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Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2014 / Vol. 33 / No. 31
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Cover Story

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In the March 21 Arts feature “Slam Sisters,” the woman identified as Liza Garcia is actually Kelene Blake. The Chronicle regrets the error.

by Chronicle Staff

Sabotage

Ugly and mean-spirited, this Schwarsenegger action film starts off badly, and gets dumber as it progresses.

by Louis Black

Soccer Watch

Personally, I have some doubts about the stadium plan unveiled in this week’s cover story. But, here’s a story linking Austin and a soccer stadium that’s definitely going to get built: Plans for the much anticipated new soccer stadium in Rome, Italy, were announced Wed­nesday by AS Roma president James Pallotta, Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino,…

by Nick Barbaro

Cesar Chavez

The United Farm Workers leader and civil rights activist who managed to get housewives to stop buying grapes is the subject of this biopic.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teenage

Beguiling and maddening in its approach, this odd doc looks at the relatively recent invention of the teenager.

by Kimberley Jones

Chain Gangs

Restaurant chains may seem like a modern American phenomenon, but they actually have deep roots in American culture dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Entrepreneur Fred Harvey’s Harvey House epitomized fine-dining food quality and service to railway customers from the 1870s through the 1950s, and Howard Johnson followed suit with eateries…

by Virginia B. Wood

The Lunchbox

This off-Bollywood charmer is a light-hearted drama about two lonely souls who forge a friendship when they start passing written notes.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Record Review

Elias Haslanger Live at the Gallery (Cherrywood) Tenor great Elias Haslanger went to the houses of the holy with 2012’s Church on Monday. The Austin-born saxophonist’s sixth LP gilded the post-bop Sixties classicism made legend by Blue Note-ables such as Stanley Turrentine and onetime local Kenny Dorham. Now, a year and a half after the…

by Raoul Hernandez

Civics 101

Thursday 27 COMMUNITY NEEDS PUBLIC HEAR­ING on the Neighborhood Housing and Community Devel­op­ment Office FY 2014-19 Con­soli­dated Plan and FY 2014-15 Action Plan. 4pm. Council Chambers at City Hall, 301 W. Second. Free. www.austintexas.gov/five. Friday 28 SILENT SCREAMS PANEL Discussion about violence and abuse against women. 6pm. Raindrop Turkish House, 12400 Amherst #108. Free. www.turkishhouse.org/austin.…

by Chronicle Staff

Then There’s This: Montopolis Is Cool With Uncool

For an area of town that used to be known as Poverty Island, the Montopolis neighborhood in Southeast Austin – “Area 5” in real estate parlance – is looking more and more attractive to developers and real estate agents eager to place clients in centrally located homes that are both new-ish and reasonably affordable. But…

by Amy Smith

Quote of the Week

“Go fuck yourself.” – Rhode Island State Sen. Josh Miller tells Alex Jones’ lackey Dan Bidondi exactly what we’re all thinking.

by Chronicle Staff

Headlines

› City Council meets today (March 27) with a fairly light spring agenda, although the morning briefing on Project Connect might generate some rumblings, and the dais is also expected to initiate a “post-event evaluation” of the SXSW Festival. See “Council: Have Ears, Will Hear.” › More traffic headaches on the way: Starting April 12,…

by Chronicle Staff

The Luv Doc: Being There

The Luv Doc has no answer this week, only an observation. One August when I was about 9 or 10 years old, my friend Barry and I discovered a gross of unused bottle rockets in his dad’s tool shed. We were really excited about the find and went directly to the pond in the middle…

by The Luv Doc

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