Cover Story
The Wordy Wranglers of Typewriter Rodeo
The whole country’s saddling up with Austin’s vaqueros of verse
Imagine Universal Income
It’s easy if you try
More New Restaurants Announced for Domain Northside
Daily Austin food news
ACL HOF WOW
Sold-out awards show shucks off TV tropes and triumphs
Everybody vs. Injustice
Using hip-hop to build a just city
The One Thing That Even Houdini Couldn’t Escape
Cooking class reveals arcane secrets of chicken paprikash and more
Eberly, Red Ash Open This Weekend
Daily Austin food news
Beware the “Givertaker”
New Austin short launches the Dead Kids Club
The Well Take Down “One Nation”
War drums for this political season in the abyss
Evidence for the Prosecution of Rock
Austin’s Graffiti Trials releases a garage-flavored chunk of awesome
SXSW Adds to Music Roster
Imarhan, Minus the Bear, Joan of Arc, Charlotte Day Wilson, and 152 more
The Q&A Hole: What’s the Worst Thing About Austin, Texas?
With Jen Cash, Sam Eidson, Shannon McCormick, Matt Oztalay, and more.
Texas May Be Forced to Pay Nearly $5 Million to Pro-Choice Attorneys
Local firm requests more than $111,000 for HB 2 legal services
ACL Review: Mumford & Sons
Appropriate end to two flawless ACL weekends
ACL Review: LCD Soundsystem II
Electro excitement not at the touch of a button
ACL Review: Haim
“Less talk, more rock, motherfuckers!”
ACL Review: Willie Nelson
Abbott’s 83-years-young son sanctifies all
ACL Review: Marlon Williams
A country/bluegrass killer howling from Down Under
ACL Review: Gallant
Capital crooner’s buoyancy recalls Seal and Maxwell
Council: Save the Coyotes!
A morning on wild, wild life, an afternoon on workers’ rights
ACL Review: Kendrick Lamar II
Repeat performance varies little in set-list or sheer force
ACL Review: Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes’ broken folk perseveres
ACL Review: Two Door Cinema Club
North Irish quartet leans on the pop half of synth-pop
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: Margaret Glaspy
Rawer fruit of songwriting labors
ACL Review: Walker Lukens & the Side Arms
Soulful and local electro-pop with a sex beat
DVDanger: C is for Clown
Rampant coulrophobia on DVD and VOD
ACL Review: Radiohead II
Fear and loathing for a second weekend
ACL Review: Major Lazer
Circus maximus for the under-30 set
ACL Review: Struts
Seventies UK glam rock returns
ACL Review: Keeper
Intimate sounds in a not-so-intimate environment
ACL Review: Lincoln Durham
Post-blues tug of war between God and the Satan
Archer’s Challenge Takes Disability Awareness Citywide
Foundation launches citywide fundraiser to benefit Rosedale School
Chronicle Recommends: Scary Political Thrillers
If current politics aren’t scary enough for you, check out these films
A Bicycle Built for Tunes
Steve Parker creates a music-making bike with Lo Fi Cycle
Get Greasy With The Greasy Strangler
Director Jim Hosking on your new cult favorite
Devi(L)
Devi(L) 2016, NR, 136 min. Directed by A. L. Vijay, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Prabhu Deva, Tamannaah, Sonu Sood, RJ Balaji. Not reviewed at press time. A man finds out his wife is possessed in this Indian horror comedy.
Masterminds
Heist comedy stars Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, and Kristin Wiig
Under the Shadow
A mother and her son are stuck in a war zone in this Iranian horror film
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Animation and reality collide in this paean to pubescence
Beauty and the Beast
Yet another take on the classic fairy tale
The Greasy Strangler
It’s lewd, crude, and full of grease
The Birth of a Nation
Controversial slave uprising epic finally hits theatres
The Girl on the Train
Another girl gone in this tedious adaptation
American Honey
Youths hit the road in this rambling epic
Weekend Two Sunday ACL Fest Picks
ACL sendoffs
Council: Coyotes, Garages, and Manure
Old zoning cases never die; they just reincarnate as amendments
Weekend Two Sunday ACL Fest Interview: Amanda Shires
Americana songstress doesn’t need hubby Jason Isbell to constitute one-half of a power couple
Gay Place
Brand New Key celebrate the release of their first full-length
The Wrath of Don
Zimmerman’s constituents accuse him of online, in-person abuse
SXSW Eco: A Better Milk When You Mind Your Peas
Sustainability + alternative milk = two peas in a pod
Homegrown
Austin acts at ACL Fest Weekend Two
Giving Hoppy Beers a Second Chance
While IPAs remain craft beer’s most popular style, it is also its most polarizing
Election Notes
Mobility Bond woes, Margaret Moore hires staff, and other stories from the campaign trail
Country Sensation Margo Price Gets Real
Nashville queen reigns over ACL’s second weekend
ACL Fest Late-Night
Weekend Two aftershows
Review: Kyōten Sushiko
Exceptional nigiri is served with few frills
Angela Davis Closes Out UT’s Inaugural Black Matters Conference
Educator and former political prisoner captivates with keynote address
Did Failures at APD’s Crime Lab Lead to Sexual Assaults in Houston?
Rape case goes unprosecuted due to contaminated DNA evidence
The Common Law
Eminent domain and condemnation – frequently asked questions
Page Two: Pay-to-Play City Politics
When it comes to Austin’s independent businesses, the City too often is part of the problem
Quote of the Week
“You’ve whipped out that Mexican thing again.” – Mike Pence to Tim Kaine, in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, during which Pence was annoyed at Kaine’s focus on Donald Trump’s bigoted declaration
Do Not Resist Charts the Rise of the Militarization of Law Enforcement
Documentary offers a critical look at evolving present-day policing efforts
Oops
Sept. 30’s story “Norwood Found Guilty” contained two errors. First, Louis Wann did not own the property where Ruth Bettis’ body was found in 1982; his ex-wife’s family owned it. Wann also did not say that David Duke was Judy Norwood’s father. He said Duke was Judy Norwood’s brother. Judy Norwood did have a brother…
Headlines
City Council convenes today (Oct. 6) over a middling agenda, featuring a long-delayed public hearing on the latest amendments to the Champion Tracts settlement, a half-dozen annexation hearings, and enough morning contracts for consent agenda non-consensus. See “Council: Coyotes, Garages, and Manure.” A grand jury declined to indict former APD Officer Matthew Michaelson last Thursday…
Terrence Malick Tackles the Universe in His Latest Film
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience investigates the mystery of the cosmos
Playback – ACL Fest: Dad Rock Is Dead
Wrapping weekend one of ACL Fest on the eve of the second iteration
Point Austin: All Grove All the Time
In Austin’s housing toolbox, all we’ve got are hammers
Future Perfect
SXSW Eco panelists on designing a better tomorrow
Hyde Park Theatre’s Lungs
The company has gathered all the right people for this beautiful, painful, timely tale of a man and a woman in a dying world
Public Notice: Past Imperfect, Future Tense
Rag reunion, SH 45: Activists’ work is never done
SXSW Eco: A Better City Built to a Hip-Hop Beat
How architecture can be used to challenge injustice
Mary Moody Northen Theatre’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
This gangster spectacle based on Hitler’s rise feels more than timely in the current election year
Weekend Two Friday ACL Fest Picks
Where to be, by the hour
SXSW Eco: A Better Death Through Recomposition
Urban Death Project wants your last act to be giving back to the Earth
“Richard Forster: Levittown” at Lora Reynolds Gallery
The artist’s reconsideration of his suburban hometown hinges on the conflict between the mass-produced and the personal
Weekend Two Friday ACL Fest Interview: Strumbellas
Toronto bluegrass stompers stream 100 million
Day Trips: Southern Flyer Diner, Brenham
Retro diner serves up a hot plate of nostalgia for fliers and drivers
Weekend Two Friday ACL Fest Record Reviews
Weekend Two-only discs to spin
The Luv Doc: Gone Soft
Has the Luv Doc gone soft?
Soccer Watch
The U.S. men play a couple of friendlies this week: at Cuba at 3pm, Fri., Oct. 7, and hosting New Zealand at 7pm, Tue., Oct. 11 in Washington, D.C., their last tuneups before the final round of World Cup qualifying starts Nov. 11 against archrival Mexico. Elsewhere, there’s WC qualifying in Europe, South America, Africa,…
Weekend Two Friday ACL Fest Record Reviews
Revelations of a Mind Unraveling (Droog)
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
It is believed the English folk song “Greensleeves” was written by King Henry VIII for his future queen, Anne Boleyn. The leading cause of death in 1901, with almost 59,000 cases, was actually diarrhea, or other intestinal distresses. Not far behind was tuberculosis at 55,000. Pneumonia was third at 48,000. According to Vox, teen pregnancy…
The Hightower Report: Why Can’t Our Economy Promote Equality and Shared Prosperity?
A grassroots coalition is taking on the corporate elites
Weekend Two Friday ACL Fest Record Reviews
Everybody Wants (Interscope/Polydor)
Permanent Drug Take-Back Kiosk Open to Public
A safe, local way to dispose of unused or expired meds
Weekend Two Saturday ACL Fest Picks
Day 2 to-do list
Still No Charges for Dawnna Dukes
Retiring legislator reportedly in talks with Travis County D.A.
Weekend Two Saturday ACL Fest Interview: Margaret Glaspy
Cali songsmith possesses a stilling voice
Cab Co-op Starts Its Engines
Union-backed franchise launches with 30 drivers
ACL Review: LCD Soundsystem
All my friends dance thmselvs clean
ACL Review: Miike Snow
Hurricane pop trio proves anything but studio-bound
ACL Review: Gregory Porter
Harlem’s new Nat King Cole puts on a one-man jazz fest
ACL Review: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats/St. Paul & the Broken Bones
Battle of the blue-eyed soul titans
ACL Review: Local Natives
Third time proves yet another charm for L.A. pop savants
ACL Review: Margo Price
Nashville’s proper inheritor to Loretta Lynn
ACL Review: Kendrick Lamar
Superstar MC grapples with superstardom in real time
ACL Review: LL Cool J
Ladies by the thousands still love Cool James
ACL Review: Andra Day
R&B queen plies some San Diego goddam
ACL Review: Luísa Maita
Brazilian electro delicacy and skronk
ACL Review: Radiohead
Über headliners prove unrivaled still
ACL Review: Flying Lotus
Dense tapestries of experimental jazz and down-tempo hip-hop
ACL Review: Die Antwoord
Nightmarish, hilarious, absurdly filthy – what did you expect?
ACL Review: Tory Lanez
Canadian MC isn’t Drake just yet
ACL Review: Bombino
Desert rocker goes to town
Where to Eat Near ACL Fest
Foraging around Zilker
The ABCs of ACL Eats
Snacking at the fest is elementary
ACL Fest Transportation Guide
Minimize the hassle of getting to and from the fest
