The AggreGAYtor: April 2
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
First Look: Salvation Pizza
Second outlet now open on Rainey
Sturgill Simpson Wows Austin City Limits
First of three performances in Austin this weekend
Q&A with Sen. Bernie Sanders
Sanders talks a possible presidential bid, income inequality
Jaimee Harris’ Wrecking Ball
“Wear something pretty and white”
Austin: Now With More Italy
Two new Italian options open now
Reanimating Bobby Jealousy
Southern pop comeback courtesy of Comedy Central
Eat the Vote
Local chefs nominated for Food and Wine award
Dueling National Anthems Tonight at House
International night as Aztex host Vancouver
Texas House Funnels HIV Funds to Abstinence Education
House passes measure diverting HIV funds to abstinence education
HavenCon Is Nigh
Finally a good excuse to drag out the spandex
Grand Jury: Fire UT Regent Hall
No charges over UT witch hunt, but a call for his removal
Austin Beer Guide Steps Right Up
Carnival party taps two debut brews
Aztex Thump Colorado Springs; Vancouver Up Next
Austin Aztex blank Colorado Springs, host Vancouver tomorrow
We Remember What the Dormouse Said
Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands
Adam and Joe Open the Movie Crypt in Austin
Everly and Hatchet directors drop by the Alamo
The AggreGAYtor: March 31
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Council: Committed to Committees
AFD and Libraries grilled and postponed
Video Premiere: The Blind Pets’ “TV Baby”
The treacherous path of a truck-driving bear
The Next Bush in Line
Split opinions on George P. Bush as “Latino Leader”
Untapped Festival Austin Untaps Beer List
Check off your brewery bucket list in one convenient location
Pancakes and Philanthropy at Kerbey Lane
Local chain making big donation for birthday
News Roundup: Jail, Traffic, & Politics
Video visitation under fire, again; traffic experiments
Alex Gibney Strikes Again
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief premieres
DVDanger: Digging Up the Marrow
Adam Green on the long and very personal path of his new feature
Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
Film Flam: Local Screens News
Mr. Kaplan closes Cine Las Americas, Ernie Cline scores big, and more
Baking From Back in the Day
Cheryl and Griffith Day visit Central Market
Tempering Fire
Boring down into a quote from Michael King’s “Firestarter” column
One in a Crowd: “Hit”
Dark comedy with Rooster Teeth connections needs crowdfunding
Shout OUT: Lex Keaton
These are the people in our gayborhood: Social Services Stud
The AggreGAYtor: March 27
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Get Hard
Send this one directly to comedy jail
Home
Jim Parsons and Rihanna pleasingly voice cartoon characters
Seymour: An Introduction
Ethan Hawke directs this doc about pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein
Wild Tales
Anthology film from Argentina finds the dark humor in six revenge stories
The Wrecking Crew
The great L.A. session band gets the doc treatment
Rey
Telugu romance
Komban
Tamil action film
Jil
Telugu drama
The Luv Doc: Spelling and Grammar
Dear Luv Doc, My friend always has to correct everybody’s spelling and grammar on Facebook. He does it at parties, too. What is wrong with him? – bustin caps I don’t know about you, Bustin, but it saddens me greatly whenever I see that a fundamental educational ball got dropped, and nothing is a more…
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Austin’s Zellner brothers make a wry heartbreaker
It Follows
A killer force is spread through sex, and it’s all very creepy and evocative
The Divergent Series: Insurgent
The kids are on the run – again
Council: Recycled Reconsiderations
Council deliberates, deliberately
Glorious Renewal
The Contemporary Austin gives new life to the place where it all began, Laguna Gloria
The Good Eye: Allies in the Industry
Giving Austin actresses a seat at the table
“The Superlative Light: Inside the Texas Petawatt Laser”
Photographer Robert Shults has your “stimulated emission of radiation” right here, pal
Gay Place: ConfessBunny
Spring brings new queer cheer
“Tom Sachs: Nuggets”
Tom Sachs’ new pop-culture sculptures take center stage at Lora Reynolds Gallery
March Hares
Hopping on the rabbit bandwagon
Day Trips: Sacred Tours, San Marcos
Walk in the footsteps of the Coahuiltecan people
Performers in Our Midst
In 1,000 Forest Gorillas in Kansas, primates inspire the art of living
The Hightower Report
Big Food a Big Hoax
Quote of the Week
“Imagine in 2017 a new president signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare.” – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz announcing his presidential bid Monday; on Tuesday he told the media he’ll be enrolling in the Affordable Care Act.
Playback: SXSW 2015: Turnt Up & Dialed Down
SXSW Music 2015 – that’s a wrap
Still All About the Money?
WDP hopes Endeavor will agree to stronger worker safety terms
Public Notice
So much to do, so much Austin
Salad Days Are Over
Vegan food’s next step at Bistro Vonish
Contested Territory
Fallout continues after Eastside businesses tagged with racist stickers
Headlines
City Council meets today (March 26) with a relatively light agenda but a few items that figure to raise some dust: the return of Downtown overnight concrete pours, the manager-at-risk contract for the ABIA parking garage, the “busking” ordinance, and lease renewal for Recycled Reads. See “Council: Recycled Reconsiderations.” Speaking of dust, it’s begun to…
Food-o-File
TV Dinners
Searching for the Disappeared
Families of missing Mexican students bring their story to the U.S.
Point Austin: Firestarter
If you want to protest institutional racism, pick an actual target
Gems for the Taking
The Austin Film Society programs French films noirs
Fundraiser Planned for Jumpolin
Fundraiser Planned for Jumpolin
Austin Aztex Season Opener
It’s on! The Austin Aztex inaugural pro season in USL has been a while coming, but it finally kicks off this Saturday at House Park (13th & Lamar), with our hometown boys taking on the Colorado Springs Switchbacks, a first-year expansion team, and one of four teams in USL that does not have an affiliation…
Help Desk
A drunken violation of digital privacy and how to minimize the damage
Do UT Frats Have a Race Problem?
Born on the 18th anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, Richard Reddick, an associate professor at UT-Austin, researches, among other things, diversity (or lack thereof) in higher education. Before becoming a professor, Reddick was a stellar student at UT in the early Nineties – a Plan II Honors…
Soccer Watch
Three different U.S. national teams are in action in Europe this week: The full national team – with a lot of newcomers in the squad – lost 3-2 at Denmark on Wednesday, and will take on Switzerland Tuesday (11am on Fox Sports). The under-20 team is there too, prepping for the U-20 World Cup, which…
The Zellners’ Beautiful Dreamer
The Zellner brothers mine urban legend in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
UT’s Student Government Winners Mix Substance With Satire
UT elects satirical candidates for student government
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ötzi the Iceman, who died 5,300 years ago and whose body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, was predisposed to heart disease and is the first documented case of infection by a Lyme disease bacterium. In 1928, William Frawley (Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy) was fired from the Broadway show That’s…
Not Clean Enough
New EPA standards could cause CenTex to miss the mark
Lege Lines: Brewing Up Beer Bills, Biz Lobby Smacks Tax Cuts, and More
The Lege brews up beer bills, the biz lobby slams Patrick’s tax cuts, and more
Bill of the Week
HB 2918: Villalba’s bill would restrict filming of police activity
Paying Out of Pocket for Autism
Needed treatment deemed “not cost-effective” by city insurer
SXSW Live Shot: Austin Music Awards
Sold-out extravaganza reiterates there’s no place like home
