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The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop
Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America
28th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Individual Category Red Sauce 1st Place: Anders Dowd 2nd Place: Shasta Erickson 3rd Place: Dallas Milton Green Sauce 1st Place: Dan Cook 2nd Place: Sal Solano 3rd Place: Francisca Nunez Special Variety 1st Place: Aaron Alterman 2nd Place: Josh & Jon Smetana 3rd Place: Jim Birdd Restaurant Category Red Sauce 1st Place: Posse East 2nd…
Austin Film Festival Leading the Charge on Diversity
Film fest awarded Academy grant for second year
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Sept. 26-28 in Downtown Austin, hosting more than 300 leaders in politics, public policy, and journalism
The Color of Alina Baraz
Midwestern electro siren doubles down
KGSR Rebrands as Austin City Limits Radio
New licensing deal will re-invent frequency’s format
Run Like the Devil
Cruz versus O’Rourke, seen from the campaign trail
Your Queer Guide to Austin
A crash course on the city’s LGBTQ parties, prides, and resources
Hosea Hargrove Passes
Austin bluesman influenced the Vaughan Brothers among others
Ngozi Ukazu Hip-Checks This Year’s Staple! Expo
Local artist brings a hockey team’s worth of wit & bro-centric warmth
Austin Film Society Announces 2018 Grant Winners
Recipients show strength and diversity of Texas filmmakers
KUTX Summer Jam
Inaugural showcase highlights the best of ATX hip-hop and beyond
Charlie Faye & the Fayettes Don’t Need No Baby
Local soul-pop trio blends vintage sound with modern message
Fall Concerts to Add to Your Calendar
Paul McCartney, the Jesus Lizard, and Saturnalia make the list
Babes Fest Thrives
How to art female empowerment
Leon Bridges Comes Home
Texan evolves past retro soulman in a modern star
Weekend Wine
Do you have can-envy?
Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup
Art festivals and dance halls liven up the landscape in September
UT Service and Activist Organizations to Join
Make a difference in Austin and around the world
Grand Jury No-Bills Chantal Eldridge
Avoids indictment over alleged sexual assault of minor in 2006
Austin Documentary Gets Distribution Deal
PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda to receive Oscar push
Austin Transportation Guide
How to get around Austin, with or without your own wheels Service to and From the Airport While travelers departing Austin can still be dropped off curbside in front of the terminal on the upper level at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA), arriving visitors now have a bit of a hike to get to taxi and…
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2018: Molly Brenner Is Not Coming
Brooklyn comic gives big laughs about not getting the Big O
Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend
Weary from the first week of school? Live music to the rescue!
10 Recommended Arts Events This Fall
So much creative energy flowing to quench your cultural thirst
If You Have Ghosts: The Haunting of The Little Stranger
Director Lenny Abrahamson talks post-war Gothic
Kin
Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal
The Little Stranger
A very British ghost story takes unexpected turns
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End
Documentary explores the dying art of controversial editorial cartoons
Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby adaptation debunks the myth of authenticity
Memoir of War
WWII literary adaptation lacks the novel’s spark and insight
Madeline’s Madeline
Madeline’s Madeline 2018, NR, 93 min. Directed by Josephine Decker, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Helena Howard, Miranda July, Molly Parker, Julee Cerda, Okwui Okpokwasili. A few years ago, I was talking with a noted scriptwriter and stand-up who dismissed the idea of improvised drama as something exceptional: Every artist improvises, they said,…
Operation Finale
Nazi hunting history may be accurate, but lacks tension or gravity
The Bookshop
British period literary drama is pretty weak tea
Searching
Innovative thriller keeps the tension on the small screen
Paper Boy
Indian story of romance across class divides
Ya Veremos
Mexican rom-com puts family first
Blood Fest
Comedy-horror provides plenty of GIF-able gags
Last Minute Out of Bounds Comedy Festival Recommendations
Here are some recos for OOB shows to catch Thursday-Sunday
The Luv Doc: A Hungry Cat
The kind of maddening paradox that makes you question the existence of a loving and benevolent creator
The Oral History of ABGB
Pils to wake, pils to sleep
Snapshot: Haircuts for Homeless
How barber Roger Lopez and a small group of dedicated volunteers pay it forward
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Long before the founding of Rome, the Etruscans measured time by something called the saeculum. A saeculum meant the period of time from the moment that something happened (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who had lived at the first moment had died. At that point…
Fallout Theater Says Fuck This Week
The improv alchemists of this weekly show turn the crap in your life into comedy gold
Austin Coffee Shops for Morning, Noon, and Night
Our favorite purveyors of caffeine for getting back to the grind
Paxton: Lethal Injection Forever
A.G. joins amicus brief in opposition to Missouri man’s request for death by lethal gas
Visit Local Coffee Shops!
You could visit a different independent coffee shop every week for two semesters and still not even scratch the surface of this list we’ve curated. Sure, there might be a Starbucks on every corner, but there’s also a locally owned coffee shop nearby – complete with baristas who know what a caramel macchiato is actually…
A New Pro-Choice Leader at NARAL Pro-Choice Texas
Aimee Arrambide takes over advocacy group
What Follows Five Years of Failure at Mendez Middle School?
Making the grade
Playback: That’s the Breaks
In studio with Confucius and Fresh, hosts of KUTX’s first ever hip-hop specialty show
Defense Distributed … by Mail
Cody Wilson has a workaround for judge’s order
Sick Leave in Limbo
The waiting room
Council: It’s Never Over
Bag bans, budgets, and Southwest Key
A Medication-Assisted Therapy to Treat Opioid Abuse
Sponsors unveil new partnership at CommUnityCare clinic
Capital City Black Film Festival Returns With New Voices
After a forced hiatus, stronger than ever
Election Ticker
Gotta endorse somebody
Medical Marijuana Advocates Look to 2019 Lege for Program Improvements
Barriers in a budding industry
Longhorns Football Preview
Will talent beget success?
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It’s Prime Time: Today’s City Council meeting (Aug. 30) features continued property tax and budget hearings, a resolution targeting Southwest Key Programs, and personnel discussions for Council’s direct reports. Highlight? Miss Lavelle White Day. See “Council: It’s Never Over,” Aug. 31. Got No Mandate: The Texas Supreme Court this week rejected “mandamus” requests that would…
Point Austin: Hard Times at the Statesman
The new owners start cutting, and the bleeding begins
Horror Short Brings Supernatural Rage to Slavery’s Story
Capital City Black Film Festival’s “Swing Low”
Public Notice: The Calendar Turns
Happy anniversary, and here’s a card …
Introducing Austin’s Pre-Gaming Beers of 2018
Some suds to keep your tailgate up to date
Quote of the Week: Debbie Hiott
Austin American-Statesman‘s editor on her decision to leave the paper
The Touchdowns That Changed Texas
Civil rights and sports mix in Breaking Down Barriers: The C.R. Roberts Story
One in a Crowd
Help fund a new production company in Austin
Aztlan Dance Company’s The Enchilada Western: Texas Deep Fried
In the troupe’s latest choreodramas, dancing desperados persisted and partied
The Cruz vs. O’Rourke Senate Race Explored in Run Like the Devil
Meet the men behind the campaigns
Queers on Campus
Your back-to-school guide for a gay ol’ time
“The Indigo Show” at Recspec Gallery
This group show is appealing for the ways in which it showcases this most intense, moody, serene, and opulent of all the blues
Day Trips: Snake Farm, New Braunfels
Snake Farm, just sounds nasty, but is a lot of fun
Gay Place
The end of summer, in name only
Soccer Watch
Pending a few legal finalities, Austin’s Major League Soccer team will start play in March. Precourt Sports Ventures and MLS2ATX unveiled the team name, logo, colors, and motto at a launch party last Wednesday evening at the North Door, though there’s a lot of work left to do – a temporary stadium for two years,…
Supremes Reject Ballot Lawsuits
Court denies requests that Council rewrite proposition language
