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A Story of Twin Sisters, Austin Real Estate, and Salad Dressing
SASS (Season All Stuff Sauce) forced to start over after their rent increased 350%
Chef Takeover Dinner in Austin to Benefit Local Schools
Hosted by nutritional education nonprofit Common Threads
Don Zimmerman Files Suit Against City Over Abortion Services Funding
It’s unclear if the former council member remembers Roe v. Wade
Rooster Teeth Announces Layoffs, Restructuring
Austin studio cuts 13% of staff
Another Lawsuit Filed Against Travis County D.A. and Her First Assistant
The two are accused of attempting to silence a sexual assault survivor
Fantastic Fest Honors Japanese Film Master Takashi Miike
Third wave includes special tribute to the J-horror innovator
Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58
Eccentric singer-songwriter reportedly died of heart attack
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Rallies 5,000 Local Supporters at Austin Event
The presidential hopeful stayed on message, called for change
Watch: Outdated Tube Camera Captures Robby’s “Phases of the Moon”
Pop-rock quartet celebrates video release at Cheer Up Charlies
Iconic Rocker Kim Gordon, Former Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aimé Lead SXSW 2020 Lineup
Fixer Upper power couple Chip & Joanna Gaines also join fest
Once Upon a Time in Austin With Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits deity sells out and serenades the Moody again
This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: SASS Is Back
Central Health, and the salad dressing that came back from the dead
Beer-to-Go
As of September 1, 2019 the other 49 states in the union can only marvel at Texas’ unorthodox willingness to finish dead last in something – and that is to allow craft breweries in The Great State to sell Beer-to-Go from their own taprooms. Not ideal, but it appears resolved for the moment. And now…
Third Man Records Releases Ghost Wolves 7-inch
Austin duo pair up with Jack White’s label
14 Austin Food Events to Add to Your Social Calendar
Ice cream/biscuit combos, a local luau, and more to keep you satiated
City Staff Reports on Risks of Natural Gas Pipeline Through Edwards Aquifer
Council hears from Environmental Officer on Permian Highway Pipeline
It Chapter Two
Back to Derry as the Losers Club takes on Pennywise again
Aquarela
Incredible documentary is a song of the power of water
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2019
The fest’s best shorts are a diverse treat
Night Hunter
Henry Cavill heads to Canada to hunt down a serial killer
Dauntless: The Battle of Midway
World War II airborne drama is more about rescue than combat
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Supernatural horrors are less terrifying than real life in this Mexican fable
Before You Know It
Theatre family gets more drama than they expected in this sweet tragicomedy
Official Secrets
True story of a whistleblower who saw the lies behind the Iraq War
Croy & the Boys Album Review
Howdy High-Rise (Spaceflight)
Day Trips: Rock Art
If these walls could talk
Genre Mashup Remnant: From the Ashes Gets the Recipe Right
Gunfire Games hits a bull’s-eye with its new action RPG
Soccer Watch
The Austin Bold put in a pretty complete performance Sunday night, blanking Rio Grande Valley 3-0 to clinch the first annual Copa Tejas trophy and hang on to fourth place in the USL West. Only three more home games left in this inaugural regular season, and they come in a 12-day period, starting 7:30pm Wed.,…
Rooster Teeth’s Vicious Circle Could Use an Expansion
“Uncooperative shooter” is fun, but off to a slow start
The Luv Doc: Buried Alive
Making metaphorical mountains out of metaphorical molehills
Getting in the Groove With Overpass
Driving rhythm game is perfect for beginners and experts alike
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The flag of Greenland is the only national flag of a Nordic country or territory without a Nordic cross. The genetic disease methemoglobinemia gives its sufferers blue-tinged skin. Martin Fugate and Elizabeth Smith were carriers of the disease who married and settled near Hazard, Kentucky. As a result, many of their descendants were carriers and…
Decadence With a Price at Arlo Grey at the Line Hotel
Impeccable attention to detail at the lakeside restaurant
Faster Than Sound: Punk’s Not White at Black & Brown Fest
Austin punks of color shine at radical San Antonio collective’s second year, Mutual Feelings evolves on their own terms, and more music news
The Class Conscious Honky-Tonk of Croy & the Boys
Corey Baum’s crew nails the zeitgeist of 2019 Austin
“Sanctum” Explores Ancestral Memories in Our DNA
Alyssa Taylor Wendt and five other artists look at inherited memory in this group show at Big Medium
Headlines
Bad Background: The shooter who killed seven people in Midland and Odessa on Aug. 31 reportedly purchased his military-style rifle via a private sale, evading a federal background check that would have prevented the sale. Seth Ator (eventually killed by police) had previously failed a background check. Pipeline Blues: On Aug. 28, City Council received…
Qmmunity: The Gay Gene
Plus events, cyber babes, and local queerlebrity book release!
Austin at Large: Digital Spills in the Silicon Hills
On Austin’s – and our own – awkward relationship with tech
Wheatsville’s Frustrated Employees Call for Change
Mismanagement and toxic working conditions remain entrenched in the co-op’s culture
Texas Platters
Jimmie Vaughan endures. Blues royalty beginning in Seventies Austin, the master guitarist co-founded the Fabulous Thunderbirds and set himself up for a Grammy-winning career now six solid solo LPs in with latest entry Baby, Please Come Home. Brimming with material that inspired a teenage Vaughan in the Dallas suburb of Oak Cliff, the LP wheelbarrows…
AISD Cops Take Union Head’s Phone After Sex Ed Kerfuffle
Investigation stems from incident at contentious meeting
City Still Seeking Next Steps on Camping Policy and Homelessness
Council to flesh out next steps in coming weeks
Texas Platters
A tight 13 tracks culled from 23 years of swaggering indie rock, Spoon’s first comp reaches as far back as 2001’s Girls Can Tell for the title track to Everything Hits at Once. Bookended by excellence, the LP opens with the sleepy-sultry hypnotics of “I Turn My Camera On,” frontman Britt Daniel’s voice slipping from…
Quote of the Week
“I’m tired of the dying. The status quo in Texas is unacceptable and action is needed.” Gov. Greg Abbott, taking the first step and admitting he and his state have a problem with gun violence in the wake of the Odessa killing spree. For more, see “Texas Democrats Request Special Session on Guns,” Sept. 4,…
Council, Community Urge APD to Halt Marijuana Arrests
Activists claim strategy unfairly impacts minorities, wastes resources
Texas Platters
Following a decade of ballet performance and recording music, Jordan Moser turns a fresh leaf on his local Keeled Scales debut. The carefully curated collection of country folk slides open softly on the steel guitar-shaped “Down With Me.” Rich hums separate Moser’s literary lines, echoed by the smoky tone of Austin’s Molly Burch on all…
Public Notice: Everything in Its Place
Contemplating “urbanism”
$291 Million Plan to Provide Health Care for Travis County Residents
Central Health’s budget to serve nearly 200,000 residents
Texas Platters
Before he’s played a note, Jacob Wise finds himself in that rarest of categories: native Austin jazz artist. As evidenced by his second album, the ATX-born/University of North Texas-educated guitarist and instructor manages to keep his cool despite being in the same bucket as late local heroes Kenny Dorham and Martin Banks. As such, Paseo…
Texas’ Latest Pro-Gun Laws Kick In
Never let it be said that Texas lawmakers have done nothing to respond to mass shootings
Texas Platters
When longtime Austin jazz man Elias Haslanger and his band took up residence in the Continental Club Gallery back in 2012, no one knew Church On Monday would become one of the city’s longest-running weekly showcases. Yet here we are, and in celebration of the show’s seventh anniversary, the saxophonist and his crew – bassist…
Death Watch: Mark Soliz Hopes One Stay Leads to Another
Death row inmate argues fetal alcohol spectrum disorder renders him unfit for execution
Texas Platters
Almost 30 years after his untimely death in a helicopter crash, Stevie Ray Vaughan comes gloriously back to life in this all-out biography. Co-authors Alan Paul and Andy Aledort conducted over 100 interviews with the guitarist’s inner circle, and draw from several with the artist himself, to provide a first-person insight that hadn’t previously been…
$20 Million State Grant Comes Through for Indigent Defense
Texas Indigent Defense Commission approves four-year grant to create public defender’s office
Theatre en Bloc’s Dance Nation
This production of Clare Barron’s play invokes the experience of puberty for girls, in all its allure and terror
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 5, 2019
Archive Theater Company’s Cyrano de Bergerac
Jennifer Rose Davis’ new staging immerses audiences in 19th-century France, taking them on an epic journey that’s equally humorous and heartfelt
“Kate Breakey: Ornithology” at Stephen L. Clark Gallery
Where late the sweet birds sang, where now resides the egg and eye
Texas Democrats Request Special Session on Guns
Legislators in five cities press Gov. Abbott
Blue Collar Movie Making at Austin Revolution Film Festival
Beyond the micro-budget celebration of the true indies returns
