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Yoga With Adriene Brings the Yoga Studio to You
Local YouTube star offers poses for the people
Advocates: Reject Police Union Contract
New “excessive force” lawsuit filed over 2015 “jaywalking” arrest
Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend
You know, after you’ve told the usual fascists to go f*ck themselves
Fleet Foxes’ Crack-Up
Northwest folk beardos enter bold new territory
Day Trips & Beyond: Key Lime Pie Tour
Key lime pie all over Texas
Dusty-Danger Dog Day in Austin
Local Pooch Makes Good, Wins Friends, Influences People
How Diverge Came Together
Director James Morrison on films and filmmakers that influenced him
Other Worlds Austin Crosses the Event Horizon
Film fest opens with 20th anniversary of sci-fi/horror classic
Alex Jones’ Charlottesville Conspiracy Theory
Crackpot demagogue has ideas about the Nazis in Charlottesville
Capital City Black Film Festival Canceled
Fest cites loss of key sponsorship
DVDanger: 68 Kill
Writer/director Trent Haaga gets nice and sleazy
Sen. Al Franken to Open Texas Tribune Festival in September
Trib CEO Evan Smith will query “Giant of the Senate” on his new memoir
Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup
Last call for summer fun
Merck CEO Dumps Trump
CEO Frazier leaves manufacturing council over POTUS failure on racism
Adler, Eckhardt Warn Paxton on DACA
Abandoning deferred action would impact 234,000 Texans
One State Leader Condemns White Supremacy; The Other Does Not.
Who didn’t? You guessed it: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Listen: Calliope Musicals’ “Wasted Space”
New single finds joy and purpose in a childless life
Blondie + Garbage = Force de Femme
Deborah Harry and Shirley Manson thrash and bellow
With All Deliberate Speed
Short-handed Council on homelessness, management, and carbon
“Rape Insurance” Bill Close to Becoming Law
HB 214 bars private, state-offered, and ACA abortion coverage
Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 11-13
Elvis tribute to Japanoise, take your pick
Your Weekend in Film
What major releases and one-off screenings are worth your theatre time
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
The animated gang return to save their park from an evil mayor
Person to Person
The New York ensemble subgenre gets some fresh air
Annabelle: Creation
The scary doll from The Conjuring is back (again)
Step
Inspiring doc on Baltimore teenagers
The Glass Castle
Jeanette Walls’ beloved memoir hits the big screen
Wind River
Crime and punishment on a Wyoming reservation
The Dark Tower
Roland the Gunslinger hits the big screen
Kidnap
Don’t mess with Halle Berry
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Al Gore reminds us (once again) that climate change is real
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
No thought necessary: John Dowey’s a rock star. And if you’ve glimpsed the Austin trio leader’s mane, you know it’s already gone to his head, from which emanates a classic, old-school whine from the proverbial void. So feigns the title song leading off this brain-splatter red vinyl, its 1970 Birmingham glower instantly familiar until an…
Point Austin: Priority Problems
While the world burns, City Council does what it can
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
She Sir’s second album takes its time. A slow start eventually trickles into vaguely shoegaze guitar rock, mostly indiscernible singer Russell Karloff’s voice stretched and drenched in effects to the point where the Austin quartet coheres behind atmosphere more than anything else. It’s also impossible to hear Rival Island without immediately thinking of Real Estate,…
Public Notice: Soccer at Last
Pro team, stadium planned at COTA
Review: DK Maria’s Legendary Tex-Mex
OK food from a problematic concept
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Subordination unleashes anarcho punk for Lone Star millennials. Despite the group’s move from Austin to NYC, Institute imprints a distinctly Texas brand of anti-establishment on “Good Ol’ Boys” and “Oil Money.” The latter punches Bevo in the face as gravel shoveler Moses Brown chants, “All your maroon shows and your burnt orange skies/ Texas pride,…
Quote of the Week: Joe Straus
The House speaker, candidly on the special session
Kate Shindle Talks Fun Home
The former Miss America on why she loves starring in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical
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You can almost hear Cody Kimbell tying a noose as he recites, “Misery is wasted on the miserable” over a sludge-burbling bassline on “Ms. Wakefield.” On their third release in as many years, Austin’s young noise punk quartet has crafted its best work by converting the mundane into inspiration. Over punishing start-stop rhythms and guitars…
The Hightower Report: When Will Wall Street Quit Being Stupid?
Auto loans, this decade’s mortage bubble?
Playback: KINGs and Queens
Kids in a New Groove, Bull McCabe’s bows out, and underground heroes of Austin music
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Steve Colca and his diabolical coven still lurk in the shadows of Austin metallurgy, but that’s worked to the local foursome’s advantage. Like witches deep in the forest, Destroyer of Light brews a potent grind rising from the depths of a fever dream powered by late nights alongside H.P. Lovecraft, Dennis Wheatley, and a bottle…
Mapping the Mobility Bond
Track progress with this handy online tool
City Budget Squeezed Between Basic Costs and State Neglect
The city has $1.03 billion in taxpayer money. Here’s where it’s going.
Gay Place
Austin’s evolution of drag
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If the Reputations hew close to A Giant Dog satellite Sweet Spirit, it’s from being a byproduct of Bobby Jealousy, which both bands’ singer Sabrina Ellis once helmed with now-ex-husband Seth Gibbs. Basically Bobby Jealousy 2.0, the Reputations share the same male/female vocal dynamic, guitarist Gibbs subbing for Andrew Cashen, and Jenny Carson and Rockyanne…
Honoring the First African-American Council Member
Water treatment plant named after Berl Handcox
Hired / Fire
Overtime, wages, hiring procedures at heart of negotiations between city, firefighters
From Dada to Dogme
Julian Rosefeldt’s ambitious Manifesto showcases the prowess of Cate Blanchett
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Two become one. Meet Me There marks the romantic melding of soloists Justin Ahmanson and Emily Villareal on nine songs that lay out a soft, even spread of Americana behind cascading piano, violin, and the latter’s voice. Call-and-answer couples’ moments unfold in the tradition of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and/or Tim McGraw &…
R.I.P. Mark White, Former Texas Governor
Last surviving Democratic governor dead at 77
Lege Lines: Peace in Straus’ House
News from the saner chamber
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A tentative delicateness to Sam Baker’s singing and songwriting defined his first four albums, masterworks of character-driven narrative hinging on the subtlest details. They etched Grace in the daily toil, Mercy in the mundane. Both micro and macro revelations thread the Austinite’s work since that latter 2004 debut, catching in his hushed, halting vocal delivery,…
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Ty Richards’ psychedelic dance-pop debut Zillion powers up then deflates. Narratively, it’s a hodgepodge of emotion. The album opens befittingly with “Spaceman,” recounting small moments as an astronaut, then jumps from the overwhelmingly gratuitous “Naked Girls” to recap his youth in “I Don’t Want to Come Home.” It closes with love song “Baby Baby Baby,…
Could Tax Swap Address Spiking Property Taxes?
City collab with AISD could aid homeowners
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Whiskey Shivers’ self-ascribed “thrashgrass” rushes like a river through the Austinites’ three full-lengths: a pinch of punk, a dash of pop, and 100-proof country pickin’ that burns like a shot of Jameson. On fourth album Some Part of Something, the homegrown fivepiece stretches its musical invention into something bigger, expanding the limits of the band’s…
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
On this exploring release, Wendy Colonna pages through a menagerie of pop crossovers into indie rock, blues, and Americana. The now-veteran Austin singer-songwriter backflips through sentimental choruses on the strength of her Lucinda Williams-kissed troubadour tone and poppier moments of Sheryl Crow. The Louisiana-Texas transplant’s more traditional country indulgences on “Every Second” and “I Will…
Council: When the Mayor’s Away …
Water, energy, and homelessness on the mind
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
Following last year’s breakout LP Cirqlation, hip-hop troupe Magna Carda delivers a substantial holdover EP. Somewhere Between finds MC Megz Kelli (Megan Tillman) and producer Dougie Do (Chris Beale) continuing their ascent on new romantic depths (“The Infatuation,” featuring Keeper) as the latter navigates in-song shuttling between live and traditional beat-driven environs (“Jazz 99” and…
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Inspiration for Rebecca Loebe’s fourth album stems from a nostalgia for mixtapes – and an audit from the IRS. Blink proves the former Voice contestant works well under duress: A wholly diverse set list traverses an audio landscape that could only be deemed an emotional roller coaster. She yo-yos from breathless heartache, with tearjerkers such…
Lege Lines: A Second Shot at Tackling Maternal Mortality
After years spent gutting women’s health care, are lawmakers doing enough?
Seven Urban Markets to Cure Your Dinnertime Blues
Everything from prepared foods and local beer to artisanal meats and flowers
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Austin physician Candace Bellamy cuts right to the chase on the confident country/blues-rock of Undone, her fourth solo EP. The Knoxville, Tenn., transplant demonstrates an earthen and emotive voice on rousing opener “Bad Idea,” a whiskey-drenched cautionary tale told from the POV of a world-wise woman. On piano-driven rocker “Trigger,” she disarms with a devilish…
Gale Theatre Company’s TWENTYEIGHT
In this Afrofuturist drama by Tyler English-Beckwith, blacks labor to reach a safe space in space
CodeNEXT: Conditions for Overlays
Draft 2.0 being readied for Sept. 15
The Luv Doc: A Nicely Dressed Window
True friends will hound you mercilessly until you get your act together
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
Encoring two brawny Brown Sabbath volumes that channeled prime Osbourne/Iommi boom and doom, Afro-Latin funk/rock ninepiece and Grupo Fantasma offshoot Brownout marches forward with a wink on Over the Covers, the locals’ first original music since 2012’s Oozy. The four-track EP pricks sociopolitical consciousness with lead track “Evolver,” a hefty effort of Seventies soul muscling…
“Garth Weiser: Paintings, 2008-2017” at the Contemporary Austin
In this solo show of abstract works, the painter has pinpointed the ungraspable, like grabbing a tiger by the tail
Combatting Overcrowding at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless
More cops, more lighting, more bathrooms, new food
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By the time he was 23, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones had five illegitimate children by five different women. Beach sand is too firm for beach volleyball. Sand samples must be approved by Hutchison Sand & Mixes in Ontario, Canada, which creates sand volleyball courts around the world. Dubai had to import sand for…
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Emily Bell’s fiery quick release arrives ready-made for diva-dom and wind machines. She’s at her most biting on fast-talking sass standouts “Can’t Talk Back” and “Goddess of Destruction,” anthems that channel Miley Cyrus and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O. Guitar licks from backing band the Talkbacks keep a leg in alt-rock territory with a…
Day Trips: Whale-watching
Washington state offers an exciting escape from the summer heat
Historic Fayette County Dance Hall for Sale
Among eBay’s Britney Spears memorabilia, potato chips in the likeness of the Virgin Mary, and used badminton racquets up for bids, you might have been surprised to stumble upon a far different type of historical relic: the Swiss Alp Dance Hall. Located an hour and a half southeast of Austin, the 7,000 square foot hall…
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
Glaze’s expansive shoegaze rock goes big on Wasted Mind. By mixing upbeat, exploratory influences with the pigeonholing genre, the ATX trio approximates DIIV on alt uppers. On their second EP, the group boasts flexibility of sound and structure, the first half time-warping around Stephen McElwee’s dreamy vocals, which are then interspersed with the band’s bread…
Soccer Watch
Pro soccer is returning to Austin
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
Retro in 2017 usually ends in gimmickry, but this local trio’s evenhanded Sixties sweetness delights rather than retreads. Silky rhymes of summertime (“If I can’t get into heaven, I best be revvin’ my CJ7”) find home amid breezy guitar and bass grooves. Opening goodie “Candy Wrappers” swims on Matt Terry’s pro soprano moments, accenting the…
What’cha Watchin’?
Listings Editor Mark Fagan on three standout rock docs
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
Young men comprising Transit Method apparently had no idea that the time-shifting proto-prog metal of Rush and the widescreen psychedelic sludge rock of Jane’s Addiction are opposing forces. The Austin trio’s debut LP We Won’t Get Out of Here Alive fuses remarkable instrumental facility with alt-rock loud/soft dynamics, like a grunge band that got its…
Headlines
City Council meets today (Aug. 10) with a light agenda and shorthanded: Mayor Steve Adler and District 3 Council Member Pio Renteria are out of town on city business. Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo will chair a meeting considering Austin Energy’s Resource Plan, the city manager search process, and emergency homeless shelters. And robots! “Council:…
Federal Judge Tosses State’s “Sanctuary Cities” Suit Against Austin
Concurrent case against Texas remains pending in San Antonio
Louis Black Announces Chronicle Retirement
Co-founder and co-owner departs after 36 years at helm
Progress Being Made at APD Crime Lab
Number of untested rape kits continues to fall
