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The Austin Film Society Unveils Its New Home for Cinema
Two-screen theatre will showcase the best of new and classic arthouse cinema
Steve Adler Claps Back at Wonder Woman Hater
Austin mayor is your letter-writing superhero
Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup
Activities to get your summer sizzling
Virtual Reality Arcade Opens in East Austin
It’s like a karaoke room for immersive play
Local Drag Queen Viciously Assaulted Sunday
“I can’t help feeling that – because I’m trans, I’m less valuable”
Dat Boy Supa Takes You Higher
Second video from rapper’s still fresh sophomore disc
“This is not workable.”
City Commissions slam draft CodeNEXT plan in Tuesday joint meeting
Your City Is About To Be Gentrifucked
The Latino Comedy Project returns with a fierce new skewering
Juliet Ristorante to (Temporarily) Close
DK Maria’s opens in South Austin
DVDanger: Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD
New documentary on the influential and rule-breaking comic
Black Hole Suspirians
Epic track previews ATX trio’s heavy second record
Live at the Lege
The Chronicle counts down to sine die
The Q&A Hole: What’s Your Favorite Place in Austin?
Because you know that “cabin fever” is definitely a thing
Last Day at the Lege
Sine die arrives as threat of a special session looms
“Cruel” Anti-Abortion SB 8 Sent to Gov’s Desk to Become Law
Expect a court challenge over “unconstitutional” bill
Five Things to Do in Austin This Weekend
Because what good is sitting? Alone? In your room?
Baywatch
Some people stand in the darkness …
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The next installment of this franchise that no one asked for
A Dark Song
Black magic goes awry in this taut thriller
The Commune
Life in a Seventies Danish collective is not all that
Gay Place
Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer
The Effort to Unseat Rep. Lamar Smith Is On
Democrats line up to challenge climate-science denying GOP incumbent
Texas Platters
In the same way a recent breakup dupes your ears into believing that every pop tune is about your erstwhile lover, the social climate of 2017 tempts interpretation of any punk song as a Molotov hurled at Trump Tower. That Mordor-like skyscraper graces Xetas’ sophomore LP art, a tarot-framed image of the building jolted by…
APD’s New Unit to Tackle Rape Kit Backlog
Four detectives will be assigned to the new crew
Texas Platters
A few years of perspective can work marvels for an artist. Since stringing along local favorites the Belleville Outfit and then her own 2014 LP Walk With Me, Phoebe Hunt’s discovered voice and vision. Credit the recent meditative retreat to India that informs Shanti’s Shadow, as well as the singer’s roadwork with cellist Ben Sollee,…
The Luv Doc: Dog Luv
The corporate culture here at the brick bunker is that there are no bad ideas
Decision Reached on Fate of Oakwood Cemetery’s Unidentified Graves
City will exhume and re-inter 25 bodies discovered in former “colored grounds”
Texas Platters
You’re likely not familiar with Austin Jazz Workshop, but if your children attend Austin public school, they’ve been treated to a live performance by this venerable aggregation sometime over the past 23 years. Their sixth album is a timely celebration of idiosyncratic pianist/composer Thelonious Monk in this year of his birth centennial. Rather than rehash…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to author Robert K. Klepper, the 1929 German science-fiction movie The Woman in the Moon invented the backward countdown now used in space travel launches. For the past 21 years, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has secretly been living a double life and co-piloting airplanes for KLM. There is only one London subway station…
Recount Numbers Stay the Same
Tiffany McMillan wanted a recount proposition vote for new Lakeway police headquarters
Texas Platters
Making grown and sexy hip-hop albums in 2017 means tightrope walking over an active volcano with horse blinders. Holding to his convictions, rapper/producer DJ Brimlo (Galvin McKinney) evokes growth and true purpose on Awkward Love Letters, a mostly self-produced and soul-steeped reflection of adult love with its accompanying trials and triumphs. Jake Lloyd features vox…
Page Two: When “Patriotism” Means Petulance
So much for draining the swamp
Margaret Moore on ICE
The D.A. wants to work with ICE to ensure victim and criminal witness safety
Texas Platters
Following three jarring, tense EPs of post-punk staggered over the last two years, US Weekly’s self-titled debut pushes the Austin quartet’s existential wrestling into a broader, external scope observing the demise of American society and politics. The hallmarks of US Weekly’s sound fill the LP – jagged, needling guitar lines, and Chris Nordahl’s vocals swinging…
Double Nickelodeons on the Dime
Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films
Lege Lines: Respect Us or Expect Us
The House gets its revenge on Dan Patrick
Texas Platters
Dallas born, Palestine raised, Manor and Wimberley farmed, Marfa inspired, and Austin by way of outstanding family, Chris Jamison now counts as Asheville, North Carolina’s gain. Recorded at South Austin’s White Room Studios with local compadres, his fifth LP in a decade, Mindless Heart, belongs on our ledger still. Airy tenor crossing Josh Rouse and…
Trinity Street Players’ Dani Girl
This musical may be about a child with cancer, but seeing it is a funny, moving, and healing experience
Lege Lines: Elsewhere Under the Dome
Sine die is almost here
Texas Platters
Wife/husband team Eleanor Whitmore and Chris Masterson have carved out a seemingly successful career amid constant touring, so Transient Lullaby tempers the sometime Austinites’ charmed harmonies with more mellow, highway-worn tunes. Recorded locally at Arlyn Studios, with additional engineering and bass supplied by the great George Reiff in one of his final efforts, the duo’s…
Butcher Holler Here We Come
This stylized look at West Virginia miners trapped underground is more of a powerful sensory experience than a narrative drama
Lege Lines: Bills on the Move
The final frenzy before last day of session
AC Food Fight: Delivery Apps
Favor and Postmates stand and deliver
“Robert Collier Beam: Scry” at Pump Project
The artist uses photographs and other media to catch the invisible and intangible but in a remarkably peaceful way
Exit Interview: Animal Services Chief Tawny Hammond
Hammond championed no-kill shelter policy in Austin
Drum Dynamo J.J. Johnson’s Saving Grace
Powerhouse Austin drummer strips down to his bare essence
Review: El Burro
Contemporary Tex-Mex does little to impress
Day Trips: Veterans Memorial Plaza, San Antonio
Small park in downtown San Antonio serves as a moving Memorial Day reminder
On Consent: AISD Employees See Increased Wages
A 1.5% increase will go to district employees
What Will It Take to Get More Police Oversight?
If Greg Casar wants more accountability for cops, the city’s gonna need to give the police union some more money
Playback: Sunday Morning Coming Down
Last Sunday marked the death of two Austin music connectors; plus, in regards to local public policy, Mayor Steve Adler calls
Soccer Watch
If you need a soccer fix in the wee hours, the U-20 World Cup in South Korea is on Fox Sports 1 and 2 almost every morning for the next couple of weeks – mostly at 3 & 6am, or 1 & 4am on a few days. The highly touted U.S. needed a 94th-minute goal…
The Hightower Report: Who’ll Help America’s Hard-Hit Gold Miners?
Donald Trump will … not. Unless you own a gold mine.
James Magnuson Leaves the Michener Center
James Magnuson reflects on his 23 years as director of the Michener Center for Writers
Dear Glutton: The Cure for an Existential Hangover
The best dish to wake up the senses and shake off the gloom
Headlines
No regular City Council meeting this week – the next is June 8 – but Council expects to be conferring in work sessions on CodeNEXT and budget details. “Council: The Numbers Game.” Still no Sanctuary: In a May 22 memorandum, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reiterated Trump administration policy to sanction “sanctuary jurisdictions,” defined as those…
Council: The Numbers Game
Tumbling evermore into the budget
Point Austin: Awake in the Hurricane
Enduring the last few days of the Lege’s biennial cataclysm
State: Give Us That Medicaid Money We Said We Didn’t Want
Texas lost out on a boatload of money when it declined to expand Medicaid. Now it wants that cash.
Public Notice: The Greatest Show on Access
ZAP, PC take turns hacking code
Original 12th Street Muralist Likely to Handle Replacement
Chris Rogers is still considering the subject of a new mural
Quote of the Week: Ken Zarifis
Teachers, don’t expect any money from the state
Community Report: Good News and Bad
CAN Dashboard Report reveals general progress but continuing racial inequities
