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Trumpet Constant Ephraim Owens Won’t Be Rushed
New Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee substitutes kindness and ubiquity for a back catalog
Decisions Await for the Fate of Oakwood Chapel
Is moving graves from under the chapel adding insult to injury?
R.I.P. Barry “Frosty” Smith
Austin’s pre-eminent beatkeeper passes
Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview
Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles
Fusebox Festival: Rosalyn Nasky’s Potential
What the hell are these dancers doing with Mansfield Dam?
New Season of AFF’s On Story Starts Saturday
KLRU series about creative process leads with filmmaker Jeff Nichols
Food Truck Tuesday: Pepperbox Coffee
Deaf-owned trailer serves up speedy brews for Northwest Austin
Court Rules: Texas Voter ID Still Racist
Second ruling finds GOP deliberately suppressed minority vote
Euphoria’s Urban Upsurge
Young Thug and Wiz Khalifa spike weekend EDM fest
Managing Secrets
Council’s search for city manager may be confidential … or not
Sounds Like a Plan … or Three
City Council hears reports on Merck, racism, and housing
DVDanger: Officer Downe
Slipknot’s Clown turns director, plus more home releases
Saldaña Quits AISD Board
Trustee cites workload for abrupt exit
In Memoriam: Lashonda Lester
Remembering the Queen of Austin Comedy, who died April 6
Into The Void
Gruesome cosmic horror hits VOD today
Ghost in the Shell
Scar Jo as cybernetic warrior
The Zookeeper’s Wife
World War II drama based on the bestselling book
Smurfs: The Lost Village
The little blue critters are back
Going in Style
Three old-timers plan to rob a bank
Your Name
This body-swapping anime is a stunner
Frantz
A bitter-sweet romance in the aftermath of WWI
Bills on the Move
• The Senate gave the anti-choice SB 258 (Don Huffines, R-Dallas), final approval last Thursday, in a 22-9 vote. SB 258 would require women and health care providers to bury or cremate fetal remains after an abortion, a measure identical to one blocked by a federal judge earlier this year. • The Senate also passed…
How Austin Became the Cold Brew Capital of the World
No need to give up coffee during the sweltering season
Playback: Armadillo Tales
A review of the best book on Austin’s 1970s music scene since The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
The Hightower Report: Why Is Trump Hostile to Actual Facts?
Take the Trumpcare lie, for example
Dulcis Rethinks Almond Milk
Austin entrepreneur Sarah Velasquez on keeping the customer healthy
The World Is Watching J. Quinton Johnson
The UT alumnus left Austin to be in “the room where it happens”: in Hamilton on Broadway
Oops
In the flurry of housing supply numbers appearing in two stories last week (March 31), our calculators overloaded (“Council: Mucho Housing Needed,” and “Point Austin: The Mayor’s Tightrope”). Adding rounded numbers estimating housing unit needs for each residential economic category, we computed a 10-year need estimate of 138,000 units; in fact, the Strategic Housing Plan…
Balancing the Books After Years of Neglecting Schools
The Texas Legislature wants to fix school finance, but how?
Fusebox Festival 2017
This year’s model of the annual hybrid arts showcase features revolutionaries, robots, and dam dancing, oh my!
Page Two: The Media Has Always Been Biased
The history of American journalism is one of slanted and limited coverage
Different Stages’ Mrs. Mannerly
Jeffrey Hatcher’s nostalgic comedy gently leads the audience back to small-town Ohio in the Sixties
Headlines
City Council meets today, April 6, with a relatively light agenda but a few Items with chewable gristle: an economic incentives proposal for big pharma firm Merck, the formal release of the Mayor’s Task Force report on systemic racism, the Strategic Housing Plan, and the return of an APD body camera contract. See “In the…
K2 Rampages Red River
K2 continues its Downtown rampage. What can the city do?
2017 Austin Dance Festival
This year’s showcase of two dozen dances proved how Austin’s dancing has risen to the level of its dance making
Point Austin: Race Matters
The Mayor’s Task Force on racism provides a lengthy to-do list
Lege Lines: Straus vs. the Extremists
Railroad Commission spat highlights the divide between right-wingers and House leadership
“Larry Graeber: Place to Place” at de stijl | Podium for Art
In this collection of jazzy geometric mixed-media works and sculptures, the artist conjures wild characters in a self-contained universe
Public Notice: Race and Education
Fun times well after midnight with the AISD board
Day Trips: World War I Memorials
Communities around Texas remember their fallen sons from the Great War
Quote of the Week
Judge Sarah Eckhardt on the budget
Soccer Watch
Three local high school teams advanced to this Friday’s state regional semifinals: the Austin High boys, Leander Vandegrift, and Pflugerville Hendrickson girls all play Friday afternoon, hoping to advance to the state tournament, April 12-15 in Georgetown. (The Hendrickson game is 1pm, April 7, at the Kelly Reeves complex, 10211 W. Parmer.) The European Champions…
Gay Place
The fight carries on
Late Meeting Leads to Big School Investment
Everyone should vote on $4.6 billion investments close to 3am, correct?
The Luv Doc: A Li’l Spendy
The kind of economic Übermensch G-Dubs prayed for back in ’07
APD Officers Suspended for Thwarting Filming
Two APD officers suspended for thwarting filming
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to the U.S. Treasury, in $100 bills, the weight of $1 million is about 22 pounds. Cigarette filters allow smokers to take bigger and deeper puffs. The filters allow the smoke to feel milder on the throat and only “filter” out large tar particles. The original idea for Mount Rushmore was to have the…
Austin Against Trump’s “Sanctuary City” Order
Austin joins brief supporting lawsuits against Trump “sanctuary city” order
The Son Rises With Philipp Meyer
Austin author on adapting his award-winning novel for AMC
In the Name of Innovation
Council considers institutional racism, a suitor for Brackenridge Hospital
Pease Park Before the Flood
Preventing natural disaster when a 140-year-old statute stands in the way
Death Watch: No Comfort, No Closure
Jonas Cherry’s parents don’t want their son’s killer killed
Elsewhere Under the Dome
Rounding up the news left on the chamber floors
City’s Racism Task Force Unveils Report
Group focuses on five issues to combat institutional racism
