Billie Buck
Volume 43, Number 26
Issue Supplement
2024 Austin Music Awards Issue
ON THE COVER:
news
Our choices for local, state, and national races
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Bill Burch is running to raise awareness of groundwater contamination
BY LINA FISHER
Safe on the bus
BY BENTON GRAHAM
85,000 petitioners and celebrities are behind him
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Travis County residents have a D.A. decision
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Mayor doesn’t “believe anyone has been misled”
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
food
Sampling noodles, shoes, salsa, and silencers at the Northwest Austin strip mall
BY TAYLOR HOLLAND
music
Austin’s favorite albums, artists, and instrumentalists of 2023
BY THE MUSIC TEAM
Chalk breaks up, Big Sugar reemerges, Die Spitz shoots a music video
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Show's 10th anniversary return uplifts largely outsider roots sounds
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Ode to “Songwriters” at Yard Dog Art Gallery
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Our recommended shows for the week ahead
BY RACHEL RASCOE, MIRANDA GARZA, KEVIN CURTIN, CARYS ANDERSON, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, ELIZABETH BRAATEN, GENEVIEVE WOOD, DOUG FREEMAN AND DEREK UDENSI
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
Filmmakers bring their found-footage horror to Fallout Theater on its IRL-only tour
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
Film Reviews
Film expansion of the manga series and television show
Ethan Coen solo effort is screwball without the comedy
Documentary uses reenactments to dramatize the five apparitions of Our Lady in Guadalupe
Loony live-action cartoon about a fur trader who goes to war with rodents
True story about a small-town hairdresser's crusade to help a widower secure a liver transplant for his daughter
Adam Sandler is an astronaut confronted with a mysterious creature
An animator starts to lose her mind in this chilling horror
arts & culture
Ground Floor Theatre production offers a tender trans portrayal
BY CAT MCCARREY
Get out and about in Austin while the weather's good
BY JAMES SCOTT, WAYNE ALAN BRENNER, KIMBERLEY JONES, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, DEREK UDENSI, RICHARD WHITTAKER AND CARYS ANDERSON
Get arty this week with our recommended happenings
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER, BRANT BINGAMON, RICHARD WHITTAKER AND JAMES SCOTT
columns
Texas’ first state park is still going strong after nearly 90 years
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Middle-aged white guys have it tough all over, not just in Texas
BY THE LUV DOC
The Dillo lives!
BY CARYS ANDERSON
My parents taught me that the existence of Israel is essential. My children taught me that support for their violently racist policies is fascistic. There’s a middle position, even if it sometimes feels contradictory.
BY CATHY K. BROWN
Legendary Father Akasha and princess BabiBoi talk the new Central Texas chapter of Juicy Couture
BY JAMES SCOTT
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Your weekly horoscope, February 23-29
BY ROB BREZSNY
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
First up: Can El Tree get off to a winning start?
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE