Cover Stories
Understanding the Science Behind the Total Solar Eclipse
Front-row seat to a celestial show
How Austin Transformed Danny Brown
The Detroit wild card on getting his shit together (and finding H-E-B)
Old Settler’s Music Festival Announces Last-Minute 2024 Comeback
The Spring Pickin’ Party runs May 9-12, despite property sale plans
How The First Omen Broke the Curse of Legacy Sequels
Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith on creating a horror they believe in
UT Students Celebrate Israel in Block Party, While Others Call for Ceasefire
The largest pro-Israel college campus event stayed peaceful
Austin Psych Fest Announces Night Shows With the Zakary Thaks, METZ, Luna Li
As well as set times for the main fest at Far Out Lounge
Sci-Fi Legend Ronald D. Moore to be Honored at Austin Film Festival
Battlestar Galactica reviver wins top writing award
Art College 1994
Art College 1994 2023, NR, 118 min. Directed by Liu Jian, Voices by Dong Zijian, Red Ke, Jia Zhangke. Animated coming-of-age story about art students in China.
City Plans for Larger Live Music Fund Grants
Applications for the 2024 city program to open “very soon”
UT-Austin Lays Off People in 60 DEI-Related Positions
Senator threatens legal action if schools don’t comply with new law
Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup
Plus Luther Hotel updates, Elephant Rock petition, more
Austin FC Beats Banged-Up FC Dallas for First Win of Season
Club faces struggling San Jose Earthquakes next
Food, Inc. 2
Food, Inc. 2 2024, NR. Directed by Robert Kenner, Melissa Robledo, Starring Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan. Sequel to 2009 documentary Food, Inc. continues its investigation into corporate strangleholds on our food systems.
Ennio, il maestro
Ennio, il maestro 2024, NR, 156 min. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The director of Cinema Paradiso profiles the late composer who gifted him with such a memorable theme, the legendary Ennio Morricone, whose other credits include Days of Heaven and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Kim’s Video
Kim’s Video 2023, 85 min. Directed by David Redmon, Ashley Sabin. Documentary goes on a quest to hunt down the missing 55,000 tapes that were once the backbone of New York’s legendary Kim’s Video.
New Report Quantifies How Racism Impacts Black Austinites
And demands action from city government
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
The two iconic kaiju team up in this sequel
DogMan
A thief survives an abusive childhood to forge a soulful connection with canines
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
The legendary composer delivers his final performance in a stirring concert documentary
Lousy Carter
A charismatic David Krumholtz plays the titular lit professor
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Irish action-thriller about a retired assassin dragged back into a life of violence
Tillu Square
Telugu-language romantic crime comedy is the sequel to 2022’s DJ Tillu
Asphalt City
Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan star as NYC paramedics working a chaotic night shift
Review: Photokem, Half Ton Pet
Like the expectant sound of a symphony tuning up, the layered experimental rock of Photokem again and again swells to quizzical excitement. Bottle rocket whirs, acoustic guitar, and isolated orchestral instruments shoot off around the deliciously unhurried, Dean Blunt-deep vocals of Nana Acheampong on the quartet’s Half Ton Pet. He moves all over, flexing from…
Neko Case, the Urban Cultural Fest, and More Crucial Concerts
Live sounds for the week ahead
We Have an Issue: Everything You Need to Know About The Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin Awards
In this issue we kick off another Best of Austin Awards cycle. For 34 years, we’ve been asking our readers to vote for their favorite people, places, and things. Here’s how it works. The Readers Poll is divided into two parts. In the first round (March 28-April 8) – aka the nominating round – you’ll…
The Verde Report: Austin FC Needs Copa Tejas Now More Than Ever
It’s been six months without a win. Can ATXFC reverse their luck against FC Dallas?
Egg Hunts, Trans Visibility, and More Community Events
Meet your fellow Austinites as these goings-on
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Paxton’s Problems Go Poof: Ken Paxton is once again avoiding a jury trial on corruption charges. The attorney general cut a deal with state prosecutors on Monday to resolve the nine-year-old felony fraud charges against him, KUT’s Lauren McGaughy reported. The agreement will require Paxton to complete 100 hours of community service in Collin County,…
Travis County Judicial System Prepares for Enforcement (or Not) of SB 4
Adeola Ogunkeyede, Travis County’s chief public defender, is asking the county’s judges to consider how they would respond to a frightening prospect: the possibility that federal courts approve Texas’ anti-immigrant law, Senate Bill 4. SB 4 would allow the Texas judicial system to take control of U.S. immigration by authorizing the arrest of people suspected…
The Austin Chronic: Cheech and Chong and Toking With a Troll
Stoner icons materialize for surprise C-boy’s appearance
T.C. Broadnax Selected as Austin’s Next City Manager
City Council to initiate hiring process next week
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, March 29 – April 4
Review: Stephen Mills’ POE / A Tale of Madness Is Pitch Perfect
Ballet Austin brings the master of the macabre to life (before killing him again)
Day Trips: The Big Thicket National Preserve, Kountze
One of the first preserves turns 50 against all odds
The Luv Doc: What Grindr Is Not
It’s the singular artistic achievement of the Eighties band Escape
Opinion: Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard
A writer in her eighth year of solitary confinement laments widespread neglect of the experiences of women in prison
Qmmunity: Be Fur Real
Chatting with local trans pet play titleholders in Austin kink community
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Irish language has at least 20 words for “hole.” More than 97% of U.S.-grown cotton is GMO. And cotton production is responsible for 18% of worldwide pesticide use and 25% of total insecticide use. Late in life, Dolley Madison liked to heft her elderly husband onto her back and romp around the room with…
Travis County Aims to Allow Defenders at Bail Hearings
The defunct program has faced a two-year uphill battle
Review: Alejandro Escovedo, Echo Dancing
Duke Ellington whammied up a half-century oeuvre that he spent the same career revisiting, revamping, and remixing. Guitar-strapped, not piano-side, Alejandro Escovedo, 73, plies his familial trade longer than that, with writing credits stretching back to the Seventies. Across at least four of those decades in Austin – from orchestra bandleader to Buick MacKane getaway…
Movies, Comedy, Books, and More Recommended Arts Events
Find an art that fits your tastes
Review: Creekbed Carter Hogan, Creekbed Carter
If some see folk as a tradition-focused discipline belonging to decades past, Creekbed Carter Hogan stands as living proof of the genre’s future-forward dynamism. Released via Arkansas-based “unAmericana” label Gar Hole Records, the trans songwriter’s self-titled release packs enough open-road mysticism, brokenhearted yearning, and laugh-out-loud wit to fill their signature pinch-front cowboy hat. In the…
Review: Wonder Women of Country, Willis, Carper, Leigh
A spate of shared bills brought them together, but the Wonder Women of Country have cemented their partnership with a kaleidoscope of throwback country soundscapes and intricate harmonies. On their debut six-song EP titled after each of their last names, the Texas-rooted supergroup – Kelly Willis, Melissa Carper, and Brennen Leigh – uses their combined…
At Wit’s End: Bob Byington on His Dry New Comedy, Lousy Carter
“My career puzzles people, including myself”
Texas Maternal Mortality Task Force Hasn’t Counted Abortion Death Cases for 10 Years
Committee members discovered longtime omission this year
