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Guide to Austin Improv
The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a “Yes, and” boomtown
Texas Craft Brewers Festival Debuts Beer List
The Texas-only beer celebration returns to Austin
First Look: Sophia’s
Old school meets new in old Bess Bistro space
Cobalt Cracks the Crust
Enigmatic metallers make a rare Austin appearance
I Like to Watch: Across Steven’s Universe
The curious connection between programming and content
Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup
Festivals all over Texas!
Beer Today, Framed Tomorrow: The Art of the Brew Returns
The annual celebration of suds & art & music is back with even more
Cop Suspended for Pepper Spraying Handcuffed Arrestee
APD patrol officer Caldwell benched for 45 days
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Council Considering AE Settlement [UPDATE]
Agreement would cut overall utility rates by $42.5 million
Aaron Behrens Doesn’t (Always) Feel Like Dancing
Ghostland Observatory frontman takes us on a Midnight Stroll
Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants
Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers
Following Linklater’s Dream
Richard Linklater: dream is destiny finally opens in Austin
DVDanger: Follow
Owen Egerton on VOD, plus Antibirth
Fede Alvarez Says Don’t Breathe
On Detroit, Uruguay, and shooting that scene
Morrow vs. Trump vs. the GOP
Travis County GOP rudderless, broke after ousting chair
Frank Ocean Goes Blonde
Pop sovereign’s third LP masters the art of shape-shifting
AG Paxton Files Another Anti-Trans Lawsuit
Texas targets health care coverage in latest anti-transgender suit
Level Up
A man races through London to save his kidnapped girlfriend
Ben-Hur
We’re (unfortunately) off to the chariot races again
Don’t Breathe
Home-invasion thriller is more methodical than innovative
Hands of Stone
Robert De Niro returns to the ring in this Roberto Durán biopic
Southside With You
When Barack met Michelle
Greater
The saga of a college football underdog
Richard Linklater: dream is destiny
Doc on local filmmaker is a thoughtful portrait
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
The hunt for Adolf Eichmann
Space Dogs Adventure to the Moon
Canine astronauts venture to the moon
Dear Glutton
How to impress your SO’s parents on a budget
Page Two: Moving Forward by Falling Backward
Keep on keeping on
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ernest Hemingway made his martinis really cold by using tennis ball cans to make dense tubes of ice. The word “shark” likely comes from the Mayan word for the fish. The Santa Rita No. 1 oil well owned by the University of Texas was so named because Saint Rita is the patron saint of impossible…
Capital City Black Film Festival Grows by Leaps and Bounds
Four-day event showcases African-American experiences in cinema
Out of Bounds 2016
The biggest event on Austin’s improv calendar opens this coming Tuesday, Aug. 30, and keeps the laughs coming through Labor Day. The 15th edition of the annual Out of Bounds Comedy Festival boasts more than 50 local troupes performing improv and sketch comedy, another three dozen troupes from out of town, and 60 stand-up comics.…
Austin Jewish Repertory Theater’s W.
This solo version of Woyzeck is a fresh, compelling take on Buchner’s play, powerfully performed by Joey Hood
26th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Individual Category Red Sauce 1st Place: Diana Martinez 2nd Place: Tim Lane 3rd Place: Anders Dowd Honorable Mention: Ana Sofia Sada, Chase Johnson & Jesse Lemos, Laura Garcia Green Sauce 1st Place: Ana Sofia Sada 2nd Place: James Valadez 3rd Place: Lynn Jett Honorable Mention: Adam Treadway, Ray Martinez Jr. Special Variety 1st Place: Adam…
Election Preview
A candidate roundup for the November election
“Engaged in Conversation” Gallery Shoal Creek
The pairing of works by Katie Maratta and Sydney Yeager offer visual pleasures that might have otherwise gone unseen
LGBTQ Kitchens Make Austin Proud
Sundaze and Texas Chili Queens are rising stars in Austin’s food truck universe
Day Trips: Oblate Missions, San Antonio
Can’t make it to France or Mexico City? A pair of religious shrines make one holy site in the Alamo City.
The Luv Doc: Call the Movers
All you need to do is find that one magical key
District 2: The Battle for Southeast Austin
Former firefighter Delia Garza faces two unlikely challengers
Soccer Watch
A summer full of dramatic international action hit a fitting climax with Brazil’s emotional win on the last full day of the Rio Olympics. Neymar’s cathartic victory scream is a moment that will stay with fans for a long, long time. And suddenly, with that, we’re on into the fall season, which started up at…
Headlines
No regular City Council meeting until Sept. 1, but they do meet today, Aug. 25 – convening at 3pm – primarily to hold a 4pm public hearing on the proposed new Austin Energy rates, but preceded by a briefing on the search of a new city manager and possibly more discussion of Council’s proposed budget…
District 4: The Long Shots
Challengers face tough road against well-funded incumbent
Gay Place
Pride Week has arrived!
Point Austin: Zimmerman’s Hypocrisies
Denouncing “subsidized” Austinites, council member should try a mirror
Proposition One (City of Austin): $720 Million Mobility Bond
Mobility Bond stumbles after initial, unanimous vote
Playback: David Yow Meets the Jazzus Lizard
David Yow fronts the Jazzus Lizard, Cherubs knock off 22 years of rust, Preston Hubbard dies, and Blind Lemon Jefferson gets kicked off Texas license plates
Titan of the Telecaster Bill Kirchen
The guitarist settles in Austin but flies Transatlanticana
Quote of the Week
“No mother wants to have to go lobby her local government to ask for help with afterschool programs. … She does it because she wants to make sure her children never have to do the same.” – Council Member Delia Garza, responding to Don Zimmerman telling a group of visiting schoolchildren to “do something useful”…
Top of the Ticket: Third Party Options
The presidential election isn’t just a choice between a racist demagogue and an institutional hawk
Death Watch: The Quality of State Killings
Why is the TDCJ so reluctant to test death drugs?
Record Review: Bill Kirchen & Austin de Lone
Transatlanticana (Red House)
City Council: Zimmerman, Bond, and Budget
(And a few other things got done)
District 7: Political Insiders and Average Joes
Density-loving newcomer challenges longtime neighborhood activist
Grove Battle Grinds On
The neighbors surrounding the proposed Grove at Shoal Creek planned unit development had their valid petition lawsuit dismissed on jurisdictional grounds last week. Essentially, the neighbors will have to wait until there is an actual vote of City Council on the PUD (currently scheduled for Sept. 22) before the court will rule on whether they…
District 6: These Guys Again
Zimmerman and Flannigan gear up for rematch
Trump’s Austin Appearances
Photo gallery
District 10: Gallo vs. the World
Oft-criticized incumbent has three candidates vying for her seat
What Does Austin’s Explosive Growth Mean for Capital Metro?
Big changes are coming, but it’s not clear yet what they will be
AISD and ACC Board of Trustees
Trustee elections can mean uncontested drifts or bare-knuckle throwdowns
Quin Galavis Turns Darkness Into His Magnum Opus
Obfuscating the narrative between fiction and lived experience on My Life in Steel and Concrete
Cop Disciplined for Celebrating Killing on Comments Board
17-year veteran and APA board member receives 3-day suspension
Travis County
Precinct 3: Daugherty vs. Holmes The most strongly contested Travis County campaign is likely to be the race for Precinct 3 Commissioner, where Republican incumbent Gerald Daugherty is being challenged by Democrat David Holmes, a mediator and crisis communications consultant who has also worked in the Legislature. Precinct 3 has shifted back and forth between…
Record Review: Quin Galavis
On his ambitious, wide-release sophomore solo album, Quin Galavis lays bare his insecurities, fears, and existential ponderings through 20 thematic shards of literature. While varied in plot, the emotionally raw vignettes stack into a spirit quest about understanding the golden moments of life and death, dream and reality, and boldly facing it all without excuse.…
Justice Department Begins Phase-Out of Private Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons will “decline to renew the contract or substantially reduce its scope” with 13 private federal prisons when those prisons’ current contract periods are up, according to a memo issued last Thursday by United States Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates – and five of those prisons are in Texas. The decision…
Lege, Statewide, and Beyond
What does Trump’s toxicity mean for downballot races?
LGBTQ Bars Reclaim Their Place as Community Hubs
After Orlando, queer space is more important than ever
The Hightower Report: Look Who the Donald Is Bringing in From the Cold
Would Trump surrender our people’s democratic sovereignty to Putin?
Texas State Board of Education
Austin voters have the option this November to choose between a Fulbright scholarship recipient and English professor, or a man who once compared advocates of evolution science to Nazis and slave traders, to lead their children’s future on education. Two Travis County-based seats at the Texas State Board of Education, historically a breeding ground for…
Review: General Tso’Boy
Basic doesn’t mean boring at new fast casual concept
UT’s Cocks Not Glocks Demonstration
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