Tim League Stepping Down as Drafthouse CEO
Founder now executive chairman, replaced by former Disney exec
Chef Tyson Cole of Hai Hospitality Shares Healthy Japanese Bowl Recipe
And we’ve also got the details on Uchi’s Brussels sprouts
Now Streaming in Austin: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Join us tonight for our live-tweet of the Dolly Parton classic
The Blanton’s #MuseumFromHome Offers Tours, Talks, and More From Its Collection
Just cuz you’re at home doesn’t mean you can’t get some culture
DFG Noodles Owner Launches Platform to Connect Medical Professionals to Urgent Supplies
Anonymous superhighway works with techies and nurse practitioners
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
History of abstract art’s lost pioneer quite literally gets in the way of its subject
Deerskin
Wrong director goes, well, wrong in this film-making spoof
Day Trips & Beyond: Stay Trips, Delivered
More Day Trips delivered to your door
Virtual Cooking Classes With Top Austin Chefs
Extraordinary new series to benefit Southern Smoke Foundation
Willie’s Birthday Gift to You: 1976 ACL Taping Hits YouTube at 4:20 Today
Live in-studio capture of Red Headed Stranger front-to-back
Now Streaming in Austin: A Tweet for Our Times
Two minutes that sum up everything we’re going through
Checking In: Scott H. Biram Can’t Sleep
Because, of course, rust never takes a siestesita
Day Trips & Beyond: Stay Trips
Daytripping in the age of stay-at-home orders
Now Streaming in Austin: Weekend Plans
Housesharing fun in the very slack Austin web series
Chronicle Readers Share What They Love and Miss About Austin
Everything from restaurants to neighbors to long, stress-free walks
Checking In: Come Sunday With Jazz Siren Pamela Hart
“My soundtracks are What’s Going On and Imagine”
Brunching Up the Dope Chinese of Old Thousand
They’re waging a sort of, y’might say, To-Go Box-er Rebellion
Abbott Says Cinemas Can Reopen. Cinemas Say “No, Thanks.”
AFS Cinema, Alamo, Violet Crown stress health over commerce
Activists Call for Firing of APD Leadership in Wake of Officer Involved Shooting
Racism probe, weekend shooting heighten reform demands
L’Oca d’Oro Co-Owner on the Future of the Restaurant
Right now, they can’t do what they do – so what’s next?
Now Streaming in Austin: “Bug Filter”
See the world and learn about it through the eyes of insects
Latin American Mail Art in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
Whole lotta postin’ going on, and the Blanton Museum tells all about it
Checking In: Eliza Gilkyson Predicts a Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Lifelong folk leader unleashes 2020 into current political cycle
Can Quibi Be Your New Go-To App?
CEO Meg Whitman on diversity and innovation in the new streamer
Now Streaming in Austin: “Meet the Creeper”
Watch this ATX contribution to the Corman Challenge
Now Streaming in Austin: Alita: Battle Angel
With #watchalita trending, why not catch the Austin anime flick?
Sour Duck Market’s Fried Sweet Potatoes (and Goat Cheese Onion Dip) Recipe
Shouldn’t be too hard; now if we could only bake bread like they do
Weekend Wine: A Remarkable Bargain
This one’s worth searching for or requesting from the wine shop
Now Streaming in Austin: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
The scary sequel shot in the Statesman
Industry Advocates Women in Animation Open Austin Chapter
Rooster Teeth, Powerhouse pledge to support women’s careers
Austin Black Pride, QueerBomb Cancel In-Person Celebrations for June
Orgs exploring virtual programming; potential Pride month in October
Austin Craft Brewers vs. COVID-19: Oddwood Ales and The Draught House
How local breweries are responding to the pandemic (Part 6)
Council Recap: Tip the Band, Skip the Pork Chop
Relief funds for artists, planning for fair and just mobility
Stay at Homo With Thee Gay Agenda’s Virtual Events
Series reinvents queer connection in the virtual screenscape
A White, White Day
Icelandic revenge drama is really a perfect study of stifled grief
Sátántangó
Bela Tarr’s marathon exploration of evil and inertia in a small town, gorgeously restored
Pahokee
Austin filmmakers’ portrait of rurban Florida both illuminates and obfuscates
Other Music
History of a lost Manhattan record store keeps a basic tune
Last Day, Last Chance to Own a Bit of Vulcan Video
Final day of “social distancing” garage sale at the film mecca
Now Streaming in Austin
The Bob Zula, Lazer Team, “Skip Day,” “Vulcan Video: The Exit Interviews,” Friday the 13th
Opinion: Online Reviews Are Where Our Kids Are Learning How to Bully Online
A restaurant industry veteran argues Yelp and other review sites encourage bullying behavior
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
The Luv Doc: Batshit Crazy
Viruses don’t respect boundaries
Playback: You Can’t Press Pause on Life
A musician’s life: laid off, livestreaming, and … giving birth?
Austin at Large: Call the Cops, Send In the Clowns
We could just not put up with the same old nonsense, for a change
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, April 24-30
Public Notice: Life Goes On
Even while you’re not paying attention
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Most limericks are written in what is called anapestic meter (unstressed, unstressed, stressed). Tony Curtis was sick of chicken for years after filming Some Like It Hot. He and Marilyn Monroe had to do many takes of their kissing scene because she kept messing up her lines. The kissing part was good, but before it…
Soccer Watch: Austin Soccer Family Unite
I’ve written a number of times about the Austin Soccer Foundation and their work supporting soccer outreach in the area – scholarships and programs for at-risk youth, and training for coaches and referees, among other things – and in this time of no soccer, they’ve conjured a soccer event for this Friday evening, a Facebook…
Opinion: Because of COVID-19, It’s Less Safe Behind Bars. Here’s How Federal Prisoners Can Petition to Get Their Sentences Reduced.
Criminal defense attorney Chris Perri explains avenues for early prison release in Texas
Stay Trips: Alaska
Head to the North Country virtually
The Common Law
COVID-19 and Austin – answering your legal questions (part 4)
We Have an Issue: Love Letters to Austin
Send us your stories about what you love and miss most about our city
Faster Than Sound: Pure X Reconciles With Austin
Local rock group returns after six years, Gold Rush Vinyl checks in, and Threadgill’s closes permanently.
Qmmunity: Dancing on Our Own … Together
A Qmmunity-curated playlist, plus some cute to-do’s
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Back, Back and Forth and Forth: The twists and turns continue in the legal battle over state officials’ draconian attempt to ban abortion amid the COVID-19 crisis. On Mon., April 20, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Texas can ban medication abortions during the coronavirus pandemic, except in cases in which patients would…
Council Preview: So Much Money, So Many Needs
Agenda touches on COVID-19, live music support, and transit
Checking In: A. Sinclair (& Family) Rises Into the Eye of the Tiger
ATX indie trueheart sings “time to find out what really matters”
Tatum Report Depicts Bleak Conditions for Accountability at APD
Is meaningful reform to address bias, bigotry “aspirational at best”?
Texas Monthly‘s Taco Editor on the Past, Present, & Future of the American Taco
Q&A with José R. Ralat, the man with one of the most envied titles in town
Come Sail Away With Amanda Ward’s The Jetsetters
Local author asks, “Won’t you let me take you on a sea cruise?”
Crema Bakery & Cafe Stands Up for the Austin Community
Free sack lunches, desserts, and a brown butter blondie recipe
After Five Decades, Austin Recovery to Close
Nonprofit succumbs to financial challenges made worse by COVID
First Nonprofits Receive RISE Funds
$5.6 million in grants to aid Austinites during COVID crisis
SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup
Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days
In Memoriam: Glenna Goodacre
Sculptor of Austin’s beloved Philosophers’ Rock has died
Checking In: Blackillac Begins Recording Its Debut
ATX MCs keeps their eyes on the prize
An Intermediate’s Guide to Marijuana Edibles
Now is the time to bake and get baked, in the comfort of home
Indie Meme Film Festival Goes Virtual
Celebration of South Asian cinema comes to your living room
This Bubblegum Is Packed With Chewy, Fucked-Up Flavor
Fantastic new novel deeply reimagines our world for better and worse
Threadgill’s Old No. 1 Closes Permanently
Pandemic closes a part of Austin history
Austin Craft Brewers vs. COVID-19: Hi Sign and St. Elmo Brewing
How local breweries are responding to the pandemic (Part 5)
Fusebox Festival 2020: Virtual Edition
Here’s who will be charging up your screen April 24-26
David Garza Recounts a Few of the 10,000 Stories Behind Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Texan muse and former Austinite relocated production to El Paso
How to Craft a Quarantine Pipe Out of Your Random Fruits and Veggies
Kevin Curtin makes a DIY pineapple bong, pepper pipe, & yam bowl
Judge Sulak Issues Vote-by-Mail Injunction
Enables mail ballots for all voters to vote by mail
Checking In: Trumpet Clarion Ephraim Owens Sits at the Piano
Tedeschi Trucks Band brass man always broadens our scope
Checking In: Will Johnson Homeschools His Kids
Song whisperer and his wife Jessie Johnson also blast some Madvillain
Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine
Support local business while maintaining your social distance
