At the Texas AFL-CIO headquarters Wednesday evening, legislators, the NAACP, and a university professor united against UT-Austin’s handling of Senate Bill 17’s ban on DEI-related programs at public universities, calling for President Jay Hartzell to reinstate the more than 66 faculty and staff laid off April 2.

Mark your calendar: The Paramount Theatre has announced when Robert Rodriguez will be getting his star on the Avenue of Paramount Stars. It’ll be part of what promises to be the biggest opening weekend yet for the theatre’s Summer Classic Film Series.

It's a long way from a college production of Batboy: The Musical to stomping in stolen armor across the post-apocalyptic world of Prime's Fallout, but Aaron Moten made it. "A long, long way, my friend," the Austin actor laughs. "Did my mother write you an email?"

Texas filmmakers are mourning the loss of Tom Copeland, former executive director of the Texas Film Commission. A pivotal figure in the growth of the state's film industry, Copeland died this weekend.

The once-again mayor is looking to earn another term. Kirk Watson formally announced today, April 10, his 2024 re-election bid.

Austin Blues Festival is back to help you plan your April 27-28 itinerary. Daily schedules for the event, returning to Moody Amphitheater later this month, are out now.

Two equally unlikely events: That Austin would fall within a solar eclipse’s path of totality, and that the NYC-launched, Beverly Hills-based band Vampire Weekend would perform here at noon on a Monday.

This Thursday at 9am, City Council and the Planning Commission will hold a joint hearing on the second phase of the most significant changes to the Land Development Code in years, known as Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment (HOME).

On March 1 in Fort Lauderdale, Bob Dylan was a few songs into his show – and a few years into his Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour – when a woman in the audience seized a medium-quiet moment of tuning to make a request: “Play something we know!” she shouted to the stage.