Cover Story
KMFA’s New Home Brings the Community Into Contact With Music
Austin’s classical music radio station has a new building where people can see the sounds
Sundance Review: CODA
Bawdy-sweet coming-of-age gem is effervescent and original
Sundance Review: Users
Documentary about the omnipresence of technology in our world
Stay Gold Goes Long, Hard Luck Turns Sunny, Sway Is Hopped, Spread & Co. Gets Woodsy, TFM Celebrates Blackness, and – Oooh, Free Cheese?
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Sundance Review: Hive
Kosovan drama takes the slow path to freedom for women
Death Watch: Challenges, Disabilities Not Enough (So Far) To Avert Execution
Busby set to die Feb. 10 for 2004 murder in Fort Worth
New TV and Streaming Shows to Catch in February
Plus 2020’s year-end best movies debut on streaming services
Sundance Review: Mass
Fran Kranz delivers a quiet sermon on impossible grief
Five Swoonworthy Valentine’s Treats for Your Favorite Foodie
Because they and you deserve it
Sundance Review: Prisoners of the Ghostland
Cage/Sono styles clash in underwhelming cowboy/ronin/gangster film
Second Long Play Lounge Location Takes Place of Stay Gold
Stay Gold owner considering reopening at a new space in the future
Sundance Review: Censor
Flashback horror to an era of cultural repression
Girls Like Us Livestream Gets the Film Treatment
p1nkstar’s trans artist exhibition polishes cinematic immersion
Good Camp, Bad Camp: Council Mulls Sanctioned Sites for the Unsheltered
Helping end homelessness, or just managing public space?
Watch: Urban Heat Dances As the World Burns
“A Simple Love Song” reiterates romance during the apocalypse
Brothers by Blood
Cold and slow gang war on the streets of Philadelphia
Notturno
Epic documentary chronicles the intimate and epic scale of life in four nations
True Mothers
Japanese adoption drama gets tangled up in melodrama
The Little Things
Washington, Malek, and Leto never mesh in this uneven police procedural
Supernova
Firth and Tucci are beyond stellar as a married couple being swallowed by dementia
Malcolm & Marie
Relationship two-hander about Black Hollywood is more flash than answers
Hunted
Oddball riff on Red Riding Hood gets weirder and wilder
Saint Maud
Agony and ecstasy intertwined in this horror as Catholic angst turns self-destruction
The Night
American-made Iranian supernatural horror finds terror in married secrets
The Queen of Black Magic
Grisly Indonesian horror remake knows when to go gonzo
Construction of Austin FC Stadium Nears Completion
Q2 claims naming rights for the home of Austin’s new Major League sports team
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer’s markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 28, 2020
Qmmunity: Hope For the Queer’d Future
Plus, OUTsider Festival’s launch party, Queerbomb’s Queer History Series, and more local LGBTQIA events
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
Life Is Terrible … and Triumphant for Portrayal of Guilt
Metallic punk trio drop a sophomore rager of pandemic frustration and societal grievances
Portrayal of Guilt Album Review
We Are Always Alone (Closed Casket Activities)
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
Austin at Large: “It’s Time to Get Done”
As we dive deep into 2021, let’s complete that sentence with real talk, not “stuff”
The Austin Staycationer: The LINE Hotel
Your close-to-home guide to getting away
Soccer Watch
A Big Week for Austin FC • New players, headlined by the first overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft, Virginia Tech’s Daniel Pereira (apologies for my prognostication last week). • Plus Kekuta Manneh! Free agency provides a homecoming for this former Lake Travis High and Austin Aztex phenom. • Q2 Stadium is what we now…
“Kevin Greer: As the World Stood Still” at Davis Gallery
One man’s mark-making movements set this show on fire
Headlines / Quote of the Week
An End to Rosa Jimenez’s Legal Limbo? On Tuesday, District Judge Karen Sage declared that Rosa Jimenez, serving a 99-year sentence for the death of a toddler in her care in 2003, should be released from prison; District Attorney Jose Garza has agreed that Jimenez is innocent, but state and federal appeals courts have to…
The Roosevelt Room Pivots Without Sacrificing Craft Cocktail Experience
Crafting COVID-era accommodations
Day Trips: Best Maid Pickle Emporium, Ft. Worth
The Pickle Emporium is a big dill
Other Worlds Film Festival Summons a Jewish Dark Spirit for The Vigil
Not your regular Hollywood demon
We Have an Issue: A Home of Its Own
In this week’s cover story, Robert Faires previews classical music station KMFA’s stunning new $11 million facility in East Austin
A Safe Set for Pandemic-Era Feature The Blazing World
Sundance film comes to AFS’s drive-in
New Transit Agency Takes Command of Project Connect
Let’s get rolling!
City Falls Behind on Housing Goals
Housing for Austin’s poorest residents in short supply
The Luv Doc: Pandemic Blues
Being broken up with is hard.
City Hall Looks at Retracing Its Steps on Homelessness
Back up, try again
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The black metal tail hummingbird lives in the Peruvian Andes and lowers its nighttime body temp to 38°F, the coolest on record for a bird. A recent study in Iceland has shown that identical twins are not so identical after all. There has been much attention to the fact President Biden is the second Catholic…
Amid Improving Numbers, Austin’s COVID Crystal Ball Still Cloudy
Has the pandemic reached its peak in Austin? The city’s COVID-19 forecast has improved in recent days, but the disease remains unpredictable given the wide variations in vaccine distribution and in the public’s behaviors. Over the last three weeks, the metrics tracked by Austin Public Health to gauge the course of the pandemic – new…
Austin FC Fans, Assemble
MLS’s 27th franchise hits the pitch with multiple supporters’ groups backing them
Austin Energy Still Hasn’t Fixed Problems With Utility Bill Discounts on Expensive Homes
Consumer advocate requests audit of AE’s Customer Assistance Program
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, January 29 – February 4
Faster Than Sound: Contextualizing Broken Spoke Owner James White
Honky-tonky lifer died of congestive heart failure at age 81
With Rosie’s Law, Austin Legislators Aim to Restore Abortion Coverage
Sheryl Cole, Sarah Eckhardt introduce bicameral legislation that would expand health insurance coverage for abortion care
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
Austin FC Turns Heads in Draft
MLS team celebrates roster additions, new stadium name
APD Officers Face Trial for Allegedly Beating a Suspect
Overlooked 2019 case brought to grand jury by new D.A. Garza
