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Virtual Brands and Pop-Ups Are Making Southeast Asian Street Food Accessible to Austin
Downloading hawker culture
Tribeca Film Festival Review: Lynch/Oz
Six different paths from Kansas to Wild at Heart
Q&A: Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan
Long-awaited Existential Reckoning tour hits Austin next week
Austin Filmmakers Take Their Three Headed Beast to Tribeca
Open relationship drama gets its world premiere
Adrian Lipscombe at Canje, Grounds & Hounds for Austin Pets Alive!, Provision Dining House Returns, Snoozing for Pride, and Here Comes the Bourbon Brawl
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Valleyesque: Not Just Weird for Weird’s Sake
Inside the pages of the new anthology from Fernando A. Flores
Chloe Okuno Explores Horror and Gaslighting in Watcher
Terror’s rising director on the quiet perils of showing emotion
Once “Outsiders,” the Music World Is Now at BLK ODYSSY’s Fingertips
Collabs with heroes & new Earthchild Ent. label signal ascent
ATX TV Festival 2022: Griselda
True-crime series promises a new side of Sofía Vergara
Austin Artists Project and Playbill Bring Inclusive Austin-Born Musical Showcase to Lincoln Center
Sing Out! goes from local pandemic production to the Big Apple
Cine Las Americas Returns
A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind
Could It Be That Donald Fagen Has Finally Learned to Vibe? And if So, What Does That Mean?
Steely Dan reels in the years at ACL Live
Van Boven Wins at Texas Supreme Court
Justices rule Medical Board violated doctor’s rights
Five Great Gifts For Father’s Day
It’s almost time to honor your paterfamilias again
ATX TV Festival 2022: Patrick Somerville on Station Eleven
Showrunner talks adaptation and pandemic TV
ATX TV Festival 2022: Walker: Independence
First look at the new CW spinoff in the Old West
ATX TV Festival 2022: Sydney Sweeney
Euphoria talks keeping busy, and playlists for characters
ATX TV Festival 2022: Queer for Fear
New Shudder series gives queer audiences a genre to call their own
ATX TV Festival 2022: Bill Lawrence on Life, Death, and Scrubs
A rewind of our 2020 interview with the series creator
ATX TV Festival 2022: Baron and Toluca
First look at the UFO indie pilot from Roswell stars
Julia Scotti Is Funny That Way
Comic Julia Scotti chats comedy ahead of aGLIFF documentary screening
Wunderkeks Builds Safe Spaces With Baked Goods
Local queer-immigrant-owned company shares love through cookies
Benediction
The closeted life of British World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon
Crimes of the Future
Cronenberg’s return to body horror is, well, Cronenbergian
Eiffel
A made-up romance provides a solid foundation for this engineering story
Dashcam
POV horror comedy punishes you with the real worst person in the world
We Are the Thousand
Foo Fighters fans become the world’s biggest band
Prithviraj
New biopic of legendary Hindu warrior king Prithviraj Chauhan
Wolf Hound
World War II airtime action with genuine period planes
Major
Biopic of a fallen hero of the Mumbai attacks
Hustle
Sandler as a basketball scout who finds his shot at redemption
Watcher
Stalker thriller is coldly gorgeous and creepily enthralling
After Blue
French sci-fi weirdness finds a new Eden
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
Get a stage-side view of one of the great music festivals
Deep in the Heart
Texas’ diverse and precious wildlife gets the documentary it deserves
Frank and Penelope
Neo-exploitation flick crashes a bunch of Texas tropes together
Chronophage on Their Salty-Sweet, Self-Titled Third LP
The bicoastal band explores “a place where I am in love and the world is ending”
After Long Labor, an Integral Care Union Is Born
County’s largest mental health provider comes to terms with workers
After Two Years Online, ATX TV Festival Schedules a Weekend of Must-See TV
It’s the same time, same channel, but different fest for founders Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland
Scrubs Star Judy Reyes Looks Back as the Cast Reunites at ATX TV Festival
“I can’t even get over the fact that it’s been 20 years”
Faster Than Sound: Nine Records That Inspired Austin Author Fernando A. Flores’ Valleyesque
From Pauline Oliveros to Big Boys, sounds behind the surreal South Texas-rooted story collection
Central Texas Pig Rescue Is a Haven for Abandoned Pigs
Gone to hog heaven
Fin, Fur, Feather, and Wonder in Deep in the Heart
New nature documentary explores the diversity and fragility of Texas wildlife
NAACP Blindsided by Condemnation of Longtime Offices
After spending a year in a portable office, the NAACP feels the rug pulled out from under them
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, June 3-9
The Verde Report: After May Struggles, Austin FC Remains Confident
FIFA international break gives club a chance to catch its breath
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer’s markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of June 2, 2022
Five Things That Are Must-Sees at ATX TV Fest
Dark Winds Paramount, Thu., June 2, 7pm Robert Redford has spent over three decades trying to bring Tony Hillerman’s Navajo Mysteries books to the screen, starting with the commercial and critical failure of 1991’s The Dark Wind, and his more lauded 2002 PBS Mystery! version of the seventh of the 18-book series, Skinwalkers. Third time…
Taking a Look at the Neighborhoods That Will Be Changed the Most by Project Connect
Diving into the iterations of the public transit redesign
Arts Events
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
Austin Desperately Needs Lifeguards but Has Resisted Calls for a Wage Increase
Lifeguards in limbo
Who Will Guide Project Connect Into the Station?
As leaders leave the station we look at who will drive the public transit redesign
Community Events
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids’ activities, and more
A Special Session on Guns? Reform Advocates Are Wary
Nonprofit Texas Gun Sense responds to Uvalde
Austin at Large: The Big Fat Blue Lying Line
Nothing about Uvalde should surprise us in Austin about the credibility of police
The Common Law
Crazy high property taxes? Challenging your valuation at the ARB hearing
Day Trips: The Traveling Man, Dallas
Sculptures along the expressway keep Dallas weird
Headlines / Quote of the Week
What’s Going On: New footage from Uvalde that ABC News shared on Tuesday seems to disprove the prior Texas Department of Public Safety claim that officers delayed storming in because they thought the gunman was barricaded alone. The video captures a 911 dispatcher saying via radio that a child “is advising he is in the…
The Luv Doc: Late-Night Texts
NORMAL PEOPLE TURN OFF THEIR PHONES WHEN THEY GO TO SLEEP
Austin-Based Justice Center Will Get Funding From NFL
Texas Appleseed to get a portion of $6.5 Million
Public Notice: Setting an Agenda for Land Use
City Council continues to make progress on its renewed push to improve land use regulations, focusing on two proposals that’ll be on the agenda next week (June 9) regarding properties along the city’s priority transit corridors. One is a largely technical fix to the city’s vertical mixed-use ordinance, which is the city’s most successful density…
Opinion: 19 Children Are Dead. Someone Should Do Something.
A hospital-based pediatrician explains steps we can take to prevent the next tragedy
We Have an Issue: Always Be Bustling
Pride events, cultural fests, celeb sightings, and Project Connect progress fill a packed calendar
Opinion: An Open Letter to Chip Roy, U.S. Representative, Member of Congress
A retired principal urges Chip Roy to reconsider his position on the free availability of military-style automatic weapons to civilians
Travis County Declares an Opioid Crisis
The declaration comes with funding for harm reduction
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
If you looked at butterfly wings from the genus Morpho, they would appear to be a deep blue color. But what you’d be seeing wouldn’t be blue pigment, but nanoscopic structures called “lamellae” that diffract visible light and only show blue. There are more Lebanese in Brazil than there are in Lebanon. Bram Stoker, author…
Video of APD Use of Force on East SIxth Goes Viral
Elisha Wright’s attorney says police version of events is wrong
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Emily Wells, Dwight Yoakam, Sir Woman, Tony Kamel, Jake Lloyd, and more recommended shows
Qmmunity: Queer Texan Pride Rides Again
Qmmunity rustles up queer events all over Central Texas
Jack White Swings for the Fences at Austin Sandlot
Out there at the Long Time, the bats are wood, the home team wears wool, and the scoreboard has no wires – the runs for each inning being tallied by hand-numbered cards hung on a nail. It’s a field of dreams, not forgotten by time, but created in reverence to one – or several –…
Garrison at Fairmont Gets Four Stars, Eden East Celebrates Tomatoes, Rosen’s Makes Salt & Time Bagels, Turnstile Adds Lunch Service, and OMG You Need to Try Those Sprinkles-and-la-Barbecue Scones
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Review: Trouble Puppet Theater Co.’s Undark: A Radioactive Puppet Play
Henson-backed world premiere recounts a workers’ rights fight
