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Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods
The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography
SXSW 2019
March 8-17, 2019 sxsw.com Want to know what’s next in music, tech, and film? At the annual South by Southwest Conference + Festival, industry leaders, innovators, and next-gen talent all converge for 10 days of panels, performances, movie premieres, parties, and not a lot of sleep.
Graffiti Gala Raises Funds for Relocation of HOPE
Doomed graffiti park needs help to move to its new and improved location
Fantastic Fest Interview: A Piercing Conversation With Nicolas Pesce
Why are we all so attracted to serial killers?
Fantastic Fest Interview: Jim Hosking Spends An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
British filmmaker goes from greasy weirdness to oddball rom-com
Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault
Local man behind 3D printed gun debate allegedly paid for sex with minor
Fantastic Fest Preview: Austin Chronicle in Your Ears
Tune in for daily podcasts across Fantastic Fest
Meditate with Laraaji
Zither virtuoso gets transcendental with Dallas Acid
The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!
Or, well, they’re at least breathing heavily at Central Market
ATX A-List Female Chefs Join Forces for Parkside Chef’s Table Event
Austin Women in Culinary feast inspired by strong women in their lives
Still Austin Whiskey Co. Is Throwing a Free Country Fair on Saturday
Austin distillery celebrates one year and 1,000 barrels
St. Elias’ Mediterranean Festival Turns 86
Celebrate Austin’s longest running festival of food and culture
City Arts Funding Tempest
Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern
Big Bill Spins Heads With 360° Video
Freak-punk quartet “Loitering” in VR
Fantastic Fest Adds Last Two Titles
Follow-up to FF fave The Lure joins list
Gina Chavez Sees the Light
Latin-infused songstress on her new sound and new marriage
Who Says There’s No Art Openings This Weekend?
Are you kidding, citizen? Are you, what, pulling our cultural leg?
Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend
As September speeds by, here’s a cull of tunes to keep you dry
Danger One
Less Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, more shrug shrug, meh meh
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
More evangelizing from the God’s Not Dead folks
Where Hands Touch
Interracial romance against the rise of Nazi Germany
The Nun
The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania
Peppermint
Jennifer Garner assumes an Alias to get revenge
A Simple Favor
Anna Kendrick turns unlikely sleuth in this deliciously twisted romp
We the Animals
Growing up dysfunctional in this literary adaptation
The Apparition
French religious drama places miracles under the microscope
Don’t Leave Home
A strange trip to the Emerald Isle
The Predator
The Predator needs an editor
White Boy Rick
A true-life tale of coke, corruption, and betrayal
Pick of the Litter
Five adorable puppies on the path to changing lives
Mandy
Nicolas Cage is stunning in this hallucinogenic revenger
FOMO Factory Does It for the Gram
The new, colorful “immersive selfie space” arrives
Widow of Contractor Killed on Worksite Files Suit
Lourdes Kaman seeks over $1 million
“Other Forms of Life” at the Contemporary Austin
With her mysterious and compelling artwork, Huma Bhabha puts us face to alien face
Learn to Tell Your Steves From Your Enderman at Minefaire
The “Ultimate Minecraft Experience” digs into the wildly popular video game
Mikel Kane vs. the Medical Director
ATCEMS division chief suspended, demoted for waging war against MD
The Dirty Secrets Behind Sex Madness Revealed
Exploitation goes meta with a new twist on a vintage sleazefest
People’s Anti-Displacement Plan Gets Its Work in Early
Planning for the people
Police Oversight: Starting From Scratch
Farah Muscadin’s work in progress
Capital T Theatre’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
This production of Edward Albee’s play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece
Coalition Issues Manifesto on East Austin Schools
Coalition issues manifesto on East Austin schools
Settling the FY 2019 Budget
Council sorts out tax rate, final spending
Presidio by Randy Kennedy
For his debut novel, Kennedy creates a road story that portrays the harsh West Texas terrain beautifully and fills it with sympathetic characters.
Headlines
We have a budget. Setting its own new record for efficiency, City Council used only the first (Tuesday) of three scheduled budget reading days to adopt the FY 2019 city budget: $4.1 billion All Funds, $1 billion General Fund, and a combined 2% increase in taxes and fees. See “Settling the FY 2019 Budget,” Sept.…
Infighting Continues at Tourism Commission
Commission moves on to the 12th round
“Vincent Valdez: The City” at the Blanton
The artist’s epic portrait of Klanspeople is all the more frightening for the mundane character of its subjects
Quote of the Week: Spencer Cronk
City manager on city budget
So Goes the Statesman
Daily paper awaits GateHouse revamp
Day Trips: Chandler Guest Ranch, Dryden
Former fishing camp still an oasis on the Pecos River
Public Notice: Priest Walks Into a Bar …
Armadillo Art Squad dean Micael Priest dead at 66
Point Austin: In the Shadow of the Capitol
Council approves its latest budget with the Lege over its shoulder
Luv Doc: The Real Yoko
Some people aren’t easily able to shamelessly express themselves through movement
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
France’s Louis XV invented the manner for people to be seated in order to have conversation: seated in armchairs. During the time of poet Su Tung-Po (1037-1101), it was taboo to mention one’s father’s or grandfather’s first names in writing. Birds sense changes in barometric pressure, and some pick up low-frequency sounds we don’t hear.…
Soccer Watch
The Texas Longhorns have one more weekend of nonconference games – hosting UT-Rio Grande Valley, Fri., Sept. 14, 7pm, and Northern Colorado, Sun., Sept. 16, 3pm – before starting Big 12 play hosting Baylor next Friday, Sept. 21 at 8pm. They’ve looked really good so far, with a lot of weapons in attack, and a…
Qmmunity
A space to embrace Austin’s queer artists of color
Election Ticker: You’ve Got to Be Joking
Laughing our way through campaign season
Snapshot: Austin Groove Project
Rising stars of Austin soul, blues, and hip-hop converge at Waterloo Music Festival as a supergroup to watch
Frank Dixon to Denton
APD Asst. Chief heads north
Firefighter’s Legal Standoff With City Continues
Carrie Stewart battles city after cancer diagnosis
Sick Leave Update
Plans stalled on rollout
Mike Ward Out at Houston Chronicle
Veteran reporter accused of faking sources
Review: The Brewer’s Table
East Austin’s truly wonderful dining experience with a complicated history
More Fun in District 1
Candidates continue to pile up
Threadgill’s WHQ Will Close After Thanksgiving
Eddie Wilson done “clinging to the curb”
