What’cha Watchin’?
Screens Editor Josh Kupecki has an opinion on the best thing going on TV right now
Hot Summer Nights Bands List Drop
100 acts join Red River Cultural District free week in July
Austin African American Book Festival Comes to Carver Museum
Authors and activists address the state of Black culture
Improvising All Night Long! Twice!
The Hideout’s annual improv marathon extends to 48 hours
Andy Serkis For RTX
Planet of the Apes star to deliver keynote
Austin Bakes for Virginia B. Wood
Food community gives back to former Chronicle food editor
Kellers Exonerated, Await Compensation
Tears of joy and thanks precede hope of financial safety
APD Says Two Rape Suspects Still at Large
Police are working to clear this case as quickly as possible
Outside Magazine Chooses Austin as One of the Best Towns Ever
Magazine calls our growing population lousy with hipsters
Plans for MACC Renovation Underway
Concepts for redesign should be released in September
Aldous Harding’s Enormous Voice
Kiwi channels the brilliant mania of Kate Bush
Sound on Sound Fest Pops!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Wizard, and king Stooge himself
Kellers Exonerated!
D.A. Moore declares Kellers “actually innocent” of alleged crimes
The Revolution’s Closing Remarks
Prince’s peak backing band lights his eternal flame
Council Wrap: Not Quite Midnight
Council tweaks youth curfew, promotes greenwater, frees lemonade
DVDanger: Streets of Fire
A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases
Semi-Demi Youth Curfew for Now
City Council ends daytime curfew, temporarily extends nighttime
Live Music to See This Weekend
The music staff helps you navigate the next three days of shows
First Look: Seven Grand Whiskey Bar
The team behind Half Step brings whiskey to East Seventh
Five Arty Things To Do In Austin This Weekend
Arty, yeah. You know: Creativity actually happening in our city.
My Cousin Rachel
Love and murder on the English Highlands
Cars 3
Third times not a charm for this franchise
Beatriz at Dinner
Classes clash over chow
The Book of Henry
Abandon all hope ye who purchase a ticket
Dean
Demetri Martin writes, directs, and stars in this indie romance
Lua Brazil Brings Pão de Queijo to Austin
Brazilian cheese bread baker expands on tradition
Circling the Future
Other Worlds Austin Orbiter summer series begins
Alex Jones vs. the World
Megyn Kelly to interview local conspiracy theorist on Sunday night
Council: Eternal Returns
City plumbing, juvenile curfews, and AFD overtime on this week’s agenda
Playback: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory
But you can still put your arms around Margaret Moser
Jennifer Raye’s Boa Retina Explores Messy Gender Uncertainty
Tech old and new explores trans issues
More on the Chicon Mural
A new plan is in the works
Japanese Iced Coffee Might Change Your Daily Grind
Locals warm up to cold-brew trend
Oops!
Last week’s “CodeNEXT: Learn to Love It” (June 9), noted that Accessory Dwelling Units (granny flats) would be allowed in Low Density Residential (LDR) zoning in the new zoning code. That’s true, but they would require a Minor Use Permit be approved by the city Planning and Zoning Department. That’s a change from the original…
Zach Theatre’s In the Heights
This production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical brings us the life and pride of an immigrant neighborhood at an important time
CodeNEXT Advisory Group Ready for Next Steps
Second draft of land development code soon to be in the works
Evelyn Ngugi Makes the Internet a Better Place
A beacon of light on the dark side of the web
Page Two: Dancing at the Revolution With the Radio On!
Louis Black recalls the joys of driving around and falling in love with pop songs
Shrewd Productions’ The Revolutionists
This staging of Lauren Gunderson’s satire proves the pen is mightier than the guillotine
The Hightower Report: Will You Enlist in Donald Trump’s War?
Afghanistan all over again
“This Is Austin Bashing on Steroids”
This legislative session, state GOP lawmakers ran an all-out assault on municipal values
Top 10 Evelyn From the Internets Moments
I happily spent hours of my life watching a continuous stream of videos on the Evelyn From the Internets channel, and here are a few that had me belly laughing. Ngugi had her own video recos for new viewers: “In 2016 I blogged every day in April – it’s called VEDA among YouTube creators and…
“Sean Caulfield: Landscapes: Transformed / Transfigured”
The blackness and voids in the artwork here feels like a future world laid waste, but it also feels like us
Labor Negotiations: A Matter of Police Oversight
Police Monitor Deven Desai brings his agenda to bargaining sessions
A Legislative Session Just for Dan Patrick
How much can go wrong in 30 days?
All Over the Map, True Heroes of Texas Music
Michael Corcoran doesn’t love music. Not in the drooling, dogmatic, hero-worshipping sense that sequences the DNA of most critics. Rather, his reverence manifests for characters, stories, and cultural consequences surrounding the art form. The veteran Austinite’s post-retirement transition from pundit to historian peaks with a majorly expanded and beautified version of his 2005 book All…
Day Trips: Joe T. Garcia’s Restaurant, Ft. Worth
Iconic Mexican food restaurant serves a river of patrons by offering a limited menu
Gay Place
Pride Month With the Babadook
AISD: Propositions for a Full Board
Trustees mull bond package after Geronimo Rodriguez tabbed to succeed Paul Saldaña in District 6
Cornyation: San Antonio’s Outrageous Fiesta Tradition
Every broiling April in downtown San Antonio erupts Fiesta, the Alamo City’s equivalent to Mardi Gras, complete with an expansive bacchanal of music and parade floats. Amidst the 10-day celebration is the absurd, satirical show at the center of Cornyation: San Antonio’s Outrageous Fiesta Tradition. Attending her first Fiesta in 2009, author Stone found herself…
Soccer Watch
Michael Bradley’s midfield steal and 50-yard driven chip of the goalkeeper propelled the U.S. national team to a 1-1 draw with Mexico at the feared Estadio Azteca in World Cup qualifying Sunday; combined with a 2-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago on Thursday and other favorable results, the U.S. sits in moderately comfortable third place…
The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk
As the Broken Spoke rolls through its fifth decade, the local honky-tonk finally gets a properly bound documentation. Following last year’s big-screen detailing, Honky Tonk Heaven, Donna Marie Miller dives into the story of Spoke proprietors James and Annetta White, and their endeavor’s half-century as a two-stepping outpost on South Lamar. Tension between tradition and…
Special Session Specs
The basics of what’s coming in this special session
Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy’s Philip Lynott
Phil Lynott (1949-1986) embodied contradiction. As portrayed in Cowboy Song, Irish journalist Graeme Thomson’s account of his life, Thin Lizzy himself was a family man enamored of behavioral rock star cliches, a studio disciplinarian given to gross personal excess, and a generous but intensely private spirit plagued by narcissism and self-doubt. Born in England of…
Headlines
Almost Summer Break: Two more regular City Council meetings until July break – today’s 104-Item agenda features several returning postponements, including new regs governing major park use, standard plumbing codes, and whether to renew the juvenile curfew ordinance or replace it with less punitive procedures. “Council: Eternal Returns,” June 16. Expensive Special Session: Gov. Greg…
Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
Investigative journalist Ben Westhoff’s timely, provocative, and fact-based amalgam Original Gangstas strikes a bull’s-eye on numerous approaches, particularly as a historical document. He begins by taking Compton/South Central Los Angeles’ sociopolitical temperature in the Eighties, rap’s rise accompanying gang warfare and crack cocaine exploding across America. Police tensions at an all-time high throughout that decade…
Point Austin: Justice Too Long Delayed
Fran and Dan Keller continue to wait in vain for their exoneration
Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol
A dog-eared tale now frayed around the edges, four Cockney kids are thrown together in perverse London clothes shop by a haberdasher espousing art school politics. Out of their disgust with England’s mid-Seventies social decay and rock & roll’s increasing irrelevance emerged a sonic fury that forever radicalized the form. Outlaws at home and abroad,…
Quote of the Week: Steve Adler
“As cities suffer, so does the state.” – Austin Mayor Steve Adler warns against Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to add measures harming cities to the special session call
I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone
The death of James Luther Dickinson (1941-2009) didn’t quite close the book on one of rock & roll’s contradictory geniuses. Whether serving as pianist on the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses” or producing recorded masterpieces including Big Star’s Third and the Replacements’ Pleased to Meet Me, Dickinson celebrated craftsmanship, artistry, and primitivism. It cost him, too,…
SB 4 on Thin ICE
A ruling in San Antonio spells trouble for state law
Universal Harvester
John Darnielle isn’t known for feel-good book narratives, but as the brains behind lit rockers the Mountain Goats, the singer transforms songs about decaying marriages, addiction, and domestic violence into sing-alongs. Similarly, Universal Harvester – the very antithesis to standard summer reading – belongs at the beach even though there’s nothing light, summery, or carefree…
About That DPS Cutback
So, when can you get your license these days?
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
There is a man named Adli who gives camel rides at the Great Pyramid of Giza. The camel’s name is Moses and a ride will run you about $2.50. The act of closing your mouth, pinching your nose shut, and blowing in an attempt to change or reduce the pressure inside your ears is known…
The Show That Never Ends: The Rise & Fall of Prog Rock
“I thought of it as one bar in 7/8 time and one bar in 8/8 time or 4/4; I wanted to make it different from 16/8 so I thought I’d drop a 16th beat.” Given the math behind UK prodigy Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, forever distinguished by the appropriation of its opening piano figure for…
Greg Abbott, Tree Killer
That attack on the Heritage Tree ordinance? A personal vendetta.
The Luv Doc: The Trouble With Trouble
Never let insurmountable facts get in the way of your deeply entrenched belief system
John Prine Beyond Words
In 20th century songbooks, including those popular paperbacks on Hank Williams and Roy Orbison cranked out by the Acuff-Rose Music publishing empire, you were lucky to get six pictures thrown in amongst pages of lyrics, chords, and notes. Comparatively, this thick, full-color, gorgeously laid out offering from John Prine’s label confuses “scrapbook” and “songbook” with…
Abbott Against the Environment
The governor vetoed $127 million out of the state’s budget Monday, mostly for environmental initiatives
Review: J.T. Youngblood’s
Fried chicken joint still a little green
Total Chaos: The Story of the Stooges as Told by Iggy Pop
Surely Jack White unveiling a 10,000-square-foot vinyl pressing plant for his hometown on Feb. 25 represents simply the first stage of his rebuilding Detroit brick by brick. In accord, the Books division of White’s Third Man Records carves into the granite of its own future library The Odyssey according to Iggy Pop. “I found the…
“Yogurt Shop Murders” Appeal Rejected
Court offers no comment on Robert Springsteen’s case
