Prez for Life & Beyond: Lester Young
Tenor sax king helped put Kansas City on the musical map
Other Worlds Austin Is Listening
Director Khalil Sullins on telepathy and social media
Hot August Nights Playlist
A hot/cold jukebox to jumpstart your Spotify wormholing
Not Up for Debate
Interview with Morgan Robyn Collado (Part 1)
Walk and Draw Along the Lake
Help create a people’s field guide to the South Central Waterfront
Belle & Sebastian Hikes Energy Rates
Time to dance with the Scottish posh pops – Friday at the Moody
Found Money
Certified tax rolls increase city income: “Growth Dividend”
Zagat Reveals 30 Under 30 List
Young pros define Austin’s hospitality landscape
DVDanger: Wild Boys
The Boy and other examinations of the pre-teen male mind
Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More
New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest
No Escape
Owen Wilson heads an American family swept up in a Southeast Asian coup
MasterChef Casting in Austin Saturday
Competition looking for America’s best home cooks
Prepare for Best of Austin With Taylor Swift
Tay-Tay shows off the Best of Austin award categories by way of the gif!
From Leather to Chiffon With Nina Proctor
Costume designer talks season 2 of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
The Remains of the Papers
Ransom Center adds Kazuo Ishiguro archive to its holdings
Gary Clark Jr. Takes Austin City Limits Stadium
Rare taping turning around results in grandiloquence
Austin Film Society Premieres Z for Zachariah
AFS brings Sundance hit to Texas
Metaldom Will Miss Red 7
Closing club moshes this final week
TCAD Challenge Moves to Court
Mayor announces next stage of appraisal fight
Pride Entertainment by the Hour
Here’s the full Pride Fest line-up, up to the minute
News Roundup: Questions and Answers
Paxton expects to be in court for approximately forever
Food-o-File: Weekend Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray Is Totally Worthy of Its Subject
Everyone will always believe this
Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
Homelessness Rises in AISD
More Austin students than ever have no permanent address
Al Yankovic Keeps Austin Weird
Pop culture absurdity, rated PG
Big Gay Pride Brunch
The first weekend of Pride never tasted so good
Stoners, Killers, and Kissing Miss Piggy
Topher Grace on assassination comedy American Ultra
Night Moves
Council moves on STRs, Springdale Farm, and budget
Shake Shack Domain Opens Next Week
Cult burger stand debuts two new concretes
Hitman: Agent 47
A great old video game is back for a lackluster film reboot
American Ultra
This stoner action rom-com stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart
After Words
Marcia Gay Harden stars as a lonely woman on vacation in an exotic locale
Being Evel
Evel Knievel rides again in this retrospective doc
Listen to Me Marlon
Marlon Brando, in his own words, is nothing short of transcendent
Best of Enemies
The 1968 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal are legend
People Places Things
Indie relationship comedy starring Jemaine Clement is slight but sweet
All Is Well
Bollywood family drama.
Kick 2
Telugu film.
The Love Affair
Filipino romantic drama.
6 Years
Filmed-in-Austin relationship drama captures local culture
Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga (VSOP)
Tamil romantic comedy.
Citizen Survey Results
City of Austin services
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Over the course of six LPs since 2001, Patricia Vonne has demonstrated time and again that although she’s surrounded by über talent – including celebrated Austin film director Robert Rodriguez – the Austin Music Awards-winner holds her own. On this compilation of Spanish cuts from her oeuvre, the local Bandolera infuses a modern rock twist…
Austin Film Society Wins Public Access Bid
After a decade, channelAustin won’t run city’s cable public access
Eastside Memorial Celebrates
High school meets state standards, first time since 2002
Public Input
Budget in a Box results
Day Trips: The Stafford Bank & Opera House, Columbus
Historic small town theatre continues to perform
Quote of the Week
“Japan has been at peace with the U.S. since August 9, 1945. It’s time we made peace with the Muslim world.” – the meme Ag Commissioner Sid Miller shared on his Facebook page a week after the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki imposed over an image of the mushroom cloud
Council: Dog Days Arrive
Budget hearings get under way this week
Overlapping Property Tax
Median value homestead
Soccer Watch
Ouch. The Austin Aztex suffered their most painful loss of the season Saturday night, giving up two goals in the last five minutes to lose 3-2 to the LA Galaxy II, despite being the better team for much of the game, and taking a well-deserved 2-0 lead into halftime. The Aztex host their next-to-last home…
Late-Night STR Debate
Committee to present STR resolution to Council on Thursday
AISD Mulls D7’s Empty Seat
Pressure group urges board to select former D7 candidate Yasmin Wagner
Improvising Chekhov With Nothing and Everything
To improvise Chekhov plays, the cast of Nothing and Everything learned just how much goes on in them
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Jamie Wilson first appeared on the local scene as a member of the Gougers, but it wasn’t until she harmonized in the Trishas that the music faithful began paying attention. With her first full-length solo album, she falls somewhere between the soft-hearted country rock of the Seventies and the overly sensitive folkie onslaught of the…
Going Somewhere?
Jeff Davis statue to stay put for now
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
On her debut LP, Mandy Rowden demonstrates new talent. As a songwriter, she’s capable of writing scary and defiantly pointed lyrics (“Haunt You”). Meanwhile, she performs on guitar, harmonica, keys, and percussion, and possesses skills to attract collaborators including Lloyd Maines, Redd Volkaert, Brad Rice, and Chip Dolan. As happens all too often these days…
The Hightower Report
Willie’s Reserve
Silver Linings
25 years of blood, sweat, and beers
Food-o-File
New beginnings
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
If Cole Porter’s songwriting were any less iconic, it’d be impossible to tell where his words end and Brian Kremer’s begin. His debut album, Echoes & Twirls, is a seamless mix of classics and originals threaded together by a clear devotion to vintage Western swing. Standards like “Don’t Fence Me In” and Hank Williams’ “Cold,…
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Immortal Guardian remains more than a Lone Star metal curiosity. Their chief shred-head, Gabriel Guardian, has long gone viral with simultaneous keyboard and guitar riffing while, locally, the band’s notorious for being dragged around fests on a trailer. On their sophomore release, the technical power-metal quartet aims high with the proposed soundtrack to a global…
2015 Contest & Festival Facts
Admission The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival requests that you pay an admission fee in the form of three nonperishable food items to be donated to the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas or a $5 cash donation. A collection site will be set up at the entrance to Fiesta Gardens. No Dogs – No…
Fanning the Flames
Cultivo Salsa heats up
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his debut album, eclectic roots rocker Guy Forsyth dives back into the blues pool he emerged from with a pair of recent discs. Comprised of recordings taken from the same show as his introductory handshake High Temperature, the live Red Dress flicks the blues switch hard. Sticking mostly to 12…
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Co-founder Sam Llanas gone since 2011, Kurt Neumann – the other member of the original BoDeans and a longtime resident of Dripping Springs – has taken the reins of one of heartland rock’s best practitioners. Except for the occasional harmony part Llanas offered, not much has changed on I Cant Stop, and with super skin-pounder…
Cooking Tent Demos
Year after year, you have done so much to support the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas, the least we could do is give you a few recipes. It’s our pleasure to bring you a trio of heavyweights making salsa far outside the jar. Claudia Alarcón returns to host and emcee and the next generation…
Steak With Green Chile Flautas
Marinated steak with Fire-Roasted Salsa Verde and green chile corn flautas with Smoked Tomato and Wild Chili Salsa
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
The lineage of Good Field’s mellow shoegaze distinctly traces back through principal Paul Price’s former bands, with hints of indie pop darlings Voxtrot’s melodic crispness and Brazos’ atmospheric wash. Add to that the swooning, languid vocals that at times recall NYC’s Walkmen, especially on the opening title track and “Telecommunication,” and the local quartet’s sophomore…
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Compared to their performance-artsy live shows, Technicolor Heart’s second EP comes a little light on the pixie dust. The dyad of vocalist/violist Naomi Cherie and synther/guitarist Joseph Salazar’s spacious dream-pop arrives lean on profound content – dishing elementary refrains like “Be not afraid of who you are, be not afraid cuz you’re a shooting star”…
Celebrity Judges
This year’s distinguished panel of judges includes: Robb Walsh (Head Judge) Three-time James Beard Award-winner Walsh is the author of The Hot Sauce Cookbook and The Tex-Mex Cookbook, and a partner in El Real Tex-Mex Cafe in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. Walsh is also a board member of Foodways Texas, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Texas…
Necks of Kin
From Dusk Till Dawn bares its fangs for season 2
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Led by Real Estate, Wild Nothing, and Yuck, the late-Aughts delivered indie pop’s second waves of surf rock and shoegaze. None was novel, yet each was great. On their debut, dream-pop locals Wildfires land in a similarly not-so-mutually-exclusive territory. Opener “Bad Breath” embarks sans frills, a down-strum guitar setting singer Gabe Baldwin’s reserved vocals. Despite…
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Singer-songwriters should never require a lyric sheet. Every word needs to sound as loud and proud as the printed page. Dedicated by its author to the “Kerouac people: The all night waitresses, the 24-hour truck stop attendant … and especially my songwriter and musical brethren who drive deep into the darkness on their long journey…
Planting the Seeds
Commercial kitchens keep Austin cooking
Fight of the Century
Best of Enemies climbs back in the ring with Buckley and Vidal for their 1968 face-off
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
On his third LP, Frenchman Guillaume Fresneau crystallizes his adopted Austin digs with genuine Southern-studded alterna-folk. Cello-buoyed opener “Dryland” commences the 11-track CD, its spiritually skewed chorus conveying the expat’s embraced migration effectively: “I’m finally home,” he sings, a tinge of twang detected in his calm baritone. Contributions from members of the Polyphonic Spree and…
Gay Place: We’re Expecting Guests
Gird up, ATX! The city’s expecting 150,000 revelers in a rainbow sea next weekend.
Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon
Tiger Style Games on bringing a dead story to life
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Eschewing hardcore punk’s tiresome tough guy histrionics, local trio Resent rages with abandon, specializing in spazzy outbursts with a propensity for sonic experimentation. Gestalt, a 13-minute blast of youthful adrenaline, onsets with a muscular snare roll from master basher Bryan Davis on “Bottom Feeder” before bassist Zac Ingram’s redline roars loom over head-spinning tempo changes…
The Luv Doc: What Is He Saying?
Sometimes a declarative statement is just a fishing expedition
Choice Chamber
Mike Molinari empowers Twitch viewers
The Virgin of Launderette
Arte Texas begins plans for restoration of iconic mural
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Women’s Equality Day (Aug. 26) was first celebrated in 1971, to commemorate passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution on Aug. 26, 1920. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson issued over 3,700 pardons during her first stint as governor of Texas (1925-1927). A popular slogan during her first campaign (after “Pa” Ferguson was impeached) was, “Me…
What Do Austinites Want?
10-1 City Council wrangles its first budget
Talking Curation With Art Alliance Austin’s Asa Hursh
Lora Reynolds Gallery’s exhibition of work by Troy Brauntuch, Andy Coolquitt, and Jeff Williams proves a good case study in putting together an art show
Meet the Candidate: Don Rios
Longtime TCSO officer runs for sheriff
Playback: Austin Music’s Cooperative Future
Could music collectives make Austin the next Music Row?
Gusev
Breaking String’s Gusev is a remarkable, feverish journey through the human condition
Death Watch: After Little Help From Counsel, Inmate to Die
Tercero’s execution would be 12th in Texas this year
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
What Charanga Cakewalk mago Michael Ramos did for Gina Chavez’s Album of the Year this spring (honored) and last (released) should happen to El Tule. Austin’s other Latin big band alongside Grupo Fantasma, these wily eight meet those Grammy-winners halfway between their brass blast and offshoot Brownout’s six-string slash. A Santana-esque lead details “Repique Mi…
Headlines
City Council begins public budget hearings today (Aug. 20) on its regular agenda, rolling from work session to committees and back again, with testimony invited on the proposed property tax rate, fee changes, and overall budget development, and a second public hearing scheduled for Aug. 27. See “Council: Dog Days Arrive.” Short-term rentals, long-term meetings:…
Point Austin: Growth Pays
Echoing anti-tax advocates, Statesman editors miss the way to true community investment
Texas Platters: Summer Breeze
Formed at Lanier High School in the late Fifties, the Royal Jesters long ruled the San Antonio teen scene, plying sweet soul and heartbreak ballads at local dances, hops, and talent shows. The group’s catalog has now been lovingly compiled by the meticulous vinyl archivists at Chicago reissue label Numero Group on English Oldies, a…
Frenemies of the Grove
Developer squares off against Bull Creek residents
Public Notice: Paralysis by Committee
STRs: One minus two proving to be a difficult concept
