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Mayor’s Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later
Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what’s happened?
Mayor’s Omnibus Resolution: Actualization Is Hard
Moving into Phase II
SXSW Performance Contract Sparks Controversy
More back-and-forth between canceled artist and SXSW director
In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright
Time to “Turn Out the Lights” for the Texas Mad Dog writer
Garth Brooks to Keynote SXSW
DMC, Warren G, and T.I. also added as conference speakers
Greenhouse Craft Food + Austin Beerworks: A Dinner
Some things are worth driving a little ways north
Seven Austin Bowls to Kickstart Your Week
Good things come in small packages
Hanging Out With the Dream King
Mathias Svalina delivers slivers from the oneiroi to your front door
Texas Film Awards Announces Presenters
Michael Shannon, Nick Kroll, Henry Cisneros join lineup
Sexual Assault Advocates Demand Answers for Rape Kit Negligence
Group pens letter to mayor, police chief, city manager
Utopia Fest Announces Lineup
Dr. John, Lettuce, and Antibalas headline earthy campout
Transportation Options at SXSW
How to get around during the clusterfuck of festival season
Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup
Springtime in Texas means wildflowers and festivals abound
What Is Colin McIntyre Building In That Shipping Container?
So it’s a sort of … lung? And it’s … resonant?
Food Truck Tuesday: My Name is Joe
Philip Speer’s new trailer supports recovering addicts
Drafthouse Sets Bill Paxton Memorial Screenings
Beloved everyman actor and Texas native passed away Sunday
John Hughes Film Series at Moviehouse This March
Round Rock theatre screens the maestro of teen movies’ greatest hits
Green Pastures to Reopen as Mattie’s
Chef Joshua Thomas will run kitchen
SXSW Brings Back SouthBites Dinners
And Showtime announces Double R Diner pop-up
SXSW Unloads Headliners
Avett Brothers, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan plus 134 more
The Great Wall
Matt Damon protects the Chinese from lizards
Bitter Harvest
In 1930s Ukraine, young lovers fight Stalin and forced starvation
Rock Dog
It’s a dog … that rocks!
Get Out
A stellar racially charged horror comedy
Texas Platters
Combining projects into something of an experimental double EP, the ambient-tech Damase (Jeff Bye) and flowing synthesis of Manican Dream (Bye and Nathaniel Earl) assembles a digestible and diverse local sampler. Manican’s side A and lone track, “Chaos Is,” builds and folds over itself, swimming in boiling clangs that give way to agitated string strums…
Soccer Watch
The big news out of England this week: Wayne Shaw – 45-year-old, 280-pound backup goalkeeper for semi-pro team Sutton United – was caught on TV eating a meat pie during the second half of his team’s unlikely, nationally televised FA Cup match against Arsenal. Shaw was forced to quit the team the next day: Turns…
How to Cook Meat and Influence People
Jess Pryles and the making of an Austin food celebrity
Gay Place
Turning a trash pile into something beautiful
Headlines
No regular City Council meeting this week, although members received an update briefing on CodeNEXT Wednesday afternoon (“zoning and process regulations”), and some are busy with public events. The next regular meeting, Thursday, March 2, will include a heavy zoning agenda, including the return of the Austin Oaks PUD. A historic settlement last week: Council…
Page Two: It Is the Worst of Times, It Is the Worst of Times
It is the age of little wisdom, it is the age of foolishness
The Luv Doc: Bad Ideas
Wallowing in a huge pig trough of hubris and mendacity
Quote of the Week
Yes, they really said that
Linklater’s Before Trilogy comes to Criterion
Love, dreams, and destiny
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The longest rubber band chain measured at 10,855.6 feet not stretched, and was achieved by Pavitra Patro in Gujarat, India, on May 31, 2016. The coin-operated newspaper box was invented in 1947 by George Hemmeter. In the newspaper box heyday, Kaspar Wire Works in Shiner, Texas, dominated the U.S. market for manufacturing them. With newspaper…
Public Notice: Tool of Racism?
CodeNEXT fears aired; hopes expressed
Are City Employee Pensions at Risk?
Pension systems in Dallas and Houston have been beat up by bad spending.
This Year’s Banff Lineup
A plethora of thrills and chills
AISD: Education for All Residents
The school system supports its students, no matter their immigration status
Tension Mounts at City Council
The dais considers what constitutes “too tall”
The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Gum King
How Andy Paris cornered the market
Did the White House and ICE Collude?
Inquiring civil rights groups want to know
Who’s Testing APD’s Backlog of Evidence?
“Everything is on hold”
Playback: Mosaic Sound Collective Comes Into Focus
Mosaic Sound Collective’s music hub and ancient atmospheric Adam Torres point to the future
Professors on Climate Change
A letter from 200 professors to the White House signals a broad consensus on global warming
Stop. Record. Pause: APD Body Cameras Delayed Indefinitely
Restraining order leaves body cams in limbo
Texas Platters
Funny how we remember music: Emotionally, not literally. First blush of the Southerly Crock-Pot that is I Got Your Medicine – Sun Records, Mardi Gras, South Austin – sepias Shinyribs’ three previous albums as raunchy Golden Triangle clambakes. Revisit the kitchen powwow of 2010’s Well After Awhile (“Poor People’s Store”), Lucinda Williams’ funnest album never…
Protest Votes Under Scrutiny
Over 16,400 Texans signed an affidavit in order to vote
Lege Lines: Toxic Masculinity Drops the Hammer
Standing up to anti-choice rhetoric during a three-bill frenzy at the Capitol
Texas Platters
More than a decade after Adam Torres achieved cult status in small town Athens, Ohio, through 2006 solo debut Nostra Nova, the now local troubadour continues harking back to deeply intimate and rural Americana on I Came to Sing the Song. While the full-length gleaned pop, the new four-track EP serves as an extension of…
Richard Moya R.I.P.
The first Mexican-American elected to public office in Travis County was 84
Point Austin: What We Think of Us
City’s “community survey” an annual public selfie
Texas Platters
Clearly besotted with pre-millennial sounds from the UK underground, local shoegazers Black Books soaks in sonic storms and dream-pop psychedelia on their long-awaited second LP, Can’t Even. Rather than raid its record collection like overeager fan boys, the Austin sextet employs its influences with precision. Gary Numan-esque synthesizer preludes, hooks borrowed from the Verve, and…
Bill of the Week: Planes, High-Speed Trains or Automobiles
Let the lobbyist death match begin
Texas Platters
Exceptional artistry built Curtis McMurtry’s DNA, but those coming to this local songcraft with expectations based on his famous relations are in for a shock. The Hornet’s Nest, his second album, finds him erecting a very large tent around what passes for American music and utilizing it to tell inventive stories of everyday life. Most…
Glass Half Full Theatre’s Don Quixote de La Redo
This imaginative spin on Cervantes tells of walls and the stories that inspire us to tear them down
Texas Platters
Ten full-lengths into a nearly 20-year career as a monolith of punk rock blues, Austin’s Scott H. Biram hardly follows a formula. Rural as hell, urban in attitude, lonesome/orn’ry/mean, The Bad Testament is a primer in sin and redemption, hard love gone wrong, and blues and country influences pushed to nasty extremes. There’s plenty of…
Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex
More than 83% of state school districts either don’t teach sex ed or teach abstinence-positive curricula
Review: Grizzelda’s
Upscale Tex-Mex joint is a mini vacation
Texas Platters
Ahead of next month’s first new Knife in the Water release in 14 years, Super Secret Records’ reissue imprint Sonic Surgery waxes the local quintet’s 1998 debut back into print and onto turntables. A wandering, lonesome album, Plays One Sound remains ethereal, understated avant-garde, and noirish, laden with church organ bleakness and the country twang…
The Hightower Report: Paul Ryan Should Sit Down and Be Very Quiet
Entitlements? Social Security isn’t a welfare program
Texas Platters
Need a soundtrack to the coming apocalypse? Gurf Morlix has what you’re looking for. The Soul & the Heal, his ninth album, finds the veteran Austin guitarist and singer-songwriter in a typically dark mood, yet also offers the occasional glimmer of hope and love. As in the past, he takes cues from his good friend…
Dance Repertory Theatre’s Momentum
This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent
Texas Platters
A clean-cut collection featuring the Korg KR-55 drum machine, MF064 catches Austin’s analog synth quartet Survive in the midst of evolution. Returning to print a 2014 EP, released well prior to half the band garnering Grammy nominations for two volumes of the Stranger Things soundtrack, homegrown arts hub Monofonus facilitates an ideal rising tide that…
“textscape: Susan Scafati and Sean Ripple”
Using text interface as a visual environment, this show is messy and clean, consistent and surprising, philosophical and entertaining
Texas Platters
Meditative and fetching, Man, Woman, Friend, Computer delivers a breakup album and overarching concept: Thomas Echols’ electronic differentiation from his guitar projects. The Austin-based Echols has mostly cut his teeth on classical projects, such as Plainte Calme, his absorbing turn of Debussy and Messiaen. Here, he ventures into a complex amalgam of analog and synth.…
Day Trips: Green’s Sausage House, Zabcikville
Roadside eatery provides all the small town essentials
Judge Blocks Texas From Kicking Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid
State determined to have provided “no evidence” of wrongdoing
