Breaking Down the Texas Bills That Will Change the 2024 School Year

Vaping is criminal, books are banned, and school cops are everywhere

"...million. The Lege provided $2 million to implement it. [inset-1-right]..."

Sept. 1, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Eat for Free at Korea House

Owner's "spiritual healing" leads her to feed folks for free

"...the first Wednesday of each month, regardless of their religious beliefs or economic situation...."

Aug. 25, 2023 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Bottoms

The Shiva Baby team reunite for a ridonkulously horny queer comedy

"...way. We’ve got concerningly emotional tweaker girl, openly freaky religious girl, a bomb-obsessed sidekick, pansexual cheerleader, supportive deadbeat teacher..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Lina Fisher

Review: Ground Floor Theatre’s Jenna & the Whale

Biblically inspired world premiere is a minor miracle

"...The most obvious is playwrights Vanessa Garcia and Jake Cline’s re-envisioned retelling of the..."

Aug. 22, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Five Films About LGBTQ+ Lives at Prism 36

All the colors of the cinematic rainbow gather for the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival's biggest annual event

"...Earn bragging rights with an early look at the latest horror from..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Finding Sasquatch in Summoning the Spirit

How a Texas bigfoot migrated to Oregon for new cryptid horror

"...[inset-1-right]Yet the looming threat over the production wasn't script issues,..."

Aug. 10, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kerrville Folk Festival Launches Hip Younger Sister Fest, Welcome Home

Broadening the scope of folk with Laraaji, Adrianne Lenker, and more

"...world-class songwriters to small-town Texas for 18 days of near-religious folk consumption. This fall, the Austin institution will reboot..."

July 21, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Point Austin: A Great Time to Be a Republican

Bryan Slaton, Ken Paxton … and the rest of them

"...was initially more salacious, featuring a panoply of political, religious, and sexual hypocrisy. Slaton, who has degrees in both..."

June 30, 2023 News Post by Michael King

Ye Olde Witch Hunt Tactic Makes a Comeback in Right-Wing War on Public Education

Which course is witch?

"...Right-wing news outlet/propaganda mill Texas Scorecard is trying its hand..."

June 30, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Texas GOP's Book Bans Are the First Step in Anti-Public Education Crusade

Banning books (for Jesus!)

"...bans are a relatively recent obsession of the far right and have followed their previous crusades against mask mandates..."

June 30, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...whether they can hire chaplains. Also signed by two religious freedom groups, the letter warns that permitting chaplains to..."

June 30, 2023 News Feature

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...leaving some typically untapped space on the room’s far right. Any raised eyebrows over the band’s “ecstatic black metal”..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Austin Pharmacist Denies Trans Man Testosterone Prescription

Walgreens says pharmacist was uncomfortable with injection method

"...2018 allows pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions on religious and moral grounds as long as they pass the..."

May 25, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Public Notice: Your Government at Work

The Texas Legislature and “the disturbing category of ‘Who Knows?’”

"..."For 40 years, the religious right has used 'faith' to push hateful, exclusionary legislation..."

May 26, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

How Texas Wreaked Havoc on One Man's Journey to Citizenship

Living the American nightmare

"...it back. They obliged, and he decided to run. [inset-1-right]..."

May 19, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...for clemency applications. Those requesting clemency don’t have a right to appear before the board. Their family members and..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Review: Penfold Theatre's Vincent

Size matters when painting a portrait of Van Gogh

"...emotional intensity that scared locals and manifested itself in religious fervor, blind romanticism, and self-harm during his recovery from..."

March 31, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

SXSW Film Review: Bottoms

Seligman and Sennot re-team for a wicked lesbian John Hughes riff

"...say that Bottoms may go down in cinema history right alongside its favorite influences – Superbad, But I’m A..."

March 12, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 24-March2

"...God as to Life. It's perfect for your needs right now. He said, "May my mind come alive today..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

The City Forced Their Church's Expensive Demolition

Now the appraisal district wants $100,000

"...small congregation of members who lived in the neighborhood. [inset-1-right]..."

Feb. 24, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

The Devil Conspiracy

Nineties Catholic creature feature crap flies again!

"...full power. The screenplay also positions Michael as a religious Kyle Reese, complete with out-of-time jokes about economy cars..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Pale Blue Eye

Star-studded horror finds Edgar Allan Poe in a Gothic mystery of his own

"...as a faithless man moving through worlds – both religious and militaristic – belonging to the devout...."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Faith and Fatness in The Whale

Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel D. Hunter redefine the religious movie

"...of what I could take from that very dramatic religious background, and those themes show up in The Whale,..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Super Soldier, Super Spy: Eugenio Mira on García!

The Spanish filmmaker unpacks the inherent fascism of the superhero

"...a secular nature don't have the gatherings of the religious ones. It's an anthropological fact that if you don't..."

Dec. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Inspection

Powerful and challenging boot camp drama ponders the need to be accepted

"...process. Bratton isn't interested in taking positions about the right or wrong of the military mindset, but more in..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Lingua Ignota, Daniel Fears, Mobley, a Doug Sahm celebration, and more worthy local shows

"...Every time an American Christian religious household futilely forbids its young to engage with secular..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Eternal Spring

China's religious oppression explored through the art of Daxiong

"...their inability to push their believes on others. Actual religious oppression is what has happened for decades to Falun..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

In the Wake of COVID Seton Nurses Unionize

The new union wants reasonable shifts, cost-of-living wage adjustments

"...was literally illegal to unionize in Texas, because of 'right-to-work' laws. So essentially, we were just doing education; most..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Federal District Court Rules Employers Can Refuse to Purchase Health Insurance That Covers PrEP

When lifesaving medicines are against someone’s religion

"...In the post-Dobbs climate of right-wing backlash to what should be established protections of human..."

Sept. 23, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Medieval

Brutal historical epic gives gritty, accessible life to a Czech icon

"...any film with a theatrical release is doing something right in the year 2022. Whereas a movie like Medieval..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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