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You’re So Gonna Vote!
Voter registration deadline is Oct. 9
A Hater’s Guide to Food During ACL Festival
Here’s where to eat if you’d like to stay far away from the melee
A Lover’s Guide to Food During ACL Festival
Here’s what to do if you’d like to jump into the festival headfirst
Austin Film Festival Gets a Vox Lux
New Natalie Portman movie announced for opening night
Utopia Fest Relocates to Reveille Peak Ranch
Fall music fest moves within Burnet County
Fantastic Fest: The Final Chron of Us
Looking back on the fest’s highs and lows
Fantastic Fest Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
Was it good times for the Fantastic Fest closing film?
Jazz Great John Scofield Endures
Guitarist and Miles Davis alum puts on a clinic Friday at Mohawk
The Science Behind the Scientists
First U.S. tour includes two nights at Beerland, Oct. 5-6
Celebrate National Taco Day in Austin
A taco for every taste to help you celebrate this special day
The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded
Arts Commission’s FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council
Cult Film Hero Don Coscarelli Turns a Page
Phantasm director discusses his new memoir
Romancing the Holmes
What inspired Sherry Thomas to turn Sherlock into Charlotte?
Review: The Hollow of Fear
Charlotte Holmes is back, and the stakes are higher than ever
Robert Plant Carries Fire
Ex-Austin deities sell out three nights at the Moody Theater
Three Simple Tips for Fun Phone Banking
Looking to do more to get out the vote? Here you go!
Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup
Fall is full of fairs and fests
Tillie Walden Returns Home With an Important Message
The prolific graphic novelist says eat spicier food; kiss more queers
Indoor Creature: Hot AF
New video links local pop outfit with rapper/producer Malik
Fantastic Fest Review: Destroyer
Nicole Kidman never lands a body blow in this hard-hitting noir
Beto & Willie Rally the Resistance
Nelson unveils new song “Vote ’Em Out”
Weekend Wine
Oysters are back and it’s time to enjoy some French wine
Midterms Matter Wants to Get Young People Voting
How a group of Austin creatives are trying to make a difference
Fantastic Fest Review: Climax
Gaspar Noé gets sticky on the dance floor
Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 7
The festival may be over, but the podcasts keep coming
Cheers to Circle Brewing Co.’s Beto Beer
Doing your civic duty one pint at a time
Second Cruz/O’Rourke Debate Postponed
Cruz to stay in D.C. for Kavanaugh confirmation vote
Alok Vaid-Menon and Lisa Donato Showcase Their Art at Gender Unbound
From poets to film screenings – 2018’s trans and intersex art fest wows
Fantastic Fest Interview: Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair on Hold the Dark
Blood and snow in one of Netflix’s rare theatrical releases
Science Fair
The future is as bright as these charming science kids
The Sisters Brothers
A murderers’ row of great actors in this contract killer Western comedy
Hold the Dark
Humanity’s animal instincts exposed in the Alaskan wilderness
Smallfoot
Furry animated antics as yetis find proof: Humans exist!
Night School
Kevin Hart goes back to school. Sadly, not comedy school.
Kusama: Infinity
The colorful world of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama
Little Women
The Louisa May Alcott classic charmlessly updated
Qmmunity
Gender Unbound: bigger and better than ever
County Approves Budget That Allocates for New Jail
$6.6 million going toward facility preconstruction
Make Some Noise for Native Rhymesayer Kydd Jones
With growing national buzz, why isn’t Austin paying attention?
UT Investigates Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Sen. Charles Schwertner
State senator accused of lewd texting to grad student
Hyde Park Theatre’s Confessions of a Mexpatriate
Raul Garza’s solo show tells us that finding your true self in another country isn’t easy
Teens Seeking Judicial Bypass Abortion in Texas Shamed
New study finds court process functions as “form of punishment”
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The total surface area of lungs varies, but it’s equal to roughly the same area as one side of a tennis court. “The Book of Ephraim,” the epic poem by James Merrill, was inspired by messages received through a Ouija board. “The Book of Ephraim” constituted the major part of the poet’s seventh anthology, Divine…
Ashely “Flashe” Gordon Needs Your Help
Former Green Party co-chair diagnosed with a brain tumor
Snapshot: SAGE Studio’s Fall Show
Eastside gallery space gives artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a place to shine
Blue Lapis Light’s Belonging, Part One
The work’s dancers, whether on the ground or sailing through the air, were beacons of human hope and empathy
Election Ticker: Endorse-a-Rama
You gotta support somebody
Seeking Out Sardines
In which we visit a pair of prime dining spots for the tiny savories
Texas Platters
Propelled by an inebriated lightbulb moment, Delta Spirit’s Matthew Logan Vasquez gathered up a six-part supercrew with Austinites Kelsey Wilson (Wild Child), David Ramirez, Adrian Quesada, and Jason Robert Blum, plus Washington stater Noah Gundersen. Over a week in New Mexico, the assembly whipped up a warm, smoky Americana debut. The recording locale bleeds into…
“Matt Rebholz and Rachel Wolfson Smith: We Can See Through Time” at ICOSA
Drawings in red and blue ink, intended to be viewed through 3-D glasses, pull the viewer in to landscapes that make the familiar look alien
Jennifer Higdon, American Voice
One of this nation’s most acclaimed and active composers, on our rich melting pot of music
Texas Platters
Ten years ago, Nakia’s debut Water to Wine teased the vocal powerhouse that eventually reached the semifinals of The Voice. Reunited with his Blues Grifters, the ‘Bama-raised belter homages ultimate grifters like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and the Rolling Stones. Unlike the antecedent flirting with soulful ballads, sophomore successor Blues Grifter goes river deep…
One in a Crowd
Black comedy Duncan needs your crowdfunding help
All Politics Is Local at Texas Tribune Festival
Evan Smith leads the fest’s move Downtown and brings national newsmakers to Austin
Texas Platters
Four years have flown by since local Latin pop force Gina Chavez’s sophomore Up.Rooted. In between grew critical acclaim and nuptials with longtime partner Jodi Granado. Lightbeam thus offers a sleek, unrelenting capture of big, big love. The soulful EP finds Chavez swapping acoustic for electric guitar alongside keyboardist David Boyle and joined by A-list…
Day Trips: Round Rock Honey
Take a sweet trip to the land of golden sauce
Point Austin: Disorder in the Court … of Appeals
Triana/Toth race raising unusual political dust
Texas Platters
While preview single “Outlaw for You” plus word of cameos from James Williamson (Stooges) and Wayne Kramer (MC5) indicated Alejandro Escovedo’s 12th studio LP might lean punk, The Crossing doesn’t boomarang back to the Texan’s slam-rock roots. Instead, teamed with Italian cinematic rockers Don Antonio, he and group leader Antonio Gramentieri become Mexican Diego and…
Soccer Watch
The Texas Longhorns are variously rated between sixth and 11th in the nation this week, after a 2-1 overtime win Friday night over Baylor. Now they take their 9-0-1 record on the road for the next four games. MLS in Austin, founded to bring a Major League Soccer team to Austin, is rebranding now that…
Glenn Scott Fought for Her Life, and Yours
A comrade in arms
Texas Platters
Members of instrumental trio Knest, guitarist Jonathan F. Horne (Young Mothers) and cellist Randall Holt (collaborations including Godspeed You! Black Emperor) holed up in a Montreal studio to produce Wires while percussionist Thor Harris hit the road. Setting up a skeletal improvisation framework, the string masters put pedal to the metal in ways unexpected for…
New Taiwanese Cinema Exposes a Secret History
A rare screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece A City of Sadness
Conflicts of Interest at City Hall
Give and take, everywhere you look
Texas Platters
Behind a rare trio of songwriters – Taylor Williams, Graham Weber, and Matthew Gregg – Western Youth fuses one of the tightest units in town. From the opening bite of three-guitar Cerberus “Dyin’ on the Vine” to the harmony-rich swell of “Valerie,” this debut LP plumbs moody and triumphant Americana behind sharpened hooks and smooth…
Headlines
You Say To-MEH-To: No regular City Council meeting this week. The next is Thursday, Oct. 4, with a relatively light agenda that should include an allocation policy for the Historic Preservation Fund, a public hearing on renaming “Manchaca Road” as “Menchaca Road,” the actual spelling of José Antonio Menchaca, a Tejano soldier at the Battle…
Bus Stops and Court Benches
On immigration in McAllen
Texas Platters
Webster’s defines borzoi as “any of a breed of large dogs developed in Russia especially for pursuing wolves … Called also Russian wolfhound,” and traces its etymology to “swift.” Parts of A Prayer for War quicken, but this local trio’s first full-length, produced with remarkable clarity by Ian Rundell (Xetas, Spray Paint, Exhalants), excels at…
Quote of the Week: Beto O’Rourke
What would you say if Ted Cruz likened you to Bernie Sanders?
Texas Platters
Straying from indie rockers Otis the Destroyer, Taylor Wilkins strips back guitars to push his songwriting to the fore on his five-cut solo debut. His nasal pull rings like early Langhorne Slim, always on the edge of a cry without ever quite losing control. Trembling “Karma Is a Big Killer” and “Hay Jean” flow with…
Sendero’s Path Forward
Community health plan gets one-year budget reprieve
A Good Restaurant for an Awkward Conversation?
A place to say the things and eat the meatloaf
Texas Platters
Sirens of South Austin formalized as Nobody’s Girl following a joint tour, and despite the varying styles of songwriters in BettySoo, Grace Pettis, and Rebecca Loebe, the whole congeals impressively cohesive and polished. Folk-hinged harmonies with a fine pop tinge, their first offering “What’ll I Do” rises radio-ready into the title track’s breathless reckoning and…
AISD: Get With the Times
Modernizing the district in more ways than one
In Production: An Austin Love Letter to L.A.
Anna Margaret Hollyman on taking her vows as the mysterious mystic
Texas Platters
On his first recordings since 2007’s So Long, Problems, Schoenfeld’s welcome return pivots on the songwriter’s “Little Feet,” which turned into an anthemic live staple at the hands of his fellow alt.country kickers Harvest Thieves. The title track gets full-band and acoustic bookends, the closer especially compelling in capturing Schoenfeld’s stripped-down yearning crinkle. “House on…
Consolidate the Prosecutors
District attorney, county attorney propose path for prosecutorial revamp
In Production: Something Evil at Brackenridge Hospital
Wrestler-turned-actor Dustin Runnels getting bloody for new anthology horror
Luv Doc: The Morning Grump
Part of being a monster is lacking the self-awareness that you are a monster
Playback – Lords of the Dance: TC Superstar
TC Superstar promotes body movement, Dallas Acid get blissed with Laraaji, a black metal binge, and Trouble in the Streets breaks rules
