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Mug Life
Austin isn’t a world-class beer destination, but it’s close
Council: Spreading the Crazy
Council eases granny flats … and Zimm zaps refugees
Other Worlds Austin Lights the Embers
Post-apocalyptic drama joins list of Shelley Award nominees
SXSW Announces Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards
Ten individuals recognized for blending technology and service
Isla Switches Gears, Emmer & Rye Starts Brunch
Daily Austin food news
The Great Thanksgiving To-Go List
It’s time to talk turkey
Drink Your Flowers
Austin mixologists are putting the petal to the mezcal
Fight for $15 Gains Momentum in Austin
Fast food employees frustrated by low wages
Austin Airport Back up to Speed
Post-flood repairs complete at ABIA, in time for Thanksgiving
The Austin Restaurant Boom Isn’t Over
More daily Austin food news
Whitney Rose’s Full House
Austin’s newest country ingenue lands on South Congress
First Look: The New Dog & Duck Pub
Austin classic given second life
Beaujolais Nouveau Hits Austin Market
Daily food news
In the Bounce House with Comedian Danny Palumbo
2015’s Funniest Person in Austin is cooking on all burners
Fall Into Music’s Final Notes
Last day to give your musical instrument to kids to play
Author & Punisher Pummels
One-man industrialist Tristan Shone shares some Housecore Horror
SXSW Announces Opening Night Film
Richard Linklater premieres his new film
UT Football: The Devil’s in the Details
Horns lose to West Virginia
Thousands of Texas Women Self-Induce Abortion, Study Finds
Women point to cost barriers, clinic closures as reasons
Moontower 5: First Wave of Comics Announced
Martin Short and Kevin Smith lead the laugh makers for 2016
SXSW Music: Second Band List of 2016
Tommy Stinson, Thee Oh Sees, Mercury Rev, and 212 more
Bringing the Art of Bread to Austin
Easy Tiger helps launch new cookbook
Where There’s a Roof There’s a Way
City Council agenda heavy with housing matters
Dog and Duck Reopens, Oasthouse Gastropub Debuts
Daily Austin food news
Blind Pets’ Slideshow Shenanigans
Austin rockers’ iPhone travelogue
The Great Thanksgiving Pie List
Let local eateries do the baking
Son Volt Hasn’t Changed
Jay Farrar’s trio lets the songs do the heavy lifting live
Dinner Lab + Phaidon = Magnus Nilsson’s Nordic Feast
Not even an army of frost giants could keep us from this culinary event
News Roundup: Buehler, Bikes, & Uber
Uber hates City Council; bicyclists love it
Big Reds & Bubbles Announces Bites List
Here’s what will soak up all that wine
In Memoriam: Jo Anne Christian
Arts patron, leading force in building Long Center has died
DVDanger: Bound to Vengeance
Female protagonists tested in home invasion and revenge flicks
All This and Zoning Too
Marathon City Council meeting zones through lengthy agenda
U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Texas Abortion Law Case
Justices have until June to make a final ruling
John Irving Opens Up at BookPeople
Garp author talks his new novel, how he writes, and sex
Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Birthday Bash
Growly troubadour – still canny after all these years
Other Worlds Austin Proclaims No Men Beyond This Point
Sci-fi fest adds battle of the sexes mockumentary as centerpiece
Mondo Gets Original
New show eschews brands and franchises
Neil Gaiman on James Thurber’s The 13 Clocks
The acclaimed fantasy writer champions a forgotten masterpiece
Kyōten to Open Brick-and-Mortar
Daily Austin food news
My All American
Longhorn legend Freddie Steinmark gets his due in this sports drama
Vedalam
Tamil action comedy
Thoongaavanam
Tamil adaptation of the French thriller Sleepless Night
Akhil
Telugu fantasy.
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
Bollywood take on The Prince and the Pauper switch
Dangerous Men
Instant midnight classic marries inspiration with sub-par technique
The 33
Antonio Banderas stars in this story about the trapped Chilean miners
Love the Coopers
A comedy gathering as dreary as your own family get-togethers
Love
Gaspar Noé does the impossible: He gives us a boring, 3-D sex odyssey
Paying for Waller Creek
The flood-control tunnel, and the surface improvements such as parks and trails, are two separate projects, with separate funding strategies. Tunnel • The total budget was estimated at nearly $150 million as of late spring. This includes construction costs of $146.5 million and $3.25 million of bond money spent on preliminary reports. In June the…
Day Trips: Klein Smokehaus
Small-town meat market embraces German traditions and art of barbecue
Illuminating Waller Creek
Light-based artworks will illuminate Waller Creek for a second year in “Creek Show,” which opens tonight, Nov. 12, and runs until Nov. 21. The free event features five site-specific light installations by teams of local designers. The show was conceived in 2013 as a strategy to keep the creek in the public’s imagination during the…
Soccer Watch
The biggest soccer news of the week comes from Catalonia, where a Monday secession vote in the regional parliament appears to have set the semiautonomous region on to a path of total independence from Spain by 2017. In that event, the Spanish La Liga has announced, Catalan teams – notably Barcelona, possibly the best club…
Turning the Tables
Food meets art at Make. Eat. Drink.
Council: It Never Rains but It Pours
How moving quickly on buyouts for the nearly 300 Onion Creek homeowners went unresolved
The Take-Out
Does Austin need more restaurant reviews?
APD Jaywalking Arrests Spark Outcry
YouTube video of arrests ignite controversy over APD force
The Hightower Report
Can craft beer drinkers defeat the beer monopolists?
Green Gate Farms in Peril?
Roberts Resorts plans to replace the Eastside farmland with RV lots and manufactured homes
Gay Place: LEAVE HEART ALONE!!!!!
The Seattle sisters get called up
TCAD Lawsuit Dismissed: Onward and Upward?
The latest act in the city of Austin’s lawsuit against the Travis Central Appraisal District didn’t hold the stage very long. On Friday, Nov. 6, state District Judge Tim Sulak dismissed the lawsuit against TCAD and certain commercial property owners, ruling that the city does not have standing to challenge TCAD appraisals in court. However,…
Page Two: Mysteries Unraveled
Part two of Louis Black’s interview with novelist John Irving
CodeNEXT Prepares to Rewrite Austin
Sound Check, a week of city development code-related events, kicks off Nov. 16
Sandra Adair’s New Calling
A master editor steps behind the camera
An EAST Buyer’s Guide
What to do when you find a piece of art on the East Austin Studio Tour that you want to bring home
Abbott Cracks Down on Sanctuary Cities
Immigration rights advocates say Abbott is merely pandering to his political base
When They Were Kings
My All American revisits UT Football legend Freddie Steinmark
Headlines
City Council meets today (Thursday, Nov. 12) with a full slate of zoning cases along with contentious matters like short-term rentals and a Convention Center Master Plan, while hoping the next flood is not imminent. See “Council: It Never Rains but It Pours,” Nov. 13. The U.S. Justice Department announced it would appeal to the…
Tempers Flare as AISD Board Tackles Confederate Legacy
Name change issue punted to the board’s policy committee
Suicide Girls Leave Austin Blue
The show may be canceled but the community is thriving
Quote of the Week
“The fact that a corporation is attacking the Council because they don’t want to comply with safety rules is disgraceful.” – Council Member Ann Kitchen to the Statesman on Uber’s use of a Downtown horse-and-buggy to protest Council’s consideration of new regulations on transportation network companies
Judge Kocurek Shooter Update
Acevedo says HPD has arrested a “person of interest” on unrelated murder charges
The Luv Doc: Facial Hair
In the end the mortality rate of bearded vs. non-bearded people is exactly the same
Point Austin: The Courthouse Aftermath
Low voter turnout means that 6% of county residents decided the courthouse’s fate
CodeNEXT Sound Check
Mon.-Sat., Nov. 16-21
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Hummingbirds evolved in the New World tropics. The only species that stays north for the winter is the Anna’s hummingbird. The average American spends about $22 per day on food alone. Back in the Sixties, singer Monti Rock III used to throw bananas into the audience. A former hairdresser, he released Disco Tex and His…
Public Notice: Break Out the Sharpies (or the Sharp Knives)
If CodeNEXT staff want community input, they need to be more transparent
Neil Gaiman’s Greatest Delights
Author Neil Gaiman brings his Dreamy self to Austin on Friday the 13th
Capital T Theatre’s The Dumb Waiter
In Capital T’s simple, elegant staging of the Pinter classic, it’s what isn’t said that matters
Playback: Black Metal, Gray Skies, Red-Hot Love
Sex, love, and nostalgia – recapping Fun Fun Fun Fest 2015
Austin Opera’s Aida
In Verdi’s Egyptian tragedy, Austin Opera excavates from the pomp and pageantry the personal
Waller Creek Comes to Life
Conservancy seeks radical makeover east of Downtown
Chorus Austin’s The Witching Hour
Chorus Austin unearthed a vast repertoire of music – gorgeous, frightening, and comedic – that speaks to mortality and the dead
The End of F1 in Austin?
U.S. Grand Prix might not be back next year
Owens Found Guilty
Killeen native implicated in SXSW crash sentenced to life in prison
