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Esther’s Follies Returns to Lighten Austin’s Post-Pandemic Load
Guess what long-running comedy troupe is vaccinated, back onstage, and ready to make the city laugh again
Q2 Stadium to Host U.S. Men in Vital World Cup Qualifier
Find out how to get tickets for the match in October
Paramount Summer Season Has a Giant Ending Lined Up
Wizards, restoration, and l’amour round out the classics
Texas Book Festival 2021: First Authors Announced
Colson Whitehead, Elizabeth McCracken, Amor Towles lead the list
Trudy’s Celebrates Local Women, Emmer & Rye Preps Canje, Texas (Sort of) Gets Milk Bar, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Peanut Butter? Once Again.
Because it shouldn’t be indistinguishable from, say, cake frosting
Blues on the Green Returns with Gary Clark Jr.’s All-Star Revue
Four free summer shows kick off next Tuesday
A Bigger View With Blindspotting
How Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs on making the small screen bigger
Halloween Begins in Summer This Weekend
Haunted houses get ready to shake the chains again
All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic
One-hour lecture on the father of plastics (with added musical numbers!)
I Carry You With Me
Biographical romance picks apart loving someone from loving a memory of them
Pig
Nicolas Cage’s porcine drama is a transformative soliloquy about love and loss
Summertime
L.A. poetry slam never quite makes a full movie
Gunpowder Milkshake
Action concoction isn’t stodgy, but it’s not that filling, either
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
The life, passions, and shattering death of the traveler
The Witches of the Orient
How the 1964 Japanese women’s Olympic volleyball team healed a nation
Undine
Love is like drowning in this German fairy tale-inspired romance
Seven Decades and One Wall Apart: Finding Friendship on Either Side of a Bouldin Creek Duplex
Two women at different stages of life keep company during a pandemic
Headlines / Quote of the Week
No Vacancy at Shelters, but We Have Lockers: Austin police can now issue citations to people camping in public spaces. Starting July 11, the Violet KeepSafe Storage program, which offers unhoused people a place to store their belongings, began operating seven days a week, from 7am to 7pm. South Austin Families Can Stay: The notice…
An Austinite Rides Across the Lower 48 to Honor His Father
Ian Michaud raises more than $18,000 dollars for mental health support
Has AISD Cleared Its Special Education Backlog, or Not?
After July 1 deadline, 77 evaluations still to be completed
The Lights Are On at AFS Cinema
After 16 months of closure, the arthouse indie cinema reopens this weekend
Austin Grows Bigger, Murder Rate Does Not. Huh!
The Republican-led Save Austin Now campaign, a front for the Austin Police Association, is running out of time in its petition drive to force a budget-busting mandate to hire hundreds of new cops onto the November ballot. So the Fear-o-Meter is cranked up to 11, as SAN simply states as fact that Austin is in…
Local Cannabiz Hometown Hero Fought Delta-8 Ban and Won
“Hemp and cannabis industries here in Texas have never had a brighter future.”
Autonomous Vehicles Are Making Deliveries in South Austin
We have seen the future, and it brought pizza
The Verde Report: The Honeymoon Is Ending. It’s Time for Austin FC to Earn Its Support.
Three things Austin FC needs to do to get some momentum going
County Rejects City’s $10 Million Offer for Palm School
The fate of the historic building at I-35 and Cesar Chavez remains in flux
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Obadiah Bush (1797-1851), of the same Bush family that later produced two presidents, petitioned the New York State Legislature to secede from the Union to protest slavery. The Texas Legislature is currently in its 125th special session. The shortest special session was one day (1923) and the longest was 112 days (1870). Doing something “in…
City Manager Presents $4.5 Billion City Budget
2021-22 FY proposal earmarks funds for police, parks, homelessness response
The Luv Doc: Cat Therapy
Insane pets are insanely expensive
We Have an Issue: I’m OK, You’re OK … ?
On getting back out in the world
Day Trips: The Giant Legs of Amarillo
Mock tribute to Ozymandias adds quirky character to the Panhandle
How Austin’s Performing Artists Are Reopening Their Spaces
After months behind screens, the folks who run the city’s theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside
My Gear: Experimental Soundscaper Michael C. Sharp
A look into how the artist makes his Synth Vehicles for Guitar
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, July 16-22
Qmmunity: Nurturing Our Rainbows
Drop the doomscroll and soak in queer magic at the Queer Home CookOUT, a moonlit queer swim, and more events
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer’s markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of July 15, 2021
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
Faster Than Sound: The Drama Behind the Cactus Cafe Negotiations
Accusations of unprofessional behavior and an HR complaint leave the historic venue in limbo
Recommended Shows Worth Your Musical Bandwidth This Week
Lomelda, Katy Kirby, and Christine Renner lead the live pack
Summer Stock Austin Gets Fired Up to Go Back Onstage
Cheer up with Bring It On: The Musical
Texas Dems Take the Voting Rights Fight to D.C.
Breaking quorum again, lawmakers leave state to thwart Abbott’s restrictive bill
Sushi Bar Stays, the Field Guide Festival’s Foretold, Meanwhile Gets Dough Boys, and Who’s Gonna Win Free Breakfast For a Year?
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
