An Outdoor Screening, Bluey Live, and More Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

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"...Swim School. Bring chairs, dogs, and/or picnics, but no glass, styrofoam, alcohol, or smoking, please!   – Kat McNevins..."

March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Restaurant Review: Bureau de Poste

Chef Jo Chan delivers delicious cuisine in former Hyde Park post office

"...My spouse enjoyed his steak frites, a large boneless rib-eye cooked medium rare but with an expert char, served..."

March 8, 2024 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin FC Season Kickoff, Black History Month, and More Community Events

Get out and about in Austin while the weather's good

"...club, you’ve probably spent your night under the watchful eye of Markus, the venue’s head of security. Tragically, he..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

With Mental Health Diversion Center Forthcoming, Sheriff Still Wants More Humane Jail Facilities

Can healing happen in jail?

"...high on the wall and semi-opaque due to frosted glass, though women stand on their cots to look through..."

Dec. 29, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

Meat Joy Reunion Shows and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Ways to celebrate the annular eclipse, fundraise for Sarah Brown, and avoid ACL

"...Art-rock songwriter Kathy McCarty (formerly of influential post-punk quartet Glass Eye) supports their Saturday night show on the spacious..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

Qmmunity: Queer Comedy Pipeline

Ivy Le talks the impact of Tongue in Cheek, a queer comedy open mic providing fertile ground for Austin's LGBTQ comics

"...scene, Le picks Tongue in Cheek's co-hosts with an eye toward career diversity. "I try to invite guest hosts..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by James Scott

Arts Review: "Floriculture"

The impermanence of floristry and the eternal nature of tattoos highlight Pastiche House’s fusion philosophy

"...Friday, May 26, saw the Shed's walls of glass fully decked with Von Lehe's monochrome watercolors of myriad..."

June 2, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Daniel, Kurt, and Jeremiah: Why “Hi, How Are You” Matters

Austin's most famous mural is a case study in art preservation and cultural impact

"...Edge about Austin music, alongside less-remembered local acts like Glass Eye and Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue...."

May 26, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Sex, Lies, and Katie Folger

The Austin artist on her new show, Getting in Bed With the Pizza Man

"...indie world and had yet to pierce through the glass ceiling of more commercial work. Naturally, all those jobs..."

May 11, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2022 Awards Short Lists

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads nominee pack

"...Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once • Janelle Monae, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery • Keke Palmer, Nope..."

Jan. 4, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Carrie Rodriguez's Laboratorio, itchy-O, Fontaines D.C., Ash Lauryn, Nas & Wu-Tang, and more

"...Pins (Carrie Clark of Sixteen Deluxe and Pam Peltz), Glass Eye's Kathy McCarty, former fellow Asylum Street Spanker Guy..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

Austin's Airport Art Program Makes Every Flight a Trip to the Gallery

Got some time at AUS? There's many distractions in plane sight.

"...come to know it. Especially soothing to rest your eyes on an array of large landscapes by Austin's Jimmy..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Zach Theatre's The Inheritance, Part 1

Epic in length and ambition, this portrait of gay life in the 21st century is stunning

"...conversation about our past,” says sincere and intense Eric Glass (an absolutely riveting Christopher Joel Onken), the better half..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

What We're Listening to This Week

Otis Wilkins, Fuck Money, Cash Grab, Jake Lloyd, and more notable sounds

"...Dead Dog's Eyeball, Kathy McCarty's 1994 reimagining of Daniel Johnston songs, is..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Austin’s Best Free Summer Events

From museums to live music to yoga to bats, Austin has it all

"...Austin’s sculpture park and art-in-nature site. Also keep an eye and an ear out for owls, and see the..."

July 15, 2022 Events Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood

Public Notice: The Month of Armed Rebellion

Bastille Day and other events

"...Country including Boerne and Comfort, and didn't always see eye to eye with the patrician Noblemen's Society who had..."

July 8, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Restaurateurs Stake Their Claim in Lockhart

Deep in the heart of barbecue city

"...fixture, climbs into my lap as I sip a glass of rosé and chat with professor Sharon Evans, the..."

June 24, 2022 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Tribeca Film Review: Dreaming Walls

A resident's-eye view of life in NYC's bohemian hub

"...from afar – but then he turned a blind eye to the junkies and johns. Just because you're an..."

June 20, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX TV Festival 2022: Patrick Somerville on Station Eleven

Showrunner talks adaptation and pandemic TV

"...his particular style of handheld movement, of down at eye level subjectivity that just feels authentic. Putting that into..."

June 5, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

ScriptWorks’ Out of Ink 2022: Unusual Embrace

Short-form showcase spotlights local artists in 10 minutes or less

"...and something that cannot be seen by the human eye. These were the parameters for inclusion in ScriptWorks' Out..."

April 29, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Central Market’s Meatless Butcher, Hoboken’s 14th Anniversary, Suerte’s Taquero Takeover, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Yes, it’s your Food News Buffet for the last..."

April 27, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Through Steel, Wood, Glass, and Gas, Ion Art Turns Zilker Into a Glowing Wonderland

Enter the Neon Garden

"...into a wonderland of illuminated, frequently kinetic, often interactive glass and gas and steel and wow...."

April 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...Even from a Triple A vantage, Maxo Kream's journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Residential Address: Mac McIntosh

At an age when most perferformers are preparing to take a bow, jazz singer Mac Mcintosh is hitting the stride.

"...Two steps in the door, he'd effortlessly have a glass of scotch in one hand, a dancing partner in..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

The Booze We Choose: Seven and Up

Liquor in the front … of your favorite cabinet, of course

"...(and continuing) this Waco-based distillery whence flows, now, an eye-opening crowd of whiskeys. And the stellar quality of the..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bristol-Joseph's Canje Opens, Bésame's My Jam Makes Us Scream, Fowl Mouth Shuts Up, News of More Booze, and More,

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...that action out. But what really snagged our palate’s eye is this: One of Meanwhile’s several resident food trucks?..."

Oct. 6, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Other “ACL” – Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta – Hits Sagebrush on Saturday

Austin all ears for Hickoids, the Beaumonts, Hamell on Trial, the Krayolas, Kathy McCarty and more

"...Pocket Fishrmen, viciously satirical outlaw country outfit the Beaumonts, Glass Eye heroine Kathy McCarty, San Antonio power-pop vets the..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Last Bow of an Accidental Critic

Lessons and surprises from a career that shouldn't have been

"...Pay attention. Get involved. Maybe this is your fourth Glass Menagerie, your eighth Hamlet, your 15th Christmas Carol. Don't..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Music Sucks

Michael Corcoran's infamous 1986 music column

"...the barbers wear black hoods with holes cut for eyes ... LeRoi Brothers: How does it feel when you..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Corcoran

Austin at Large: More Alike Than Different

Where to start a conversation about creating decent housing for all of Austin

"...to duck out now and again to keep an eye on the Capitol and the police union.)..."

July 9, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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