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The Reality of Climate Change in Texas: Drought and Floods
A two-headed beast rears its head
Gran Moreno, West Texas Exiles, Los Desechos, and Mira Mira Perform at the Chronicle‘s Hot Sauce Festival
35th annual Central Texas Food Bank benefit returns Sept. 7
Council to Decide This Week How Much to Increase Taxes, Pending Voter Approval
How high is too high?
Point Austin: Defending Our History
Resistance begins to spread – here’s another effort to fight back
Here Are Your 2025 Hot Sauce Competition Entrants
Commercial bottlers, restaurants, and individuals heat things up
Jack Skellington Is Coming to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
The Nightmare Before Christmas to light the night
Innovation and Tradition at Tiki Tatsu-Ya
Nationally acclaimed Tiki bar says “aloha!” to new flavors
Hell House LLC: Lineage
Hell House LLC: Lineage 2025, NR, 108 min. Directed by Stephen Cognetti, Starring Elizabeth Vermilyea, Searra Sawka, Mike Sutton, Joe Bandelli. Fifth installment in the haunted house horror franchise.
Primitive War
Primitive War 2025, NR, 135 min. Directed by Luke Sparke, Starring Jeremy Piven, Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler, Anthony Ingruber, Aaron Glenane. Vietnam War meets rampaging dinosaurs. Adapted from the Ethan Pettus book series.
Texas Even Wilder: Texas Wild (Deluxe Edition) Features New Covers
Zella Day, Ruthie Foster add to Texas Parks and Wildlife LP
Song Premiere: D.O.O.M. Inc. Releases “Endearing (Like a Dog Driving a Car)”
Self-proclaimed former CIA psyops launch music career
Freakier Friday
Sequel to the 2003 body swap comedy
My Mother’s Wedding
Dramedy about three adult sisters struggling to grow up
Sketch
A child’s monster drawings come to life in an Amblin-esque genre mashup
Weapons
Barbarian auteur returns with a deliriously twisted horror thriller
Harvest
An elegiac, evocative drama set during the Scottish Agricultural Revolution
Strange Harvest
Detectives investigate a serial killer in the heartland
Su From So
Kannada-language horror-comedy set in a village in southwestern India
As AVs Face Few Obstacles in Austin, Council Members Consider Regulations
New state law leaves a lot of freedom for AVs
Local Bail Hearings Now Have Defense Attorneys Most of the Time
Checking in on the pilot Counsel at First Appearance program
Visual Art Review: Ivester Contemporary’s “Cuídate (Take Care)”
Group show offers blueprints of self-care as resistance
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Duty Not to Participate: It’s gonna be all about the quorum break this week. (Detailed in our leading news story in this issue, found here.) Following the quorum break means chronicling the outrages from Republicans, which are coming thick and fast. As of Wednesday, the latest was the news that Gov. Greg Abbott has asked…
Book Review: Emily Hunt Kivel’s Debut Dwelling Delights
Novelist launches Austin-based career with postmodern fable
Austin Chronic: Lucy’s Loud Lifestyle Brand
Plus thoughts on bong cleanliness and the reanimated THC ban
Day Trips: Cindy Walker House, Mexia
Mexia remembers the songwriter who gave us bubbles in our beer
The Luv Doc: Dying Varmint Sounds
A torturously midrangey Bluetooth speaker
Qmmunity “News” Desk, Plus Upcoming Queer Events
Queer updates alert
villagerrr, Project Pat, a Grindcore Comp, and More Crucial Concerts
See what local shows we recommend this week
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The 1962 movie 40 Pounds of Trouble, with Tony Curtis and Suzanne Pleshette, was the first film given permission to film at Disneyland. Gen-Z in the UK have many foods they refuse to eat, which may lead to liver, blue cheese, anchovies, and other foods going away. According to one 2021 survey, about 75% of…
Chulita Vinyl Club Spins Storytelling at Flower Shop Residency
Vinyl DJ collective’s Pride show incorporates inclusive records, members
Spongebob, Labubus, and Whataburger in This Weekend’s Recommended Events
Arts and culture happenings to keep you entertained
Wizards, a Party Girl, and Dancing Top Our List of Events This Week
Arts and culture recommendations for the workweek
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, August 8-14
The “All-Out Bare-Knuckle Brawl” Over Gerrymandering Texas
Why Dems left the state to block a GOP redistricting scheme
With City Budget Crunch, Recycled Reads Goes on the Chopping Block
Community members thwarted previous shuttering attempt
Austin Dems Hold Field Hearing Over Blocked Abortion Access
As the GOP advanced their map three blocks away
