Crucial Free Week Concerts

Grab your mask and hit some gratis live shows

"...guest TBA. Eclectic soul standard Mélat rides classically hued torch song "The Lesson," draped in illustrious vocal layers. Multihyphenate..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

ACL’s Hardest Decision: St. Vincent or Erykah Badu – Reviewed Side-by-Side

A novel persona and a paragon of realness in clashing set times

"...cartoonish cityscape cutouts provided the perfect background for nostalgic torch song “New York” off Masseduction. The four-piece band flipped..."

Oct. 4, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

We Have an Issue: Why We’re Still Talking About LBJ

Reflections on the LBJ Library at 50, and a fond farewell to Food Editor Jessi Cape

"...Watson as Food editor – a passing of the torch that I think would have tickled pink her mentor,..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

21 Austin Rappers to Know in ’21

A hard-cut list of MCs proving the local hip-hop scene’s legitimacy

"...Impassioned Eastside torch raiser J Soulja moves like an OG despite not..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Austin Restaurants and Seafood Suppliers Work Toward Sustainability

Staying afloat with Minamoto Foods' SeaChange program

"...creamy and avocadolike. We lightly sear it with a torch to add a hint of smoke."..."

April 30, 2021 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

A Guide to Kolaches in Austin

And some of your sweet and savory pastry options in and around town

"...from the old Village Bakery) is carrying the kolache/klobasnek torch now. According to Charlie Green, proprietor and part-owner of..."

April 9, 2021 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

We Have an Issue: Finding Inspiration in the “Best of Austin”

Check out the nearly 900 (!!) people and places nominated in our "Best of Austin" Readers Poll

"...soccer in Austin, Nick's been eager to pass the torch. That happens next week with the debut of Eric..."

March 26, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...vocals reel against easy melodies like Nancy Sinatra's psychedelic-tinged torch singing layered on Vashti Bunyan's idyllic old world folk,..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...frontman's fête serves less as a passing of the torch than a collective appreciation from both artists and audience...."

Jan. 29, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Parlor Believes in Community, Artists, and Pizza

A daughter's plea

"...Spadaro inherited the duty, adding vegan pepperoni. When the torch passed again, Spadaro's sister Singer, founder of Austin Vegan..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Robert Rodriguez Brings Big Dad Energy to We Can Be Heroes

Sharkboy and Lavagirl return to pass the torch to a younger generation of heroes

Dec. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...spitter Deezie Brown, spiritual soulstress Eimaral Sol, East Austin torch raiser J Soulja, R&B soul Jake Lloyd, and RAS..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Venue Relief Pending as COVID-19 Spike Stalls Restarted Gigs

Also, sampling Flobama's beats, and remembering landmark pianist Margaret Wright

"...lauded electronic label Holodeck Records. A new video for "Torch," off 2016's pop-n-doom infused Graphic, accompanied the announcement, which..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

A Long Activist Legacy Survives on the Eastside

Holding on to El Barrio

"...Chicana out of our concilio to really take the torch.'" [inset-2] The Brown Berets..."

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Uncancel the Olympics With a DIY Decathlon

How one man became the world's greatest athlete* (of his backyard)

"...That served as my landing pad, while two tiki torches and a rope acted as my bar. After watching..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Craft Brewers vs COVID-19: Compadre Brewing and Central District Brewing

How local breweries are responding to the pandemic (Part 7)

"...the reality is that they are carrying the burdensome torch for a once-capable lineup of legendary, but now extinct,..."

May 6, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...be dead and his former partner would carry the torch with an “Ah-ha!” holler...."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

SXSW Review: Once Upon a Time in Uganda

The true, crazy story of Wakaliwood

"...kids how celluloid works, and when he shines a torch through some frames on a wall, it's a true..."

March 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Book Review: Barn 8

Deb Olin Unferth reveals humor and humanity inside a hen heist

"...burnouts and hard cases but with enough of that torch for the cause still lit inside to want to..."

March 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Qmmunity: A Qweeah Howdy From New Q Editor Beth Sullivan

Plus some hot luvin' V-Day events

"...Torch Wildfire Reading Series Feat. poet, editor, and educator KB...."

Feb. 14, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Kinky Friedman

"...of freedom line many paths: patriotic sentiment ("Carryin' the Torch"); reinvention (the title track); and death ("Ai! Mariachi"). In..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Music Review by Rick Weaver

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

From Día de los Muertos celebrations to holiday lights in November

"...of San Antonio, Sebastián, the sculptor who created La Antorcha de la Amistad/Torch of Friendship in downtown at Losoya..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

ACL Live Review: Orville Peck

Canadian Lone Ranger croons-n-swoons the lonesome frontier

"...Together, the five marched through sleepwalking ballads, torch songs, and drowsy road tales. Musical breaks favored guitar..."

Oct. 13, 2019 Music Post by Rick Weaver

"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

"...roll, tap and modern dance, whistling, piano playing, and torch song became vehicles for collaborative conversations, places where disparate..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Behind the Camera With the Capital City Black Film Festival

Celebration of film places more emphasis on making it into the industry

"...was surprised because he's going to be passing the torch to her."..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hut’s Hamburgers to Close After 80 Years

October 20 planned as last day of service

"...& West Avenue. We are honored to pass the torch from one local operator to another,’ said Sammie Joseph..."

June 10, 2019 Food Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Comedy: The Laugh Button Live!

Kathy Griffin ignited a late-night set full of high energy

"...crowd for a late-night show that killed – a torch that Foley picked up when she took the stage..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Music Review: KCRW Showcase

J.S. Ondara, Broken Social Scene, and Cautious Clay go goth!

"...crowd with a mesmerizingly tender reach and soft banter. “Torch Song” impressed as the most polished, but the turn..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

16 Experimentalists to Help You Get Weird at SXSW

"...fringe. Led by Thomas Baumann, Fond Han carries the torch by, naturally, breaking all the old rules and writing..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Rick Weaver

Texas Barbecue Icon Rick Schmidt Passes Away

Former Kreuz Market owner helped shape the Lockhart barbecue scene

"...feud with his sister that ended with a ceremonial torch procession, bringing the never extinguished coals from the original..."

Feb. 12, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

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