COP25: Community-Based Climate Adaptation
VIDEO: What will it take to adapt to the new normal?
Austin Film Critics Pick Top Five Austin Films
Oscar winners and indie faves, but which will be the top ATX film of 2019?
Review: Dear Evan Hansen
This touring version will have you breaking out the tissues
COP25: Sister Jayanti Kirpalani on What Brings Her Courage When the Confronting Climate Crisis
A better world is still within our grasp, faith leader says
Other Worlds Review: The Honeymoon Phase
Social experiment becomes sci-fi horror about abusive relationships
Other Worlds Review: Dead Dicks
The realities of depression meets the trap of reincarnation
Other Worlds Review: Lake Michigan Monster
Imagine if the Monkees made The Lighthouse
Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bob Odenkirk, M. Night Shyamalan to Speak at SXSW
Plus Jim Belushi on weed and T Bone Burnett on surveillance capitalism
Josh Thomas’s New Show Promises Everything’s Gonna Be Okay
Qmmunity chats with the writer, actor, creator about his latest work
COP25: Holding the U.S. Accountable for its Ruinous Impacts on the Climate
WATCH: A Texan anti-fracking activist on life in the Permian Basin
COP25: We Can’t Keep Global Warming Capped at 1.5 Degrees Celsius If Oil & Gas Don’t Do Their Part
VIDEO: There’s no wiggle room for adding more fossil fuel production
Pie Eating Contest Brings Local Luminaries to the Table
Watch music and food industry types stuff their faces for charity
COP25: The Fossil of the Day Award
VIDEO: Another day, another ignominious win for America
COP25: Women as Agents of Change in the Climate Crisis
VIDEO: Increasing the role of women in climate change mitigation
Jonas Brothers Confront Superstar Past & Present at Erwin Center
Disney breakouts effortlessly transcend boy bandom
COP25: How to Talk to Texans About the Climate Crisis
Texas is a renewable energy leader. Let’s celebrate that.
Harry Edohoukwa Climbs His Mountain
Personal and creative growth manifest on debut LP
The French View of Richard Linklater
Pompidou curator explains new tribute to the Austin filmmaker
Weekend Wine: A Lovely Chilean Red Wine for the Holidays
Notes of blackberry and plum make it a treat served with festive food
COP25: The Fossil of the Day Award Goes to…
VIDEO: Who’s the best at being the worst? Grab a mirror.
Gerald Daugherty Says Farewell
Pct. 3 County Commissioner announces retirement
Vegan Bao and Barbecue Open at Buzz Mill Shady
The soft opening of Plow’s latest venture starts Saturday, Dec. 7
COP25: Youth Behind the Fridays for Future Movement Speak
Greta Thunberg’s #Climatestrike continues to inspire
A Closer Look at the Texas Primary Ballot on This Week’s The Austin Chronicle Show
Plus: Previewing sci-fi film fest Other Worlds
Council Dives Deep Into Racism at APD, Land Use
Busy week isn’t over yet, with development code hearing Saturday
Review: The Santaland Diaries
J. Robert Moore’s take on Crumpet sends the Macy’s elf to camp
Watch: Calliope Musicals’ Front Lawn Goth Posse
Colorful locals go monochrome in “That’s Why We Dance”
Other Worlds Interview: Around the Sun
How writer Jonathan Kiefer turned a science text into a romance
Q Toys Up for Sale
Local adult boutique seeks new owner
COP25: Decoding Carbon Markets
VIDEO: Is carbon trading the solution, or a shell game?
Fantastic Fungi
There’s more to this wonderful biological documentary than mushrooms
The Whistleblower
Chinese thriller uncovers business corruption
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey’s Oprah-(de)endorsed junkie journal makes it to the screen
In Fabric
Marianne Jean-Baptiste says yes yes yessss to the dress
Mickey and the Bear
Life on the front line of the opioid crisis
The Aeronauts
Ballooning adventure never drops its baffling meet-cute ballast
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of December 5, 2019
Day Trips: Holiday Gift Guide
Unique Texas gifts worth a day trip
Gifts to Make You Look Away From Your Screens
Plenty of films to read about this holiday season
Soccer Watch
Claudio Reyna is in town this week, holding his first joint press conference as sporting director of Austin FC, along with majority owner Anthony Precourt, who said it “makes me sleep well at night” knowing he has his “soccer leadership in place very early” and that the team remains on schedule for their opening in…
Your Guide to Charitable Giving
How to donate to local nonprofits
The Hidden Cost of Labor Calculated in Building the American Dream
In the rubble of the NOLA hotel collapse, Chelsea Hernandez’s documentary remains relevant
Cluck-N-Burger Gives Food Truck Vibes at Its Airport Boulevard Location
Fried chicken to wedge salad at this cool new neighborhood eatery
Books, Box Sets & Reviews
Similar to her earnest and retro-gleaned timbres that shimmer over wistful fixtures on Please Be Mine (2017) and First Flower (2018), The Molly Burch Christmas Album finds the Austin troubadour pining in holiday blues over echoes of soft sensuality. Dusting off some Christmas, New Year, and sweater-weather classics and rarities, Burch revamps the material with…
Food Forward
Traverse the foods of Texas and beyond, and help a neighbor while you’re at it
Books, Box Sets & Reviews
When KGSR debuted its live, locally recorded Broadcasts series in 1993 with Austin’s Darden Smith performing “Trouble No More,” a single disc of 17 singer-songwriters including Joan Baez, T Bone Burnett, and Butch Hancock benefited the Travis County Children’s Advocacy Center. Today, 1,011 tracks later, contemporary music finally caught up to the rebranded frequency’s annual…
Headlines
Affordable Banking: Mayor Steve Adler, nonprofit Affordable Central Texas, and Texas Capital Bank announced the latter’s initial investment of $500,000 in the Austin Housing Conservancy Fund – an effort launched in 2018 with the acquisition of three multifamily properties totaling 792 units and serving over 1,200 residents – toward a 10-year goal of preserving more…
Local Food Organizations Worth Your Charitable Dollars
Get those fuzzy food feelings by giving
Books, Box Sets & Reviews
Unavoidable to even the most nascent of fans and hardened skeptics, the Beatles’ 11th and penultimate album burned into our collective conscious beginning on Sept. 26, 1969. What can we glean from a deluxe Abbey Road breakout half a century later? A lot, it turns out. A bound 3-CD/Blu-ray audio set collects painstaking remasters from…
Quote of the Week
“President Trump is the clear choice over the bleak socialist vision being offered by Democrats whose current effort to divide and disparage our country through the ridiculous impeachment charade is unprecedented.” – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who 20 years ago was airing tales of Bill Clinton’s murders and crack babies on his Houston talk radio…
Six Local Books for Foodies for the Holidays
Texas food for the eyes and stomach
Books, Box Sets & Reviews
The British Invasion’s bad boys have seen their vintage catalog used and abused to death. Reissues now play increasingly anemic after sourcing from safety masters and duplicate tapes robbed the spitfire Molotov hipshakers of their fire. So this 50th birthday rejiggering of possibly the Stones’ most definitive work, 1969’s Let It Bleed, features deluxe gewgaws…
Election Ticker: Noises From the Primary
The latest on local and state races
Benjamin Markovits’ Christmas in Austin
In this novel of a family gathering for the holidays, Austin serves as a mirror for the characters, and perhaps for the reader
Books, Box Sets & Reviews
Fresh off Ken Burns’ Country Music revisiting a bearded and reverent Bob Dylan sidling next to Johnny Cash for a groundbreaking television appearance performing “Girl From the North Country,” a full disc of unreleased Zimmy/Man in Black duets in Tennessee promises a jackpot. Sadly, familiar streams – “Matchbox,” “That’s All Right, Mama,” “Big River” –…
Public Notice: Here Comes the Vote
Council preps for marathon Land Development Code hearing and first reading
Janine Barchas’ The Lost Books of Jane Austen
In this nonfiction book, the local scholar provides fresh insight into the ways that Jane Austen became Jane Austen, literary superstar
Books, Box Sets & Reviews
When Don’t Tell a Soul arrived in 1989, the Replacements’ sixth and penultimate studio LP rated disappointment both critically and commercially. The slick mix by mainstreamer Chris Lord-Alge squashed the Minneapolis punks’ controlled chaos into a midrange mush, and both band and producer Matt Wallace repeatedly expressed dismay. This 4-CD/1-LP box set rectifies past mistakes.…
The Common Law
Humbug – holiday shopping gone bad
Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair Has Something for Reader on Your Gift List
Twenty-three Lone Star literary lights will be at Humanities Texas’ annual shopping event
Revenge of the She-Punks
Bob Marley’s first UK publicist, NYU’s nicknamed “punk professor” and a cult musician in her own right, vanguard figure Vivien Goldman remains intrinsically provocative. The multi-hyphenate’s latest work takes on the largely unsung force of women in shaping punk, subtitled: “A Feminist Music History From Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot.” Goldman’s own liberation launched amid…
A Political Guide to Gifting in 2019
Give the gift of hope!
Qmmunity: Give, Queerly
Then get fancy with Fat Bottom Cabaret and prepare for The L Word’s return
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock & Roll
How exciting, telling rock’s story via the development of the solid-body electric guitar, the music’s defining instrument. Former San Francisco Weekly Music Editor Ian Port accomplishes this in a fast-paced, cinematic style that brings all the necessary scholarship herein to life. At its core is the friendship and exchange of ideas between famed jazz guitarist…
Death Watch: Without Intervention, Travis Runnels Will Be the Ninth Texan Executed in 2019
A troubled life, a dishonest witness, a “changed man”
Austin Playhouse’s She Loves Me
This old-fashioned rom-com musical oozes charm and earns its Pollyanna platitudes
The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard
This past July, Ray Wylie Hubbard finally debuted on the Grand Ole Opry stage at age 72, an honor that felt absurdly long overdue. Then again, the iconoclast Wimberley songwriter has yet to play his own set on Austin City Limits, so perhaps there’s still plenty of proper acknowledgment due for Hubbard’s influential career. In…
How Texas Impact Turns Faith Into a Tool for Progress
VIDEO: See Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy/Texas Impact’s reports from the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP25
Different Stages’ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Like the separate parts of the Creature’s body, the technical and performance aspects unite to create a delightfully provocative production
Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges
More than anyone else, alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70) epitomized the soulful elegance of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. His immediately recognizable sound, characterized by sensuous grace in caressing a melody and an incomparable blues-infused tonality, made him and fellow altoist Charlie Parker the standard-bearers for the instrument. In this slim yet heavily footnoted biography, author…
Five Films to Change Your Future at Other Worlds 2019
Time travel, undead duplicates, and sea monsters a-hoy!
What You Need to Know About U.S. Senate and House Races in Texas
Early voting in Texas starts Feb. 18, 2020. Here’s the view from atop your Texas primary ballot.
“Jesse Narens: Creak, Crack, Creep” at Yard Dog Gallery
This Portland artist’s images of nature transmogrified are a perfect antidote to holiday overcheer
Life Is a Butt Dial: Tales From a Life Among the Tragically Hip
By his own admission, Cleve Hattersley stumbled through a life of adjacent stardom. Best known as leader of Greezy Wheels, the house band of the Armadillo World Headquarters, the Austinite’s memoir offers a long, strange trip across America’s countercultures, like a Beat Forrest Gump. Serendipities range from sublime (Jimi Hendrix auditioning at the Night Owl…
Point Austin: Can’t Say We Weren’t Warned
New U.N. “emissions gap” report heightens climate change alarm.
Luv Doc: Engaged to a White Liar
Wherein the Luv Doc expounds on what’s hot in wedding table linens
Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Video Festival Reaches 5
Local DIY videos mingle with the big leagues, Austin Music Commission forecasts 2020, and Federico Pacheco leads KOOP into its next quarter-century
Council to Consider Launching New Investigation Into APD Following Allegations of Racism
Multiple reviews and a “sense of urgency”
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Arabic text is read right-to-left, but Arabic numbers go the other direction. Why? Because they were not originally Arabic but from India, and are also known as Hindu-Arabic numerals. The term “Arabic numerals” is open to interpretation and may have originally meant numerals used by Arabs. When Frank Lloyd Wright visited homes he designed, he…
Austin-Made Horror Anthology Comes Back Home for Other Worlds
Delivering a Scare Package
One in a Crowd: “A Grievance With Gravity”
Help this local short about feeling out of place raise essential funds
