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Top 10 Austin Breweries
Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer
RAS Day Expands
Riders Against the Storm fest up two days, Aug. 18-19
Austin Film Festival to Honor Kenneth Lonergan
Manchester by the Sea Oscar winner named Distinguished Screenwriter
Leader of the Pack
A tribute to Margaret Moser “One man’s life touches so many others, when he’s not there, it leaves an awfully big hole.” So teaches us the angel Clarence in 1946 Christmas parable It’s a Wonderful Life. Standing outside at Mohawk on Sunday, June 4 – hours after returning from a San Antonio rendezvous with Margaret…
Rainey Street Bar in Hot Water Over Social Media Posts: Updated
Unbarlievable accused of making misogynistic and racist posts
“Thank You, Margaret Moser”
I’m glad you are a monkey woman, too
Getting Help for Art Venues ASAP
June 29 meeting tells artists how to tap $200K in space aid
Celebrating Shondee Superstar
Cap City Comedy hosts a benefit for Lashonda Lester’s family
Local Games for Your Mobile Devices
Lowlander II and Flipping Legend keep your phones busy
Eight Under-the-Radar Food Trucks
Trailer Food Tuesdays team picks Austin favorites
Transit Method’s Epic “Parasight”
Austin’s proggy power trio unloads video premiere
Fonda San Miguel Co-Founder Miguel Ravago Dies at 72
Chef brought Interior Mexican cuisine to Austin
Council: Austin, Can You Spare $7 million?
CodeNEXT, budget, and the long shadow of the state
Live Music to See This Weekend
Your game plan for the next three days
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Rude Studios Open for Rentals
The Rude Mechs hatch new rehearsal space on Lady Bird Lake
The Best TV Shows of 2017 (So Far)
The return of Twin Peaks is cause for celebration
Grappling With GLOW
Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin on the Netflix wrestling drama
All Eyez on Me
Keep ya head up but don’t expect too much from this biopic
47 Meters Down
It’s this year’s The Shallows (but not as good)
Rough Night
Girls gone murderously wild
Past Life
Avi Nesher’s film is a thoughtful examination of forgiveness
Transformers: The Last Knight
Stick meet dead horse
The Hero
Sam Elliott plays a cowboy actor dying of cancer
Band Aid
A couple works out their problems through song
The Bad Batch
Ana Lily Amirpour’s psychedelic Western
My Obsession: The Carmichael Show
Pushing boundaries with NBC’s sitcom
Page Two: God Is Alive, Magic Afoot, and Music Everywhere
Egmont Street was where we discovered Risk, Quaaludes, phone phreaking – and some of the greatest albums ever made
The Hightower Report: Time for Democratic Leaders to Get Going … or Go
Good news, people – at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine, and are beginning to act like … well, like Democrats! In particular, a majority of Dems in the U.S. House are responding to the rising public demand that decent health care be treated as a right for everyone, rather than…
Texas Platters
From the front-room stage at Hole in the Wall to a million-selling hit and the Nineties summer revival circuit, the Austin trio once known as Magneto U.S.A. has never exhausted their subtly potent charms. They remain pop songsmiths in the classic sense: maintaining fidelity to the hook, translating fleeting sentiments into wide-lens plain language, not…
Plaza Saltillo Ground-breaking Set for Wednesday
After a long wait, the Eastside redevelopment finally kicks off
What’cha Watchin’?
Marketing Director Sarah K. Wolf is Team Joey 4VR
Texas Platters
Abram Shook, a California native who bounced from Portland to Boston before settling here, has dug in locally since 2014, churning out a trio of albums in that time span. Nevertheless, there’s one thing Abram ain’t shook just yet: his California roots. Third album Love at Low Speed combines beach-ready pop licks with jazz and…
Ellen Bartel and Global Water Dances
Joining a global cause, choreographers invite Austin to the water’s edge
Headlines
City Council’s final meeting before the July break (June 22) will feature more CodeNEXT talk (and proposed slowdown), Austin Energy proposing another wind power purchase, and a request from the state Facilities board that smelly Austin kick in on the Capitol Complex redevelopment. “Council: Take a Deep Breath,” June 23. Whole Foods has a new…
Texas Platters
A dead-eyed visage staring out grimly from the cover of last year’s triumphant double album My Life in Steel and Concrete quick-sketched an instant portrait of Quin Galavis, Dead Space/False Idol member and young, tortured artist. The Battery Line opener “Garden Wall” churns grimier than anything on Steel and Concrete or the lo-fi twang of…
Zach Theatre’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
A fierce portrait of Billie Holiday painted in blood and pain
Point Austin: Truly Free
Exonerated at last, may Fran and Dan Keller finally “breathe free”
Texas Platters
Alex Cohen embraces the inevitable ache that comes from young adulthood, the fumbling awkwardness of growing into a person you may or may not have expected. Mise en Place, the second album from Austin/Brooklyn fourpiece Alex Napping, is fiercely comfortable with discomfort, although the band’s iridescent indie sound and playfully arranged compositions betray brooding narratives.…
Penfold Theatre’s Around the World in 80 Days
This original, gender-bending theatrical take on Jules Verne’s adventure tale is a grand story told with delightful imagination
Public Notice: Ted Gordon Believes
Is it too late to fix the AISD bond package?
Greezy Wheels Take a Last Bow
Still Greezy after all these years
Texas Platters
Kay Odyssey’s sophomore album song titles speak of mountains, gardens, isles. That geography chronicles a hazy navigation through love and artistry toward a miragelike destination of liberated creative empowerment. The Austin psych-rock quartet, comprised of members from ¿Qué Pasa?, Dikes of Holland, and No Mas Bodas, arrives well-seasoned in that pursuit, tracked on What’s a…
Anya Gallaccio: to see if time was there at Laguna Gloria
The artist’s giant tree stump carved from limestone is a sign that we love ancient things and are part of nature, too
Quote of the Week: Dan Keller
25 years later, the Kellers are finally free
Austin Energy Partnership Helps Reach Renewable Energy Goals
“A virtual power plant in any building.”
Texas Platters
Rob Lowe pushes musical boundaries. Over the past decade, the keyboardist has guided local instrumental standouts Balmorhea through intricate post-rock compositions. On Slow Time, Lowe debuts solo with eclectically complex pop. He surges suave, smooth Seventies R&B and pop, but its beauty lies in Lowe’s subtle stylistic melding and the controlled ebb and flow of…
Day Trips: Hughes Springs
Mineral waters still flow at small town pavilion in the piney woods
Council: Take a Deep Breath
Final spring session enters July break on a run
Texas Platters
Austin rap legend Bavu Blakes takes a break from his scholarship to team with producer DJ Brimlo (Galvin McKinney) on a brief, five-track tale about a wayward young man seeking redemption. C.J. Edwards provides an evocative chorus as Blakes details the slippery slope on “Dead to Us” with emotion: “Unsafe, where’s the safe, another case,…
Soccer Watch
This time next year, we’ll be in the middle of World Cup 2018 in Russia. And if you’re looking forward to that, it’s worth taking a look at a couple of big international tournaments going on right now that provide previews of different sorts. Both are down to the last games of the group stage.…
Fallout From the Lege’s War on Reproductive Rights
Texas waits on the full impact of legislative cuts
Texas Platters
Born to Love You finds Austin do-it-all Anastasia (Stacey Smith) jumping off her previous MC track in demonstrating songwriting prowess. Single “Born to Love You” bottles feminine strength (“Can I borrow your eyes for a little bit?”), and the bouncy “Light Work” expresses immutable confidence: “I’m good in my sleep, but I’m bad when I’m…
CodeNEXT Gets Affordable
Learn what, how, and where affordability incentives will apply
City Council Campaign 2018
Renteria files, Troxclair draws early challenger
Shifting Allegiances in Congressional District 21
Tom Wakely bows out, throws support behind Rixi Melton
Mike Collier Announces Campaign Against Dan Patrick
Former TDP finance chair seeks to oust Lt. Gov.
Gay Place
Gov. Greg Abbott signs discriminatory bill into law
LGBTQ Quality of Life Commission Underway
“Historic” kickoff marks first for new commission
The Luv Doc: A Long, Painful Russian Belt Tattoo
Love is the wild card of human existence
Playback: Sound on Sound Fest Is Set, but What About Fun Fun Fun?
SOS Fest dropped its lineup this week, but what of predecessor FFF?
Kosoul Chanthakoummane Execution Stayed Once More
Collin County native’s death delayed due to doubts over forensic evidence
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to Axious, President Trump’s iPhone only has one app: Twitter. The longest word posed in the past two decades at the Scripps National Spelling Bee was electroencephalograph. Gold bars are not 100% pure gold. If they were, the bars would be too malleable to preserve their shape. This would render them difficult to store…
AISD’s Big Balancing Act
The Austin Independent School District is considering bringing a $1 billion bond to voters in November. That’s a lot of money. What all would it do? And can the package keep everybody happy?
Abbott’s Executive Overreach
What all bills did the governor veto this time?
Ana Lily Amirpour on Her New Film The Bad Batch
Cannibals, cult leaders, and friendship
Sensory Overload
The Hyperreal Film Club summer series at the Museum of Human Achievement
Adler, Council Members File Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against SB 4
Monday filing contests pending anti-immigration law
