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Behind the Wheel With Deezie Brown
After five years of fine-tuning, the perfectionist producer and rapper rolls out 5th Wheel Fairytale
The Steeping Room to Close
Local bastion of fine teas and cuisine will shutter its Rosedale venue
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Nonprofit Health Alliance for Austin Musicians holds its biggest fundraiser of the year on Sept. 13, with local artists playing in venues all over town to raise funds for the org that provides medical care for the live music capital’s lifeblood. See performances all day via livestream or in person at Moody Amphitheater, 6am-10pm, or…
Austin FC Drops Rain-Soaked Meeting With Portland Timbers
Driussi’s 20th goal not enough to overcome 2-1 loss
A Conversation With Liz Cheney Will Close Out This Year’s Texas Tribune Festival
TribFest 2022 takes place in Downtown Austin Sept. 22-24
Sarah Polley’s Women Talking Announced for Austin Film Festival
First wave includes the eagerly-awaited Nanny
SNAP Benefits Amplified, Bacon Day Snoozes Up the Yum, 4th Tap Folds and SXSE Food Co. Moves, Garrison Brothers Release Bourbon Passport, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
aGLIFF Review: Erica’s First Holy Shit
Austin’s alternative fitness superstar hits the big screen
She’s Serving Celia
State Rep. Celia Israel on being herself on the mayoral trail
Erica Nix Is No Longer on the (Mayoral) Run
Queer artist and fitness guru ends campaign, endorses Celia Israel
Council Preview: Automatic License Plate Readers to Return?
Advocates call on CMs to just say no to controversial program
SXSW Announces First 2023 Speakers
Olympian and entrepreneur Allyson Felix, Cecile Richards, more
The 13th Floor Moves to 711 Red River, formerly Beerland and the Green Jay
Small Eastside rock & roll bar debuts as downtown music venue, Sept. 3
P.G. Moreno Can’t Get Enough “Adventurous Music” and Austin’s More Interesting For It
Epistrophy Arts leader talks past, present, and holy grail bookings
Austin FC Leaves No Doubt In Massive Win Over League-Leaders LAFC
The Oaks deliver 4-1 drubbing
Reaching for Queertopia in Austin
Local queer-led org works to support the unhoused LGBTQ community
Owen Kline Turns the Funny Pages
New movie looks at the grotesque and absurd sides of collection
Spin Me Round
Lumpen anti-rom-com won’t turn heads
Maneater
Trace Adkins versus sharks is a soggy mess
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Swinton and Elba lack magic in this unfunny fantastical rom-com
Funny Pages
Portrait of the comic artist as a young idiot
Breaking
Tragic true-life drama attacks how the system fails military veterans
The Innocents
Norwegian “evil kids” horror delivers a sickening catharsis
York Witches Society
Evil hunts a coven of upper-class British witches
Alienoid
Time-travelling SF wire fu thriller is as overpacked as it sounds
Beast
Idris Elba versus a lion in this throwback creature feature
Liger
Telugu MMA drama floats like a bee, stings like a butterfly
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(APA) Not the Same as It Was: Austin Police Association President Ken Casaday retired Wednesday, Aug. 24, from both the department and the union, which he’s led since 2014 and served since 2001. Casaday told CBS Austin that his decision wasn’t related to ongoing negotiations on a new police contract, but that he wants more…
In the Flesh: Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell Leads the Reappraisal of Porn
The archivist sees erotica as a vital chapter in the history of queer liberation
Public Notice: Meetings, Meetings, Meetings
The fall schedule is heating up
The Verde Report: Austin FC Introduces Emiliano Rigoni as LAFC Clash Looms
It’s no mystery who Austin FC will be measured against as we head toward the business end of the MLS regular season and into the playoffs. That would be the black-and-gold football club from Los Angeles. Current Western Conference (and MLS) leaders with 18 wins and 57 points, LAFC descends upon Austin this week for…
Local Elections Herald Epic Changes in the Capital City
Our future is now
City Base Wage Jumps to $20/Hour for Next Fiscal Year
Council approves increase for city workers
Kirk Watson and Celia Israel Lead Pack for the Next Mayor of Crisis City
Duo leads in funds, reputations, and housing plans
Short-Term Contract Locks In Big Wage Gains for EMS
Entry-level EMTs will get $19.25 an hour
Gentrification and Affordability Shapes the District 1 and 3 Races
Never-ending Eastside stories
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer’s markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 25, 2022
Homelessness and Mobility Top District 5 and 8 Issues
A southwest state of mind
Arts Events
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
City Hamstrung as Renters Face Crippling Costs
Ever-rising rent
Urbanists Challenge Linda Guerrero for District 9 Hot Seat
Filling Kathie Tovo’s shoes (with houses?)
Community Events
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids’ activities, and more
East Austin Activist Lewis Conway Jr., 1970-2022
Criminal justice reformer leaves a legacy
Solid Candidates Find Their Way to AISD Board Races
Wanted: heroes. Salary: nothing
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, August 26 – September 1
Qmmunity: Homoscopes
Don’t know what to do this week? Consult the Qmmunity stars for your homoscope of recommended queer events.
Wingnut Crusaders Want All of Round Rock ISD
Storming the castle
Opinion: We Deserve Project Connect
The executive director of Transit Forward makes the case for the city’s ambitious public transportation expansion
AISD’s Largest Bond Ever to Fix Infrastructure Comes to the Polls
ACC adds campuses
Restaurant Review: Hildee’s Texas Dine-Inn
Chef Ryan Hildebrand, founder and former chef at Houston’s FM Kitchen & Bar and erstwhile fine dining outfit Triniti, moved to Wimberley in 2019 and shortly afterward announced he’d be opening a “Hill Country bistro” adjacent to Blue Hole. One pandemic later, Hildee’s Texas Dine-Inn opened its doors on March 31 of this year. The…
Back on the Ballot: More Subsidized Housing
What the $350 million housing bond entails
Review: Zach Theatre’s The Inheritance, Part 1
Epic in length and ambition, this portrait of gay life in the 21st century is stunning
Not on the Ballot: Police Oversight
But Council could adopt ordinance anyway
Five Austin Arts Events That Celebrate Nature
Because you know we’re all just a bunch of animals
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Courtney Barnett, Kid Cudi, Butch Hancock, Marisa Nadler, Robert Earl Keen, and more
Day Trips: Forts Concho, Lancaster, and Richardson
Ruins of three forts recall frontier Texas
Faster Than Sound: KAZI, “The Voice of Austin,” Perseveres for 40 Years
Austin’s first-ever community-run station debuts new general manager and KUTX collab
The Luv Doc: A Thin Mustache
True iconoclasty in America is in woefully short supply
Improvisational Music Curator P.G. Moreno: “I Feel the Most Confident I’ve Ever Felt About Epistrophy Arts”
His latest booking? Scandinavian jazz powerhouses Atomic on their final U.S. tour before disbanding.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Musician Billy Ocean has three lungs. The third lung is an extra pulmonary node central to his medically normal lungs. Modern-day root beer contains wintergreen and vanilla, as well as trace amounts of ginger, licorice, anise, juniper berries, and dandelion. Adolf Hitler frustrated his dentist Hugo Johannes Blaschke with delayed appointments, being careless about dental…
Austin at Large: Suffering With the Statesman
Ragging on the daily isn’t as much fun now, but sometimes it still needs to happen
Black Food Week’s Begun, Austin Restaurant Weeks Are On Their Way, There’s Canine Noms at Blue Lacy, Dollar Sales at Twin Liquors, a New Bar Boss at Watertrade, Local Pastures in South Austin, and Water, Water, Everywhere …
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
