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From the files of Mr. Smarty Pants: In a 2023 study, Shane Company found the average American spends about eight months using dating apps – swiping on almost 4,000 profiles – before finding a partner.
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In this week's comics, Tom Tomorrow checks in with King Trump and it's totally normal.
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Rilo Kiley, Sam Barber, MJ Lenderman, and more reviews from Friday at ACL Weekend Two.
Rilo Kiley, Sam Barber, MJ Lenderman, and More Reviews From Friday at ACL Weekend Two  • The Austin Chronicle
Welcome back to the dustbowl! Weekend Two of ACL Fest kicked off with returning players King Princess, MJ Lenderman, and Dylan Gossett, and added new acts including locals Farmer’s Wife, precocious Am...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 1d
Austin FC clinches playoffs despite “horrible” stretch.
Austin FC Clinches Playoffs Despite “Horrible” Stretch - The Austin Chronicle
Clinching a playoff spot for just the second time in club history wasn’t supposed to feel this way. “I think it’s [been] a horrible week for us. Horrible,” Austin FC head coach Nico Estévez said follo...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 1d
Austin’s outdoor graffiti park, HOPE Outdoor Gallery, makes its long-awaited return.
HOPE Outdoor Gallery Makes Its Long-Awaited Return - The Austin Chronicle
Austin is getting its hope back. Or rather, it’s getting HOPE back, as in the HOPE Outdoor Gallery. For almost a decade, anyone driving down Lamar could look up toward Baylor Street at the 12th Street...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 1d
Vintage do-it-yourself vibes rule at the Y2K-themed Lone Star Zine Fest.
Vintage Do-It-Yourself Vibes Rule at the Y2K-Themed Lone Star Zine Fest - The Austin Chronicle
Since the Thirties, zines have been amplifying fan obsessions, political offshoots, and underground subcultures in ways not often seen in mainstream media. Though at times they may look like the magaz...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 1d
We talk with outrageous auteur John Waters on his sense of smell and having a sense of humor before he comes to the Paramount to screen Polyester and Cecil B. Demented.
Q&A: John Waters on His Sense of Smell and Having a Sense of Humor - The Austin Chronicle
“I knew why those movies weren’t successful,” John Waters reflects on the Sixties cinema gimmick Smell-O-Vision, in which films were attempted to be enhanced by scents being piped into theaters. “It w...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 1d
ARTS REVIEW: Italy-based artist Monique Rollins depicts the highs and lows of motherhood in “No Turning Back” at Dimmitt Contemporary.
Monique Rollins’ Abstract Resilience  - The Austin Chronicle
In a wild swirl of color, rope, fabric, and brushstrokes, Monique Rollins tells a story of beauty and resilience. Her solo exhibition at Dimmitt Contemporary Art, “No Turning Back,” explores the emoti...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 1d
A light rail maintenance site is planned for East Austin, but Neighborhood representatives say their voices aren’t being heard.
Light Rail Maintenance Site Planned for East Austin - The Austin Chronicle
Five years since voters first approved Project Connect, a $7.1 billion rapid transit expansion, light rail is still in the planning stages – and some of those plans are drawing pushback from the commu...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 2d
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted Robert Roberson a stay of execution, sending his case back to his trial court. www.austinchronicle.com/news/robert-...
Robert Roberson’s Execution Has Been Suspended Once Again - The Austin Chronicle
Robert Roberson’s execution has been suspended once again. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted an unexpected stay of execution to Roberson on Thursday morning, sending his case back to his tri...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 2d
Austin’s outdoor graffiti park makes its long-awaited return after resettling near the airport.
HOPE Outdoor Gallery Makes Its Long-Awaited Return - The Austin Chronicle
Austin is getting its hope back. Or rather, it’s getting HOPE back, as in the HOPE Outdoor Gallery. For almost a decade, anyone driving down Lamar could look up toward Baylor Street at the 12th Street...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 2d
Texas sends troops to Illinois, AISD reveals closure and consolidation plan, dust devils on the horizon, and more of the week's biggest news in brief.
The Week’s Biggest News in Brief - The Austin Chronicle
Texas Troops Deployed to Illinois: Gov. Greg Abbott authorized sending the Texas National Guard to Illinois at the president’s request to reinforce ICE’s aggressive immigration sweeps in Chicago, wher...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 2d
AISD parents and students brace for school closures as the board prepares to vote.
AISD Parents and Students Brace for School Closures as Board Prepares to Vote - The Austin Chronicle
On Sunday, Oct. 5, outside of the colossal Texas Education Agency office, just blocks down the green on Congress Avenue from the Texas state Capitol, a group of about 50 parents, teachers, and small c...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 3d
Troubadour Jonathan Terrell finds a darker groove with new album Dove.
Jonathan Terrell Goes Rogue - The Austin Chronicle
Somewhere along the road in Europe, opening 3,000-4,000-person shows for fellow Texans Midland, Jonathan Terrell realized he didn’t have the right songs. Over the past decade, he had honed his sound b...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 3d
Reclaiming the glitter, glamour, and spirit of Showgirls. Elizabeth Berkley celebrates 30 years of Nomi Malone ahead of an anniversary tour that kicks off in Austin.
Reclaiming the Glitter, Glamour, and Spirit of Showgirls - The Austin Chronicle
In 1995, Paul Verhoeven introduced the world to Nomi Malone and the world rejected her. Panned on release, Showgirls got a bad rap as cheesy and chintzy, with venom especially directed at its star, El...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 3d
Getting in a good headspace with new, Austin-made PBS show How Are We Today?
Getting in a Good Headspace With How Are We Today? - The Austin Chronicle
There’s an old saying that you should never meet your heroes. Well, anyone who tells you that should get better heroes. That’s why Tyler Coe wasn’t disappointed when he met a star who meant so much to...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 4d
MOVIE REVIEW: The latest update to the Tron franchise should have been a reboot.
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Earlier this year, I was talking with Josh D’Amaro, Chairman of Disney Experiences, about the process for developing new rides for Disney parks. We talked specifically about why, 34 years after the re...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 4d
Homegrown trio the Point brings their “gateway drug” world music to ACL Fest this Sunday.
Maldito Animal and Beyond: The Point’s Fearless Path to the ACL Stage - The Austin Chronicle
The Point don’t start their sets with a bang – they kick off with little-to-no introduction, luring you into a transcendental ride through their genre-defiant imagination.   “When we play as the Point...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 4d
Minnesota-born rapper Dizzy Fae’s on solid footing as she brings her ever-changing hip-hop to ACL weekend two.
ACL Interview: Young Rapper Dizzy Fae’s on Solid Footing  - The Austin Chronicle
With a freshly realized frontal lobe and a near decade in the music industry in hand, Dizzy Fae is ready for her first festival performance at ACL Weekend Two. Building an intentional, genre-fluid fou...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 4d
Houston-via-Lubbock trio Shallowater finds their niche in the countrygaze ecosystem as they prepare for their ACL debut this weekend.
ACL Interview: Shallowater Soundtracks the West Texas Desert   - The Austin Chronicle
Planning to check out MJ Lenderman at ACL Fest? Have you heard of Shallowater? Comparisons between the Houston trio and the Asheville alt-country darling – and his band Wednesday, and Dallas slowcore ...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 4d
New evidence in Robert Roberson's case revealed in NBC Dateline podcast.
New Evidence in Robert Roberson Case Revealed in NBC Dateline Podcast - The Austin Chronicle
With one week left before Robert Roberson is to be executed by the state of Texas, his attorney, Gretchen Sween, informed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday that new evidence strongly sugg...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 4d
Politicians, policymakers, and press, assemble: TribFest announces the full lineup for November gathering
Tim Walz, Vicente Fox, Pete Buttigieg Join Texas Tribune Festival - The Austin Chronicle
The annual fall Texas Tribune Festival never fails to put together an unexpected rendezvous of today’s influential politicians, policymakers, and press, and this year’s programming is similarly stacke...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 5d
Austin Chronic columnist Kevin Curtin signs off.
Kevin Curtin Signs Off - The Austin Chronicle
Pray for the roof of my mouth. I just ate a bowl of Froot Loops with a foolishly low milk ratio, so I’m writing this column in pain. I’m battered emotionally, too, because this is the last one. I’m to...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 5d
That’s a wrap on Weekend One of ACL. Here's what we thought of Sunday's performances.
The Killers, T-Pain, The Dare, Wet Leg, and More Reviews From Sunday at ACL - The Austin Chronicle
The first weekend of ACL Fest 2025 went out with a fire – sort of. Smoke hung overhead at Zilker Park Sunday, but it actually came from an abandoned hotel fire off I-35, about five miles away. The Kil...
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 5d
The Rosette on Avenue B launches new ATX music series.
The Rosette Launches New ATX Music Series - The Austin Chronicle
Jazz and beyond is set to fill the Rosette this fall. The 3908 Avenue B venue launches its ATX Music Series this Thursday with a performance by vibraphonist Carolyn Trowbridge’s Quintet.  An 85-seat s...
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