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Austin Playwright-Performer Provides a New Kind of Documentation in (Un)Documents
In an award-winning solo show, Jesús I. Valles sits down, alone with family
UT Alum Danielle Villasana Shines a Light on the Trans Women of Peru
Photojournalist hopes to inspire change through photographs
A Boogie Wit da Hoodie at Emo’s
Chart-topper employs Monster Energy on East Riverside Drive
OUTsider Fest Review: Our Future Ends?
Lemurs, dancers, and the question: Are queer spaces going extinct?
SXSW Music Steps Up Ninth Artist List
Japanese Breakfast, Broken Social Scene, Ambar Lucid and 154 others
Steve Cropper Recalls Rhythm & Blues History Through Six Strings
Chatting with the most egoless guitar hero in history
BossBabesATX Founder Unleashes Singular Voice on New EP
Jane Claire and Butcher Bear collab on Sour Grapefruit EP
Is Austin’s Prohibition Creamery Too Sweet For Booze?
A whiskey mouth’s pleasurable experience suggests otherwise
Lovely Sparrows Questions the Occult in New Video
“Shake the Shadow” spooks up stop motion animation
Worldbuilding With Science-Fiction Author Charlie Jane Anders
Signing for The City in the Middle of the Night at BookPeople
Game of Thrones Is Coming to SXSW. Let the Bloodletting Begin.
Hit HBO show launches massive blood drive, SXSW activation
Queer Music Forerunner Phranc Receives OUTsider Legacy Award
Transmedia art fest honors musician and visual artist
In Memoriam: Gina Lalli
Pioneer of Indian classical dance in Austin dies at age 89
Local Orgs Help Identify Medical & Legal Support for Trans Residents
Learn your rights with Gender Affirmation
Celebrating the 2018/19 Austin Music Industry Award Winners
Behind-the-scenes players of Austin music get their night
Taft Enters “A Door Within A Door”
New single from Austin crooner teases live-recorded collection
“Rosie’s Law” Takes Bold Stand for Choice, Women’s Health
Sheryl Cole’s bill would cover abortion care for Medicaid enrollees
Moontower Comedy 2019: Final Headliners
Nick Offerman, Hari Kandabolu lead third wave of comics
Cold Pursuit
Liam Neeson is Mr. Plow … with a vengeance
What Men Want
Because we needed a remake of What Women Want, apparently
Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen follows in the wilderness steps of Jack London
Donnybrook
Backwoods crime drama with a social conscience is gruelingly bleak
Alita: Battle Angel
The manga heroine comes to motion capture life
Happy Death Day 2U
Comedy-horror sequel is less Halloween, more Groundhog Day
Isn’t It Romantic
Another entry in the bizarre “head trauma leads to female empowerment” rom-com genre
“Randall Reid: Past and Present” at Davis Gallery
The man who reassembles the past’s artifacts has his own past’s artifacts assembled for all to see
Lege Lines: GOP Sharpens Its Claws for Paid Sick Leave With SB 15
“Consistent Employment Regulations Act” would dismantle city’s right to protect workers
Moving Panoramas Album Review
In Two (Modern Outsider)
Day Trips: Presidio San Saba, Menard
Spanish fort tells the story of a lost settlement
Snapshot: Far East Fest, Austin’s Asian Food Festival
Chilly temps couldn’t keep 2,900 foodies away
Soccer Watch
Here … As I noted last week, the Austin Bold continue to prepare for their debut in the USL Championship in a few weeks, holding their first closed-door scrimmages in Round Rock and at their home at COTA, where stadium construction races on in preparation for the home opener on March 30 against San Antonio…
Austin’s OUTsider Queer Transmedia Fest Turns Five
Fest arrives with local recognition and international reach
What’cha Watchin’?
Broad City (Comedy Central/Hulu) Excuse me while I write one out for the final season of Broad City. For the past four seasons, creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer have accurately shown the good, the bad, and the ugly of your 20s in their fictional yet semiautobiographical blessing of a show. The season five premiere…
Qmmunity: Love, Lust, and the Pursuit of Queerness
Lez Prom, OUTsider Fest, and more queer’d events
Travis County Sheriff Apologizes for Embarrassing Internal Video
“Motivational” video re-creates galley slave scene from Ben-Hur
How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap
After a decade and a half, the legendary manga’s battle dreams are made real
More Community Feedback on Renaming Reagan High
Northeast Austin school will drop all connections to Confederate postmaster general
Himalaya Kosheli and Fat Dragon Spice Up Spicewood Springs
Nepalese fare and Asian fusion revitalize North Austin shopping center
Murchison Middle School Principal Resigns Following Arrest of Two Students for Murder
The two minors are accused of fatally stabbing an Anderson High School student
Faster Than Sound: Multidimensional Production Team Musically Reimagines Fantastic Planet
Lifted Traces rescores classic films, Harlem re-emerges locally with Oh Boy, and more
State LGBTQ Chambers Form First-of-Its-Kind Alliance
The new Texas LGBT Chambers of Commerce will represent Austin, Greater Houston, North Texas, and San Antonio
Headlines
This One Hurts: We may have eaten our last cheeseburger special at Nau’s Enfield Drug. The Westside landmark drugstore and soda fountain ceased food service last month, citing diminishing sales and competition from nearby cafes. According to CultureMap, owner Laura Labay is seeking solutions, from new investors to a GoFundMe campaign, but prospects are bleak.…
Don’t Stop Believing: Moving Panoramas’ Leslie Sisson Overcomes the Trauma That Birthed In Two
Sophomore LP spins a sequel to the shoegazers’ extraordinary journey
Point Austin: “Show Us Your Papers”
The Whitley fiasco and the persistence of voter suppression
Eating Bugs Is the Future of Sustainable Farming?
Austin entomophagy advocates bring the crispy, crunchy taste of crickets to the masses
Public Notice: Another Non-Revolting Development
Planning should always be this easy
Defend Our Hoodz Gets Mixed Up With Arts District, Presidium, Chronicle
Last Friday morning, Feb. 8, about 3am, a small group of people vandalized the offices of Jim Hightower on San Marcos Street. They threw rocks through two windows and spray-painted slogans – “Art Wash” and “Sellouts Fuck Off” – across the front wall. The assault appears to have been directed at Austin Creative Alliance, whose…
Quote of the Week
“Keep up that fight. Bring it to your schools. You don’t have to be indoctrinated by these loser teachers that are trying to sell you on socialism from birth. You don’t have to do it.” – Donald Trump Jr., warming up the crowd at his daddy’s MAGArama in El Paso Monday night. #BeBest, y’all.
On the Edges of Gentrification, Planning a Different East Riverside Drive
City’s declared goals for the corridor and those of private developers do not necessarily coincide
Luv Doc: Lucky You
How can someone who has experienced such wealth and plenitude ever hope to live a life free of tortured conscience?
Four Suspects Charged in Brutal Assault on Gay Couple
Austin police are investigating the case as a potential hate crime
Council: Child Care “Scandal” Highlights City’s Own Failures
CMs also mull fate of APL’s Recycled Reads
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Myra Franklin of Cardiff, Wales, has a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for watching The Sound of Music on the big screen 940 times. Ancient Romans got high off eating the salema porgy fish. Pliny the Elder wrote in his Natural History that contact with menstrual blood “turns new wine sour, crops…
City: More Affordable Housing Everywhere
Neighborhood Housing and Community Development draft goals to increase inventory for low- and moderate-income households
AISD Trustees Push Back on Campus Closure Plan
“When we start messing with people’s schools, we start messing with their communities”
Getting Gleefully Inappropriate in Call Me Brother
Christina Parrish stars in the locally produced, subversive rom-com
Lege Lines: Full-Day Pre-K Tops School Wish List
Bipartisan support emerges for plan to fund full-day pre-kindergarten
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of February 14, 2019
Filigree Theatre’s When We Were Young and Unafraid
Sarah Treem’s drama revisits a time not that long ago when American women were controlled
Lege Lines: Senate Still Hasn’t Confirmed Texas Secretary of State David Whitley
Architect of recent “voter fraud” fiasco shifts blame to DPS
Fire Chief Goes Easy on Accused Harasser
Wrist-slap for captain’s rude, sexist “horseplay”
