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Looking Back at the Corporate Comedy Classic Office Space
Mike Judge’s defining depiction of corporate America enters the Texas Film Hall of Fame
Five Quintessentially Texan Things To Do In Austin
Drink spicy beer, eat brisket, dance your heart out
ATX Television Festival Asks You to Dare Me
USA’s new cheerleading drama added to fest’s season 8
Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas Plan to Continue Their Antics
Proposed Flow Meter Bill could burden craft breweries
Flamingo Cantina Opens CBD Bodega and Coffee Shop
Flamingo Hemp offers various hemp oil products and espresso drinks
Q Toys Suspends Toy Recycling Program, Seeks Community Feedback
Ask not what a Fleshjack can do for you, ask what you can do for a Fleshjack
SXSW Music Rounds Up Last Wave of Talent
Bully, Khalid, Car Seat Headrest, Lizzo, and Billie Eilish join fest
15 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at SXSW 2019
A few words about some of our favorite films coming to the fest
12 Can’t-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW
Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing
Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Lay Out Legislative Agenda
“Trust. Respect. Access.” campaign combines progressive forces
Ice Pick’s Pies Are Warming Up This Cold Town
Artisanal baker delivers Austin the savory and the sweet
Garrison Brothers Distillery Announces Semifinalists in Texas Bourbon Bartender Competition
Five of Austin’s top bartenders compete to win $10,000 prize
Fader Fort Announces SXSW Lineup
Omar Apollo, Charly Bliss, Megan Thee Stallion, and Lil Gotit on deck
DoorDash Celebrates Its Sustainability and Hunger Efforts With SXSW Party
Queue the line: Free food and booze from Torchy’s Tacos and Project DASH
Our Guide to Austin’s Best Farmers’ Markets Near You
Shop local, farm-fresh produce every day of the week
Jeb! Trains His Energy on Mastery
Please clap for Bush’s ambitious yet familiar SXSW EDU pitch
Our #1 Friend Crushes at SXSW 2019
Eight panelists we want to be our SXBFFs
Zach Theatre Lands Terrence McNally World Premiere
Tony-winning playwright revises Fire and Air into new drama
The Sun Machine Visualizes a “Body by the Water” in New Video
Melodic ATX psych tribe soundtracks soul possession
Music Is on the Menu Web Series Kicks Off With Ramen Tatsu-ya Chef and DJ Jester
Kid Koala and DJ Jester play premiere show at North Door on March 9
CatVideoFest
CatVideoFest 2024, NR, 73 min. Directed by Various. Whatever your fancy, there’s probably a cat video here to satisfy it.
Hot Luck Fest Reveals 2019 Chef Lineup & First Wave of Music Acts
Buy that Whole Enchilada pass before they sell out
Travis County District Attorney’s Office Under Fire in New Court Filing
First Assistant D.A. accused of “possible defamation”
Dungeon Family Headlines SXSW’s Free Outdoor Stage
Big Boi & Co. rolling into Auditorium Shores next Friday
Queer Lit: Gina Marie Guadagnino’s Debut Combines Lesbian Romance and Historical Fiction
The Parting Glass makes for an engaging, at times cheesy, read
VINYL Beauty Bar Puts a New Spin on the Salon Experience
Rock & roll couple’s dream isn’t just about cutting hair
Michelle Obama, and All Who Love Her
Becoming tour brings first lady’s grace to her Austin fans
Noname Makes a Name for Herself at Emo’s
Spoken-word rapper spits poetic justice
The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019
Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer
Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup
Mardi Gras to St. Paddy’s and much, much more
Fighting With My Family
Wrestling biopic of breakthrough WWE superstar Paige
Climax
Gaspar Noé’s acid freakout dance-a-thon teaches us that drugs are bad, m’kay
The Iron Orchard
Texas wildcatter literary classic is a sometimes too-faithful adaptation
To Dust
Two men and a pig become more than porcine comedy in this tender and cunning discussion of death
Greta
Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert play cat-and-mouse in this glorious potboiler
Hotel by the River
Semi-improvised South Korean family drama is as much about pauses as what it spoken
The Hole in the Ground
Something evil in the Irish countryside
Activists Say Austin Public Library Policy Change Is Overdue
Disturbing the library
Oops!
In the Feb. 22 story “Govalle Rallies to Save Pecan Grove,” we reported in error that the Historic Landmark Commission had concluded that the Henninger house on Tillery Street did not merit preservation. In fact, city staff intended to make that recommendation to the HLC at its Jan. 28 meeting, which was canceled because the…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of February 28, 2019
City, UT Agree to Change Red River’s Flow
One of central Austin’s main thoroughfares to be realigned and reconstructed
One in a Crowd
Austin filmmakers need your help funding new films
Austin Startup Home Run Dugout Steps Up to the Plate
Pre-booking is open for the Dell Diamond facility in advance of baseball’s opening day
T. Don Hutto Detention Center Still Open
Controversial private prison contracts directly with ICE to house women seeking asylum
Qmmunity: Let’s Get Political
Guiding the city’s Queer Commission, plus cherry-picked events to queer your week
Lege Lines: Do It for the Kids
House Dems lay out school finance plan
Behind the Buzzwords: Diving Deeper at SXSW EDU
Panels that highlight challenges and strategies shaping the Mendez turnaround plan
Judges Not Ready to Endorse Public Defender Plan
Proposed office’s future even more uncertain
The Challenge of Playing Living People in Zach Theatre’s Notes From the Field
The cast discusses how hard it can be getting into the skin of living people in Anna Deavere Smith’s play
John Lee Hancock Heads to the Texas Film Hall of Fame
A writer, a director, and a writer/director
Snapshot – Inside Hopscotch: Light and Sound
This is the immersive art experience that’s all over your Instagram feed
Ground Floor Theatre’s black do crack
In this new solo show, writer-performer Florinda Bryant shatters the myth that black women must go it alone
Faster Than Sound: KVRX Launches the Largest College Radio Festival
KVRX station manager Gab Soong starts the largest ever student-run radio fest, national phone theft ring uncovered from ACL Fest, and Big Thief’s Buck Meek settles down outside the city
TexARTS’ Xanadu
This musical comedy embrace of Eighties pop culture is served up with all the energy, excess, and extravagance the decade deserves
Here Are Your 2018/19 Austin Music Award Winners
Best band, musician, song, radio station, and more Top 10s chosen by you
Denise Elliott Jones: “Does It Match the Sofa?” at the Butridge Gallery
This divine Texas artist is straight-up messing with the fabric of reality
Day Trips: New Monuments, Houston
Twenty-five artists reimagine modern monuments
Signs of Trouble and of Hope at Mendez Middle School
In-district charter seeks to turn around a campus’ longtime struggles
Office Space Star David Herman Is the Real Michael Bolton
“Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks!”
Headlines
Watson Boosts I-35: Austin Sen. Kirk Watson filed a suite of bills this week “to fund the transformation of I-35 in Travis County,” but also to increase transportation funding statewide. Watson’s menu of options includes managed toll lanes on I-35, an increased state gas tax, local-option fuel taxes and registration fees, and eliminating current restrictions…
Dive Deeper Into the World of Mezcal in Austin
It’s agave all day at these local bars
Gary Cole Was the Original Horrible Boss in Office Space
“Didn’t you get the memo?”
AISD Moves Forward on Three Lingering Issues
School board’s busy, busy night
Point Austin: Signing On to a Green New Deal
Doggett in defense of concrete steps, not “absolute purity”
“I Believe You’d Get Your Ass Kicked Saying Somethin’ Like That, Man.”
Re-read our original Office Space review
Community Survey Proves Austinites Love Austin
We like us, we still really like us
Texas Film Awards 2019
The who, what, where of the biggest night in Texas cinema
Spider House Saga Goes to Court
Judge hears motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit
Luv Doc: Critical, Urgent Texts
Confession: The Luv Doc hates texting
Abortion Clinic Displaced by Crisis Pregnancy Center
Whole Woman’s Health will now be the new home to Austin LifeCare
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The exterior of the TV show Sanford and Son was shot at Joe’s Junk Shop, 10659 W. Magnolia in North Hollywood. You can buy insulation that is made of 85% recycled blue jeans and cotton. This diverts 200 tons of waste from landfills per month. Before he and his wife Marie Antoinette were beheaded, Louis…
Quote of the Week
“‘We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.’ Benito Mussolini” – Texas’ own U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who had D.C. and Twitter mighty puzzled on Sunday with his social media shout-out to Il Duce
