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A Tangled Web at Spider House
A culture of heavy drinking and late nights, alleged sexual misconduct, and a lawsuit all pull on the threads of a poisonous time at the campus-area cafe
Ring in the New Year With a Binge Watch
12 streaming shows to get you to midnight and beyond
Top 10 LGBTQ Victories Worldwide
It’s the most listicle time of the year!
Post No Williams: A Vivid Section of the Human Animal
A tripartite view of The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
DVDanger: Three Holiday Horrors
A trio of chillers, but which do you want in your stocking?
Ten Things to Do on Christmas Day
Avoid the Grinch-y realm this holiday
Five Austin Activities for the Whole Family
Got a house full of guests this holiday? Here’s how to entertain ’em.
Weekend Wine: Countdown to the Holidays
We’re full of pride for these Texas wines
Buzz Mill Coffee Set to Open a Third Location
Plus related Infinite Monkey Theorem and top secret barbecue news
The Mule
Clint Eastwood enters the drug war in an unexpected role
If Beale Street Could Talk
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins adapts Baldwin’s tale of love and racism
Aquaman
The underwater superhero brings long-awaited color to DC’s films
Bumblebee
Transformers spin-off is (checks notes) wait … good?
Vice
Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve
Mary Poppins Returns
The perfect nanny returns, the same as last time
Welcome to Marwen
Outsider artist’s harrowing true story gets a misguided Hollywood sheen
Ben Is Back
The opioid crisis invades a family Christmas in this timely drama
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Time to rethink jazz
The True Story of the Somewhat Lost Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger star in this largely forgotten sequel
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Have a sip of Kool-Aid and flash back to the Haight-Asbury
Zach Theatre’s The Santaland Diaries
A new creative team energizes a Zach Theatre holiday tradition
Cooking the Whole Pig at Banger’s
Move over beef, there’s a new barbecue meat in town
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Kids, cancer, and Vicodin: Jeff Tweedy’s life in Wilco – first half!
Permanent Record’s White
In James Ijames’ satirical portrait of the artist as a privileged white guy, a black woman provides the most vivid and interesting shades
ArtStartArt Helps Students Get Their First Sales
This Austin-based company helps university students break into the art market and gives art lovers a new source for original work
Snapshot: Blue Genie Art Bazaar
Support local artisans with these last-minute gift buys
“Suchitra Mattai: Landfall” at grayDUCK Gallery
The artist’s channeled chaos vividly explores relationships between the natural and human worlds
Cookbook Bar & Cafe
Downtown Central Library’s restaurant offers a mixed bag
Day Trips: The Stagecoach Inn, Salado
Sam Houston slept here and so can you
Farewell and “Gracias” to Gus Garcia, Austin Trailblazer
Hispanic activist, former trustee, council member, mayor died Monday, at 84
Your Guide to Giving
How to donate to local nonprofits
Soccer Watch
The USL Championship 2019 schedule was released this week, with a special treat for the new <a href="http://AustinBoldFC.com" target="_blank"Austin Bold FC: a home opener on Saturday, March 30 against I-35 rival San Antonio FC to inaugurate Bold Stadium, the first purpose-built soccer stadium in Central Texas. Visitors to Winter Wonderland at COTA can gauge the…
Luv Doc: Dog-Sitting
This gig could go south in a really ugly way
City and Precourt Sign Agreement to Bring Soccer to Town
Not whether, but when for Austin FC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to Axios, China bought nearly 138,000 factory robots in 2017 – that’s about 36% of all factory robots in the world last year, and nearly as many as bought by Japan, South Korea, the U.S., and Germany combined. According to one bowling trivia expert, Harry Truman is the only U.S. president to appear on…
Dial Code Santa Claus Is This Year’s Christmas Surprise
You better watch out for this Pere Noël
Qmmunity
Have the merriest of merrys
KUT’s News Director Departs
Embattled newsroom leader Emily Donahue out after 17 years
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Last-minute stocking stuffers on Kindle and off
Playback: My Top 100 Austin Records of 2018
Kevin Curtin picks his favorite local sounds of the year
Broken Glass Shuts Down Bowie High School
Vandals leave $200,000 in damage on Southwest Austin campus
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Once, folk singers faced jail time and worse for their political affiliations
Apple Takes a $1 Billion Bite of Robinson Ranch
Tech giant heads just up the road to double its Austin footprint
ACC Teaches Without Textbooks
Open-source resources help keep education affordable
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
The cult of Tori Amos and how to navigate a life of writing
Council Says Goodbye to 2018
After tackling one last mammoth agenda, members take a powder
What’cha Watchin’?
Editorial intern Shalavé Cawley goes over the garden wall
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
A fictional relative to High Fidelity
Southwest Key Faces Student Walkout
East Austin College Prep youth challenge embattled nonprofit
Headlines
Adios, Erwin Center? Today (Thursday, Dec. 20) the UT System Board of Regents is set to approve a deal with L.A.’s Oak View Group to build and manage a new arena to replace the Frank Erwin Center. The new stadium, comparable in capacity to the Superdrum, will nestle on Red River south of the Myers…
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
MC5 leader rolls five books into one
Budget Cuts, Name Changes at AISD
Union urges wait-and-see stance on funding at board meeting
Austin at Large: Let’s Get Connected Again
What we can do now to prepare for the mobility future
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
Twenty years with Townes Van Zandt riding shotgun
Lawsuits Challenge Pro-Israel Loyalty Oaths
Pflugerville speech therapist challenges anti-boycott requirement in Texas law
Quote of the Week
“People think Austin is really prosperous, but we have a large population that is not. … We need to figure out how Austin can avoid being economically deprived.” – Gus Garcia, then a candidate for Austin mayor, speaking with the Chronicle back in 2001. Garcia passed away this week; see “Farewell and ‘Gracias’ to Gus…
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
What does it mean to be a classical radical?
