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Empowering the Syrian Refugee Community One Mediterranean Recipe at a Time
A mother’s story of falafel and family
Hot Luck Festival 2019
May 23-26, 2019 www.hotluckfest.com Founded by James Beard Award-winner Aaron Franklin, Guerilla Suit principal and Mohawk owner James Moody, and Mike Thelin, co-founder of Feast Portland, this Memorial Day weekend festival celebrates the intersection of food and music with a variety of events – band performances, parties, and the main event – Al Fuego’s open-air…
All Guns Blazing With the Director of John Wick 3
Chad Stahelski on building a world beyond the Continental
Paramount Lights Up With Summer Classics Series
Your favorite way to get out of the heat is back
Missed Out on Your Chance to See Hamilton? $10 Tickets Available Through Digital Lottery.
Get a seat at one of the hottest shows without spending Benjamins!
House Committee Hears “Discriminatory” Voter Suppression Bill
SB 9 would punish voter form errors with state jail felonies
Unlocking the Michael Schenker Festival
Sound pilgrim reveals the combination to his “whole story”
Texas Legislature Grants Big Win to Small Farmers
Local vendors are thrilled; SB 932 heads for Gov. Abbott’s desk
Caleb De Casper’s New EP Is Here and Totally Queer
De Casper is “high-octane danceable rock music for you and your daddy”
Mercy Chefs Opens Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen in Wimberley
Chef Jay Bachman joins ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wed., May 15
Get Your Depressed Bakery Fix at These Local Sweet Spots
Eat your cake and boost mental health awareness, too.
Those Who Canelle Don’t Get Bitten
New cinnamon-based spray keeps the mosquitos away
Restaurant Options to Pair With Smithville’s Small-Town Charm
Things to do when you’re out east of the big city
Great Austin Gift Ideas for College Graduation
Local bites, books, apparel, and ease the transition to the real world
8 Water Parks Near Austin to Keep You Cool and Active
Regular old lake just not cutting it?
Senate Passes Severe Fetal Disability Abortion Ban
Women would be forced to give birth to non-viable fetuses
Public Defender Proposal Submitted to the State
Judges sign off on county application for funding of PDO
Desert Hearts Texas Takeover Glammed Up Austin Shed Cedar Street Courtyard
Burning Man-like dance music party starred Damian Lazarus
Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced
The Critics Table’s picture-perfect year
The Brains Behind the Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains
Filmmaker Gary Gannaway on how Seinfeld influenced his metahorror
Comedian Arielle Isaac Norman Asks, “How Dark Can We Get?”
Podcast and Off Script host wants to have uncomfortable conversations
9 Texas Day Trips That Will Inspire You to Hit the Road
We dip our toe in the nearly 1,500 columns from our resident day tripper
Weekend Wine: Light, Crisp, Refreshing, and Just Right for a Texas Summer
Riesling is more than a candy queen of the wine world
A Game of Lotería Envelops Como Las Movies
Locals become El Borracho in new “Una Vuelta Más” clip
Dougherty Arts Center Relocation OK’d and Affordable Housing Program Gets Pushed Through at Council
And more notes from the May 9 City Council meeting
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Long-gestating commentary on fantasy and delusion is Terry Gilliam at his most Gilliamesque (for better or worse)
Tolkien
The trials and triumphs of the man who would create Middle Earth
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Pika pika pika? Pika pika pika pika pika pika pika.
Meeting Gorbachev
Werner Herzog talks with the architect of Glasnost about what went wrong with U.S.-Russia relations
UglyDolls
Ugly is as ugly does in this animated toy movie
El Chicano
A new superhero for the Latinx community (and everyone else)
Poms
Because even Oscar-winners must make cheerleading comedies
Carmine Street Guitars
Spend time with the quiet artisans who make the instruments that rock & roll is built upon
Faster Than Sound: Unbounded Agency for the Underrepresented
Anita Obasi’s parties make space for queer artistry, Jay Wile’s croon tricks fans of Frank Ocean, and more recommendations for KVRX Fest
County Pushes Public Defender Plan Forward
Commissioners Court votes to proceed with indigent defense office – but not everybody’s happy about it
Women’s Jail Closer to Funding
Justice advocates worry efforts to decrease incarceration will decelerate
Austin Playhouse’s Summer and Bird
This world premiere production gives audiences of all ages the chance to travel to a mythical land of wonders
Diverse Space Dance Theatre’s Memoirs and Armours
The company’s season closer showed the young dancers’ commitment to a shared vision and their potential as artists
The Infinites Get Loopy at the Intersection of Jared Leibowich and Dan LeVine
Zoltars’ frontman and Ghetto Ghouls’ guitarist come together in the hypnosphere
“Rachel Kalisky: Glassnet” at CAMIBAart Gallery
New works fuse glass and metal mesh in a mesmerizing display
Turning Williamson County a Bluer Shade of Purple
Wading through the new political landscape of the Austin suburbs
The Infinites
The Infinites (First Humans)
Day Trips: Gladys Porter Zoo, Brownsville
Zoological and botanical park is more than just a zoo
Point Austin: Rising to the Defense
Travis County tries to level the courtroom playing field with a public defender’s office
Luv Doc: The Old Dude
The word “immature” is both overused and ineffective
Soccer Watch
Austin Bold FC are back home at 7:30pm this Friday, May 10, facing OKC Energy before hosting their first U.S. Open Cup match at 7:30pm Tue., May 14, against Tulsa Roughnecks. Both those teams currently sit above the Bold in the USL Western Conference standings, but teams are so tightly packed that a win over…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of May 9, 2019
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Alexander the Great may have been buried alive. A tiny population of woolly mammoths endured on isolated Wrangel Island (off the coast of far-eastern Siberia) until 1650BC. The Kind of Blue album by Miles Davis was remarkably cheap to make. Musicians earned minuscule payments and Columbia Records funded only nine hours of studio time, three…
Headlines
Catch Your Breath: After last week’s grueling special meeting on the land use code, today’s City Council meeting (May 9) features a relatively light 43-Item agenda to consider: a Green New Deal resolution, the affordable housing bonus program, and a relatively short list of zoning cases. So Who Pays? The Texas Legislature proceeded on its…
ATX Film News: What Kat Candler Did Next
Fear the Walking Dead returns, The Son sets, and more
Quote of the Week
“Make the case for your sorcery to consumers on your own dime.” – Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, tweeting out anti-vax “parental rights” bullshit to Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine, one of Texas’ leading authorities on infectious diseases (and parent of a child with autism).
Thai Fresh Chef Offers Mother’s Day Cooking Class With Her Mom
Learn to cook Thai green curry and glass noodles
My Obsession: Fleabag
Snarky British comedy mines the prick in all of us
CAMPO Throws Money at I-35
$400 million in new funding will go to the “Capital Express” project
Enjoying and Making Art at the 2019 West Austin Studio Tour
Artists offer demos, workshops, and experiences to get you in on the creative action
Drafthouse Revisits the Year Jim Carrey Ruled the Box Office
Go back to 1994 with the three faces of Jim
Public Notice: Ends at Odds
Good deeds, bad deeds, restricted deeds
West Austin Studio Tour Stops for Both Visual and Performing Arts
WEST sites where you can look, then watch and listen
Council Previews Fall’s Main Event: A Land Development Code Revision
A code, foretold
Now Streaming in Austin: Master of Dark Shadows
New documentary bites into the legacy of the Gothic soap
Qmmunity: A Landmark Hearing, but LGBTQ Voices Still Needed at the Capitol
Plus Guerrilla Queer Bar’s Spring Fling and more qweeah events
New Study Shows How Scooters Can Hurt
City works with CDC to analyze injuries to riders; Lege weighs in
A Pictorial Tribute to the Birth of American Sharks’ New Album
The long-awaited sophomore disc 11:11 finally has its due date
AISD Board Debates Path for Future School Closures
AISD Board gets closer to “school change”
A Decade of Democratic Gains in Central Texas
Turning red to purple and purple to blue
Local Businesses Stand Up for Sick Leave
Committee hears bills that would prevent Austin from regulating certain employment practices
No Sales Tax for Schools
Senate approves its version of school finance, with a few notable changes
Williamson County Residents Organize to Remove Confederate Monument
Meanwhile the Texas Legislature tries to block monument removals
