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ACL Day 3: Rodeo Day

Three days, two ruined pairs of shoes, two boxes of film, hours of back pain, and a load of muddy laundry later: worth it. Sunday, mud covered every square inch of Zilker Park. The entire festival smelled like a rodeo even as festival staff spread hay to make it manageable, but no such luck. This was the last day for my shoes. I headed to Black Joe Lewis.

11:36AM Mon. Oct. 5, 2009, Aaron Miller Read More | Comment »

HD 48 Heats Up

Seems like Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, has picked up a general election challenger: Former Dallas-based banker turned Austin media producer Glenn Bass has announced he is running for the Republican nomination in House District 48.

10:49AM Mon. Oct. 5, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Wind Power

Greetings from Copenhagen! This morning I'll be interviewing the executive director of the Climate Consortium Denmark. CCD is working to solve some of the same problems that Austin's Pecan Street Project is tackling. Watch the three-minute YouTube video here.

2:53AM Mon. Oct. 5, 2009, Katherine Gregor Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Bay of Angels

AFS Cinema

Polite Society & The Assassin at Paramount Theatre

Christopher Cascio: “Portals” at Ivester Contemporary

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

ACL Fest Day 3: Mud, Sweat, and Beers

At the close of my fourth decade of outdoor festivals, I don’t mind confessing that at my first festival – the Buffalo Party in Washington, July 1970, I went topless like all the hippie girls. This year I have sore knees.

10:28PM Sun. Oct. 4, 2009, Margaret Moser Read More | Comment »

If It's Not a Dust Storm, It's a Swamp

ACL DAY 2 started with Mutemath. With a new CD and a single on Twilight (embarrassing, but don't forget Thom Yorke and Ben Gibbard are on the next Twilight soundtrack), buzz about the New Orleans rockers is bigger than ever, playing an energetic and highly enjoyable set. Besides, it’s hard to be bad when your lead singer plays keytar.

10:44AM Sun. Oct. 4, 2009, Aaron Miller Read More | Comment »

ACL Fest Day 2

The sky wasn't just crying on Day 2 of ACL Fest, it was sobbing in big wet gulps. Flogging Molly embraced the day like beautiful Irish weather, but as the afternoon went on and the rain didn't relent, it prompted an audience member during The Decemberists' electrifying set to comment, "What are they singing? The hazards of mud?"

11:38PM Sat. Oct. 3, 2009, Margaret Moser Read More | Comment »

ACL Fest Day 1

If it's fall, it must be Austin City Limits Festival, and the festival gods blessed it with great weather ... for the opening day, at least. The much ballyhooed grass is indeed cushy and plentiful, and though the day grew warm, it was as pleasant an opening day as I can remember.

5:42PM Fri. Oct. 2, 2009, Margaret Moser Read More | Comment »

Get Registered to Vote by Monday

If you are not currently registered to vote and want to participate in the Nov. 3 state constitutional amendments election (yeah, we didn't really realize one was coming up, either) then you need to get signed up by Monday, Oct. 5. Press release from the county follows the jump:

12:35PM Fri. Oct. 2, 2009, Lee Nichols Read More | Comment »

The Totally Comprehensive, Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!

The Newscast visits Travis County this week.

11:57AM Fri. Oct. 2, 2009, Wells Dunbar Read More | Comment »

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