Cover Stories
Staging Building the Wall Before Trump Builds His Wall
Robert Schenkkan races to get his latest work on stage
Jolt Aims to Energize the Latino Vote
Local activist nonprofit engages a growing demographic
Walter Hill, Keenen Ivory Wayans for AFF
Writer-centric film festival awarding boundary-busting pioneers
Mx. Justin Vivian Bond Comes to Austin
The queer cabaret legend is the friend we all need right now
Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 8-10
Not so’s to overload your entertainment schedule or anything, right?
Paging Through the “Page Two” Archive
A look back at Louis Black’s long-running column now at the end of its run
Shred for Bread
Guitar “Shred-Off” winner takes home $1,666
Austin’s Top Chefs Come Together for Harvey Relief
Event will donate 100% of proceeds to hurricane aid
War of the Folk Fests
Driftwood Music Fest and Old Settler’s face off
Drums & Tuba Reunite in Austin
Homegrown breakouts’ prep first local show in over a decade
Fantastic Fest Fills the Card
Massive list includes closing night film
Trump Ends DACA Program
More than 120,000 Texans will be affected
Coalition Will Put Paid Sick Leave Before Council
Greg Casar present as Work Strong Austin outlines initial policy
Uncle Staple and Austin’s 13th Annual Independent Media Expo
The weekend of fannish revelry and indie-comics celebration returns
Gimme Shelter: A Song for Margaret Moser
A stoned soul picnic of Rolling Stones for Wattser
Big Medium Announces Artists for East Austin Studio Tour 2017
Oh, only like about … 500 of them, y’know?
SB 4 Ruling Means Cities Can Prioritize Public Safety
Full hearing to permanently block law awaits in coming months
Your Weekend in Film
Nothing wrong with a little escapism
Live Music This Weekend, Sept. 1-4
An extra day of delights for your weekend music-going
Birth of the Dragon
Bruce Lee: the early years
Leap!
An orphan has ballet-dancing dreams
Do It Like an Hombre
My best friend is gay
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
A look into the world of the farmer and activist
Menashe
In an Orthodox Jewish community, a father struggles to retain custody of his son
The Trip to Spain
Exquisite food with a side of comedy and pathos
I Do … Until I Don’t
Marriage (comedies) ain’t easy
The Only Living Boy in New York
A New York love triangle state of mind
All Saints
Planting seeds to save a church
The Luv Doc: People in Glass Houses
A truly balls-out commitment to mental health
Playback: Walter Tragert Rises Up Singin’
Musician with MS finds hope in a songbook, Margaret Moser passes, and last shots at Bull McCabe’s
Tracking CodeNEXT … Or Not?
Commissioners express concern over data collection of land use rewrite
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Of the 22 statues of historical figures in Central Park, none are of women. Of the 87 statues in San Francisco, only two are of women. In the 1890s, “flapper” meant a very young prostitute. It also described young girls with braids flapping in the breeze. Before she was queen, Princess Elizabeth selected a gown…
Texas Platters
Playing like a mess of raw knuckles, bloody lips, and bruised, broken noses, the debut from Austin punks Plax seethes with wounded aggression. A restless thrashing that times out under a half-hour, Clean Feeling is predominantly confrontational. Victor Ziolkowski more often than not screams at a “you,” his hoarse bark commonplace in the local quartet’s…
Go Repair! Closes Application Window for Local Nonprofits
Up to $2.5 million at stake for low-income homeowners
Louis Black Takes Richard Linklater Doc to PBS
dream is destiny airs on American Masters
Texas Platters
Teaming scabrous soul vox Malford Milligan with axe scion Tyrone Vaughan makes sense. Too much, maybe, as if the union were born of a boardroom instead of rehearsal space. Judging by ATX’s best backers, producers, engineers – Chris Maresh, Brannen Temple, Michael Ramos; and David Grissom with Omar Vallejo, respectively – on a seamless mix…
A Future for Local Community Policing Conference?
I.C.A.R.E. relies on private funding, needs more
UT Alum Laura Dunn and Her New Doc on Wendell Berry
After Green and The Unforeseen, it’s time to Look & See
Texas Platters
Chris Fullerton’s voice burns with an emotion pulled from the darkest places, raw and cutting. The local songwriter’s proper debut announces itself in the high-lonesome Hank Williams howl of “Bad Winds” as readily as it does in the easy strum and twanged growl of “Come to Texas,” which both capture their author’s full spectrum of…
Budget Development
Ordering from the Concept Menu
Gay Place
Expect a good time, safe space, and lots of fine-looking peeps at the Gender Unbound Art Festival
Texas Platters
By the time Jean Caffeine arrived in mid-Eighties Austin to ignite her All-Nite Truck Stop, she’d already lived several musical lives. DJ at NYC’s Danceteria in the age of Haring, drummer for Pulsallama alongside Ann Magnuson, the native New Yorker began it all on the opposite coast, embedded in San Francisco’s incipient punk scene against…
New Laws From the Lege Set to Go Into Effect
Get to know Texas’ new rules
Back to School Part 2
After school sampler
Texas Platters
Tenure in both local folk-country duo Loves It! and bluegrass-folk-swing trio Shotgun Party, Jenny Parrott flies solo now and any multihyphenate description remains apropos. Debut When I Come Down weaves a dreamy menagerie of ragtime, alt.country, doo-wop, grunge rock, and piano ballads exploring the effects of violence both personally and societally. The strong opening in…
Central Health Gets “Clean” Audit of Med School Funding
Auditors found Dell Med’s spending to be in accordance with Affiliation Agreement with Central Health
My Gear: Mike & the Moonpies
Inside the van of Austin’s honky-tonk road dogs
Texas Platters
A moniker such as Solid Goat means you’re not dealing with overly serious conceptualizing. The War on Terra, the Austin fourpiece’s second album, boasts titles like “Nuclear Sushi,” “Naked Talking Monkeys (of the Future),” and, our personal favorite, “Batmanchurian Candidate.” The band’s goofy outlook transmits through noisy hard rock, gnarly cowpunk, and idiosyncratic grunge, a…
Council Members Shine New Light on Fire Department
CMs Alter and Flannigan stoke the flames of AFD negotiations
First Concert: Angela Tharp
Flamingo Cantina owner couldn’t wait to picnic with the Red-Headed Stranger
Texas Platters
Unafraid of drama and pointed retro-ness, Jennifer Zavaleta’s Power to Change opens prominently into Nineties keyboard tones, cheering and clapping, some shoo-bop-bopping, and a child singing (the entirety of “I Luv You”). On her first solo release following involvement in a variety of local acts, the singer-songwriter produces a flurry of transcendent electro-hippie soul aesthetics…
The Hightower Report
Trump vs. the wisdom of Robert E. Lee
Quit Your Day Job: Taylor Muse
Quiet Company frontman details how to make trash salad
Texas Platters
A sonic journey reminiscent of Kraftwerk and Brian Eno – cerebral electronica, winding and peculiar, with the intricacy of late-Eighties Sega video game soundtracks – Maybe Mobile is a topsy-turvy ride. Local fivepiece Ichi Ni San Shi’s sophomore LP jars in repetitive synths anchored by rapid dance beats, opener “Pulsating Fear” juxtaposing physical stillness even…
Point Austin: Hot Over HOT
City Council wrangles over Convention Center, hotel taxes, and Downtown’s future
Texas Album Hall of Fame: Townes Van Zandt
Caroline Sallee of Caroline Says recounts how Townes Van Zandt drew her to Texas
Texas Platters
Five years ago, Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey and Shit & Shine frontman Craig Clouse teamed with bassist Matt Turner in Same Sac, a local avant-doom trio rattling jaws with double-barreled distorted bass. Short-lived, the group gave way to Coffey and Clouse spewing the same amniotic fluid in USA/Mexico, this time conjoining with Nate Cross…
Public Notice: Houston, You Have a Problem
Let’s not make the same one here
Barton Springs Mill Is Changing Austin’s Relationship With Grain
Time to start thinking about where your bread came from
Review: Native Bar & Kitchen
Cool isn’t enough for hostel diner
Ocean at the Vortex
In her solo show, Ebony Stewart makes a canvas out of herself and a beautiful gift we should embrace
Quote of the Week: Steve Adler
The mayor would like to enlist your help
Generic Ensemble Company’s Collection
GenEnCo uses an eclectic mix of objects to explore how relics of relationships past keep us connected to love
Headlines
Hurricane Harvey, one of the most destructive weather events in recorded history, battered the Texas coastline and dumped more than 50 inches of rain on Houston. Austin dodged the worst of the weather, and is now a destination for evacuees fleeing the flood. See “Austin Braces for Weekend Rush of Evacuees,” Sept. 1. President Donald…
Council: Heating Up the HOT Tax
Mayor moves to defend his solutions to the “Downtown Puzzle”
“Pio Pulido: The Last Exhibit of the 20th Century” at the MACC
This retrospective is like visiting an artist’s crowded studio and yet provides just a glimpse of this visionary’s output
A Twofer of Slashers That Are a Cut Above
A horror classic and a hidden gem highlight this week
Austin Braces for Weekend Rush of Evacuees
After the flood
Day Trips: Bandera
The Silver Spur Dance Hall ruins are a reminder of the golden age of country music
What’cha Watchin’?
If you, like Production Manager Chris Linnen, love to get high and watch stand-up comedy on TV, then these recos are for you
Soccer Watch
World Cup qualifying is back this weekend, Thursday through Tuesday. The U.S. hosts Costa Rica Friday evening in New York’s Red Bull Arena, trying to avenge a 4-0 whacking that ended former coach Jürgen Klinsmann’s tenure. Since then, under Bruce Arena, we’re unbeaten in 14 games, and can just about wrap up a qualification spot…
Voter IDon’t
The GOP’s bad week for gerrymandering and voter rights
Leslie Pool’s Tweet (During the) Storm
Council member pushes CodeNEXT agenda at an inopportune time
