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Austin Tattoo Shops Offering Friday the 13th Deals
Looking for a lucky tattoo? We’ve got you covered.
NEA Backs Austin Film Festival’s On Story
The writer’s film festival gets national support
Drink ‘Til It Helps
Boozy events that give back to queers and the greater community
Ten Local Lunch Spots With Cocktails
Because you may as well have something to drink
PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda Will Open aGLIFF 2018
Local director headlines roster of new and returning films
Here’s Some Sound in Your Eye
Northern-Southern & Dimension Gallery: Austin Art-and-Audio Twofer
Big Gay Musical Brings Queer Comedy to Austin
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll leave dusted in glitter.
Bedroom Pop, Comfort for the Sad Unknown
Michael Seyer, Bane’s World & Inner Wave take back humanity
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
This machine is temperamental but it will give you things
World Cup Watch: The Final Four
Previewing the WC semifinals
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 2
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 9-15
A New ATX6 Ventures to Vietnam
Music scene ambassadors prepare for far-flung adventures
The Winner by Karl Stevens
Here’s the latest from that Boston badass of sequential art and reverie
Chronicle Recommends: Crime and No Punishment
For Crime Month, our favorite films about getting away with it
Weekend Wine
Banfi’s Hidden Crown Jewel is one of the wine world’s best bargains
Celebrate National Fried Chicken Day With Five Styles
Eat all five in one day and let us know what happens
Recommended Live Music for the Weekend
Our picks from the usual onslaught of live music options
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend
Because it’s hot, you’re cool, and these are fun
Uncle Drew
Kyrie Irving’s soda campaign gets a movie spin-off
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Marvel’s crime caper comedy sequel gets bigger, smaller, but still fun
The First Purge
Blumhouse’s political-horror franchise gets a timely prequel
Sorry to Bother You
Sly sci-fi satire puts class, race, and selling out under the microscope
Three Identical Strangers
Deception, research, and an almost unbelievable mystery of triplets divided at birth
Whitney
Another glimpse behind the curtain at the late musical legend
Fireworks
Teen anime adds parallel timelines to a Romeo and Juliet plot.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In 1941, the Screen Cartoonists Guild struck against Walt Disney Studios. For years after, Disney insisted the League of Women Voters was behind the strike, but he misspoke. Years later, he finally apologized, saying that it had been the League of Women Shoppers. Wild boars are responsible for $1.5 billion in damage and cost controls…
Ken Paxton Seeks to Remove Eight of Austin’s Planning Commissioners
Lawsuit will target volunteer appointees in violation of City Charter
Suerte
I fell in love with a cup of hot corn
Headlines
After a marathon June 28 session – adjourning just shy of 4am Friday – City Council takes its summer hiatus, with the next regularly scheduled meeting Aug. 9, when budget preparation resumes in earnest, among a long list of pending business. See “1,020 Minutes Later …,” July 6. CodeNEXT spent Monday morning in state district…
A Two-Horse Race for Mayor
Can Laura Morrison hope to edge out Steve Adler?
Public Notice – CodeNEXT: The Halftime Score?
If you view the code rewrite simply as a struggle between the urbanists and the preservationists, it’s fair to ask, who’s winning?
Austin’s Sisters in Crime Prefer Their Ink Mixed With a Little Blood
Murders, they write
Quote of the Week: Fred Lewis
They really said that?
Dining, Driving, and Dealing on the Vegan Food Chain
And where to find the Best Tuna Sandwich (sans tuna)
City Council: 1,020 Minutes Later …
Epic meeting sends Council into summer recess
Countdown to a Deal
City to work on stadium deal while fielding other development offers
World Cup Watch
And then there were eight
Point Austin: Left Pending
Council’s summer daze leaves plenty of work in progress
Day Trips: The Titanic, Mayborn Museum, Waco
Artifacts of famed ocean liner sets sail at Waco museum
“We’ll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections From the Lisa Davis Archives”
The photos capture the kineticism of Austin’s lesbian music scene in the Nineties and the magnitude of the photographer’s legacy
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
A double murder in an East Texas town draws a black Texas Ranger deep into the shadows of the Piney Woods and the tangled race relations there
Snapshot: Project Panic
To celebrate the Chronicle’s July Crime Month, staff go sleuthing at Austin Panic Room’s newest escape game
Zach Theatre’s Heisenberg
In Simon Stephens’ play, we observe the unlikely pairing of two people as an experiment in risk and change
Gay Place
Strength in numbers, strength in community
City Explores Creating an Office of Immigrant Affairs
With no signs that attacks on the immigrant community will slow down any time soon, Austin City Council on June 28 voted through a measure to get the ball rolling to create an Office of Immigrant Affairs. The resolution directs the city manager to review what’s in place in other cities that have similar offices…
July Is Crime Month
All month, we’re exploring the wrong side of the law in books, TV, podcasts, and more
The Dangerous World of Jean-Paul Belmondo
AFS explores the action star beyond Breathless
ATX Film News
Acquisitions, awards, and a big gaming rumor
Casa Marianella Reunites Family Separated at the Border
On July 1, local immigrant shelter Casa Marianella posted to its website the story of a family from Congo – a pregnant mother in her third trimester, a 6-year-old daughter, and the father – who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Casa Marianella and Posada Esperanza, the sister shelter for mothers with children, provided the…
Local Comedy People With Issues Takes the Long Path
Third time’s the charm for writer-director Dan Siegelstein
CodeNEXT: Will We or Won’t We Vote on It?
From the petition hearing to Council, this week’s land use code updates
Luv Doc: Faking It
Faking an orgasm is sort of like going to your happy place and finding an exercise bike
Primrose Residents Face Mold, Broken A/C, and Security Issues
Seniors living in the complex are still seeking relief
Activists Protest Southwest Key at CEO’s Home
Frente de Liberación Inmigrante call on Sanchez to break gov contracts
