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Wrestling Legend Dustin Rhodes Keeps Steppin’
The Austin native continues a family legacy with a new TV show and a revived career
Vision 2020: Austin Books We’re Looking Forward to in the New Year
Some local writers’ books due out in 2020 we’re eager to read
Vision 2020: “Deborah Roberts: I’m”
Nationally known Austin artist will get a solo show at home
Alamo Presses Play on VHS Celebration
Special shows launch first book from Drafthouse’s book imprint
Video: Local Music Ambassadors Project ATX6 Prep for Reeperbahn
Or is Hamburg’s red-light district fest prepping for the ATX6?
Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2019 Awards
Local reviewers call Fury Road best film of the decade
U.S. Senate Candidate Tzintzún Ramirez’s Campaign “Joke” Raises Eyebrows
An endorsement from Susan Sarandon didn’t help matters
State and Local Politicians Respond to Soleimani Assassination
Officials and candidates comment on killing of Qassem Soleimani
Bay of Angels
Bay of Angels 1963, NR, 93 min. Directed by Jacques Demy, Starring Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet, Nicole Chollet. Jeanne Moreau stuns as a bewitching gambling addict obsessed with the thrill of the game, while Claude Mann is a bank clerk seduced by her risk-taking lifestyle. Unfolding in the casinos of Nice,…
A Closer Look at the Music Poll Ballot on This Week’s The Austin Chronicle Show
Exploring the nominees for Best Song, plus Free Week picks
Lawyer Mistakenly Delivers Summons to Austin Musician at Gig
The Deer’s guitarist gets served … someone else’s paperwork
Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2019 Award Finalists
Tarantino, Bong, Scorsese lead nominations
Jenny Hoyston Releases First Solo Album in Over a Decade
Erase Errata founding member seeks new soundscapes in Hold On, Loosely
Local and State Election Ticker
Mamas Walking, Mamas Voting Edition
Oops!
In “A Decade in Austin Films,” Dec. 27, 2019, we mistakenly said that Diane Paragas’ debut feature Yellow Rose premiered at SXSW when in fact it was Austin Film Festival. Our apologies, and don’t forget to catch the locally shot film when it is released later this year by Sony Pictures.
The Beto-Castro-Meter Comes to an End
Both Texans have left the Democratic candidate building
Qmmunity: A Decade of Austin’s Queer History
Plus Iron Bear says farewell to Eighth Street and Joterias returns!
The Contemporary Austin’s “The Sorcerer’s Burden”
This ambitious exhibition reveals inquiring anthropologists within today’s artists
Texas Platters
The prodigal Kinkster’s return to studio form began with The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (2015) and Circus of Life (2018). Both kicked against the Nashville pricks with stark, strum-and-done temperament. Resurrection bucks too, but this time, the boundless bachelor and lonely herdsman of Echo Hill Ranch follows the ground rules of radio-friendly country. Nary…
“The New Flesh” at ICOSA Gallery
It’s a body of work, but the anatomy isn’t necessarily of this Earth
Texas Platters
Excelling at exuberant pop opuses – as if Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper’s represented the norm – the Channel pivots on ambition. Officially the family band’s fourth disc and first since a 2006 double LP, brothers Colby and Brent Pennington along with sister and brother-in-law Heather and Andy McAllister burst 16 short anthems that race…
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
Sixties Baltimore is unveiled in this new crime novel
Texas Platters
“I spent two years locked up in my room,” explained Martian Warlords singer/Flying-V-wielder Micah Omega while dragging his amps off the Kick Butt Coffee stage after a typically fiery set. “I wrote 700 songs in that time.” If they’re all as catchy and propulsive as the nine originals cramming this debut, why did the locals…
ISHIDA Dance Makes Its Debut
A world-class contemporary dance troupe for Austin makes its first moves
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 3, 2019
Texas Platters
Mike McCoy approached songwriting with a troubadour’s wit going back to the 1991 formation of Cher UK, a Kansas City-birthed punk amalgam in which he remains the only constant. Eyein’ Lies, the studio debut of Trompe-l’œil (French for “deceive the eye”), offers 11 tracks of populist folk through a modern, Americana-informed lens. His keen eye…
Texas Platters
“Tonight, we pour it all onstage/ The passion and the rage,” croons Chris Klinck in his sore-throat enunciation on “Frankfurt AM,” the typically anthemic opener to Nowherebound’s sixth LP. These qualities mark every second of the most ambitious full-length from Austin’s most resourceful punk band. A decade after taking form as a side project for…
Point Austin: Happy New Year?!?
Looking forward … 2020 could go either way
The Common Law
Overzealous debt collection – what are my rights?
Texas Platters
The Beaumonts This Is Austin Hickoids All the World’s a Dressing Room (Saustex) Troy Wayne Delco knows precisely where his boots touch the ground. Still, throughout the Beaumonts’ live album, the singer/guitarist infuriates attendees at Austin’s White Horse by pretending he’s in San Antonio. In fact, banter precedes each cut. Before the hilarious “Money for…
Lawsuit Seeks to Block Converting Microtel for Permanent Supportive Housing for City’s Homeless
One project stalls, another moves along
The Luv Doc: A Bigger Check
A simple “I love you” phone call would have sufficed
Texas Platters
What separates a bona fide storyteller from a singer-songwriter? Gift of gab, certainly, and unblinking confidence from the word “hello.” Yet while the latter works night and day fusing words to chords, melody, a chorus, the former spins real life into songs line by line, detail by detail, irony by paradox. Occasional South Austinite by…
East Austin Wellness Clinic Offers Discounts to Austin’s Creatives and Service Industry
METSI Care rethinks affordable health care
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Psychic Betsey Lewis predicts an economic slowdown in early 2020. One interpretation of Michel de Nostredame, known to most people as Nostradamus, is that 2020 will see the outbreak of World War III, which will last 27 years. Craig Hamilton-Parker, a British psychic and medium, predicts Donald Trump will have a second term, during which…
Cinematic Documentary Making Waves Might Get Loud
AFS screening the story of the people who bring sound to the movies
Day Trips: Bob “Daddy-O” Wade
A tour of dearly departed Bob “Daddy-O” Wade’s art
Ip Man 4: The Finale
The adventures of the martial arts legend come to an end … possibly.
Headlines
Another Day, Another Shooting: An armed parishioner in White Settlement, near Fort Worth, shot and killed a man who opened fire during the West Freeway Church of Christ service on Dec. 29. The two people he shot were taken to the hospital and have since succumbed to their wounds. Early in 2019, the Texas Legislature…
Cunningham
Remarkable record of the middle years of the choreographer who rejected labels
Soccer Watch
Wolfgang Suhnholz, the seminal figure in Austin soccer, and a notable figure in the world game, passed away on Friday, Dec. 27, at the age of 73. The Berlin native was a star midfielder at Bayern Munich in the early 1970s, then moved to the U.S. for six years in the NASL. After a torn…
Adoring
Love and pets in this Chinese ensemble rom-com
Public Notice: Ho, Ho, Holidaze Continues
It’s a quiet time on the local news front – perhaps this year more than most, as the flurry of City Council action in December (on the Land Development Code, housing the homeless, and police oversight, among other things) largely cleared their plate for now, until city staff brings back the next LDC draft and…
Faster Than Sound: Peacemakers Cap a Decade at Evangeline Cafe
Evangeline Cafe keeps rolling out South Austin roots, the Coconut Club brings dance and DJs Downtown, and the newly improved Austin Music Poll drops
Quote of the Week
“I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now.” – U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., announcing his diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer. The civil rights movement icon plans to…
Texas-Based Restaurant Chains Worth Your Money
If you’re going to eat at a chain, it might as well be a Texas chain
An “Awesome First Year” for Austin’s Office of Police Oversight
OPO fields more than 800 incoming contacts – comments, complaints, and kudos – in 2019
Cruelty-Free Shop Offers Totally Vegan Tattoos
Common Difference is revolutionizing animal-free art
