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Volume 43, Number 43
Issue Supplement
Best of Austin 2024
ON THE COVER:
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BY Cassidy Frazier
features
Best of Austin 2024
The best in local Arts & Entertainment, Kids & Family, Nightlife, Politics & Media, Services, Shopping, Sports & Recreation, according to Austin Chronicle readers and staff
news
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Austin ISD Sees Opportunity for Big Money in Leasing Land
Untapped properties could help teachers, per superintendent
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Russian-Born Austinites Supporting Ukraine by Bringing Medical Supplies
Inna Adamovich is making sacrifices for Ukraine
BY BENTON GRAHAM
State Prepares to Kill Murderer, Spiritual Leader on Death Row
Ramiro Gonzales has “so much potential”
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Community Organizer Doug Greco Challenges Kirk Watson
Mayor’s race shaping up to be Watson vs. three other liberals
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
music
DIIV on Surviving Capitalism, Being Shoegaze Elders, and Frog in Boiling Water
Indie rockers play new album at Emo’s June 21
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Album Review: Big Bill’s Strawberry Seed
Austin’s Big Bill grows up – sort of
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Crosstalk: A New Radio Coffee and Bad Larry's Brick and Mortar Are on Their Way
Music news from around the ATX
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Of Montreal, Pixies, Kinky Curly Coily Fest, and More Crucial Concerts
Recommended live music for your week
BY CY WHITE, CARYS ANDERSON, DEREK UDENSI, RACHEL RASCOE, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, CHRISTINA GARCIA, DOUG FREEMAN, MICHAEL TOLAND AND ABBY JOHNSTON
Live Music in Austin
BY DEREK UDENSI
Screens
Film Reviews
The Bikeriders
Jeff Nichols finds poignancy in the rise and fall of a motorcycle gang
Blackwater Lane
Gothic whodunnit's red herrings just stink
The Exorcism
A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror
Ghostlight
A construction worker is drawn into a production of Romeo and Juliet
I Am: Celine Dion
Behind-the-scenes look at the Canadian superstar and her experience with stiff-person syndrome
Thelma
A nonagenarian seeks revenge after being scammed
arts & culture
Theatre Review: Trinity Street Playhouse’s A Million More to Go
Play examines preposterous political climes with chuckles galore
BY CAT MCCARREY
Art, Movies, Sober Partying, and a Majestic Ball in This Weekend’s Recommended Events
Get out and get arty
BY JAMES SCOTT, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, CAT MCCARREY, CARYS ANDERSON, RICHARD WHITTAKER AND CY WHITE
New Prints, Old Turtles, and Other Events This Week
Gotta gotta get out to get down
BY JAMES SCOTT, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, CARYS ANDERSON, CY WHITE, LINA FISHER AND CAT MCCARREY
columns
Introducing Free Press Forever
Associate Publisher Cassidy Frazier talks about the importance of donor-supported journalism and our new live music series
BY CASSIDY FRAZIER
The Off Beat: Freedom Day(s)
Early-bird celebrations pepper the lead-up to a midweek Juneteenth
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Opinion: The Right Wing Is Attacking Queer & Trans Americans to Distract From Their Bigger Agenda
Congressman Greg Casar on taking the fight for LGBTQIA+ Texans to the national level
BY GREG CASAR
Qmmunity: There Will Be Voguing
Photographer and DJ Manuel Frayre captures Central Texas ballroom in new show “Bring It From the Back”
BY JAMES SCOTT
Day Trips: Gerald D. Hines Waterwall, Houston
Find a roaring waterfall in the middle of Houston’s Uptown District
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Mutually Assured Destruction
A pretty bum deal if you ask me
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, June 21-27
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Verde Report: Austin FC Is Trending Toward Playoffs, Barely
New signings inspire optimism for the stretch run
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
