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The Gravity of Sound
The Bubble’s new studio stands as Mark Genfan’s swan song
Iron Age’s Seminal Album Reverberates Through Texas’ Metal Scene
The Sleeping Eye turns 10 with a reissue, its creators and other Texas metal icons consider its influence
Catch Lucky McKee’s Newest Film Tonight
Kindred Spirits gets sneak preview on Lifetime Movies tonight
Book Review: The River at Night
In Kevin Huizenga’s graphic novel, one man’s speeding mind breaks time
Book Review: The Hard Tomorrow
Eleanor Davis’ graphic novel centers on a woman who’s trying
Hunting Down the Clickbait Beast in The VICE Guide to Bigfoot
Zach Lamplugh and Brian Emond are on the case at the Austin Film Festival
Chris Ware and Seth at the Texas Book Festival
Two titans of sequential art, gabbing craftwise in Austin on Saturday
John Merriman and Steve Collins Admit I’ve Got Issues
But hey, who doesn’t?
Casey Suchan Follows The Animal People
Documentary shows how anti-terror laws targeted animal rights groups
One in a Crowd: Medical Emergency for Horror Expert
Austin film podcaster desperately needs your help
Berkshire Hounds Talk Breakup and Reunion
“We’ve definitely matured/been beaten down over the last five years”
Book Review: Mostly Dead Things
A taxidermist’s family grieves and grows in Kristen Arnett’s debut
Tyler, the Creator Blooms at the Erwin Center
Odd Future MC hasn’t forgotten inciting a SXSW riot
Why Sarah Elaine Smith Writes the Way She Does
The author of Marilou Is Everywhere tells the full story
Austin Bold FC Hosts LA Galaxy II in Playoff Soccer
USL first round at COTA is the last home game of the season
Día de los Muertos Events in Austin 2019
Austin’s best live events to celebrate the dead
Book Review: How We Fight for Our Lives
Saeed Jones’ memoir resonates most when it digs the deepest
Texas Book Festival: Nicky Drayden and Chris Brown
The Austin authors explore new frontiers in science fiction
Pain, Pathos, and Prescience: The Work of Agnieszka Holland
AFS and Austin Polish Film Festival celebrate the Polish pioneer
History Rewritten by The Mandela Effect
Sci fi tragedy gets its world premiere in Austin
Houston Rapper Maxo Kream’s Fatigue Couldn’t Dampen Excitement at Emo’s
Sound issues and back-to-back shows still led to a 20-song set
Book Review: A Cosmology of Monsters
Shaun Hamill pens an achingly aware homage to horrors past
Glossier Is Coming to South Congress
The cult fave internet makeup shop pops up for a limited time only
Belles & Chimes All-Female Pinball League Comes to Austin
International org sets down roots in ATX with new chapter
Weekend Wine: A Red Wine Bargain from Portugal
Good quality and price, and tasty with grilled meats and barbecue
Back to Zombieland
Ruben Fleischer and Jesse Eisenberg pull the trigger on Double Tap
Austin City Council Reinstates Partial Camping Ban
Governor sends in TxDOT; Kitchen leads effort for more explicit rules
This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: Heavy Metal and the Late Chad Holt
Inside Iron Age frontman Jason Tarpey’s other job forging swords
Shop AF Pop-Up Spotlights Independent Brands
Plus food trucks, whiskey and craft beer tastings, and a live DJ
Watch: Tomar & the FCs Soundtrack Visceral Dance Fantasy
“Innocence” advances new album Rise Above
Austin City Council Proclaims Oct. 26 Intersex Awareness Day
Activist Alicia Roth Weigel discusses intersex rights, says I eXYst
The Addams Family
Your favorite creepy neighbors are back, and kid friendly
Give Me Liberty
Chaotic story of disability doesn’t get completely lost on its trip
Celebration
Long-suppressed documentary of Yves Saint Laurent is style and substance
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
This spell isn’t as bewitching the second time around
Zombieland: Double Tap
Zomcom sequel doesn’t have the splattering charm of the original
Dreamy Visions at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival
Celebrate the avant-garde at AFS Cinema
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of October 17, 2019
A Testy Council Continues to Consider Homelessness
The dais agrees: Ordinances need to be revised, but they disagree on how to do so
Qmmunity: The Queer Adoration of Robyn
Plus Halloween-inspired drag and QTAPI storytelling
The Texas Conference for Women Turns 20 With Expanded Programming
Megan Rapinoe, Tracee Ellis Ross to keynote nonprofit, nonpartisan networking event
The Luv Doc: Exposed Flesh
Please remember my disapproval
Ken Paxton Blocks Payment to Formerly Incarcerated Man Declared Innocent
Declared innocent, Alfred Dewayne Brown has appealed for compensation due to unjust imprisonment
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The original Nancy Drew series includes 175 volumes. She has also appeared in 124 titles in The Nancy Drew Files. “Give me liberty or give me death,” and, “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” are both paraphrased from the English playwright Joseph Addison’s 1713 work, Cato, a Tragedy.…
Headlines
Homeless Un-Camped? City Council meets today (Oct. 17), with a relatively light agenda but a looming ultimatum from Gov. Abbott on homeless policy – Abbott is threatening to take state enforcement action if Council doesn’t re-impose more stringent restrictions on public camping. If they resolve that problem … third reading of Riverside redevelopment project rises.…
Esther’s Follies Meets Scooby-Doo in The Haunting of the Tavern
In this new murder mystery comedy, chasing Emily the ghost leads to some real high jinkies!
Austin at Large: We Have Had It With That Guy
Republicans, come get your bros. Dems, get out your voters.
Soccer Watch
Dare to Create, this Saturday at Native Hostel, is a major fundraiser for Upper Ninety, a youth development and educational program for teens in low-income Austin neighborhoods. They’ll unveil a new mural the students created on the side of the hostel with the help of Erik Ross of HOPE Outdoor Gallery, and feature live art…
Texas Hemp Growers Host Master Class on Modern Cultivation
Since state lawmakers legalized the production of hemp earlier this year, Texas farmers now live on easy street: Toss some seeds in the soil, then kick back and wait for all that sweet CBD oil money to roll in. That is, of course, if you can survive in an erratic market with no baseline pricing,…
Day Trips: Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, Cuero
Chisholm Trail rides again
Quote of the Week
“Any mayor, county judge that was dumbass enough to come meet with me, I told them with great clarity, my goal is for this to be the worst session in the history of the Legislature for cities and counties.” House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, caught on tape
Faster Than Sound: Ryan Garrett Assumes Beerland Lease
Stubb’s GM Ryan Garrett takes over lease on neighboring punk club Beerland, expanding Red River Cultural District involvement.
The Beto-Castro-Meter
Checking on the chances for Texas’ presidential candidates
Local Supplement Brand Pledges to Clean Up Litter With Every Purchase
fitppl sees the link between healthy food and a healthy planet
Public Notice – LDC Revision: Notes & Notices
The city Zoning & Platting Commission, largely sidelined in recent discussions about the Land Development Code Revision, jumped back into the fray this week with a half-hour presentation at Tuesday’s meeting by Commissioner Jim Duncan (formerly Austin’s Land Development Services director and national president of the American Planning Association). He began by pointing out that…
The Graphic Details Behind Marketing Austin’s Craft Beers
How to grow from a brew to a brand
Chad Holt, Austin’s Last Provocateur
The Total Badass left his mark on the city’s underground
Chronicle Endorsements for the November 5 Election
In advance of the Nov. 5 election, the Chronicle editorial board offers the following endorsements. Find more information about the election – including polling locations, voter ID requirements, and more on what’s on the ballot – at the Chronicle’s Elections hub. State Constitutional Amendments (Propositions 1-10) We have long opposed the legislative practice of substituting…
The Long Story of East 11th and 12th Streets Takes a Turn
Austin’s historically black neighborhood continues to stand at the crossroads of growth
Thinkery & Verse’s Dionysus in America
This contemporary spin on The Bacchae shows how little the unjust treatment of women has changed in 2,500 years
Will Austin’s New Wildfire Code Be Enough?
“The risk is bad”
TexARTS’ Little Shop of Horrors
This production of the horror comedy musical makes watching inept humans get devoured by an alien plant just a damn good time
“Will Klemm: Box of Light” at Wally Workman Gallery
The artist illuminates our world’s defining shadows with an oil-based glow
