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How to Jail the Poor
Travis County tries to fix its Driving While License Invalid issue
Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend
Get into your pre-ACL groove with these live music picks
Bach N’ Beats
Austin Symphony musicians mix it up with DJs at the Parish
UPDATED: Lil Wayne, Phoenix Added to ACL Fest Lineup
French quartet and rapper to take sting off Childish Gambino departure
Peggy Chiao Enters A City of Sadness
UT alum returns for rare screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s greatest
Fantastic Fest Review: Under the Silver Lake
Fantastically ambitious love letter to Tinsel Town
The Story Behind the “I’m So Gonna Vote” Stickers
How a sandlot baseball club got inspired to turn out the vote
Oilcan Harry’s Closed?
Rumors swirl about Austin’s oldest continually running gay bar
Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 6
Our daily podcast from the fest gets musical for a change
Fantastic Fest Review: One Cut of the Dead
Japanese no-budget horror becomes an unexpected must-see
Fantastic Fest Review: Cam
Sex-positive techno thriller tackles online identity
Fantastic Fest Review: Werewolf
Concentration camp survival horror is more tender than it seems
Fantastic Fest: Starfish Clings to Grief
Writer/director AT White on how his own loss shaped his film
Fantastic Fest Review: The Perfection
Allison Williams hits all the right notes in this musical black comedy
An Interview With HausBar Farm’s Resident Goose
Gustavo the Goose talks to us about his crowdfunded children’s book
Donnybrook, In Fabric Top Fantastic Fest Awards
Plus Danish thriller Holiday sweeps Next Wave category
Fantastic Fest Review: Mid90s
Jonah Hill’s surprising debut is best at its quietest
Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 5
Live from the fest with our daily podcast
Cookbook Bar & Cafe Celebrates Texas Cookbook Month
Kick-off event honors legacy of Chronicle Food Editor Virginia B. Wood
Episode 1 of The Tacos of Texas Is Now Live
PBS DocuSeries begins its taco travels in Austin
Is Anime Pop … Austin’s Primo Anime Shop?
You betcher Godzilla-sized Gundam it is, baby
Austin Film Festival Snags Widows
High profile and local features fill out the schedule
Fantastic Fest Review: After the Screaming Stops
Discarded pop star siblings make unlikely but fascinating stars
Qwell Counts Queers So the Qmmunity Can Count on Qwell
Survey online through November 9
Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 4
Suspiria gets a secret screening, and more reviews
Fantastic Fest Review: Holiday
Grueling Danish drama elicits unlikely sympathies
Reading Group Welcomes Trans Qmmunity Knowledge
Lived experience meets theory at Transgender Feminisms Reading Group
Fantastic Fest Interview: Tumbbad Brings Horror to India
Co-director Adesh Prasad on making a first for the nation
Fantastic Fest Review: Suspiria
Horror remake takes fest secret screening slot
Local Breweries Take Home Awards From Great American Beer Festival
The ABGB wins big for the third year in a row
Wayne Kramer Still Kicks Out the Jams
MC5 founder talks politics, prison, and the art of double guitar solos
Fantastic Fest Review: Overlord
J.J. Abrams enters the surprisingly deep zombie Nazi genre
Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 3
More news and reviews from Fantastic Fest in our daily podcast
Fantastic Fest Review: Hold the Dark
Humanity’s animal instincts in Netflix’s Alaskan Western
Fantastic Fest Review: Border
The pain and joy of being other
Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 2
Download our second report from the genre festival
Fantastic Fest Review: The Quake
Sequel to The Wave goes insane with the tension
Fantastic Fest Review: Burning
Another astounding addition to Korea’s rich revenge legacy
Fantastic Fest Review: Donnybrook
Bare-knuckle boxing drama lands punches but no knockouts
Weekend Wine
As for the wine snobs, too bad for them!
Fantastic Fest Q&A: Josh Ethier
Indie horror’s go-to editor on his directorial debut
Fantastic Fest Review: You Might Be the Killer
Fran Kranz and Alyson Hannigan take on serial killer tropes
Fluff Meringues Opens Tuesday on Burnet Road
The long and winding road finally leads us to delicious treats
Travel Channel’s Food Paradise Films at Easy Tiger
Your big break (or at least a yummy pretzel) is just around the corner
ACL Headliner Brockhampton Dreams Big
What we learned from band doc The Longest Summer in America
Fantastic Fest Review: The Wind
Survival horror with a frontier feminist twist
Fantastic Fest Review: In Fabric
Definitely say yes to this dress
Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 1
Download our podcast for reviews of Halloween and more
Fantastic Fest Review: Halloween
Does the sequel that ignores all the other sequels work?
Fantastic Fest Review: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Was it worth the wait for Terry Gilliam’s fools’ errand?
Our Free TribFest Picks
Texas Tribune Festival introduces Open Congress
Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend
Your weekend soundtrack to new fall beginnings.
Lizzie
Lizzie Borden’s murders awkwardly rebuilt as a #metoo metaphor
I Think We’re Alone Now
Dinklage and Fanning find dry humor at the end of the world
Assassination Nation
Dark satire lets social media tear us apart
The House With a Clock in Its Walls
Eli Roth swaps gore for delightful childlike Gothic wonder
Fahrenheit 11/9
Michael Moore takes on the Trump years
The Song of Sway Lake
Period family drama is evocative, if sometimes lacking in clarity
Love, Gilda
The SNL original in all her shining joy
Life Itself
Maudlin multigenerational drama thinks it’s profound (spoiler: it’s not)
Austin Playhouse’s Monroe
In Lisa B. Thompson’s tender drama, young African-Americans work out where they belong in the world
As Long As There’s a Plan
Council, “people” co-exist on effort to create affordable housing
Miró Quartet at Bates Recital Hall
The ensemble’s opening concert for its 15th season as UT’s Faculty-Quartet-in-Residence was uplifting in a number of ways
Death Watch: Double Dose
Two executions in Huntsville next week
Qmmunity
Voting while queer
“Ann Wood: Quick and Quiet” at Big Medium
The artist’s solo show is like a large-scale, experiential temporary memorial, with fake flowers rotting in a gloomy exuberance
Will Courtney Record Review
Crazy Love (Super Secret)
Day Trips: San Felipe de Austin Historic Site
Original Texas capital returns through new museum
Texas Platters Hall of Fame
Pop polymath Mobley extols Solange
The Future Was in Toronto
Toronto International Film Festival showcased the fall’s big films
Will Courtney Summons Seventies L.A.
The rootsy popsmith takes the production reins in a West Austin duplex
First Concert: Steve Wertheimer
Continental Club and C-Boy’s Heart & Soul owner revisits Dazed & Confused
Soccer Watch
The Texas Longhorns’ season gets real this Friday night, as they open Big 12 Play by hosting Baylor, a pre-season top-20 team that’s 7-3 against a pretty tough nonconference schedule. But the Horns are 8-0-1 themselves, with the only blemish a 1-1 road draw at No. 5 North Carolina, and are ranked as high as…
First Concert: Dianne Scott
The Continental Club’s guardian at the gate began her life in live music inauspiciously
Riverside Development in Crosshairs of Activist Troupe
Defend our old domainz
Point Austin: Dark Money, Sunlight, and Political Soccer Games
Shadowy funding works its way into Austin campaigns
Snapshot: Austin Discovery School’s Garden Work Day
Teaching kids empathy, one plant at a time
City Drops Lawsuit Against Firefighter
Firefighter who contracted cancer won’t be challenged on workers comp ruling
Playback – Typecast: David Yow & Brett Bradford
Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard in their new roles, plus a Twin Peaks themed concert
So Long Sendero Health Plans?
Nonprofit health insurer could be phased out by close of 2019
Faith and Fear at Fantastic Fest
Action director Gareth Evans returns to Wales for the chilling Apostle
Council: Back in the Groove
Budget done, Council trudges on
Crescent at North Lamar and Airport Now Offers Unique Asian Dining Options
Long-ignored strip mall gets a makeover
Fantastic Fest Film Depicts Militias With a Hair Trigger
When rugged individualism goes wrong in The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Election Ticker: Masters of Disasters
T-minus 46 days until you vote
Hate Crime at Austin Mosque?
APD investigating three incidents at North Austin Muslim Community Center
Subverting Expectations at Fantastic Fest With Ladyworld
Female-fronted film prepares for a #MeToo backlash
Public Notice: “Uprooted”
New gentrification study asks city to “think big and act boldly”
Liability Claim Filed Against Lakeway Hospital
Rawney McVaney’s story continues
Five Films Not to Miss at Fantastic Fest
2018 is the year of the woman
State Board of Education Tries to Rewrite History
A sharpie to your textbook
Battle of the Boba
Which of these four Crescent spots has the best bubble tea?
Five More Films Not to Miss at Fantastic Fest
Wildernesses, Lovecraft, and Joss Whedon Alumni
Quote of the Week: Brian Manley
Police chief speaks out against recent attacks on local Muslim community
Fast Forward Austin Does Compute
New-music champions science the shit out of its upcoming concert with The Difference Engine
The Luv Doc: A Graceful Exit
Leaving someone pretty much implies you have something more important to do
Texas Education Agency on the Money
Budget cuts coming to state public schools. Sound familiar?
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Celebrating 30 years
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City Council returns to regular business today, Sept. 20, with a full plate of contracts and zoning cases (104 Items in all) as well as “compensation and benefits” decisions for Council’s direct reports: city manager, city clerk, city auditor, municipal court clerk. See “Back in the Groove,” So Long Sendero? Central Health has called a…
Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault
Local man behind 3D printed gun debate allegedly paid for sex with minor
City Arts Funding Tempest
Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern
