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How Austin Is Tackling Homelessness on the Street and at City Hall
More shelters, more beds, and more fights about ordinances ahead
Spread Your Wings With The Peanut Butter Falcon
The story behind an unlikely filmmaking adventure
Political Action Committee Proclaims Support for Convention Center
PHAM says expansion means millions in community benefits
Sabrina Ellis Sings National Anthem for Hurting Nation
Mass shootings on the mind at Blues on the Green performance
Watch The First Trailer For Raise Hell, The Story of Molly Ivins
SXSW smash documentary about the Texas original blazing onto screens
SouthBites Gives Downtown a Tasty Break
New cafe in the SXSW Center supercharges the coffee-and-a-bite scene
Summer of Pride Reading List
Standout new(ish) books for Stonewall’s 50th anniversary
Q&A Hole: Unwilling Alien Espionage
Billie Buck: “Teleport me to the cheese factory”
Alamo Drafthouse Launches El Paso and Dayton Fundraisers
Ticket buyers will be able to add a donation to their purchases
10 of Austin’s Best 24-Hour Options for Food or Coffee
Looking for a late-night restaurant or an early-morning caffeine fix?
A War on Passivity: Rick Alverson and Tye Sheridan Climb The Mountain
The confrontational director challenges audiences to work once again
“Historic” Spending on Homelessness in New City Budget
FY 2020 plan calls for maximum tax rate to beat revenue caps
Mary J. Blige & Nas Prove Their Royalty at COTA
Co-headlining NYC legends marathon 150 nonstop minutes
Annabelle Chairlegs Sees Red in New Video
Black-gloved assassin strikes in visual whodunit
Conservative Political Group ALEC Is Coming to Town (UPDATED)
Corporate group hosts mid-August legislative confab
Fantasia Review: Black Magic For White Boys
The latest from Onur Tukel is his most rambling and pointed
Fantasia Review: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
A life in the grindhouse is not obscured by a tragic death
Fantasia Review: The Deeper You Dig
Cat-and-mouse horror is driven by empathy for hunter and hunted
Fantasia Review: Stare
J-horror finds unexpected new tension in the “long hair ghost” genre
Stick-and-Poke Tattoos and the Intimacy of Discomfort
Getting stuck with artist Lauren Dunkin (aka Dopetoast)
This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show
Austin Sanders explains the city’s new approach to homelessness
Win a Franklin Barbecue Smoking Pit at “You Grill, Girl!”
Help these chefs raise funds for Les Dames d’Escoffier
One in a Crowd: “Citizen”
Help a new Austin-made reproductive rights doc get to screens
Tastes From 15 Restaurants at Austin’s White Linen Night
Benefitting Farmshare Austin and Austin Food & Wine Alliance
Mike Wallace Is Here
The 60 Minutes newsman’s legacy makes headlines of its own
Cassandro, the Exotico!
Back body drops, and in high heels
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Something something family something. The unkillable franchise lumbers on.
Diamantino
Politics and Pekingese in this strange, sweet, and very Portuguese fantasy
Coyote Lake
Still waters run deep in this innovative border crime drama
The Mountain
Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum in an engrossing experiment in form
Long Gone Wild
New film asks, what happened after Blackish brought orca torture to light?
Sword of Trust
Marc Maron like you’ve never seen him in this oddball Southern road trip to the truth
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on
Sea of Shadows
Eco-crime-documentary follow the deadly impact of cartels and animal smugglers
Point Austin: Money Matters, and the Senate
Can the Dems find (and fund) the candidate to beat Cornyn?
Counting the Present and Future Beds for People Experiencing Homelessness in Austin
By any measure, Austin has far fewer shelter beds than it has people experiencing homelessness at any given time – whether that’s the approximately 2,200 identified in the latest Point in Time Count, or the more like 4,000 figure cited by service providers. Projects in the pipeline will bring the inventory up above 1,000 beds;…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 1, 2019
Separating Fact From Fiction Regarding Austin’s Homelessness Strategy
What ordinances were changed? One (9-4-11) was amended to allow camping in public areas unless doing so “materially endanger[s] the health or safety of another person or of themselves,” or if doing so “knowingly, or recklessly” makes the public area impassable or impedes “the reasonable use” of the area. A second (9-4-14) changed references to…
Texas Thriller Coyote Lake Draws Suspense From True Crime
On the shores of the border with filmmaker Sara Seligman
Austin’s First CBD Collective Opens Downtown
Custom Botanical Dispensary offers cannabidiol and more
We Have a Lot of History Here: The Austin Chronicle and Between the Lines
How Jeff Goldblum’s first starring role helped shape the paper we became
Comic Book Cookbook Shows You How to Make Perfect Ramen
A step-by-step trip into the noodlicious and brothy world of ramen
Punk Legend John Doe Presents at AFS Cinema
The L.A. to Austin transplant on acting: “I want to be sideways!”
Uncovering the Mysteries of Austin’s Speakeasies and Secret Bars
A guide to some of the hidden (and not-so-hidden) bars around town
Day Trips: The Majestic Theatre
Take the majestic tour
Local Band Montopolis Scores a Multimedia Ode to the Texas Coast
Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production
Soccer Watch
The U.S. women’s national team kicks off a five-game Victory Tour this weekend to celebrate its World Cup championship, with a match against Ireland this Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Rose Bowl (airing on ESPN2 at 9pm). It’ll be a farewell tour for coach Jill Ellis as well: She announced this week that she’ll be…
Qmmunity: Pride Week Commences
Party with Qmmunity, That Time of the Month, and Andy Campbell
One in a Crowd: “Dancers”
Short film needs your help to get en pointe
Anti-Abortionist and Heidi Group Founder Sues U.S. Government
Suit argues anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ groups with “sincere religious beliefs” deserve Title X money
Headlines
Break Has Ended: City Council returns Aug. 8, with a mere 139-Item agenda. Notable topics include the creation of a local government corporation to fundraise for efforts to reduce homelessness, site identification for public water fountains, a resolution “declaring a climate emergency,” and a zoning hearing for a planned development on Riverside. See more in…
Stabbing Attack on Waller Creek Highlights Dangers Faced by Those Experiencing Homelessness
Darnel Esco remains in Travis County Jail with a bond set for $150,000 following his arrest for the brutal stabbing of a woman in the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 24. The victim, a trans woman experiencing homelessness, required surgery to remove part of her spleen. She also suffered fractures to her head and…
The Luv Doc: Pineapple Pizza
A big ol’ meaty, cheesy, greasy gastronomical death trap
Public Notice: They’re Baaack!
Council faces a busy first week
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Elephant graveyards don’t actually exist. The origin of the myth came either from hunters killing groups of elephants and leaving the bones near each other, or in times of famine, elephants migrating to food and subsequently dying there. The notion has been made famous in such movies as Trader Horn and Disney’s Tarzan and The…
Quote of the Week
“Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.” – The Baltimore Sun editorializing in response to Trump calling Baltimore “rat-infested” slums where “no human being would want to live.”
The Origins of Austin Punk in the Aftermath of the 13th Floor Elevators
Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles
Summer Stock Austin’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
This musical succeeds on the infectious energy of every member of its enthusiastic cast
Summer Stock Austin’s Haunted: A Ghost Story
This new musical by Allen Robertson and Damon Brown is darker than their usual fare, but there’s light at the end
Austin Police Encouraged to Use Excessive Force?
Lawsuit: City fails to discipline problem cops
Grageriart: Design 4 Everyone at Crashbox
Math rock is hard, let’s go shopping with some robots
Travis County Leaders Give Themselves Raises
Salary move comes amid fears of shrinking budgets
PARD Releases Draft Long-Range Plan
“Our Parks, Our Future” charts course through 2028
