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Causing Trouble as We Smiled: A Dusty Story
Playwright Timothy Braun remembers the canine companion who changed his life
First Look at the Austin-Made Comedy-Musical Sister Aimee
First trailer for an (un)true story
The Anton Yelchin We Thought We Knew
UT grad Garret Price gets to know the late actor in Love, Antosha
Attention Hot Sauce Makers and Salsa Lovers!
Call for Hot Sauce Festival Competition Entries
Sauce Odyssey Food Trailer Ceases Operations Days Before Hot Sauce Festival
Eastside truck offered guided hot sauce tours and a full food menu
Anti-LGBTQ Church Out at AISD
After a year of protests, Celebration Church is moving on
Austin Pride Donates $20,000 to Austin Black Pride
And more reasons to keep on singin’ and dancin’
Q&A Hole: Austin Musicians vs. the Grim Reaper
What game would you choose to challenge death?
It’s Knives Out For Rian Johnson at Fantastic Fest
The Last Jedi director’s latest to close fest
Texas Lit Lives at Waterloo Records
The tall tales of Ray Wylie Hubbard and Rodney Crowell
Cable Access Hero “DaveTV” Exits ATX
Prewitt brought the club to your couch for three decades
Emmet Hunker Has a Gay Agenda
Queer comedy to open minds, push boundaries, and create space
This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: Mike Clark-Madison on the City Budget and Rock Photographer Martha Grenon
Why you should care about how the city spends your money
Fallout Continues Over Leander Library’s Drag Story Hour
Leander City Council to deliberate over policies, background checks
A Map of Austin’s Queer Bars From the Fifties to Today
Got a photo or memory from a bar from years past? Share it!
Luce
High school drama becomes an indictment of “either/or” culture
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Cate Blanchett steals away with what’s left of her dreams in Linklater’s coming-of-middle-age comedy
Good Boys
Tweens up to no good? Yeah, it’s a Rogen/Hill joint
David Crosby: Remember My Name
The most hated man in folk rock on his career in bridge-burning
Charlie Says
Manson Family drama place society’s treatment of guilt and contrition in the dock
Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy
Action flick takes a timely look at police corruption in Hong Kong
Gwen
Folk-horror finds terror in the remoteness of pre-industrial Wales
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Nickelodeon’s animated star gets a charming live-action revamp
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz’s beloved nightmares come to the screen
The Kitchen
1970s mob drama gets a #MeToo overhaul
Blinded by the Light
Semi-true story of how the Boss shook the world of a boy from Luton
The Angry Birds Movie 2
The birds are back, with an added subversive twist
Texas Platters
Instead of splitting a single, these two modern Austin outlaws form a two-song, heaven-and-hell alliance. Between Biram’s country-punk trucker blues, and country horror cineaste/axe mercenary Dayton rattles real-life desperado David Allan Coe, and more prize Gary Stewart renaissance on the undercard. Trading raw, undressed vox on back-shack gristle blues, the two locals bash out the…
Richard Linklater Constructs a Frustrated Architect in Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Cate Blanchett’s character is the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright, but no less complicated
Texas Platters
Eponymous bow from Jon Fichter (Sweet Spirit), Anastasia Wright (Black Basements), and Adam Galvan (ex-Romantika), Hong Kong Wigs completes its introductory arc in four cuts. Sweeping in the hot fuzz indie sound of his day band, frontman Fichter evokes the owner of the EP’s sponsoring studio Radio Milk, White Denim’s James Petralli, then segues seamlessly…
To Know Joe Lansdale Is to Love Joe Lansdale
All Hail the Popcorn King trails the writer of the purple rage
Texas Platters
De-evolutionary hardcore quintet Scan batters and bellows through five tracks in eight minutes on its defoliating April EP, produced locally by Ian Rundell. Comparatively epic at 2:09, the roaring clatter of opener “Warlock” acts as the pit call and ignites white fury thrashing with a woozy, but oh-so-right guitar solo. Side sharer “Yo No Se”…
Day Trips: The Science Mill
Brain-powered fun
Texas Platters
In the face of all recording industry conventions, Cactus Lee issued their debut and sophomore albums, both 10-track vinyl LPs, on the same day. It’s a creatively audacious move for the subterranean songwriting trio, but the material’s so strong, you can’t call it unjustified. The group’s self-titled effort contains one of the most splendid underground…
Soccer Watch
It’s not too late. The Austin Soccer Foundation’s 2019 Soccer Awards Gala is tonight, Thu., Aug. 15, at the Line Hotel, 111 E. Cesar Chavez, with keynote speaker FIFA referee Ismail Elfath. Get info on this great soccer support group at www.austinsoccerfoundation.org. The Austin Bold suffered a tough home loss last weekend, 1-3 to LA…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 15, 2019
Texas Platters
In 2003, while still lead guitarist for local king Bob Schneider, Billy Harvey would isolate himself on the back of the tour bus and write songs. Sixteen years and a slew of DIY and studio releases later, his sophomore album sees a remastered reissue, vinyl release, and bonus tracks that recapture the singer-songwriter who produced…
One in a Crowd: Kind of Blue
Upcoming Linklater-produced politics documentary Kind of Blue shows Texas’ true diversity
Texas Platters
Jesus, finally. Imagine a major label reupholstering – i.e., “deluxe edition” – spilling actual, real-life vault riches. Across two formats, Doyle Bramhall II’s catalog midpoint Welcome does exactly that in manners both subtle and exclamatory. On the former front, the double vinyl debut of the guitarist’s third album, expertly packaged in a hard, roomy, single…
Headlines
Code-NEXT-ra: City Council won’t meet this week, but on Aug. 13, the Housing and Planning Committee received a first look at upcoming changes to the city’s Land Development Code. Brent Lloyd, one of the code rewrite’s leaders, previewed proposed changes to “transition zones,” which would regulate how new structures and additions to current homes can…
Qmmunity: Queers Who Inspire Us
Plus trans-centric theatre, queer comedy, and the return of aGLIFF
Oops!
In last week’s News story “Finally, Riverside Rezoning Case Arrives at Council,” we erroneously reported that the current apartment complexes at the site were built between 1995 and 2016, when they were in fact completed by 2003. We regret the error.
Council Moves Gently on Riverside Redevelopment
Preliminary approval given to the 97-acre mixed-use plan for 4700 Riverside
Bake a Wish Celebrates 10 Years of Gifting Birthday Cakes
The volunteer-run organization delivers messages of care and community
Luv Doc: The Up / Down
A good excuse is never something that comes out of a funky armpit
Quote of the Week
“Americans were killed because you stoked the fire of racists. … Words have consequences. ¡Ya basta!” – Julián Castro, in a campaign ad directly connecting President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric to the El Paso terrorist massacre. (The ad was reportedly slated to air in New Jersey during Fox & Friends, so Trump would see it before…
Texas Platters
Roots freaks the world over have stuck by Lubbock-born/Ft. Worth-reared firebrand Delbert McClinton since his mid-Sixties debut, and now Tall, Dark, & Handsome postulates that the 78-year-old Austinite might very well dish out another five decades of country, blues, jazz, y más. Roughly his 29th album since 1972, the quick, 14-song follow-up to 2017’s lively…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The word “prick” as slang for penis dates back to at least 1851. Until 1977, the U.S. nuclear launch code was eight zeroes, according to The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace by Alexander Klimburg. The code had been that way for 15 years. “GIF creator” and “meme creator” are actual job titles. Between 2011…
Point Austin: Watching the Races
Yes, it’s early – but Austin voters can start boning up now
Texas Platters
Second in a trilogy of extended plays, EP 2 continues tracing the local guitar hero’s evolution from bar-closing Sixth Street slinger to a songwriter with chops. Tessmer taps a more mature and honest vein focusing on his recent sobriety. Blues still run through his veins, with opener “The Treatment” flaring a dirty burn early and…
Faster Than Sound: Eimaral Sol’s Journey to RAS Day
Local neo-soul singer Eimaral Sol puts her spiritual spin on the all-women-led RAS Day lineup, City Council approves Red River improvements, Blakchyl leads her East Austin tour, and cult song funny man Dick Price passes
PHAM PAC Pushes Back on Hotel Occupancy Tax Plan
Community groups unite to oppose Prop B
Texas Platters
Lukas Nelson’s first release since A Star Is Born vaulted him into the national consciousness delivers for both the newly initiated and the faithful. Fifty-minute follow-up to his self-titled 2017 breakout, Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) genre hops with ease, but the first quarter hews close to his roots-rock background. The bright guitar…
Last Act Theatre’s Seven
In this documentary play, seven women from around the world tell stories that are tragically familiar
Public Notice: Opening Up Pandora’s Box
A look inside the Land Development Code revision progress
Texas Platters
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the album that put them on the map, Reckless Kelly revisits its glory years on Bulletproof Live. The Austinites’ third live LP preserves a West Coast jaunt from last summer without any overdubbing. As such, the recording captures noticeable differences from the original disc, not all of them pretty, but…
That! Big! 80s! Musical! at the Hideout
This improvised take on Footloose-style musicals wasn’t exactly polished, but the cast’s catchy enthusiasm brought genuine laughs
Texas Platters
Mario Matteoli trades the raucous strings of former outfit the Weary Boys for seedier punk with the Joe Jacksons. The trio’s debut LP opens behind “We’re Not Alone,” which riffs raw into the psychedelic vamp of “Last Night With Jesus.” The frontman pleads and yelps catharsis against a heavy undertow of dread – “(Oh Lord)…
“Meeghan Morongova: Boundless Abandon” at Butridge Gallery
The photographer’s first solo show is a clever and colorful fabrication of portraits
Envisioning a More Flavorful Future With Emmer & Rye’s Fermentation Program
Chef Alfred Francese becomes a self-made flavor scientist
Texas Platters
Brothers Bill and Matt Pucci ride their Americana down easy, a Seventies-styled folk with a string band bent. Sour Bridges’ fourth LP flies a bit more focused than the local quartet’s previous eclectic turns, though not necessarily much deeper. Most notably, “Scrapyard Boys” bounces with a poppy turn and “Do Ya” torques three-part harmonies into…
With Changes Coming, AISD Revisits Facilities Plan
Trustees to consider school closures, redrawing of attendance zones, and more
City Hall Gets Better at the Basic Business of Budgeting
Early indicators are good, but difficult fiscal conversations linger
Texas Platters
If ever a title told you what to expect, Carrion Highway Weird Sun is it: images of long trails through bog-locked woods, a hellish sun beating down, animal corpses everywhere, and … what might that gap-toothed hillbilly up ahead want? What he gets is a short, sweet frenzy of feverish swamp metal, gut-punch rhythms, distortion-choked…
Texas Rangers Get Wrangled Into “Bonnenghazi” Drama
Scandal surrounding House Speaker Dennis Bonnen burns on
City, County Clash Over Future Hotel Tax
The city’s “Palm District” vs. the county’s Expo Center
Texas Platters
The first five seconds of “Anxious Whitey” ring with reedy feedback that tricks the ear into thinking Slim Harpo is about to proclaim that it’s “Still Rainin’ in My Heart.” The remaining 1,023 seconds muck out transcendental sludge that marries the repetitive meditations of Lungfish with the blown-out edges of Ramleh. At 557 seconds, roughly…
Death Watch: 11 Face Execution in Coming Months
A quiet summer gives way to a deadly fall
Community Organizer Heidi Sloan Announces Candidacy for TX-25
Joins Dem primary race in Austin-to-Fort Worth district
Workers Defense and Jolt Founder Announces Candidacy for Senate
Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez joins Dem primary field
