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Opinion: Affordable Childcare Now – A Community Call to Action for Travis County
Dr. Libby Doggett makes the case for Travis County CARES, a November ballot measure that would provide high quality, affordable child care and afterschool programs for working families
"...50 years of experience encompassing all aspects of early childhood education, including Head Start, public and private preschool, and..."

June 28, 2024 Column by Libby Doggett

Qmmunity: All Year, Each Month, Every Day
Pride Month musing at the end of Pride Month from Qmmunity Editor James
"...eyes in ways familiar and foreign to my own childhood...."

June 28, 2024 Column by James Scott

New Prints, Old Turtles, and Other Events This Week
Gotta gotta get out to get down
"...for those left out of the narrative.” From a childhood spent immersed in multiple cultures, Kohli uses her own..."

June 21, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Wild Eyed and Wicked
Fantasy elements add new magic to trauma horror tropes
"...a woman scarred by a devastating tragedy in her childhood and plagued by the shadows it left behind. Kunz..."

June 7, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The 20-Year Overnight Success of Glen Powell
Hollywood’s newest A-lister – according to the directors who knew him first and best
"...the Space Race, Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood. Linklater had mentioned the project to him on the..."

June 7, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Inside the Small Presses Driving Austin’s Literary Scene
Meet the local small presses committed to publishing diverse literature
"...to therapy. “We’re always gonna be talking about your childhood; we’re gonna be talking about your mom, your mother..."

May 31, 2024 Arts Feature by Carys Anderson

Proms, Humps, and Queerbombs Highlight This Weekend's Events
21 ways to get out of the house
"...an avid reader, there was nothing more exciting about childhood summers than competing in the reading contest fueled by..."

May 31, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Qmmunity: Sounds Sketchy to Me
ATX Sketch Fest headliners Joan and Raft talk sketch comedy, Speed on Noah’s Ark, and their Austin plans
"...them remains a news parody show created with a childhood friend called “Bar Line News,” recorded on their dad’s..."

May 24, 2024 Column by James Scott

Babes
Female friendship, pregnant bodies go under the microscope in hilarious Babes
"...over for Eden, her emotionally needy best friend since childhood. The birth of her child opens Babes (another birth..."

May 17, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Alejandro Cabrera’s Lone Star Wars State of Mind
New doc In the Lone Star Wars State on the Texas fandom
"...thumb tack to a very special time in my childhood.” As he started making the documentary, he increasingly realized..."

April 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

We Grown Now
Two boys come of age in the Cabrini-Green housing project
"...is hard wherever you are. Even the most charmed childhood will be pocked with the usual aches of a..."

April 26, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hovvdy Stays True to Texas on New Self-Titled Album
ATX-launched duo talks songwriting and special unplugged release shows
"...back to Texas. Whether it be a reflection of childhood or friendships that we had there or the beginning..."

April 26, 2024 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Book Review: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
New authorized biography vividly exhumes the artist’s West Texas world
"...life into a triptych of place: his Fifties Lubbock childhood, the two decades anchored in California’s various arts scenes,..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by Doug Freeman

The People’s Joker
Trans coming-of-age story filtered through superhero homage
"...navigates a dystopian version of Gotham: from a repressed childhood warped by prescription Smylex through a dysfunctional relationship with..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, April 12-18
"...(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in,”..."

April 12, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Austin Chronic: Former Ag Commissioner Candidate Susan Hays Is Building a Hempcrete House
It’s the first privately owned residence in Austin made of the eco-friendly material
"...and outs of home construction from her mother since childhood, says that the project has been labor-intensive – since..."

April 12, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Movies, Comedians, Theatre, and More Arts Options for the Week
Get out and get art
"...Brothers Grimm’s collection of German fairy tales. All your childhood folklore favorites become tangled up in the search for..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The First Omen
Gruesome gynohorror prequel to 1976’s satanic masterpiece The Omen
"...of parenthood that's balanced by the raw fear of childhood abandonment...."

April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Soundscapes, Bat Books, and More Arts Events for the Week
Things to do when you're not staring at an interloping moon
"...Brothers Grimm’s collection of German fairy tales. All your childhood folklore favorites become tangled up in the search for..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

DogMan
A thief survives an abusive childhood to forge a soulful connection with canines
"...got there, a story that goes back to a childhood torn straight from a whisky-fueled brainstorming session between Cormac..."

March 29, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gary Clark Jr. Boldly Plays New LP in Full at Austin City Limits
Taping finds hometown hero at a meditative musical crossroads
"...of the storied TV show, a staple of his childhood viewing...."

March 28, 2024 Music Post by David Brendan Hall

The Austin Chronic: Cheech and Chong and Toking With a Troll
Stoner icons materialize for surprise C-boy’s appearance
"...probably wearing out his ears talking about the formative childhood moment of discovering the Big Bambu in my dad’s..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Glen Powell to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame
Actor to be honored ahead of Austin premiere of Hit Man
"...Wants Some!! and Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood. However, he’s not the only director to realize Powell’s..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Visual Art Review: Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation’s “The Still Life”
This charming exhibit rehabilitates neglected stuffies, then puts them to work creating art
"...art and heart that makes the liminal space between childhood fantasies and grownup responsibilities warmly accessible. “The Still Life”..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Review: Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie
The stoner comedian duo has come a long way, man
"...Rivera and another from Playboy Mansion – coupled with childhood photos, animations, and clips of live music and movies..."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Film Review: Dory Previn: On My Way To Where
A songwriter like no other gets an intriguing portrait
"...After a rough childhood (her strict Irish Catholic father was also mentally ill..."

March 12, 2024 Screens Post by Joe Gross

30 Breakout Music Acts to See in Austin This Week
Your guide to SXSW's buzziest artists, both official and unofficial
"...the popular newsletter author’s discography feels like revisiting a childhood home, splashed with the seething suds of retrospective clarity...."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Film Review: Resynator
A daughter gets to know her late dad through his invention
"...first words are “Dear Don” – Tavel details a childhood that was happy but missing only the most surface..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Review: The In Between
Intimate doc captures life, loss on the U.S.-Mexico border
"...Tex. In an attempt to reawaken memories of their childhood and adolescence growing up on the U.S.-Mexico border, the..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Nothing Is Off-Limits for Comedian Gianmarco Soresi
The New Yorker isn’t afraid to make himself the punchline
"...Soresi’s tumultuous childhood and divorced parents are the main jumping-off points for..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Miranda Garza

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