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The road goes on forever and the party never ends
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Slams Obama Over Support for Police
In response, POTUS reiterates support for law enforcement
Burning Down The Barn
Director Justin Seaman on the joy of rubber and gore
DVDanger: Howling with The Pack
DVDanger runs with the dogs and wolves
Austin Police Warn Citizenry About Dangers of Pokémon Go
“Don’t run into trees.”
New Live Comedy Show Is Doper Than What, Exactly?
Heckle Her Productions goes all Nineties-style with latest comedy gig
Vulcan Video Hammers Southward
Video rental institution finds new home on Ben White
We Need to Talk About Maxwell
“I make records because I live, not because I live to make records”
Pedernales Cellars Offers Another Delicious Tempranillo
You’ll understand the multiple awards when you taste it
Mueller and Travis Central Appraisal District Sing Kumbaya
Agreement in dispute over affordable housing tax appraisals
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Wes Anderson vs. Texas’ Wild Birds
Woodcut artist Lisa Brawn explains “Quién Es Más Macho?”
Coming of Age With Jane Ellen Bryant
Bad at growing up, good at promo
Sending Postcards From the Great Divide
UT RTF chair Paul Stekler on election year for PBS
Chief Acevedo Responds to Dallas Sniper Attack
APD will be at 100% staffing patrol through August
The Secret Life of Pets
Hollywood has the cure for those dog-day afternoons of summer
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Zac Efron and Adam Devine are a bratty fraternity of two
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
The director of Twenty Feet From Stardom does another music doc
Tickled
Doc goes beneath the surface of competitive endurance tickling
Sultan
Bollywood drama
D7 CM Leslie Pool Draws a Challenger
Friends of the Grove activist Natalie Gauldin enters race
Public Notice: Shared History
Art and Journalism: Incubator 1.0
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Kelly Willis
There was the time my road manager got stopped at the Canadian border and lied about a pot possession charge from when he was a teenager. I knew I was screwed when I heard him yelling back at the customs officer in the waiting room. So I had to road manage the dates in Canada…
Cross Creek Evictions Retracted
Tenants’ efforts to organize prove successful
Quote of the Week
“Texans deserve a new top lawyer. At the very least, someone who isn’t facing 99 years in jail.” – Texas Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director Manny Garcia, demanding state GOP call for Attorney General Ken Paxton’s resignation
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Asleep at the Wheel
Asking Asleep at the Wheel what’s our worst tour disaster would fill a miniseries on HBO! There are gigs that are horrible because of the audience or a bad PA or inappropriate stage placement or tech meltdowns. Then there are gigs that suck because you had to drive 10 hours through the mountains and the…
Lakeview Tenants Sue Over Displacement
City Council to decide on tenant relocation assistance ordinance that would require landlords to cover moving costs
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Shakey Graves
We’re in Miami on my first tour, playing in a straight-up nightclub where the opening act – me – starts at midnight. From my limited understanding of Miami, you can stay in the bars getting wasted until 5 or 6am, then get locked in what becomes a cocaine nightmare until they reopen at 9am, or…
Giving the Power Back
Texas Advocates for Justice launches Austin chapter with training program
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Shinyribs
The Picket Line Coyotes were my first band. Me, David Green, Robert Bernard, and our then newest member, Jimmy Smith, left Dallas on a short tour in late January 1991. Saturday we were booked to play Oxford, Mississippi. I had just swapped my recently inherited grandfather’s truck for a station wagon. I went with the…
Belt-Tightening Season for State Agencies
State leaders announce budget cuts
Killer Lineup
Black Widow Cinema brings a much-needed dose of “lady vengeance” to Austin
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Gina Chavez
It was July 2014. My album, Up.Rooted, was still buzzing from spins on NPR, USA Today, and a weekend hang with Shakira and Enrique Iglesias. It was time for my yearly trek to NYC for the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC). Think tiny baby SXSW for Latino music makers, movers, and shakers. Panels boast heavy…
The Hightower Report: Donald Drumpf Is Deranged
Presidential hopeful is a child of immigrants himself
Runnin’ Down a Dream
AFS hosts Katie Cokinos’ I Dream Too Much
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Grupo Fantasma
After the last show of our European tour in 2008, we went out drinking in Dublin despite a ridiculously early airport call. The next morning everyone is hung over. After three hours at the airport, we’re told that our plane is having “mechanical issues.” We end up waiting in the airport until 5pm and start…
“No Kill” for Traffic
Vision Zero action plan aims to eliminate traffic fatalities
I Like to Watch
Looking into the mirror of Big Brother
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Cherubs
We were in Illinois or Pennsylvania or Ohio. Who knows? On our way from a show to another show. We decided to take the scenic route. I was driving and Brent Prager rode shotgun in our nasty black van. Brent had a ton of dreadlocks and some “Fuck You, We’re From Texas” T-shirt on. Sure…
VZ Actions Already Under Way
Twenty-three of the 60 Action Plan items on the Vision Zero agenda are already under way. Here’s a sampling of those, along with the agencies responsible for implementation. Austin Police Dept. (APD), Austin Transportation Dept. (ATD), Public Works Dept. (PWD), State Dept. of Transportation (TxDOT), Development Services Dept. (DSD), Planning & Zoning (PAZ), Health &…
An Unforeseen Cost
After a near-fatal hit-and-run, Elizabeth English struggles to rebuild her life
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Ben Kweller
The year was 2002 or 2003. My solo debut, Sha Sha, had been out for a while. I was traveling the world, playing my first huge, sold-out shows, and having a blast. When you play music for a living, you start out in a van. You drive from city to city all sleep deprived, barely…
Process at the Hideout Theatre
This improvised spoof of a play in production conjured an old-school realistic drama with spot-on symbolism and overinflated egos
Review: Yatai
Mixed offerings from Michi Ramen’s little brother
Worst Tour Stories Ever: The Black Angels
Sometime in 2007, in Alabama, we were playing a very cool, quaint venue. It seemed like summer, an ominous hot and muggy night. We started our set with “Black Grease,” sludgy and dirty. I noticed someone near the front row with this swirly LED light contraption – sort of a homemade psychedelic relic. The man…
Different Stages’ John Gabriel Borkman
The pleasure of this production of Ibsen’s drama comes in the complex exchanges among the deeply committed actors
The Take-Out
Austin can’t go home again
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Mother Falcon
In 2013, we spent a month in New York, playing in town twice a week and then running around the Northeast in between. All 17 of us were staying in a townhouse in Ridgewood, Queens, very Real World-style. Many band members had just graduated college, so it was our first time seriously on the road.…
Page Two: After the Flood
When everything is gone, there is love, and the memory of love
The Luv Doc: Bored People Suck
Actually, that’s not true. They don’t suck at all.
Worst Tour Stories Ever: Riverboat Gamblers
Whenever you’re touring Europe, they have these little military-style barracks for you to stay in. There’ll just be this roomful of mattresses or bunk beds. We played a show in Belgium our first time in Europe and were so good that everybody in the crowd got laid that night. Even the door guy got laid,…
“Seeking Surreal” at Davis Gallery
Each of the artworks in this group show finds some place where the fantastic makes contact with the everyday
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Les Paul invented the neck-worn harmonica holder. Early English mariners discovered that using crushed African daisy flowers would kill roaches on their ship, which resulted in a body lice epidemic among the men. The roaches were quickly welcomed back. In 1894, Frederick Weeks Wilcox of Chicago, Ill., patented the paper pail used commonly for Chinese…
Words and Music
This year’s Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Classical Guitar summer series really get lit
Day Trips: Sam Houston’s Grave, Huntsville
Monument to first president of the Texas Republic is part of cemetery’s art gallery
Gay Place
Magical Realness, an Austin spin on vogue / drag balls
Austin Chamber Music Festival 2016 Schedule
The 2016 festival runs July 8-24, with all concerts at Bates Recital Hall, 2406 Robert Dedman, University of Texas campus. For more information, visit www.austinchambermusic.org. 20th Anniversary Celebration with Peter Bay and the Festival Chamber Orchestra Friday, July 8, 7:30pm All-Mozart program, with the Piano Concerto in A major, featuring Michelle Schumann on piano, and…
Soccer Watch
And so, we’re down to the final two games in this crazy month of soccer: 83 top-level international games in a month – up to five a day – culminate in today’s mouthwatering Euro2016 semifinal between Germany and France (Thu., 2pm), and the championship final at 2pm Sunday, July 10, when today’s winner takes on…
Barrel Fever
The Beer Necessities prove that craft beer is no longer a boy’s club
Austin Classical Guitar Narratives Series
Austin Classical Guitar gets into summer reading in a big way with three concerts featuring music inspired by and blended with poetry and fiction from prominent writers such as James Agee, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and James Joyce. The series – conceived by guest artistic director Tom Echols, sponsored by Kirkus Reviews, and produced…
Headlines
City Council is on annual hiatus, and won’t meet again until its July 27 budget work session. In the meantime, five incumbents are campaigning for re-election. In its final act before the break, Council confirmed last week an additional 2% homestead property tax exemption, bringing the current total to 8%. See “Council: No Marxism Around…
The Common Law
LCRA wants to build a high-voltage power line on my property
Playback: Mayor Steve Adler’s Politics of Music Policy
Omnibus staff report is imperfect, but don’t stop the momentum, says mayor
Council: No Marxism Around Here
City Council pushes homestead exemption by thinnest of margins
Point Austin: Welcome to Media World!
“Alternative” invasion conjures thoughts of contemporary journalism
Abortions Decrease in Texas After HB 2, Data Shows
DSHS finally releases 2014 abortion stats after ACLU request
