Austin-based nonprofit Texas Health Action opened its third Kind Clinic in Austin on Oct. 22. The new clinic, located at 2800 S. I-35 #103 in South Austin, will be the first Kind Clinic to have an on-site pharmacy, which is slated to open early 2021.

Welcome to Short and Sweet, our look at short films playing at Austin Film Festival. This time it's "Gabriela," filmmaker Natalia Kaniasty's story of a woman (Lucia Sawh) working as a cleaner at a strip joint, who begins to consider her options and who she is.

In January, barring some unexpected obstacle, Madeleine Connor will become judge in the 353rd state District Court. Following previous defeats as a Republican (twice) and a Democrat (once), Connor narrowly defeated incumbent Judge Tim Sulak in the March Democratic primary.

The difference between a mystery and a puzzle is that the enigma of a mystery doesn't need solving to be enthralling. That's what makes Danish psychedelic technothriller (and Austin Film Festival 2020 Dark Matters jury award winner) The Blue Orchid a film to be absorbed rather than explained.

Welcome to Short and Sweet, our look at short films playing at Austin Film Festival. This time it's "The Recordist," Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen's unnerving tale of a film set sound engineer (Brendan Rock) who uses his position as an invisible presence on the set to malevolent ends.

Billy Joe Shaver left this world today at a hospital in Waco. According to local sources, the country music legend died from a stroke. The singer was 81.

Welcome to Short and Sweet, our look at short films playing at Austin Film Festival. This time it's "The Yellow Dress," director Alex Ko's story of a young French boy, Raphael (Jules Leyendecker), whose mother rejects his interest in women's clothing.

Here’s your weekly Food News Buffet for the final week of October, culled from numerous PR releases, official posts, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdroppings.

Hilltop Cafe patriarch Johnny Nicholas boasts his own stage, but that didn’t level the pandemic playing field when releasing Mistaken Identity, a leather-warm platter of Southern blues traditionalism. Glowing Nicholas’ primal voice, stripped-n-steely instrumental intimacy, and downhome truth, LPs like this launched the Austin tourism industry.