Drafthouse Wonder Woman Screenings Bring Out the Trolls
All-female screenings to expand nationwide
Numbers Don’t Lie, Film Rebates Work
Which films and TV shows quit Austin over lack of rebates?
Exit U2
In revisiting The Joshua Tree, the Dubliners return home
Uber, Lyft Return to Austin Monday
Gov. Abbott expected to sign rideshare bill
There Will Be Substrate Phantoms in Austin on Saturday
SF author Jessica Reisman releases new novel at Malvern Books
The Sour Notes Ride It Out
Life’s tedium and passion captured in black & white
The “Collectors Show” at grayDUCK Gallery
Collecting the collectors and showing Austin what they’ve got
Chronicle Recommends: Films About Chefs
Give your compliments to the chef with these four films
Eastside Vibes: Come Experience the Culture
Celebrations, food joints, & moves to make on the Eastside this summer
Activists Nod to The Handmaid’s Tale to Protest Anti-Abortion Bills
Pro-choice protest at Capitol channels dystopian fiction
Garner Sloan’s Carnival Folk Utopia
Come one, come all to “Vacationland”
Six Ways to Have a Nostalgic Austin Summer
Travel back to a simpler time
2017 Austin Sketch Festival: What to See
Maybe all of it, yes – but OMG let’s not be ridiculous
R.I.P. Jimmy LaFave
Songwriter passes days after legendary performance
Texas Legislators Push Through Two Anti-LGBTQ Bills Sunday Night
Bathroom and religious freedom bills both likely to become law
Critics Table Tops at 25
The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards
The Q&A Hole: What’s Your Favorite Comfort Food?
Because everybody needs some gastrointestinal cosseting sometimes
R.I.P. George Reiff
Cancer steals extraordinary bassist and producer
Court Collision Coming
Council funds AFD overtime, tweaks meetings, orders Texas showdown
Summer Fun: Alternatives to Sno-Cones
Chill treats
DVDanger: Beyond the Gates
Throwback horror resurrects the VHS board-game phenomenon
Summer Fun: Local Skincare Products
Don’t sweat it
Summer Fun: Cold, Dark Holes to Crawl Into
Escape the Texas sun in these underground getaways
Texas House Advances Anti-Choice Package Bill
SB 8 bans safest type of second trimester abortion
I Love You, Jimmy
Nearly four-hour LaFave convergence petitions a greater good
PWR BTTM Will Not Play Austin
Queer punk duo faces erasure in light of sexual assault allegations
Five Things to Do in Austin This Weekend
Because you can’t just get baked & eat breakfast tacos 24/7, right?
Summer Fun: Bark & Zoom Opens at ABIA
Your pup will want to stay in this doghouse
The Lovers
Breaking the doldrums of marriage
Everything, Everything
Another YA adaption of star-crossed lovers
Chuck
The rise and fall of the real-life Rocky
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
The origins of the celebrity chef
Alien: Covenant
More chest-bursting fun in space
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
The wimpy kid returns for a reboot
The Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, Song to Song
As heard in the movies
Getting to Oz Through Austin Arts
Area arts events make a Yellow Brick Road to The Wizard of Oz in Zilker Park
Soccer Watch
This Sunday is the English Premier League season finale: 10 games simultaneously, shown across 10 different NBC networks at 9am. Unfortunately, this year there’s not much at stake, with one exception, as Arsenal hopes to catch Liverpool for fourth place and the final Champions League spot. Chelsea clinched the championship last week, Spurs and almost…
First Look: LeRoy & Lewis
What does barbecue look like in 2017?
My Year With Baywatch
To protect and surf
Despite Understaffing, Austin Leads in No-Kill
98% of shelter animals found a home in March
Hot Luck Redefines the Local Food Festival
This ain’t your grandma’s potluck
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Senate barbershop continues to operate at a deficit and offer taxpayer-subsidized haircuts and shaves. Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction used to sign hotel registers under the alias of Bruce Wayne, Batman’s real name. He identified with Batman after his mother was murdered by a former boyfriend. Back in China and Japan around AD1400, they…
Lege Lines: Elsewhere Around the Dome
Sine die is less than two weeks away
Food: Summer Snapshot
Highlights from the summer foodie calendar
Lege Lines: Bills on the Move
The heat is on in the state’s House and Senate
The International Waters of Austin’s Concert Scene
Party barges bring summer shows to cooler locales
Bill of the Week: A Straight Ticket to Court?
Rep. Ron Simmons wants to end straight-ticket voting
Music: Summer Snapshot
Concert calendar
AISD Bond Forums Scheduled
Two meetings on the docket for the coming week
Noir City Emerges From the Shadows
Film festival delves into film noir deep cuts
Whole Woman’s Health Reopens
Reproductive health provider sees 40 patients on first days back in business
A Guide to Finding Beer Outside of Austin’s City Limits
Drinking outside of the box
Screens: Summer Snapshot
TV, film, and gaming events
Will This Seaholm Intake Plan Take?
Austin eyes a new redesign for the Downtown intake facility
Texas Platters
Three full-lengths in, Austin native Suzanna Choffel continues mapping folk-pop variants, wavering between muted jazz influences and adult alternative radio hooks. Fourth LP Hello Goodbye traverses the disparate ends of that breadth, arriving as the most concrete evidence yet of the singer’s strength through versatility. Vocally, Choffel glides effortlessly over the title track’s contemporary doo-wop,…
Playback: Music Policy Draft Fails Venues
A complete detachment from the original vision of the Omnibus
12th and Chicon Mural to Be Repainted
New owner responds to community uproar
Austin’s Utilities Brace for Busy Billing Season
“If the water goes through the meter, you bought it. If electricity goes through the meter, you bought it.”
Texas Platters
Former Go-Go’s pluck Kathy Valentine at the wheel and roaring guitarist Eve Monsees riding shotgun, the Bluebonnets plow down an expanse of rock & roll nostalgia while bassist/vocalist Dominique Davalos and drummer Kristy McInnis rollick through a tight rhythmic ballast on Tonewrecker. As with 2014 sophomore album Play Loud, the local quartet cycles through revved-up…
Oops!
In last week’s food feature, “In Praise of the Restaurant Restroom,” we erroneously attributed the selection of Juniper’s restroom mirrors to Jill Fanette. Mark Cravotta, the owner and principal at Cravotta Interiors, made the design selections. We regret our error.
Death Watch
An update from Death Row
SwimATX Tackles Lifeguard Shortage
Learn-to-swim program educates Eastside kids on water safety
Texas Platters
Shane Renfro’s first full-length as RF Shannon, Jaguar Palace hums like a sprawl of desolate Texas in late summer. Renfro, who lives in Lockhart and sometimes Marfa, captures the way a desert breathes on all six tracks of his debut, a slowly unfurling psych/blues combo shrouded in haze. Eleven-minute sprawl “Hotevilla” simmers pedal steel and…
Page Three: Summer Songs
Soundtracking the summer
AISD: Refilling the School Board
Candidates jockey to fill Saldaña’s seat
Lege Lines: Texas Temper Tantrum
Freedom Caucus wigs out, “chubs,” stalls, kills every bill in sight
Texas Platters
Eleventh album from Dallas’ most celebrated alt.country export of the past quarter-century runs thick with vulnerable midlife contemplation. It’s a tough look to pull off, but the center mostly holds. Bandleader Rhett Miller’s most effective songwriting happens at the juncture between iconoclasm and universality, Graveyard boasting several canon keepers. “She Hates Everybody” bucks convention to…
Community: Summer Snapshot
Parades, rides, races, and more
Headlines
City Council meets today (May 18) with a hefty agenda featuring plenty of potential dustups: overtime funding at the Fire Department, a new Eastside Capitol View Corridor, zoning and contracts – and what to do about SB 4, the anti-“sanctuary cities” bill. See “Council: Hiding in Plain Sight,” May 19. Intake It All: The city…
Council: Hiding in Plain Sight
Immigration, Fire, Capitol view corridors fill out a busy Thursday
Texas Platters
Apropos of album art depicting a red-hued figure choking themselves under a white sheet, Crooked Bangs’ II grabs you by the throat with an asphyxiating bludgeon and discordant mélange of distortion. Picking up where their eponymous 2012 debut left off, the Austin trio’s lupine punk burrows down into dark catacombs as singer Leda Ginestra howls…
Arts: Summer Snapshot
Theatre, dance, comedy, and lit events on the horizon
Quote of the Week: Sally Hernandez
The sheriff’s grandmother had a way with words
Texas Platters
The instrumental lineup for this cross-continental, cassette-only collaboration guarantees esoteric delights: Austin drum deity Thor Harris on dulcimer and bass clarinet, Aussie Lawrence English on bass drum and “treatments,” and ATX-to-UK transplant and label head Conor Walker on “field recordings.” A lack of hooks, riffs, and conventional melodies in these long tracks doesn’t mean they’re…
Ballet Austin’s Alice (In Wonderland)
In which the young heroine grabs those wild wonderland reins
Public Notice: Fun Is Where You Find It
Some things to look forward to(?) this summer
Texas Platters
Initially released in 1995 on Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey’s Trance Syndicate label, Roky Erickson’s tentative resurrection proved a labor of love with an emphasis on the former. While 1990’s genre-topping tribute compilation Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye revived interest in Erickson’s music, the artist himself was still living on disability checks in a…
“The Geometry of Space and Time” at Mexic-Arte Museum
Sebastián’s sculpture evokes string theory via concrete forms
Point Austin: Saved by Billionaires?
The fight against climate change gathers allies high and low
Gay Place
This is the summer to have fun, get wet, take a road trip, and stay fired up
The Luv Doc: Extreme Douchebaggery
Stealthing is sexual assault, and sexual assault is considered a second degree felony in the state of Texas
Day Trips: Life’s a Beach, Corpus Christi
The islands across the causeway offer sun, sand, and surf all summer long
Austin, Texas Cities Promise Legal Fight Against SB 4
City Council to vote on SB 4 lawsuit resolution Thursday
