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As Abbott Blows Off COVID, Austin Just Wants to Stay Alive
The unmasking commences and the governor goes after his own constituents yet again
Rondo and Bob Nominated for … a Rondo!
Austin film doc up for award, and you can vote!
SXSW Film Review: Without Getting Killed or Caught
Guy Clark’s life, entwined with his wife and best friend
SXSW Interview: Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina are Fine (Thanks For Asking)
How a can-do attitude enabled a rapid pandemic production
SXSW Film Review: Soy Cubana
Spirited doc transcends borders through a capella
Five Tasty Sauces & Dressings & Marinades
New condiments for the best flavors in your kitchen
SXSW, Oscilloscope, and Mailchimp Come Together to #SupportTheShorts
South by selections available online from today
SXSW Interview: Inbetween Girl Director Mei Makino
Down with Sixteen Candles says the Visions award-winner
Minari Tops Austin Film Critics Association Awards
Nomadland, Promising Young Woman win big
Austin FC Announces 2021 Season Schedule
Austin’s first-ever MLS team hits the road for first 7
SXSW Film Review: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Jeffery Robinson’s captivating lecture on America’s shared legacy
SXSW Film Review: Through the Plexi-Glass: Last Days at the San José
Liz Lambert’s self-portrait of Austin’s complex gentrification
Tom Petty, Folk Horror Lead SXSW Audience Awards
The Fallout is this year’s big winner
New Fortune’s Kaput, There’s an Otoko x Nixta, Bento Picnic’s A-Grillin’, Mudbugs are Back, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Texas Opens COVID-19 Vaccines to All Adults Beginning March 29
Anyone age 16 and older will be eligible, says DSHS
APD Veteran Named Interim Police Chief as City Launches Speedy Search
Joe Chacon not a “placeholder,” says City Manager Cronk
SXSW Film Review: Mau
Portrait of the designer has no room for criticism
SXSW Film Review: Sound of Violence
Music-driven thriller doesn’t quite hit all the right notes
SXSW Film Review: Under the Volcano
When the island of Montserrat was the center of the music biz
SXSW Music Review: NPR’s Tiny Desk Charms & Swaggers
Coziness tipped into the sublimely surreal
SXSW Panel Recap: Live Music in Venues – What’s Next?
Summer’s up in the air for many venues, but the fall looks bullish
SXSW Music Review: Northern Expo Perfects the Concept of a Remote Showcase With Arctic Circle Concert Film
Ozas, Oter, I See Rivers, and Heave Blood & Die rep the Arctic Circle
SXSW Music Review: Nine Mile Records & Touring Serves Up Tacos, Lone Stars, and Roots Galore at the Continental Club
Welcome to the Virtual Live Music Capital of the World
SXSW Short and Sweet: “Learning Tagalog With Kayla”
Austin filmmaker tells how she made an accidental quarantine short
SXSW Music Review: Heavy Extremes Fuel Tokyo Sessions
A revolving door of soundscapes
SXSW Music Review: Yard Act, Do Nothing, Squid, and the Art of the British Post-Punk Soliloquy
SXSW Music’s bread-n-butter: cutting edge UK rebellion
SXSW Film Review: WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
How hubris was baked into the mega-startup
SXSW Film Review: Offseason
Mickey Keating goes to the coast for cosmic horror
SXSW Music Review: Genre Tripping with British Music Embassy & ATC Live
GOA Express, Anna B Savage, Katy J. Pearson, and Nayana Iz
SXSW Film Review: R#J
New Romeo and Juliet may divide like Capulets and Montagues
SXSW Film Review: The Spine of Night
Rotoscoped fantasy layers myth, legend, and gore
SXSW Music Review: Finland – The Happiest Country in the World – Presents the Showcase Must Go On
“South by Southwest, I said put your fucking hands up!”
SXSW Film Review: Lily Topples the World
Prize-winning doc may be the perfect SXSW film
SXSW Film Review: The Hunt for Planet B
We’re gonna need a bigger telescope …
SXSW Film Review: How it Ends
Apocalypse-lite comedy isn’t light on heart or humor
SXSW Film Review: Violation
Feminist horror stabs deep into the Jacobean Revenger
SXSW Film Review: The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Period Australian drama shows our modern sins are old
LGBTQIA Advocacy Groups Navigate COVID Restrictions While Keeping Texans Engaged This Lege Session
Equality Texas, TENT go online to boost queer, trans voices at Capitol
SXSW Short and Sweet: “Love is Only Just a Death Away”
Bára Anna Stejskalová gives stop-motion life to a lonely worm
SXSW Film Review: I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking)
Quarantine-made film avoids the q-word – to its benefit
SXSW Film Review: Inbetween Girl
Texas-set coming-of-age drama is witty, wonderful, and timely
SXSW Film Review: Ayar
Experimental drama is bound by standard cinema roots
SXSW Film Review: The Feast
This horror’s entrée is delicious, but the dessert is lacking
SXSW Film Review: Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
Biodoc of pioneering musician is best when she speaks for herself
SXSW Film Review: Alien On Stage
Classic horror and British pantomime delightfully mix
SXSW Film Jury Awards Announced
The Fallout, Lily Topples the World take big wins
AG Rugby & Paul Oakenfold Kick Off Season on Saturday
UK spinner lands in Bastrop and reps second biggest British sport
MLS Boss to Matthew McConaughey: We Want Austin FC at the “Front Porch” for the League
Commissioner, ATXFC co-owner outline the future of soccer
Last Call
Jeremy Piven proves maybe you should go home
Long Weekend
Downcast drunk meets manic pixie girl. Can true love prosper?
The Courier
A forgotten Cold War spy story gets a very British, very tragic retelling
Dark State
Nutty conspiracy theory flick is Pizzagate-style nonsense
Keep an Eye Out
Quentin Dupieux serves a delicious slice of nothing in this police anti-procedural
Long Live Rock… Celebrate The Chaos
Long Live Rock… Celebrate The Chaos 2021, NR, 83 min. Directed by Jonathan McHugh. Not reviewed at press time. The rumors of the death of hard rock have been greatly exaggerated, as the talking heads from Metallica, Korn, RATM, and more, plus massive crowds at metal festivals captured over several years and continents, loudly confirm.
My Brother’s Keeper
Pray the PTSD away!
Mohan Kumar Fans
Indian comedy spoofs audition show culture
SXSW Music Review: London’s Close Encounter Club Levitates Babeheaven, Sorry, and Weird Milk
Probing sonic atmosphere on the square mile’s northside
Blue Starlite Gives Some SXSW-Selected Shorts Some Big Screentime
From the festival to the drive-in
Rock & Roll Will Never Die: Locals Take “Safe in Sound” Pledge
Live music ecosystem continues to fight the power (and COVID)
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, March 19-25
Campaigners, Firefighters Help Residents With Burst Pipes
Austin needs water, still
Day Trips: Fort Parker State Park
Park between Mexia and Groesbeck is renowned for its sunsets
Artist Madeline Irvine Marks COVID Time With the Pandemic Clock
The Austin artist has turned a daily practice into a way to count down the lockdown
APD Officer Indicted in 2020 Shooting of Michael Ramos
Christopher Taylor charged with first-degree murder
Soccer Watch
And So It Begins Austin FC plays its very first game this Friday, March 19 – a preseason scrimmage against OKC Energy of the second division USL. I would’ve said “exhibition game,” except it’s closed to all spectators, as will be the March 25 game against Louisville City, another USL club who just bumped off…
Unpopular No. 2 Likely to Lead APD
Chief of Staff not popular within APD or with local justice advocates
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer’s markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of March 18, 2021
As Crises Abound, AISD Plans for Fewer Teachers
Board considers dire financial projections, falling enrollment, charter competition, and a struggling special ed program
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
Qmmunity: Queer Rights and Queer Lives at the Texas Lege
News from Austin’s Pink Dome, plus this weekend’s top queer events
Farmhouse Delivery Brings the Best of Local Restaurants to Your Home
Take part in Project Takeout
The Only Constant on Congress Is Change
Liz Lambert chronicles being both sides of the gentrification debate in Through the Plexi-Glass
Opinion: White Privilege in Austin’s Unhoused Community
Alberta Phillips, chair of the ECHO Board of Governors, explains the kind of racism that can lock Black people into a lifetime of living unsheltered
Support Asian-Owned Eateries in Austin
Eight small restaurants we love to visit
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Stays the Course on Mask Precautions
Steady on safety guidelines, Austin promoters and club owners juggle an unclear concert calendar
Austin at Large: Blue Blood, From a Turnip
In voting-averse Texas, how can the “election integrity” juice be worth the squeeze?
NBA Star and Music-Maker Chris Bosh Sets Up Shop in the ATX
The future NBA Hall of Fame forward wants it all
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Bertha Sadler Means, an Austin civil rights leader, died on Tuesday, March 16, at 100 years old. The namesake of AISD’s Bertha Sadler Means Young Women’s Leadership Academy, Means was a lifelong educator and protested to end segregation in local schools. She helped co-found St. James’ Episcopal Church in East Austin, in addition to serving…
“Dogs Heal in Borderlandia: Andrea Muñoz Martinez” at Link & Pin Gallery
In her solo exhibition at Link & Pin Gallery, the artist provides canine companions for a most colorful landscape
Lege Ticker: Someone Has to Pay the Post-Storm Electric Bill
The price is right?
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The point farthest east in the U.S. is in Alaska, specifically Semisopochnoi and the dozen or so Aleutian islands that are so far west that they’re actually east. Semisopochnoi is the closest to the 180th degree longitude. Snakes shed their skin all at once. Lizards shed skin a little at a time. The Earth’s moon…
The Luv Doc: Welsh
A strong case for an easier language like Mandarin
Eastern Crescent’s Path to Get Past Pandemic Is Rough
Finding a way out proves elusive for East Austin and beyond
We Have an Issue: Speeding Toward Normal
In this week’s issue: How Greg Abbott’s Great Unmasking puts state and local leadership at odds yet again, plus the SXSW virtual experience
“Our House, Our Rules”: Austin Restaurants School the Governor on Limited Government
Local eateries make plain – mask requirements aren’t going anywhere
Siete’s New Mercado, Desert Door’s Twisted Cocktails, Indie Brewing’s Song Contest, ZaZa’s Springtime Pizzazz, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
