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Save a Life, Enjoy the Holiday

With kitten and puppy season in full swing, local shelters are staying open for the holiday and are offering adoption specials. Read More | Comment »

News 4:13PM Thu. May. 24, Jordan Smith

Kid Stuff, Part II

Imagine you're 12 and it’s summer! What’s in the air? Music! For a second summer, Fernando Jones’ Blues Camp rocks Huston-Tillotson. First step? Audition for a scholarship to get in. Read More | Comment »

Music 3:15PM Thu. May. 24, Margaret Moser

Vicious Fishes, Voluptuous Vixens, and Gary Busey: 'Piranha 3DD' Devours the Alamo

How much you enjoyed last night's Ain't It Cool News-sponsored screening of the ravenously anticipated sequel to Alexandre Aja's 2010 bloodbath depended entirely on your passion for ultra-gore, surgically-enhanced bodaciousosity, and your allegiance to Joe Dante's 1978 original. Read More | Comment »

Screens 2:37PM Thu. May. 24, Marc Savlov

The Good Music Club: Round 4 Sampler

The Good Music Club's fifth taping happens Saturday at the ND as reported in Playback this week. What goes down at these free tapings, this weekend's starring the Boxing Lesson? Take a gander at the locals taped last month, more footage of which we'll share in coming weeks. Read More | Comment »

Music 1:47PM Thu. May. 24, Raoul Hernandez

'The NFL Beat': The End of the Super Agent

I have actually been around Drew Rosenhaus more than the average American, and I can tell you one thing is true. The whole phone thing, the thing about him always being on the phone: This is true. In fact, I am under the impression that the bluetooth conspicuously implanted in his ear is actually dedicated to a separate line than his handheld blackberry. Read More | Comment »

Sports 6:26PM Wed. May. 23, Alex Dunlap

Majority Identify as 'Pro-Life'

A Gallup Poll released today reveals that 50% of Americans identify themselves as "pro-life." Read More | Comment »

News 3:20PM Wed. May. 23, Jordan Smith

Hacienda: Savage

If it seems like San Antonio's Hacienda fell off the grid, that’s only because the Tex-Mex rockers were busy working over a new batch of tunes. That comes to an end locally when the band, in advance of its third Dan Auerbach-produced disc, June 19, Shakedown, performs unplugged at Shady Grove tomorrow evening, Thursday. Read More | Comment »

Music 2:13PM Wed. May. 23, Jim Caligiuri

Is Planned Parenthood Threatening State's Right of Free Speech?

If Texas has to allow Planned Parenthood to provide women with health services under the Women's Health Program, how can it also get across a pro-life message? Read More | Comment »

News 5:38PM Tue. May. 22, Jordan Smith

Buckman in the Aisles!

So I'm walking down one of the beverage aisles in what I think of as my HEB: The one at Hancock Center, the one nearest the Chronicle & its sunbaked volleyball court. Read More | Comment »

BRNNR BLG 3:10PM Tue. May. 22, Wayne Alan Brenner

This Just In: Killing Is His (and Possibly Your) Business and Business Is Good!

Are you handy with a blade? Are you 18 years of age or older? Do you hate texting? Do you hate Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio even more than texting? Would you text him to death if your iPhone had an "Edged Weapons App?" Then this, mi amigo/amiga, is for you... Read More | Comment »

Screens 2:40PM Tue. May. 22, Marc Savlov

Nine hours to get new Roller Derby doc to Austin
 

Help a Derby Baby Find an ATX Home

It may not be the first Roller Derby documentary, but Derby, Baby! has taken the sport's scrappy DIY ethos to heart in self-distribution. A little surprisingly, there's still no sign of an Austin screening, but there's a Kickstarter campaign rolling to fix that. Bad news? You only have until 11pm to arrange it. Read More | Comment »

Sports 2:28PM Tue. May. 22, Richard Whittaker

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Officer in May 2011 Shooting

A Travis County grand jury has declined to indict Austin Police Department Officer Steven Peña for the May 2011 fatal shooting of Gilberto Vallejo at a South Austin apartment complex. Read More | Comment »

News 2:07PM Tue. May. 22, Jordan Smith

Bateman Rises

Ken Webster of Austin, Texas, spends a lot of time inhabiting the personality of a Major League Baseball player who's been dead since 1996. Read More | Comment »

BRNNR BLG 1:43PM Tue. May. 22, Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL Music Fest Photo Ops

As a music lover/photographer, I always have two reactions to the ACL Music Fest lineup, the first being who I want to see, and the second being which performances I want to shoot. Here's who I want to photograph and why. Read More | Comment »

Music 1:30PM Tue. May. 22, Shelley Hiam

Cannes You Dig It?

Still alive! Vive la France. Read More | Comment »

Screens 12:14PM Tue. May. 22, Vincent Van Horn

Stooges at ACL Music Fest 2012

Last fall, when Stooges guitarist James Williamson told the Chronicle that Detroit's punk pioneers had a local festival date “around the October [2012] time frame," we assumed Fun Fun Fun Fest. In that respect, today's unveiling of the Austin City Limits Music Festival line-up came as a surprise. Read More | Comment »

Music 10:13AM Tue. May. 22, Raoul Hernandez

Moore Moore Moore

As owner and proprietor of the Gypsy Lounge, Michael Villegas let himself dream about possibilities for his East Sixth Street club, like how Steamboat once featured “secret shows.” As drummer for the Ian Moore Band, which needed a place to “rehearse,” his solution was simple: book the practice as a “secret show.” Read More | Comment »

Music 9:07AM Tue. May. 22, Margaret Moser

Yann Tiersen's Live Je Ne Sais Quoi

A musical je ne sais quoi settled over Austin on Friday. As French electronic giants M83 bumped a sold-out audience at Stubb's, their countryman Yann Tiersen played to a considerably smaller gathering on East Riverside Drive at Emo's. Read More | Comment »

Music 3:26PM Mon. May. 21, Abby Johnston

Watts Up: Reggie!

O, fortuna! Read More | Comment »

BRNNR BLG 1:44PM Mon. May. 21, Wayne Alan Brenner

The Problem of Wrongful Conviction

A joint project of the University of Michigan and Northwestern law schools has created the country's largest database of exonerations, profiling online the stories of nearly 900 exonerees, and providing greater context to the problem of wrongful conviction in the U.S. Read More | Comment »

News 9:54AM Mon. May. 21, Jordan Smith

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