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Austin 360 Austin360 On The Record is a weekly roundup of new, recent and upcoming releases by local and Austin-associated recording artists. This week, take a look back at a select batch of 50 local albums that made waves in 2020, plus a handful of notable EPs, live albums, archival releases and other oddities. For our critics’ personal favorite records of 2020, watch for next weeks year-in-review music wrap-up. FIVE OLD-SCHOOL ACES Willie Nelson, “First Rose of Spring.” No Grammy nom...

NJPAC Presents Jeff Daniels’ Virtual Concert On January 23 (NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) invites you to join Emmy award-winning actor, director, singer/songwriter Jeff Daniels on Saturday, January 23, 2021 @ 8:00pm for an intimate virtual concert experience full of original songs, personal stories from his stage and movie career that only he can tell—and plenty of smiles. Stick around for a 15-30 min audience Q&A following the performance. The questions submitt...

Better Tagline: "Used to be there was money in newspapers." Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: Civil War veteran Captain Jefferson Kidd (Tom Hanks) ekes out a living traveling across Texas and reading newspaper stories to the locals for ten cents a head. But his placid lifestyle is upended when he happens upon Johanna (Helena Zengel) a young girl abducted by the Kiowa as a baby and recently freed. Reluctantly, he decides to deliver her to relatives some 400 miles away, even though shed rather return...

The millions of dollars the city of Austin promised to live music venues whove been pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to be delivered after two months, raising an already high degree of discomfort to clubs struggling to keep their lights on. But the assistance is coming soon, the city insists, and itll end up being more than originally planned through additional resources that at one time were thought to have been out of reach. Last week, the Austin City Council threw a lifeline ...