Cover Story
How Rooster Teeth Became an Online Phenomenon
9.5 million YouTube subscribers can’t be wrong
Austin Sketch Fest Rocks Our City All Week Long
The ninth annual festival puts scripted comedy front & center
They Made Me Do It: Five WEST Picks!
Carefully curated, under dire conditions, for your weekend pleasure
Cochon555 Engages Local Superstars for Heavenly Pork
The culinary celebration of heritage pig breeds returns to Austin
Summer Fun 2018
Welcome to the Summer UN Issue Is there any other season that inspires such high expectations? Summer’s supposed to be synonymous with a break, but it actually takes a lot of planning to make those memories that’ll last a lifetime – the unforgettable vacations and no-strings flings, elaborately themed cookouts and #epic pool parties. Yet…
Penguin & Tiny Shrimp Don’t Do Bedtime!
Author Cate Berry’s new children’s book debuts on Sunday
Paramount Gets Ready for Summer
43rd annual celebration of film fun on Austin’s grandest screen
Help on the Way in Fight for Sick Pay
Workers Defense Project intervenes against anti-ordinance effort
All Eyes on St. Vincent
PBS concert staple becomes Masseducation platform
Precourt Sports Ventures Reveals Soccer Stadium Site Plan
Only thing left is kick off, right?
Courtney Barnett Previews New LP
Mohawk hosts Margaret Atwood-quoting barrage
Colin McIntyre’s New Lung: Now with More Resonance
New “Residual Utterances” Show at Dimension Gallery
Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop
The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards
Q&A: Peelander-Z’s Kengo Hioki
“Not singer” talks new album
Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend
Oh, the places you’ll go! The people you’ll see!
Lights, Camera, Camping!
Alamo heads to the great outdoors for Sleepaway Camp
Coralie Fargeat Gets Revenge on the Male Gaze
Writer/director flips the script on action movies
TGQ Social Celebrates 50 Meetups
The event continues to make space for trans & genderqueer communities
Overboard
Unexpected remake of the Eighties’ most questionable rom-com
Revenge
Bloody vengeance fit for the #MeToo era.
Disobedience
Rachel Weisz explores the complexities and joys of choice in Britain’s Jewish communities.
Life of the Party
Melissa McCarthy goes back to school
Measure of a Man
Even Donald Sutherland reciting fortune cookie wisdom doesn’t save this YA snore.
Racer and the Jailbird
Euro crime drama skips a gear in its switchback action.
Lu Over the Wall
Japanese mermaid tale with a big heart and a groovy beat.
Backstabbing for Beginners
Diplomacy and corruption mix in true-life drama.
Congressional District 10: Running Uphill
A changing of the challenger’s guard?
Playback: Strictly Conjunto
“We don’t want this music to die” – Johnny Degollado
Congressional District 31: Two Quarterbacks
Everybody’s playing for the same team
Texas Platters
As a “post-genre pop” artist, Anthony Watkins II packs messages into a musical bandwidth almost exclusively reliant on window dressing – oversized hooks and mathematical equations-turned-lyrics by Scandinavian lab-coat producers like Max Martin. Not so with Austin’s Mobley, whose songs are the means to an end, and the end is precise messaging. He calls sharp…
Chronicle Endorsements
Recommendations for the run-off
Texas House District 47: Workman’s Blues
Can anybody beat Paul Workman?
Texas Platters
Kat Edmonson albums are instantly recognizable. If the airy Billie Holiday crackle doesn’t give them away, then it’s the former Austinite’s Thirties jazz leanings. Old Fashioned Gal, the Houston-reared Texan’s fourth full-length, spins no different. Written in her Brooklyn apartment one winter while wracked by cold and sick, it follows her original screenplay outline for…
May 22 Party Primary Run-Offs
Early voting ends Friday, May 18
459th District Court: New Civility
All rise for the new bench
Snapshot: Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Music Festival
The ATX/ATL fest connection
A Different Kind of Barista at Empowered Coffee
Employees with intellectual or developmental disabilities make coffee and learn life skills
Death Watch: What Evidence?
Juan Castillo set for execution on May 16
Texas Platters
Frontman turns for ace sidemen always constitute something of a tightrope act. Their success depends on how much of an actual vision the player pulls together when commanding the spotlight. At best, it’s revelatory of their influence on others’ work. At worst, it’s a cobbling together of others’ influences as they search for their own…
Theatre en Bloc’s Cry It Out
This production tackles the huge challenge of exploring motherhood and class, and can’t quite have it all
Andrew Romero out at Austin Police Association
APA vice president suspended 20 days from APD, resigns from union post
Texas Platters
“I don’t want to be the last man standing,” intones the most recognizable voice in country music over the driving rumba of his 67th studio LP’s title track. “But, wait a minute,” he second-guesses the punch line. “Maybe I do.” Willie Nelson’s 12th collaboration with co-producer and co-songwriter Buddy Cannon proves every bit as fruitful…
Tapestry Dance Company’s April Fools
This remount of the tap troupe’s valentine to vaudeville brought the old art form back with delights in abundance
Good News for Norman and Sims Students
Merged schools to see more teachers, bilingual classes, afterschool programs, and more
Phillip Wade and Friends on the West Austin Studio Tour
The artist has some creative friends show in his Clarksville home
“Dawn Okoro: Punk Noir” at the Carver Museum
The artist provides a corrective to preconceived notions of punk, exploring the ethos through black personal style
CodeNEXT: “Highly Unlikely”?
Planning Commission plays along, Zoning & Platting calls to terminate
Texas Platters
Clipping his consonants and flaaattening his vowels, South Texas scarecrow Charley Crockett damn near swallows whole words. Hatched in San Benito, raised in Dallas, and an Alamo City legacy by birth – Davy Crockett left him DNA – the airy country buck of self-described “Jewish/White/Creole descent” courts a lisp most obvious on the title track…
Day Trips: Bessie Coleman, Atlanta Historical Museum
Texas-born pioneer aviatrix is remembered in her hometown
Soccer Volleys: Court Orders and Community Forums
Conversation could heat up in June
Texas Platters
Contrary to popular belief, imaginative and virtuosic musicians elevate ad-libbed music beyond “jams.” Thus thrives En las Montañas de Excesos (In the Mountains of Excess), an improvisational collaboration between Austinites Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (the Thing, Young Mothers), Bob Hoffnar (Mood Illusion), and Chris Cogburn (No Idea Festival), and San Francisco great Henry Kaiser (Yo Miles!,…
Soccer Watch
The Columbus Crew and the city of Austin are holding their fifth and final civic engagement meeting on the McKalla Place stadium proposal tonight, Thu., May 10, 6-8pm at Montopolis Rec Center, 1200 Montopolis Dr. See p.17 for more, and you can see the presentation and give feedback at www.austintexas.gov/mckalla. This Saturday is the last…
Diets Don’t Always Mean Deprivation
Sarno brothers release their plant-based, indulgence-focused cookbook with a Central Library demo
Now Streaming in Austin: Distance
He said, she said, IRL and online, in Distance
Picks for the 2018 West Austin Studio Tour
When you head WEST, stop here
Headlines
City Council returns this week to another lengthy agenda, including Items on the long-awaited special events ordinance, Planning Commission membership requirements, and the “People’s Plan” to address displacement. See “Council: A Special Event,” May 11. Land Use Commissions are taking very different approaches to CodeNEXT recommendations, and deliberations continue at a frantic pace. See “Public…
True Life, Unfiltered
New mini-fest AFS Doc Days scours the globe for fresh viewpoints
ICYMI: Full English Serves Breakfast for the Queen’s Subjects
Get thee some tea sandwiches
Point Austin: Can This Code Be Saved?
Plan for a common future, or pretend it just won’t happen
Freewheeling With the First Lady of Austin Country, Kelly Willis
Pondering her first solo album in more than a decade
A Brief History of Rooster Teeth
For those late to the party, here’s the story of a little production team that could
Public Notice: Two Tales of One City
Land use commissions diverge; dogs
Governor: An Embarrassment of … Well, Embarrassments
Valdez, White run-off in a battle of long shots
Luv Doc: A Flaming Hetero
No matter what we believe ourselves to be, we are what we prove ourselves to be
Quote of the Week: Sheryl Cole
The heat’s still on in House District 46
Council: A Special Event
Alison Alter, agreeing to disagree
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Danish audiologist Ole Bentzen died laughing from watching the scene from A Fish Called Wanda in which Kevin Kline tortures Michael Palin by putting “chips” up his nose and then raiding Palin’s beloved aquarium for the other half of the English cuisine that goes with the chips. Bentzen’s heart rate soared above 250, and he…
May 2018 Democratic Primary Coverage: Catch the Run-Off
Filtering through the final round
What Drug Test?
City mulling policy rewrite after EMS asst. chief eschews standard procedure
Gay Place
Queer-story being made in Austin
Congressional District 21: Center vs. Left?
How flippable is this district?
Candy-Coated Copyright Infringement
Museum of Human Achievement sues Mars, associates over SXSW installation
Kelly Willis Record Review
Back Being Blue (Thirty Tigers)
Congressional District 25: County by County
Competitive race gets down to who brings the votes
