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The Magic Kid
Hayes Carll trades in his drunken poet’s dream
Farewell to Junior the Wendy’s Guy
UT institution died Monday, family raising funds for gathering
Is the Hideout’s Improvised Play Festival Just Too Much to Deal With?
Three nights of shows from across the city, the nation, and … London?
APD Officer Shot in Thursday Morning SWAT Standoff
Officer currently being treated for non-life threatening injuries
This Fresh Squeeze Is All About the Opera Shorts
One Ounce Opera premieres a concert of new young composers
Paxton Stacks AG’s Office With Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors
AG hires opponents of church-state separation
Beach House’s Spring Party Blowout
Beyond the stars on sound and vision
Fun With “M.O.P.Z.” at 2am
Todd Rohal puts laughs on fast-forward with new Adult Swim special
Leffingwell Shares the Ride
Former mayor now chair of “Ridesharing Works” campaign
Paxton Faces SEC Charges
Federal civil suit filed over tech firm investment scam
Beach House’s Austin Installation
Sunday pop-up show precedes tonight’s Moody Theater sell-out
Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest: Local Stars on the Rise
Because nobody knows funny like ATX
Jackie Venson’s Purple-Tinted Visions
Video premiere infects you with compassion
Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is One Helluva Posh and Surreal Soirée
Women & Their Work go all freaky-floral for annual fundraiser
The Queer Curator
Getting to know the Blanton’s talented curator, Evan Garza
Night Flight Flies Again
Stuart Shapiro resurrects his Eighties underground variety show
DVDanger: The Hallow
There’s something evil in the woods
Council Recap: Water and Housing
Council takes on excessive water bills, “missing middle” in housing
Gina Chavez Tour Diary No. 2: Guat’s Up?
Guatemala City and knowing you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be
Suspect in UT Homicide Arrested
Meechaiel Khalil Criner suspected of killing Haruka Weiser
I Like to Watch
Finding the heart in Syfy’s The Magicians
The Boss
This Melissa McCarthy comedy is funny, but should be even funnier
Demolition
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in dramedy as a man rebuilding his life
Hardcore Henry
Inventive spectacle and pop-culture tease finally arrives onscreen
The Invitation
Girlfight director Karyn Kusama helms dinner-party thriller
My Golden Days
Teenage first love – as only the French can depict it
Sardaar Gabbar Singh
Telugu action film
April and the Extraordinary World
Animated French steampunk fantasy is delightfully imaginative
Building a Path to Literacy
Educators and nonprofits work to close the achievement gap in Dove Springs
The Luv Doc: Relationship Status
In your FACEbook
“Frank Selby: High Writer” at Lora Reynolds Gallery
This show’s eight works offer a rewarding investigation into the relationship between objects and images of them
Free Literacy Programs Throughout Austin
Ascend Center for Learning Offers Adult Basic Education classes to adults who test at a pre-GED level on an initial placement exam. 1640-B E. Second, 512/326-8655, www.ascendaustin.org. ASPIRE Family Literacy Parents in need of GED or ESL classes with children who are 0-7 years old, and who live in Southeast Austin are eligible for this…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In 2015, there were at least 43 instances of toddlers shooting themselves or other people, according to The Washington Post. Producer George Martin composed and played the baroque-sounding piano solo on the Rubber Soul track “In My Life.” He played it half-speed and then sped the tape up to make it fit. April 11 is…
Prop. 1 Campaign Switches Into High Gear
As more take sides on the Uber / Lyft debate, allegations of being bought out are traded
The Hightower Report
Corporate bamboozlers intend to widen inequality in America
Gay Place
Sundays are the new Saturdays
Council Preview: Water, TNCs, and Housing
Council wades back into taxi / TNC debate
AISD Explores Its Options
AISD has at least 10 properties it could be making better use of
Review: Paperboy
Eastside trailer wakes up breakfast
Day Trips: Art Car Parade, Houston
Craziest parade in the world will take you on a joyride
AISD Properties on the RFP List
On March 28, AISD trustees issued a request for proposals (RFP) for 10 surplus properties, on which they will take bids, offers, and proposals from external partners. The plan is to find more rational and creative uses for underutilized facilities. Existing Facilities 1) Allan Early Childhood Center, 4900 Gonzales 2) Millett Opera House,110 E. Ninth…
Tales of Ordinary Madness
AFS screens acclaimed Arabian Nights trilogy
APD to Collect More Data
APD will change policy to require numbers for all stop-and-searches
Steve Parker’s Song for Bat / Man
For this year’s Fusebox, composer Steve Parker flies a batty Austin concert with live echolocation
The Sound of Silence
Home invasion thriller Hush hits Netflix
Hornography
The Struggle Is Real Texas Longhorn Baseball (12-17, 3-3 Big 12) is in a bad place right now. After losing five of their last six, there’s a genuine sense of legitimate danger of a losing season – something not seen since 1998. Currently sitting sixth on the Big 12, the Horns haven’t been able to…
Fusebox Condensed
If you’re counting on doing most of your Fusebox Festival activity during the second weekend of the annual hybrid arts hootenanny, be advised: There is no second weekend this year. Where most successful festivals in Austin expand, adding more days or weeks on to their schedules, the ever-off-the-beaten-path Fusebox has opted to contract in 2016:…
AC Food Fight: Caesar Salads
Lettuce get ready to rumble
Soccer Watch
Six local high school teams are still alive in the state soccer playoffs. The Pflugerville Connally, Vandegrift, and Lake Travis boys, and Vista Ridge, Vandegrift, and Westwood girls all play Friday night in district semifinals, trying to get to next weekend’s state tournament in Georgetown, April 13-16 at Birkelbach Field. www.uiltexas.org/soccer for more info. It’s…
Review: Small Victory
The next generation in Austin speakeasies
Texas Platters
The Wilderness opens quietly, like early morning light, a mother’s gentle hand rocking you awake in a childhood bedroom – sleepy, muffled first moments that are new but somehow familiar. Austin’s Explosions in the Sky have mastered that feeling dozens of times over across their 17-year career. Tapping into visceral moments of humanity through cinematic…
Free Tax Prep Help
Here’s how to get help in advance of Tax Day
The Take-Out
Refinding the spark in Austin food
Texas Platters
While Dana Falconberry’s stunning 2012 LP Leelanau sounded like the last day of summer camp, follow-up From the Forest Came the Fire arrives as a moonlight walk through the woods with a backpack full of crystals. Consider it a conceptual step for the Austin songwriter, who boasts a voice like a bird call and a…
Austin Sol Makes Its Home Debut in the American Ultimate Disc League
The sport of ultimate (aka ultimate Frisbee) officially got its start during the counterculture movement of the Sixties at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J. It quickly spread throughout the country, and eventually the world. While retaining the ideals of its humble beginnings as a self-refereed game (known as the Spirit of the Game), it…
Page Two: Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
The path to a Republican presidency
Texas Platters
Girded by a primitive, Thomas organ-style percussion loop, the title track of this spirited five-song EP yields the most hook-laden track Cherubs have unleashed since their depraved 1993 cover of Blondie’s “Dreaming.” Submerged just beneath the cacophonous rubble is a lo-fi stoner pop anthem that pitches and yaws its way into the subconscious. “Donkey Suite”…
Community First! Unveils Microhomes for the Chronically Homeless
Village is designed to be a community of 250 homes
Theatre en Bloc’s Bright Half Life
For Tanya Barfield’s two-character drama, Theatre en Bloc couples an intimate story with a relentlessly personal performance space
Texas Platters
Austin Strat cat Glenn Rexach eschews rock and blues flamboyance for jazz virtuosity on third album PanaRican. The Austin School of Music instructor and accompanists Aaron Hatmaker (bass) and Kevin Scott (drums) hit right out of the gate with “Flex Time,” a bluesy funk bopper that wouldn’t sound out of place on an early John…
Headlines
City Council meets today to consider items that would help out middle-income homebuyers, revise electronic campaign finance forms, alleviate excessive water bills, and level out taxi and transportation network company regulations. See “Council Preview,” Apr. 8. UT-Austin was shocked Tuesday by the discovery of a body in Waller Creek behind the alumni center. Police are…
Underbelly’s Alice in Wonderland
This new adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic sends its audience down the rabbit hole – and all over the Zach Theatre campus
Texas Platters
A funny thing happened on the way to Casual Strangers’ follow-up to its eponymous 2014 debut. Intending to record another studio LP, the Boxing Lesson offshoot instead followed its instincts, Paul Waclawsky, Jaylinn Davidson, Katey Gunn, and Jake Mitchell turning to wordless improvisational soundscapes recorded at home. Armed with an impressive collection of analog synths,…
Quote of the Week
“So Hillary, get ready – here we come!” – Sen. Ted Cruz, after his Wednesday victory in the Wisconsin primary (via Twitter)
Texas Platters
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Something Real (Royal Potato Family) Willie Nelson Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin (Legacy) Famed father and rising son issue new LPs practically within seconds of one another. Any common ground – other than DNA? Uncanny vocal resemblance to papa, Lukas Nelson’s been scything his own path in rock’s…
Notes on Kamp: Everybody Loses
Council considers bad, outdated regs for Uber and Lyft
Public Notice: Mobility and Affordability
Mayor Adler chases transportation dollars
Playback: Welcome to Terrordome: Sixth Street During SXSW
Appraising APD’s solution to Sixth Street during SXSW
Friends of Fran and Dan Keller Establish Donation Fund
A Chronicle reader has set up a GoFundMe page for Fran and Dan Keller, the local couple who were unjustly accused of child abuse in 1991, and who spent 21 years in prison for crimes that never happened. The Kellers’ continuing legal battle was the subject of our March 11 cover story, “Learning From Our…
Hayes Carll Record Review
Lovers and Leavers (Hwy 87/Thirty Tigers)
