Two Austin Musicians Killed in Wreck
Chris Porter and Mitchell Vandenburg taken in tragic tour crash
Austin Film Festival Review: Long Live Death
German crime TV show makes the jump to the big screen
Austin Film Festival Review: Two Trains Runnin’
Freedom Summer and the blues align in this informative doc
Day Trips & Beyond: Bent’s Fort, Colo.
Once the superstore of the Santa Fe Trail
First Look: Eberly
Victorian and midcentury modern meet in contemporary space
Save the World With Bill Nye
SXSW Eco closing speaker thinks we’re not a lost cause
Austin Film Festival Review: The Cliff
Spanish thriller adds political intrigue to cult horror
Austin Film Festival Review: The Big Spoon
Love lost and found in this bittersweet local feature
Austin Film Festival Review: Chronesthesia
The time-travel romance you’ve been waiting for (or is it just déjà vu?)
The Q&A Hole: Can Money Buy Happiness?
With Edmo, Carina Magyar, and … Gloria Steinem? Yes, and more.
Austin Earns Top Grade in LGBTQ Scorecard
HRC report: Austin, Dallas, Ft. Worth, most LGBTQ-friendly in state
Austin Film Festival Review: Brave New Jersey
Orson Welles’ alien-invasion broadcast turns a town upside down
Austin Film Festival Film Review: Homestate
Endearing local feature pops with authenticity and nuance
Austin Film Festival Review: Gimme Danger
A real cool time hanging in Iggy Pop’s fun house
Fuck With Sad Girls
Bonnie Whitmore’s feminist anthem
Council: Freedom From Fear
Council joins national defense of Muslims and immigrants
Austin Film Festival Review: Holding Patterns
A great ensemble supports this tale of twentysomething ennui
Austin Film Festival Review: Almost Adults
Two friends grapple with relationships in this snarky charmer
Austin Film Festival Review: Shorts Program 10 – Everything’s Shorter in Texas
Series highlights strong range of local filmmakers
Austin Film Festival Review: An Acquired Taste
Locavore youth documentary debut aims to please
Austin Film Festival Review: Canine Soldiers
The U.S. Army’s bomb sniffer program explained but not explored
Austin Film Fest Review: Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse
Cali comedy duo blow up some seriously sweet and smart doomsday heart
Austin Film Fest Review: One Night
Debut feature examines love from two vantage points
AFF Revisits the Perfectly Looney What’s Up, Doc?
Paul Feig presents the 1972 screwball comedy on Sunday
Denial
Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues
Desierto
A most dangerous game in the desert
Max Steel
A teen and an alien join forces in this superhero movie
The Accountant
Math, mayhem, and murder abound in this somewhat confusing thriller
Two Things Horror Fans Hate: 3-D and Found Footage
Austin director Steven DeGennaro on his horror comedy Found Footage 3D
Day Trips: Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Houston
With more than 25 beverages under their label, drinking the AB InBev brand is easy in their tap room
Velvet Ruts and How to Leave Them
Two AFF films explore growing up and moving on in Austin
Soccer Watch
The UT Longhorns broke a four-game winless streak with a 2-0 win over Kansas State last Friday. They’re at Iowa State this weekend in somewhat desperate need of a Big 12 win. The Horns are 7-6-1, but just 0-3-1 in the Big 12, and in danger of not finishing in the top eight in the…
Cheap Eats: Austin Daily Press
Affordable decadence on the Eastside
Jarrott Productions’ The Price
This staging of the Arthur Miller drama keenly appraises the worth of a life
Dear Glutton: Where to Find Late-Night Eats
Food options for the post-festival crowd
UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance’s In the Red and Brown Water
Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney’s complex play operate as both theatre and ritual
The Buzz on Local Bees
A swarm of local activity seeks to protect pollinators
“The First Horizons of Juno” at MASS Gallery
Within this smart and variable group show are three works that are muscular, robust, something to pump your fist to
Playback: ACL Fest Part II
ACL Fest isn’t a pair of weekend-long sit-ins, it’s one two-week-long campaign
Fight for $15 Protests Fast Food Working Conditions
Rallies come on heels of negative labor report on Austin restaurants
The Luv Doc: How Clever You Are
Where everyone gets their three minutes to bomb
Groping Women, Ducking Questions, Fighting Lightweights, Bashing Bonds
Election notes from the city, state, country, and beyond
Gay Place
Plenty of spooktacular events in the weeks ahead
City Council Endors-gasbord
Who’s endorsing who for the five City Council seats up for grabs in November?
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Chicago Public Library was created directly from the ashes of the great Chicago Fire in 1871. The 1896 Armstrong Phaeton was a gas-electric hybrid horseless carriage (the old name for “automobile”). Designed by Harry Dey, the vehicle had a 6.5-liter two-cylinder gasoline fed engine, as well as a dynamo-wound flywheel to charge an on-board…
30-Days-Out Reports from Campaign Finance Land
With 30 days to go until the Nov. 8 general election, the Office of the City Clerk has again compiled the latest campaign finance numbers for the five City Council seats on the ballot. Here’s a breakdown of how much money each candidate has raised, spent, owes in loans, and has on hand for the…
Inside Full Service Circus’ Musical Festival
Can’t get on the bill at ACL? Start your own backyard fest.
ACL Fest Weekend Two Live Shots
One final recap from two perfect weekends
Death Watch: Shuffling the Deck
Death row inmates see new execution dates
Rundberg Rising
It’s a warm Saturday afternoon in May along Little Walnut Creek in North Austin, and a bunch of Austin ISD school kids are painting. It doesn’t look like much: a little concrete pedestrian bridge, no more than two feet tall. They’re laying out scenes of farms, handprints, and abstract figures dancing. But to the population…
The Hightower Report: Why Is Delivering “Mail by the Pail” Important?
It’s part of our post office’s amazing commitment to service
Prosecuting Sexual Assault
DOJ grant provides $650,000 to jump-start new sexual assault prosecution unit
Quote of the Week
“I am a person of integrity – I will not be bought, bribed or bullied.” – City Council Member Ora Houston, opposing the November transportation bond proposition
Headlines
City Council meets today (Oct. 13) with a heavy zoning agenda – some 25 cases, but with the embattled Austin Oaks PUD postponed to Nov. 10 – plus some annexation hearings and a handful of resolutions concerning the city manager hiring process, affordable housing strategies, and opposing “hate speech,” especially against Muslims. District 6 Council…
Point Austin: American Horror Story
What can you say when you can’t say “It’s Only a Movie”?
2016 Austin Film Festival Spotlights
AFF has some big names, but never loses sight of its hometown
Public Notice: Which Comes First?
CodeNEXT or the transpo bond? Or both?
Louisiana Kreutz’s Quaker Oaths
How a running joke turned into a quirky comedy
Page Two – BFI: Blaze Foley Inside
11 verses in search of a song
ACL Review: Mumford & Sons
Appropriate end to two flawless ACL weekends
ACL Review: Haim
“Less talk, more rock, motherfuckers!”
ACL Review: Willie Nelson
Abbott’s 83-years-young son sanctifies all
ACL Review: Gallant
Capital crooner’s buoyancy recalls Seal and Maxwell
ACL Review: Cage the Elephant
Widescreen Britpop ballads and rampaging garage-psych
ACL Review: Anderson Paak
Hip-hop/R&B fusionist takes an ATX victory lap
ACL Review: Major Lazer
Circus maximus for the under-30 set
