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Author, Poet, and Podcast Host Carrie Fountain Isn’t Trying to Trick You
The 2019 Texas Poet Laureate talks shop as she receives two Texas honors
Earth Day Events in Austin
Supporting the environment is important every day of the year, but Earth Day – the worldwide annual event on April 22 dedicated to all things Mother Earth – serves as a reminder of the little and big things we can all do to help keep the world a happier and healthier place, especially our own…
The Don Diego Trio Sends Greetings From Austin
Vittorio Bongiorno follows a rockabilly band from Italy to Texas
The Summit on Race in America: Motown at 60
Detroit pop icons continue in the name of love
Shinyribs Frontman Kevin Russell Will Perform Gourds Set for Electric Lounge Reunion
Reliving the wild and woolly Nineties music scene downtown
UPDATED: Austin Police Department’s Alarming Use of Force Rate
Injury-causing force used in over 900 traffic stops in 2018
Tracking Down Grief With The Head Hunter
Filmmaker Jordan Downey on a monster movie with a fractured heart
The Summit on Race in America: Songwriters in the Round Panel Recap
Multiple generations of black artists push for music in schools
Tito’s Handmade Vodka Is Releasing Two Albums on Record Store Day
Celebrate Record Store Day with Tito’s Vodka and rare records
Follow the Money, Find Beer-to-Go’s Largest Opponents
Time is the latest hurdle in the Texas Craft Beer legislation saga
Digging Deeper Into the Pet Sematary
Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer on their Stephen King adaptation
HackOut Makes Safe Space for Budding LGBTQ Entrepreneurs
Tech queers converge on Austin for the four-day event
Video: Pataphysics’ Cubicle Daydream
Clip employs Reggie Watts and rising director Ambar Navarro
FX Miniseries Fosse/Verdon Puts On a Hell of a Show
Williams & Rockwell dramatize the partnership of director & dancer
Austin Musicians Help Salvage Bauhaus Set
Curse Mackey and Sine aid emergency collaboration in FLA
Flowers Cover Everything at the Stephen L. Clark Gallery
Letscher fingers do the walking among these gardens of delight
Tickets for Hamilton’s Austin Dates on Sale Now
Here’s your chance to see the big show
Weekend Wine: Nothing Says Spring Like Rosé
Four delightful – and affordable – lightweight, full-flavored wines
The Brink
On the road with Steve Bannon as he tries to dismantle the world
The Best of Enemies
Unlikely alliances grow as conversation finds common ground in this historical true-life drama
Shazam!
DC finally gets to the heart of why we love superheroes
Babylon
Four decades later, this gritty and earnest recounting of black British life keeps all its power
Woman at War
Saving the world, one wry laugh at a time in this Icelandic eco-comedy
The Public
Emilio Estevez directs and stars in this social drama about who gets to use public spaces
Luz
German arthouse possession drama can’t conjure up fear or questions
The Wind
Madness and jealousy on the American Great Plains
Pet Sematary
Latest Stephen King adaptation is a pretty good horror film, but nothing more
New Waves at East Seventh Hangout Kinda Tropical
Reopening promises renewed inclusivity, curated menu
Texas Platters
Unleashing its third full-length since 2015, San Marcos quartet Rebel Flesh emits a midtempo buzz akin to Dee Dee Ramone writing songs for the Misfits. Kill … With Your Kiss is the best-produced of the trilogy, complete with nice touches like opening track “No One to Love” emerging from the sweep of an AM radio…
Day Trips: Hotel Faust
Sleep in Comfort
Austin Struggles to Adjust as SB 4 Takes Its Toll on Immigrants
“We are not safer as a community when victims are running away from us rather than coming to us.”
Texas Platters
Now a decade old, this veteran punk/core outfit surprises with a self-released local effort that’s refreshingly slick and radio-ready. At times resembling System of a Down gone thrash-o-matic, Jump the Shark gnashes chunky Metallica guitars behind sore throat vocalese that’s shockingly catchy. There’s a good deal of craftsmanship involved in tunes like opener “Linda Blair,”…
LBJ Summit Returns to “Race in America”
Five years after landmark civil rights event, there’s plenty to talk about
City Council Considers the Convention Center
Plans big and small for the city center
Texas Platters
Austin punk traditionally avoids overtly political content, expressing its inherently anti-establishment bent through sheer attitude. It prefers theatricality, humor (if not outright silliness), and f-u-n. Which makes Trump Card the most perfectly Austin political punk band. Use Your Collusion can’t offer the hilarious stage presentation – banners with logos forming the letter T into a…
Soccer Watch
It was an impressive return for pro soccer in Austin Saturday evening, as the Austin Bold got the first win in club history, in the first home game in club history, in the first game ever played in Austin’s first soccer-specific stadium, Bold Stadium at Circuit of the Americas. And it came, 1-0, over Copa…
Qmmunity: Less Space, More Hate
Plus events to queer tech and fundraiser for QueerBomb’s 10th anniversary
Headlines
If You Build It: City Council hosted a team of UT-Austin researchers at the Central Library Tuesday to hear their report on possible expansion or replacement of the Convention Center, which imagines a larger, more open, pedestrian- and commerce-friendly space integrated into the broader Downtown. See “Convention-al Wisdom,” April 5, for more. Lost Our Appetite:…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of April 4, 2019
2019 Austin International Poetry Festival Brings a World of Words to Town
If you want to know how seriously this city takes poetry, all you have to do is wait until the start of April – because National Poetry Month – when versifiers from far and wide stream into Austin to join the locals who poetize for four days of celebrating their chosen literary form. You’ll see…
Quote of the Week
“In this real-life drama, the inspirational music is blasting in the background, and it’s time to throw down. It’s the most important battle of our lives.” – State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, D-Austin, pumping up the heroic atmosphere before the Austin premiere of “Beto 2020” on Saturday night
Luv Doc: A Real-Life Swipe Right
There is a difference between being likable and having a neurotic need to be liked
Faster Than Sound: Tameca Jones Is Wide Awake
Soul singer Tameca Jones finds clarity with help from the SIMS Foundation, synchronized punk duo Being Dead baptizes a debut EP, and more
Lege Lines: “Texas Plan” Hits Home
School finance heads to the House floor
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Jitney was slang for a nickel, according to an exhibit at Austin History Center. Protoporphyrin is the characteristic pigment of brown eggshells. Screen time for children ages 0-2 more than doubled from 1997 to 2014, says a new report from the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Soviet Union was the first country to…
Congress Wants to Look at David Whitley’s Books
Investigation to look into Texas’ voter list fiasco
ATX Film News: Award Winners, Toxic Vengeance, and Cheaper Nights at the Drafthouse
Congratulations to A Room Full of Nothing: The Austin-made relationship dramedy about the end of the world had its world premiere on March 22 at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival in Beverly Hills and picked up the Maverick Award for Quality in a Low-Budget Feature Film there. The film, which stars Ivy Meehan (from…
Disappointment After Public Forum on Riverside Mega-Redevelopment
Nobody goes home happy after meeting hits a wall
South Austin Irish Pub Features Practically Perfect Fish and Chips
Darcy’s Donkey is a welcoming addition to Barton Springs Road’s Restaurant Row
District Attorney Moore and First Assistant D.A. Montford Lose a Round in Survivors’ Suit Drama
Federal judge allows for a possible second lawsuit
Texas Platters Hall of Fame: Rank & File’s Sundown
Punk drummer/singer Rhys Woodruff of Borzoi shares his love affair with the first cowpunk album
The Common Law
Do I need a fishing license if I never catch anything?
“Sincere” Bigotry at the Senate
Religious-refusal bill moves to the House
Texas Platters
In a quick turnaround from last August’s Performance, long-jamming Austinites White Denim present nine wayward demos reworked to rejuvenate the spirit of 2010’s Last Day of Summer. Now on their eighth LP, the lineup-shifting locals’ increased resources since the Aughts show up in wonky electronic inputs and instrumental variety from a rotating musical cast. Backbone…
Josh Frank Writes Himself Into the History of the Marx Bros.
There ain’t no sanity clause
Austin at Large: Beto in the Fast Lane
O’Rourke bounces right back into an adoring, ambivalent Austin
Texas Platters
Austin rapper Terell Anthony Jackson proudly wears his “pretty boy trap” tag as the Teeta. Unfortunately, his designs on debut long-player Teeta World play out more off-brand than Off-White. Besides a couple pins close to home, such as a Colony Park mention on “Free Clout,” it’s easy to mistake the local MC as an Atlanta…
Penfold Theatre’s Crime and Punishment
In this stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel, a fascinating glimpse into the more twisted corners of the human mind
Public Notice: Changes…
Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em
Texas Platters
Danny Schmidt is a songwriter’s songwriter. At his best, he distills complex emotions into sharp sentiments against deft fingerpicking and gently trembling vocals. Rounding into the third decade of his career, 10th album Standard Deviation boasts those remarkable moments – opening lullaby to his daughter “Just Wait Til They See You” and the jaunty “Last…
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
The author of The Path to Power shares the methods and motivations he employs while producing his award-winning biographies
One in a Crowd
Teen film Summer Nights needs your help
Owen Egerton Gets Physical for Mercy Black
Childhood trauma lingers in this Netflix horror
Texas Platters
This is the album where Quin Galavis puts it all together: the raw, cello-infused pop of 2011’s Should Have Known You, the black-blooded, emotional dirges of sophomore epic My Life In Steel and Concrete, and the upbeat post-punk of 2017’s The Battery Line. On Victim/Nonvictim, Pt. 1, the Dead Space frontman compounds past elements in…
Shooting Lessons by Lenny Kleinfeld
Kleinfeld’s newest Chicago-based crime thriller takes the safety off
How a Joke on Facebook Became a Punk Album With 17 Covers of the Same Song
Austin punks offer takes on Worm Suicide song “Babies Ruin Bands”
Texas Platters
Robert Ellis begins his fifth album with a simple warning: “I’m fucking crazy, you know that it’s true.” Crooning in his nasally tenor atop a soft bed of keys in latest incarnation Texas Piano Man, Ellis remains brilliantly elusive, torquing songs in unexpected directions. The now-local songwriter wings tight piano-pop melodies into a shredder, Leon…
Timeline Set for APD Audit
Review of sex assault cases to kick off this fall
Texas Platters
Emotional nuance quivers on the clear, fresh, instantly adhering siren song of Sydney Wright. Re-emerging on the local scene last fall after a summer hit-and-run left her broken, concussed, and ultimately held together with rods and screws, the local singer/pianist/guitarist emerges on debut Seiche bruised but unbowed. Rather than a physical delicacy, it’s the Snyder…
Death Watch: One Man Spared, Another Set to Die
Mark Robertson seeks stay due to racist lawyer
