Woman Dies in Manor Dog Attack
Six adult, mixed breeds are in quarantine at the Austin Animal Center
APD Makes Arrest in Rock Throwing
Suspect faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted
CodeNEXT Chief Quits
Matt Lewis resigns amid human resources investigation
47 Nonstop, Unsleeping, Possibly Hallucinatory Hours of Improv This Weekend
The Hideout is doing that wild thing they do every year
Zika 101
Travis County to conduct a two-day survey on the mosquito-borne virus
A Shortlist of the City’s Most Memorable Museums
Gaze upon objets from the weird to the sublime
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We attempt to fill the lazy, hazy days with great books … and cocktails inspired by books and movies based on books and fantasy lands found in books and rock & roll books, and books I said books I will books.
Introducing: Sound on Sound Fest
Everything you loved about Fun Fun Fun Fest – with a different name
Bedside Manner: Making and Experiencing Video Games
Boss Fight Books gives the medium the biography treatment
Force, Fuse, Flower: Colin McIntyre’s “Circumnutation”
New metalwork show brings a few helical organics to Dimension Gallery
Historic Landmarks With Killer Views
Putting Austin in perspective
Unpacking Samuel Beckett’s “Film”
HRC kicks off Summer Film Series with playwright’s foray into film
John Carpenter, Rock Star
Filmmaker as synth-pop pioneer horrifies the Moody Theater June 23
Get Suited
HBO’s doc on dressing queer bodies screens tonight at Alamo South Lamar
Day Trips & Beyond: SeaWorld San Antonio
Swimming with the animals
Nonconsensual
City Council wrestles with itself over bonds, spending
SoCo Shopping
Local boutiques offer glitzy, weird, and downright Austin-y items
ATX Television Fest: Fargo Music Panel
Not surprising: Jeff Tweedy hates the Eagles
The Austin Music Atlas
A primer for the musically inclined
DVDanger: Gridlocked
It’s all about timing for Trish Stratus
Dueling Bondage
Mayor and council members consider transportation packages
In the Wake of Orlando
To the entire LGBTQ community: You do matter. So much.
Chill Places to Cool You Off
The summer heat is your enemy. Let these locales be your refuge.
Skyline Theater Debuts
Boston’s flying saucer lands at Austin’s newest outdoor venue
ATX Television Fest: The O.C. Panel and Script Reading
Influential teen drama still resonates more than a decade later
ATX Television Fest: Dead of Summer Panel
Freeform’s new series is a throwback to Eighties summer camp slashers
ATX Television Fest: Survivor’s Remorse Panel
The Starz basketball drama is back for a third season
ATX Television Fest: Friday Night Lights Reunion
It’s been 10 years since the beloved football drama premiered
Dan Patrick Excoriated Over Orlando Shooting Tweet
Lite Guv blames Twitter debacle on timing, not bigotry
ATX Television Festival: Dancing in The West Wing
Looking back on the legacy of the Bartlet administration
ATX Television Festival: Shifting Landscapes: The Effect of 9/11 on Storytelling
How the World Trade Center attacks affected TV
ATX Television Fest: Casual Panel
Creators and cast of the Hulu comedy talk season 2
ATX Television Fest: Pulp Page to Small Screen: A Look at Comic Adaptations
Panel offers tips on what makes a good comic book TV show
ATX Television Fest: Fandom Rising: The Impact of Fan Culture in the Age of Social Media
How much should creators listen to their fans?
A Brighter Summer Day
A Brighter Summer Day 1991, NR, 237 min. Directed by Edward Yang, Starring Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Chang Kuo-Chu, Elaine Jin. In this nearly four-hour-long, multi-award-winning film, the director of Yi Yi dramatizes the generational upheaval and gang violence that was endemic in Taipei, Taiwan, during the Sixties.
Chronicle Recommends: Films About Writers
Storytellers become the story
Catching Up With Jacques Pépin
Culinary legend visits Austin for talk, benefit dinner
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Green sewer-dwellers battle purple ooze. Big, dumb fun
Me Before You
A paraplegic and his quirky caregiver form a bond in this British romance
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Comedy collective The Lonely Island writes, directs, and stars in music biz comedy
Now You See Me 2
Now you can’t un-see the second installment of Jon M. Chu’s magical trilogy
Maggie’s Plan
Greta Gerwig delights in this NYC-set screwball romantic comedy
Warcraft
No fun storming the castle in this lousy adaptation of the hit video game
The Conjuring 2
Semi-retired ghost hunters make a comeback in the second installment of James Wan’s spooky series
L’Attesa
Secrets abound in this Italian drama starring Juliette Binoche
Death Watch: U.S. Supreme Court Steps In
Highest court to consider two Texas death penalty cases
Texas Platters
Copping the Black Flag font for your album art is a ballsy move, but ATX’s Broken Gold prove worthy on the raw, brooding E.P.III. The melodic post-punks follow up 2015’s equally memorable Turning Blue EP with another brief song cull bristling with a nervy energy that recalls classic Dinosaur Jr. The four-track, 12-minute collection largely…
ATX Panel and Event Picks
Not sure what to do at ATX? Start here.
Public Notice: Clowns to the Left of Us, Jokers to the Right
The overwhelming hubris and audacity of Uber continues
Texas Platters
The Three Tenors? Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young? Classicists José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti soared opera to the top of the pops globally, while the latter all-star grouping took crossover folk mainstream, but the Highwaymen proved country music more majestic than rock & roll and thrice as authentic. Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris…
The Vortex’s Privacy Settings: A Promethean Tale
Ancient myth meets modern surveillance memorably in this devised work at the Vortex
Kozyworld
This collaboration between dancer Julie Nathanielsz and poet Margit Galanter employed fabric to explore human shape and contact
First Look: Garage’s Food Program
Philip Speer innovates bar food with six easy dishes
“One / Sixth” at de stijl | Podium for Art
This group show of work by six black graduates of UT’s M.F.A. art program shouldn’t have to exist, but thankfully it does
The Take-Out
When food writing is not delicious
Day Trips: Ray’s Drive Inn, San Antonio
The west side institution is the original home of the puffy taco
I Like to Watch
Sinner priests are here to save us all
Hornography
A Smart Defense Havoc, in its truest sense, will finally rear its ugly, destructive head at opposing offenses. Confirmation of this comes in the impending arrival of St. Stephen’s center and future NBA top-10 pick Jarrett Allen. Former coach Rick Barnes’ downfall was exacerbated, in large part, due to his growing inability to win the…
Gay Place
Women’s Alliance for Leadership empowers LGBTQ women to succeed in education and their careers
Come What May
Interviewing Steve Earle remains a lot like talking to the late Doug Sahm: Say “hello,” and they’re off to the races – breathlessly. His itinerary for the next 18 months (really busy), how many fingers are on Billy Joe Shaver’s hands (fewer than 10), and what channel he likes to listen to on satellite radio…
Soccer Watch
It’s a crazy month for soccer fans, with the world’s two major continental championships overlapping, yielding three to five games a day for the next few weeks – Euro 2016 in the mornings and early afternoons, and Copa America in the evenings. Copa America Centenario The U.S. national team continues its baffling inconsistency: a disjointed…
Dance/USA Convenes in Austin
The national arts organization brings honors for the Butlers and big questions about the form’s future
House to Address Education Funding
Speaker Joe Straus sets school finance as interim item
Dance Card
Not registered for the conference? Prefer watching or doing to talking? Consider your card filled. Performa/Dance: 4×3: Four Works by Three Choreographers June 10 & 11, Fri. & Sat., 8pm. AustinVentures StudioTheater, 501 W. Third Award-winning choreographer Jennifer Hart is back, utilizing off-season ballet dancers in contemporary works. A quartet, “Spaces,” has to do with…
Colvin & Earle Record Review
Colvin & Earle (Fantasy) When Shawn Colvin cut Steve Earle’s “Someday” for her Grammy-nominated 1994 LP Cover Girl, she was a rising chart-topper of crossover folk, and he’d just been released from jail on a heroin bust. Twenty years later, the pair’s realignment for an album of co-writes and covers shows off both as wise…
State Emergency-Leave Rules Tightened
Comptroller will now verify all applications
Spiritual Journey
Revolution Spirits reinvents the distillery
Mike Osborne: Man of the Moment
Photographer Mike Osborne is looking for the bigger picture in the world we share
County GOP Restricts Morrow’s Power
Controversial chair to retain some administrative duties
The Luv Doc: Quid Pro Quo
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
Working the Budget
Council and staff review the preliminary numbers, with crossed fingers all around
Heights on Congress Residents Start Organizing
City, developer discussing relocation plan
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. Elvis Presley’s family was very poor. While he was growing up, during a one-week period, they only had turnip greens to eat. The word “scofflaw” was coined in 1924 (during Prohibition) to mean a person who drinks illegally. The word came about as a result of…
Austin City Budget: FY 2017 Timeline
April 27: Financial forecast and budget overview May-June: City Council budget policy work sessions, public outreach June/July: Staff prepares proposed budget June 30: State property tax homestead exemption filing deadline July 25: Travis Central Appraisal District certifies tax roll (anticipated) July 27: Staff presents proposed budget to Council Aug. 1: Public engagement report released Aug.…
Council: Burning Daylight
Passing the hot bond potato
Texas Platters
In local outfits Frank Smith and Grape St., Boston-to-Austin transplant Aaron Sinclair has mastered a fusion of indie jams and roots music. For the first LP under his own abbreviated moniker, which he co-produced with local Midas touch Danny Reisch, the singer-songwriter-rocker lets two of those elements bloom, cutting loose with full-throated bangers, then, for…
Crunching the Numbers
2016 Revenue Sources General Fund Total: $912.8 Million The current major sources of “General Fund” (operating) revenue include property taxes, sales taxes, transfers from Austin Water and Austin Energy, and miscellaneous fee income (development, permits, etc.). The share of revenue provided by property taxes has grown from 30% to 41.6% since 2005-06, while the share…
Yellow Cab’s San Antonio Shuffle
Cab conglomerate calls out-of-town cabs to Austin, but did it get the city’s OK first?
Page Two: The Fix
Thuggery and fanaticism on the campaign trail
Texas Platters
Released three years ago, Scorpion Child’s eponymous debut mastered Seventies-fried hard rock. Acid Roulette, the homegrown quintet’s long-awaited follow-up, adds colorful production and more ambitious songwriting. Studio wizard Chris “Frenchie” Smith, owner of the Bubble and a prolific Austin producer since just after Sixteen Deluxe’s initial breakup, also oversaw the group’s debut and here stacks…
ATX Television Festival: Season 5
As the bounty of TV continues to bear fruit, so does this fest
Headlines
City Council meets today (June 9) with a full agenda but a shorthanded quorum: Mayor Steve Adler and Council Members Delia Garza and Ann Kitchen are in Washington, D.C., making a final presentation of Austin’s “Smart City Challenge” grant application to the U.S. Department of Transportation. See “Council: Burning Daylight.” New development rules for charter…
Playback: Austin’s Music Tech Movement
Can techies solve the problems facing Austin music?
Texas Platters
After a quick turn in Nashville, Rob Baird returned to Texas to set up in Austin and get back to basics. The Memphis native’s third album thus starts with the bluesy, swaggering declaration of “Ain’t Nobody Got a Hold on Me.” Unlike 2012’s I Swear It’s the Truth, Baird ranges more adventurous and looser, though…
Keeping It UnREAL
Co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro talks season 2 of the hit Lifetime drama
Quote of the Week
“Mr. Trump, you’re a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your ass.” – U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, closing his open letter to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
The Hightower Report
How much does it cost to buy a public university’s integrity?
Texas Platters
Charlie Faye is fearless. On disc, the Austinite likes tying everything together conceptually. In 2011’s Travels With Charlie, she rambled cross country and recorded songs with musicians she knew along the way. This time, Faye marinates in a Sixties girl-group sound – Shirelles, Supremes, Shangri-Las – and doesn’t update the sound as much as immerse…
More Than a Femme Fatale
Ruth Negga on killing it in AMC’s Preacher
Point Austin: A Halcyon Day
Clinton’s ascension is a moment to celebrate possibilities
