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Texas GOP’s Book Bans Are the First Step in Anti-Public Education Crusade
Banning books (for Jesus!)
Kathy Valentine Swaps Stages for Zach Theatre’s New Show Head Over Heels
Jukebox musical features the greatest hits of the Go-Go’s
Only Austin Earned a Warmhearted Lucinda Williams In-Store at Waterloo Records
Celebrating her new memoir and LP, as well as shop owner John Kunz
Texas French Bread Rebuilding, Radix House Trying Not to Sink, Black’s x Via 313 Bringing the Brisket, Keepers Puttin’ On the Ritziness, and More…
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Watch This: The Sun Sets on a Relationship in Emily No Good’s “Space”
Costumes intertwine in a golden hour dance directed by Vanessa Pla
Tribeca Film Review: Let the Canary Sing
Cyndi Lauper doc travels the long path to becoming herself
Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup
Summer fun is heating up around the state
New Documentary Every Body Illuminates the “I” in LGBTQIA
Local intersex activist Alicia Roth Weigel talks new doc
Review: Different Stages’ The Art of Martyrdom (A Comedy)
For one of the season’s best comedies, get thee to a nunnery
Court Rejects New Evidence in Rodney Reed Death Penalty Case
Reed has long claimed innocence
Tribeca Film Review: Suitable Flesh
Heather Graham and Barbara Crampton bring sexy back
Point Austin: A Great Time to Be a Republican
Bryan Slaton, Ken Paxton … and the rest of them
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indy’s final adventure remembers the whip, forgets the charm
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Kid-friendly battle of the high school sea monsters
Every Body
RBG director introduces the lives of intersex individuals
L’immensità
Penélope Cruz is the madonna of modern cinema in a story of growing up trans
Lynch/Oz
Is David Lynch’s whole career an homage to The Wizard of Oz?
Greg Abbott Wants to End Property Taxes; Dan Patrick Won’t Agree
This is getting old
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, June 30 – July 6
Ye Olde Witch Hunt Tactic Makes a Comeback in Right-Wing War on Public Education
Which course is witch?
Day Trips: The Desk, Alpine
Beat-up desk attracts visitors to a West Texas desert hilltop
Owen Egerton, Austin’s Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves
An increasingly unwelcoming Texas leads to a big goodbye
Headlines / Quote of the Week
O Miserable, for Spacious Border Wall: On a visit to the Texas-Mexico border on Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his immigration platform for his 2024 presidential campaign and implied that Donald Trump’s plan under-delivered. DeSantis was introduced at the event by U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin. God Shed His Lesson Plan on Thee: In…
The Luv Doc: Beige Carpet Cat Castle
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Down This Mean Sixth Street in Austin Noir
Akashic Books brings its crime-fiction anthology series to bloody up our changing metropolis
Choreographer Alison Orr’s New Book Dances Across the Page
Dance Works recounts 23 years of Forklift Danceworks as a force for community change
Opinion: The Case Against Disposable Food Ware
Austinites should be a part of the solution and eliminate plastic, single-use items from the waste stream
Keshara Moore Wants You to Join The Obsidian Society
Austin author’s debut pits Black and queer characters against the apocalypse
Planned Parenthood Marks Anniversary of the Dobbs Decision
A year without Roe
Qmmunity: A Book of One’s Own
Queer book releases from this June, perfect for building a tiny Borrower house
UT Law Professor Illuminates the Dangers of The Shadow Docket
Stephen Vladeck’s new book reveals how SCOTUS is secretly undermining the republic
Elise Hu Unpacks the K-Beauty Industry in Her New Book, Flawless
The former KVUE reporter and NPR bureau chief explores how algorithms are shaping South Korean society
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A parsec, which is short for “parallax second,” is 3.26 light-years. Saddam Hussein once had a copy of the Quran written in his own blood. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) is credited with writing the first self-help book in 1859. Titled Self-Help, the book explains how everyone is personally responsible for their own success or failure. He…
A Young Man’s Guide to Abortion Rights in The Fight for Midnight
Former Chronicle writer Dan Solomon switches from journalist to novelist for his YA debut
We Have an Issue: Read Before Burning
Welcome to the Books Issue
Still Austin Whiskey Co-Founder Explores a Spirited History in New Book
Colonialism, distilleries, potations, and probity
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Quiet Light, One Be Low, a few July 4th traditions, and more recommended shows
Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay Explore Meat and Fire in New Cookbook
Where there’s smoke, there’s Franklin
Review: Johanna Heilman, When We Were Electric
“I need the sound,” intones Johanna Heilman repeatedly on the seven-minute opening track to her debut solo album. “I’m a Stone” sets the eight-song cycle with an imperative urgency, slowly strummed out in an almost meditative shoegaze reverb as Heilman reckons with the revolt and recovery of her body from cancer. In fact, the entire…
Horror Writer and Folk Musician Carter St Hogan Finds Relief in Discomfort
Austin audiences may know Carter St Hogan as the bluegrasser behind exploratory folk project Creekbed Carter Hogan. The trans nonbinary creative released his first LP, Good St Riddance, in 2021. Hogan, who uses he/they pronouns interchangeably, self-produced the concept album, reimagining the story of the 14th-century St. Wilgefortis as a ghostly queer love epic. They…
Review: Ladyfang, Ladyfang
Ladyfang’s vampire act, bracing as an Anne Rice villain if Anne Rice villains performed in drag, stars Cara Juan, not-so-secret theatre kid (catch her in an upcoming Dracula at Albuquerque’s Vortex Theatre). Juan’s blast radius spews furthest in person, emulated with coiled and rattling tension deep within on “Volcano,” like the jiggly bit on a…
What Chronicle Music Writers Are Reading This Summer
Recent musical reads on Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O’Connor, and more
Before Briefly Leaving, DPS Mostly Arrested People of Color in East Austin
DPS troopers invited back to town
The Verde Report: Has Austin FC Officially Righted the Ship?
If, come the fall, Austin FC finds itself back in the MLS Cup Playoffs mix making another deep run like it did a year ago, we’ll look back to the third week of June as the moment when everything turned the corner for the Verde and Black. In the span of just 72 hours, El…
Review: promqueen, szn one
Gentle, arpeggiating keys lead into pulsing synth and a proud declaration from promqueen in opener “[You Can Hear Me Now]”: “I was close to walking away, almost left it all/ But I decided to step into something I didn’t know, and be okay with not knowing.” Leaping faithfully into the new musical project, the second-generation…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer’s markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of June 29, 2023
Community Events
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids’ activities, and more
A Surge of Adoptions Alleviates the Animal Shelter Crisis – for Now
Save our shelter
Arts Events
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
How Bad Is This Heat, Really?
Better than 2022, but still deadly
Radio Coffee & Beer Has Half-Priced Heatbusters, Dovetail’s Got a Brand New Brunch, Nixta Knocks Out Tasty Patio Narratives, Wax Myrtle’s Tips the Pool, Your Favorite Uncle Ben Runkle Goes Wagyu with Peeler, and More, More, More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Review: Penfold Theatre’s Box
Audacious retelling of an equally audacious life
Ascension Stops Nurses From Returning to Work After Strike
Negotiations over understaffing crisis stalled, nurses say
