Binge Watching in Wi-Fidelity
Austin WebFest, Texas’ first webseries festival, kicks off tonight
Estate Sale Roundup: June 26-29
Call home, we’re coming in heavy this week.
Austin ISD: Torres Won’t Run Again
Board president to oversee superintendent selection, but not hiring
Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival
The lineup for the sophomore laugh jam will make your jaw drop
Letters Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Northern-Southern Gallery goes graphically abecedarian
7th Annual Taste North Austin: Hot, Crowded, Delicious
Fest-goers line up for tasty bites from emerging culinary scene
Sparking a Glamour Riot at the Capitol
Peter Rapp brings living memory to Austin Pride’s Stonewall event
The AggreGAYtor: June 26
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
World Cup Daily: June 26
A daily update on the action in Brazil
Unleashing the Fundraising Power of ‘Inframan’
Drafthouse screening Hong Kong sci-fi classic for Stephen Romano
Guy Pearce Gets Chatty
Aussie actor discusses ‘The Rover’ at AFS screening
Austin Bars & Restaurants on TV
Turns out Austin is the coolest place on Earth to drink (and eat)
Review: Jimmy Pardo
Beware getting in the line of fire of this crowd-work master
The AggreGAYtor: June 25
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
World Cup Daily: June 25
A daily update on the action in Brazil
Plaza Saltillo Decision Comes Down to Money
Cap Metro chooses Endeavor over Saltillo Collaborative
An Evening With Kevin Corrigan
Just two old friends sharing stories and laughs
Dietz Stays on School Finance Suit
Hail Mary play by AG Abbott fails to force judicial recusal
Gilmore Family Chefs Mentor Urban Roots Interns
Farm interns help produce seasonal feast from food they grow, harvest
Italian-Themed Food Court Headed for South First
Regal Ravioli to anchor new lot beginning in July
Make My Head Sing
Jessica Lea Mayfield brings new album to Stubb’s inside tonight
The AggreGAYtor: June 24
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
First Listen: Chris Catalena & the Native Americans “Telegram”
Psychedelic cowboy pianist releases debut LP this week
The Road to 10-1: Western Additions
Add two more – Districts 8 and 10
Housecore Horror Gets Heavy Again
Metal/horror festival announces first bands and a very special guest
World Cup Daily: June 24
A daily update on the action in Brazil
A Night in Casablanca
A Night in Casablanca 1946, NR, 85 min. Directed by Archie Mayo, Starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx. Marx Brothers comedy takes aim at the Humphrey Bogart classic.
Points of View
The 27th season of the doc series ‘POV’ begins tonight on KLRU
Return of the Unruly Mob
Palmer Center celebration marks filibuster anniversary
International Flavor
Josh Ebsworth takes his talent for barbecue back to England
Yellow in UK
Fellow Brits go to the mat in Tour’s UK stages
Like Father, Like Son
Jeff and Spencer Tweedy align Saturday at the Texas Ballroom
World Cup Daily: June 23
A daily update on the action in Brazil
The AggreGAYtor: June 23
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Curtain Up on Mayor’s Race
Centex Dem forum opens with ‘major’ candidates
DVDanger: Almost Human
Attack of the intergalactic indies
World Cup Daily: June 22
A daily update on the action in Brazil
Happy Birthday (Tomorrow), Meryl Streep
An Oscar-worthy birthday celebration at the Ritz with the Merylthon
Hillary Hits Austin
With all the trappings of a presidential campaign
World Cup Daily
A daily update on the action in Brazil
Where the Girls Go/ATX: Second Wind Edition
The best of the best queer events ’round town this weekend
Kitchen’s Menu for a Better Austin
Former state rep kicks off District 5 campaign
Kickstart Your Weekend: ‘Transient’
New cross-border drama looking for last push funding
Mixing It Up at Foreign & Domestic
Indie chefs dinners continue with Bill Corbett
Help Crowdfund Austin’s Wealthiest Band
1% locals the Yuppie Pricks launch a “Prickstarter”
Wine of the Week
Adami: Prosecco wine buyers can depend on
The Greatest Train Movies Ever
Before “Snowpiercer” opens, a ticket for the best films on track
The AggreGAYtor: June 20
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Saving Water, One House at a Time
Environmental Texas begins Prop. 6 education campaign
The Luv Doc: A Knuckle-Dragging Meathead
Dear Luv Doc, I am a big sports fan. I played football and baseball, ran track and I like to watch golf and sometimes bowling, if I am trying to fall asleep, but I don’t get soccer. BOR-ing! Why do people waste their time on it? – Paul D. I – like you, Paul –…
Jersey Boys
Even though Clint Eastwood guides this Broadway hit to film, there’s not much new in this rise-and-fall, music-biz story.
Think Like a Man Too
Whatever happens in Vegas will happen in just about every movie set in Vegas.
Obvious Child
Jenny Slate stars as a standup comic in this indie film about abortion that comes snuggled in the broad strokes of a quirky comedy.
The Rover
Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson are the riveting stars of this bloody but compelling chase movie through the Australian Outback.
Before You Know It
There’s an aging LGBT community that is only getting bigger and older, and this documentary investigates that process – in ways both specific and universal.
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
This film is a loving valentine to an unsung hero of the entertainment industry who’s had an astonishing career.
Like a Country Song
An up-and-coming country singer is undone by his ego in this inspirational film.
Humshakals
Hindi comedy.
The Hornet’s Nest
Mike and Carlos Boettcher, a father-and-son duo, recorded this firsthand war footage during their time embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Phases & Stages
Acteurs I W I (Public Information) This second effort from Chicago duo Acteurs drifts out five slow-burners like a candle-lit sewer occupied by spewing machines and a savant poet clutching a tape recorder. Singer Brian Case was a member of post-hardcore St. Louis group 90 Day Men, as well as the Ponys, and most recently…
HOG Wild
How a concrete wasteland has become a street-art wonderland called the HOPE Outdoor Gallery
Day Trips
Follow the trail to Lynchburg, Tenn., and the Jack Daniel’s Distillery
Film What You Know
‘Ping Pong Summer’ draws on filmmaker Michael Tully’s own experience
Phases & Stages
The Black Keys Turn Blue (Nonesuch Records) For all their success, the Black Keys are survivors. As modern pop skews toward flat-out EDM euphoria, the Akron duo burrows even deeper into smoky, elastic rock & roll. Catch the gently grazed guitar on the title track, replete with the dark-sunglasses blues that’s made them famous. First…
World Cup 2014
Opening Week Schedule All games shown live on ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2, and in Spanish on Univision or Galavisión. All games are also streamed live on the WatchESPN and ESPN3 services. Thu., 6/19 11am Colombia-Ivory Coast (C) 2pm Uruguay-England (D) 5pm Japan-Greece (C) Fri., 6/20 11am Italy-Costa Rica (D) 2pm Switzerland-France (E) 5pm Honduras-Ecuador (E)…
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex came back from a 1-0 deficit in their third straight home game, and beat the Laredo Heat 4-1 Saturday night, to stay undefeated in PDL play, and comfortably atop the PDL Mid South Division. Sito Seaone had a goal and an assist; the Aztex now have had 10 different goal-scorers in their…
‘A Mayor Who Listens’
Sheryl Cole talks about her skills, her record, and what she learned on her ‘house party tour’
Phases & Stages
Tune-Yards Nikki Nack (4AD) Much like my favorite childhood texts, dark narratives constructed around general silliness, Merrill Garbus’ third album as Tune-Yards ushers us onto a playground teeming with Haitian drums, recess rhymes, and Eighties R&B. Sociopolitical themes pulse under the carnival melee, every sonic silver lining inlaid with stark thematics. Lead single “Water Fountain”…
Navigating Rideshare’s Course
City begins stakeholder meetings
Whip It Real Good
Whip In’s reincarnation continues with its award-winning Kamala beers
The Good Eye: Summer Camp
Notes on QueerBomb’s profusion of glitter and camp
Phases & Stages
Pharoahe Monch PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (W.A.R. Media/Ingrooves) Fourth album Post Traumatic Stress Disorder arrives three years after a commercial dud. We Are Renegades, in turn, landed four years after Desire. That latter sophomore effort proved so hot it had many believing this gifted Queens rapper a shoo-in for stardom. One quickly understands how…
Gay Place
Our gay chamber celebrates 17 years of working toward economic equality for all
A Southwestern Concept Goes South
chavez is a better-than-average hotel restaurant, but is that enough to attract locals?
Phases & Stages
Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (High Top Mountain) Dwight Yoakam on LSD? Actually, that rippling tenor belongs to former Sunday Valley frontman Sturgill Simpson, pondering a mental gateway, “Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain” on lysergic opener “Turtles All the Way Down.” For his…
Reprieve for Dorham’s Backyard
Harold McMillan’s music venue isn’t ready for a swan song
Phases & Stages
Mary Gauthier Trouble & Love (In the Black) The musical poetry of Louisiana native Mary Gauthier hews closely to her own turmoil and struggle – from orphan, runaway, and jailed drug addict to celebrated chef and lauded songwriter – in narratives inhabiting the outskirts among the marginalized with steeled compassion and understanding. Like 2010’s The…
Council: More Where That Came From
Packed schedule leads to marathon session
Phases & Stages
John Fullbright Songs (Blue Dirt) Songs: not quite a sophomore slump, not quite a triumph. Following up 2012’s Grammy-nominated studio debut From the Ground Up with morose, piano-based material, 26-year-old John Fullbright still demonstrates that he’s got songwriting down cold. Ice breaker “Happy” feels anything but, while “Until You Were Gone” manages to sound simultaneously…
City to Mount Case for Appraisal Protest in 2015
A unanimous Council vote preps a challenge next year
Food Events
Taste of North Austin Stroll around the Domain and check out signature dishes and drinks from restaurants around North Austin. Sat., June 21, 11am-4pm. The Domain, 11410 Century Oaks Terrace, 512/795-4230. General $20; VIP $30. › Sipping Social Check out the new Fair Market venue at this fun party from Edible Austin, which includes sensational…
Cap Metro: Riding the Shuffle Bus
Downtown bus routes shift
Kin & Comfort: An Early Look
Kin & Comfort is tucked so tidily away in a nondescript shopping center in north Austin that you wouldn’t know it was there unless you knew it was there. But perhaps a quiet opening in an off-the-radar location is just what Ek Timrerk needed after the drama of the abrupt shuttering of Spin Modern Thai…
Prof. Dumpster: Fighting for the 1%
Jeff Wilson sets out to prove ‘less is more’
Exhibitionism
This play abounds in comic riffs on Chekhov, but it also taps the vein of human frailty in his work
Food-o-File
A cupcake caper, and more sweet news
Point Austin: Clean Is as Clean Does
Austin’s success against sealants starts a trend
Exhibitionism
It would be difficult not to have fun at this Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin production
Playback: Mac’s Love Letters
Ian McLagan got that mojo working
More Bacon for Construction Workers on AISD Projects
Wage measure splits board
Exhibitionism
The pairing of these two artists using similar approaches shows them playing off each other’s strengths
Groover’s Paradise
The Hole in the Wall has seen it all
Then There’s This: Split Views on ADUs
‘Granny flats’ measure breaks from the CodeNext pack
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
President George Washington greeted his guests standing in a circle around him, equally distant from him. This was incorporated into the Oval Office in 1909, a symbol of equality. For the first two weeks of June 1964, Jimmy Nicol replaced Ringo Starr as the Beatles’ drummer. The United Kingdom drinks the third-most tea per capita…
No Holes in this Schedule
Thursday 19, 9pm, $5 Grand Champeen Moonlight Towers Lil’ Cap’n Travis Friday 20, 7pm, $10 Two Hoots and a Holler w/ Joe King Carrasco Neptunes Texas Mavericks LeRoi Brothers Brooks Brannon Saturday 21, 9pm, $12 Sincola Fastball Wannabes Magnet School Sunday 22, 9pm, free Rock & Roll Free for All Circus: Superego All-Stars Ramsay Midwood Sixteen…
Headlines
› No regular City Council meeting this week, although a joint meeting on Tuesday with the Capital Metro board heard a final briefing on the Project Connect urban rail proposal. Next Thursday, June 26, Council will decide whether to move forward with the plan for roads and rail. › As anticipated, last week the Austin…
Jimmy Pardo
How does this stand-up comic make working the crowd look so easy?
Don Henley Must Die
The Hole’s walls have seen many legendary happenings: Courtney Love locking herself in the bathroom with a local dealer; fans chasing down a frat boy who stole Miles Zuniga’s guitar while he was performing; Ivan Neville sitting in with Paul Minor’s Last Waltz tribute; a drunken Santa Claus falling through the big window out front.…
Quote of the Week
“I’m more Jewish than you think I am. I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God’s chosen people.” – Gov. Rick Perry shows some serious chutzpah on a recent trip to New York.
‘La Femme Bohème’
Puccini’s Bohemians get an all-gal makeover
Will You Still Love Me When I’m 64?
Where do old queens go when they don’t own a palace?
The Hightower Report
What job creation numbers don’t tell us
Phases & Stages
Jack White Lazaretto (Third Man/Columbia Records) Through the Raconteurs and Dead Weather, past the White Stripes, Jack White’s given off a decidedly Prince-like vibe: genius multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, sharp dresser, off-kilter musical architect getting stranger all the time in the Paisley Park-style laboratory of his Third Man Records complex in Nashville. Lazaretto spring-loads such a…
Obvious Grownups
Jenny Slate and Gillian Robespierre unswaddle their film ‘Obvious Child’
Civics 101
Friday 20 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON BOOK SIGNING Former U.S. Secretary of State signs copies of her book Hard Choices. 3pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar. $37.89. www.bookpeople.com. A CONVERSATION WITH HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON A look back at four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State. 7pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside. See…
