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Trustees District 5 and At-Large Place 8 seats, respectively, in Tuesday's election. Lugo and Boswell are two of four new trustees to join the board alongside D1 Trustee Ofelia Maldonado Zapata and D3 Trustee V-A Day in ATX: The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Austin were administered to front-line health care workers at UT-Austin on Tue., Dec. 15. UT Health Austin, the clinical practice for UT Dell Medical School, was among the first four sites in Texas to receive the vaccine on Dec. 14. Seven additional providers in Travis County are slated to receive initial doses of t...

Click to copy Margin Walker Presents, Texas' largest independent promoter, announced Monday that it would closing its doors permanently. Since its launch in 2016, Margin Walker has booked and promoted over 3,500 shows across Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Like many in the live entertainment business, Margin Walker was forced to cancel shows in mid-March due to the coronavirus and attempted to stay afloat through various measures, including show bonds, for the past nine months. But in a message posted Monday on the company's website and socials, the promoter said it had reached the...

Austin 360 The day after Graham Williams announced the closure of Margin Walker Presents — the premier indie booking and promotion company in Texas — he described a music industry adrift in uncertainty as the coronavirus pandemic churns around it.    “I liken this whole thing to the music business being this sinking ship, and we're all getting on lifeboats trying to get to this island where live music is happening,” Williams told the American-Statesman over the phone on Tuesday. “Except usually, you can see this island and you're going toward it. Here, it's been like you're w...

In April, with the clubs shut down and musicians feeling adrift, expressive pop artist Mobley embarked on an ambitious project. He randomly paired 15 musicians and 15 filmmakers to create a visual album with a process structured around the surrealist drawing game exquisite corpse.  In the game, a scene is formed as each player draws a part then folds the paper to obscure their contribution before handing off to the next player. For the visual album, each artist was provided an end clip of the preceding song. They were each given two days to complete their work and the project’s title: “...

In one of the most significant closures to hit Austin’s music industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, local concert promotions company Margin Walker closed up shop for good on Monday after staging hundreds of homegrown shows annually since 2016 at a variety of venues here and around the state. Tabled: Margin Walker heads Graham Williams and Ian Orth (r) at the ground of Sound on Sound Fest in 2016 (Photo by David Brendan Hall) News of the organization’s closing hit in a mid-afternoon social media post Dec. 14, which characterized the move as a “very tough decision, ...