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Austin’s Most Eligible Dogs
Still single? Make a rescue dog your life partner.
No Idea Festival Q&A
Improvisational guru Chris Cogburn explains the matrix
Hudson’s on the Bend Shutters
No immediate plans for property
Neil Fest Harvester Alison Mosshart
Kills singer taps into painting, politics, and Le Noise
Day Trips & Beyond: Ice Fishing, Door County, Wis.
A trip to Sturgeon Bay
The Empire Strikes Back
Trans icon Sandy Stone receives this year’s OUTsider Legacy Award
Devolver to Host Video Games Impacted by Immigration Ban
Local publisher showcases the Middle East at GDC in California
DVDanger: Let’s Get Weird
Getting stranger with Kino Lorber, plus slime mold!
First Look: COLLiDE ATX
Eastside concept is a little bit of everything
Mayor Adler Addresses ICE Raids in Open Letter to Austin
Stresses Austin is “welcoming, inclusive community”
Don Pitts Calls It Quits
City Music Manager resigns citing bureaucracy
OUTsider Fest’s Wild Roots
The third annual international queer arts festival returns this week
Eight Places in Austin to Drink With Your Dog
Happy hour is more fun with Rover
…&More… Premieres Growth Through Acceptance
An ATX hip-hop soundtrack to futile existence
Consider the Tails of Two Bunnies
A rabbit running, and one at rest
Council: Committee on Committees
City Council reorganizes, searches, ponders Saltillo
Sembene! and Black Girl: Viewing the “Father” of African Filmmaking
A doc and a feature introduce the films of Ousmane Sembène
SXSW Music List No. 7
Pussy Riot Theatre, Kano, Bilal, and 137 more
John Wick vs. John Wick
John Wick: Chapter 2 director Chad Stahelski on the flawed hero
Rings
Japanese horror franchise reboot falls flat
John Wick: Chapter 2
The body count increases exponentially in this new installment
The LEGO Batman Movie
The Dark Knight returns to Legoland
2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
Watch and prepare for your Oscar pool
2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Why not form an opinion instead of guessing what will win?
2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program A
Let the voting begin
2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B
Be the most knowledgeable voter at your Oscar party
2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B
2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B 2017, NR, 154 min. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Misery and suffering know no national borders, but refugees from those conditions know all too well their demarcations. That is the message that comes through clearly in these five contenders…
Sanctuary Cities and the Ways We Fight for Human Rights
When community matters more than the law
Day Trips: 8th Wonder Brewery, Houston
Craft brewery toasts the local iconic former sports stadium
Headlines
Meeting Like This: City Council meets today, Feb. 9, with a modest 51-Item agenda that includes a discussion of City Council meetings: How many is too many? Other business includes choosing a city manager search team, much-postponed City Auditor authority, and rezoning Plaza Saltillo. “Council Considers Zoning Change for Elysium Park,” Feb. 10. Living is…
The Next Steps for Elysium Park
Affordable housing development gets first-reading approval
Oops
In the Feb. 3 News story “Council Wrap: State of the City,” the following sentence should have read: “In December, Council had directed staff to find ’emergency funding’ sufficient to help an additional 100 immigrants per month ….” In the Feb. 3 Music column “Playback,” the photo of Two Nice Girls did not include Laurie…
Lege Lines: A New Path for State House Dems
The promise of new Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Chris Turner
Soccer Watch
Renowned dog lover Cristiano Ronaldo has responded to pleas from Cantinho da Lili, a dog rescue center in his native Portugal, by donating a signed Real Madrid jersey for the shelter to auction off. The center needed some $2,500 to meet veterinary bills for 80 dogs. The 2016 Player of the Year takes a lot…
Confusion, Misery, Worry: The Immigration Ban in Texas
Refugee Services, SARA Organization attempt to keep their wits amidst chaos
The Luv Doc: Equal Time
Good friends are going to cost you
Pet Issue Giveaway
Devoted readers already know Hank, our publisher Nick Barbaro’s dog who’s also our official mascot and constant companion at the office. Hank’s been on our cover; our annual SXSW day party, the Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Party, is named after him; he has his own sigil and social media following on Facebook (@hankthechrondog) and…
A Fish Tank Worth a Thousand Words
Hiep Hong’s award-winning aquascapes are worthy of the greatest tanks
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
When he was starting off in comedy, Stephen Colbert had to learn how to play baritone horn in six days. According to one expert, to get rid of an earworm, repeat the last two stanzas of the song in your head to bring closure to it. Other experts say chewing gum or phoning a friend…
APD’s Backed Up DNA Backlog
The department still holds evidence from 3,294 sexual assault cases
Playback: John Doe Moves to Austin
X’s John Doe moves to Austin, Adam Nurre celebrates his late bandmates, and The Shopkeeper takes Congress House Studio to the movies
Environmental Defenders
Tom “Smitty” Smith’s retirement gives way to Adrian Shelley’s arrival
Texas Platters
When it comes to honing a singular, iconoclastic voice to peak potency, sometimes more is less. Raucous Golden Boys ringleader, Wes Coleman boasts a frayed-cuff soulfulness flowing forth with an abundance that risks undermining the degree to which he might otherwise be celebrated. Pared-down runtime, top-notch production, and souped-up arrangements, Microwave Dreams presents the singer-songwriter-guitarist…
The Hightower Report: Is Trump’s America Our America?
Our emperor has no mandate
Texas Platters
Alyse Black’s fourth full-length cuts into distinct halves. The first, which plays like an anthology of Nineties pop vocalists, seems guided by producer Eric Rosse, who’s behind female singer-songwriter greats such as Sara Bareilles and Tori Amos. The collaboration epitomizes best in slick lead-off “My Body Is Burning,” with Black’s throaty alto carrying the timbre…
Nationwide Strike Aims to Shut Down the Country
Possible general strike planned for Feb. 17
The Bookstore Cat Is Alive and Well
Sprawled across the book you want to read at Dragon’s Lair
Texas Platters
Black Joe Lewis and his sixpiece Honeybears continue crashing modern soul music head-on with blues and dirty punk rock on their fifth studio LP, and first since 2013’s Electric Slave. Boasting a few R&B party rockers in the mold of past hits like “Booty City,” Backlash celebrates the persuasive power of female gentalia on “PTP,”…
Fate of Simple Recycling Not So Simple
Council agrees to keep contract with textile pickup company, for now
BarkHappy App Connects Pups for Playtime
It’s a dog meet dog world
Texas Platters
Nicaraguan-American Jesse Beaman’s one-man local project My Empty Phantom emerges especially poignant on full-length bow Collection of Memories I/II, which lovingly pulls and canvasses all the colors of nostalgia out of the sky. His recollections feel tangible, blended and stacked from barren Earth to cloud-reaching silos. The listener gets transported via a levitating kaleidoscope for…
Rackspace Backs Out of ACC Deal
Remember to lock down a lease
Mr. Smarty Pets Knows
Fun facts and weird stats all about animals
Texas Platters
Less than six years removed from national exposure on The Voice, NBC’s American rendering of the popular Dutch singing competition, Tje Austin (pronounced Tye) presents I Belong to You, a refined affair trapped in oscillation and illuminating the singer’s immense talent through an awkward recalibration of sound. The bluesy “Whiskey” as well as the stripped-down…
Poetry in Prison
The Freehand Arts Project steps into the county jail
Gay Place
The return of the Lesbian Prom brings a momentary break from politics
Texas Platters
The problematic More Stories to Tell features SSB – formerly Super Smash Brothers, likely abbreviated to negate Nintendo cease and desists – casting no shadows over who they are, or whom they serve, while pushing party rap into tired excess. High points “Respect” and “Wake Up” underline the duo’s capabilities, with stronger hooks and respectable…
Bill of the Week: Lawmaking While Driving
Does anybody actually think texting and driving is a good idea?
Review: Old Thousand
Chinese concept rebels with in-your-face food and vibe
Texas Platters
Nerds with guitars, New Berlin comes bouncing out of the basement with Basic Function. Led by erstwhile one-man-bandit Michael Flanagan (formerly of South America, now based in McAllen), the trio on ascending Austin imprint Super Secret sounds like an artifact from the DIY Eighties, its angular garage-pop as informed by New Wave theatre as Nuggets.…
Campaign Launched to Replace Nixed County Funds
With friends like Gov. Greg Abbott, who needs enemies?
Finding a Friend With More Than Four Legs
Spiders and scorpions make prehistoric pets
Evil Triplet Record Review
Otherworld (Super Secret)
Photos: Chronicle Staff Pets
Meet our office pets and the pets we come home to
Point Austin: The Whiplash Generation
On trying to maintain humane sanity in a dangerously insane era
How Austin Restaurants Are Leading the Trump Era Resistance
Economically culture-jamming the new administration
An Idiot at FronteraFest
Diary of getting a homegrown 25-minute play onto the stage for Austin’s biggest annual performance festival
line upon line: first
In the percussion trio’s concert of new works, four pieces took very different forms, but all resolved in a comparable calm
Quote of the Week
Yes, they really said that
Austin Punk Pioneer Steve Marsh Climbs the Star Ladder
Ex-Terminal Mind vocalist explores outré galaxies in Evil Triplet
“Karen Kunc + Monika Meler: PrintAustin 2017”
At Gallery Shoal Creek, these artists’ prints interact well with one another – contrasting peace in nature and urban agitation
Public Notice: Stating the Obvious
Adler “Austin Bargain” missing some fine print
