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Into The Adventure Zone With Griffin McElroy
Local podcaster tells how his brother, his brother, and he turned a game of Dungeons & Dragons into storytelling magic
Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 20-22
First, read this list aloud … in the voice … of Michael Caine, Mr. Wayne
Barney Miller: Dark Knight
Holy Wojo, Batman, these sitcom detectives seem awful familiar!
An Inside Look at Austin’s Biggest Used Bookstore
Half Price Books, N. Lamar: “We tend more toward the unusual.”
Into the Woods With The Heretics
Canadian horror gets its U.S. premiere tonight
MLS for Austin at Last?
Columbus Crew announces plan to relocate to Austin
Texas Is About to Get Its First Marijuana Dispensary
Compassionate Cultivation open in Austin before year’s end?
ACL Review: White Reaper
Clash meets Go-Go’s meets Pixies meets Thin Lizzy
ACL Review: Songhoy Blues
Defiant Malians inspire dance party
ACL Review: Middle Kids
Rookie Aussies debut alt-rock potential
ACL Review: Midland
Grinning hipster flair with contemporary country appeal
ACL Review: Tank & the Bangas
Mardi Gras in Zilker Park!
Sound on Sound Fest Make-Up Shows
Salvage includes Grizzly Bear, Cannibal Corpse, Noname
Laying Down the Lore
Aaron Mahnke takes smash hit folklore podcast to Amazon
DVDanger: Brawl in Cell Block 99
Vince Vaughn and Udo Kier on being the heavy
ACL Review: Tove Lo
Swedish sensation bares all
ACL Review: Spoon
Homegrown indie rock heroes enter Tom Petty territory
ACL Review: Black Angels
Austin psych lords lower the doom
ACL Review: Glass Animals
Electro-pop Brits thunder
ACL Review: Nick Hakim
D.C. virtuoso offers a surrealistic tour de fource
ACL Review: Tash Sultana
Aussie debuts one-woman show at her first U.S. fest
ACL Review: Vulfpeck
Sessionistas bring the Midwestern funk party
ACL Review: James Vincent McMorrow
The Celtic Bon Iver
ACL Review: Hamilton Leithauser
Ex-Walkmen singer’s professionalism edges out intensity
ACL Review: Ron Gallo
Philly garage rocker’s aim is true
ACL Review: Annabelle Chairlegs
Austin’s Joplin-esque Lindsey Mackin cuts like a knife
Quickie With Cazwell
Queer rapper brings his sexy, subversive act to Austin
APD Body Cameras Coming to East Austin Next Week
Departmental rollout of 736 cameras will continue through year’s end
Do Androids Dream of a Screening This Cool?
Blade Runner 2049 at the Alamo makes a Golden Hornet buzz
Moontower Comedy 2018: First Headliners Announced
“Weird Al,” Birbiglia, and Haddish inked for joke jamboree
Herbie Hancock’s Unreal ACL Taping
Jazz immortal debuts on PBS concert staple
Artists, Assemble!
Generous Art starting a professional association for artists
CodeNEXT Marches On
City Council extends consultant contract, maintains timeline
Marshall
Supreme Court judge biopic has bite
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
The origins of the iconic Amazon princess
Happy Death Day
Living your death over and over again
Lucky
Cranky loner (and beloved character actor) faces mortality
The Florida Project
Life in the happiest place on Earth
Barracuda
Austin vibes meet darker skies
Faces Places
Celebrating faces in the crowd
The Foreigner
Jackie Chan takes a page from Liam Neeson
Loving Vincent
A lushly painted but boring story of the life of the famous artist
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste
Where does the food go?
The Last Metro
The Last Metro 1980, PG, 131 min. Directed by Francois Truffaut, Starring Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret. Historical drama set in in a theatre in occupied France won multiple César awards, including best film, best actor, and best actress.
AC Food Fight: Frozen Desserts
Which one of these frozen desserts is the best bet?
Austin’s Four Vegan Frozen Dessert Shops
We all scream for (dairy-free) ice cream
Sunday ACL Fest Platters
Three LPs we’re spinning on the Sabbath
Public Notice: Deadline? Whose Deadline?
CodeNEXT: “We’ve got to figure this out”
Friday ACL Fest Picks
Five must-see Austin acts!
Sunday ACL Fest Interview: Deap Vally
L.A. duo doesn’t want to talk about feminism
The Vortex’s Vampyress
Chad Salvata’s gothic opera is the perfect treat for the season of ghouls, sensual and spooky
Quote of the Week: Abby Lerma
Student / lyricist riffs on the importance of high school math
Friday ACL Fest Platter: Ron Gallo
One record from ACL Fest Friday we really dig
Sunday ACL Fest Interview: Songhoy Blues
Malian guitar combine reaches Western soars via rock and blues
Austin Symphony Orchestra: Feast of Voices
The ASO and Chorus Austin combined forces for an evening of music that was gorgeous, sensual, and sometimes hall-shaking
What’cha Watchin’?
Account Executive Marisa Mirabal gets in the Halloween spirit
Saturday ACL Fest Interview: Benjamin Booker
Blues-punk live dynamo reveals his Southernness
Sunday ACL Fest Interview: Vance Joy
Aussie breakout sticks to that which he can accomplish – songwriting
“Marta Lee & Anika Steppe: Kind of About Michigan” at UT VAC
A road trip to adolescent haunts in Michigan results in a touching collaboration that stops short of sentimentality
Saturday ACL Fest Picks
One Aussie and five Austinites we like on Saturday
Playback: Best WTFs of ACL Fest Weekend One
The good, the bad, and the myriad Tom Petty covers
Day Trips: Magic’s Theater, Dripping Springs
Old-fashioned magician thrills with timeless illusions and tricks
Saturday ACL Fest Interview: Glass Animals
Oxford quartet’s frontman bares all
Sunday ACL Fest Platter: Okey Dokey
Okey Dokey Love You, Mean It (Exag) Anchored by Aaron Martin and Johny Fisher, Okey Dokey’s debut recruits Nashville’s indie scene, including members of Wild Child, Rayland Baxter, the Weeks, and Ron Gallo. Love You, Mean It thus swoons with a twee-ish, indie-pop delight. From the bass-driven groove of “Coffee Boi” and lo-fi swirl of…
Soccer Watch
It seemed unthinkable as late as Tuesday evening. Surely the U.S. would qualify for next summer’s World Cup. To be knocked out for the first time since 1986, the U.S. would have to lose to last-place Trinidad & Tobago, and have both Panama and Honduras upset group leaders Mexico and Costa Rica. Well, that unlikely…
Blackfoot Gypsies
Blackfoot Gypsies To the Top (Plowboy) Riff in their hearts and a catchy chorus on their lips, East Nashville’s Blackfoot Gypsies unabashedly kick out the jams. A certain reverence for American roots gives them weight beyond garage rock trend-hopping. N’awlins second line in “Back to New Orleans,” blues on, naturally, “I’ve Got the Blues,” and…
Sunday ACL Fest Platter: Midland
Midland On the Rocks (Big Machine) A generation of hipsters raised on Randy Travis and George Strait are finally leading country music’s pendulum swing back to a neo-traditional sound. Enter Midland, a trio of “got-here-as-fast-as-we-could” Texas transplants from the West Coast dishing a debut LP that swigs more Eighties influence than Red Dirt. The Dripping…
Death Watch: Next Up, the Tourniquet Killer
Convicted strangler set for execution on Oct. 18
Nick Hakim
Nick Hakim Green Twins(ATO Records) In lingering glances, rushed entanglements, and delicate touches, Nick Hakim’s debut laments over intimate memories through gentle love songs that spiral into soulful, psychedelic hymns. The booming “Bet She Looks Like You” and ethereal “Those Days” center the D.C. singer in the realm of sensual aficionados Curtis Mayfield and D’Angelo…
Sunday ACL Fest Platter: White Reaper
White Reaper The World’s Best American Band (Polyvinyl) White Reaper is beer-laden rock tied to an amplifier. The Kentucky quintet’s sophomore album leaves no room for deep breaths with sizzling riffs, sparkling keys, and screeching vocals brought to you by frontman Tony Esposito, the whole reminiscent of Seventies Kinks and Cars if they threw a…
Christopher Columbus Apologists Gang Up on Council
Indigenous Peoples’ Day, not everybody’s idea of a great holiday
Pearl Moen: Out of Jail Already?
Your parole hearing hardly means you’re out on parole
As the City Strives for Zero Waste, Where Does Food Fit In?
Bringing farm-to-table back to the farm
Colina West Still Wants the Baker Center
If you can’t get your own way, sue
Learning the Hard Way That Police and Democratic Socialists Rarely Mix
CLEAT alum Danny Fetonte’s resignation from the Austin DSA raises questions for the local chapter
Gay Place
(Still) celebrating National Coming Out Day
Adam Reposa Can’t Beat the Rap
Infamous defense attorney currently in custody for contempt of court
The Luv Doc: Attaboy!
Adequate is an adjective that has never inspired anyone in any way ever
ICE Found Snooping on Council Member Greg Casar
The Intercept uncovers monitoring of elected officials’ social media
Council: Visitors Welcome?
CodeNEXT, Visit Austin return to City Council
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
As late as 2014, New York taxi medallions went for $1.3 million each. Last month, a cabbie was selling his for $100,000, and in all, 85 medallions were sold in foreclosures since 2015. According to The New York Times, taxis drove just 277,042 daily trips in July, a 16% drop from their 332,231 rides a…
Sunday ACL Fest Picks
Oakland, New Orleans, and New Zealand – that’s where our head’s at today
Oops!
Last week’s story “CodeNEXT: Still Stuck” incorrectly spelled the last name of Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Department staffer Erica Leak.
Hunkered Down in Troxclair’s Lair
City Council’s lone conservative preaches to her choir
The Eyeslicer Roadshow Aims to Melt Your Brain
Low-budget, lo-fi shorts celebrate radical filmmaking
Headlines
City Council meets today (Oct. 12) with a light to-do list, but may get into the polemical weeds on CodeNEXT (a $2.3 million bump to the consultant contract) and perhaps “Visit Austin” (Convention and Visitors Bureau), which is hoping for approval of its FY 2018 budget and master plan. “Council: Visitors Welcome?” Oct. 13. It’s…
County Ditches STAR-Vote’s Innovative Voting System
County clerk Dana DeBeauvoir abandons initiative after failing to find a suitable vendor
My Obsession: The Dick Van Dyke Show
Was the Sixties sitcom a harbinger of horror?
Killers
Killers 8:15pm, American Express stage Credit the Killers for dispensing with necessities early. The Las Vegas outfit opened their Sunday night headlining set with the umpteenth Tom Petty cover of ACL Fest, unloading “American Girl” in mundane, if sincere, homage. More surprising was following it up with “Mr. Brightside,” which delivered their biggest hit early…
Point Austin: Postponing the Code
CodeNEXT rewrite generating inexplicable panic
Saturday ACL Fest Platters
Two albums we’re spinning from Saturday at ACL Fest
‘Tis the Season
Something wicked this way screens
Say Hello (Again) to Republic Square
Downtown park hosts first farmers’ market on Saturday
Imagine Austin Five Years Later
Progress report details wins, losses, path forward for 30-year plan
ACL Review: Gorillaz
Damon Albarn’s cartoon supergroup transcends
ACL Review: Run the Jewels
Rap duo hoists the black flag
ACL Review: First Aid Kit
The Söderberg sound evolves but remains magical
ACL Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Flea and company kill it
ACL Review: Chance the Rapper
God-fearing Chicago rapper preaches to the converted
ACL Review: Angel Olsen
An operatic Patti Smith or just a daydream?
ACL Review: Car Seat Headrest
College rockers eschew Tom Petty for Neil Young
ACL Review: Parker Millsap
Oklahoman singer-songwriter exorcises his inner punk
ACL Review: Jay-Z
King MC brings his A game
ACL Review: The xx
London trio’s minimalism turns maximum on mainstage
ACL Review: Solange
The other Knowles sister chronicles black America
ACL Review: Skepta
MC locksteps the crowd with infectious, street-level bangers
ACL Review: Lukas Nelson
Willie’s kid proves his own Americana rockist
ACL Review: Lemon Twigs
New school Sixties/Seventies pomp and circumstance
ACL Eats Vendor List 2017
Amy’s Ice Creams This local crew has been folding up handcrafted ice creams and vegan fruit ices for 33 years. www.amysicecreams.com. Austin Gourmet Popcorn Tasty treats from a local gourmet popcorn, candy, and soda store are perfect for a show. www.austingourmetpopcorn.com. Austin’s Pizza You can’t go wrong with some simple pepperoni or cheese slices from…
