Austin at Large: Neither Slumber Nor Sleep

We will be othered, threatened, vilified, even fired upon. We must not let it stop us.

"...than its fascist counterpart even though we control the White House and Congress – make noises about "authoritarianism" or..."

May 27, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Patti Smith and Bikini Kill in One Weekend

Lighting strikes twice in Austin, and Pleasure Venom opens

"...dash of punk history. In the decades since originating riot grrrl, the movement has moved mainstream enough to inspire..."

May 13, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

“It’s Like a Family Business, Except Rock Stars”: The Kindred Bond of We Don’t Ride Llamas

Afro rock sibling band is defiantly unconventional on new EP The Oracle

"...says Kit. "It's almost more transgressive to wear all white with angel wings but still rep a rebellious mindset:..."

April 29, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Faster Than Sound: The Austin Music Awards Rise Again

Tickets on sale now for the 40-year tradition, March 8 at Emo's

"...makes their AMA debut following buzzy appearances at Chicago's Riot Fest and touring as direct support for Willow Smith...."

March 4, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Dancing guitar lines and riot grrrl-inspired lyrics make Sleater-Kinney the obvious inspiration: "I'm not..."

July 2, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Sparxs Studio Is Turning Cinema Into a Single Mom's Game

Founder and CEO Samenta Bruington doesn't take no for an answer

"..."Turner Classic Movies, that whole catalog. A lot of white people that are dead now. But they were a..."

April 30, 2021 Screens Feature by Selome Hailu

Booze News & Reviews

Seven Things to Know In the World of Spirits

"...The straight bourbon is made with premium grains including white corn, wheat, and barley malt. It derives its characteristic..."

April 15, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top Fiction of 2020 for the Angry Girls

Rosalind Faires chooses several tales of righteous indignation

"...Reid's debut about a young Black woman and the white mom she babysits for has a keen eye, a..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

New AFS Series More Than Simply Restores Wong Kar-wai's Work

The (almost) complete films of the Hong Kong filmmaker

"...lead fans of his longtime cinematographer Christopher Doyle to riot. However, the shift from selective color to full black..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Hey, at Least Trump Lost!

The best news came last in the longest election ever

"...will definitely be evicting the current occupants of the White House. Right now, the president and his GOP allies..."

Nov. 13, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Book Festival 2020: Mychal Denzel Smith and Isaac J. Bailey in Conversation

The two authors discuss Black Americans and life post-America

"...and Isaac J. Bailey, author of Why Didn’t We Riot: A Blackman in Trumpland, discuss their books – Smith..."

Nov. 10, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

Local Lawyers and Activists Come to the Aid of Protesters

A look at life after the arrests

"...demagoguery to create new offenses for participating in a "riot." Abbott's proposal would also create felony charges for forming..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...Ugly Music • Isaac J. Bailey, Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland • Edward Ball, Life..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...styled under a trademark Lash Stetson, beard trimmed, starched white long sleeve shirt under his leather vest, clear-eyed and..."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Music we’re playing

"...blue vinyl, a creamy aquamarine with wisps of cloudy white translucent enough to reveal the turntable mat below. Once..."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Tidal Wave of People Batter the Foundations of Austin’s Structural Racism

Thousands took to Downtown and Eastside streets to say, emphatically, that Black Lives Matter

"..."plywood shields" fabricated by antifa super soldiers to withstand riot-armed cops – and then, supposedly, hidden in a Downtown..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

“I Want Peace, but I Want Justice First”

Austinites protested against police brutality. Police responded with brutal force.

"...shootings of peaceful protesters, leading to life-threatening injuries, by riot-armed officers using "less lethal impact munitions" near APD's own..."

June 5, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...the street, up Robert E. Lee. It was borderline riot...."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry and the Houston Riot of 1917. The night of violence led to the..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

An Evening With Chlane at ColdTowne Theater

In a light, enjoyable sketch show, comic couple Chloe and Lane Ingram show the cost to intimacy with just one person over others

"...The show opens with the Chlanes embodying Those Typical White People, who went on a cruise to the Caribbean..."

June 21, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

My Obsession: Fleabag

Snarky British comedy mines the prick in all of us

"...realized how often I rewatch Fleabag. The show's a riot, sure: smutty, deadpan, Fleabag's smirks always winking. But I..."

May 10, 2019 Screens Column by Beth Sullivan

Thebe Kgositsile and Earl Sweatshirt Become One at Emo’s

L.A. rapper shakes off some of the melancholic

"...He kept his presentation simple, sporting a white graphic T-shirt, sipping on a red Solo cup, and..."

May 2, 2019 Music Post by Marilee Bodden

Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk

Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place

"...Styrene to modern iterations in Big Joanie and Pussy Riot...."

April 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Free Week 2019 Is in the Rearview Mirror, but These Homegrown Standouts Aren't

10 local showcases that got us excited for what’s to come this year

"...discernible melodies, Vampyre uncorked an unrelenting assault. It's literally white noise over a pummeling beat that left ears screaming..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Macbeth's Myriad of Misfortunes

The Scottish Play – still cursed after all these years

"...the militia, and as the protest escalated into a riot, troops fired into the crowd, killing at least 22..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op

All of the Dashiel Hammett PI's cases in one energetic volume

"...you aficionados know, Red Harvest is kind of a one-riot, one-Texas Ranger story, wherein the Op takes on a..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Queerbomb and Austin Black Pride Kick Off Season of LGBTQ Celebrations

The city proves that pride has no limits

"...the city's queer community and strives to commemorate Pride's riot roots (honoring the 1969 Stonewall Riots, which is credited..."

June 1, 2018 Arts Feature by Sarah Marloff

Jawbreaker Playing Austin in July

Cult favorites set for Skyline Theater

"...Getting Jawbreaker to Austin has proved something of a white whale for veteran booker Graham Williams, whose Margin Walker..."

May 1, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Review: Idles

The youngest, angriest, motorik-punk band on the planet

"...fairly natty dock worker in his blue-knit beanie, crisp white T-shirt, and jeans...."

March 16, 2018 SXSW Post by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music Review: Bad Gyal

Catalonian feminist anthems for lux-filled lives

"...Main on Tuesday night, stunting with low-rise jeans, a white, midriff-baring sweater, fur coat, and her hair pulled up..."

March 14, 2018 SXSW Post by Isabella Castro-Cota

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