Ten days after being shot in the back by a still-unidentified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez still has not had surgery to remove the ...

Mike P. Nelson hasn’t only directed soft reboots of established horror franchises, but it’s definitely become his stock-in-trade. First there was his abysmal relaunch of the redneck cannibal Wrong ...

Texas has put five African American men to death in a row, after last month’s killings of LeJames Norman and Ker’sean Olajuwa Ramey. The state will try to kill a sixth consecutive Black man on Oct. 7 ...

andering the aisles of Fresh Plus, Grocery Bag ponders some produce and dry goods, gamely taking up my invitation to turn this on-the-nose photo shoot and interview location into something of a ...

Here in Austin, the turn of the season is not marked by crisp weather or changing leaves (that time will come), but by an aggressive campaign from the pumpkin spice lobbyists, an influx of ...

City Council candidate Misael Ramos with supporters after being released from Travis County Jail Saturday evening Credit: Brant Bingamon Misael Ramos, a candidate for Austin City Council’s District 1, ...

Post-apocalyptic films tend to be expressions of the id of a nation. Most American end-of-the-world films are about a steadfast belief that the old order can somehow be recreated. The Mad Max films ...

Eric Clapton on night two of the Crossroads Guitar Festival at the Moody Center on September 27, 2026 Credit: David Brendan Hall for Crossroads Guitar Festival 2026 / @davidbrendanhall A little after ...

For many, the garden gnome is a kitsch relic of a bygone era when Americans had the time and disposable income to attend to their front yards. Those Austinites more plugged in to ...

They say, oravanpyörä, meaning squirrel wheel. But in The Squirrel, the Fantastic Fest-selected film from writer/director Markus Lehmusruusu, it’s the presence of a squirrel that breaks a man and ...

Soul-stirring music. Divinely inspired dance. World-class artists — right here in Austin.

hen Ben Masters was a boy, he’d spend time on his great-grandfather’s ranch in the Panhandle, on the north fork of the Long Draw. Masters recalled, “The water table was so high that he went out there ...