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Food and Music Strike a Chord With These Austin Chefs
We explore the link between the culinary and musical in anticipation of Hot Luck
Paramount Theatre Announces Fall/Winter Performances
Shinyribs, Ira Glass, and Potted Potter all on the horizon
Announcing The Austin Chronicle’s Battle of the Briskets!
30 local brisket masters compete for Best Brisket in Austin title
Who Wants to See Some Renderings of a Soccer Stadium?
Precourt Sports Ventures unveils plans for McKalla Place
Leigh Whannell Gets an Upgrade
Insidious creator gets techno, and talks the Blumhouse model
Live Nation Acquires ScoreMore
Austin promoters sell controlling interest to concert industry titan
Austin Pools Opening Soon
Find the nearest one to you and beat the heat
Wednesday Protest Against SBOE’s Name Change of Mexican-American Studies Course
1:30pm at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
Full World Cup TV Schedule
Those of us in the Central Time Zone will be getting up early
World Cup 2019: Who, What, When, Where
The World Cup runs from June 7 to July 7. There are 64 games in all; here in Austin, the kickoff times range between 8am and 2pm, leading up to the championship final at 10am Sunday, July 7. Every game will be televised on Fox, FS1, or FS2, and in Spanish on Telemundo, Universo, or…
Hot Luck Review: Questlove
Roots polymath demonstrates DJ prowess
Hot Luck Review: Blackillac
Dynamic rap duo ready for prime time
DVDanger: I Kill Giants
Grief is a monster in this fantastic fable, plus two new undead flicks
Adding to Austin’s Asian-American Cinema
Huay-Bing Law on his new short “June,” now on HBO
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend
In which your cultural FOMO is subdued via this handy listicle
Hot Luck Review: The Texas Gentlemen
Lone Star wrecking crew hits the dancehall
First Reformed
Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke burn in the divine for this meditation on faith.
Outside In
Jay Duplass and Edie Falco in a story of post-prison re-integration.
Beast
Murder-mystery rewritten as a chilling fairy tale romance.
Itzhak
Violin maestro Itzhak Perlman gets the biodoc treatment
Mrs. Hyde
Isabelle Huppert glows (literally) in this SF-comedy makeover of the psycho-horror classic.
Show Dogs
Unfunny canine buddy-cop comedy is no man’s best friend.
1945
Hungary’s Holocaust culpability unearthed in one small village.
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
Goya-winning animation finds the demons within us all
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Should you have a bad feeling about this stand-alone Star Wars?
Point Austin: Gun Crazy
More massacres, more conversations, more sanctimony … more nothing
Texas Platters
On her third full-length and label debut, Jess Williamson wears her heart on her sleeve, and lets it bleed. Nine tracks drip, bubble, and bristle in love, shaken up with an emotionally invasive immediacy. The cardiac prodding begins with a strident opening demand: “Tell me everything you know about consciousness.” The song, “I See the…
Big Bust at the Tax Office
Seven arrested for license plate forgery scheme
Texas Platters
In a quick turnaround from last year’s Jaguar Palace, country deconstructionist Shane Renfro zooms in on the expansive soundscapes of his desert-weathered debut, swapping extended ballads for strident, meditative messages. Demoed over four days in Marfa and captured in two in Lockhart, the sophomore full-length channels a brisk, unbridled commitment to Renfro’s sonic journey, fusing…
Texas: An Abortion Desert
Women in 10 Texas cities must travel more than 100 miles for an abortion
Gay Place
Long live the long weekend
Abortion Gag Rule
Trump’s war on women’s health continues
The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2018
Actor/director Norman Blumensaadt, dance artists Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Anuradha Naimpally, and philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein join the ranks of cultural heroes
Motor Voter: Texas Won’t Play Nice
Why does the state want to restrict voting access?
Playback: Being Christeene in 2018
“I’m a collection of all the shit that you’re throwing around in this stratosphere of online media conversation.”
Council Watch: Mariana Salazar
District 1 race continues to fill up
Documentary Uses Virtual Reality to Explore East Austin Gentrification
Technology and social justice come together in Latinitas’ film
Council: What Do We Want? Money!
Who needs it? Fire stations, cops, and scooter companies.
Blood and Baby Carts
AFS presents samurai series Lone Wolf and Cub
A Solitary Manley
On the vetting process for Austin’s chief of police
Snapshot: The Austin Chicken Wing Festival
1,500 Austin poultry fans spread their wings at foodie fest
ATX Film News
Austinites on HBO and Netflix, plus big casting news
Limbaugh Rant Puts UT MasculinUT Program in Limbo
University program halted until after summer
The Luv Doc: Debbie Downers
It is truly fascinating to witness the beautiful butterfly squeeze back into an ugly caterpillar
Chronicle Recommends: War Movies
Movie picks for Memorial Day
Run-off Election Results
Winners and losers in the Democratic primary
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Nine percent of Americans own some form of cryptocurrency, according to Dalia Research in Berlin. Johnny Carson was 10-0 as an amateur boxer in the Navy during World War II. Researchers in Australia recently published in Pacific Conservation Biology that they had monitored what was likely the world’s oldest spider on record. The trapdoor spider,…
Generic Ensemble Company’s Carmen
This devised work shares the name of Bizet’s opera, but it has its own story to tell, one that’s modern, irreverent and funny
County Reports on Drug Use and Poverty
New studies and what they mean for Austin
Texas Platters
Christy Hays is a writer of the elements. There’s dirt scrubbed into the corners of her songs, which emerge as hard pebbles polished by the relentless run of water and time. Lucinda Williams remains touchstone for her gritty vocals and narratives, but Hays’ third full-length, River Swimmer, casts those characters in a natural half-light that…
Capital T Theatre’s Small Mouth Sounds
This hilarious and moving production reveals near deafening truths with barely a sound
The School Board Shuffle
Geronimo Rodriguez named AISD Board prez after Kendall Pace resigns
Texas Platters
Neil Lord excels in restraint. The local multi-instrumentalist’s debut on Austin electronic powerhouse Holodeck offers just enough lulling layers so as not to interfere with the audience’s own contemplation. Crafted independently despite the project’s numerous past collaborators, Rosewater Ceremony tops Lord’s deep catalog with elegant, effusive, and experimental ambience. “Orbit Collapse” second establishes an organic…
Object Collection’s It’s All True
This opera culled from Fugazi concert detritus was an endurance test for both audience and performers
Public Notice: New Math
Can CodeNEXT get to eight votes?
Texas Platters
Pop culture loves regurgitating its past, so calling an album Modern Nostalgia is asking for trouble, but Midcentury’s debut embodies both halves of that title. Made up of former members of Turncloak and Wonderbitch, the Austin quartet turns a laser-sighted focus on the airy, groove-lite college rock that crossed over from the UK in the…
Day Trips: The Cistern, Houston
“Carlos Cruz-Diez: Spatial Chromointerference” in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern in Houston seems to twist and bend the 221 concrete columns of the underground reservoir like strands of stripped taffy. It is an optical illusion as the alternating colored lights change patterns and directions in the otherwise pitch black room. The second site-specific art installation…
I Heart K-Pop
Korean DJ nights choreograph a local niche
Texas Platters
Less than 30 seconds into Okkervil River’s ninth full-length, we learn that Will Sheff, the creative leader and frontman for the Austin-birthed act, endured a tracheotomy as a baby. The bizarre admission of album opener “Famous Tracheotomies,” an oral history of celebrities who’ve undergone the procedure, encapsulates the tone of In the Rainbow Rain, a…
Soccer Watch
World Cup kickoff right around the corner, U.S. prepare for a series of pre-WC matches, and more
Texas Platters
Andrew Trube and Anthony Farrell are musicians’ musicians. Since 1999, their duo Greyhounds has become a seasoned road hog alongside American Idol winner Taylor Hicks and JJ Grey & Mofro, successful songwriters for the likes of Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, and released a batch of six albums. On the follow-up to 2016’s Change of…
Quote of the Week: Dan Patrick
“There are too many entrances and too many exits to our over 8,000 campuses in Texas.” – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, blaming school shootings on the amount of doors, following last week’s shooting at Santa Fe High School that left 10 dead
CodeNEXT Wrecks Austin
Or did Austin wreck CodeNEXT?
Texas Platters
Formed at Westlake High School in 2014 and led by trumpeter Wyatt Corder, hip-shaking nonet Big Wy’s Brass Band whips up a nonstop party on its debut EP Portal to Funkville. Bassist Dylan Hill brings the funk without ostentation, while drummers Chase Ozment and Brady Knippa urge the songs relentlessly forward. The horn section shows…
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City Council meets today, Thursday, May 24, for a relatively manageable agenda, and plans to address temporary fire stations, the Waller Creek Tax Increment Financing plan, and the petition to put CodeNEXT on the ballot, among other items. See “Council: What Do We Want? Money!,” May 25. On to November: Run-off elections were Tuesday. Among…
