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The Past, Present, and Future of Waller and Shoal Creeks
Finally doing right by Austin’s waterways
A #MeToo Measure for Measure?
Austin Shakespeare gives a peek at a modern Measure Saturday
Kerbey Lane Cafe Opens in Mueller Tomorrow
Get your breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner on
Beyond the Latke
Five alternatives to everyone’s favorite Hanukkah dish
Book This Gift, You Graphic Self-Chronicler
Because your life’s narrative structure deserves some good paneling
Chronicle Recommends: Seasons Beatings
Our top picks for holiday movies with a twist
Gift Guide: Queers Just Wanna Have Fun
A q-for-q way to help laugh the pain away
Songwriter-Performer Caleb De Casper Wants Your Attention
Good Boy or “Bad Boy”? You decide.
A Texas Snacker’s Guide to the Holidays
Put your gifts where your mouth is
Review: Revel’s Existential Solstice
In a concert evoking winter’s cold and darkness, warmth
Book This Gift, You Comics-Loving Citizen
Because the All-Trans Comics Anthology is a many-splendored thing
Grassroots Leadership Responds to Abuse Accusations
Activist claims Grassroots staffer verbally abused her and others
Book This Gift, You Constant Reader
Kristi Coulter’s newest will slake your need-some-wisdom thirst
Austin’s Hottest Winter Date Ideas
Seasonally appropriate suggestions for your next night out
Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
Hightower Hits a Wall
Syndicator balks at criticism of hedge fund newspaper chains
20 Special Occasion Restaurants
We pick our favorite spots for a night out
Mixing Up Your Environmentalism
Plateaued on your earth-friendly efforts? Here are a few ideas to help.
1985
Stunning AIDS drama looks beyond the disease and into grief
Mirai
Delightful anime explores growing up from a kid’s viewpoint
Maria by Callas
The genius soprano’s contentious career in her own words
Meow Wolf: Origin Story
How the legendary art collective beat the world and kept its soul
Anna and the Apocalypse
Scottish zombie musical is your new Christmas playlist
The Favourite
Period drama puts power and personality first
Playback: Compose Like a Pro
Graham Reynolds teaches musicians how to score … film
One in a Crowd
Local filmmakers make their own Netflix movie
Cronk Meets Job Creation Goals
City manager names candidates for new executive team
The Found Footage Festival Comes to Austin
Traveling showcase of video hilarity screens at the North Door
Luv Doc: Not Metaphorically Speaking
You can say “Cleveland Steamer” and not be accused of profanity
Run-Off Election Ticker: Getting a Li’l Testy!
Democracy itself is at stake. Just ask Frank Ward.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to a 2013 survey by the retailer Intimacy, the average bra size in the U.S. is 34DD. Just 20 years prior, it was 34B. The top three surnames in Texas are Garcia, Smith, and Martinez, according to Ancestry.com. According to Science, there’s a 31-kilometer-wide impact crater under the Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland, left by…
Hail to the Fire Chief
Joel Baker comes in to lead a tired department
Austin Playhouse’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This musical production makes for an effervescent alternative to that other Dickens holiday show
Bucking the Blacklist
Robert Van Boven back in court against Texas Medical Board
Different Stages’ Great Expectations
In this retelling of the Charles Dickens novel, a visible love of narrative is the show’s greatest strength
“Texas Seven” Escapee Set for Execution
Inmate challenges original conviction, post-escape “law of parties” verdict
“Annie Miller: I see london, I see france” at MoHA
This show in the Cage Match Project series casts the viewer as peeping Tom, looking through holes in a boarded-up trailer to view art
AISD Teachers Push Back on Proposed Cuts
Union warns cash-starved district: Stay out of the classroom
Snapshot: Austin Oddities and Curiosities Expo
Weird is the new normal at this bazaar of the bizarre
Soccer Watch
The second leg of the Copa Libertadores final between Argentine crosstown rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors – “the biggest club game in South American history,” according to The Guardian – was postponed indefinitely after Boca’s team bus was attacked by “fans” on the way to the game Saturday, with at least six players injured.…
Austin ISD Still Stymied by Confederate Names
A school by any other name …
Texas Platters
Beginning with its eponymous first volume in 2013, the All ATX endeavor today maintains the local measure for showcasing Austin artists old and new in the best possible light. Throwing around well-heeled covers well north of standards status, the homegrown series introduces or re-introduces scene stalwarts through songs that immediately make the bearer worth sampling.…
Day Trips: Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Brownsville
Sanctuary safeguards rare island of palms behind border wall
Texas Platters
In September, local FM standby KGSR transformed into Austin City Limits Radio. Rebranding allowed an instant playlist refreshment and overall reappraisal, which continues still. Like wall-to-wall capital city concert essentials Blues on the Green and Unplugged at the Grove, the frequency’s annual Broadcasts streak lives on to benefit the SIMS Foundation. Alongside a 2-CD, 37-track…
Headlines
A Blues Note: City Council meets today (Thursday, Nov. 29) for what appears to be a fairly light agenda, offering short-term rental regs, SXSW code waivers, and a CAPCOG regional air quality plan. Music honorees: the Gypsy Drifters. See “Council Slips Into Relaxation Mode,” Nov. 30. Keep on Voting: In case you haven’t noticed –…
Texas Platters
When 1998 began, Fastball hung on to their deal with Disney-owned Hollywood Records by a whim. The local trio’s energetic, hook-infused 1996 debut, Make Your Mama Proud, didn’t sell, and conventional logic suggested album two would result in their major label swan song. Accepting that bet, bassist Tony Scalzo and guitarist Miles Zuniga doubled down…
Point Austin: A More Urgent Warning
National Climate Assessment amplifies the alarm
Texas Platters
Had a bad year? Local noir combo Mr. Lewis & the Funeral 5 spent 2017 suffering the deaths of two significant others, a divorce, and the exit of half the group. Artists, however, process tragedy by turning the universe’s ill will into work. As such, third full-length Before the World Beat You Down filters sadness…
Quote of the Week
“The intercollegiate football teams of The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University shall play a nonconference, regular-season football game against one another on the fourth Thursday, Friday, or Saturday of November each year.” – From House Bill 412 by Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio (Aggie).
Texas Platters
Cello-led neoclassical arrangements modulated by modern electro grooves, The Sound of Science implores the dystopia of a world led by science deniers. Dexterous cellist formerly of the Kronos Quartet, Jeffrey Zeigler preforms an eight-track project produced by Graham Reynolds and his local chamber music laboratory, Golden Hornet. The two principals enlist renowned composers from around…
Public Notice: Displacement Bad
New task force report finds room to improve
Qmmunity
FBC will make you blush brighter than the Trail of Lights
Council Slips Into Relaxation Mode
Light agenda, plus spitballing about biennial budgets
Lobster Rolls and Business Rules at Garbo’s
Heidi Garbo is strong as hell
Defunding the Paxton Case
Court guts pay for special prosecutors trying AG for fraud
Building a Film Community at Renegade Studios
Austin filmmakers create a one-stop production space in Taylor
EPA Rejects Coyote Cyanide Ban
Feds reject effort to remove unsafe animal-control tool from use
Legerdemain Man Ray Anderson
The fact that magicians around the world revere the magic man of Esther’s Follies is no illusion
Sparks Flying Over Spider House
Owner files suit after sexual misconduct scandal
Chronicle Endorsements
Dec. 11 Run-off Election; Early Voting Nov. 29-Dec. 7
