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Austin Animator Eric Power Slices and Dices
Collage and stop-motion come together in his homemade epic Path of Blood
Live Music Worth Seeing This Weekend
Joey Bada$$, Clint Black, Oliver Rajamani, and more!
Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend
Weather’s lovely, isn’t it? Just right for going out into the city.
Denny Laine Saves the World
British Invasion pioneer played it, sang it, saw it all
in.gredients Is Closing
The high cost of Austin shutters another community venue
Do We Really Need More Superhero Movies?
We asked local artists if we’re approaching Peak Cape anytime soon
Bob Schneider’s Just Making It Up
Pre-eminent Austin Music Awards winner teases new LP
Indie Meme Film Festival Review: Ask the Sexpert
Bio-documentary of India’s Dr. Ruth
Moontower 2018 Reviews: A Comic a Day
A schooling in stand-up from Notaro, Haddish, and more
Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest
This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism
CodeNEXT Public Hearings Start Saturday
Everything you need to know about signing up to speak
Rattle Inn Closes
West Sixth honky-tonk shutters
Indie Meme Film Festival Review: Abu
Arshad Khan questions family links and the migrant experience
City Clerk Validates Petition to Put CodeNEXT on Ballot
The city’s land use code rewrite is one step closer to public vote
Moontower 2018 Review: “Weird Al” Yankovic
With his latest tour, “Weird Al” causes the nerd apocalypse
Moontower 2018 Review: Mike Birbiglia’s The New One
Birbiglia captured all the hilarity and fear of fatherhood
Old Settler’s Circle Remains Unbroken
Amidst a challenging year, OSMF’s community remains strong
Fusebox Festival Review: Water and Tears
A butoh-inspired dance for two bodies existing as one
The Breeders Endure
Saturday’s sold-out reunion at Emo’s unites all
Exploring The Endless With Benson and Moorhead
Filmmakers talk science, magic, and bickering brothers
Live Music Soundtrack for Your Weekend
Austin Reggae Festival, and more if you’re not too high
Austin Dines Out for Life and ASA
Everyone loves to eat out right?
Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend
In glorious addition to Fusebox and Moontower, of course
What Happens to Your Austin ISD Kid if They Walk Out of School Today?
The trouble with gun safety. (Pssst: It’s not much trouble at all.)
Power Up With These Animated Music Videos
Cover star Eric Power picks five of his best band collaborations
Final Portrait
High art in Paris with Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush.
The China Hustle
The next global economic meltdown, in terrifying detail.
Lean on Pete
Equine tale is a lot deeper than the cheesy subject suggests.
Oh Lucy!
Japanese/U.S. identity comedy.
Finding Your Feet
Upper class British rom-com plays for laughs.
The Endless
Sibling banter and cosmic terror means observational comedy horror.
Lowlife
Sleaze, violence, and a weirdly nuanced take on race relations.
I Feel Pretty
Amy Schumer looks for laughs in body image comedy.
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
A true-crime family mystery indicts decades of racial violence.
UZeat Serves Cultural Mash-Up Cuisine From Uzbekistan
Spicewood Springs eatery offers international fare that’s complex, comforting, and delicious
New French Cinema Week at AFS
Head over heels for the new Gallic wave
Quote of the Week: Lloyd Doggett
A stormy sermon’s brewin’
Snapshot: Compassionate Cultivation
“Today is the best day ever,” says 15-year-old Julia Patterson as she and her mother, Linda, sit down with “Snapshot.” They’d just come from a hospital visit that yielded a 100% clear electroencephalogram (EEG) test. Why is that such a big deal? Because Julia, a resident of Round Top who suffers from intractable epilepsy, hasn’t…
ZAP on CodeNEXT Parking
Remember the Americans With Disabilities Act
The Luv Doc: Terrible Music
Burn it all down and start over
Is Travis County Doing Enough for Rape Survivors?
SARRT study says not so
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The TSA has an official policy on packing a toy lightsaber in your airplane luggage: OK for carry-on and checked bags. May the force be with you. Zachary Scott Sr. (father of actor Zachary Scott) teamed up with Dr. Frank C. Gregg to form the Scott-Gregg Clinic, precursor to the Scott & White Clinic. Cream…
Mary Moody Northen Theatre’s Violet
In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love
Aeroponics Are the Future for One Austin Urban Farm
Farmhouse Delivery is all grown up
Latinauts: The Wrath of Juan at ColdTowne
Prima Doñas’ third installment of its popular “telenovela in space” delivers the laughs
Moontower Comedian Lauren Lapkus, Tube Raider
The comedian and actress digs up the good, the bad, and the cheesy of pre-Y2K television in the podcast Raised by TV
ICYMI: Musashino Sushi Dokoro Prides Itself on Craft
Edomae-style sushi at this traditional restaurant
Council: At War on Two Wheels
More scooters, a possible interim deal with the APA, and more from City Hall
Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower
Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the “culture of silence”
Tapping Into the New Old Settler’s Music Festival
Checking in with Donna the Buffalo, Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, the women of I’m With Her, and more
“Nick Schnitzer: Inevitable Reckoning” at Dimension Gallery
Structures degraded by time and other materials provide a pointed view of dramatic change at work in the world
Too Hot for Drug Tests
One man’s DIY method to pass a pee test works … ’til it doesn’t
Old Settler’s Platters
Thrumming crackling atmosphere, the ninth studio album from Tucson duo Calexico delves deeper into the prickly wilderness of desert terrain. A daunting 22 tracks, The Thread That Keeps Us undulates pop, Americana, folk, Latin, and dusty instrumental interludes. “Under the Wheels” punctuates easy listening with bursts of brass, “Flores y Tamales” cumbias en Español, and…
Death Watch: The Constitutionality of Intent
What if the people you killed were not who you hoped to kill?
The Next Anti-Choice Strategy?
Widening the A.G.’s authority to prosecute
Old Settler’s Platters
Opening with wistful a capella imagery of mushroom clouds and a superconductor, the first track of Darlingside’s third full-length is a lovely sunrise eulogy to modern uncertainty. The Boston foursome’s anxiously blissful take on apocalyptic concerns bends toward chamber pop after past Americana leanings, the 12 tracks grounded in plucky instrumentation and energetic harmony. Antsy…
Day Trips: Youngs Burritos & BBQ, San Saba
Family affair keeps the barbecue smoking with a Tex-Mex accent
Old Settler’s Platters
Undeniable chemistry binds the debut EP from husband and wife team Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blout, who share vocal duties. Her boisterousness and sunny belt challenge his rasp against a medley of folk, gospel, and bluegrass emoting more soul with each passing lyric. “Let me love you,” they harmonize over mandolin licks on highlight…
Soccer Watch
State high school championships are this weekend, April 18-21 at Birkelbach Field in Georgetown – games pretty much all day through Saturday; see uiltexas.org/soccer/state for full schedule. European Champions League semifinals start April 24-25: Roma at Liverpool on Tuesday (a Boston derby – Celtics ownership vs. Red Sox ownership), and Real Madrid at Bayern Munich…
Old Settler’s Platters
Retro-futurist R&B punkabilly JD McPherson stripmined his comfort zone on third LP Undivided Heart & Soul. Enlisting Lucius drummer Dan Molad to co-produce, the two then violated Nashville analog temple RCA Studio B with Casiotones, tape-delayed electric pianos, and other left-field sonic touches. McPherson also tried co-writers, including fellow Oklahoma old-schooler Parker Millsap and Butch…
A Lack of Info for Affordable Housing Initiative
City pledges to keep better track of SMART money
Feds Shut Down Backpage.com
Alt-weekly founders charged with facilitating sex trafficking
Fusebox and Moontower Fests
Fill your weekend with experimental performance art and/or laughs
Good News for Bees and CBD Fans
Turtles all the way down
What’s Showing at the Indie Meme Festival
Highlighting the best of South Asian cinema
Local Munchies
A handful of haunts for a stoner-friendly snack
Beside the Point: Get Off Your Butt
Council can help the homeless big-time, and next week
Gay Place
A radical week of queer events is full speed ahead!
Headlines
No City Council meeting this week. The next regularly scheduled meeting is next Thu., April 26. But there’s a lot happening at City Hall and its environs. See “At War on Two Wheels,” Apr. 20. Better Indigent Defense? County Judge Sarah Eckhardt is expected to propose a new method of paying indigent defense attorneys on…
Playback: Start the Presses – Gold Rush Vinyl
Austin’s first major record press opens, and more music news
Public Notice: Happy Earth Day, and More
Earth Day celebration meets transportation policy
Connor Clegg Impeached at Texas State
A student government showdown in San Marcos
SBOE Passes Mexican-American Studies, but Whitewashes the Name
Right-wing board member objects to “hyphenated Americanism”
