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What Happened to Bonnie and Clyde’s Missing Gun?
In which we hear the report of a gun and a secret is revealed
Crime Month: In the Dark Podcast
Why did a boy’s murder go unsolved for 27 years? Just listen.
What’s the Best Summertime Cocktail?
Whisler’s and Tigress bartenders talk summer sips
Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day
Beloved anime franchise adds new phrasing to its familiar tune
Erin Martinson’s Entry Heats Up D.A. Primary Race
Lawyer, victim advocate to challenge incumbent Margaret Moore
Fonda San Miguel Hosts All-Women Guest Chef Dinner Series
Four-course dinner prepared by celebrated sister chefs
How Rooster Teeth Built Meaningful Diversity Into gen:LOCK
Austin studio emphasizes representation in its animated show
Shabu-Shabu Meets Fine Dining at DipDipDip Tatsu-Ya
Chef Tatsu’s latest concept offers Austin a new hot pot experience
Crime Month: Gypsy on Netflix
In this series, Naomi Watts puts the “psycho” in psychotherapy
Seven Things We Learned From the RWBY Panel at RTX
Behind-the-scenes changes for volume 7, plus game and comic details
Drinks Issue 2019
Grab a cold one. Craft beer, kombucha, cocktails, cabernet: You can have it all. Pop open our annual Austin Chronicle Drinks Issue.
DCCC Throwing Weight in CD 10?
Intercept report claims favoritism for Hutcheson
First Look: Seis Manos
See footage from new animated Netflix series by Austin’s Powerhouse
gen:LOCK Coming to Adult Swim
Rooster Teeth’s mecha anime heads to cable, plus more comic news
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 2
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 8-14
DC Announces gen:LOCK, RWBY Comic Details at RTX
Creative teams confirmed, plus first cover image
Crime Month: Dr. Death
True-crime podcast is every patient’s worst nightmare
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Everyone’s favorite web-slinger returns for a new era of Marvel
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
A rare journey behind the words of America’s poet laureate
Midsommar
Ari Aster’s folk-horror excursion to Scandinavia never sees the forest for the trees
Headlines
Homelessness Is Not a Crime: Starting on Monday, July 1, new rules governing street behavior went into effect across the city. Now “aggressive solicitation” is criminalized, not simple panhandling. Sitting, lying, and camping are now permitted in public places, as long as doing so does not cause an obstruction or present material danger. Camping in public parks…
Rodney Reed Loses Latest Appeals
Longtime death row inmate will challenge the court’s ruling
Paxton Thinks Abortion Providers Get a “Pass” in Court
A.G. urges SCOTUS to make it harder for providers to fight anti-choice laws
Quote of the Week
“I am the Texan in this race.” – Julián Castro, shaking off the shadow of Beto O’Rourke as he took his post-debate victory lap at Cheer Up Charlies. See “Beto, Castro Come to Town,” July 5.
Texas Platters
After stepping out solo with memorable country recordings over the past two years, Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis re-pair for the couple’s fourth LP together and first since 2014’s Our Year. The front half of Beautiful Lie offers some of their best genre work together, with each singer taking song leads as they roll into…
Hyde Park Theatre’s Death Tax
This production of Lucas Hnath’s play questions who really pays when the Reaper comes calling – and before
Texas Platters
One year out from their self-released 7-inch debut – “They’re Gonna Get Ya,” backed with a minimalist deconstruction of the Count Five’s carport-rock immortal “Psychotic Reaction” – Austin’s most impressive young garage-ists return with 10 tunes on 10 inches of vinyl revolving at 331/3 RPM. Sneer if you’ve heard this before: They’re a mixed-gender guitar/drums…
“Mathieu Grenier: Expanded Nomenclature” at grayDUCK Gallery
In his first solo show in Austin, this Montreal photographer blurs language and lines
Texas Platters
Marked by an adventurous and unbridled local recording streak, Hector Ward & the Big Time boasts brass-boom bursts, hot riffs, and Godzilla-sized vocals. All those ingredients garnered the Austin big band acclaim and even legendary producer Bob Johnston (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Simon & Garfunkel) overseeing 2016’s Evolution: Live at the Saxon Pub. Yet for…
Finals Edition
Women’s World Cup down to the Final Four
Texas Platters
Texan journeyman Gary Nicholson’s bashed garage-rock guitar in the Sixties, fronted folk/bluegrass aces Uncle Jim’s Music followed by Delbert McClinton’s blues busters in the Seventies, and has written massive country hits for everyone from Waylon and Willie to Vince Gill and Brad Paisley since the Eighties. The Great Divide now continues his Americana salve for…
Day Trips: Texas Prison Museum
Slammer school in Huntsville
Texas Platters
Progeny of doomicus metallicus with a bite of epicus, Destroyer of Light nosedives into southern depths and casts shadows of Candlemass across a bewitched odyssey through a pitch-black underworld. Chorus pedals light the candelabra, placing standalones like “Falling Star” into the songbook of Ozzy balladry. While pondering the deep dark, vocalist Steve Colca backs away…
Now Streaming in Austin: RTX For Austinites
A new way to get a taste of Rooster Teeth’s annual convention
Texas Platters
ShowBiz Pizza’s animatronic Rock-afire Explosion band “turned into a nightmare” when it became Chuck E. Cheese’s Munch’s Make Believe Band, according to Pinkish Black’s Daron Beck in a chat with the Dallas Observer. Pure marketing jargon, that traumatic Eighties pizza chain rebrand was called “concept unification” and planted the seed for the Fort Worth duo’s…
Faster Than Sound: Music Advocates Say Convention Center Expansion Key to Unlocking City Funds
Can the commercial music industry finally get a cut of the HOT action? Also: City protects venue employees from receiving sound citations and Austin rapper Hella Sketchy dies of overdose.
The Austin Women Dispelling Stigma and Moving Mental Health Issues Forward
From Sheriff Sally Hernandez to state Rep. Celia Israel, local women are changing the conversation
The Luv Doc: Crap Taste
The sweet deliverance of blissful apathy
Soccer Watch
The Austin Bold appear to be rounding into form as they hit the midpoint of the season. They’re unbeaten in the last five USL games, and can climb into a tie for second place with a win tonight against San Antonio, whom they’ve already beaten twice this year. The SA fans brought a strong traveling…
Soul Stunner Miss Lavelle White Turns 39 (or So)
“I had a hard life, but it channeled into the music”
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to SwiftKey, people who speak French use four times as many heart emojis as speakers of other languages. The surface of Africa is about 11.7 million square miles. The surface of the moon is about 14.6 million square miles. Next time you feel drowsy at a crowded meeting, it’s due to science. Ambient air’s…
The Illustrated World at AFS Cinema’s New Season of Animation
There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki
Point Austin: The Victory of Tom DeLay
With redistricting ruling, SCOTUS says it’s OK to cheat to win
July Is Crime Month
Maybe it’s the murderous heat, but something about summer brings out the outlaw in the Chronicle crew. Thus, we’ve decided July is Crime Month, and for four weeks, our writers and editors will be toasting the unlawful with reviews of recent crime fiction and nonfiction, interviews with authors in the field, plugs for upcoming crime-related…
New Information in Roxanne Paltauf Disappearance
Phone records may provide clue in 2006 case
Council Readies for New Budget Realities
Members might reconsider economic incentive packages
Rooster Teeth Pumps up the Volume With New Podcasts at RTX Austin
The media giant adds some fodder for your headphones
Beto, Castro Come to Town
2020 Texans throw shade as rivalry heats up
City Council Votes to Protect Mobile Home Residents
Nine mobile home parks rezoned for MH residential use
Qmmunity: Queertopia
And queer events to take you there
State Board of Education Brings a New Anti-Sex Circus to Town
Anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, and creationism advocates to help revise Texas public schools’ sex education
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of July 3, 2019
25 Restaurants to Help You Eat Your Way Around the Domain in Austin
Sips, bites, sweets, and other food options from around the globe
District Court Candidates Announce Dem Primary Candidacies
Here come the judges …
