Cover Story
The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin
From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city
Levitation 2019
November 7-10 Long ago outgrowing its single-venue origins, locally-curated psych festival Levitation now sprawls more than the entirety of the Red River Cultural District, spilling over into seven clubs, a nearby church, and the Waterloo Greenway’s Creek Show (under the bridge) for more than 35 different events across four days and nights. Among festival veterans…
Other Worlds Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Time After Time
Fest to honor Nicholas Meyer, director of the beloved chrono-romance
Queer Comedy That’s Not Just for Queers
Way Down in the Hole and Liz Behan take over ColdTowne
Council Members To Back Abortion Support Budget Measure
Garza, Casar plan support for $100K in abortion assistance
Qmmunity Wants Deets on Local Gay Bars From Decades Past
What are we missing? Send us yer memories!
Q&A Hole: Music for First Contact
What song would you play for a lost tribe?
Fireflies Brings a Black, Queer Story to the Stage
Whatsinthemirror? brings Donja R. Love’s play to Austin
413 Fitness Brings the Fight Against Parkinson’s Into the Ring
Meet the local gym reinventing senior fitness
Community Organizer Heidi Sloan Announces Candidacy for TX-25
Joins Dem primary race in Austin-to-Fort Worth district
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut 1979, R, 182 min. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper. Coppola’s monumental Vietnam film is one of the best war movies ever made.
National Honey Bee Day Gets All Aberfeldy in the ATX
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long and try to help the bees
A New History, A New Horror in The Terror: Infamy
Showrunner Alex Woo recreates the nightmare of the internment camps
Workers Defense and Jolt Founder Announces Candidacy for Senate
Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez joins Dem primary field
17 of the Best Ice Cream Shops in Austin
From East Austin to Downtown, here are our favorite cold, creamy treats
This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: Pride, and a Lost Nudie Arthouse Film Found
We talk queer rights, Bill Paxton’s trippy first movie, and Silver Jews
City Council Moves Gently on Riverside Redevelopment, Less So on Hotel Occupancy Tax
First meeting after summer break features plenty of theatrics
Fantasia Review: Lake Michigan Monster
Come hear the absurdist sea shanty I sing ye, argh!
Nine of the Best Sno-Cone and Shaved Ice Spots in Austin
Sometimes some shaved ice and flavoring is all you need
The Art of Racing in the Rain
They’re all good philosophizing puppers, Brent
The Nightingale
Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook is a true historical horror
Them That Follow
Snake-handling drama quietly eviscerates that whole “thoughts and prayers” deal
The Peanut Butter Falcon
This modern Huck Finn may not innovate, but you can’t deny its heart
Pasolini
Minds meet as Abel Ferrara explores the final hours of the Italian maverick
Brian Banks
The true story of a high schooler falsely imprisoned
Inside the Austin History Center’s LGBTQ Collections
The city’s historical archive shines a light on lesser-told stories
@GayTrashCleanupCrew Helps Save Austin Green Spaces
Whole Foods millennial and partner inspire Instagrammers to pick up trash
An Incomplete Compilation of the Gay Bars Austin Has Loved and Lost
Because sometimes you want to go where everybody knows you’re queer
Texas Platters
Hair turns gray, skin wrinkles, metabolisms slow, but some human facets never get old. Case in point: the wild-eyed, playful spite of Cherubs. If 2 Ynfynyty, the Austin post-punk trio’s 2015 comeback after two decades of retirement, served as notice that middle age hadn’t dulled the band, Immaculada High proves its psychedelic noise more potent…
The Luv Doc: Problems That Don’t Actually Exist
Certain girls are really hot
Texas Platters
The Willie Nelson renaissance continues. Following up last year’s double shot of Sinatra covers and Last Man Standing with enough new gems to sparkle up the set list, Ride Me Back Home also lingers heavily on mortality, though with a distinct Willie wink on the light, rolling originals “Come on Time” and “One More Song…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In recent years, Benjamin Franklin has been misquoted regarding beer. There is no proof that he ever said, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” according to brewing historian Bob Skilnik. Coconut crab claws pinch with the strongest force of any crustacean. They’re so strong, in fact, that they…
Texas Platters
Having burnt up the better part of America’s highways, honky-tonk road dogs Mike & the Moonpies hit Europe and returned with an even more classic country sound. Recruiting the London Symphony Orchestra and recording at Abbey Road Studios, the Austin quintet immediately resets on opener “Cheap Silver” as a sharp rush of strings bend into…
The Babadook Director Sings a Song of History With The Nightingale
Jennifer Kent honors a commitment to the Aboriginal people of Australia
Texas Platters
Jesse Dayton retains a knack for upending the expected, so his wide-ranging set of covers reaches characteristically broad. Digging his heels into everything from the Clash to Gordon Lightfoot, Austin’s hardcore honky-tonker also lays into the full-tilt boogie of Dr. Feelgood’s “She Does It Right” and blues raucousness of AC/DC’s “Whole Lotta Rosie.” Although his…
Vulcan Video Gives Back to the Community with Taps and Tapes
The local movie rental store is preserving our shared VHS (and DVD and Blu-ray) heritage
Texas Platters
While 2016 breakout Time Owes You Nothing flourished jangled psych, Calliope Musicals’ studio debut also bore down on the songwriting. The Best New Austin Band at the 2015-16 Austin Music Awards now strums a little less folk in grafting the heart of South Austin culture onto a hipster aesthetic, with electronic chords and mainstream-defying vibraphone.…
Headlines
Back To Work: City Council’s return from summer break today (Thu., Aug. 8) features more action on homelessness, resolutions on climate change and gun violence, the long-awaited 4700 E. Riverside zoning case, and initial reactions to City Manager Spencer Cronk’s proposed fiscal year 2020 budget. More details inside. Dog Days of Summer: Cronk also hired the…
Texas Platters
Like golden rays peeking through autumn mist, synths ripple and intertwine with reverb shuffles and delayed split-coil notes on “False Direction,” the opener to Dayglow’s über confident Fuzzybrain. Austin’s best kept secret, Sloan Struble’s debut already amassed over 5 million Spotify plays, and while the UT dropout and Texas native credits that to playlist algorithms,…
Quote of the Week
“Jesus Christ, of course he’s racist! He’s been racist from day one.” – Beto O’Rourke, D-WTF, righteously roasting the Beltway media (in this case, Morning Joe) for playing dumb about Donald the Menace in the White House
Texas Platters
Listening to Pataphysics’ jittery new 29-track album feels somehow like being sucked into a television set and trapped in a loop of deranged, demonic Eighties commercials. “Wheeled Warriors,” for instance, is actually a breakneck pseudo-jingle. While Devo serves as an obvious sonic touchstone on the latest from this local quartet, Pataphysics’ third synthed-out LP rarely…
AISD Slows Down “School Changes” Train
Release, review of draft scenarios pushed back one month
Qmmunity: 50 Years Queer History
Everything you need to know to make the best of Pride Weekend
Public Notice: The Wrong Way, The Right Way
ALEC, APA two associations with different responses to our challenging times
Faster Than Sound: 10 Days of Gun Violence on Red River
Police step up presence in the Red River Cultural District as merchants’ association pushes for city improvements following three separate shootings in 10 days
How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock
Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution
“Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day” at the Blanton
The artist explores his indigenous roots and American identity in this solo exhibition
Soccer Watch
Central defender Amobi Okugo has been a rock all season for Austin Bold FC, but he doesn’t get forward very often; he’s taken only six shots all season while playing in every game and leading the team in minutes played. But last Saturday, he scored his first two goals of the season, on his only…
Zilker Theatre Productions’ The Little Mermaid
Dynamite vocals and grand visuals overcome the musical’s narrative weaknesses to satisfy audiences nostalgic for Disney’s classic
City Council Looks at Homelessness, Climate Change, and Gun Violence
Post-summer Council hits the dais running with 149-Item agenda
Austin at Large: You Can’t Take Our Sons Away
On gun violence, white supremacy, misogyny, and fatherhood
The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
The McElroys’ hit RPG podcast-turned-comic earns its exclamation mark
Don’t Book ’em, Danno: DPS Backs Off on Pot Busts
State troopers take cite-and-release stance amid continued hemp-law fallout
Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs
Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited
Day Trips: Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
A geological wonderland in the desert
Finally, Riverside Rezoning Case Arrives at Council
Massive southeast side project comes ashore
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 8, 2019
Frozen Desserts on the Face of the Sun
Where to find Austin’s coolest, sweetest treats
“Texodus” From D.C. Raises Dems’ Expectations
Vulnerable GOP incumbents bail on 2020 congressional races
French Picnic Fare at Épicerie at the Contemporary
The menu at Laguna Gloria pairs delightfully with a stroll through the sculpture gardens
Bonnenghazi! Drama Reigns in the Texas House
Did the speaker give his hard-right enemy a political target list?
“Historic” Spending on Homelessness in New City Budget
FY 2020 plan calls for maximum tax rate to beat revenue caps
Conservative Political Group ALEC Is Coming to Town (UPDATED)
Corporate group hosts mid-August legislative confab
One in a Crowd: “Citizen”
Help a new Austin-made reproductive rights doc get to screens
