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Council Works on Budgeting Around a Steep Deficit
Looking into the causes of a predicament that somehow snuck up on the city
Tribeca Dispatch: Our Hero, Balthazar
Texas-made absurdist dramedy blows up the “crisis in masculinity”
Tribeca Dispatch: Long Live the State
Inside the sketch comedy troupe that changed the game … eventually
Photographer Pooneh Ghana Launches Record Label With Music Industry Veterans
TODO Records signs Porcelain, Annabelle Chairlegs, and more
Dance Review: Interiors Grants Permission to Feel
KDH Dance Company offers ASMR for the soul
Tribeca Festival Dispatch: Hal & Harper
Cooper Raiff’s indie TV family drama expresses childhood trauma
Texas Performing Arts Summons All the Muses for its 2025-26 Season
Jazz masters, puppet pioneers, and comedic brass for the new year
Where to Get Your Conchas in Southeast Austin
A hyperlocal look at five panaderías
Underground Orange
Underground Orange 2024. Directed by Michael Taylor Jackson. An American stranded in Argentina falls in with a group of sexy radicals who plot to kidnap the U.S. ambassador.
Leo
Leo 2023, PG, 102 min. Directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel, Voices by Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider. Animated family film about a lizard (voiced by Sandler) getting on in years who decides to live a little.
Rampo Noir
Rampo Noir 2005, NR, 134 min. Directed by Akio Jissoji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satō, Suguru Takeuchi, Starring Tadanobu Asano, Mikako Ichikawa, Yumi Yoshiyuki, Ryuhei Matsuda, Hiroki Narimiya. Macabre Japanese anthology film is based on works by Edogawa Ranpo.
Getting Wet and Wild With Dangerous Animals
Yellowstone‘s Hassie Harrison swims with sharks for her new horror
The Gruesome and the Infernal Bring Her Back
The Philippou brothers discuss staying small for their big movie
Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup
El Cosmico closes, Ottine opens, and more travel news and events
Song Premiere: Curse Mackey Skulks Around Red River in “Vertigo Ego” Video
Darkwave single previews new album Imaginary Enemies
Dangerous Animals
Australian survivor horror on the high seas
The Phoenician Scheme
Wes Anderson caper is a lovely lark
Ballerina
John Wick spinoff stars Ana de Armas as a dancing assassin
The Life of Chuck
Mike Flanagan finds Stephen King’s tender heart
Thug Life
Tamil-language gangster film
Pavements
A fiction-documentary hybrid about pioneering indie rockers Pavement
I Don’t Understand You
Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells comedic thriller
The Ritual
Two priests team up for an exorcism
Adventures for Adults Abound at These Summer Camps
Your inner child will thank you for the nostalgia – and the knowledge
Cutting the Ribbon on a Renovated Givens Pool
Named after Austin’s first Black dentist, the pool returns for summer 2025
The Texas Legislative Session Is Over. Here’s the Elephant in the Room
This year, the Texas Legislature’s 140-day session lined up almost exactly with the Trump administration’s first stretch. Texas legislators gaveled in January 14, and six days later, Donald Trump began his second term as U.S. president. Republicans at the national and state level have described Trump’s win as a mandate from the American people: to…
Day Trips: Ottine Mineral Springs, Gonzales
“Taking the waters” comes to Ottine
Under One of the World’s Most Extreme Abortion Bans, Texas Doubles Down
And also clarifies what a “lifesaving” abortion is
Exploded Drawing’s 64th, Double Trouble’s Second, Sagebrush’s Fifth, and More Crucial Concerts
It isn’t all about numbers in this week’s recommended shows
Texas Schools to Get a Bit More Cash and a Lot More Christian Nationalism
Assessing the 89th Legislature’s effect on public education
Opinion: License Plate Readers Make Us All Less Safe
Austin’s pilot program is ineffective at solving crimes, endangers vulnerable community members, and represents an expansion of police surveillance power under rising authoritarianism
Sen. Sarah Eckhardt Analyzes “Gunfire and Fireworks” of This Legislative Session
A Q&A with Austin’s progressive state senator
Qmmunity: For Those We’ll Never Meet
A much-needed mission reframing after Lege losses hit home
A Medley of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills That Are About to Become Law
The Lege didn’t lose interest in restricting queerness this year
Jumping the Shark in This Weekend’s Recommended Arts & Culture Events
Multiple ways to get high … on art
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Big Beautiful Bill: Trump’s disgustingly named “big beautiful bill” is big, all right. If passed in its current form, it will add $2.4 trillion to the U.S. deficit, according to an analysis this week from the Congressional Budget Office. Most of the money will be spent on tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich, surprise!…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A group of ostriches is known as a flock, pack, or herd, but a more whimsical term is a wobble. Joey Ramone once asked Bruce Springsteen to write a song for the Ramones. In response, Springsteen wrote “Hungry Heart,” but in the long run he decided to keep that song for himself. Some say high-context…
The Verde Report: Austin FC Hopes to Take Advantage of Forgiving MLS Structure
Coach Estévez has his eye on the long game
Keeping Our Eye on the Week’s Recommended Arts Events
Art and culture abounds, even on the weekdays
Crosstalk: Redbud Ice House Comes and Goes, Veteran Animator Lance Myers Launches an Art Show, and More Culture News
Plus H-E-B helps HOME and Blues on the Green
Album Review: Mobley’s We Do Not Fear Ruins
One-man band resists exile on futuristic concept album
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, June 6-12
The Common Law
What questions should I ask when hiring a lawyer?
Theatre Review: Unbury Your Gays Fixes the Future
Broad Theatre’s production reveals false histories
The Luv Doc: Cool Mom Blues
Mickey’s Big Mouths are sort of the perfect trailer park beverage
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
