This Saturday being National Coming Out Day, I thought I had my column subject in the bag. Just talk about my personal coming out story, right? Wrong! I forgot that like most queer people, I have a ...

The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Last Wednesday, Board of Regents Chairman ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

My trip to Bonnaroo began back in early December when I got an email telling me I had won a trip to Hollywood for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ACL Fest 2025 has arrived. The first Friday of the two-weekend festival returned the usual Zilker Park suspects – heavy dust, Cage the Elephant, Hozier – and introduced new players, from locals the ...

In its use of teen witchiness as a metaphor for self-awareness, Camp is basically a Gen-Z riff on The Craft, with outcast Emily (Zola Grimmer) finding solace among wiccan-ish friends, only to wonder ...