The Water Tank Bar & Grill on McNeil in Northwest Austin is facing a lawsuit from ASCAP, the not-for-profit performing rights organization that represents 1.1 million music creators, for failure to ...

Upon learning in May that UT-Austin wouldn’t host the annual student shadowcast for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nani Matthews felt exasperated. They wondered what warranted the banning – they’d ...

The world of soccer is a world of Davids and Goliaths, where mega-clubs like Real Madrid and FC Barcelona coexist among the likes of Elche and Girona. In our American sports ecosystem, though, that ...

Dear Doc, Something has been bothering me a long time. The owner of a near-UT campus (now closed) BBQ joint informed me that the big dog, Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, did not actually BBQ their brisket ...

Enchanted Rock State Natural Area outside of Fredericksburg nearly tripled in size with the purchase in January 2025 of 3,073 acres on the northern edge of the park. The section is in addition to a ...

Many words have been shared throughout the online- and meat-space about queer venues in Austin over the past, oh, million years. (This is how long Austin has had LGBTQ-centric places, yes?) And while ...

Kids have it sooo easy during the Halloweek – school Halloween parties and then the big finale, trick-or-treating. Once you pass into the college-age threshold – I still trick-or-treated all through ...

Every autumn since 2014, low-income Texans have turned to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act Marketplace to get health coverage. Nov. 1 the cycle begins again, but it won’t be business as usual.

Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is hardly in question. Half a century after the genre’s birth, the GRAMMY Museum celebrated the lovechild of funk and DJ culture with an expansive ...

On Saturday, October 18, on the steps of the state Capitol, speakers including Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Rep. Greg Casar, and Rep. Gina Hinojosa looked out into a crowd of tens of thousands of Texans, ...

Miller “Speedy” Sparks, GRAMMY Award-winning bassist for the Texas Tornados, passed away Oct. 7. Born in 1945, Sparks left an indelible imprint on Austin’s music scene, and Texas at large, in his 79 ...

Austin’s education warrior in the Texas House of Representatives, Gina Hinojosa, traveled to the Rio Grande Valley last week to make it official: She’s running for governor. More than a hundred family ...