Cover Story
Rosa Jimenez Is Free: “Exciting, Overwhelming, and I Feel So Blessed”
New DA Garza commits to “aggressively pursue innocence”
Tom Noonan Explains What Happened With What Happened Was …
Revisiting his Sundance-winning dating drama after a quarter century
Teal House Triumphant, Boozy Boba, Devil May Care About Warhol, LeRoy & Lewis Go Sweet, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
After Years of Legal Limbo, Rosa Jimenez To Be Freed
Release another step closer to exoneration in controversial case
Austin Makes Moviemaker‘s List of Best Places for Filmmakers
But where in the rankings did it land?
SXSW Releases V-I-R-T-U-A-L 2021 Music Roster
Sorry, Didirri, Connie Constance highlight global drop
Austin FC Turns Heads in Draft
MLS team celebrates roster additions, new stadium name
Broken Spoke Patriarch James White Passes at 81
Country lifer and family built a honky-tonk heaven here on Earth
Kekuta Manneh Coming Home to Austin FC
From Lake Travis High to Austin Aztex, to AFC
APD Officers Face Trial for Allegedly Beating a Suspect
Overlooked 2019 case brought to grand jury by new D.A. Garza
New Road Trip Drama Travels into No Man’s Land
The filmmaking Allyn brothers see Mexico through a new lens
Redemption Day
It’s 2021, and terrorists in low-budget thrillers are still all foreign
Acasă, My Home
Extreme gentrification on the outskirts of Bucharest
PG: Psycho Goreman
Splattertastic creature feature flips the evil script on Power Rangers goody-goodies
Our Friend
Jason Segel is the friend you’d want in this true story of facing death
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Enigmatic Hungarian drama asks how much we invent our own worlds
Identifying Features
Mexico’s “disappeared” given a voice in this cross-border drama
No Man’s Land
Well-intentioned cross-border drama finds humanity on all sides
About Hope
Religious romantic drama about finding your moral core through love (natch)
American Skin
Payback for police shootings in this violent drama
Go/Don’t Go
Enigmatic end-of-the-world story blossoms into quiet hope
Sundance Brings This Year’s Hottest Movies to AFS’s New Drive-in Screen
Time for a Sundance at Austin Film Society
Travis County D.A. Updates Public on Many Probes Into Police Conduct
D.A. updates public on many probes into police conduct
At the Ready Gets in the Uniform Boots of Texas’ High School Cops
Sundance title comes to AFS’s drive-in screen
How to Attend the Sundance Film Festival’s Screenings at AFS
Indie film showcase brings this year’s hottest titles to AFS’s new drive-in screen
Local Officials Seek COVID Clarity as Surge Eases Slightly
Lost in vaccination
The Parlor Believes in Community, Artists, and Pizza
A daughter’s plea
Austin at Large: Just Another Wednesday
Rejoice and be glad in these first calm hours of the rest of our democratic lives
Soccer Watch: A Tiger in Austin FC’s Tank?
UPDATE: Well, I whiffed on the guess below: AFC tabbed Virginia Tech midfielder Daniel Pereira with their first overall pick this afternoon. Pereira was born in Venezuela before moved to Virginia when he was a teenager. By the time you read this, Austin FC will likely have added its four newest, and possibly youngest, players…
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Quiet on the Airwaves: KUT has removed The New York Times-produced podcast The Daily from its programming, following Daily host Michael Barbaro’s attempts to influence other journalists’ coverage of editorial failings made by the Times’ (mostly) retracted podcast Caliphate. Austin’s NPR affiliate is among four public radio stations that have pulled The Daily. Disarming the…
Faster Than Sound: Girls Like Us Occupy Hotel Free TV
P1nkstar celebrates trans Texan artists on Hotel Vegas’ virtual platform and Music Lab closes final location to make way for Tesla
Panel Slams Problematic APD Training Videos
Audit identifies in 112 videos clear patterns in how cops treat people of color
Day Trips: Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery, Wortham
Visiting the father of Texas blues
Public Notice: Wednesdays
All this news is sure getting in the way of the news.
We Have an Issue: Check It Out
In this week’s issue, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez reflects on Checking In, his Q&A series chronicle musicians’ lives under COVID-19 lockdown
AISD’s Stay-Home Stance Doesn’t Extend to Sports
Come out and play!
“Renee Lai: A Study of Fences” at grayDUCK Gallery
In her grayDUCK Gallery solo exhibition, the artist sees more than what these barriers keep out
At Dell Med, Fauci on What Comes Next: “A Serious Look” at Pandemic Preparedness
In virtual speech, coronavirus top doc offers “a serious look” at pandemic preparedness
Qmmunity: Embrace Austin Seeks to Build Bridges Between Queer People and Queer Initiatives
Qmmunity members organize to launch new LGBTQIA coalition
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer’s markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 21, 2020
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, January 22-28
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
The Luv Doc: Poo
Is not a rose nor does it smell like one
Oops!
On last week’s cover, the Chronicle incorrectly printed that the year was 2020; the year is in fact 2021. The Chronicle regrets the error and invites our readers to write the punchline themselves.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Bill and Melinda Gates are the top farmland owners in the U.S. They own 242,000 acres in more than a dozen states. We get bacterial illnesses like strep throat not from the bacilli directly but from those bacilli that have been infected by a bacteriophage. The infecting bacteriophage causes the strep throat organism to produce…
The Blanton Museum Undertakes a $35 Million Makeover of Its Grounds
With the international architectural firm Snøhetta, the UT museum will add community spaces and art to its outdoor experience
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
Austin’s Latest Taco Craze Comes From Tijuana Via Instagram
Where to find birria tacos in Austin
Mayor Pro Tem Contest Kicks Off New Council Storylines
A leading role at City Hall?
LeRoy & Lewis x Huckleberry, Easy Tiger Returns to Downtown, Philanthropy Rules, OMG 4th Tap Brewing, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
