits AISD Board
Trustee cites workload for abrupt exit
In Memoriam: Lashonda Lester
Remembering the Queen of Austin Comedy, who died April 6
