Welcome to the Roadrunner Network
UT’s Longhorn Network to take five UTSA games
How Close to You Want to Be to ‘Contagion’?
AMC Barton Creek debuts its IMAX screen
Comics Fetish: The Death-Ray
The weed of crimefighting bears bitter fruit
Horns Look To Declaw Cougars
A preview of the BYU matchup
Sex on Fire
Nakia’s epic first-hand account of ‘The Voice’ tour
Crash Landing in Teen Heaven
A reunited Sincola on the 1990s
Links to the Community Arcade
Remember that Texatron story? Here are those links.
Wednesday Rewind
NSFW: Centro-matic, White Dress, and Suzanna Choffel
Debate or Fire? Debate
Perry heads to California, leaves disaster paperwork to Dewhurst
Don’t Let the Luminarium Freak You Out
The man responsible will be here Thursday.
TDH: 9/7/11
A stream of budget questions from City Council
Express Begin Playoff Run
Round Rock faces Omaha
Updated Wildfire Relief Information
Updated Wednesday, September 7, 1:14pm
Adult Education
Three chances to sharpen your writing tools
In Stitches
More Fantastic Fest programming includes the ‘Pede, Pt. 2
Soldiering On
Darden Smith helps give a voice to veterans
Cutting Up Old Clothes No. 147: Shop Your Closet!
Sometimes a forsaken schmatte can be salvation
Bedside Manner: Hell on Earth
Dark literature in dark times, plus a plea for casting sanity
Wildfire News Update
Latest info from county, state and school districts UPDATED
Bastrop Pets Need Austin Homes
Animal shelters offering reduced cost adoptions during fires
Shelters Open to Receive Evacuees From Central Texas Fires
Stay informed about fires in the Greater Austin area
The Pinnacle of 10 Years’ Worth of Comedy Festivals?
OOBs, they did it again
Perry Campaign: Double Duties and Revolving Doors
State office staff signs up for campaign positions
Read My Lips for Free
Deux French thrillers for the price of one
Longhorns on Grande, Cactus on Longhorns?
As Grande takes the Longhorn Network, KUT shoots a music pilot
Cute Local Game Alert!
Local developers create two achingly cute games
Texas’ 2011 Season as Predicted by ‘NCAA 12’
Simulating the Longhorns season, video-game style
TDH:9/2/11
Austin Water, rec centers still dominate city budget
The ‘Mack’ Story
Latest sequel in the Mack Brown saga promises intrigue, uncertainty
The Tom Booker Roast
Last night, baby, it hurt so good
Austin Rockin’ 9/2/11
Margaret Moser’s Labor Day live music picks (video)
Into the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
Everybody’s working for your weekend
This Week’s Waste of Time
Free minigolf for your browser
Mr. Smarty Pants
Mel Brooks got drumming lessons from Buddy Rich. Popeye eating spinach was part of a government plot to encourage the public to buy food in those newfangled cans. James G. Blight and Robert McNamara have suggested we would average 3 million war deaths per year worldwide in the 21st century. So far, deaths caused directly…
30 Rock
Thirty recordings for 30 years of music Chronicling
Poison in the Park
Plants and trees in Stacy Park began to die after a Parks and Rec volunteer sprayed herbicide
All Over Creation: Die Another Dad
Puzzling out the meaning of the theatre’s Summer of Dead Dads
21st Annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival Winners
Feel the burn! Texans show they can take the heat: red, green, and summer.
The Hightower Report
Rick Perry is like Michele Bachmann, with better hair
Food Review
Culinary experimentalists will appreciate this mischievous take on Americana
Day Trips
Cadillac Ranch is the most popular art installation in the Texas Panhandle
Page Two: Delusions and Grandeur
Delusions and Grandeur
Gay Place
We’re here, queers!
Chow Times
This week: Work on your barbecue and beer bellies, get a taste of the world, and eat for the cure
30 Things
And so here we are, at last. This issue marks our 30th anniversary (the actual date is Sept. 4 – no gifts, please). For the past year, our website has featured a page called “Year 30,” which has been updated weekly with the following: • Our Spot the Vintage Ad contest: the ads and the…
Exibitionism
These fine photographs reveal the power of objects in our material world
WTP4 Work-Stop Costs Go Under a Microscope
Auditors scrubbing CDM costs estimates on postponing plant construction
Off the Record
Gimme All Your Lovin’: Emo’s heads East as John Kunz looks back; plus, Whiskey Shivers’ single malt success
Exibitionism
Little City fields a big, strong tribe for its go at the love-rock musical
History Removed
Art-deco facade disappears from 1940s building
Colombiana
A professional assassin by day, a vigilante by night: Zoe Saldana is Luc Besson’s latest femme fatale.
The Austin Ch30nicles
Waterloo Records and the Chronicle go together like the Beatles and the Stones. Both set up shop in the early 1980s and have played an integral role in supporting and shaping not only the local music scene but also each other. Owner John Kunz, who’s being honored at Dart Music International’s second annual Austin Icons…
Exibitionism
Teatro Vivo teaches us how to preserve the past in a future South Texas
Stripper Tax Ruling Reversed
Plaintiffs may move case to another court
The Debt
Helen Mirren stars in this film that’s part espionage thriller and part moral meditation, though the emphasis leans more toward the former than the latter.
Common Law
Rental House Foreclosed – What are Tenant’s Rights?
Something Wild
AFS Essential Cinema: Hong Kong New Wave Cinema
Worst Fears Confirmed for Women’s Health
Family planning providers formally told they’ve lost funding
Our Idiot Brother
Paul Rudd plays a well-meaning pothead who couch-surfs among his family, leaving nothing but chaos and good vibes in his wake.
Start It Up
At Austin Startup Week, money and a good idea may mean the next big thing in tech
Eye on aGLIFF 24
Austin’s favorite LGBTQ fest kicks off
Quote of the Week
“It is ironic that [those] who zealously defend the state’s righteous duty to become intimately involved in a woman’s decision … are also positively scandalized at the government’s gross overreaching in the area of health care.” – U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, in a ruling against portions of a new abortion law
Bodyguard
In this thrice-made Hindi film, a tough bodyguard’s exterior hides a hidden romantic’s heart.
Texas Platters
Krum Bums Cut the Noose (People Like You Records) Don’t let Dave Rodriguez’s mouthful of words on opener “Population Control” fool you. More war commentary than global warning (“smell of the death, of the poor, of the shit”), it’s as politicized as Cut the Noose gets. Rather, the kick drum bruising “Action City” next sets…
The Austin Ch30nicles
Shannon Sedwick recalls the Chronicle‘s recognition of Esther’s Follies’ first star
Drought? What Drought?
Just because we have a huge water supply doesn’t mean we have to use it
Mankatha
This Tamil action thriller involves organized crime and cricket competitions.
Texas Platters
Robert Earl Keen Ready for Confetti (Lost Highway) After more than 30 years, Robert Earl Keen continues telling stories that imprint listeners in a manner that’s unforced and cogent, and Ready for Confetti finds him stretching a bit musically. Most will be immediately drawn to “The Road Goes On and On.” With the often-covered “The…
The Austin Ch30nicles
John Pierson recalls when the Chronicle published Rick Linklater’s Dazed and Confused diary
City Hall Hustle: When’s the Next City Election?
Council weighs shifting ballot choices to November
Point Blank
In this frenzied French thriller, a man races to save his wife’s life – and then races some more.
Texas Platters
Reckless Kelly Good Luck & True Love (No Big Deal) Following up last year’s tribute to cult honky-tonker Pinto Bennett, Somewhere in Time, with its first set of new material since 2008’s Bullet Proof, Reckless Kelly’s seventh studio LP finds the local fivepiece sounding controlled and assured, shrugging off a bit of Red Dirt rock…
The Austin Ch30nicles
How landing in Austin after Katrina was made just a bit easier
Civics 101
Thursday01 CITY BUDGET HEARING City Council is all ears today, so tell ’em what you think about the city’s proposed budget, including proposed increases in property taxes and utility rates. 4pm. Council chambers, 301 W. Second. www.cityofaustin.org. ELECTRIC RATE HEARING As a kickoff to the Electric Utility Commission review process, Austin Energy will present its…
Saving Private Perez
This Mexican black comedy about a drug lord who gathers a posse to rescue his captured brother in Iraq is a huge hit in its homeland.
Texas Platters
Slaid Cleaves Sorrow & Smoke – Live at the Horseshoe Lounge (Music Road) Of all the singer-songwriters to come out of Texas in the past 20 years, few if any approach the lyrical and melodic consistency of Slaid Cleaves. Sorrow & Smoke, a 2-CD set, is further evidence of his ability to capture glimpses of…
This Is Your City Budget
More police, vanishing grants, rising costs, and … Jazzercise?
The Austin Ch30nicles
The time when the ‘Chronicle’ stated the wrong outcome of Kirk Watson’s testicular cancer
Seven Days in Utopia
Robert Duvall and Lucas Black join forces for this film version of psychologist/golfer David Cook’s memoir, Golf’s Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia.
Texas Platters
Kevin Fowler Chippin’ Away The sight of Kevin Fowler sitting on an old, plush couch on the cover of Chippin’ Away is ample reminder that his generation of country music fans grew up on MTV and are likewise looking for a place to kick back and a little music to do it with. Fowler’s everyman…
Brewskee-ball
League starts ninth ‘skeeson’
Headlines
� City Council gathers today, Thursday, Sept. 1, for the last public hearing on the proposed city budget and property tax rate, plus controversial rate hikes for both Austin Water and Austin Energy. The fun starts at 4pm, which means you have plenty of time to read “This Is Your City Budget” before you head…
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice meets a considerably tamed Van Wilder for a mediocre romp in the Hamptons.
Texas Platters
Hundred Visions Last Cab From Tunis Filling the void of LCD Soundsystem’s early retirement, Hundred Visions jumps into the fire with “Last Cab From Tunis,” a seductive strut of neo-disco and swaggering, bottom-heavy funk. Former Corto Maltese frontman Ben Maddox cuts more of a Harry Nilsson character than James Murphy, evinced on the flip side…
Soccer Watch
Longhorns soccer off to an impressive start, and more
Sparks Rules for Women
The larger question of whether the law should be thrown out entirely remains unsettled
After a Fashion
Stephen attended Fashion Week and despite reservations, liked it just fine
Be Prepared
The secret to improv’s split-second successes is in years of training
New Map Poses Challenges for Huber
Travis County Precinct 3 Commissioner Karen Huber was greeted by two very different bestubbled faces two Tuesday mornings ago. They both brought trouble. The first belonged to Morris Priest, one of a trio of regular agitators who berate the Travis County Commissioners Court from the safety of the citizens’ communication period. In what’s become something…
Luv Doc Recommends: Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
How much comedy can anyone truly take? That’s a very serious question, isn’t it? The mere prospect of six or so hours of gut-splitting hilarity should give anyone pause – well, at least anyone not swaddled in extra-absorbent Depends and clutching an empty paper sack. Just because you’ve never laughed until you peed doesn’t necessarily…
21st Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Individual Category Red Sauce 1st Place: Anthony Padilla 2nd Place: Chris Buslett 3rd Place: Adam Wear Honorable Mention: Anne Hickman (Ingram); Brennan Neuman (San Antonio); Clay Black (Pflugerville); Cyrus Sanchez (Pflugerville); Edward Zamova; Gary Peifer II; Judith Taylor (Victoria); Kala Uprety; Pam Burrows (Jasper); Patty Tomasco; Paul Moncus; Rene Moreno; River Perry (Leander) Green Sauce…
