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Austin Playwright’s Final Play Might Have Died With Him, but a Community Joined Together to Ensure Its Survival
Saving Jason Tremblay’s Gretel! The Musical
Austin Pride 2019: The Date Is Set
The festival and parade return in early August
Van Boven Fallout Continues
While appeals proceed, Baylor professor campaigns to save SOAH
AJ Durand Invites Austinites to #getyourshittogether
A workshop with NOLA queen, yogi, and “life changing witch” can help
SXSW Unveils Third Artist List
Bedouine, Priests, Mystery Lights, Kokoko!, and 297 more
Jordan Peele’s Us Will Open SXSW Film 2019
Get Out director’s follow-up opens in theatres March 15
Chronicle Recommends: Memory Loss
Films for when you’re trying to forget everything
HavenCon Will Return for Year Five
LGBTQ geeks and gamers assemble: The convention is back
Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2018’s Best Films and More
If Beale Street Could Talk, The Favourite big winners
“We Were Very, Very Lucky”
City bids farewell to political and literal father Gus Garcia
The Devil and William Friedkin
The director’s journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism
Weekend Wine
A defense for the Carménère grape
Second Act
Lean In meets The Secret of My Success in workplace rom-com
Shoplifters
The meaning of family on Japan’s social fringes compassionately explored
On the Basis of Sex
RBG biopic focuses on a single case, but blurs the details
Rep. Sheryl Cole on the 86th Texas Legislature
“We’ve always been on defense, and we’ve got to learn how to play offense”
Guns in 2018: The Carnage Continues
A look at the Gun Violence Archive findings for the year
Rep. John Bucy III on the 86th Texas Legislature
“We’ve got to do everything we can to keep attention on Medicaid expansion”
10 Free Week Acts to Watch This Weekend
Keep an eye out for these musicians in 2019
APD Holds Little Back in Dusterhoft Firing
Seedy personal life at center of assistant chief’s tumble from heights of police brass
Delicious and Nurturing Indian Fare at a South Austin Strip Mall
Asiana Indian Cuisine has something for every palate
Richard Overton Dies At 112
America’s oldest man and World War II veteran, died Dec. 27
Qmmunity
A new year to be queer-er
School Finance: Still Hard
Panel approves recommendations to improve state’s outdated school funding system
The Common Law
Distracted driving issues
AFS Spotlights the Early Work of Support the Girls Director Andrew Bujalski
Three from the heart
Rape Case Audit Faults APD
Shows fewer than one-third were cleared in accordance with federal guidelines
Central Texas Lawmakers Speak Out About the 86th Legislative Session
Interviews with the team representing 2.1 million Austin metro residents
Headlines
Old and New: City Council meets Monday, Jan. 7, at 6pm to inaugurate re-elected incumbents Steve Adler, Pio Renteria, Ann Kitchen, and Kathie Tovo, and new members Natasha Harper-Madison and Paige Ellis. The brief agenda also includes a Council vote for mayor pro tem – traditionally the longest-serving member, who is Tovo (the past MPT),…
Point Austin: The Gavel Descends
The 86th Texas Legislature: Hoping for the Best …
The Future May Finally Be Brightening for Texas Film Incentives
The sequel to film rebates?
Who You Run With
This delightful, inspiring musical teaches us there’s more to the story than the amazing race
Planted Brings Vegan Food to Austin’s Non-Vegan Spaces
Britty Hamby pushes for access to plant-based cuisine and builds a food community
Your 2019 Guide to Film Festivals in Austin
Mark your calendar for these celebrations of cinema
Quote of the Week
“It doesn’t look good on our books that we have so much dang money. It’s bad financial practice to have so much cash just sitting there.” – State Rep. Celia Israel, D-Austin, noting that the state’s bloated rainy day fund balance could be paying for better education. See “Central Texas Lawmakers Speak Out About the…
Sen. Kirk Watson on the 86th Texas Legislature
“In Texas, we don’t focus on what our needs are; we focus on what we want to pay”
Rep. Vikki Goodwin on the 86th Texas Legislature
“I worry when people talk about property tax caps [and not] where the revenue is going to come from instead”
Sugar, Water, Purple: Can We Kick It? at ColdTowne
This showcase showed how improvisers from disenfranchised groups can provide meaningful support for one another and make damn good improv
Rep. Eddie Rodriguez on the 86th Texas Legislature
“I’ll be working against issues that will unfairly treat Latinos in the state”
Rep. Erin Zwiener on the 86th Texas Legislature
“We were always very clear that being progressive and being tribalist weren’t the same thing”
“Tammie Rubin: Everything You Ever” at Women & Their Work
This sculptural labyrinth of values casts an epiphytic spell
Rep. Donna Howard on the 86th Texas Legislature
“Let’s target some new money toward childhood literacy, toward high school success, toward teacher quality – the kind of things that research shows make a difference”
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The name of Johnny Carson’s ventriloquist dummy was Eddie. The polio vaccine was developed using cells unknowingly donated by Henrietta Lacks, a black woman from Baltimore. Scientists from Sweden’s Uppsala University have produced DNA evidence that women Viking warriors fought alongside or even commanded their male counterparts in the Swedish Viking Age. Fewer than half…
Public Notice: Happy New Year?
Hoping for new starts at each level of government
Rep. Celia Israel on the 86th Texas Legislature
“Pandering to 3% of the electorate is not in anyone’s best interest”
Luv Doc: Small Tweaks
The devil is in the details
What’cha Watchin’?
Screens editor Richard Whittaker heads to Canada
Rep. Gina Hinojosa on the 86th Texas Legislature
“We need to have the state pay its fair share into the school finance system”
Faster Than Sound: A Tale of Two Red River Fests
Free Week and This Is Austin, Not That Great share Red River
Day Trips: Bryan Museum, Galveston
The story of Texas through rare artifacts
Rep. James Talarico on the 86th Texas Legislature
“There isn’t a blue or red way to fix public education – there’s only a right way”
Snapshot: 37th Street Lights
The holidays may be over, but you can catch this iconic stretch of Austin oddballness for a few more days
The Grinch That Stole Oak Hill
Texas Department of Transportation releases environmental report on the agency’s plans for the intersection of U.S. 290 West and Texas 71
