Supreme Court Deadlocks on Immigration
Obama order to extend relief to undocumented immigrants blocked
SCOTUS: Affirmative Action OK at UT
Justices rule 4-3 on using race in college admissions
Texas Chardonnay?
Don’t let the wine police scare you away!
Zimmerman: Fire Marc Ott
D6 council member: “It’s time we replace” city manager
Getting Around Austin
Explore Downtown without a car and without getting lost
NO VA’s Brunch, Germany’s Wine
Daily Austin food news
Bedside Manner: Sharing Shelf Space
My parents’ Kindle library and me
Bedside Manner: Keeping Up to Date
The search for better cocktail banter
Bedside Manner: Guitar & Pen
Homework vs. live music ascension
A Night With the Andys
Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen uncensored in Austin
American Crime Going Back to Cali
TV show departs Austin over incentives
Bedside Manner: Hell, Ghosts, and Blood
Nihilists have more fun
Alan Will Go On
Alan Cumming brings his Sappy Songs to Austin
I Like to Watch
The destructive glory of Orange Is the New Black
Swift’s Attic Gets Fried
Daily Austin food news
Beside Manner: Facing Grief
Using literature to move past tragedy
Unlocking the Secrets of Prisoner X
Other Worlds Austin presents political paranoia thriller
Wheeler Walker, Jr. Kicks Ass/Eats Out
Meet the LeBron James of country music
WebFest Brings the Really Small Screen to the Big Screen
Local, national, and international web series vie for top prize
Finding the Sweet Spot
Mayor, Council seek consensus on a transportation bond
Austin Bucket List
Dip your toe in local culture
Avett Brothers Stomp the Moody
Folk rockers stoke roots ecstasy for Father’s Day
Austin Game Devs Shine at E3
Local studios show their wares at the video game megaconvention
Selena Gomez Delivers Pop Spectacle
Don’t call it a revival just yet, but it’s close
Confituras to Open in Fall, Sophia’s to Open in July
Plus the debut of Kitty Cohen’s
How Negin Farsad Sees the World … and How You Should See It Too
Social justice comedian on her new book How To Make White People Laugh
Love at First Woof
The 101 on Austin’s own SCRUFF models Kyle Kline and Clay White
Meet the New ATX6
Austin music export project unveils 2016 performers
DVDanger: Monsterland
Creature feature anthology, plus The Funhouse Massacre
Your Laugh Track to Austin
A quick romp through our city’s finer funny spots
Local Eateries to Feed Your Hangover
Feast your eyes, then your stomach
Roberson Execution Stayed
Court of Criminal Appeals sends case back to Anderson County
Summer Reading: Sam Phillips
Digging into the landmark bio of rock & roll’s colonel
Digging up the Raiders!
The strange tale of Raiders of the Lost Ark remade
Viva
A hairdresser finds his true self in a shabby Havana drag bar
Chevalier
The latest playful foray from the Greek filmmaking avant-garde
Finding Dory
If only Dory had ruby slippers, she could click her heels and be home
Central Intelligence
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart make for passable action buddies
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
The epic story of three kids inspired by Spielberg’s adventure tale
Plain Speaking About Complex Things
Robert Jensen on his book Plain Radical and the friendship that inspired it
Day Trips: National Videogaming Museum, Frisco
There is more behind the colored pixels of videogame history than meets the eye
Playback: Austin Record Convention’s United Nations
Forget Record Store Day, the Austin Record Convention remains the biggest vinyl swap in the USA
The Hightower Report
Why Bill Clinton should just go away
Books on Film
Austin filmmakers and the books they love
Page Two: All or Nothing Is No Way Forward
Will the most hopeful mass leftist movement in recent years end up handing the presidency to Donald Trump?
APD’s DNA Lab Shutters
Department must change its operating procedures
Books on Film
Tower director on punk and Capote
Soccer Watch
Tournament month continues, with the European Championship in the mornings and early afternoons on ESPN, and Copa América Centenario in the evenings on Fox. Copa América Centenario On this side of the Atlantic, the group stage concluded Tuesday, and the quarterfinals begin tonight, Thursday, June 16, with the U.S. taking on Ecuador in Seattle. Should…
My Little Red Book
Spring tours done and dusted, and spring releases mostly all spun, time to crack some sex, drugs, and R&R
Death Watch: Shaken Science
Appeal rests on new research into Shaken Baby Syndrome
Books on Film
Inspired by the collective unconscious
My Little Red Book
Front lunatic Gibby Haynes escapes the Butthole Surfers’ first bio, but nothing else did
Council: Getting Moving?
City Council’s continued transportation debate may backlog zoning cases on agenda
Books on Film
On what makes a great book a great movie
Getaways Far, Far Away
Summer reading recommendations that will take you out of this world
My Little Red Book
Even the Texas state prison system proved an incubator for the Lone Star soundtrack
Cactus Rose Supporters Ask for Delay on Rezoning
Mobile home residents to be dislocated for market-rate apartments and retail complex
Books on Film
Slash director loves John waters and a sci-fi classic
Getaways Far, Far Away
Mike Brooks’ ragtag gang on a galactic smuggling mission may seem familiar (cough, Firefly), but you’ll love ’em all the same
My Little Red Book
Kent Finlay wrote the songs, but more so he nurtured songwriters
Subversion Not OK at RRISD
School district faces accusations of censorship
Books on Film
How to avoid being desensitized to life
Getaways Far, Far Away
Set in an alternate past wherein Britain colonized Mars, David D. Levine’s novel is a thrilling adventure for young and old
My Little Red Book
First comprehensive Prince bio dropped domestically two months before he died
Data Integrity Issues Plague STAAR Testing
Education commissioner cancels June retest dates
Books on Film
Nick Offerman would make a great Teddy Roosevelt
Getaways Far, Far Away
Four protagonists move through our world, imaginary worlds, and time in Iain Pears’ sumptuous tangle of a book
My Little Red Book
“A man who carries the troubled history of an entire people on his back and a 24-piece band and three radio stations to boot cannot find peace”
Police, EMS Staffers Not Happy
Employee surveys show low morale
Books on Film
Film editing lessons through experimental novels
Getaways Far, Far Away
Sofia Samatar’s novel of Olondria takes patience, but its characters are intensely complex and beautifully human
My Little Red Book
Punk rock as L.A. lit no less than Charles Bukowski and Raymond Chandler
New Medical Director for Austin/Travis County
EMS union expresses enthusiasm for Mark E. Escott hire
Books on Film
Driven by street photography and war journalism
Your Fantasy House
Where reader types would own a vacation home if it could be anywhere in literature
My Little Red Book
The punk equivalent to Mötley Crüe’s debauched autobiography The Dirt
Headlines
City Council meets today (June 16) with a burgeoning zoning agenda as well as plenty of hot-button issues: transportation bonds, a fair housing omnibus, the charter-school building code controversy, and plenty more. See “Council: Getting Moving?” June 17. Speaking of transportation bonds, there are at least three proposals floating on the dais for November: Mayor…
Zach Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors
In every respect, this production of Richard Bean’s updated farce artfully crafts an environment of laughter
To Build a Home
Nowadays, it’s pretty hard to pull a Lewis & Clark and claim to have discovered a region unknown. But authors of fantasy and science fiction still have rights to the name “explorer” since, nine times out of 10, they’re the only people who have been to where they’re writing about. Stina Leicht, Marshall Ryan Maresca,…
My Little Red Book
Runaways guitarist kisses and tells deadly
Point Austin: Will This One Make a Difference?
Orlando could be a turning point … or else it won’t be
FamiLIES at ColdTowne Theater
In taking characters beyond improv to a scripted format, this ColdTowne project delivers an exaggerated imitation of life
Mixed Metaphors
These craft cocktails are for the books
My Little Red Book
Rod Stewart mispronounced the session basher’s name, but Carmine Appice survived nonetheless
Quote of the Week
“Let’s choose unity over division. Let’s choose confidence over fear. Let’s choose lightness over darkness. And let’s choose love over hate.” – Mayor Steve Adler, speaking at the candlelight vigil on June 12 to honor the victims of the Orlando shooting
Review: Dilly Deli
Neighborhood Americana goes the extra mile
My Little Red Book
Collection of local brainiac Chuck Eddy’s freakishly knowledgeable music insights
Public Notice: Only Two Episodes Left
Plot twists and cliffhangers as Council approaches season finale
“Chris Guarino: From the Unknown”
The haunting array of sculptural mutants displayed at Art on 5th are at once foreign and familiar, frightening and comical
Dear Glutton
Seeing red
My Little Red Book
Seminal pop savant uncovered
The Luv Doc: Kitten Milk
Yes, even a little bit of milk
My Little Red Book
The history of Woodstock – the town, not the festival
Gay Place
Thanks for the prayers, but they’re not good enough
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ancient hurlers likely used a heavier discus and took only a ¾ turn before releasing it, rather than the 2¼ turns that modern athletes use. In the early Fifties, more than 30% of federal revenues came from the corporate income tax. According to Dr. Laure Rittié, a researcher in dermatology at the University of Michigan…
My Little Red Book
Girls who love boys who love girls
