The Raid 2

This breathtaker is a relentless wall of action filmmaking that sets a new, bloody standard.

"...There’s a scene late in Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2, in which two warriors, mangled and blood-soaked from..."

April 11, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Take You to the Gay Bar

A round-up of Austin's LGBTQ bar scene

"...Austin's LGBTQ bar scene is and always has been vibrant and vital...."

July 8, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Feds Raid Sixth Street Bars

Indictment against club boss includes money laundering, drugs

"...club owners faces federal indictment today after law enforcement raided four downtown venues. The FBI alleges that Hussein Ali..."

March 22, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Stonewall... Revisited?

Fort Worth Bar gets raided the night before the 40th anniversary of Stonewall.

"...Last night in Fort Worth, police raided the Rainbow Lounge, a week-old gay nightclub. Reports coming..."

June 28, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Gay Place

Fort Worth cops open up a six-pack of whoopass just in time to celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall

"...press time, the story of this weekend's perversely timed raid of a Fort Worth gay bar is still unfolding...."

July 3, 2009 Column by Kate X Messer

On The Banality of Evil…

In the Rainbow Lounge incident, unlike so many, there are clear winners and losers. The winners get to walk away.

"...since the Fort Worth police and TABC decided to raid the Rainbow Lounge on what was reported to be..."

July 2, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Bruises Easily

The Raid opens a can of whupass

"...up to speed. Our plan was to raise the bar. A lot."..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sparking a Glamour Riot at the Capitol

Peter Rapp brings living memory to Austin Pride's Stonewall event

"...state just blocks away, but the kids at the bar were in no mood to mourn. Neither were they..."

June 26, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Rainbow Lounge Update

Fallout from the Saturday raid of Fort Worth gay bar on the eve of the Stonewall annivesary.

"...Saturday night when Fort Worth Police and TABC officers raided the Rainbow Lounge, a newly-minted gay bar...."

June 29, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Sellers Underground Closes Permanently

Downtown bar is Austin's second gay bar to close because of the pandemic

"...Local gay bar Sellers Underground has shuttered its doors. The Fourth Street..."

Dec. 7, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...Black: We used to be a part of this barter exchange deal and, uh, which was just a disastrous..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Carole Keeton Rylander conducts a high-profile raid of Antone's nightclub.

"...Rylander's Raiders..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature by Andy Langer

Day Trips: Port Lavaca

A fisherman’s paradise worth exploring

"...to State Highway 35, but Texas Traditions Grill & Bar on Main Street offers steaks, seafood, and casseroles, with..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

What Is Going On With Ken Paxton and Nate Paul?

What we know – and don't know – about the strange connection between the embattled Austin real estate magnate and the Texas attorney general

"...the summer of 2019, when Nate Paul's spots got raided by the FBI. Over the years, we'd both acquired..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dancing About Architecture

The clubs just keep closing (or being raided by comptrollers), but at least we still have television.

"...Raid Kills "Ant"s Dead..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...rebellions, sit-ins, kiss-ins, and protests long before the police raid and ensuing riot at the Mafia-run Stone­wall Inn in..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...And then the word came: The feds had raided a bunch of Downtown bars. Reports were vague, but..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...into consideration. As it turns out, most of the bars I frequent allow smoking. I hate it and a..."

May 13, 2005 Column

The AggreGAYtor: October 2

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• New documentary tells the story of the 2009 raid on Forth Worth’s Rainbow Lounge...."

Oct. 2, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Dancing About Architecture

Emo's employees quit over punk rock protest, the Noise Ordinance is back, as will be the Austin City Limits Music Festival, but not Russell Crowe. SIMS news and more.

"...to get the venue to develop more of "a bar-type crowd," along the lines of Casino el Camino, Lovejoy's,..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Life After Waco

"...working hours between a downtown upholstery shop and tending bar at a suburban Waco tavern...."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...low fat, whole grain, fruit and vegetable, fancy protein-supplement bar diet, of the fat-phobic fools who wrote in, on..."

May 19, 2000 Column

Qmmunity: Sellers Underground Shutters

Send Qmmunity your queer’d memories of the Fourth Street fixture

"...restrictions making it "impossible for us to continue." (The bar had been operating for barely a month under the..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

The Year It All Went Wrong

Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.

"...to clear 200 very unhappy patrons out of the bar and issue refunds on what otherwise should have been..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...18-month period, in a town so small it can barely support a Dairy Queen, the agent maintained his cover..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Gay Place

Pride Month With the Babadook

"...GULP Viking Raid & Gear Bar Crawl Kick off the Celebration of..."

June 16, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Mark Landsman’s Thunder Soul, Daniel Stamm’s Cotton, Chris D’Arienzo’s BARRY MUNDAY, and Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways. They join previously..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

International Bands

Thursday

"...Les Handclaps (Sat., Beauty Bar, 1am) Montreal guitar-Farfisa-laptop trio incorporates dancers...."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...reflected the creative whims of brewers: oatmeal coffee porters, barrel-aged raspberry sours, Belgian blonde ales inside taxidermy squirrels. The..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...9pm, Stephen F's Bar Bhi Bhiman's bold, soulful singing remains strongly reminiscent of..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

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