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This Week's Waste of Time

What is it about dogs that make games better? Fable II's faithful companion. Megaman's helper, Rush. Ultimately you really can't go wrong adding a canine to your game. So, if you're doing a game jam and need a way to suck players in, make the playable character a dog. Case in point: Last Breath. Read More | Comment »

Screens 3:43PM Thu. Feb. 9, James Renovitch

From Second Street to Carruth

At her campaign launch, mayoral hopeful Brigid Shea lit into incumbent Mayor Lee Leffingwell for not doing enough to protect Austin ISD's neighborhood schools. In fact, his tenure has lead to, if not a golden age, then a definite improvement in relations and collaborations between city hall and AISD. Read More | Comment »

News 3:20PM Thu. Feb. 9, Richard Whittaker

What about Brooke and the Wolves?


What are you scared of? Read More | Comment »

Arts 1:33PM Thu. Feb. 9, Wayne Alan Brenner

If the Horns Basketball Season Ended Today …

Let’s put some more mileage on that overwrought sports hypothetical: If the season ended today … Read More | Comment »

Sports 1:06PM Thu. Feb. 9, Russ Espinoza

The Good Music Club: Debut Episode

As stated here, The Good Music Club's debut last month at the ND mashed up Austin City Limits and South by Southwest. Now, as promised, comes footage. One of these locals is next week's Music feature, so tune in Thursday for more great live video. Read More | Comment »

Music 11:19AM Thu. Feb. 9, Raoul Hernandez

Martin Sexton's Not Buying It

A dozen years ago, Martin Sexton was a freewheeling troubadour, spreading singer-songwriter joy across the small clubs and outdoor music festivals he visited over the course of his near-constant touring schedule. Today, life's a protest song and Sexton's on a mission to relive 1968. Catch him Saturday at the Moody Theater. Read More | Comment »

Music 10:28AM Thu. Feb. 9, Melanie Haupt

Diners, Tigers, and Pies, Oh My!

From the droolworthy bakespace of Easy Tiger emerges Mary Catherine Curren, a CIA-trained pastry chef who has taken over the reins of the dessert menu at 24 Diner and, later this year, will be the face of a new concept on Burnet Road. Read More | Comment »

Food 11:13PM Wed. Feb. 8, Melanie Haupt

A Brighter Idea?

Everybody has something to say about Austin Energy's proposed rate increase, and our elected officials are no exception. First Mayor Lee Leffingwell posted a blog against the 12% hike, then Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole held a community forum about it, and now Council Members Laura Morrison and Kathie Tovo have a plan that might buy everyone some more time. Read More | Comment »

News 10:08PM Wed. Feb. 8, Amy Smith

Film Flam

It sounds like the unpromising lead up to a punchline: What do you get when you combine a poet, a screenwriter, a novelist... and the Super Bowl? Read More | Comment »

Screens 2:39PM Wed. Feb. 8, Kimberley Jones

Charles O'Dell Dies in Crash

In a great loss to Central Texas activism and general feistiness, longtime Hays County government watchdog and gadfly Charles O’Dell, 75, was killed Feb. 1 in a traffic accident – he was on his motor scooter en route to a Hays Community Action Network meeting. Read More | Comment »

News 2:37PM Wed. Feb. 8, Michael King

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

SXSW Film announces its Midnighters and short films slate. Read More | Comment »

Screens 2:00PM Wed. Feb. 8, Kimberley Jones

Small Invitations: Catching up with Trish Murphy

Trish Murphy takes part in a song swap with Robyn Ludwick and Ginger Leigh Thursday night at the Flamingo Cantina. I’m sure there are people who only know Murphy as part of the popular covers act Skyrocket, but a decade ago she was a much loved singer, songwriter, and band leader on her own. She hasn’t sung her own songs in public in what seems like a very long time. Read More | Comment »

Music 10:06AM Wed. Feb. 8, Jim Caligiuri

A Piece of the Poll

Remember that political poll back in December that queried folks at length about the City Council incumbents and potential rivals? No shocker here but it turns out Brigid Shea was "one of a number of clients" who hired pollster Jeff Smith to conduct the survey. The results showed Mayor Lee Leffingwell "well inside the vulnerable range." Read More | Comment »

News 9:37AM Wed. Feb. 8, Amy Smith

Join the Chronicle at Project Transitions annual dinner party!
 

Guess Who Went to Dinner?

Chronicle social/multi-media intern Ayeesha Green brought her camera and a few special guests (including Yours Truly – thanks, Esha!) to Project Transitions' annual Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? fundraiser. Read More | Comment »

Gay Place 9:01AM Wed. Feb. 8, Kate X Messer

The Lijadu Sisters

Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska died last week in Kraków, Poland. My love of her country and culture, meantime, spiked last month with word that my two favorite Polish metal acts, Behemoth and Decapitated, play San Antonio's White Rabbit on April 29 and Emo's May 1 respectively. Szymborska's “On Death, without Exaggeration” suits both: Read More | Comment »

Music 1:53PM Tue. Feb. 7, Raoul Hernandez

AE Rate Proposal Double-Edged

Austin Energy's latest proposal -- presented last Thursday at City Council -- got a mixed reception from City Hall and the public, mostly on the expense side. The problem facing Austin is that every rate cut has an income consequence to city programs currently sustained by the utility. Read More | Comment »

News 7:15PM Mon. Feb. 6, Michael King

Voter Groups Blast New Interim Maps

A couple of weeks ago, the plaintiffs in the redistricting case were dancing around their fear that Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund was ready to sell them down the river in redistricting. Now Attorney General Greg Abbott is touting new maps that could save the April 3 primary, and claiming MALDEF backs them. Read More | Comment »

News 5:52PM Mon. Feb. 6, Richard Whittaker

The Girls on the Bus

Weekday morning sounded the same as I boarded the bus during third grade in 1962, down in the desolate suburbs of southeast Houston. We lived so far out of town, the road into my subdivision was a one-lane shell road and horny toads ran free in the vacant lots. Today, Sabo Road has its own exit off the Sam Houston Tollway and horny toads are on license plates. Read More | Comment »

Music 4:05PM Mon. Feb. 6, Margaret Moser

Top Chef Texas, Week 13: Life on Two Wheels

My people! My apologies for the radio silence. Would you believe that I have been too busy to sit in my living room, pajama-clad, recapping Top Chef: Texas on a weekday afternoon? Well, believe it. But here I am, nothing but time on my side, and rest assured that I'm in flannel-clad comfort now. Read More | Comment »

Food 3:27PM Mon. Feb. 6, Melanie Haupt

Film Flam

I know it's cats that are supposed to have nine lives, but certain catfish have remarkable staying power, too. Read More | Comment »

Screens 12:54PM Mon. Feb. 6, Kimberley Jones

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