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The Tides of March
Ready for a blue wave in November’s midterms? That’ll depend on the race.
The Making of Austin
Curator Carter Foster on Ellsworth Kelly’s art building
Club Endorsements
Who’s backing whom in the March primary?
Essential Food for Chinese New Year in Austin
Top-notch dishes to ring in the Year of the Dog
Five Pet Cats in Modern Fiction
And you won’t believe what happens to the third one
First Look: Vino Vino
A wine dinner offers a fresh look at the revamped Hyde Park classic
25 Dog-Friendly Bars & Restaurants in Austin
Because nothing pairs better with coffee or beer than your own doggo
Courtney Barnett & Molly Burch to Perform at Saengerrunde Hall
German beer hall hosts Aussie musician
SXSW’s Eighth Artist List
Nathaniel Rateliff, Bun B, Rob Stone, and 141 more
Primary Endorsements (No Filler)
All our endorsements collected on one easy-to-print page
Chronicle Recommends: Films About Pets
Sit! Stay! Good movie!
Protest at Francisco Cantú Reading
Activists disrupt The Line Becomes a River BookPeople event
Flatbed Loses Its Lease
Pioneering press must move in 2019 and 12 tenants with it
Pairing Girl Scout Cookies With Beer?
Vince Thompson at the Brass Tap makes it seem ordinarily brilliant
OUTsider Festival’s Best Bets and Bites
What to see and where to eat, drink, and hang out to refuel or refresh
Six for CD 10
Dem primary candidates contend at Pct. 149 forum
The Pet Issue: Animals Working It
Here around our office, we’ve got a certain staff member with better work habits than most of us – Chrondog Hank, who unflaggingly keeps tabs on the squirrels in our atrium, greets visitors with a warm wag, and never complains about a case of the Mondays or the crummy state of media. For our second…
Six Films for Lovers
A half-dozen cinematic roses of varying degrees of romance
OUTsider Fest 2018 Legacy Award
35 years later, Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames is ahead and on time
Pink Narcissus
Pink Narcissus 1971, NR, 65 min. Directed by James Bidgood, Starring Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam. Drama about one man’s elaborate erotic fantasies is a landmark of independent queer cinema.
CodeNEXT Draft 3.0 Is Out
Feast your eyes on its map and substance matter
Snack Jack: The Jerky of the Future
Local start-up debuts plant-based jackfruit jerky
Lana Del Rey Hypnotizes
Throwback diva prompts Erwin Center to song
Sean Penn to Promote First Novel in Austin
Oscar winner-turned-author will make a stop here in April
Immortal Voices: Uncle Walt’s Band
Essential Austin trio get first national release
Eckhardt: The State of the County Is …
Thursday address slams Lege, props up local entities
Queer Events to Come
A guide to Austin’s poppin’ parties, fests, and art shows
Defense Attorneys Tell County Judges to Close Jail Reduction Docket
Demand letter threatens legal action over plea docket
The Visions of Stan Brakhage
Experimental Response Cinema presents three nights of his work
AFS Asks You to Love Film
Special cinematic treat for Valentine’s Day week
Top Eight Places to Get a Truly Austin Pizza
Weird pies for local culinary adventurers
Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend
Theatre, graphic glory, steamrollering, coffee, and the ol’ brown box
JMBLYA Keeps Stacking Headliners
J. Cole joins Cardi B, Migos, and Kevin Gates
Winchester
Helen Mirren fights off ghosts with construction tools.
Fashionista
UK-to-ATX transplant Simon Rumley’s thriftstore mystery
Bomb City
Infamous 1997 Amarillo punk murder exposes social division.
A Ciambra
Cinema verité depiction of life in Italy’s Roma communities
2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
Cartoon creations from Kobe to Goldilocks
2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program A
Breaion King arrest doc heads up the Oscar short list
2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B
Horror and hope in America’s underdog communities
La Boda de Valentina
Transcontinental farce in this Mexican/American rom-com
Permission
Polyamory and commitment weigh heavy in this New York rom-com
2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Compassion, grace, and humor distinguish the Oscar hopefuls
Before We Vanish
Creepy director enters SF territory
Paid Sick Leave: A Reproductive Justice Issue
It’s not just about workers’ rights
Congressional District 17
The votes are elsewhere
ColdTowne Theater’s Deja Noir
Double Indemnity provides the structure for an improvised and hilarious riff on those dark crime films out of the past
CodeMESS
CodeNEXT’s final draft set for release on Monday
Oops!
Last week’s story “Ann Kitchen 1, Precourt Sports Ventures Nil” incorrectly attributed a quote by Columbus Partnership CEO Alex Fischer to the Columbus Dispatch when in fact the quote came from the Austin American-Statesman.
Day Trips: Chocolates El Rey, Stonewall
Importer of Venezuelan chocolate brings food of the gods to the Hill Country wine district
Travis County Sues Opioid Industry
Manufacturers, distributors, marketers named in this week’s suit
Soccer Watch
The U.S. Soccer Federation holds its presidential election this Saturday, Feb. 10, with more than 500 members of the National Council expected to cast ballots, for an intriguing cast of eight candidates: USSF vice president Carlos Cordeiro, Soccer United Marketing president Kathy Carter, former pro players and current broadcasters Kyle Martino and Eric Wynalda, former…
Playback: Will Johnson’s Eternal Newness
“Playback” challenges Will Johnson to a home run derby and uncovers seven things you didn’t know about A Giant Dog
Candidate Hooky
The coalition working to stop Austin ISD from merging Norman and Sims elementary schools bristled this weekend when none of the candidates it invited to a Saturday forum on accountability showed up. Billed as a “Politicians Accountability Session,” the group had hoped to host several candidates running for office in state House District 46 and…
Ready/Set/Go!’s Backbone
Despite the title of this three-dance program, the arms may have had the most to say
Snapshot: The Electric Church’s Anniversary Party
The DIY venue celebrates one year at the crossroads of Austin’s underground music scene
ICYMI: Chez Nous
French bistro offers comfort, romance, and wonderful food
Mike Clark-Madison Named Publisher of Austin Monitor
Former Chronicle writer and editor becomes third to run local site
Mexic-Arte Museum’s “Fotografía y Nuevos Medios: Selections From the Permanent Collection”
The exhibition puts on view a treasure trove of images that have been in hiding for too long in the museum’s collections
Gay Place
Out of Time: Austin’s queer transmedia fest returns for year four
Other Statewide Races
Maybe more of a ripple
At Amazon, Somebody’s Always Watching You
Online mega-retailer received two patents intended to monitor warehouse workers
Texas Platters
Some boys were born to be dirty old men. Launched in 1974, these prurient-minded wielders of sophomoric good humor and fake genitalia have evolved into cackling graybeard groovers whose vintage lends a twisted respectability to their blue-lit loutishness. Produced by Shawn Sahm, who met the Uranium Savages at the Soap Creek Saloon when he was…
Lt. Governor
Anything but Dan Patrick
Your Plan for Pools
First, let’s all chip in $124 million
Texas Platters
Since Wild Child’s 2011 debut Pillow Talk, the bittersweet vocal interplay of Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins has built ever more exuberant pop. Three full-lengths later, Expectations subtly modifies that formula. Opening with the ukulele charm of “Alex” and soft sway to “Eggshells,” the album begins in familiar territory before Wilson takes control with the…
Attorney General
Don’t be a potential felon
Council: In the Shadow of the Dome
When “Austin values” clash with state Republican control?
Texas Platters
Très Oui’s 10 tracks of jangle are determined to fill Austin’s deficit of Eighties sophisti-pop. The fourpiece’s debut hurtles forward in a tangle of saccharine dream-rock-on-speed and ambient interludes, a twee motif balanced by nimble guitarist Steven Garcia, whose licks align with DIIV or Real Estate. “Song 4 U,” fleshed out by frantic keyboards, finds…
Land Commissioner
Who can beat George P. Bush?
Headlines
CodeNEXT draft three – the proposed land development code overhaul – will be released on Monday, Feb. 12; Austinites should soon receive information about upcoming public hearings to share concerns on the terms and conditions of the pending code. For more info, see “CodeMESS,” Feb. 9, or any Chronicle back issue in the past year.…
Getting a Read on the State of Anti-State Bookstores
Brave New Books and Monkeywrench Books keep thinking outside the mainstream
Texas Platters
PartyWizard believes in you like a hard rock life coach. Debut LP In the Mask Not of the Mask slings posi-vibes metal and begins running down its self-help checklist at marching speed. Rushing with late-Seventies urgency, the Wizards grind out head-nodding sludge, with front guru Oriah Lonsdale half barking, half growling platitudes to love your…
Comptroller
It’s all about the money
OSHA Cites Coreslab for Worker Death
Company cited for two violations, totaling $25,868
Pillowcore Duo Hovvdy Captures a Lifetime’s Worth of Nostalgia
Lo-fi locals release sophomore LP Cranberry
Texas Platters
A breakup diary in the key of Dave Matthews, Sleeping With the Lights On laments an ex that didn’t reciprocate love. Since Jeff Bryant continually asks her to change, she’s better off without him. Laced with a heavy John Mayer influence (“Not Gonna Run”) and some Ed Sheeran (“Let It In”), the debut follows suit…
Agriculture Commissioner
Everybody against Sid Miller
Community-Built, Community-Driven Oversight?
Austin’s activists have got a plan
Bomb City Retells the Tensions Behind the Killing of a Texas Punk
Brian Deneke’s life and death story comes to local screens
Hovvdy Record Review
Cranberry (Double Double Whammy)
Railroad Commissioner
It ain’t about the railroads
No, You’re Out of Order!
Wild times at the Public Safety Commission
Mega Chains H Mart and 99 Ranch Market Come to Austin
What’s at stake for local Asian markets?
Quit Your Day Job
Stark singer-songwriter David Ramirez used to box up 15,000 pies a day
U.S. Congress
The unconstitutionality of it all
Public Notice: Coming Soon to a Corridor Near You
Hopefully in fewer than four score years …
The Luv Doc: Lipstick on the Mirror
Why would you want to be with someone who doesn’t care how you feel?
Congressional District 21
Who’s the most Dem?
Quote of the Week: Jimmy Flannigan
Nutjobs, all of ’em
U.S. Senate
Beto, the Great Blue Hope
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
G. Gordon Liddy (of Watergate fame) used to like to sing German lieder (romantic art songs from the 19th century). The swivel chair was invented by Thomas Jefferson and was the chair on which he drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Some red-sided garter snakes pretend to shift genders upon emerging from hibernation. Snakes…
Congressional District 25
Can anybody beat the used car dealer?
Transforming the Screen
New film fest emphasizes diversity in women filmmakers
Point Austin: Sick and Tired
Council moves toward commonsense ordinance, despite business resistance
Congressional District 10
Uphill against McCaul
What’cha Watchin’?
Account Executive Marisa Mirabal sets up your anti-valentine
Abbott to Crack Down on Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking
Texas Rangers to have purview over investigations
