Austin Chronicle

01/06/2026

2025 LOVB Finals MVP Madisen Skinner talks the upcoming season and authenticity.

Unwavering resilience: That’s the best way to describe LOVB Austin’s resolve en route to winning the first-ever League One Volleyball (aka LOVB Pro) championship last spring. Seeded fifth out of six teams, Austin scored back-to-back reverse sweeps before pulling off a sweep of its own in the fin...

01/05/2026

Start the year with a trip to the coast or to see the murals of Denison.

  Walk this way. The Luther Hotel in Palacios entered a new era in its 122-year history when preservationist J. P. Bryan purchased the two-story hotel on August 19, 2024 and work began to return it to its glory days. Bryan is noted for restoring the Gage Hotelin Marathon in 1982 and establishing th...

01/05/2026

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01/05/2026

Looking forward to the movies that we already saw.

When people talk about lost media, they normally mean an out-of-print album, a vintage TV show whose tapes got wiped, or a movie from the silent era whose last nitrate print self-combusted decades ago. But what about those films that haven’t had a chance yet? Every year, dozens of films screen at ...

01/05/2026

The Austin History Center is reopened to the public after eight years of development.

While leaders of the Austin Public Library prepared to kick off the ceremony for the reopening of the Austin History Center, the automatic door that serves as the entrance to the facility continued to slide open, letting in more and more attendees. It was clear this event was a big deal for a lot of...

01/05/2026

Some Austinites want to revisit decisions on major projects.

Austin City Council members Vanessa Fuentes, José Velásquez, and Mike Siegel held a town hall in mid-November, two weeks after the defeat of Proposition Q, the proposal to increase property taxes to pay for public safety, social services, and other city needs. The Council members told the crowd th...

01/04/2026

Bloodless bullfighting returns to the Rio Grande Valley.

Santa Maria Plaza de Toros outside of La Gloria presents a new season of exciting bloodless bullfights from January to March. In 2001, Fred Renk, a former water-purifier salesman who had been an aspiring matador in his youth, introduced bloodless bullfights in the small ring in the brush country abo...

01/04/2026

In this week's comics, Tom Tomorrow gets stuck in the black hole of Trump's brain.

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01/02/2026

In the latest installment of our video spotlight on local bands Kyra Bruce catches up with honky-tonk faves Libby and the Loveless.

The relationship between Libby and the Loveless and Austin two-steppers begins before the music even starts. It’s in the way partners gather near the stage, in the unspoken excitement of knowing your favorite band is about to play some of your favorite songs to dance to. At the Highball, the dance...

01/02/2026

New Performance Venue zoning designation helps owners maintain listening room ambience.

“Intimate yet casual” are the intentional words at the heart of Monks Jazz Club, an accessible listening room that hosts local and traveling jazz musicians. After spending half a decade on the Eastside, first as a pop-up concept and then a brick-and-mortar BYOB venue, owner Collin Shook is reloc...

01/01/2026

Austinite’s fourth album critiques systemic failure to help break generational trauma.

BLK ODYSSY’s fourth album challenges the narrative of his previous works. BLK VINTAGE chronicled his backstory, DIAMONDS & FREAKS detailed his resulting internal struggle, 1-800 FANTASY animated a teenager driven to mania – now MOOD CONTROL reads like Juwan Elcock has unplugged himself from all ...

01/01/2026

Mental health nonprofit memorializes beloved Red River icon.

In the tight black booths of Empire Control Room and Garage, where Richard “Dick” Chalmers spent endless days editing videos and creating custom drink menus for the Red River stage, the late legend and other venue veterans started piecing together a different kind of project. The Dick Chalmers M...