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How to Climb a Minnow Mountain
The Austin animation studio resurrecting Rotoscoping with Richard Linklater
Day Trips & Beyond: Mid-September Travel Updates
Travel news from around Texas and beyond
Fantastic Fest Returns to Celebrate Itself
Global genre gathering announces streaming lineup
Jana Horn Issues Spooky, Biblical “Jordan”
Divine tragedy visualized via Jaime Zuverza clip
Drafthouse And Buffalo Tree Want You to Register to Vote!
Special drive at Slaughter Lane next week
Cap City Comedy Club Closes
COVID closure shutters the venerable stand-up home for good
Teeta Cosigns The Seventh Seal
Relentless wordsmith talks fatherhood, numerology & the apocalypse
Oysters and Milkshakes and Music and Smoke and – Dip! Dip! Dip!
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Music Performances From the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
Go Fever, Nemegata, Mike Melinoe & Como Las Movies
Checking In: Katherine de Rosset Finally Lives Alone
Except for her two cats, of course
Checking In: Caroline Rose Dreams of England
“I’ve had this really awful travel bug”
Who Will Be Nuked by the 819?
Austinites unleash a new postapocalyptic RPG on Twitch
Siete Sound Bites: Music and Noms on a Saturday Night
Mexican-American food brand brings a concert-and-a-meal
Fantasia Review: Minor Premise
Who are we, anyway? It depends when you ask …
Fantasia Review: The Paper Tigers
Aging kung fu comedy-drama hits sweet and funny
Fantasia Review: Bleed With Me
Blood binds friendships in this remote chiller
Other Worlds Fires Up The Flux Capacitor For Retro Warm-Up Fest
SF film fest makes jump online, starting with weekend tease
Five Recent Graphic Novels You Shouldn’t Miss Out On
Book yourself some quality reading time AFK, why don’tcha?
Ex-NFL Star Joe Barksdale Gets Sincere
Stream today’s EP drop from retired footballer turned Austinite
A Smoky Cocktail From Camila Alves McConaughey and More Recipes From the Hot Sauce Festival
Including Joel Fried’s salsa homage to Tamale House #3
Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time
Musical bio-doc hits all the right notes, but with no feeling
Mulan
Forget the cartoon, Disney goes back to the source for the Chinese warrior legend
Made in Bangladesh
Workers’ rights under siege in this feminist Asian drama
Centigrade
Snowbound horror is a situation tragedy
Murder in the Woods
The summer slasher is back!
Class Action Park
The stunning tale of New Jersey’s unfathomable Action Park
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 3, 2020
Two UT-Austin Students Living on Campus Test Positive for COVID-19
Two University of Texas at Austin students living on campus have tested positive for COVID-19. As first reported by UT’s student newspaper, The Daily Texan, and later confirmed to the Chronicle by UT spokesperson J.B. Bird, infected students live at Jester and San Jacinto dorms. Bird confirmed close and secondary contacts have been notified per…
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
Planning Commission Leaders Step Down to Chart Housing Waters
Conor Kenny and Fayez Kazi look to bring more affordable housing to Austin
Fight for Vote by Mail Continues at 5th Circuit
After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to lift the stay on U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s injunction that would have allowed universal voting by mail in Texas for the July elections, the Texas Democratic Party redoubled its efforts to secure VBM in advance of the presidential election. On Monday, Aug. 31, TDP presented its argument…
Faster Than Sound: Remembering Chet Himes, Johnny Limón, and Riley Osbourn
Three Austin music scene stalwarts passed in late August
AISD Readies for School, Sports, Elections, and Red Ink
There’s a new (old) CFO in town, Austin kids go back to school and sports, and the election race is heating up. Happy September! First up, the first day of school is coming up fast. This Tuesday, Sept. 8, Austin ISD classes will begin in an online format, with the vast majority of students learning…
Opinion – Protecting Texas Alone: The UT System Has Failed Our Community
Underpaid at UT, a graduate student worker advocacy group, urgently calls for COVID protections
30th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Commercial Bottlers Judged by Celebrity Judges Red Sauce 1st Place: Texas Texas – Taco Truck Style 2nd Place: TIE: Ghost Scream – Original; Haitan Heat – That is the One Honorable Mention: Game Day – Bernard’s Firecracker Salsa; Kester’s – Aunt May’s Red; Mom’s Family Kitchen – Spicy Salsa Green Sauce 1st Place: Mikey V’s…
Minnow Mountain Co-Founder Goes Into the Archives
Animation studio’s Steph Swope takes a mountaintop view
A Trio of Mediterranean Dining
Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly get any shawarma, right?
In a Previously Unpublished Interview Late Power Trip Frontman Riley Gale Talks SXSW, COVID, & American Health Care
“I’m having nightmares about what [COVID] is going to do to the status quo”
The Absinthe-minded Professors of Violet Crown Spirits
Three Austinites are producing the first Texas-made absinthe
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
Anything can happen in the wonderfully weird Ukraine of this short story collection
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
Day Trips: Stag Leap Country Cabins, Nacogdoches
Escape to a cabin in the Piney Woods
So You Want to Vote
A flowchart to help guide you through mail-in ballots, voter registration
The Luv Doc: A Potentially Awkward Conversation
Vanilla is America’s favorite ice cream flavor!
Key Races on the November Ballot
A quick guide to the biggest contests to tide you over until endorsements
Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create
The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Free PPE Distribution: Austin Public Health, CommUnityCare, and Central Health will distribute free personal protective equipment (PPE) in COVID-19 hotspots over the next several weeks. A list of PPE giveaway events is available at www.austintexas.gov/ppe, with additional distribution locations and dates to be announced. Back to School: The Austin Independent School District starts virtual classes…
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 4-10
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to a 2017 report by Axios, President Donald Trump wants other world leaders to think he’s a mad genius on purpose. Carnivorous mammals swallow fur and feathers, and benefit from the microbes attached to this “animal fiber.” Recent research at the University of Bristol has shown that sperm do not swim in a side-to-side…
Austin at Large: Voting From the Bottom Up
Take advantage of your downballot opportunities to create real change
The Common Law
COVID and paid time off to watch kids not in school
Soccer Watch
The Donald Trump “It’s All About Me” award goes to Real Salt Lake’s billionaire owner Dell Loy Hansen, who last week went on a radio station that he also owns to whine about his players joining with other teams and sports leagues in a play stoppage to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake. He…
Public Notice: Where’s Our LDC Rewrite?
Back into the looking glass with your City Council
Qmmunity: Lessons From the Past for the Present
Plus, Gender Unbound and Austin Asian American Film Festival kick off virtual programming
Making New Friends an Old-Fashioned Way – Through Letter Writing
A collaboration between Austin Bat Cave, Foundation Communities, and Letterpress PLAY encourages pen pals to bridge generational divides
We Have an Issue: Celebrating (Very Quietly) 39 Years in Print
This anniversary issue passes with not much fanfare, but a lot of gratitude
Turning Up to Talk About Low Voter Turnout
Get Out the Vote campaigns kick into high gear
Council: Too Little Affordable Housing, or Too Much?
Two southeast projects divide dais; APD’s state grants OK’d
A Lens on Queer Taiwan
AAAFF explores the Asian nation’s LGBTQIA cinematic legacy
Pueblo Viejo’s New Location, Bishop Cidercade’s Austin Debut, Pinballz Japanese Whiskey, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
