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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protesters gathered on Sunday, Sept. 20, near the site where ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Credit: John Anderson Update: As of Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 22, a federal judge has temporarily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Built south of Blanco by German immigrants in 1879, Twin Sisters Hall continues to host public dances on the first Saturday of the month and to serve as a community center. Owned by its members, the ...