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What Will Local Shows Look Like in the Future?
What will shows look like in the live music capital? That’s all local club owners can think about.
Flaky Pastry Dough
The key to perfect crust? It’s gin.
Altamesa Gets Dark in Video for New Single “Interstate”
Premiere courts the ghosts that haunt late-night desert highways
Texas Supreme Court Issues Ambiguous Decision on Vote-By-Mail
Rules COVID-19 risk not a “disability” – leaves VBM decision to voters
How to Clean Your Sex Toys
Putting the sexual chemistry in (solo) summer fun
Wanna Hang Out While We Watch Miss Congeniality?
Don’t be fashionably late for this week’s livetweet!
Beerland No More: Owners Planning a Name Change
When – and if – the venue reopens, a new sign will hang
Now Streaming in Austin: “Givertaker”
Throwback horror short warns against messing with the uncanny
Checking In: Sweet Spirit Alights to Trinidad
Austin glam rockers’ third LP casts a deep digi/Tropi spell
This Is Who We Are #12: Tapestry Dance Company’s Rhythm … of a Life
A daily affirmation of Austin’s creativity from the Chronicle archive
ATX TV Heads to Room 104
Duplass anthology show and more from HBO for free fest
This Is Who We Are #11: Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre’s blood pudding
A daily affirmation of Austin’s creativity from the Chronicle archive
Dave McClinton is 2020’s Thirsty Planet Artist for EAST
East Austin Studio Tour’s newest beer design prepares to flood on in
Now Streaming in Austin: “Bowling With Krumpleman”
Experimentation, internships, and excess lotion with Logan Dorne
Now Streaming in Austin: “Here Comes the Neighborhood”
“One crazy night” comedy meets gentrification satire
Now Streaming in Austin: Attack of the Demons
Catch the Austin animated horror online this weekend
La Holly x Key Bar = West Sixth Agave Heaven
Bright new pop-up brings patio joy to this plague-time summer
Council Recap: Strategies for Keeping Austin Workers Safe
City Council tackles reopenings, relief funds, and more
Day Trips & Beyond: Daytripping in the Age of a Pandemic
Texas travel updates as of Memorial Day weekend
Who’s Open for Private Parties?
Because the dining-out crowd is less madding when it’s just your peops
Crime Pays at ATX Television With Perry Mason
HBO, Showtime, Hulu, and the Peacock all add shows to the fest
Voice Contestant Ricky Duran Gets Vulnerable
“The lyrics are so deep that I wouldn’t just tell this to a stranger”
The Trip to Greece
Coogan and Brydon’s latest culinary comedy is a dish too far
The Painter and the Thief
Intriguing tale of crime and redemption
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
From Essex to Michoacán: the true story of the English exponent of Mexican cooking
On a Magical Night
French fantastical bedroom farce trudges when it should dance
The Luv Doc: Tested in All Ways But One
There has never been a better time in the history of the planet to get to know someone without swapping cooties
Improved Data, Not Increased Need, Leads to Higher Homeless Numbers
Ending Community Homelessness Coalition issues results from January’s Point in Time Count
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows Years ago, when the species was distributed more widely, whooping cranes were called “flying sheep” in Manitoba because of their large size. When Sesame Street began in 1969, half of the nation’s school districts did not have kindergarten programs. When he was an up-and-coming comic, Colin Mochrie (of the TV show…
New Findings Shed Light on Oakwood Chapel Burials
Remains at city’s oldest cemetery were exhumed, studied, and now await reinterment
New Food Truck Cumberland Shares Its Chow Mein Recipe
Chef Chris Sapp talks about opening during a pandemic
Great Demand, Greater Expectations for AISD
Timeline set for superintendent search
Faster Than Sound: Edith Frost Returns
Austinite once again, Edith Frost offers first new songs in over a decade, plus Natalie Jane Hill’s debut and Red River Cultural District requests
Austin Police’s New Rules for Incident Video
APD promises to release video of “critical incidents” within 60 days going forward
How One Hair Salon Is Getting Back to Neon-Colored Business
Shell Vega of Urban Hair weighs her options
Public Notice: Voting, Any Way You Want
Voting by mail … or with your pocketbook, just for fun
Opinion: To Prepare for Future Shocks, Austin Must Get Weirder
Becoming truly weird means becoming a futurist, argues Jake Dunagan
Day Trips: Gillespie County Country Schools
Take a trip back in education history while enjoying the Hill Country scenery
City Plans to Spend $270 Million in COVID-19 Relief
Clock is ticking to allocate anticipated federal funding
Forklift Danceworks Goes “On the Job” With Essential Workers
The company’s new audio series gives voice to city employees and what they’re doing during the pandemic
Soccer Watch
The German Bundesliga lurched into action last weekend, with no fans, no group goal celebrations, no handshakes, and noticeably less hard tackling and other physical play. It’ll be interesting to see how this all develops. Fox Sports will show seven more Bundesliga games this weekend, starting with the Berlin derby, Union-Hertha, 1:30pm, Friday. Costa Rica…
City of Austin Releases COVID-19 Risk-Based Guidelines
Understanding stages of risk and how to adjust your behavior
Northern-Southern Gallery’s “Left in Leaves”
This group exhibition frees artwork from lockdown and sends quarantined viewers in search of it
Austin City Council Wants to Help Workers Put Their Health First
Sick? Stay home.
Knowledge Is Power as Nursing Homes Combat COVID-19
There’s a lot we don’t know about the pandemics’s toll in care centers, but what we do know is bad
Qmmunity: From Harvey Milk to 2020’s Rainbow Wave
Plus Bizarre Stripper Burlesque and Cheer Ups Quarantikki Happy Hour
Climbing Infections Be Damned, Phase 2 of the “Open Texas” Plan Begins
Greg Abbott hits the gas, tries to outrun virus
Federal Judge Legalizes Texas Vote-by-Mail
Broad ruling says all Texas voters can request mail ballots
Foxtail Supper Club Adds Camaraderie to Your Socially Distanced Dinner Table
Share a meal with friends in separate homes
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, May 22-28
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re playing
The Paper Street Podcast Gives a Voice to the Indie Film Industry
With movie production in lockdown, try the sounds of Paper Street
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
AFS Cinema Unveils the Lone Star Slate
New streaming program curates the best of Texas indies
We Have an Issue: Stages and Phases
In this week’s issue, a closer look at what the reopening of Texas entails
Austin At Large: Chronicles of Deaths, Foretold
The coronavirus works for free and cares not about its approval rating
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Cases Climb Amid Reopening: Texas reported 1,801 new cases of COVID-19 on Sat., May 16, the largest single-day jump since state officials began tracking cases in early March. Two days later, Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled his plans for Phase Two of reopening the state, giving the go-ahead to bars, bowling alleys, aquariums, and other businesses…
Sword Guitarist Kyle Shutt: Self-Portraitist – By Request!
Out-of-work shredder began re-facing his solo LP for fans
Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine
Support local business while maintaining your social distance
