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Is Austin Big Enough for Both MLS and USL Soccer Teams?
Rival sports titans square off in soccer city
Festival Founder Resurrects Spamarama After 12-Year Hiatus
Spam-centered celebration comes to Moontower Saloon
A Bigger Bang For The Fourth of July With “False Fires”
Watch director Raul Buitrago’s short doc about fireworks stands
Trans UT Student Receives Caitlyn Jenner Foundation Scholarship
Sophomore had lost ROTC scholarship under trans military ban
Travis County to Reject Marijuana Prosecutions
Officers can’t legally determine what is weed and what is hemp
Crime Month: Encyclopedia Brown
Can you solve our fondness for Idaville’s favorite sleuth?
Austin’s aGLIFF Announces 2019 Honorees
Celebrating directors of seminal queer films Go Fish, Trick
L.A. Stands in for the ATX in 9-1-1: Lone Star
Fox confirms new Rob Lowe vehicle will not shoot in Austin
Troy Gomez and Billie Green Bring Their Designs to Austin
Immaterial features two of Texas’ most visionary fashion designers
Take a Survey for a More Queer-Friendly Rideshare Experience
Homobiles wants to hear from LGBTQIA+ drivers around the country
Rep. Talarico Shocked at Inhumane Border Facility Conditions During Tour
Austin-area lawmaker part of delegation that visited El Paso, Clint
Local Competes in Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition
Juan Neave goes to Coney Island for the second time
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 1
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 1-7
Austin Filmmakers PJ Raval, Andrew Bujalski, Leah Marino Join the Academy
Trio joins as Oscar-awarding body emphasizes diversity
Class Axe Throwing Gets in on Austin’s Edgiest New Trend
Become an axe-pert in the comfort of air conditioning
Watch: Chief White Lightning’s Donut Shop Daydream
It’s love at first sight in their new video – but the feeling’s not mutual
Julian Castro and Beto O’Rourke Highlight Rivalry at Events in Austin
For now, there’s room enough in Texas for both its 2020 favorite sons
10 Must-Visit Independent Austin Bookstores
For those still enamored by the written word
Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup
Balmorhea is back, baby!
Weekend Wine: American Cabernet Sauvignon
It’s time for grilled steaks and old style California Napa Cabs.
Juegos Rancheros Holds Final Meetup of the Year
Local indie game nonprofit parties before hiatus
Child’s Play
Everyone’s favorite homicidal doll is back
Anna
International ass-kickery with a strong but beautiful female lead? Luc Besson, back on his sh*t again.
Annabelle Comes Home
Anybody want a slightly soiled, demonically possessed doll?
Yesterday
Imagine a world without the Beatles … then imagine a better film
The Fall of the American Empire
Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary
Our Time
Reygadas’ latest exercise in navel-gazing is at least pretty to look at
Qmmunity: The Parties Are Political
A whole lotta events honoring Stonewall
New Plan Reimagines Walter E. Long Park
New plan reimagines Austin’s largest park
The Luv Doc: Dog Herpes
Wherein the Luv Doc contemplates greater and lesser acts of bestiality
APD Officers Named in Excessive Force Suit
Breanna Williams says the 2017 incident caused emotional, physical, and professional distress
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In the midst of a nuclear disaster, taking potassium iodine (KI) could save your life. The iodine blocks radiation from being absorbed by your thyroid gland, the part of the human body most vulnerable to radiation sickness. Dietary supplements that contain iodine in the place of KI can be harmful. Gnomonics is the art of…
Attorney General Ken Paxton Gets Yet Another Legal Pass
The latest twist in the years-long saga over Paxton’s securities fraud charge
Texas Platters
On “I’m Clean,” it’s as clear as looking in a mirror that Kevin Russell has become the Austin equivalent of Memphis soul goofball Rufus Thomas (1917-2001): an unfathomably funky individual with off-the-charts charisma and a knack for clever lyricism – not to mention a penchant for colorful suits. “Clean as a preacher’s socks/ Clean as…
Austin at Large: What the Market Will Bear
From the creeks to the streets, Austin gets clear on what it wants
Texas Platters
Despite a 2016 tribute LP in his honor, Adam Carroll remains an underappreciated local troubadour. His ninth release and first in over five years locks in intimately, with each song quietly introduced ahead of easy acoustic melodies and rich narratives. Carroll’s phrasing touches Townes Van Zandt on tunes like “Caroline” and “Cordelia,” though Guy Clark’s…
Headlines
Still Cruel: Despite the reports of neglect and mistreatment at a border facility in Clint, Texas, the federal government has moved more than 100 children back to the center. Attorneys have alleged children were held there without adequate water, food, or proper sanitation. Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection John Sanders is resigning…
Sarah Cook Invites Diners to “Be Here Now” at Kyoten Sushiko
An unlikely artist at Mueller’s satellite iteration of Otto Phan’s omakase restaurant
Texas Platters
“If it ain’t tragedy, how can it be true?” asks Wil Cope in opening his sophomore LP with “Fallin’ Out of Love.” Like 2011’s Sunset Craves, these are low-down, gutter-tumbled ballads hinging on the singer’s nasal drawl, but there’s an ineffable charm and undeniably sharp songwriting buried in the raw, no-fi production. The desert-dusted psych…
Quote of the Week
“I love when our governor tweets opposition to a policy I supported. Just validates that I was on the right side.” – Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza, after Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to overturn (How? When? In 2 years?) Austin’s move to decriminalize camping on the street as the city rethinks how it responds to…
Texas Platters
Jack Ingram draws direct lineage in calling out Jerry Jeff Walker’s 1975 charting platter Ridin’ High on his 10th studio LP. An aptly frolicking follow-up to 2016’s stellar, low-key Midnight Motel, its razor-sharpened covers of Rusty Weir’s “Don’t It Make You Wanna Dance?” Willie Nelson’s “Gotta Get Drunk,” and Guy Clark’s “Desperados Waiting on a…
And Then There Were Eight
Previewing the World Cup Quarterfinals
X Frontman John Doe Has More Fun in the New World
Living quietly in Austin for two years now – and only for hours at a time!
Texas Platters
Six years between albums kills momentum, especially with a three-year delay between recording and release. Austin trio American Sharks make up for the unexpected time shift with pure energy on its sophomore un-slump 11:11. Opening tracks “Let Me Go” and “Spare the Rod” blaze by in a rush that jolts the heart like Red Bull,…
Council Dials Back Laws Targeting Homeless
In response, Abbott again threatens to save Austin from its elected leaders
Texas Platters
“Is there anything else left to do?” wonders Megafauna singer/guitarist Dani Neff on the lead single of largely the same title from Ghost Coast. After the unabashed Larger Than Human (2010), experimental Surreal Estate (2012), assertive Maximalist (2014), and expansive Welcome Home (2016), that’s a fair question. What’s left when the local trio’s forged a…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of June 27, 2019
Texas Platters
Following two previous concept albums – 2017 debut Masc, a meditation on masculinity, and 2018 EP Heat Wave, a grief-pop take on global warming – TC Superstar tackles an electrified choose-your-own-adventure of love on R&D. Focusing on two main characters, Ricky and Dana, the Austin eightpiece eschews a linear arc and attempts to answer all…
Faster Than Sound: Cutting Up on Tuesday
Queer nightlife gets a new clubhouse, SIMS Foundation faces spiked membership, Spoon’s greatest hits, and more
Georgetown Palace Theatre’s Evita
In this engaging production, the saga of Eva Perón is told with immediacy and power
“Rehab El Sadek: The Memory Palace” at Big Medium
The exhibit is a personal chamber about the artist’s past wherein she recovers memories but also reveals their fragility
Day Trips: Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge
Cajun history in the Old State Capitol
The New-Look Songwriters Across Texas Goes Beyond the Honky-Tonk
Local music show is back on the CW with its broadest lineup yet
Orson Welles Refracts Noir in The Lady From Shanghai
It’s the maverick director versus the world at AFS Cinema
Austin Dance India Calls on Us All to Respect Mother Earth
Multimedia, multicultural production Sacred Earth Stories appeals to the heart
What’cha Watchin’?
Screengrabs from the Chronicle staff
Houston Company Buys Texas Monthly
Enterprise Products LLC buys mag from equity firm Genesis Park
Rep. Jonathan Stickland’s Not Running Again and You Can Thank the Lord
Curtains down for the notoriously belligerent legislator, aka Sticky
Austin Monitor Publisher Merges With Glasshouse Policy
New venture hoping to expand journalism, research, public policy
Council Recap: Too Late to Turn Back Time
New taxes for lakeside homes, operators for Butler Pitch and Putt
Council Bites the Bullet, Helps the Homeless
Decriminalization advocates prevail, new shelter deal OK’d
